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OR WHOEVER WANTS, OKAY, I'LL CALL THE MEETING TOMORROW.
AND THEN JUST REALLY QUICK FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT ARE PRESENT, UM, YOU DO HAVE A CHANCE TO SPEAK ON AGENDA ITEMS. ONCE AGENDA ITEMS ARE BEING PRESENTED, WE WILL GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK.
UM, WE DO HAVE A SIGN IN SHEET BACK HERE OR WE WILL, UM, CALL OUT TO SEE IF ANYBODY WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK.
AND THEN WOULD THERE ANYBODY THAT WOULD LIKE TO SHARE ME? CAN WE POINT FINGERS? WAIT, WAIT.
I CAN READ OUT ITEMS, BUT THAT IS ALLOWABLE.
THAT IS EASY TO, I'M ALSO GLAD TO DO IT.
SO ITEM HAVE NUMBER ONE ON THE AGENDA.
RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FOR THE HOMELESS PURPOSES.
EVEN WEDNESDAY, JUNE FOUR AT 2025.
ALRIGHT, IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? ANY? NONE.
UM, ARE THERE ANY COMMITTEE MEMBER QUESTIONS ON MINUTES FROM THAT MEETING? ALRIGHT, UM, SO LET'S HAVE A VOTE TO ACCEPT AND APPROVE MINUTES TO THAT TO FAVOR ANY OF OPPOSED ANY MOTION PASSES.
UM, ITEM NUMBER TWO, RECOMMENDATIONS TO RECEIVE AND FILE UPDATES FROM THE MAYOR'S FUND AND POLICY COMMITTEE AND THE
UM, IS THERE A MOTION PLEASE? THERE LACK? UH, NO, THERE WAS SOME OTHER QUESTIONS ON
SO THE FIRST THING THAT WE'LL LOOK FOR IS THE REPORT FROM THE MAYOR'S FUND COMMITTEE.
YOU HAS THE REPORT? I AM NOT, YEAH, BUT IS THERE SOMEONE PRESENT? DO YOU HAVE THE MAYOR'S? JIM? JIM, YOU CAN JUST TALK ABOUT WHAT WE DISCUSSED AT THE MAYOR'S.
YEAH, THAT'S WHY I WAS SAYING WE AT THE RIGHT POINT NOW.
YEAH, WE HAD A, ABOUT AN EXTENDED MEETING OF THE, UH, FUND COMMITTEE AND DISCUSSED A NUMBER OF THINGS.
AND SOME OF IT IS HERE, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, THAT THE STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE AND I DO THINK IT NEEDS SOME MORAL REVIEW BECAUSE, UH, MY EXPERIENCE SINCE I WAS CHAIRMAN FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, AND THEN I WAS ON THE MEDIA ITSELF FOR NUMBER YEARS BEFORE THAT.
AND WE'VE SEEN, GET AWAY FROM THE ORIGINAL WHAT WE WERE DOING.
AND, UM, I NOTICED AGAIN THAT I'M THINGS BY ONE BIT, LOOKING AT THIS PAGE HERE A BIT ABOUT THAT WE TALKED ABOUT AS THIS INITIAL THRESHOLD REVIEW COMPLETED BY CITY STAFF.
AND I THINK WHAT SOMEHOW HAPPENED THERE THAT THE STAFF TOOK ON BASICALLY THE RESPONSIBILITY OF DOING FOR APPROVAL RATHER THAN THRESHOLD.
SO THEY WERE DOING AN EXCELLENT JOB OF BASICALLY
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REVIEWING THE APPLICATIONS AND WRITING AND DOING A LOT OF WRITING AND REWRITING AND SO FORTH.AND THEN OF COURSE WE WERE AND SAW ASKING SOME QUESTIONS, WHICH CREATED DISSENSION THERE BECAUSE THEY FELT THEY HAD ALREADY APPROVED, REVIEWED IT AND APPROVED IT.
SO I THINK WE GET THAT TO THE POINT.
YES, WE DO NEED AN INITIAL THRESHOLD REVIEW, BUT IT SHOULD BE BEST FOR THE VERY BASE THAT WORDS AS IT FITS HERE, DOES IT FIT THE PANEL AS IN AGAINST A NO? H WE DON'T NEED AN EXPLANATION ON THAT.
