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YES.I CAN'T FIND, I HAVE CHANGED, WANTS TO GO TO THE FREE LIGHT, SO, OKAY.
SO, UM, LIKE TO CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER AND, UM, WE'LL START WITH THE ROLL CALL.
COMMISSIONER LAWRENCE HILLARD.
ABSENT, UH, COMMISSIONER JIM HOWETT.
COMMISSIONER PAM CHU WAXY COMMISSIONER, UH, KIMBERLY LEWIS AND COMMISSIONER DOUG KILLIAN.
AND THEN BEFORE WE BEGIN, JUST A REMINDER, UH, REGARDING PROCESS FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
UH, WE DO HAVE A PUBLIC COMMENT SIGNUP SHEET IN THE BACK IF ANYBODY NEEDS TO USE THAT, UM, GO AHEAD AND DO SO.
AND THEN WE'LL ALSO BE, UH, AFTER EACH ITEM, WE'LL REMIND EVERYONE THAT THERE'S A PUBLIC COMMENTARY OR WE'LL, WE'LL CALL IF ANYBODY WANTS TO RAISE THEIR HAND.
UM, FIRST ITEM ON OUR AGENDA IS RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FOR THE HOMELESS SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING OF WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH.
DO I HAVE A MOTION? SO IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND, RIGHT.
DID YOU WANNA DO PUBLIC COMMENT FIRST? YEAH.
ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WISH TO SPEAK, IF YOU CAN PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
ANY COMMENTS FROM COMMISSIONER? UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FOR THE HOMELESS SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE, MEANING OF WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH.
OPPOSED? SUSTAIN MOTION PASSES.
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OKAY.UM, ITEM NUMBER TWO, RECOMMENDATION TO FACILITATE FORMAL INTRODUCTIONS FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE WEST SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
I LIKE, I GUESS I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ACTUALLY TABLE THIS ITEM SINCE WE DO HAVE SEVERAL, UM, BOTH FEW OF OUR MEMBERS HAVE ABSENT TODAY.
UM, I TO MAKE A MOTION TO TABLE THE FORMAL INTRODUCTIONS UNTIL NEXT, THE NEXT SCHEDULED MEETING.
UH, THESE WILL THE ABSENCE OF SOME COMMISSIONS.
UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF TABLING ITEM FOR THE NEXT MEETING OF OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
UM, ALL THOSE OPPOSED ABSTAINED.
UM, ITEM NUMBER THREE, RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE AND FILE UPDATE FROM THE MAYOR, SON AND POLICY AND SUBCOMMITTEE AND CONTINUAL CARE
UM, MAY I HAVE MOTION THAT SECOND COMMENT? NONE.
UH, SO WE HAVE OUR MAYORS FUND UPDATE, UH, TOTAL ENDING BALANCE AS OF SEPTEMBER, 2024 IS 149,000.
UH, TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE MONTH WAS 1,300 AND AND 44, UH, WITH 53 CENTS.
WE HAVE NOT COMPLETED ANY GRANTS, UM, WITHIN THE MONTH, WITHIN THIS LAST MONTH OF, UH, NOVEMBER.
AND THEN AS OF NOVEMBER 12TH, WE DO HAVE FOUR OUTSTANDING, UM, APPLIC GRANTS, PRECIOUS LAND PRESCHOOL, WHICH SHOULD BE ENDING THIS UPCOMING MONTH.
UM, URBAN SOCIAL SERVICES, WHICH HAS BEEN INVOICING, BUT STILL WORKING TOWARDS THEIR, UH, ADVANCED PAYMENT PREP.
ED, UH, HAS NOT INVOICED AS OF YET, AND THEN HIS LITTLE FEET WE'RE STILL WORKING ON A MOU.
AND THEN AS FOR SHOULD WE GO FOR THE UPDATE IN REGARDS TO THE MAYOR'S FUND INSERTS? UM, SO WE DID GET EVERYTHING APPROVED AND SENT OVER TO THE PRINTING, UH, OUR PRINTING DEPARTMENT.
UH, THOSE MAYOR'S FUND INSERTS HAD STARTED TO BE, I GUESS, INSERTED INTO, UH, THE UTILITY ENVELOPES, UH, LAST WEEK.
SO WE SHOULD START SEEING THAT FLOW OUT TO THE PUBLIC WITHIN THIS UPCOMING MONTH.
AND IT'LL GO FOR ABOUT A MONTH.
THEY, THEY'RE ACTUALLY NOT NOW I HAVE TO GO.
AND JUST AS A UPDATE TO, UM, OUR INITIATIVE TO, UM, GET INFORMATION, UM, ABOUT THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR HOMELESSNESS AND A FEW OF THE NONPROFITS THAT WE HAVE FUNDED, UM, I HAVE TO REACH BACK OUT TO OUR CONTACTS AND THE PRESS TELE, UM, ESSENTIALLY, UH, STATING THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH HIGHLIGHTING INFORMATION, UM, ABOUT THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR HOMELESSNESS AND OUR 2024 GRANTEE.
UM, IN AN ARTICLE, I BELIEVE THERE'S A SECTION IN ONE OF THE PAPERS CALLED FOR GOOD CAUSE.
AND SO BEING ABLE TO HAVE THE MAYOR'S FUND AS WELL AS THOSE NON-PROFITS HIGHLIGHTED IN THAT, UM, PARTICULAR ARTICLE.
SO I'M JUST AWAITING A RESPONSE AND, UM, GET IT, I'LL SHARE IT.
I THINK THAT'S, UM, OTHER MEMBERS OF PUBLIC OR DO YOU WANNA, DO YOU WANNA DO EACH COMMITTEE REPORT OR? YEAH, WE MET TWO WEEKS AGO ON MONDAY AND DISCUSSED A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT ISSUES.
FIRST WE ASKED STAFF FOR SOME INFORMATION ON THE IMPACT OF THE CITY'S NEW POLICIES REGARDING THE GRANTS PASS SUPREME COURT DECISION.
UM, AND WHAT WE LEARNED IN THAT DISCUSSION IS THAT IN EACH OF THE FOUR SITES, THE CITY IS ABLE TO GIVE PEOPLE LIVING IN ENCAMPMENTS, UM, SOME ADVANCED NOTICE AND RESOURCES THAT THE AREA WILL NO LONGER BE YOU A, A PLACE
AND THERE HAS BEEN OUTREACH THERE AS FAR AS AS AND SOME, SOME OF THE SITES SHELTER
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OPTIONS THAT ARE AVAILABLE WITH SOME COUNTY SUPPORT.UM, SO THERE HAS BEEN SEVERAL MONTHS OF OUTREACH TO THE INDIVIDUALS AND THOSE FOR SITES.
UM, SO WE'LL KIND OF CONTINUE TO LOOK AT THE IMPACT OF THOSE NEW POLICIES.
WE ALSO DISCUSSED, UM, THE CITY'S CLEAN SUITE PROGRAM.
AND BECAUSE SO MANY OF THE SITES THAT ARE, UM, CLEAN SWEPT ARE, ARE KIND OF ATTENDED TO OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
SO THEY'RE THE SITES OF ENCAMPMENTS.
UM, THE COMMITTEE WOULD LIKE TO LOOK INTO WHETHER THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY THERE TO DIVERT SOME OF THOSE RESOURCES FROM JUST CLEANING THE AREA TO MAYBE PROVIDING MORE PERMANENT, UM, SANITATION OR STORAGE RESOURCES FOR INDIVIDUALS IF THERE'S, AND SO THAT THEY HAVE A HIGHER STANDARD WITH LIVING.
AND SO THERE'S THAT
UM, AND THEN WE ALSO DISCUSSED A VISIT TO 19 55 1 BEACH BOULEVARD THAT MHAA SITE THAT
UM, AND PAUL DID PUT ME IN CONTACT WITH A STAFF MEMBER THERE.
UM, SO WE'VE HAD TO RESCHEDULE A FEW TIMES, BUT THEY DO PLAN TO AND LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SERVICES THAT ARE OFFERED THERE.
SO IF ANYONE FROM THIS COMMITTEE HAS A QUESTION YOU'D LIKE ME TO ASK ABOUT THE
UM, KIMBERLY, DID YOU GO TO THE CONTINUE HEALTHCARE? NO, THEY DID NOT HAVE THAT MEETING.
ACTUALLY THIS EVERY THREE MONTHS WE'RE HALF, SO NOT TWO MONTHS.
AND THEN AFTER A MONTH, SO, UH, THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE NEXT, YEAH.
UM, WILL YOU PUBLIC COMMENT ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WISH TO SPEAK? IF YOU CAN PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
FILE THE UPDATES ON THE MAYORS FUND, THE MAYORS FUND AND POLICY OF COMMITTEES AND THE CONTINUATIVE CARE REPRESENTATIVE.
A A MOVE OPPOSED ABSTAINED MOTION AGENDA IS RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE PLAN APPLICATION FOR THE TABLE
DO WE HAVE REPRESENTATIVE HERE? THEY ARE NOT HERE.
THEY ADVISED THAT THEY WOULD ATTEMPT TO COME, BUT THEY DID NOT CONFIRM IF THEY WERE ATTENDING.
THEY, THEY DID ATTEND THE, UH,
UM, DOES SOMEBODY WANNA JUST GIVE A QUICK SUMMARY OF WHAT THEIR PROPOSAL WAS? CHAIR? SORRY.
ESSENTIALLY THIS, UH, ORGANIZATION
SO THEY DO PROVIDE, UM, VOUCHERS, UM, OTHER TYPES OF SUPPORT THAT FAMILIES, INDIVIDUALS NEED WHEN COMING TO THE CENTER.
THEY DO HAVE A LONG STANDING, UM, RELATIONSHIP WITH, UM, HERE IN THE AREA IN LONG BEACH.
AND WHAT ELSE? THAT AGAIN, THAT THING.
SO THIS IS A PART OF THEIR HOMELESS PREVENTION PROGRAM.
THEY'VE BEEN AROUND FOR CLOSE 50 YEARS POINT.
SO, UH, THEY ARE A LONGSTANDING ORGANIZATION WITHIN, BEEN IN THE COMMUNITY.
UM, THEY DON'T HAVE A REAL LARGE BUDGET.
THEY OPERATED ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS PER, UH, AND REALLY THEIR PRIMARY FOCUS IS PEOPLE WITH, YOU KNOW, MOBILITY RELATED, UH, DISABILITIES AS WELL AS, AND HEARING IMPAIRMENTS.
UM, AND THEY HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE LOW INCOME, RELIABLE SERVICES.
THEY TRY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO FOCUS ON
UH, THIS IS REALLY ABOUT TRYING TO ENSURE THAT SOME OF OUR MORE VULNERABLE INDIVIDUALS IN THE COMMUNITY,
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WHAT THEY DO, SOME HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL SUPPORTS WHILE NAVIGATING THROUGH THE SYSTEM TO GET BACK INTO HOUSING.SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE EXPLORED OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO TRY AND BRING THE FUNDING NEXT WAY FOR MOTEL, MOTEL AND OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT.
THERE'S LIMITED RESOURCES, BUT, YOU KNOW, THE CONVERSATION WAS REALLY ABOUT THE VALUE AND IMPORTANCE OF THIS RESOURCE.
SO, UH, THAT'S KIND OF WHERE THE CONVERSATION REALLY LANDED WITH THEM AND PART OF THE CONSIDERATION WITHIN, UH, THE SUBCOMMITTEE'S DESIRE TO FOLKS, UH, COMMITTEE FOR, AND IF YOU DO LOOK AT THE APPLICATION BUDGET IT WHERE
AND SO, UH, THE FUNDS FOCUS IN THOSE AREAS, TOTAL BUDGET WOULD BE FOR 10,000 IN REIMBURSEMENT.
5,825 WOULD BE FOR EMERGENCY SHELTER ACCOMMODATIONS SUCH AS HOTEL, HOTEL STAYS, 3,600 FOR FOOD VOUCHERS, AND THEN 5 75 FOR TRANSPORTATION, LIKE EXPENSES LIKE BUS PASSES, THE, UM, MARATHON COMMITTEE AND
UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I WOULD JUST COMMENT THAT THE SEEMS IN LINE WITH THE COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATION TO INCREASE SHELTER.
UM, ANY OTHER QUESTION? WELCOME, STEVEN.
I I I CERTAINLY SUPPORT ANY EFFORT TO IMPROVE, UM, SHELTER CAPACITY IN OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, THE REASON I HESITATE THIS ONE IS BECAUSE WE DID GIVE THEM $10,000 PRIOR FROM, FROM THE MAYOR SPENT.
AND I KNOW THEY WEREN'T REQUIRED TO DO ANY, UH, REPORTING.
UM, AFTER WE GAVE THEM THE MONEY AND THEY SENT IT.
UM, IT'S JUST, TO ME, THIS FALLS INTO THE ONE OF THE, UM, CONTINUATION AND NOT TO PAY THAT FOOD IS
YOU'RE SAYING THAT, UM, THE MAYOR'S SIDE AS IT WAS DESIGNED WAS, WAS NOT EVER INTENDED TO CONTINUE, UM, COMPLETE OPERATION.
UM, THAT'S ANOTHER REASON WHY WE'RE ALSO, UM, WORKING ON, I GUESS YOU
SO WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF AGENCY COMMIT
SO IF THERE'S SOMETHING WORKING AND THIS
HOWEVER, WE FELT THAT THIS DIDN'T FALL IN LINE WITH WHAT THEY, THEY WITH THE MONEY BEFORE STILL SOME TYPE OF PROGRAM, BUT THEY WERE FOCUSED ON A FEW OTHER DIFFERENT, BUT UM, JUST WITH ALL OF THAT SAID, I JUST FEEL LIKE SUN SOMETIMES, ESPECIALLY WITH THE WEATHER IN THE MOMENT, IT
UM, I DO WANNA MAKE A POINT, WE, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE AND IT'S THE, THE FOOD ELEMENT OF IT IS THAT, UM, THERE WE ACTUALLY DO HAVE A LOT OF NON-PROFITS IN LONG BEACH.
WE HAVE ALMOST 700 AND LAST COUNT OR EVEN MORE THAN 700 NOW.
UM, WHAT ITS, AND A LOT OF 'EM DO FOOD AND IT'S HARD.
I UNDERSTAND WHY THIS ORGANIZATION WANTS TO DO SHELTER, FOOD, AND TRANSPORTATION BECAUSE IT ALL MAKES SENSE TO DO IT FOR THE, YOU KNOW, FOR THE SAME INDIVIDUALS TO PROVIDE THEM BASIC NEEDS.
UM, HOWEVER WE DO HAVE THIS, DESIREE KNOWS ALSO BECAUSE OF THE WORK WITH, UM,
YOU HAVE ORGANIZATIONS, UM, THAT ARE ALL ABOUT FOOD.
IT'S JUST A MATTER OF CONNECTING THEIR, THEIR CLIENTS WITH, WITH THOSE ORGANIZATIONS.
