Measure K dollars are being used across San Mateo County to address needs in the Priority Areas of Children, Families and Seniors; Housing and Homelessness; and Emergency Preparedness. Learn more about specific programs and initiatives below. Sort by Priority Area or search for a specific keyword to narrow your search.
Agency: County Library
San Mateo County Libraries provides support to Big Lift preschools with implementing the Raising A Reader program: book bags are regularly rotated for families to read at home together and family engagement events support at-home literacy practices and deepen the connection between preschoolers, their families and their local library.
Agency: Human Services Agency
The Housing Locator program provides intensive housing search support to help enrolled families and individuals locate housing, including locating potential rentals and working with the property owner to overcome challenges like past evictions and low credit scores. The program also provides case management for clients who are housed with the support of a housing voucher and who are also in need of supportive services to maintain their housing.
Agency: Human Services Agency
Inclement Weather shelter program that provides safe shelter to families and individuals during severe weather events or emergencies.
Agency: Human Services Agency
The Navigation Center is a non-congregate shelter that serves adults experiencing homelessness. This contractor provides shelter operations, including housing-focused case management and service linkage, and providing a safe and welcoming environment for residents to stay while providing them with intensive services to help them move to permanent housing.
Agency: Human Services Agency
Payment of Licenses for the system (BitFocus) which supplies Clarity, our HUD-mandated HMIS system and the system we use for Our Count and all homeless data collection and reporting.
Agency: Human Services Agency
More than half of this funding pays for housing costs associated with rehousing unhoused people. These include move-in costs, time limited rental subsidies and moving expenses. The rest of the funding supports Abode Services in providing housing locator services for unhoused households and case management to support their transition.
Agency: Human Services Agency
Daybreak shelter is the County’s only shelter serving transition-aged youth experiencing homelessness. These funds cover shelter operations, housing-focused case management and service linkage.
Agency: Human Services Agency
Together for Families provides child abuse prevention services, including parent education and short-term clinical support, to families and children up to age 18. The program aims to keep children safely in their homes, preventing entry into child welfare, juvenile justice, or psychiatric emergency services systems. The CFRC infrastructure plays a key role in developing a community pathway model that will allow for local support and access to federal Title IV-E dollars for prevention efforts.
Agency: County Library
The Big Lift Inspiring Summers program serves rising kindergarten to rising third graders in Big Lift school districts across the County to help prevent summer learning loss, increase access to enriching summer experiences and increase third grade reading proficiency across the County.
Agency: Human Services Agency
Homeless Outreach Team services, also known as HOT, provide services to people experiencing unsheltered homelessness throughout the County. Services include initial outreach and engagement at encampments and other locations where unsheltered people are living, case management, and service linkage, with the goal of building trust and connecting clients with shelter, housing programs and other resources.
Agency: Human Services Agency
Provides emergency food services during the holidays.
Agency: Human Services Agency
Measure K-funded educational services support at-risk foster youth in San Mateo County, helping them graduate high school at rates comparable to the general public. The program provides personalized case management, including individualized education plans, resources, and ongoing support to help foster youth succeed academically. By working closely with educators and community partners, the program helps foster youth overcome challenges and achieve their educational goals.
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