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CPS Project Connect to open RAP wrap center and propose 'safe sleep' lot to shorten shelter verification
Summary
Project Connect, CPS’s program for students experiencing homelessness, plans a September move to Taft Elementary for a wrap-around resource center and proposed a 12-space 'safe sleep' lot intended to help verify families more quickly and speed shelter placement.
Cincinnati Public Schools’ Project Connect presented data and a set of program expansions Wednesday as the district reported continued increases in students experiencing housing instability and detailed plans for a new wrap-around resource center and a proposed safe-sleep parking lot.
Project Connect serves students and families experiencing homelessness under a federally mandated program. Rebecca Beach, who leads Project Connect, said the district served 4,326 students last school year and identified 595 unaccompanied youth. "We served 4,326 students in our district," Beach said.
What Project Connect will open Beach and staff said Project Connect will relocate in September to Taft Elementary School for an initial "soft opening" of the RAP — Resources, Access and Partnerships — a wrap-around center that will co-locate housing navigation, food access, health screening and partner case management. The RAP will provide ongoing Project Connect services (uniforms, school…
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