A LOT OF PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC, HAVE
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WANDERED INTO THE ARENA OF FOOD.UM, AND IT MADE SENSE DURING THE PANDEMIC.
BUT MAYBE, YOU KNOW, AS WE HAVE BEEN OUT OF THE PANDEMIC, WE LET SEE PEOPLE TAKE CARE OF FOOD.
I ASK US, UM, HAVING RUN SEVERAL NON-PROFITS, UM, IT'S DEFINITELY GOOD TO WATCH WITH PURPOSE.
IT'S NOT ALWAYS THAT EASY AND IT'S DEFINITELY NOT THAT AND WHAT I CAN CONTROL AND SOMEONE THAT RUNS IT.
BUT AGAIN, I CAN SO THAT WHETHER THAN THINGS FALL ON
THE ONES, IF WE GOT 700, I DON'T HAVE 700 APPLICATIONS.
THE ONE THAT ARE FINE, OBVIOUSLY WE NEED IT.
WE'RE DOING GOOD WORK AND THAT'S WHY WE NEED OUR ABILITY TO MOVE IT TOGETHER AND, AND ONCE WE GET THE SOP WE, WE CAN OPEN UP YEAH.
AND THAT'S GONNA BE ON OUR WEBSITE.
WELL WE GOT, WE GOTTA GO IN FIRST.
SO WE ARE JUST REVIEWING AND YES.
ALREADY PUT TOGETHER SOME WONDERFUL THINGS AND WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE.
UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? MAKE THE MOTION OR OH YEAH.
SO, SO I CAN MOVE THAT BE, UH, FUND I, THE MOTION IS RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE, APPROVE THE MAYORS FUND APPLICATION FOR DISABLED RESOURCES CENTER FOR $10,000.
OKAY, NUMBER FIVE ON OUR AGENDA IS RECOMMENDATIONS.
UH, CAN YOU MEMBERS, UM, WE IN A MOMENT, UM, WE'VE HAD A FEW THINGS TO HAPPEN, BUT AS WE SAID, WE'VE COME BACK ON A QUARTERLY BASIS TO GO OVER SORT THIS DATA AND A LITTLE MORE DEPTH THAN WE HAVE IN THE PAST.
SO, UM, WE'RE A LITTLE PAST THAT QUARTER, BUT WE'RE COMING TO YOU.
SO I'M GONNA HAND IT OVER TO JONATHAN WHO'S GONNA GO OVER SOME OF THE DATA, UM, FOR, UH, SOME OF THE RECENT MONTHS AND THEN WE'LL BE BACK, UH, AND TRYING TO GET ONTO THAT QUARTER SO THAT WE'RE PROVIDING AN OVERVIEW OF WHATSAPP.
ALRIGHT, EVERYONE,
UH, I, AS PAUL HAD MENTIONED, I'M GONNA GO OVER LIKE SERVICES BY MONTH AND SOME INFLOW OUTFLOW DISCUSSION.
'CAUSE I KNOW IN, IN PREVIOUS MEETINGS WE HAD DISCUSSED, UM, WHAT KIND OF LIKE, WHAT THIS FLOW LOOKS LIKE BECAUSE JUST TAKING A LOOK AT CONSERVANCY PER MONTH, PERHAPS NOT EXACTLY THE PICTURE THAT WE WANT.
SO I'M GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE AND WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON.
AS PAUL MENTIONED, WE'VE BEEN A LITTLE BIT, UM, SINCE WE'VE ACTUALLY GONE OVER THIS.
SO WHAT I HAVE IS, UM, LAST QUARTERS DATA IN TERMS OF SERVICES.
AND I HAVE IN FRONT OF ME LIKE THE PREVIOUS QUARTERS.
'CAUSE I DON'T THINK WE ENDED UP TALKING ABOUT LIKE THE PREVIOUS QUARTERS DATA.
SO I CAN GIVE YOU A BIT OF A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE TWO.
I DIDN'T WANNA THROW A MILLION NUMBERS AT YOU.
UM, SO I CAN TALK ABOUT WHAT WE SEE JULY, AUGUST, AND SEPTEMBER, AND THEN I CAN TELL YOU HOW IT COMPARES TO THE PREVIOUS QUARTER BECAUSE THAT'S, THAT'S THE MAIN FOR EVERYBODY.
AND SO I HAVE, UM, THE SERVICES BY CATEGORY, BY THE DIFFERENT, UM, SERVICE AREAS THAT WE HAVE.
SO MULTI-SERVICE CENTER, MOBILE ACCESS CENTER, AND OUTREACH.
I'LL GO OVER, UM, THOSE SEPARATELY.
SO ONE THING TO NOTE IS THAT IN HOMELESS SERVICES WE HAVE SEASONAL TRENDS.
UH, AND SO WHAT WE'LL FIND IS THAT A MONTH TO MONTH OR EVEN A QUARTER TO QUARTER COMPARISON PERHAPS DOES NOT TELL, UM, EXACTLY THE STORY THAT WE'RE SEEING.
AND SO A YEAR OVER YEAR COMPARISON IS ALSO IMPORTANT, UM, TO RECOGNIZE.
SO, UM, A FEW THINGS TO NOTE HERE.
YOU'LL SEE, UM, OUR CASE MANAGEMENT NUMBERS ARE MOVING UP SLIGHTLY FROM JULY TO SEPTEMBER.
GENERALLY SPEAKING, IF YOU WANT TO COMPARE THIS WITH PREVIOUS QUARTER, THESE NUMBERS ARE ACTUALLY DOWN A LITTLE BIT.
UM, AND SO AGAIN, THAT DOES MATCH WHAT WE WOULD CONSIDER TO BE LIKE A, A DOWNWARD TREND DURING, UM, LIKE MORE WARM OR LIKE HOT MONTHS.
UM, AT LEAST FOR LIKE THE, THE SAKE OF CASE MANAGEMENT.
ANOTHER THING TO NOTE, AND IF YOU JUST WANNA LOOK AT THE TOP LINE HERE OF CASE MANAGEMENT COMPARING MULTI-SERVICE CENTER
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WITH THE MOBILE ACCESS CENTER, WHICH AGAIN, THE MOBILE ACCESS CENTER IS MEANT TO SERVE AS LIKE A MULTI-SERVICE CENTER ON WHEELS.UM, THERE WERE QUESTIONS AS TO HOW THIS WAS GOING TO WORK IN TERMS OF WHAT'S BEING PROVIDED.
AND UM, THE QUESTIONS WERE, ARE WE JUST GONNA SEE AN ADDITION OF SERVICES, LIKE WE'RE JUST REACHING NEW PEOPLE OR IS THIS GOING TO BE LIKE SUPPLEMENTAL TO, OR LIKE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE USING THE MULTI, UH, OR THE MOBILE ACCESS CENTER AS A RESERVED MULTI-SERVICE CENTER.
SO THEY'RE GONNA NOT VISIT THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER AND VISIT THE MOBILE ACCESS CENTER.
AND I THINK WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IS A LITTLE BIT OF A LITTLE BIT B.
SO THE NUMBERS FOR THE MOBILE ACCESS CENTER ARE GOING UP, AND THAT'S IN LARGE PART THANKS TO LIKE ADDITIONAL TRAINING, ADDITIONAL PEOPLE STAFFING IT.
AND SO THERE'S PEOPLE, UM, WE'RE, WE'RE HITTING UP MORE IN DIFFERENT REGIONS WITH THE MOBILE ACCESS CENTER.
SO YOU'LL SEE THE TREND IN SERVICES MOVING UP OVER TIME WITH THE MOBILE ACCESS CENTER, UM, AND MOVING DOWN OR NOT DOWN, BUT, UM, THERE IS A BIT OF A, A RELATIONSHIP WHERE WE SEE THE MOBILE ACCESS CENTER.
WE SOMETIMES SUPPLANTING SOME OF THE SERVICES THAT PEOPLE ARE USING AT THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER.
SO IT'S KIND OF WORKING AS COMPETITIVE AS WE THOUGHT IT WOULD.
UM, IN TERMS OF, UM, AND I KNOW THAT WE, WE HAD DISCUSSED AT, AT LENGTH KIND OF THIS OTHER CATEGORY HERE, WHICH SEEMED TO BE, UM, IT, IT HAS A LOT OF, UM, VALUE IN THERE.
SO SPECIFICALLY FOR THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER, THIS IS COUNTING SHOWERS AND AGAIN, THAT'S THIS LIKE HIGH COUNT OF SERVICES.
AND SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE SEEING THIS LARGE NUMBER HERE.
WE'RE STILL CLEANING UP OUR SERVICES FOR ALL OF OUR THINGS.
AND SO THIS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OVER TIME.
WE'RE DOING A MUCH BETTER JOB OF CLEANING THIS UP AND ACTUALLY CATEGORIZING THINGS APPROPRIATELY.
I CAN COVER WHAT EXACTLY IS IN EACH ONE OF THESE CATEGORIES, IF YOU ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT.
LIKE SAY, UH, DRUG ADDICTION, ALCOHOL, IS THAT UNDER OTHER, UM, UH, CASE MANAGE? YEAH, THAT SHOULD BE UNDER, UM, YEAH.
SO THAT, THAT WOULD BE UNDER SOMETHING LIKE A CASE MANAGER SERVICE.
SO MENTAL HEALTH UNDER THE MOBILE ACCESS WAS ZERO FOR THE COURT.
IS THAT JUST BECAUSE THERE'S NO MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN ON THE, UH, THE MOBILE FRONT? YES.
THERE A LOT OF, UH, WORKING IN THIS, I WORKED FOR MOST OVER THE LAST MONTH OF 16, ALMOST 20 YEARS.
AND PART OF IT IS MENTAL HEALTH, SO I'M JUST SURPRISED TO SEE THE NUMBERS CATEGORIES SO LOW.
SO WHAT YOU'LL SEE IS THAT OUR OUTREACH, THESE NUMBERS ARE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER IN THIS QUARTER THAN IT WAS IN THE PREVIOUS QUARTER.
AND SO WE ARE GETTING BETTER AT, NOT ONLY ARE WE ARE WE STAFFED UP IN OUR OUTREACH SERVICES FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS, BUT THEY'RE DOING A MUCH BETTER JOB OF ACTUALLY REPORTING THOSE SERVICES AS WELL.
AND SO THIS IS A CATEGORY THAT YOU'RE GONNA SEE KIND OF JUMP A LITTLE BIT IN IN FUTURE MONTHS AS WELL.
BUT YEAH, SO OUR, OUR THE, I WOULD SAY THE BULK OF OUR, OUR MENTAL HEALTH IS BEING DONE THROUGH OUTREACH AND THROUGH THE THE
SO WHEN THEY'RE ENGAGED IN, UM, THE INTERVENE IN HMIS, ARE THEY REPORTING ALL THE SERVICES AND ARE ANY OF THE HOMELESS PEOPLE ASKING FOR MEDICAL SERVICES OR ARE THEY PRESENTING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF, OR IS IT ONLY WHEN THE POLICE ARE CALLED THAT YOU, THEY CAPTURE THAT PEOPLE HAVE AN ISSUE? OH NO.
INDIVIDUALS CAN BE REFERRED TO A MENTAL HEALTH, UH, PROGRAMMER OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE.
LIKE WITHOUT LIKE POLICE INTERVENTION.
BUT ARE THEY ASKING THEM DO THEY NEED MENTAL HEALTH OR HAVE THEY BEEN DIAGNOSED? IT'S PART OF OUR QUESTIONNAIRE.
DO WE ASK INDIVIDUAL? YEAH, SO IN, IN TERMS OF WHEN, WHEN OUTREACH GOES TO, UH, AN INDIVIDUAL, IT'S PART OF A, A QUESTIONNAIRE OF JUST KIND OF GENERAL ENGAGING WHERE THE CLIENT IS AND, AND, AND MAKING A RECOMMENDATION FROM THERE GOING BACK TO YOUR MULTI-SERVICE CENTER.
AND SO WHEN IT SAYS MENTAL HEALTH, WHAT, WHAT IS THAT DEFINED AS? WHAT ARE YOU GIVING THEM? SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE A LITTLE BIT LOW AND WE'LL BE EVEN LOWER.
SO OUR MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN THAT WAS AT THE MC HAS MOVED INTO ANOTHER ROLE WORKING ON, AND WE HAD ONE OTHER MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN THAT WAS ALSO THERE THAT IS NO LONGER, UH, WITH THE CITY, UM, AT THIS POINT.
SO THERE IS SOME DROP WITHIN THAT.
THE MENTAL HEALTH IS REALLY ABOUT LIKE A CONVERSATION WITH THE MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC THAT IS CENTERED AROUND THE PERSON'S MENTAL HEALTH.
YOU KNOW, THAT MIGHT BE A REFERRAL TO A HIGHER LEVELS OF CARE.
WE'RE NOT SET UP, WE'RE NOT A, WE'RE NOT A FULL SERVICE PARTNERSHIP.
WE'RE NOT A DMH FUNDED CLINIC.
IT REALLY IS ABOUT TRIAGE, SOME BRIEF, YOU KNOW, THERAPY IF SOMEBODY IS INTERESTED AND GETTING THEM LINKED.
IF THEY'RE INTERESTED IN LONGER TERM, THEY'RE INTERESTED IN MEDICATION.
THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE PROVIDE.
WE DON'T HAVE A DMH CONTRACT TO PROVIDE.
SO THIS IS OTHER FUNDING THAT WE NEED TO HIRE MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC KNOWING THAT IS AN INCREASING NEED.
SO IF, IF AN INDIVIDUAL IS SEEN TO NEED WITH SERVICES, LET'S SAY COLOR TALK, WOULD THAT BE COUNTED AS MENTAL HEALTH? I GUESS I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU'RE SAYING THAT THE CLINICIAN
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IS, UM, PROVIDING THERAPY SESSIONS.SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SEEING AS THE, UM, 41, 42 AND 42.
THOSE ARE APPOINTMENTS THAT CAME TO AT AN MSC TO TO HAVE THEIR THERAPY SESSION.
BUT UM, THEN DO YOU, DO YOU COUNT THE MENTAL HEALTHCARE REFERRAL TO COLLEGE OR WHEREVER THEY END UP GOING? DO YOU COUNT THAT SOMEWHERE ELSE OR THAT IS COUNTED IN THE SAME CATEGORY? SO IT'S NOT OKAY.
WE WOULD BE CALLING THE MENTAL EVALUATION TEAM TO COME DO AN ASSESSMENT.
I MEAN, IF THE PERSON'S WILLING TO GO, SOMETIMES WE'LL TAKE PEOPLE DIRECTLY TO COLLEGE, HOSPITAL AND GETTING INTO THE EMERGENCY ROOM THAT BE WILLING TO GO.
IF SOMEBODY IS NOT INTERESTED IN GOING AND WE'RE SEEING THIS PERSON NEEDS CRISIS RESPONSE, IT IS NOT US THAT IS PUTTING A PERSON ON HOLD.
