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Utah’s Ten-Year Plan Approach

Utah’s Ten-Year Plan Approach. Lloyd S. Pendleton Director, Homeless Task Force State of Utah Virginia Training January 27 2009 Richmond, Virginia 22 January 2009. Why A Ten-Year Plan for Chronic Homeless?.

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Utah’s Ten-Year Plan Approach

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  1. Utah’s Ten-Year Plan Approach Lloyd S. Pendleton Director, Homeless Task Force State of Utah Virginia Training January 27 2009 Richmond, Virginia 22 January 2009

  2. Why A Ten-Year Plan for Chronic Homeless? • Chronically homeless: single adult with a disabling condition homeless over a year or four times in three years • 10% of homeless population • Estimate 300,000 in United States • Use over 50% of homeless services • High users of emergency services/jails • San Diego $100,000 per year per person

  3. Housing for Chronically Homeless • Present homeless system uses emergency sheltering and then transitional housing • Need to be dry and clean to get housing • This approach works fairly well for temporally homeless person/families • If they “fall off wagon” housing and case management is lost • Chronically homeless have many more barriers • Low demand housing developed – Housing First

  4. What is Housing First? • Homeless person goes into housing from the street • Same requirements as you except a weekly case management visit required • This is permanent housing with case management supports • May use a “master lease” approach

  5. Utah’s Approach • Committed to end chronic homelessness by 2014 – 1,800 chronically homeless • Redefine our present homeless delivery system to be more integrated and effective • Increase homeless housing stock and services • Establish outcome measures and tracking system to show results

  6. State Vision Everyone has access to safe,decent, affordable housing with the needed resources and supports for self-sufficiency and well being.

  7. Homeless Coordinating Committee Marie Christman Dept. of Human Services (DHS) Gary Herbert Lt. Governor Chair Palmer DePaulis Dept. of Community and Culture Dr. David Sundwall Department of Health Bill Crim Businesses/United Way Craig Burr Dept. of Corrections Rudy Johansen Veterans’ Admin. MISSION Formerly Homeless Donald P. Ketcham Social Security End Chronic Homelessness and Reduce overall Homelessness by 2014 Pamela Atkinson At Large Jane Shock Financial Institutions Kreig Kelley Office of Education Bill NighswongerS.L. Housing Authority Kristen Cox Dept. of Workforce Services John Brereton Utah Housing Corporation Mike Gallegos Local Governments Christine Nguyen Balance of State Continuum of Care Vaughn McDonald Philanthropic Orgs. Ron Humphries Faith Based Orgs. Bill Hulterstrom Mountainland Cont. of Care Kerry Bate SLC Cont. of Care January 2008

  8. Homeless Coordinating Committee Organization Lt. Governor Allocation Committee HCC Local Homeless Coordinating Committees Information Systems Discharge Planning Affordable Housing Supportive Services Gordon Walker Kristen Cox Marie Christman Craig Burr Bill Crim JoAnn Seghini • Mental Health • Substance Abuse • Foster Care • Juvenile Justice • Banks • Developers • Housing Authorities • Planners • Providers • HMIS • Outcome Measures • Management Reports • Domestic Violence • Case Management • Training • Employment • Prisons • Jails • Elected Chairs • Ten-Year Plan Tooele COG Salt Lake County COG San Juan County COG Carbon/ Emery COG Six-County AOG Bear River AOG Five-County AOG Mountainland AOG Grand County COG Uintah Basin AOG Davis County COG Weber County COG COG – Council of Governments AOG – Association of Governments September 2007

  9. Local Homeless Coordinating Committee (Model) Elected Official Chair Vice-Chair Dept. of Human Services End Chronic Homelessness and Reduce overall Homelessness by 2014 Businesses Dept. of Health Financial Institutions MISSION Dept. of Corrections United Way Dept. Workforce Ser. Housing Authorities At Large Sheriff Formerly Homeless Community Clinics Domestic Violence Schools/PTA Service Agencies Colleges/Tech. Schools Continuum of Care Local Government Leaders Native America Housing Authority Faith Based Orgs. Police Chief

  10. Local Homeless Implementation Plan • Funding • State (PAHTF, CNH, ESG, OWLF,CIB) • Private • Federal • Block Grants (CSBG, CDBG, SAPTBG, MHBG). • Entitlements (SSI,SSDI, DBA-Vets) • Mainstream Programs (Food stamps, SCHIP, TANF, Section 8, Home, DVA, Public/Indian Housing) • Homeless Targeted Programs (Cont. of Care, Health Care, PATH, Employment, Surplus Property, etc.)* State 10-Year Plan • State Committees • Homeless Coordinating Committee • Discharge Planning • Affordable Housing • Supportive Services • Information Systems • Actions • Housing • Reduce D V • Prevention • Employment • Income Support • Discharge Planning • HMIS/Outcome Measures • Transportation • Supportive Service • Health Care • Other Political Leader Chair Local Homeless Coordinating Committee • HUD REQUIREMENTS • Consolidated Housing Plan • Continuum of Care Annual Strategies Local 10-Year Plan *Education (DOE), Homeless Vets – Transitional Housing (DVA), Treatment for the Homeless (SAMHSA), Runaway (AFC/DHHS) January 28, 2008

  11. Statewide HMIS • The state’s three Continua of Care agreed to one data base system • Have developed and are refining outcome measures that tie to state funding • Worked with Arizona’s self-sufficiency matrix for a year and then mandated, effective July 1, 2006, its use for all case managed homeless persons

