Who staffed Sound Families?
The Sound Families Initiative was staffed and administered by the City of Seattle Office of Housing (link) with guidance from the Sound Families steering and review committees.Back to Top ^ Who set the policies for funding and operation? The Sound Families Steering Committee established policies for funding and operation based on an agreement among participating jurisdictions and other partners. To view the full Steering Committee roster, please click here.Back to Top ^ Was there an evaluation process for the program? Evaluation was an integral part of the Sound Families Initiative. To measure the effectiveness of service-enriched housing in helping homeless families achieve stability, evaluators from the Northwest Institute for Children and Families at the University of Washington School of Social Work gathered data on families’ experiences of being homeless, their progress toward self-sufficiency, and their quality of life after they left transitional housing. The evaluation also hel