UH, WHAT ARE THE SERVICES PROVIDED? WELL, I DON'T THINK THEY NEED TO BE WRITTEN OUT IN DETAIL AGAIN, BY STAFF.
I THINK THEY'RE ALREADY IN THE APPLICA OR IF THEY'RE NOT THE APPLICATION THEY SHOULD BE.
SO WE REALLY DON'T NEED IT REWRITTEN THAT WAY AND THEN AS REQUIRE ALL THE NECESSARY DOCUMENT, NOT DOCUMENTATION.
WE'VE NEVER REALLY HAD A GOOD DEFINITION OF WHAT DOCUMENTATION WE REQUIRE FROM THE
AND UH, I WAS CONCERNED, WELL THAT WOULD BE A THING TOO.
THERE WAS THIS PART OF THE
AND THEN THE ENTIRE ORIGINAL APPLICATION SHOULD GO TO THE COMMITTEE FOR REVIEW.
AND THE MEETING REVIEW IS THE, THE COMMITTEE IS THE ONE THAT'S DOING THE REVIEW.
AND THE REASON WE DO IT IS TO TAKE THAT AWAY FROM THE BOARD SO THE BOARD DOESN'T HAVE ANY REVIEW.
EACH APPLICATION THAT WORDS THE REVIEW OF THE APPLICATION DELEGATE BY THE BOARD TO THE COMMITTEE, UH, ELIGIBILITY.
THOSE ARE BASIC YES AND NO ANSWERS RIGHT THERE.
AND I THINK SAME THING THERE, THAT CAN BE QUITE SIMPLE AND SHOULD BE.
NOW THE PART THAT I, AND I REMEMBER WHEN WE WORKED THROUGH THIS, I'M GOING ON TO PAGE MENTAL PAGE NUMBER THREE.
PAGE THREE, EVALUATION CRITERIA.
I REALLY DO LIKE THE WAY THIS IS LAID OUT AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE BEFORE.
UH, I REMEMBER WHEN WE DEVELOPED THIS ON THE COMMITTEE, THAT'S WHEN, UH, HOWEVER I WAS THE CHAIR AND IT GOES OVER THE THING AND WE BASICALLY ASSIGN WEIGHT IN EACH PART OF THE APPLICATION WITH THE 25 FOR THAT PERCENTAGE ORGANIZATION CAPACITY.
THAT WAS ONE THING THAT I THINK WE
DOES THE ORGANIZATION HAVE THE PAST EXPERIENCE OF HANDLING THIS SUM OF MONEY AND LOSING THE MONEY TO THE RIGHT PURPOSES? DO THEY HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THIS? DO THEY HAVE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY,
BUT ARE THEY FILING THOSE WITH THE STATE? ARE THEY KEEPING UP WITH THE NECESSARY DETAILS? UM, WE, ANY ENGAGEMENT AS AN IMPORTANT ONE? HARD CAN WAIT, BUT IMPORTANT BUDGET AND COST THAT, AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT THEY DO HAVE A BUDGET AND OF WHAT THEY'RE PROPOSING IS COST EFFECT.
NOW, WHAT WE SEEN TO TEND WHAT, WHEN THIS SOUTH CHANGE AND APPLICATION WE WERE BEFORE, WE HAD FINANCE COMPLETE GOOD PROJECT AND ONE THING THAT WE HELP BRISBANE OUTREACH FIELD BY PRODUCT SOMEWHERE ELSE WORK AND THINGS.
BUT THEN WE'VE SEEN DRIFT IN THE
MAYBE SOME NEW CREATIVE IDEAS, UH, AND A CHANGE IN MAYBE, UH, ONE OF OUR PROVIDERS OF SERVICES WANTS TO, HAS TO MOVE WHAT A NEW PROPOSED TO ADDICTION AND THERE'S SOME COST FALL.