IT'S US CALLING THE MENTAL EVALUATION TEAM THROUGH PD AND THEY COME OUT, THEY HAVE A D MH CLINICIAN HAVE THE RIGHT TO HOLD AND THEN POLICE HELP THEM.
GOING BACK TO THE ONE, THE ZERO FOR HEALTHCARE AND BUREAU FOR HOUSING ARE, ARE WE SAYING THAT NOBODY WENT TO THE TCC MEN FAMILY CLINIC? WE DO NOT HAVE TCC DATA THAT IS HIPA PROTECTED.
SO WE DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO ACCESS TO THE INDIVIDUAL.
I MEAN IT'S NO, NO, I'M JUST SAYING I DON'T, WE DON'T HAVE A WAY OF TRACKING, I DO NOT HAVE A REPORTING MECHANISM FROM TC, SO SERVICES HAVE TO BE ATTACHED TO AN INDIVIDUAL BECAUSE THAT INFORMATION IS PROTECTED.
WE CAN'T PUT IT IN, THEY CAN'T PUT IT INTO LIKE A RIGHT, I UNDERSTAND THAT.
BUT YOU CAN CALL TCC ON ANY GIVEN MONTH AND THEY'LL TELL YOU HOW MANY PEOPLE THEY SAW AT THE, AT THEIR MC CLINIC, WHEREVER OTHER CLINICS THEY, THEY HAVE, I MEAN IF YOU JUST WANT THE NUMBER, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE SEEING, WE'RE NOT SEEING ANY DATE, YOU KNOW, ANY, ANY, UM, DETAILS OF THEIR HMIS.
WE'RE JUST SEEING YOU'RE JUST IN THAT TABLE FOR MULTI-SERVICE CENTER.
YOU'RE JUST GIVING US THE NUMBERS, RIGHT? THAT'S CORRECT.
GET THAT VIOLATED BY THE NUMBER I'M DRAWING IN NUMBERS FROM HMIS, WHICH RIGHT, AGAIN, IS GOING TO BE LIKE PERSONAL ATTACHED.
AND THEN, BUT ZERO FOR HOUSING.
WHAT, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? SO GENERALLY SPEAKING, THOSE ARE GONNA BE, THOSE WOULD END UP FALLING UNDER LIKE CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES HERE.
AND SO THIS GETS BACK TO A CLEANING UP OF OUR SERVICES DATA, UM, WHERE IT'S, UH, INDIVIDUALS ARE NO LONGER, LIKE WE REMOVE MANY OF THE SERVICE ITEMS. I'M SORRY, I'M NOT, I'M NOT, WE'VE REMOVED MANY OF THE SERVICE ITEMS UNDERNEATH THE HOUSING SERVICE LIKE UMBRELLA CATEGORY.
AND SO WE'RE SHIPPING THOSE INTO MORE CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICE ITEMS. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU DID SEE IN THE PREVIOUS QUARTER.
THERE WERE NUMBERS THERE AND THEY'RE NOT IN THIS QUARTER.
SO THAT WILL BE A CATEGORY THAT'S NO LONGER, UM, THAT WE'RE NOT LOOKING, GONNA BE SHOWING THAT CATEGORY ANYMORE BECAUSE WE'VE SHIFTED THOSE SERVICE ITEMS. YOU'RE NOT GONNA SEE HOUSING ANYMORE.
WE ARE STILL PROVIDING THOSE SERVICES JUST UNDER A DIFFERENT CATEGORY.
WHY WOULD THAT IT'S UNDER A SERVICE ITEM.
SO HERE, HERE LIES THE CHALLENGE WITHIN, YOU KNOW, WHEN A CASE MANAGER GOES TO MEET WITH SOMEBODY, THEY'RE OFTEN TALKING ABOUT EIGHT DIFFERENT THINGS WE HAVE DISCUSSED, YOU KNOW, OUR ABILITY TO POTENTIALLY TRY AND LINK MULTIPLE THINGS TOGETHER.
THE DIFFICULTY REALLY BECOMES LIKE COLLECT THE SERVICE THING.
SO
UM, AND THREE OTHER THINGS WITHIN THAT.
SO THAT ENDS UP GETTING CATEGORY, RIGHT.
THE MOST SAFE AS CASE MANAGER.
RARELY IS SOMEBODY ONLY TALKING TO SOMEBODY ABOUT IN OUR PERMANENT, BUT THERE'S BROKEN OUT DATA ABOUT IT STARTING ON SLIDE 18.
I'M SORRY, COULD YOU REPEAT THAT? BUT THERE'S BROKEN OUT DATA ABOUT INDIVIDUALS SHELTERED AND REQUESTING SHELTER AND PERMANENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING STARTING ON SLIDE 18.
THAT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT AND WE'LL GET INTO THAT.
YEAH, THAT'S, THOSE ARE BASED ON THE REFERRAL INFORMATION, BUT YES, WE, WE DO HAVE SEPARATE INFORMATION ON INDICATORS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THAT AND WE HAVE THAT DATA.
SPEAKING LIKE IS THERE A WAY TO LOOK AT DATA? LIKE I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO WITH LIKE THE CATEGORY.
IS THERE A WAY LIKE AFTER YOU DO THAT AND LIKE THINK ABOUT YOU THINK ABOUT THAT?
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UM, I'M TRYING TO LIKE PICTURE HOW MANY OF THESE SERVICES OVERLAP WITH INDIVIDUALS THAT'S LIKE POSSIBLE IN LIKE I THE TABLE.LIKE, LIKE, LIKE SAY WHEN YOU CLEAN THIS UP, LIKE IN A MONTH OR TWO OR SOMETHING AND LIKE HOUSING IS NOW UNDER CASE MANAGEMENT AND WE KNOW THAT LIKE CASE MANAGEMENT HAS THESE THINGS UNDER LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE THIS NAVIGATION.
LIKE IS THERE A WAY, LIKE WHEN TO LOOK AT THOSE CATEGORIES LOOKS CERTAINLY DOWN.
LIKE HOW MANY OF THEM LIKE OVERLAP AND LIKE HOW OFTEN THEY OVERLAP? YES.
YOU MEAN O OVERLAP LIKE IN THE INDIVIDUAL RECEIVING MULTIPLE SERVICES? YES.
SO LIKE, YEAH, LIKE HOW, HOW MUCH OF IT OVERLAPS BECAUSE LIKE HERE, LIKE I'M LOOKING AT IT AND LIKE I'M JUST LOOKING AT NUMBERS OF LIKE, AND IT COULD BE LIKE THE SAME PERSON.
YOU KIND OF WANNA SEE LIKE WHAT MANY CATEGORIES OR CATEGORIES, LIKE WHAT'S A UNIQUE YEAH.
SO 1, 1, 1 STRATEGY TO DO THIS IS TO LIKE, IS TO TAKE A LOOK AT A CLIENT, LIKE MORE OF LIKE A CLIENT LEVEL VIEW OF THIS, WHICH IS TO SAY, UM, HOW MANY OF OUR CLIENTS WALK IN AND GET A SINGLE SERVICE VERSUS HOW MANY CLIENTS WALK IN AND GET TWO OR THREE OR FOUR.
AND YOU ARE GONNA SEE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIKE VERY HIGH UTILIZERS OF THE SYSTEM AND VERY LOW UTILIZERS OF THE SYSTEM.
AND IN TERMS OF, DO YOU WANNA SEE IF PEOPLE WHO GET FOOD ALSO GET CASE MANAGEMENT? IS THAT WHAT YOU WANNA SEE? YES.
BECAUSE LIKE IS IT LIKE, IT'S ALMOST LIKE YOU'RE THINKING OF LIKE, IT'S LIKE SPOTTED OUT LIKE ON A, ON A GRAPH GRAPH IF YOU HAVE A GRAPH AND YOU POP THINGS OUT, LIKE WHERE ARE THE BUBBLES AND WHERE ARE THEY OVERLAPPING? I WANNA SEE THAT.
AND IF ARE THE BUBBLES GETTING BIGGER ON, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE IN CASE MANAGEMENT'S GONNA BE LIKE A HUGE BUBBLE, BUT MAYBE THERE'S LIKE THIS OTHER COMPONENT THAT WELL LOOK AT THAT DIAGRAM.
YEAH, KIND OF A LITTLE BIT MAYBE.
UM, TO ADD TO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, THE, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE PERSONALLY, LIKE IN THAT 323 AND THEN AUGUST 361, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO WEEK PEOPLE MEETING? LIKE WE HAVE THE SAME PERSON FROM JULY, IT WAS, YOU KNOW, NEW.
SO I DON'T WANNA SEE THE SAME THIRD.
THAT PAYMENT GOT SERVICES IN JULY AND THEN THEY ALSO, THEY COUNTED AUGUST AND THEY'RE ALSO FOUND FROM SEPTEMBER.
AND WE IN THE PAST, AND WE CAN PULL THAT OUT AGAIN.
IT'S LIKE HOW MANY NEW PEOPLE THAT WE ENCOUNTERED EACH MONTH? MM-HMM
I KNOW THE MSC HISTORICALLY, IT'S ROUGHLY SEEING 15 TO 20 NEW PEOPLE PER DAY THAT WE'RE OPEN.
SO THERE ARE, SO JUST FROM LIKE A DATA PERSPECTIVE, UM, THERE ARE A FEW CONFLICTS WITH WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR, WHICH IS LIKE THE OVERLAP OF WHEN SERVICES APPLY TO A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL, MULTIPLE SERVICES TO INDIVIDUAL OR WHETHER THERE'S CORRELATION IN THE SERVICES THAT ARE PROVIDED TO PEOPLE.
BUT THEN WE'RE ALSO, AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THAT, HOW MANY UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS ARE SERVICED IN EACH ADDITIONAL MONTH? UM, PER QUARTER.
PER YEAR? FOR LIKE, FOR THE 568, JUST LIKE YEAH.
568, HOW MANY UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS DOES THAT? YEAH.
SO THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S WE CAN MOVE.
WHEN THE CASE MANAGERS MEETING WITH THIS INDIVIDUALS, UM, I MEAN DO THEY, ARE THERE ANY KIND OF DEBRIEF OR AS THEY'RE CHECKED AS THEY'RE OFFERING, THEY'RE GOING INTO A, OKAY, THIS IS ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH.
SO THERE'S NO WAY FOR THAT TO GO TO, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING TO PULL THAT DATA OUT, ALLOCATE IT INTO A SPECIFIC CATEGORY.
BECAUSE TO ME, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE, HOW YOU JUST, IS IT JUST ANECDOTAL OR JUST HOW DO THEY, HOW DO YOU GET THAT INFORMATION FROM THE CASE MANAGEMENT? BECAUSE TO ME CASE MANAGEMENT IS HUGE CATCHALL, SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW YOU CAN ALLOCATE IT LIKE YOU ALLOCATED FOOD, HEALTHCARE, LEGAL AND MENTAL HEALTH.
BUT I GUARANTEE YOU ALMOST THAT FIVE OR SIX, EIGHT, PROBABLY HALF OF THEM ARE MENTAL HEALTH OR ASKED ABOUT IT.
I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW IT DOESN'T FIT INTO THAT CATEGORY BECAUSE WORKING IN THE POPULATION, ALMOST EVERYONE THAT I MEET, THERE'S A MENTAL HEALTH COMPONENT TO COMORBID DRUG ADDICTION, ALCOHOL AND MENTAL HEALTH.
BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE AREN'T WANTING TO TALK ABOUT THEIR MENTAL HEALTH AND LIKE, BUT HOW WE, HOW DO WE IT, RIGHT? I MEAN, AND I MEAN FEEDING THEM, WHICH IS WHAT'S THE BIGGEST CATEGORY? IT'S ALWAYS FOOD OR LEGAL SERVICE.
SO RECOVERY, DRUG ADDICTION, IS THAT UNDER HEALTHCARE,
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RIGHT? UM, MY OWN, I MEAN, WHAT MY MAIN QUESTION IS, IS WHAT DO THESE NUMBERS MEAN TO US? AND YOU LIKE, YEAH, WE SEE LIKE HOW, HOW ARE WE READING THE TRENDS? THINGS ARE LOOKING, SEPTEMBER WAS BIG INCREASE FROM JULY.AND SO HOW DO, WHAT DO THESE NUMBERS BEING AND, AND HOW DO WE RESPOND? I THINK THE WAY THAT I, WELL, SO AS, AS A JUST DATA PERSON, THE WAY THAT I WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT THIS IS, DOES THIS FIT WITH THE TRENDS THAT WE'RE EXPECTING? SO LIKE I SAID, SO HOMELESSNESS IS SEASONAL IN MANY WAYS.
AND SO DO THESE TRENDS MATCH WITH WHAT WE EXPECT TO SEE GIVEN EVERYTHING IS STABLE? TWO, AS WE'RE HIRING INDIVIDUALS OR AS WE'RE MOVING INDIVIDUALS AROUND IN OUR ORGANIZATION, DO WE SEE THAT REFLECTED IN THE SERVICES THAT WE'RE PROVIDING? TWO, AS YOU'RE POINTING OUT, THERE APPEAR TO BE SOME CATEGORIES THAT MAY BE DEFICIENT IN WHAT WE AND WHERE WE WOULD EXPECT IT.
AND THAT ACTUALLY LEADS TO LIKE REQUIRE, I SHOULDN'T SAY REQUIREMENTS, BUT IT LEADS US TO THINK MAYBE WE NEED MORE TRAINING IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE CAPTURING THE SERVICES THAT THEY ARE PROVIDING.
SO THAT'S KIND OF THE LOOK THAT I AM USING HERE.
AND SO THE LENS THAT YOU ARE ALL TELLING ME THAT YOU WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SEE, I THINK THAT'S SUPER USEFUL IN TERMS OF WHAT YOU ALL WANT TO SEE AND THAT'S, THAT'S MOST CERTAINLY I CAN PROVIDE THAT.
YEAH, I JUST, FOR ME, I JUST WANNA KNOW WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN THAT'S, WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN? WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING AS A RESULT OF WHAT WE'RE SEEING? THAT WAS MY ONLY, SURE.
SO I THINK I LIKE USING THE MOBILE ACCESS CENTER AS A, AS AN EXAMPLE BECAUSE AS I SAID BEFORE, WHEN WE STARTED IT, THERE WAS A QUESTION AS TO WHETHER OR NOT PEOPLE WOULD USE THE MOBILE ACCESS CENTER IN REPLACEMENT OF THE MSE.
AND IT DOES LOOK LIKE THERE IS SOME INFORMATION TO SUGGEST THAT THAT'S TRUE AND THAT'S PRETTY INTERESTING INFORMATION, ESPECIALLY AS WE START MAPPING OUT WHERE WE'RE MOVING THE MOBILE ACCESS CENTER.
