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Really excited to partner with Refugee Housing Solutions for this upcoming webinar! Short-term hotel stays can be such an important bridge when a family is arriving before permanent housing is ready, plans shift, or someone needs a safe place to land while next steps are being worked out. At the same time, coordinating those stays can create a lot of extra work for already-busy resettlement teams. Join us on Tuesday, August 4th to learn more about how Safe Stays can support new arrivals and other ORR-eligible populations. A big thank you to the Refugee Housing Solutions team for inviting us into this conversation. We’d love to see you there! Register here: https://lnkd.in/eNqCSbwh

A Western state's victim-compensation fund doesn't book hotels itself. Its community of nearly 90 victim/witness offices and domestic-violence agencies books stays for the survivors they serve, then sends invoices to the state for reimbursement. After an $80K pilot ran out before the year's end, the state committed roughly $1.2M for the next year. Coordinating payment, paperwork, and hotel relationships for dozens of agencies across a state would exhaust a small compensation office. And in a seasonal tourist state, summer rates can climb past what the fund can pay. So we gave each of the ~90 programs its own booking account, then routed every charge into a single invoice to the state. We expanded the statewide alias-hotel network to meet specific safety needs, and negotiated seasonal flat rates so tourist-town pricing never locks the fund out. When the payer and the bookers aren't the same people, the billing has to hold them together. It takes someone who has worked inside victim-services systems to design accounts and invoicing that fit how a statewide community actually operates. #VictimCompensation #VictimServices #EmergencyHousing #DomesticViolence

A Southwest disaster put more than a thousand households out of their homes at once. The Emergency Operations Center needed a working hotel-housing pipeline the same day — not in three weeks. Built by hand, that pipeline takes weeks: contracts, billing setup, check-in coverage. In a disaster, the need is the same night. We brought it live within a day of activation — a 24/7 hotline and consolidated-billing pipeline standing the same day the EOC opened, then scaled negotiated room blocks across the region as demand grew. Between February and June 2024: — 74,188 room-nights — 1,000+ households housed — $190 nightly rate — Live within 24 hours of activation Speed at scale comes from infrastructure that's already built — and from a team that has stood in a disaster-relief shelter before, so the 24-hour clock feels familiar, not impossible. #DisasterResponse #EmergencyHousing #EmergencyManagement #Resilience

This week, the ReloShare team was everywhere, in the best way. While part of our team was in Dublin, Ohio at the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence Annual Conference, others were in San Francisco at Config, Figma’s annual conference. At Config, our UX team spent the week learning from some of the best in design, product, AI, and workflow innovation. They came back with new ideas for how we can continue improving the tools we build for the agencies, advocates, and communities we serve. Meanwhile in Ohio, Kaela Gearhart, MSW joined OAESV’s conference to host a zine-making workshop after OAESV was featured in the first issue of Doorways: https://lnkd.in/ejN8Tz9d The workshop created space for advocates to think creatively about how zines can be used to share resources, tell stories, and make information more accessible in advocacy work. Weeks like this are a good reminder that building technology for social impact does not happen from behind a desk alone. It happens by listening to advocates, learning from partners, showing up in the rooms where the work is happening, and bringing those insights back into the product. Proud of this team and grateful for the partners who keep pushing us to build better. #SafeStays #ReloShare #SocialImpact #VictimServices #Housing #UXDesign #Config2026 #OAESV #Figma #AdvocacyTechnology

What a day. ReloShare was proud to sponsor the 2026 Advocate Essentials Academy, hosted by the Virginia Victim Assistance Network. Our Chief Product Officer, Paige Allmendinger, joined system based and community based advocates from across the Commonwealth for sessions on victim compensation, VOCA and VAWA grants, and cultural humility. Every conversation reinforced why we do this work: advocates are the front line for survivors, and they deserve tools that make their jobs easier, not harder. Thank you to Executive Director Kate Hanger and the VVAN team for the warm welcome and the thoughtful programming. If shelter is full or not the right fit, Safe Stays gives Virginia advocates a fast, trauma informed way to place victims of crime in safe lodging, including rooms booked under an alias with no name and no ID at check in. Grateful to be in this work together. #VictimAdvocacy #Virginia #SurvivorSupport

A statewide hotline had two requirements that don't usually fit together: use every free shelter bed before paying for a hotel, and keep spend forecastable across the whole state. Defaulting straight to a paid hotel burns budget a shelter bed could have covered. And unpredictable damage charges make it impossible to forecast across dozens of sites. So we built the flow to match. The Grove searches live shelter inventory before any paid stay, and Safe Stays Plus converts unpredictable damage exposure into a fixed nightly cost. Across the state: — 5,158 room-nights placed — $128.22 nightly rate — 38 hotels coordinated — $81,444 of damage exposure converted to a fixed line Shelter-first, plus fixed damage pricing, turns guesswork into a budget. Designing that takes someone who has managed federal grants and answered to public-sector budgets — and knows exactly where the money leaks. #EmergencyHousing #VictimServices #HousingFirst #PublicSector

A domestic-violence hotline served a year-round tourist destination. Every summer, the same problem: nightly rates spiked and rooms simply disappeared — exactly when survivors still needed a safe place that night. Booking room-by-room in a tourism market means paying surge prices, or finding nothing at all. So we secured capacity ahead of demand. We negotiated a dedicated block of 17–19 rooms, held all year, at locked rates — so a room was guaranteed no matter how full the town was. Over the year: — 6,241 room-nights placed — $146.25 blended nightly rate — Less than 1% spent on fees and damage When the market turns against you seasonally, don't chase rooms nightly — secure them ahead of the season. It takes a partnerships lead who has run a multi-agency hotel program to know which blocks to hold, and how to price them. #DomesticViolence #EmergencyHousing #SurvivorServices #Advocacy

Today, Safe Stays turns five. Five years ago, we launched Safe Stays to solve a problem agencies knew too well: finding emergency hotel lodging should not require endless phone calls, complicated billing workarounds, or asking someone in crisis to give up their privacy to get a safe place to sleep. For five years, advocates have found rooms faster. Survivors have checked in with greater privacy. Agencies have had more flexibility when every minute mattered. Hotel partners have helped turn available rooms into safe places to land. We’re grateful to every agency that trusted us, every hotel partner that said yes, and every person who helped build Safe Stays into what it is today. The work is not done. We’ll keep removing barriers, simplifying logistics, and building tools that help social service providers spend less time on paperwork and more time on people. Here’s to five years of Safe Stays — and to everyone who made those stays possible. #SafeStays #EmergencyHousing #SafeHousing #SocialServices #TraumaInformedCare #HousingAccess