I WOULDN'T WANT SEEING THOSE STUDENTS THINGS LIKE FUNDING THINGS OUT THAT, SO WE CAN MOVE AHEAD AND HAVE THE, OUR, THE ORGANIZATIONS WORK WITH US
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HERE'S SOME EDUCATION PROCESS IN THE SHELTER.OTHER WORDS, WE'VE GOTTA CHAPTER LONG OF SITTING IN THE SHELTER AND THEY CERTAINLY WON'T FALL UN IT, BUT I THINK IT WILL BE ONE STATE SOMETHING THAT MIGHT BE MORE.
SO I THINK WE TRYING TO ENCOURAGE THOSE.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS I THIS EVALUATION BASED PART OF THE ON WEBPAGE.
ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ON JIM'S? SO SOME WAYS WHAT I'M SUGGESTS ME THAT I'M, I'M NOT REALLY READY TO LIKE MANUAL APPROVAL ON THIS.
I'D LIKE TO SEE A STUDY A LITTLE FURTHER.
I'D LIKE TO SEE SOME MORE MEMBERS
YOU CAN CERTAINLY USE SOME MORE HELP BECAUSE I THINK WE CAN REALLY WORK AT SOMETHING.
IT'S NOT ABOUT BY OTHER MEETING WITH THE REPORTS REASON STARTED BECAUSE WE QUITE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THAT, HOW IT HAD SOME GOING CHANGE AND UH, SHE FELT DISAPPOINTED.
AND UH, SO I THINK WE'VE BEEN JUST TRYING TO DO A LITTLE MORE AND CHANGE THINGS MORE THAN JUST HOW THINGS STAY IN THE SADDEST QUO.
JIM, HOW, WHO IS ON THE COMMITTEE RIGHT NOW? THE MAYOR'S FUND COMMITTEE? WELL, WE HAVE, THE ONLY ONE I SAW OUR LAST MEETING WAS STEVEN AND, UH, HE'S NOT HERE.
STEVEN WOOD, YOU KNOW, HE IS NOT HERE.
I, I CALLED HIM A COUPLE OF TIMES BEFORE, BUT RIGHT NOW AS I KNOW, I THINK HE'S AN ONLY OTHER MEMBER OF THE SIDE OF MYSELF.
JULIE, JULIE IS A MEMBER OF RIVER.
SHE SAT IN ON THE LAST COMMITTEE.
ANY MORE QUESTIONS OR SESSION? ALL RIGHT, SO PLEASE, UH, SEE JIM AFTER THE MEETING IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN THE MAYOR'S FUND COMMITTEE AND WE'LL LOOK FOR THE MAYOR'S FUND TO BRING BACK AN UPDATED VERSION.
UH, NEXT, THE POLICY SUBCOMMITTEE.
WE MET ON THE SECOND MONDAY OF LAST MONTH AND WE DISCUSSED, UM, THE ANNUAL REPORT AND THE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL, BUT ARE LABOR ON TODAY'S AGENDA.
SO I WON'T GET INTO THEM NOW, BUT THOSE ARE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE APPROVED IN THE POLICY SUBCOMMITTEE.
UM, AND WE ALSO DISCUSSED IF WE WANTED TO MAKE ANY RECOMMENDATIONS TO CITY STAFF ON PROPOSED STATE LEGISLATION.
AND IF WE WANTED TO SUGGEST THAT WE LONG BEACH TAKE ANY POSITION ON LEGISLATION THAT MAY IMPACT, UH, THE DEPARTMENT'S ABILITY TO DO ITS JOB IN PROVIDING HOMELESS SERVICES.
AND WHAT WE'VE CONCLUDED IS THAT WE WOULD NOT MAKE ANY FORMAL RECOMMENDATIONS, BUT WE WOULD INVITE A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY TO COME TO THIS MEETING TO PAY SACK AND PRESENT UM, ANY STANCES THAT THE CITY HAS TAKEN ON STATE OF.
SO WE'RE HOPING TO HEAR MORE ON THE PURPOSE OF LOOKING ON WHAT STANCES THEY'VE TAKEN ON STATE OF LEGISLATION AND THAT INCLUDE MY REPORT AND OF COURSE WE'LL PICK BACK UP LATER AS SUPPOSE HOW WE
UM, SO IS THERE A REPORT ON THE CONTINUUM OF CARE
UH, WE DID MEET, WE BELIEVE THEY GOT THE SAME REPORT THAT HE GOT LAST MONTH LONG, BUT ALMOST GOTTEN WHERE THINGS WERE AT.