WHERE ARE WE GETTING BETTER HITS? WHERE ARE WE GETTING MORE PEOPLE? EVEN IF WE, IF IF WE PUT THE MOBILE ACCESS CENTER IN THE SAME SPOT FOR TWO WEEKS STRAIGHT, ARE WE SEEING THE SAME PEOPLE? IS IT DIFFERENT? SO THAT'S ALL KIND OF, THAT'S, THAT'S PART OF THE LARGER PICTURE AND I THINK THE M CENTER A REALLY GOOD STORY FOR WHY THIS IS KIND OF A, A GOOD SNAPSHOT OF THAT.
I DO HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION, LIKE YEAH.
IN SOME OF THESE, UM, CATEGORIES, IS IT LIKE DIRECT SERVICES OR NAVIGATION UNDER CASE MANAGE? I KNOW IT'S LIKE AN OBLIGATION BUT IT'S IT'S LIKE ONE, IT'S BOTH.
OFTENTIMES IT SAYS I MADE A REFERRAL TO THIS PROGRAM OR I ACTUALLY PROVIDE THE SECTION SUCH SURVEY.
I MEAN I THINK THE CHALLENGING THING IS WE ARE TRYING TO CAPTURE ALL THESE DIFFERENT THINGS BEING DONE BY LARGE LEAGUE SIMILAR SENSE.
IT IS PRETTY CHALLENGING TO DO AND LIKE MAKE IT CLEAN.
SO WE'RE CONTINUING TO ITERATE AND PROVIDE BETTER GET, GET BETTER AT TELLING LIKE THAT.
BUT IT'S REALLY HARD IF WE DON'T START TO CATEGORIZE CERTAIN THINGS AND PUT CERTAIN THINGS TOGETHER.
BUT AS WE DO THAT, IT DOES GET MORE CHALLENGING IN OTHER WAYS.
AND AGAIN, THE HARD PART IS SOMEBODY MIGHT TALK ABOUT FOUR, FIVE OF THESE THINGS AND LIKE HOW WE CAPTURE THAT, THAT DOESN'T BECOME LIKE BURDENSOME WITHIN DOCUMENTATION ALSO BECOMES A BIT OF A CHALLENGE.
SO WE'RE, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'RE GETTING MUCH BETTER AT HOW WE CAPTURE THE SERVICES THAT WE'RE PROVIDING OVER TIME, BUT WE'RE STILL, WE'RE STILL WORKING ON IT.
WE'RE STILL TRYING TO IMPROVE THAT.
SO IS IS THERE A SPACE, UM, IN ON THE FORM THAT THE STAFF DO THINK THAT ALLOWS THEM TO LIKE WRITE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T THERE? CASE NOTES? YEAH.
BUT THAT, THE HARD PART IS TAKING THAT CASE UP CAP.
I WAS GONNA SAY NO, WHAT I WAS SAYING.
WELL, WHAT I WAS THINKING, NOT WHAT I WAS SAYING.
WHAT I WAS THINKING WAS THAT GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT MADE YOU MISSING ON THE FORMS TO MAYBE ADD AS YOU'RE LOOKING AT MAKING IT BETTER, UM, YOU KNOW, STAFF IS SAYING WE'RE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THESE THINGS, BUT IT'S NOT ON OUR FORM.
I MEAN, SO THE CHALLENGING PART IS YOU COULD WORK FOR A SUBSTANCE USE PROVIDER AND YOU PROVIDE SUBSTANCE USE SERVICE THAT'S PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD AND LIKE CATEGORIZING THESE ARE FALL WHAT FALLS IN WITH MY SUBSTANCE ABUSE.
BUT WE'RE TRYING TO DO SUBSTANCE ABUSE, MENTAL HEALTH, LIKE PEOPLE WITH THEIR PHYSICAL OH, I'M NOT, OH, THAT'S HOW, YEAH, I GET THAT.
WHAT I'M SAYING IS LIKE THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE, BUT WE KEEP MEETING WITH PEOPLE KEEP TALKING ABOUT ANXIETY OR YEP.
I KEEP MEETING WITH PEOPLE THAT KEEP TALKING ABOUT WHATEVER.
SO I THINK MAYBE AS YOU LOOK AT HOW WE WANNA CAPTURE NEW THINGS, OH MAYBE WE NEED TO ADD THIS CATEGORY.
'CAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE STAFF KEEP SAYING YOU'RE MEETING WITH PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS ONE THING.
SO I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT THAT UP.
SO ONE CASE NOTES ARE A, HOW SHOULD I PUT IT? LIKE THAT IS A, A WEALTH OF
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INFORMATION NOT ONLY FOR A CASE MANAGER FOR, WELL, IT IS DIFFICULT TO PULL IT OUT AND PUT IT INTO SOMETHING LIKE THIS.SO I'LL POINT TO, AS WE TALKED ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH, THIS IS ACTUALLY A PROJECT THAT WE'RE WORKING ON WITH OUR, OUR MENTAL HEALTH GROUP MM-HMM
WHICH IS THE, THE CURRENCY THAT THE MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM USES IS CASE NOTES.
THEY'RE FAR LESS RELIANT ON SERVICES.
YOU, THEY'RE FAR MORE RELIANT ON THE NOTES THAT THEY TAKE PER INTERACTION.
AND SO WHAT, WHAT MAY APPEAR TO BE A LOW LEVEL OF SERVICE HERE IS REPLACED BY A WEALTH OF INFORMATION WITHIN THE CASE NOTES.
SOMETHING THAT AS MYSELF TRYING TO PULL AGGREGATE DATA, NOT EASY TO DISPLAY FOR YOU HERE, BUT WE'RE RECOGNIZING AND WE'RE FINDING DIFFERENT WAYS TO ACTUALLY CAPTURE THIS INFORMATION AND TO DISPLAY IT.
AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO, ESPECIALLY WITH THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER WHERE WE'RE ATTEMPTING TO ADD BOTH OUR SERVICES AS WELL AS OUR CASE INFORMATION TO SHOW YOU HOW MUCH WORK IS ACTUALLY BEING PROVIDED BY
I KNOW IT'S A HEAVY LIST FOR EVERYBODY.
AND MAYBE YOU'RE ALREADY DOING THIS, THE CASE MANAGERS DO A LITTLE CHECKLIST.
UH, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS POSSIBLE.
I THINK THERE'S, UH, WE DO HAVE A SYSTEM, YOU KNOW, FOR OUR CASE NOTE, UM, WRITING, WHICH IS, I I CAN'T RECALL WHEN THAT CONVERSATION.
DO YOU RECALL LIKE WHEN, WHEN LIKE WE, WE SYSTEMATIZE CASE NOTE WRITING COUPLE MONTHS AGO.
RIGHT? SO THERE IS A, A NEW SYSTEM IN PLACE WHERE CASE NOTES SHOULD BE NOTED WITH LIKE SPECIFIC TAGS AND THAT IS GONNA MAKE IT A LOT EASIER FOR YOU TO LIKE PULL THAT DATA OUT.
BUT THAT IS KIND OF A, A RECENT INNOVATION THAT WE'VE PUT INTO PLACE.
AND SO LOOKING BACK IN TIME, WE'RE NOT, I'M NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO PULL OUT LIKE THAT SPECIFIC INFORMATION MOVING FORWARD POST SEPTEMBER, IT WAS POST, WHAT WAS IT? POST SEPTEMBER.
UM, IN IN FAIRNESS I DID NOT HOLD THAT LIKE, TO, TO DEMONSTRATE THIS.
I I WASN'T PULLING THAT INFORMATION ANYWAY.
SO IF IT WAS INSTITUTED, I, I AM NOT PULLING THAT FOR THESE TABLE HERE, BUT I I WILL FOR FUTURE INFORMATIONS OF THIS PRESENTATION, I THINK THAT MIGHT SOLVE THE ONE.
SO ARE THESE TABLES ARE ARE, ARE THEY USEFUL FOR YOU ALL? YES.
AND PROVIDING SERVICES TO THE PEOPLE OUT ON THE STREETS? I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW, HOW THESE NUMBERS ARE USEFUL TO YOU.
AGAIN, SO LIKE I SAID, IN TERMS OF WHERE WE ARE WITH STAFFING, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE WHERE WE ARE YEAR OVER YEAR.
SO IT, I I, I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN COMPARING THESE NUMBERS TO THE PREVIOUS QUARTER.
IF I COMPARE THEM TO THE PREVIOUS YEAR, THESE NUMBERS ARE VASTLY IMPROVED IN TERMS OF JUST THE SHEER NUMBER OF SERVICES THAT WE'RE PROVIDING AND CAPTURING.
SO PART OF THIS IS TO RECOGNIZE WHO IS CAPTURING THIS INFORMATION.
SO THESE ARE AGGREGATE HIGH LEVEL PEOPLE OF INFORMATION.
IF I WROTE THIS DOWN BY HOW, LIKE WHAT ARE CASE MANAGERS ACTUALLY INPUTTING? I'D GET TO SHOW YOU AVERAGE NUMBER OF SERVICES PROVIDED BY A CASE MANAGER AND I CAN, I CAN SEE IF ONE IS, IS PUTTING IN A MILLION SERVICES AND THE OTHER ONE'S NOT, I GET TO REACH OUT TO THAT SPECIFIC CASE MANAGER AND SAY, HEY, IS THERE A PROBLEM? LIKE, DO ARE, ARE WE NOT CAPTURING WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING HERE? AND SO AGAIN, AT AN AGGREGATE LEVEL, THIS IS TELLING ME THAT WE'RE MOVING UP FROM JULY TO SEPTEMBER, THAT MATCHES MY EXPECTATION.
AND IF IT DOESN'T, WHY AND I GET TO DIG DEEPER.
THAT'S, I I I WOULD SAY I'M NOT AT LIBERTY TO DIG DEEPER IN HERE BECAUSE THAT'S JUST, IT'S JUST WAY TOO FUN.
AND, BUT THIS IS A STARTING POINT.
WE'RE ABLE TO TELL SOME STORIES WITHIN LIKE OUR SERVICE DATA AND PART OF TRACKING SERVICES IS, YOU KNOW, ACCOUNTABILITY SHOWING, YOU KNOW, WHERE OUR, THE NEED AND WHAT WE ARE WORKING WITH.
THAT BEING SAID, I THINK LIKE THE MORE TELLING STUFF GETS INTO LIKE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR SHELTER AND PERMANENT HOUSING, HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GETTING INTO SHELTER AND PERMANENT HOUSING AND SOME OF THOSE NEEDS.
SO, YOU KNOW, SERVICE DATA IS IMPORTANT, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF IT.
BUT WE WANNA SHOW ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE WORK THAT IS BEING PROVIDED IN OUR ACCESS AND ENGAGEMENT SERVICES.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT SERVICES? ALL THAT WAS A WONDERFUL SEGUE.
WHAT WE CONSIDER TO BE PROBABLY, UM, THE MORE IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THIS.
LIKE I SAID, SERVICES ARE ONE WAY FOR ME TO, TO CLEAN UP INFORMATION OR TO SEE IF THINGS IMPACT OUR EXPECTATIONS.
HOWEVER, WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO LIKE, WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE WE ACTUALLY DOING? LIKE OUR CLIENTS MOVING THROUGH THE SYSTEM, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR WITH REGARDS TO INFLOW AND OUTFLOW.
WHERE ARE PEOPLE STARTING, WHERE ARE THEY MOVING TO AND IN AND HOW LONG IS IT TAKING THEM TO MOVE TO THOSE, UM, SPOTS.
AND SO HOW WE'RE GONNA SHOW IT AND HOW I'M GONNA DEMONSTRATE THIS IS THROUGH ACCOUNT OF ENROLLMENTS.
HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ENTERING INTO THE SYSTEM.
UM, THE CONNECTIONS TO THE COMMUNITY QUEUE, THAT IS OUR
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COORDINATED ENTRY SYSTEM.SO IF SOMEONE DISPLAYS INTEREST IN HOUSING OR IN SHELTER, THEY ARE PLACED ONTO A COMMUNITY QUEUE WHERE THEY GET PRIORITIZED BASED ON CERTAIN ANSWERS THAT THEY'RE PROVIDING US IN A QUESTIONNAIRE AND THEN WE MOVE THEM TO THEIR DESIRED.
UM, IF THEY, IF THEY'RE INTERESTED IN SHELTER, WE TRY TO MOVE THEM TO SHELTER AND IF THEY'RE INTERESTED IN HOUSING, WE MOVE THEM TO HOUSING.
SO I'M GONNA DISPLAY THAT INFORMATION FOR YOU FOR THE LAST QUARTER.
THIS NUMBER IS ACTUALLY DOWN SLIGHTLY FROM PREVIOUS QUARTER PEOPLE.
THESE ARE, WELL THESE INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE, THESE ARE UNIQUE TO 1 9 1 6 REPRESENTS 1,916 PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEWLY ENROLLED IN THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER.
THEY MAY HAVE HAD AN OLD ENROLLMENT AND THEY MAY HAVE DROPPED OUT OF THE SYSTEM, BUT THIS IS SOMEONE WHO IS COMING BACK AND RE-ENROLLING AT THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER.
WE SEEN THEM FOR 90 DAYS OR MORE.
THAT WOULD GET SHOWN AS THAT'S CORRECT.
IF SOMEBODY DROPPED OUT IN IN JULY AND THEN REAPPEARED IN SEPTEMBER, THEY ARE NOT SHOWING UP TWICE ON THIS LIST.
THIS IS
WE HAVEN'T IN LIKE, IF, IF THEY HAVEN'T RECEIVED THE SERVICE OR IF THERE'S NO ACTIVITY IN THE SYSTEM, THEN THEY WILL UM, THEY GET, THEY BECOME INACTIVE IN CQ.
I GAVE AN OVERVIEW OF THIS PREVIOUSLY.
I PUT THIS IN HERE IN CASE ANYBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THE ACTUAL LIKE SYSTEM AND LIKE HOW IT WORKS.
THIS IS A VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HOW OUR COMMUNITY Q WORKS.
IT'S A, THERE'S A LOT MORE STEPS TO IT, BUT, UM, IT'S IN HERE.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON, ON HOW THIS GOES, I, I, I DO HAVE SOME METRICS AND MEASUREMENTS ON LIKE HOW LONG IT TAKES PEOPLE TO GET FROM DIFFERENT STAGES HERE.
UM, ALRIGHT, SO HERE ARE SOME STATS FOR THE LAST QUARTER, UM, INDIVIDUALS ON OUR COMMUNITY Q4 PERMANENT HOUSING.
UM, THERE WERE 552 CLIENTS REFERRED TO OUR COMMUNITY QUEUE FOR PERMANENT HOUSING.
552 PEOPLE IN ESSENCE EXPRESSING INTEREST IN IN PERMANENT HOUSING.
UM, THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE ON A COMMUNITY QUEUE WITHIN, WITHIN THE QUARTER IS OVER A THOUSAND PEOPLE.
UM, 102 REFERRALS, UM, TO A PROGRAM.
AND THEN 32 PEOPLE WHO WERE, HAD TO BE REMOVED FROM THE QUEUE FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER.
