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Homelessness task force presentation

This presentation outlines essential strategies for combating homelessness, including demographic insights, current services, and innovative policies. It highlights Berkeley's journey, featuring significant data such as its homeless count and the prevalence of mental illness among its homeless population. Emphasizing promising practices like targeted outreach, service coordination, and effective collaboration with law enforcement, the report advocates for a Coordinated Assessment system. It aims to enhance resource efficiency, streamline assistance for families in need, and meet local and federal goals to end chronic homelessness by 2015.

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Homelessness task force presentation

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  1. Homelessness task force presentation August 15, 2013

  2. Our presentation • Demographics • Current homeless services • Homeless Policy • Promising practices • Targeted outreach, services & housing • Street outreach • Collaboration with law enforcement • Coordinated assessment • 100 – Day Plan

  3. 2009 Homeless Count • 680 literally homeless people • 276 chronically homeless people • Berkeley had 16% of total homeless population • 26% of the total chronic homeless population • Half of Berkeley’s chronically homeless population reported mental illness and substance dependence • 59% African American; 24% White • 63% aged 41 to 60 years

  4. City’s investment in homeless services provided by community agencies

  5. History of compassionate response

  6. Promising Practices

  7. Targeted Outreach, Services, and Housing • Target interventions to specific individuals based on criteria such as needs or use of public services • Berkeley’s Square One (PCEI) • DESC, Seattle, 1811 Eastlake • National 100,000 Homes campaign

  8. Street Outreach • Providing mobile, street-based services and building trusting relationships with • City’s Homeless Outreach Team • Seattle: DESC’s HOST program • San Francisco: At the Crossroads

  9. Collaboration with Law Enforcement • Combinations of social services approaches and law enforcement interventions • Ventura, Safe & Clean • Santa Barbara, restorative policing • City’s Mobile Crisis Team • City’s Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) (Memphis model)

  10. Coordinated Assessment Elaine de Coligny, Executive Director

  11. Everyone Home’s Role • Implementation of plan to end homelessness • Coordinate adoption of new federal homelessness regulations • Homeless Count • Continuum of Care application - $25M • Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing • Outcome measures for performance inhomeless program contracts

  12. Coordinated Assessment • A place or means to request assistance • A screening and assessment process • Information about programs and agencies that can provide needed housing or services • A process and tools for referral of the person to appropriate programs or agencies • In some cases, a process and tools for making program admissions decisions.

  13. The current “system” is not one

  14. Coordinated Assessment Rapid rehousing Assessment process matches consumer with appropriate services Shelter/Transitional A single point of entry Permanent supportive housing Consumers stay in system until their homelessness has ended Case management

  15. Benefits of coordinated assessment for consumers • Consumers don’t have to go from agency to agency seeking help • Family members and case managers trying to help consumers don’t have to go from agency to agency • More likely that consumers will get to the same end result no matter where they enter the system • Consumer don’t have to go through an intake process multiple times

  16. Benefits of coordinated assessment for providers • Reduces duplication of effort in intake • Once a coordinated system is in place, should reduce the amount of time each case manager has to spend searching for resources • Resources are matched with the most appropriate consumers, so people are not over-served or under-served

  17. Benefits of coordinated assessment for everyone • System is more accountable to people once they are in it • Resources are used more efficiently • It is a HUD mandate, related to the $25 million in McKinney Vento funds received countywide every year

  18. Challenges of coordinated assessment • Setting up a coordinated system will take resources • Need to change system priorities, admissions process, and/or resources available for meaningful change • Real-time coordination will requireongoing staffing and attention • Need functional technology for support • No single entity can make it work

  19. 100 – Day Plan

  20. 100 – Day Plan • HUD, USICH, VA invited local participation • Boot Camp (July) – Targeted communities with large chronically homeless populations • Federal goal: end chronic homelessness and Veterans’ homelessness by 2015 • Challenge: In 100 days, make system changes that will increase the pace at which we are ending chronic homelessness locally

  21. 100 – Day Plan • House 80 chronically homeless people per month by October 31, 2013 • Create countywide, 200-person list of prioritized, chronically homeless people • Match prioritized people with housing Navigators • Engage permanent housing providers to use the priority list to fill vacancies • Outreach to private landlords

  22. Opportunities for Development

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