UH, WE TALKED A BIT ABOUT, UM, CONCERNS AROUND, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S HAPPENING AT A FEDERAL LEVEL, POTENTIAL IMPACTS ON POTENTIAL COC REGULATIONS, COC FUNDING, UH, AND WHAT THAT COULD POTENTIALLY MEAN FOR US.
UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT THERE AND IT'S STILL A LOT OF UNKNOWN.
UH, SO RIGHT NOW IT'S BUILDING A PLANNING, UH, CONVERSATION AND THEN THEY WILL BE HAVING THEIR ANNUAL RETREAT COMING UP.
SO THERE'S SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT DID THEY WANT TO FOCUS ON WITHIN THE ANNUAL RETREAT.
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NEW CO-CHAIRS FOR COC BOARD.SO, UH, JAMIE'S WAS JAMIE'S AND KIMBERLY.
WE WERE THE PREVIOUS CO-CHAIRS, UM, TAMIKA BOY AND UH, CLAUDE DIALS ARE OUR NEW COACHES.
ANY QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION? YEAH, QUESTION.
NOT SO MUCH WHEN THE CC BUT GOING BACK TO THAT, TO OUR FUNCTION AS A MONITOR REPORT.
AND I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY WHERE
IS IT APPROPRIATE FOR US TO SAY, TO RECOMMEND TO THE MAYOR? 'CAUSE WE OTHER, THE MAYORS IN
I, I SAY JULIE AND I DISCUSSED IT, WE'RE A LITTLE CONFUSED AS GET, AND PAUL, YOU'LL PROBABLY THE ANSWER ON THAT AND, AND WE RECOMMEND MORE FUNDING THANKS TO YOUR DEPARTMENT TO DO.
I MEAN, THAT KIND OF GETS A LITTLE MORE, THAT'S PROBABLY
LIKE, I'M NOT GONNA WEIGH TOO MUCH INTO THAT, BUT I MEAN IT'S WITHIN YOUR ABILITY TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS THROUGH THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR REGARDING, YOU KNOW, ADVOCACY POLICIES.
LIKE ANYTHING RELATED TO HOMELESSNESS THAT YOU THINK CITY COUNCIL SHOULD BE CONSIDERING OR, UM, I JUST WANNA ADD THAT, UM, THE IDEAS OF OFF THE, OF THE LAST LIKE FOUR YEARS, WE EARNED OUR SHELTERS AND OUR TRADITIONAL HOUSING TO HAVE MORE SOURCES AND WORKSHOPS LIKE THAT DO WORK FOR SOME OTHER TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND OUTSIDE OF LONG BEACH MAY DO
I THINK IT'S, WE A GOOD TIME TO ADVOCATE FOR WHERE, SO THERE'S MODELS THAT WE SHARED FROM, SO WE CAN DISCUSS THAT A BIT MORE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS.
ALRIGHT, CAN WE, UM, WHAT IS OUR SPECIFIC LINK TO CFC? IS THERE SOMEBODY DESIGNATED FROM OUR COMMITTEE SERVICE ON CCC? I'M NOT SURE THAT I SHOULDN'T MISS FALL RIGHT NOW.
THAT WAS ANNOUNCED AT THE LAST MEETING.
OH WAIT, I DIDN'T ATTEND THE LAST MEETING.
I THINK IT WAS TWO MEETINGS AGO.
YEAH, IT WAS WHEN I WAS AT JURY DUTY
SO SHE IS NOW SEATED ON THE COC BOARD DIVISIONS REPRESENTATIVE FROM ASAP.
SO YOU HAVE ONE DESIGNATED SEAT THAT BASICALLY YOU AS A GROUP DECIDE WHO WANTS TO SIT ON THE COC BOARD.
THANK, SHE'S OUT SICK TODAY, JOSEPH.
ANY OTHER QUESTION? THIRD SESSION.
UM, ALL IN FAVOR OF THE MEETING AND FILING THE UPDATES FROM THE MAYOR'S FUND POLICY SUBCOMMITTEE AND THE CONTINUUM.
JUST REALLY QUICK, ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? YOU CAN PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
UM, ALL IN FAVOR MEETING AND FILING VIEWS.
