Rogue Crossings, an urban campground for homeless people in Medford, will receive $2.6 million in grant money as part of Gov. Tina Kotek's plans to create shelter beds and rapidly rehouse people in need. In all, $8.8 million is earmarked for groups addressing homelessness in Jackson County.

ACCESS, Jackson County’s community action agency, announced Tuesday local organizations that will receive grants to rapidly rehouse 133 households and set up 67 shelter beds per Gov. Tina Kotek’s emergency declaration on homelessness.

Oregon Housing and Community Services reported in April that $8.8 million in state money had been awarded to the Jackson County Continuum of Care, a group of local agencies confronting housing and homelessness.

For rapid rehousing:

• ACCESS will receive $2,658,230.

• Opportunities for Housing Resources and Assistance (OHRA) will receive $1,167,839.

• ACCESS/Continuum of Care will receive $365,640.

• Community Works will receive $245,223.

For shelter beds:

• City of Medford / Rogue Retreat Crossings will receive $2,648,342.

• City of Ashland will receive $1,158,100.

• City of Medford / Rogue Retreat’s Kelly Shelter will receive $259,311.

For street outreach, a service based on building relationships and trust with the unhoused and at-risk population:

• ACCESS will receive $177,813.

• City of Medford / Rogue Retreat will receive $122,187.

The money is part of a larger pot of $79.2 million in grants given to CoCs in seven regions deemed “emergency areas” — places that since 2017 have seen at least a 50% rise in the homeless population, OHCS explained in a release.

In Jackson County’s CoC, another $1.5 million through the Oregon Eviction Diversion and Prevention Program has been divvied up among local agencies to help prevent 385 low-income households from falling into homelessness.

• ACCESS will receive $692,515.

• OHRA will receive $339,376.

• Unete will receive $154,024.

• The Salvation Army will receive $134,217.

• The Arc Jackson County will receive $110,000.

• Resolve Center for Dispute Resolution and Restorative justice, which focuses on alternative ways of working through conflicts, will receive $35,858.

The grantees may provide wraparound support, rental assistance and legal services, ACCESS said in a release.

In April, ACCESS — the lead agency for the county’s CoC and fiscal sponsor of the grant funds — put out requests for applications, which were reviewed by a group of representatives from CoC organizations and by other community members.

A Multi-Agency Coordinating group — consisting of CoC organizations and others engaged in similar work — will manage the distribution of funds, ACCESS said in the release.

“This is just the beginning,” said Melanie Doshier, support services director at ACCESS. “We are excited to help complete these goals as a community, and we just really look forward to the collaboration that we’re building within the space — and hope for deeper collaborations in the future.”

In January, Kotek declared a state of emergency around homelessness with Executive Order 23-02 — the first of three housing- and homelessness-related executive orders. The emergency declaration is expected to stand until January 2024.