EITHER THEY WERE CONNECTED TO A PROGRAM OUTSIDE OF OUR HMIS SYSTEM.
AND SO THEY WERE, THEY WERE REMOVED IN THAT MANNER OR, UM, FOR WHATEVER REASON, THE, THE REFERRAL TO THE QUEUE, UM, WAS NO LONGER VALID.
THEY HAD TO BE REMOVED FOR SOME REASON.
UM, AND THEN THE STATS FOR SHELTER DOWN BELOW 852 PEOPLE WERE REFERRED TO THE COMMUNITY QUEUE.
AGAIN, 850 UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS EXPRESSING INTEREST IN SHELTER.
UM, THE LENGTH OF THE QUEUE OR THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE ON THE QUEUE ARE 1,200 23, 173 REFERRED TO A PROGRAM AND THEN 70 PEOPLE WHO WERE REVIEWED FROM THE QUEUE.
SO 1 73 GOT SHELTER, IS THAT WHAT THAT WAS REFERRED TO A PROGRAM? NO, THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT THEY WERE ACCEPTED BY THE PROGRAM.
UM, AND THE SHELTER QUEUE IS SOMEWHAT NEWER WITHIN THE SYSTEM WE HAD.
IT'S BEING MANAGED THROUGH EXCEL.
IT IS NOW WITHIN HMI BETTER ALLOWS US TO, WELL THAT THE ENTIRE REASON WHY WE HAVE THESE NUMBERS AT ALL, THAT LIKE WE, I I SHOULDN'T SAY WHY WE HAVE THESE NUMBERS AT ALL, BUT LIKE IT, IT'S FAR EASIER TO FACILITATE LOOKING AT THESE NUMBERS BECAUSE WE ARE NOW IN HMIS, THEY'RE CONNECTED TO INDIVIDUALS.
SO EVERY ACTION THAT HAPPENS TO THEM BETWEEN HMIS, INCLUDING REFERRALS TO AND FROM THE COMMUNITY QUEUE IS CAPTURED.
AND WE GET TO, WE GET TO ANALYZE THAT.
UM, FOR YOU, LARGE MAJORITY OF THE 173 PROBABLY GOT A SHELTER BED.
THAT BEING SAID, SOMEBODY'S ON THE QUEUE, A SHELTER BE BED BECOMES AVAILABLE FOR THEM.
WE TRY TO CONTACT THEM, WE TRY TO GO TO THEIR, YOU KNOW, PLACE SOMETHING THAT THEY'RE AT AND WE CAN'T FIND THEM.
LIKE THAT BED IS NOT GONNA REMAIN OPEN FOR, YOU KNOW, INFINITE.
LIKE WE GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME, BUT WE CAN'T GET AHOLD OF THAT PERSON.
WE MATCH THE NEXT PERSON DO THAT.
WHO'S REFERRING IS THE COMMUNITY THE MAC OR IS IT PROVIDERS? YEAH, IT CAN BE ANYBODY WHO'S CONNECTED TO OUR, OUR COORDINATED ENTRY SYSTEM.
SO YEAH, IF YOU WANT TO GIVE AN EXAMPLE.
ANYBODY THAT HAS HMI STAND REFERRING, RIGHT? SO YEAH, OF THESE THREE PROGRAMS, ALL THE CASE MANAGERS IN THESE THREE PROGRAMS CAN REFER TO THE, LIKE THEY CAN REFER A CLIENT TO THE COMMUNITY TOO.
I WAS JUST WONDERING IF IT WOULD JUST THE LONG BEACH THING, BUT IF IT'S CITY SERVICES ARE THE VAST MAJORITY, HOWEVER, THERE ARE OTHER NON-PROFITS THAT REFER.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? UM, I'LL SKIP THAT TO GET TO THIS.
UH, WHICH TALKS ABOUT THE NUMBER, LIKE THE LENGTH OF TIME THAT IT TAKES CLIENTS.
SO I JUST GAVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE CONNECTED TO THIS PROCESS
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AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT HOW MANY DAYS IT'S TAKING THEM TO NAVIGATE THAT PROCESS, RIGHT? AND SO, UM, IF YOU LOOK AT SO HSB CONNECTION TO CQ REFERRAL, UM, THAT'S A, AN ABBREVIATED WAY OF SAYING THE MOMENT THAT THEY BECOME CONNECTED TO HMI.SO THE MOMENT THAT THEY FIT, WE LOG THEIR INFORMATION INTO HMIS, UM, AND LIKE THAT THEY HAVE A, UH, AN ENROLLMENT AND THEN THE AMOUNT OF TIME IT TAKES THEM TO GET CONNECTED TO THE COMMUNITY QUEUE.
THIS COULD BE AN INDIVIDUAL WHO WALKS INTO THE MSE, FOR EXAMPLE, WITH CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES, ASKS SOME QUESTIONS.
UM, AND THEN AFTER 40 SOME ODD DAY, 42.1 DAYS, THEY ARE REFERRED TO THE COMMUNITY QUEUE.
NOW THIS COULD BE FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS.
THIS COULD BE THAT THEY HAVE NOT YET EXPRESSED INTEREST IN, UM, SHELTER OR IN HOUSING OR THAT THEY WERE NOT ASSESSED.
IN ORDER TO GET ONTO A COMMUNITY QUEUE, WE NEED TO ASK THEM A SLEW OF QUESTIONS TO GAUGE WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE ELIGIBLE FOR, FOR PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING OR WHAT THEIR ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA ARE.
AND SO PERHAPS THAT QUESTIONNAIRE WAS NOT ASKED IN THE FIRST ENCOUNTER AND PERHAPS IT ONLY HAPPENED IN THE SECOND OR THIRD ENCOUNTER.
SO THE AMOUNT OF TIME BETWEEN WHEN THEY ARE ENGAGED IN THE SYSTEM AND WHEN THEY GET REFERRED TO THE COMMUNITY QUEUE IS 42.1 DAYS.
IF I WANT TO COMPARE THAT SINCE THE PREVIOUS QUARTER, THIS IS DOWN.
UH, UM, I MEAN IDEALLY THE GOAL IS TO SHORTEN NOT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
LIKE WE WANT TO GET PEOPLE ONTO THE QUEUE AS AS QUICKLY AS WE CAN.
SO THE PREVIOUS, IN THE PREVIOUS QUARTER THAT WAS 49.4 DAYS.
AND SO WE ARE REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF TIME IT TAKES A CLIENT TO GET ONTO THE COMMUNITY, TO GET ONTO THE COMMUNITY QUEUE AND GET PRIORITIZED.
UM, THE COMMUNITY QUEUE ENTER, UH, TO SHELTER ENROLLMENT THAT HAS REMAINED THE SAME.
SO 23 UM, 0.7 DAYS, UM, THE MATCH TO HOUSING MOVE IN DATE.
SO AS PART OF THIS PROCESS OVER HERE, THE CLIENT WILL GET ONTO THE QUEUE AND AFTER SOME TIME ON THE QUEUE, WE HAVE A MATCHER.
THAT INDIVIDUAL WILL MATCH CLIENTS WHO ARE, YOU KNOW, ELIGIBLE FOR CERTAIN, UM, PROJECTS AND, AND PROGRAMS MATCH THEM BASED ON CRITERIA TO A PROGRAM THAT HAS AN AVAILABLE UNIT THAT IS WHEN THE MATCH OCCURS.
SO THIS GREEN MATCH TO HOUSING MOVEMENT DATE IS HOW LONG DO IT TAKE AN INDIVIDUAL BETWEEN WHEN THEY GOT MATCHED IN THE SYSTEM TO WHEN THEY ACTUALLY MOVE IN KEYS IN HAND INTO THEIR UNIT 95.7 DAYS.
THE PREVIOUS QUARTER WAS 150 DAYS.
SO THAT NUMBER IS GOING DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY.
AND THE REASON WHY IT, IT SEEMS LIKE A REALLY HIGH NUMBER AND THAT THERE IS AN ENTIRE PROCESS TO WHICH AFTER AN INDIVIDUAL GETS MATCHED, THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE PROVIDER, ANSWER A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS, SEE WHAT THEY'RE ELIGIBLE FOR, ALL THAT.
UH, AND SO THAT PROCESS IS TAKING LESS TIME AND THEN BY SOMEBODY THAT'S WILLING TO WRITE THEM CORRECT, UH, IN MANY INSTANCES TAKES A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME COMPARING THE SHELTER EQUIVALENT.
AND SO THIS IS WHAT PAUL HAD MENTIONED, LIKE, UM, THAT WHEN SOMEONE GETS MATCHED, UM, THEY DO NOT ACCEPT OR FOR WHATEVER REASON THAT CLIENT CAN'T BE BOUND.
THE TURNAROUND TIME IS QUICK, UM, BETWEEN THE MATCH AND WHEN THAT INDIVIDUAL ACTUALLY GETS INTO THE SHELTER IS JUST OVER ONE DAY.
AND THAT'S IN LARGE PART THANKS TO SOME EFFICIENCIES THAT WE'VE PUT INTO PLACE IN THE PROCESS IN MAKING SURE THAT WHEN WE ARE MATCHING INDIVIDUALS, THOSE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTIVE IN THE SYSTEM SO THAT WE'RE NOT RUNNING AROUND THE CITY TRYING TO FIND SOMEBODY WHO IS NOT NO LONGER ACTIVE, BUT WE CANNOT FIND
SO THAT IS, I WOULD ARGUE, A, A BIG WIN FOR US.
THAT'S THAT 1.1 DAYS BETWEEN WHEN WE MATCH THEM AND WHEN WE ACTUALLY MOVE INTO A BED IS HUGE.
WE'VE HEARD MOST PEOPLE THAT DO MOVE IN IT'S ZERO DAYS BECAUSE YOU'RE GETTING TO HOLD THE SAME DAY.
THEY'RE GO, THAT NUMBER IS DOWN FROM THE PREVIOUS QUARTER AS WELL.
SO JUST TO BE TOTALLY CLEAR, ONCE SOMEBODY IS ENTERED INTO THE CDD DISPUTE FOR SHELTER, IT'S ABOUT 25 DAYS UNTIL THEY HAVE YEAH.
WHAT, OH, SO THAT, THAT'S A, THE DENOMINATOR THERE IS OF PEOPLE WHO GET SHELTER, NOT SOMEBODY WHO EXPRESSES INTEREST IN SHELTER, GETS TO A BED IN 20 DAYS.
THAT'S NOT THE CASE BECAUSE THE LINE TO GET ONTO A SHELTER BED IS MUCH LONGER THAN THE NUMBER OF BEDS A BED.
AND THERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SHELTER THAT PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED.
IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN A CONGREGATE SHELTER BED, YOUR WEIGHT IS LIKELY GOING TO BE A LOT LESS THAN, HEY, I'M ONLY INTERESTED IN NON-CON SHELTER.
I ONLY WANT MY OWN ROOM IN A MOTEL OR HOTEL TYPE SETTING, YOU'RE GONNA END UP PROBABLY BEING ON THAT LIST FOR MUCH LONGER.
AND THAT'S ALL THAT YOU'RE WILLING TO CONSIDER.
THE 23.7 REPRESENTS ONLY THE UNIVERSE OF PEOPLE WHO DO GET A SHELTER BED.
SO OF THE PEOPLE WHO DO GET SHELTERED, IT HAS TAKEN THEM ON AVERAGE 24 DAYS BETWEEN WHEN THEY WERE ON THE
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COMMUNITY COMMUTE TO WHEN THEY GOT SHELTERED.THAT NUMBER JUMPS SIGNIFICANTLY FOR THE AVERAGE POPULATION BECAUSE THE AVERAGE PERSON DOES NOT GET A SHELTER BED.
SO WHAT IS THE AVERAGE WEIGHT FOR A SHELTER? I, I CAN'T DO THAT BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE LIKE THAT, THAT'S A NUMBER THAT JUST, IT GROWS CONTINUOUSLY.
BUT THAT'S, THAT'S NOT A NUMBER THAT I CAN TAKE LIKE A STATIC THING FOR.
I MEAN THE DIFFICULT PART IS SOME OF THE BEDS ARE, AGAIN, EVEN ON THE SHELTER SIDE, PRIORITIZED BASED ON LIKE VULNERABILITY.
SO IF YOU'RE A 70-YEAR-OLD PERSON WITH UNDERLYING HEALTH CONDITIONS, YOU'RE GONNA GET A BED RELATIVELY QUICK.
ONCE WE IDENTIFY YOU, YOU'RE SOMEBODY THAT'S, YOU KNOW, 30 YEARS OLD WITH NO UNDERLYING HEALTH CONDITIONS AND YOU'VE BEEN HOMELESS FOR A FEW WEEKS.
LIKE IT IS GOING TO TAKE A WHILE TRUTHFULLY, BUT SO FROM YOUR 1019 PEOPLE ON THE PERMANENT HOUSING COMMUNITY VIEW YES.
AND YOUR OTHER ONE THAT YOU JUST HAD, RIGHT? YEAH, THAT THIS ONE.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S SOMEWHERE RIGHT THERE, RIGHT? I MEAN YOU'RE OH, UM, SO ADDED, UH, WHERE, WHERE'S MY, WHERE DO I HAVE A, I CAN GO UP THERE AND POINT TO THINGS.
THAT HAS, HOLD ON, LEMME RUN AROUND.
I GOT, I'M TRYING TO USE THE LASER POINTER RIGHT NOW, BUT IT'S NOT REALLY CLEAR SO I APOLOGIZE.
THIS ONE HERE, YES, THEY ARE ADDED TO YEAH, POINT THAT ARROW IS THAT 1019, BUT YOU'RE SAYING THAT YOU DON'T KNOW HOW LONG 1019 PEOPLE ARE STAYING IN THAT ARROW.
OH, I CAN GIVE YOU THE AVERAGE LENGTH OF TIME THAT SOMEBODY'S ON THE COMMUNITY FOR YES I CAN.
WHAT IS THAT? THAT IS THE CLIENT ENTERS ARE THEY ENGAGE WITH HOMELESS SERVICES AND BETWEEN WHEN THEY ENGAGE WITH HOMELESS SERVICES AND BY THE TIME THEY GET ADDED TO THE QUEUE, IT'S 42 DAYS.
BUT WHAT'S THE AVERAGE TIME OF, CAN YOU GO BACKWARDS A MINUTE SO WE CAN GET THAT THIS, IT'S NOT WITHIN THERE, BUT AS YOU CAN SEE THIS QUARTER AND QUARTER TO QUARTER, THIS DOES VARY.
SO, YOU KNOW, A NEW PERMANENT HOUSING PROJECT OPENS UP, WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO MATCH MORE PEOPLE IN THAT QUARTER.
AND THERE ARE QUARTERS WHERE WE HAVE NO NEW PROJECTS OPEN AND WE MIGHT HAVE SOME VOUCHERS AND SOME TURNOVER WITHIN PROJECTS.
