Education & Health Centers of America, Inc.’s (EHCA) Emergency Rapid Re-Housing Assistance Program (ERRA), provides reentry case management and emergency housing navigation services to incarcerated persons (IP’s), with a focus on the first 90 days after release and/or transition to community supervision from a state or county institution. The ERRA Program currently services the Newark, New Jersey, Metro Area, consisting of Essex, Morris, Hudson, and Union counties.
ERRA program participants are connected with emergency, temporary, rapid re-housing assistance and navigation services, with the goal of obtaining sustainable, permanent housing upon release from custody, in order to strengthen and increase successful reintegration opportunities for returning citizens in the Newark Metro Area.
Program Services Include...
- Reentry Case Management
- Housing Assistance Navigation
- Financial Assistance for Short-Term, Temporary, Emergency Housing
- Connecting Individuals with Existing Short-Term Rental Assistance Programs
- Housing Utility Deposit Assistance
- Moving Cost Assistance
- Essential Home Furnishing Assistance
- Housing-Related Transportation Assistance
- Temporary Storage Cost Assistance
- Pre-Release Discharge Planning
- Community Referrals
- Follow-up Case Management
Eligibility Criteria:
Priority Service Populations
- Adult individuals within 180 days of release from New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) custody
- Adult individuals released from a New Jersey State Prison within the last seven (7) years
- Adult individuals within 90 days of release from a New Jersey County Jail
- Adult individuals released from a New Jersey County Jail within the last three (3) years
- Service connection to the Newark Metro Area, consisting of Essex, Morris, Hudson, and Union Counties.
- Demonstrated need for emergency, rapid, re-housing assistance, having exhausted all other existing federal, state, and community resources.
Location
- Service connection to the Newark Metro Area, consisting of Essex, Morris, Hudson, and Union Counties.
Risk of Homelessness
- Demonstrated need for emergency, rapid, re-housing assistance, having exhausted all other existing federal, state, and community resources.
Emergency Rapid Re-Housing Assistance services are made available in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Corrections, Office of Community Engagement and Reintegration Initiatives
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