  12. Statewide HMIS Continued • Reconcile HMIS count with PIT count • Create management reports for state’s Homeless Coordinating Committee and each Local Homeless Coordinating Comm • Adding to the management reports food pantry usage and 2-1-1 calls for each area • Reporting to the political and service providers the local usage and needs

  13. Purpose of Pilots • Engagement -- What selected not as important as something passionate about • New Focus – Tests new approaches and best practices • Creates Action – Gets the process moving and gets results • Small -- Cost less and minimizes potential negative impact

  14. Purpose of Pilots Continued • Tailored -- Rural areas with few homeless focused on “chronic consumers” to prevent homelessness • Showed State support – State funds (Homeless Trust Fund and a Housing Trust Fund) increased willingness • Supports a media strategy – Results shared locally and statewide to create a success attitude

  15. Selected Pilots • Pathways – 17 persons off street using housing first approach – major shift in thinking and feelings – study done – two more implemented in other LHCCs • DV Victims – Housing with assistance – 4.5 months stabilized • Re-entry – Two implemented one studied by University – reduction in costs and jail time • Homeless Children – School principals selected families to receive housing and case management support • Prevention – Selected families on verge of homelessness and providing supportive services

  16. Preventing Homelessness • Poverty is a significant contributor to homelessness and recidivism • Part of reducing homelessness and recidivism is to “build fences” on the banks of the “river of homelessness” • Understanding the hidden rules of poverty and middle class is seen as a significant part of this “fence”

  17. Bridges Out of Poverty • Dr. Ruby K. Payne has identified hidden rules in the economic classes of poverty, middle class, and wealth • Education and employment system operate on the hidden rules of middle class • To stabilize ones life and/or move out of poverty, helpful to understand the hidden rules of middle class

  18. Hidden Rules Among Classes • Hidden rules are the unspoken cues and habits of a group. • Distinct cueing systems exist between and among groups and economic classes. • Generally, in America, that notion is recognized for racial and ethnic groups, but not for economic groups. • An individual brings with them the hidden rules of the class in which they were raised.

  19. No significant learning occurs without a significant relationship. –Dr. James Comer

  20. Poverty More than Money • Broader definition “the extent to which an individual does without resources” and includes: • financial • emotional • mental • spiritual • physical • support systems • relationships/role models • knowledge of hidden rules • coping strategies

  21. Utah’s Homeless Count • 2008 homeless count January 31: • 15,836 up 16% over baseline • 1,470 chronic homeless down 15% • Chronic 9.3% of homeless population • Chronic high users of homeless services – 63% of bed nights at Utah’s largest shelter • Using the 2005, 2006, 2007 PIT count averages as our baseline for comparing 2008 and future homeless counts • Provide PIT by Local Homeless Coord. Comm.

  22. Chronic Homeless Housing • Sunrise Metro – 100 units opened March 2007: • 28 employed one year later • 69 on VA pensions or Social Security • Added annual Social Security/VA Pensions $641,130 • Grace Mary Manor – 84 units opened March 2008 and filled by May • Kelly Benson – 59 units for homeless over 55 to open early 2009 • Palmer Court – 201 units former Holiday Inn to open April 2009 • Avalon House & Newhouse – Helper & Price 51 units to open early 2009 • Other locations adding chronic homeless housing

  23. Housing First Expansion Sunrise Metro (100) Units – April 2007 • Project Partners • Utah Division of Housing and Community Development • Salt Lake City • Salt Lake County • Crusade for the Homeless (Private Foundation) • George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints • Utah Housing Corporation • American Express

  24. Grace Mary Manor (84 Units) – March 2008

  25. Palmer Court (201 Units) – May 2009

  26. Kelly Benson Apartments (55 Units) - 2009

  27. Newhouse Apartments & Golden Rule Mission (51 Units) – Mid 2009

  28. Emergency Services Cost • Chronic homeless frequent users of emergency services and jails • 39 frequently arrested (2002 – 2006) cost $3.0 million in arrest, jail time, EMT runs, and homeless service costs -- $15,142 per year per person • Emergency room cost another $4,066 per year per person (Pathways Pilot) • Estimated annual per person emergency service costs are$19,208 • Housing with case management $12,000

  29. Cost per Prisoner • 6,450 in prison with an annual increase of 190 • $25,678 annual cost per prisoner and $2,668 per probationer and parolee • Adding 190 beds at $90,000 a bed is $17.1 million plus $25,678 per prisoner is $4.9 million annual operating costs • 10 pt reduction in recidivism frees up 240 beds – 180 annualized (re-offenders stay 9 months) • $16.2 million savings in construction costs • $4.6 million savings in ongoing costs • Re-entry programs with housing and case management reduces recidivism and provides employees

  30. Better Approach • Opportunity to create a more effective system for homeless and prisoner re-entry • Additional funding needed to ramp up pilots • Identify companies, especially new to Utah, to support housing and employing Utah’s homeless and ex-offenders • Branding Message -- “HousingWorks” • Tag line – “Housing and Employing Homeless Utahns”

  31. “Climbing out [of homelessness] is hard. You get so depressed and feel so useless. Your self-esteem is non-existent. But the experience has given me great compassion for others.” – John Hailes, 53

  32. When your vision is crystal clear, taking action happens naturally. Thomas F. Crum, “The Magic of Conflict”

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