SO THAT NUMBER OF MATCH VERY GREAT.
THAT'S LIKE WHEN WE HAD EHP, THAT NUMBER WAS REAL HIGH QUARTER TO QUARTER, YOU KNOW, AND THAT NUMBER CAN BE REALLY LOW.
IT REALLY JUST DEPENDS ON WHAT ARE THE HOUSING RESOURCES COMING ONLINE.
UH, BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, YOU KNOW, YOU GOT A THOUSAND PEOPLE AND IN A QUARTER YOU HAD 102 PEOPLE THAT WERE MATCHED.
THAT, YOU KNOW, IS DEFINITELY CONCERNING.
AND LIKE WE NEED MORE PERMANENT HOUSING RESOURCES.
THERE ARE OTHER THINGS THAT LIKE PEOPLE ARE GETTING HOUSED IN OTHER WAYS BEYOND JUST THOSE MATCHES.
BUT LIKE PERMANENT HOUSING RESOURCES DO MATTER AND THEY DO HELP US GET TO A SITUATION WHERE THEY CAN GET BACK TO THE PERMANENT HOUSING QUICKER.
AND WHEN WE DON'T HAVE THOSE, WE'RE GONNA SEE LONGER AND LONGER WAITS ON THE QUEUE.
UNFORTUNATELY, UNLESS, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE NOT BEEN WILLING TO ENGAGE WITH THOSE, YOU'VE BEEN ALMOST 10 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU SAY, HEY, I'M ACTUALLY INTERESTED NOW YOU'RE GONNA BE ON THE QUEUE FOR A VERY SHORT TIME BECAUSE YOU'RE GONNA BE RIGHT AT THE TOP BECAUSE WE'VE KNOWN YOU'VE BEEN HOMELESS FOR 10 YEARS, YOU'VE JUST NOT BEEN INTERESTED TILL THIS POINT.
CAN WE SEE THAT HAPPEN OCCASIONALLY? AND THOSE PEOPLE END UP GETTING MATCHED ALMOST RIGHT AWAY SIDE WITH THE 42.
FROM THAT FIRST ENGAGEMENT TO BE ADDED TO THE QUEUE.
SO ONE, UH, I WOULD SAY ONE SHOULD BE THAT THE HOUSING ASSESSMENT IS HAVING.
UM, AND THAT'S IN ORDER TO CAPTURE A TON OF INFORMATION THAT OFTENTIMES DOES NOT HAPPEN IN THE FIRST INTERACTION WHEN SOMEBODY WALKS IN AND SAYS, WHAT CAN I DO? UM, THAT'S FOR, AND THE HOUSING ASSESSMENT, BECAUSE IT TAKES A LONG TIME.
THAT MAY ONLY COME UP LATER ON IN THE INTERVIEW PROCESS WHEN SOMEBODY FIRST ENTERS IN AND ASKS WHAT'S GOING ON, WHAT CAN I DO? UM, THAT MAY NOT HAPPEN.
AND SO THE NEXT SECOND OR THIRD INTERACTION WITH THE CASE MANAGER MAY ACTUALLY BE THE FIRST ONE.
AND I WILL SAY, IF YOU GO BACK A LITTLE BIT AND YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE A LITTLE FURTHER, THAT IS WHY, I MEAN, IT IS JUST CAPACITY TO, YOU KNOW, SIT DOWN AND GET THROUGH THAT.
LIKE AT THE MSC, PEOPLE ARE MEETING WITH, YOU KNOW, 12, 13 PEOPLE A DAY.
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CAN TAKE A MINUTE TO GET THROUGH EVERYTHING AND GET THEM INTO THE QUEUE.SO I MEAN, IF WE HAD A LITTLE BIT BETTER CAPACITY ON THAT, IT WOULD SPEED IT UP OR TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO GET PEOPLE TO KEEP WHAT HER, IT ALSO ACCOUNTS FOR SOMEONE WHO MAY NOT HAVE BEEN INTERESTED IN SHELTER FOR QUITE SOME TIME, AND THEN AFTER SOME TIME CONTEMPLATION OR WHATEVER, LIKE IT, IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THEY HAVE NOW EXPRESSED INTEREST IN ACTUALLY, LIKE THAT'S YOUR, THAT'S YOUR THAT'S CORRECT.
THAT'S THE AVERAGE FOR EVERY YEAH, EXACTLY.
FROM, FROM WHEN THEY ENGAGE WITH HOMELESS SERVICES TO WHEN THEY GET ON THE PD.
I MEAN, WE COULD LOOK AT THE MEDIAN TO KIND OF GET A BETTER, THE ONE YEAH, THE MEDIAN.
THE MEDIAN COULD BE A, A, A MUCH BETTER INDICATOR OF IT.
I'M WILLING THAT IT SIGNIFICANTLY LESS THAN 40 DO.
YEAH, BECAUSE MIGHT HAVE SOME OUTLIERS THAT LIKE DIDN'T GET ON THE QUEUE FOR A YEAR AND A HALF BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T WILLING TO THAT'S CORRECT.
SIT DOWN AND LIKE GET THEIR MENTAL HEALTH ASPECTS OF IT.
LIKE MAYBE THEY'RE NOT CONNECTING OR NOT ATTEND QUESTIONS AND THEY'RE COMING BACK.
AND ONE THING THAT WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING IS LIKE A BETTER PROCESS FOR, WE KNOW GETTING THROUGH THIS PAPERWORK IS GONNA BE CHALLENGING FOR SOME PEOPLE.
HOW DO WE NOT WORRY ABOUT THE QUEUE FOR PEOPLE THAT WE KNOW HAVE BEEN OUT THERE FOR A LONG WHILE? THAT LIKE, WE NEED A BETTER PROCESS THAT ISN'T ALWAYS JUST THE, THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT GETTING THROUGH THAT IS GONNA BE DAUNTING AT ANY POINT.
BUT SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE YOU
WE WANT
SO TO ME THAT, THAT, UM,
THAT WE THE SUPPLY AND DEMAND CORRECT.
SO, UM, IN OUR POLICY, IT WAS TO ADDRESS THIS BOTTLENECK BECAUSE IF WE DON'T INCREASE THE SHELTER CAPACITY AND THE, UH, THE, UM, OPTIONS FOR HOUSING, THEN, YOU KNOW, HOW, HOW CAN, HOW CAN WE, QUARTERLY OR, OR I MEAN THERE'S A NUMBER.
WE LOOK AT THESE NUMBERS AND SAY, YOU KNOW, OH, WELL, YEAH, I MEAN MEAN THERE HAS TO BE SOME POLICY CHANGES THAT ARE DRIVEN BY THIS, THIS DATA, RIGHT? I MEAN, OTHERWISE YOU
I DON'T KNOW THAT ANYBODY IN HOMELESS SERVICES IS ACCEPTING THE STATUS, STATUS QUO.
LIKE NOBODY'S LOOKING AT THIS AND BEING LIKE, OH, THAT'S COOL.
YOU CAN JUST SPEAK AS A COMMUNITY AS, AS A, AS AS RESIDENT.
IF, IF WE SEE THIS, YOU KNOW, I THINK IF PEOPLE WERE GIVEN THIS, THEY WOULD SAY, OKAY, THERE'S, THERE'S SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED HERE THAT HASN'T BEEN ADDRESSED.
AND ONE THING THAT I THINK THIS DATA IS REALLY HELPFUL IS ENCOUNTERING SOME OF THE PERCEPTIONS AND MESSAGING THAT HAPPENS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.
UH, HOMELESS PEOPLE DON'T ACTUALLY WANT THE SERVICE.
SO LIKE THEY'RE CHOOSING TO LIVE OUT THERE.
LIKE THIS SAYS, NO, IT'S NOT A MATTER OF LIKE, PEOPLE JUST DON'T WANT IT.
AND IF THEY SAY YES, LIKE OH, THEN WE CAN EASILY MOVE FORWARD IN THAT PERSON'S SITUATION IS GONNA BE RESOLVED.
IT IS REALLY A MATTER OF LIKE BEYOND THE RESOURCE THAT IT IS A CAPACITY ISSUE.
I THINK THAT IS THE CORRECT THING.
WE NEED MORE CAPACITY IN ALL AREAS.
WE NEED MORE SHELTER, WE NEED MORE
HOW WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO STOP PEOPLE FROM FALLING INTO
IF WE DON'T DO THAT, LIKE IT'S ALWAYS GONNA BE HARD TO CATCH.
SAID IS THAT IN THAT THOUSAND 19 AND 1223, AND I'M SURE THERE'S OVERLAP OVER THERE, WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHO NEEDS TO GO TO IN-HOUSE TREATMENT FOR, FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE, WHO NEEDS TO GO INTO INCOME TREATMENT FOR MEDICAL HEALTH.
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SO EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THAT NUMBER REPRESENT INDIVIDUAL SO THAT THAT NEEDS TO BE REFLECTED AND THEIR NEEDS ARE VERY DIFFERENT.IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT A, IT'S NOT 102 ONE SIZE FITS ALL.
SO I, I'LL WELL, I WILL SAY THAT'S PRECISELY WHY WE HAVE THE MATCHING PROCESS THAT WE HAVE.
WE ARE MATCHING PEOPLE WITH THE BEST OR THE BEST AVAILABLE RESOURCE THAT WE HAVE.
UM, AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE CAN DO AT THE MOMENT.
THAT'S WHAT THE, THAT'S WHAT COORDINATED MENTOR IS MEANT TO MATCH INDIVIDUALS BASED ON THEIR NEEDS WITH THE UNITS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO US.
FINDING A WAY TO CONNECT WITH BEST UNIT TO THE INDIVIDUAL THAT NEEDS IT THE MOST.
NOW, WHETHER OR NOT THAT'S SATISFACTORY, I WOULD ARGUE THAT THIS, THIS WE DEMONSTRATE THAT IT'S NOT, UM, THAT WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH SUPPLY.
AND TO YOUR POINT, AND WHAT I WAS GOING TO GET TO, UM, THIS DEMAND EXCEEDS SUPPLY.
RIGHT? THAT'S, WE THAT'S EXACTLY THE CASE.
UM, AND I, I DID WANT TO ADDRESS THIS IN ONE WAY BY SUGGESTING THAT, UM, LAST PIECE OF INFORMATION FIRST, WHICH IS THAT REALLY GETS TO THE POINT THAT YOU ARE MAKING, WHICH IS WHERE'S OUR SUPPLY? OR ARE WE ACTUALLY DOING WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING? ARE WE GETTING PEOPLE INTO THE BED, WHICH THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO GET INTO BY MEANS? YES.
SO DESPITE ALL OF THE INFORMATION THAT WE SAW BEFORE, WHICH WAS, WELL, IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S A BOTTLE, CLEARLY YES.
BUT WE'RE PUTTING PEOPLE INTO THESE BEDS AT RATES THAT WE HAVEN'T DONE BEFORE.
THIS IS THE HIGH WATER FOR OUR SHELTER CAPACITY, UM, IN THE CITY.
AND THIS IS THE HIGHEST GRADE OF OCCUPANCY THAT WE'VE HAD MONTH OVER MONTH AS FAR AS I'VE SEEN THE DATA COLLECTED FOR NOW, LIKE I SAID BEFORE, THERE IS SEASONALITY TO THIS.
AS YOU'LL NOTICE IN THE HOTTER MONTHS, THIS IS TRACKING WHAT WE EXPECT TO SEE.
SO THIS IS WHY THESE HIGH LEVEL NUMBERS DO THAT.
THIS IS WHY I AM USING HIGH LEVEL NUMBERS.
'CAUSE I AM EXPECTING TO SEE THIS TREND IN HOTTER MONTHS.
AND WE HAD SOME BEDS THAT WERE GOING THROUGH MAINTENANCE.
UM, WE OFFLINE FOR A FEW MONTHS AS WELL.
THIS IN ADDITION TO THAT, SO AS, AS I HAD SAID, OUR COORDINATED ENTRY WAS PUT INTO HIS.
AND SO THIS IS A NEW PROCESS THAT WE WERE TINKERING WITH.
WE WERE LIKE ALL OF THE REFERRAL SYSTEMS, THE MATCHER, THE ASSESSORS, THE PROVIDERS, ALL OF THEM HAD TO BE TRAINED ON THIS SYSTEM.
SO TO THE EXTENT THAT WE SEE SLIGHT DRAW, IT STILL MATCHES SEASONALITY.
THIS IS ALL DURING THE, THE POINT AT WHICH WE'RE TRYING TO GET EVERYONE ON THE SAME PAGE.
AND I THINK WE'VE DONE A GOOD JOB OF THAT.
UM, LOOKING AT OCTOBER NUMBERS, BUT I DON'T WANT TO, YOU KNOW, DON'T ADD ON BACK.
BUT OCTOBER DIRECTED IS NEARING SEPTEMBER FALLS, RIGHT? THE TOP, WHICH MEANS THAT WE'RE KEEPING OCCUPANCY HIGH IN ON SHELTER.
OKAY? THIS IS THE HIGHEST THAT IT'S BEEN SINCE WE CONTRACTING THE NUMBERS FROM OUR H MINUS ROLLOUT.
OKAY? SO WE'RE INCREASING OUR OCCUPANCY IN THESE PLACES.
WE'RE GETTING PEOPLE INTO HOUSING, WE'RE GETTING PEOPLE INTO SHELTER, AS YOU NOTED BEFORE, DEMAND CONTINUES TO EXCEED SUPPLY.
SO WHAT DO WE DO? UM, THAT'S NOT WHAT FOR ME TO SEGMENT THE DATA GUY SHOWING YOU WHAT, WHAT WE HAVE WHAT, WHAT IS THE NUMBER? IT'S 92% OF WHAT? IT'S 92% OF THE COORDINATED ENTRY PARTICIPATING PERMIT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING PROGRAM.
HOW MANY BEDS IS THAT? THAT'S WHAT IS IT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
I MEAN, YOU HAVE TO KNOW BECAUSE YOU GOTTA 92%, RIGHT? OH, I HAVE, YEAH, THE 92% UP HERE REPRESENTS SOME NUMBER OVER ANOTHER NUMBER.
WHAT THE DENOMINATOR IS? I, I DON'T KNOW OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
THAT'S TROUBLE OR THE NUMERATOR.
IF YOU GIVE ME ONE, I CAN FIGURE OUT THE OTHER.
WELL, WELL, I, I, I GOT THIS ONE FOR YOU.
AND SAME WITH THE OTHER ONES, YOU KNOW, WITH YOUR SHELTER, 98% OF WHAT, WHAT IS, WHAT IS YOUR DENOMINATOR? THAT'S RIGHT.
IF, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU'D LIKE TO SEE, I CAN ADD THAT INTO THE SLIDE FOR REFERENCE.
SO GETTING PERMANENT HOUSING, THEY'RE COMING OUT OF THE SHELTER, RIGHT? ALL DIFFERENT PLACES.
PEOPLE CAN BE, PEOPLE CAN BE MATCHED.
THE PURPOSE OF SUPPORT HOUSING FROM ANY STAGE THAT THEY'RE AT, THEY CAN, THEY CAN COME OUT OF THE SHELTER OR THEY CAN BE ON THE STREET, THEY CAN BE IN ANY OTHER PROGRAM.
SO FOR ANY OF YOU, LIKE YOUR MOBILE TEAM, THE ONES THAT ARE KIND OF TRIAGING, I GUESS IN THE FRONT LINE SINCE THERE ANY MECHANISM THAT THEY CAN FIND OUT WHAT, UH, MEDICAL INSURANCE.
PEOPLE WHO ARE GETTING, UM, CERTAIN HOUSING, OBVIOUSLY IF YOU'RE MEDI-CAL, BUT MEDICARES, THEY GET A LOT OF TIME.
PART OF OUR QUESTIONNAIRE ASKS ABOUT INSURANCE, WHAT THEY HAVE.
WE HAVE TO VERIFY THAT LATER ON, BUT YES.
THE LARGE, LARGE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO ARE SERVING HAVE MET.
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CORRECT.QUESTION, ARE YOU GUYS, SINCE YOU GUYS HAVE ROLLED OUT TO HMIS, ARE YOU GUYS USING THE
SO THE COUNTY IS MOVING TO WHAT'S CALLED THE ESTOR ASSESSMENT.
THEY'RE NOT GONNA USE ESTOR, THEY'RE GONNA USE, OH, THE ACRONYM IS HAT AND I CAN'T REMEMBER.
SO THAT'LL BE ROLLING OUT WITHIN THE NEXT THREE TO FOUR MONTHS.
SO WE PLAN TO MOVE TO THAT NEW TOOL TO BE ALIGNED.
UM, YOU KNOW, BY ALL ACCOUNTS, YOU KNOW, THERE'S BETTER EQUITY, YOU KNOW, OUTCOMES AND MEASURES WITHIN THAT.
THE COUNTY HAS SPENT THE LAST TWO PLUS YEARS INVESTING IN RESEARCH AND LIKE DEVELOPMENT OF THAT AND ENSURING THAT LIKE SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT EXIST WITH GUYS THAT ARE BEING ADDRESSED.
SO IT'S BEEN TESTED OUT, YOU KNOW, IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT AREAS OVER TIME AND LIKE HAS BETTER, BETTER SUPPORTING DATA OVER TIME.
SO WE WILL BE MOVING AS THAT ROLLS.
I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT BECAUSE I NEVER LIKED THIS FOR THAT.
UM, SO THAT PORTIONS OF IT, UM, WOULD WE AND I LATER
ONCE WE'RE ROLLING OUT AND WE HAVE THE TOOL READILY AVAILABLE, UM, I DON'T THINK IT'S ACTUALLY POSTED ONLINE YET, SO IT'S NOT LIKE WE CAN GO FIND IT SOMEWHERE, BUT ONCE READILY AVAILABLE, UH, WE'LL MAKE SURE IT'S AVAILABLE FOR THE IT CTR R SOMETHING LIKE CESI CAN'T TELL YOU.
I ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT THE EXPEDIT STANDS FOR.
I'M GUESSING COORDINATED ENTRY SYSTEM.
THANKS FOR YOUR TIME AND THE PRESENTATION.
UM, TO PAUL'S POINT ABOUT OUR ROLE IN KIND OF EDUCATING THE COMMUNITY THAT, UM, THERE IS THIS WEIGHT, SO BOTTLE NOT FOR SHELTER, ONCE PEOPLE EXPRESS INTEREST IN IT, WOULD IT BE ACCURATE TO SAY THAT PERHAPS THE AVERAGE PERSON WHO DECLARES THEIR INTEREST IN SHELTERS WAITING THREE TO FOUR MONTHS, OR AT LEAST SEVERAL MONTHS BEFORE THEY'RE, THEY'RE MATCHED WITH THAT OPPORTUNITY? THAT'S A FAIR TO SAY THANKS.
GIVING OR DATA TO US QUARTERLY.
SO WE'LL HAVE LIKE THE NEXT INFORMATION NEXT MONTH, I MEAN, YEAH, IN JANUARY.
YEAH, I WOULD, I COULD DO OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER 11TH.
I WAS JUST THINKING LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, I'M NOT, I'M NOT ON THE OUTREACH ON THE GROUND A LOT AND I'VE SEEN AN UPTAKE IN SERVICE PROVIDERS, LIKE OUTSIDE MY FRIENDS, LIKE RUNNING INTO THEM, WHICH IS REALLY COOL.
SO, AND THEN I'VE LIKE NOTICED LIKE SOME TREATMENT, NEW TREATMENT CENTERS POPPING UP TOO IN THE CITY.
SO I'M JUST CURIOUS TO SEE LIKE WHAT THE NEXT, LIKE HOW THAT'S AFFECTING.
AND THE HARD PART IS LIKE SOME OF THE LIKE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE TREATMENT.
THEY'RE NOT USING I-H-M-I-S LIKE, SO IT'S REALLY HARD FOR US TO SHOW LIKE A FULL PICTURE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING WITHIN THAT.
LIKE I DON'T HAVE THE DATA FROM, YOU KNOW, COUNTY S AND THE SERVICES THEY PROVIDE.
I DON'T HAVE THE, YOU KNOW, DATA FROM DMH AND ZA THEN HAVING RESOURCES.
WE DON'T HAVE
UM, SO TO THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE TO GIVE US DATA, IT'S HARD TO GET THE DATA.
I KNOW THERE'S AN EVENT, SO I'M GONNA TRY TO MOVE, LET'S SEE SOMETHING QUICK HERE.
ALRIGHT, SO A FEW STAFFING UPDATES.
UNFORTUNATELY, UH, ALEXA DID RECEIVE A POSITION ELSEWHERE AND IS NO LONGER WITH THE CITY.
WE ARE LOOKING AT THAT POSITION AND KIND OF OUR NEEDS MOVING FORWARD AND POTENTIALLY MAKING SOME, UH, MODIFICATIONS.
BUT WE WILL DEFINITELY BE BACKFILLING.
UH, HER ROLE, SO SHE WAS THE, BASICALLY THE CC COORDINATOR, COORDINATOR, SUPERVISOR.
SO, UH, SHE WAS SUPPORTING
SO, UM, IN THE MEANTIME, UH, ISSA'S HELPING US
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WITH SOME OF THE GOVERNANCE STUFF AND WE STILL HAVE, UH, JEN AND STEPHANIE AS WELL AS THEIR MAIN POINTS OF CONTACT.SO, UM, BUT THERESE WILL BE PROVIDING SOME ADDITIONAL SUPPORT, UH, WHILE WE WORK.
UH, SO THAT, UM, MELISSA MOJICA HAS TRANSITIONED TO BE A JAIL CLINICIAN SLASH JUSTICE COORDINATOR FOR THE BUREAU, BUT PREVIOUSLY SHE WAS ON REACH DOING OUTREACH AS A MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN.
SHE'LL BE, SHE ACTUALLY USED TO BE THE JAIL CLINICIAN THROUGH A NONPROFIT.
UM, AND IT'S MOVING BACK INTO THAT ROLE.
SHE'LL ALSO BE SUPPORTING, UM, HOMELESS SUPPORT AND SOME OF OUR OTHER JUSTICE WORK WITHIN THE BUREAU.
WE KNOW THERE'S A MAJOR INTERSECTIONALITY WITH THE, THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, UH, THAT IMPACTS HOUSING STATUS THAT EMILY RODRIGUEZ IS OUR NEW PUBLIC AFFAIRS ASSISTANT.
SO SHE'LL BE HELPING OUR, UH, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER FOR THE DEPARTMENT.
SO SHE IS SPLITTING TIME AND SUPPORTING BOTH THE HOMELESS SERVICES BUREAU AND THE HOUSING AUTHORITY.
UM, TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, INCREASE OUR, UH, PRESENCE IN COMMUNICATION TO THE COMMUNITY, UH, WHETHER THAT BE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA ARTICLES, UH, OR OTHER TYPES OF, UH, COMMUNICATIONS OUT, UM,
I KNOW THAT MAY NOT BE HOW YOU
UH, SHENE WILL BE STARTING WITH US AS THE OUTREACH COORDINATOR, SO SHE'LL OVERSEE THE OUTREACH TEAM AS WELL AS SUPPORTING, UH, REACH AND THE, THE WORK THERE.
SO, UM, THIS PHYSICIAN HAS BEEN VACANT FOR QUITE A WHILE, SO WE'RE EXCITED SHE'LL BE JOINING US AT THE END OF THE MONTH.
UM, THIS PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE BEEN UPDATED, UH, BUT THE ITEM THAT WAS GOING TO CITY COUNCIL, UH, HAS BEEN, UH, CONTINUED UNTIL NEXT WEEK.
SO IT WILL BE HEARD ON THE 10TH, BUT WE ARE WORKING ON PROPOSALS AROUND PROPOSITION ONE AND THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, UH, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS.
SO, UH, WE DID GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF THOSE PROJECTS AT THE LAST MEETING.
UH, A OPIOID BASIS BASED OFFICE, OFFICE BASED OPIOID TREATMENT, UH, PROGRAM AT WITHIN THE PARKING LOT OF THE MSC IN A NEW BUILDING THERE.
UH, AND WE'LL BE LOOKING TO PARTNER WITH AN OUTSIDE AGENCY WITH, WITH EXPERIENCE IN THAT AREA.
AND THEN CREATING AN ENRICHED RESIDENTIAL CARE, UH, PROGRAM.
AND THE, THAT PORTION OF 7 0 2, WHICH WOULD CREATE 16 BEDS THAT ARE REALLY FOCUSED ON PEOPLE THAT AREN'T NECESSARILY AT A POINT OF HOSPITALIZATION, BUT ARE IN NEED OF, YOU KNOW, SIGNIFICANT MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT.
SO THAT IS KIND OF THE COUNTY'S DESIGNATION FOR THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF CARE OUTSIDE OF A, YOU KNOW, BED WHERE YOU'RE IN UPPER.
SO, UM, THERE'S NOT A WHOLE LOT OF THOSE TYPES OF BEDS WITHIN THE COUNTY.
SO WE'RE HOPING WE CAN BRING IN FUNDING TO, UH, HAVE AN ENRICHED RESIDENTIAL CARE HERE IN LONG BEACH.
DO NOT HAVE ONE IN LONG BEACH.
THE NEAREST ONE IS DOWNTOWN LA SO, UH, THAT'D BE A MAJOR WIN.
HOPEFULLY THERE'S SOME OTHER ENRICHED, UH, ENRICHED RESIDENTIAL CARE PROPOSALS TO THE STATE THAT ARE HERE IN LA COUNTY.
IT SOUNDED LIKE THE MH SAID THERE'S SOME OTHER, UH, PEOPLE PROPOSING TO ONE PROJECTS.
SO, UM, THAT WOULD BE A MAJOR POSITIVE.
THERE ARE A COUPLE PRIVATE ENTITIES THAT ARE PUTTING IN PROPOSALS AS WELL.
SO, UM, THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF BEDS BEING PROPOSED AT, UH, THE OLD COMMUNITY HOSPITAL BUILDING THAT WOULD BE SUBSTANCE USE FOCUS.
SO, UH, WE'RE TALKING A HUNDRED PLUS BEDS AT THAT SITE, SO THAT WOULD BE A MASSIVE WIN IF WE CAN GET A HUNDRED ADDITIONAL BEDS AT THAT LOCATION.
UM, IT IS A MASSIVE SITE, SO THERE ARE A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES AND THERE'S STILL A LOT OF SPACE TO DO OTHER THINGS AT THAT BUILDING, EVEN IF THAT DOES GET FUNDED.
UM, SO THERE ARE PROPOSALS THAT ARE GOING IN, UH, SOME MORE TO COME AND AGAIN, IF THEY GET CONTINUED, THERE ARE A FEW THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT AND JUST TIGHTENING UP THAT WILL, UH, GO TO NEXT WEEK'S SESSION AT CITY COUNCIL.
UM, A COMMUNITY MURAL IS, HAS STARTED AT THE MSC, SO IT STARTED ON MONDAY.
UM, SO THIS, YOU KNOW, IS EXCITING.
THE OUTSIDE OF THE MSC HAS ALWAYS FELT A LITTLE BLAND AND BORING, SO SPICING IT UP WITH A MURAL.
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AND PART OF THE PROCESS AND WORKING WITH THE ARTISTS IS WE ARE LOOKING AT INCORPORATING SOME OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE PEOPLE COMING IN AND RECEIVING SERVICES TO ALSO PARTICIPATE IN A COMMUNITY ART PROCESS.SO, UH, THERE'S SOME BIRD THEMEING TO IT.
WE'RE LOOKING AT PAINTING SOME, YOU KNOW, SOME BIRD HOUSES AND ALLOWING PEOPLE TO, UH, EXPRESS THEIR ART AND PARTICIPATE BY TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO BRING VIBRANCY AND LIKE INCREASE CONNECTION AND KEEP THE BUILDING.
UH, STAFF DID ATTEND AT THE ANNUAL BUILT FOR ZERO CONFERENCE, WHICH IS HOSTED BY COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS.
BACK IN THE DAY THEY DID THE A HUNDRED THOUSAND HOMES CAMPAIGN.
SO REALLY THEIR FOCUS IS AROUND UTILIZING DATA TO FOCUS IN AND TARGET A SUBPOPULATION AND WORK TO REDUCE HOMELESSNESS ULTIMATELY WITH THE GOAL OF IT TO GET TO ZERO.
UH, THERE ARE SOME COMMUNITIES WITHIN THE COUNTRY THAT HAVE MADE PRETTY SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS, UH, WITHIN REDUCING CERTAIN POPULATIONS.
VETERANS, UH, HAS BEEN LIKE THE MOST COMMON WHERE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET TO AN ACTUAL ZERO.
UM, YOU KNOW, OUR BIGGEST NEED.
WE SAID, HEY, WHY NOT FOCUS ON OUR BIGGEST NEED AND LIKE, TRY TO MAKE STEPS TOWARDS REDUCTIONS.
WE'RE A LONG, LONG, LONG WAY ZERO, BUT YOU KNOW, UH, WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCE CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS.
IT IS, YOU KNOW, AN EQUITY REALLY ISSUE IN MY MIND.
LIKE WE SHOULD BE WORKING AND PRIORITIZING ON THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN MOST IMPACTED BY HOMELESSNESS.
AND THAT'S OUR PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN OUT HERE FOR THE LONGEST.
SO, UH, THAT'S WHERE WE'RE FOCUSING IN, BUT ABLE TO HEAR FROM OTHER COMMUNITIES WHAT'S WORKING WELL FOR THEM, UM, YOU KNOW, HOW ARE THEY UTILIZING DATA AND GETTING ADDITIONAL PIPS.
WE'RE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH THOSE OTHER COMMUNITIES ON AN ONGOING BASIS.
SO WE'RE ABLE TO FIND OUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT NEW THINGS THEY'RE TRYING, WHAT'S WORKING WELL, WHAT'S NOT WORKING WELL.
UH, AND WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ADOPT SOME PRACTICES OURSELVES FROM THINGS THAT WE'VE GOTTEN IN GOING TO, UH, THE CONFERENCE AS WELL AS JUST OTHER CONVERSATIONS WITH, WITH COMMUNITIES PARTICIPATING.
SO THERE'S SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
40 COMMUNITIES PARTICIPATING NOW 40, I THINK THE TOP OF MY, ALL RIGHT, SOMEWHERE IN THAT RANGE.
THERE'S OVER, WELL OVER ON, UH, STAFF ARE FINALIZING OUR, UH, WORK AND REVIEW OF REQUESTS FROM THE CITY AUDITOR'S OFFICE.
UH, IF YOU MIGHT REMEMBER FROM THE, WHEN THEY WERE CAMPAIGNING, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY TALKED ABOUT WAS AN AUDIT OF HOMELESS SERVICES.
SO WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THEM FOR OVER A YEAR AT THIS POINT.
UH, WE ARE FINALLY WRAPPED UP, UH, PRETTY MUCH WE HAVE A FEW OTHER THINGS.
SO, UH, WE ARE EXPECTING THAT REPORT TO BE RELEASED IN THE FIRST SEVERAL MONTHS OF 2025.
SO AS THAT GETS RELEASED, WE'LL MAKE SURE IF YOU, UH, COME TO THIS GROUP TO GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT ARE THE AUDIT FINDINGS, RECOMMENDATIONS, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE WE WORKING ON AND WHAT'S OUR, OUR ROADMAP, UH, AND CONTINUAL APPROVAL ON SOME OF THE STUFF THAT, YOU KNOW, WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED FOR AREAS FOR, FOR IMPROVEMENT WITHIN THE AUDITOR'S ROOM.
AND THAT CONCLUDES OUR ANY QUESTIONS TO THE PUBLIC, PUBLIC COMMENTS? ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC? DANA, QUICK QUICK QUESTION.
UM, CAN YOU GET JUST A LITTLE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT LIKE WHAT'S THE AUDITOR IS VALUE AUDITING? SO WE, THEY LOOKED AT A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. UH, THEY LOOKED AT A PORTION OF THE COT PORTFOLIO, NOT FOLLOWING, BUT UM, A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT AGENCIES OVER A MULTI-YEAR PERIOD.
UH, THEY LOOKED AT SOME OTHER PROGRAM TYPES AS WELL.
UH, OUR INTENSIVE CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES, UH, THAT ROLLED OUT WITH THE EMERGENCY HOUSING VOUCHERS.
THEY ALSO DID LOOK AT, UM, THE PHA WEST WESTERN LOCATION.
SO THERE ARE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT PROJECTS THAT THEY LOOKED AT.
THEY LOOKED AT OUR PROCESSES, SOME OF OUR POLICIES.
UM, SO THEY REVIEWED DOCUMENTS, INVOICES, UH, DATA WITHIN HMIS, UM, OUR POLICIES AND PROCEDURES.
AND THEN THEY ALSO WERE ABLE TO DO INTERVIEWS WITH AGENCIES, INTERVIEWS
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WITH PARTICIPANTS WITHIN THOSE AGENCIES.SO IT WAS, IT'S PRETTY COMPREHENSIVE AND HENCE WHY IT TOOK, YOU KNOW, A YEAR PLUS TO GET TO THE FINALIZATION.
SO OBVIOUSLY THEY'RE GONNA, THEY'RE ABLE TO, OR YOU KNOW, I GUESS BREAK DOWN WHAT THE CASE MANAGER IS DOING.
THAT SEEMS LIKE KIND OF STARTS RIGHT THERE AS BEING ABLE TO IDENTIFY WHAT ARE SOME OF THE, THE KEY THINGS THAT ARE HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS ON HOUSING INDIVIDUALS ARE NEEDING.
UM, BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, IT COULD BE MULTIPLE THINGS, BUT WE KIND OF, WE DON'T KNOW WHERE TO FIGHT AT.
WE KIND OF, I DON'T KNOW THAT THEY'RE GONNA GET DEEP INTO THAT WITHIN THEIR FINDINGS.
UM, I MEAN THEY DID LOOK AT HMIS, BUT THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY GETTING INTO LIKE THE DEEP, LIKE WHAT IS CASE MANAGEMENT, WHAT ALL DOES THAT BREAK DOWN INTO? SO THEY'RE LOOKING MORE AT LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE OUTCOME DATA AND HOW THAT'S BEING CAPTURED.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, ARE PEOPLE IMPROVING INCOME, ARE THEY, YOU KNOW, MOVING DOWN? HOW LONG IS THAT BEING? SO SOME OF MORE OF THAT DATA NECESSARILY, LIKE WHAT IS CASE MANAGER? SO I DON'T KNOW THAT I WOULD EXPECT TO SEE MUCH, BUT THEN THE REPORT, NO.
UM, SO DO WE HAVE A MOTION TO DIRECT, UH, A REGULATION TO RECEIVE AND FILE THE MORE SERVICES BUREAU STAFF ON FOR 18TH REPORT? ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ITEM NUMBER SIX, FILED THE CHAIR, VICE CHAIR REPORT, RIGHT? YES.
I DON'T HAVE A REPORT BUT I DO HAVE A ANNOUNCE MY LAST, UH, MEETING, UM, WITH THE COMMISSION.
I, UM, WILL BE TRAVELING EXTENSIVELY.
I NOT THE COUNTRY BEGINNING JANUARY, SO I'M NOT BEING ABLE TO BE HERE AND BE PRESENT AND, UM, MORE VISTA BUSINESS THAT WE DO.
SO, UM, I JUST WANNA THANK EVERYONE FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE WITH YOU, THE CITY TO SERVE FOR IT.
I'VE LEARNED SO MUCH OVER THE YEARS SO, SO MUCH.
UM, THIS IS PROBABLY THE, ONE OF THE MOST ENRICHING THINGS THAT I'VE DONE SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE IN LONG BEACH.
SO I WILL, UM, BE, I THINK MY LAST MEETING WILL BE ON THE 16TH AT THE MAYOR'S FUND.
UM, AND I'M COMMITTED TO COMPLETING THOSE, UH, TWO PROJECTS THAT I RECOMMENDED AND, UM, HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE DONE BY THEN.
SO THANK YOU ALL FOR HAVING ME WORKING WITH ME, BUT NOT WITH ME.
THANK YOU DESIREE, FOR ALL YOUR SERVICES, YOUR INSIGHT, YOUR PARTICIPATION, AND THANK YOU FOR STAYING AROUND TO FINISH THE MAYORS SUN DOCUMENTS.
WE WISH THE BEST IN YOUR INTERNATIONAL ADVENTURES AND WE HOPE TO GET SOME POST CUT.
SO, UM, WE'RE GONNA BE DOING GREAT.
UM, I
UM, ITEM NUMBER SEVEN IS RECOMMENDATIONS TO PROCEED THE FILE.
FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. CAN I HAVE A MOTION? I NEED A MOTION FOR SENATOR.
UM, JENNIFER, UM, WE HAVE THE, WE'RE STILL WAITING FOR LIVED EXPERIENCE FOR TO FINALIZE THEIR ONBOARDING.
UM, IF THEY'RE DONE HOPEFULLY BY THE NEXT MEETING IN JANUARY THEN WE CAN SCHEDULE IT.
I'LL ALSO BE SENDING AN EMAIL BECAUSE I BELIEVE OUR NEXT MEETING IS THE FIRST WEEK OF JANUARY AND I'M NOT SURE IF THERE'S GONNA BE ANY FORUM ISSUES.
WHAT'S THE DATE? UM, SHOULD BE, OH IT'S ON THE FIRST, WHICH IS ACTUALLY A HOLIDAY.
YEAH, NO, THERE'LL BE ISSUES GIVEN
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ON EIGHTH THAT WILL NOT BE HERE.UM, ASK OUR SHELTER OPERATOR HOW AND PRESENT.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER SUGGESTED FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS? OH, UM, KIMBERLY HAVE ONE ON THE NEWS.
CAN REMEMBER THAT WHITE LESTER FASTER.
YEAH, IT'LL BE A LITTLE
AND THEN UM, I DO WANNA, YES, JOHN WHAT TALKED ABOUT IS, IS SOME OF THE MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS HERE, I KNOW WE HAD DMH HERE, BUT IF WE COULD, UM, MAYBE ASK COLLEGE OR OTHER PROVIDERS, UM, TOOK TIME AND THEN MAYBE WE COULD, UM, IMPROVE OUR COLLABORATION WITH THEM.
UM, AND SAME WITH THE RECOVERY CENTERS.
WOULD IT BE OKAY IF WE WE COULD HAVE A WALK? NO, I MEAN IT'S, IT'S IN THE SAME MIND BECAUSE REMEMBER WHEN WE HAD DMH BEFORE IT WAS LIKE ISSUES WITH ZOOM AND THEN SOME OF THE PRESENTATION GOT CUT OFF.
SO I'M JUST SUGGESTING CAN HAVE THEM.
YEAH, I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO HAVE THEM BACK BECAUSE UM, RIGHT NOW, ESPECIALLY RIGHT NOW, UM, IT WOULD BE REALLY GOOD TO COORDINATION.
THE OTHERS WE'RE ALSO TOLD TO MAKE IT 15 MINUTES.
MAYBE WE COULD UM, SINCE THE COUNTY IS REORGANIZING OR THEY VOTED TO REORGANIZE UH, LASA AND THEIR OWN SYSTEMS, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF WE WANNA HAVE SOMEBODY THEY VOTED TO EXPLORE THAT.
SO YEAH, I JUST SLY IN THEIR OFFICE OF, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT IT CALLED BUT THE MEASURE MEASURE HA OFFICE.
YEAH, THEY'RE GONNA WANT TALK TO A WHOLE LOT ABOUT THAT UNTIL SOMETHING COMES OUT.
BUT
YEAH, I'M SAYING FOR LIKE WHAT THAT REORGANIZATION LOOKS LIKE AND WHETHER THEY'RE MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS AND WHAT THAT RECOMMENDATION WE CAN ASK WHAT THEY GO TO THE BOARD WITH SOMETHING BUT THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO PROBABLY PROVIDE ANYTHING THAT THEY FELT THEY POSSIBLY UM, I FORGOT I WAS JUST WITH THE, WITH
OH, SWEARING IN ON, ON TUESDAY.
ONE OF THE HER ASSISTANT, THEY CAN COME AND SPEAK ON IT 'CAUSE THEY WERE DISCUSSING.
SO I THINK IT IS JANET, WE, THE MEASURE A HAS A NEW ROOF OVERSIGHT THAT IS NOT THE SAME AS MEASURE H WOULD.
SO THERE IS A EXECUTIVE REGIONAL HOMELESS BOARD WHICH HAS ELECTED OFFICIALS ON IT AS WELL AS THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE.
SO THEY ARE ULTIMATELY THE ONES THAT MAKE DECISION AROUND MEASURE A.
UH, IT'S NOT ACTUALLY COUNTY SO IT'S SOMEWHAT OF AN INTERESTING, UM, YEAH WE'RE GONNA GET, BUT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET ONE OF THE STAFF THAT IS SUPPORTING US TO GIVE OVERVIEW OF THAT.
UH, WE DO HAVE THE CHAIR A SEAT ON THE REGIONAL LEADERSHIP TASK FORCE THAT MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS UP TO THEM.
MM-HMM
SO, UM, THAT'S MOSTLY SHE, SHE LEFT FOR THE DAY, UM, FOR THE EVENING.
UM, BUT BACK TO MANY OF MOSTLY DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS FROM THE COUNTY, CITY LEADERSHIP AND UH, LEADERSHIP, FEW DIFFERENT OTHER ENTITIES.
SO, UM, THEY ARE REALLY TRYING TO PULL IN LIKE HIGH LEVEL LEADERSHIP ACROSS THE BOARD ON MEASURE A TO BE A LITTLE MORE FOCUSED THAN WE SAW WITHIN MEASURE H.
BUT WELL, I MEAN ANYONE FROM THE OFFICE, I MEAN STAFF IS WHAT I ASSUME THAT WOULD COME ANYWAY.
SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE GREAT JUST TO GET SOME IDEA AND THEN IF THEY'RE TAKING WHAT
ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS? I'M NOT SURE IF THIS GO AHEAD.
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IS THE PLACEMENT TO ASK ABOUT, UM, ADDING THE SOP APPROVAL FOR PUTTING IT ON THE AGENDA.FOR THE AGENDA FOR THE NEXT TIME.
AND THEY'LL BE SENT OUT TO US, RIGHT? YES, PAM, I WAS THINKING, UH, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT
LIKE IS THERE ANOTHER THAT YOUR ATTENTION HEAR? SURE.
I MEAN THERE'S DEFINITELY A FEW THAT LIKE WE COULD SPEAK TO AND LIKE THAT ARE DOING SOME INTERESTING COOL THINGS.
THERE ARE A LOT OF COMMUNITIES THAT WE'RE AT THAT LIKE THAT AREN'T ALL THAT COMPARABLE.
THEY HAVE 300 PEOPLE IN TOTAL EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS OF LIKE TRYING TO TRANSFER THINGS A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT.
BUT THERE ARE SOME, THERE ARE SOME LARGER CITIES THAT ARE COMPARABLE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HEARD THINGS FROM THE VESTMENT, WE LOOK BRING BACK, HEY, HERE ARE SOME OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE HEARD THAT SEEMED LIKE INTERESTING AND APPLICABLE FOR THE WORKFLOW.
EVEN LIKE, UM, I'M MORE INTERESTED IN LIKE, BECAUSE OF LIKE CO THE COLLABORATION ISSUE WITH JUST LIKE KNOWING, YOU KNOW, WORKING TOGETHER.
LIKE IF THERE IS ANY BIGGER MUNICIPALITIES THAT HAVE LIKE SOME
SO I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S RELEASED YET, BUT WE CAN ALSO MAKE SURE YOU'RE AWARE OF THAT, WHERE IT'S LIKE THAT GIVES KIND OF AN OVERSIGHT FOR LIKE, HEY THIS IS WHAT SOME OTHER COMMUNITY THAT THEY'RE DOING THAT HAVE BEEN IMPACTFUL.
ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEM? SEEING THEM, UH, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF RECEIVING, FILING THE FUTURE EXACT AGENDA ITEMS? I, UM, ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WISH TO SPEAK OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THE HOMELESS SERVICES COMMITTEE ON NON AGENDA ITEMS? EACH SPEAKER IS LIMITED TO TWO MINUTES TO MAKE THEIR COMMENTS UNLESS EXTENDED BY THE CHAIR.
ARE THERE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT SAYING, NONE ME.