NUMBER THREE, UM, RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE 20.
HOMELESS SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE SITE? WE CAN, WE CAN DISCUSS FIRST AND THEN, OKAY.
SO, UM, WHAT YOU SEE IN FRONT OF YOU, I'LL JUST BRIEFLY PRESENT AT THE LAST MEETING, WE PRESENTED A GRANT VERSION OF THIS DOCUMENT AND IT IS THE ANNUAL REPORT OF EVERYTHING THE COMMITTEE HAS DONE.
SO THAT'S THE PREFERENCE, UH, PREFACE.
UM, IT'S A REPORT ON THE MAYOR'S FUND EXPENDITURES AND WHO THOSE GRANTS WENT TO.
UM, AND THEN THE TOPIC PROBABLY MOST FOR DISCUSSION IS OUR POLICY
AND SO WE WENT OVER THESE IN THE LAST MEETING.
WE CAN COMPARE 'EM DOWN TO A SMALLER
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NUMBER THAN NEXT YEAR.UM, WE GAVE INFORMATION FROM THE POINT IN TIME COUNT TO TALK ABOUT HOW MANY INDIVIDUALS ARE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS AND HOW THE AMOUNT SHELTERED.
UM, AND THEN WE PROPOSED A FEW RECOMMENDATIONS AND THE, UM, HANDWRITTEN EDIT, CCN HERE ARE EDITS THAT WE RECEIVED FROM
SO SHE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO SUBMITTED EDITS, UM, SINCE WE SENT THIS OUT.
BUT JUST SO YOU CAN SEE, RECOMMENDATION NUMBER ONE IS THAT WE RECOMMEND CITY COUNCIL ADOPT A QUANTIFIABLE GOAL OF INCREASING SHELTER RATES FOR EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.
UM, CURRENT SHELTER RATES 27%.
UM, AND WE, WE TALK ABOUT SETTING BENCHMARKS AND THIS IS LINE WITH LAST YEAR'S POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SHELTER RATES FOR 2026 AND 2030, UM, INCLUDING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF NEW PERMANENT SHELTER BEDS.
THE CITY WILL SEE SINGLE AVAILABLE FOR THEIR OWN FACILITIES AND THOSE OF PARTNER RECOMMENDED LAST YEAR.
UM, WE, THE JOBS FROM CITY BENEFIT, 40% OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IN LONG BEACH BY 2026 AND 60% BY 10.
SO WE DISCUSSED THIS A LITTLE BIT LAST TIME, BUT DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY FEEDBACK ON THAT? OKAY.
UM, RECOMMENDATION NUMBER TWO IS WE RECOMMEND THAT CITY COUNCIL ALLOCATE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A PILOT HYGIENE AND SANITATION PROGRAM TO INCREASE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PARENTS OF HELPLESSNESS AND TO IMPROVE THE CLEANLINESS OF ENGAGEMENTS.
THIS WILL LIKELY DECREASE THE KIND SWEEPS.
WE HAVE A PRESENTATION ON LEAD SWEEPS
UM, SO WHAT WHAT WE SAID IS WE WANT PUT AT THE FOREFRONT THAT HUMANITY GIVE PEOPLE EXPERIENCE WITH HOMELESSNESS, WHICH INCLUDE ACCESS TO BASIC HYGIENE, SANITATION, UM, THE CLEAN SWEEPS, REMOVE DEBRIS FROM SIDEWALKS ON A REGULAR BASE UH, BASIS, BUT PEOPLE EXPERIENCING, UH, HOMELESSNESS OR UNSHELTERED LACK S THE VITAL HYGIENE SOURCES SUCH AS TRASH BIN, TOILET SINKS AND SHOWERS.
SO WE'RE RECOMMENDING TOILET PROGRAM TO OFFER SOME PROACTIVE HYGIENE INFINITY.
UM, SO WE, WE KIND OF STATED THE FIXED FUNDS THAT, THAT THREE DIFFERENT CITIES ARE ON THE CLEAN SUITE.
UM, THERE WERE 4,200 CLEANUPS LAST YEAR AND WE PLUS ABOUT A COST OVER A MILLION DOLLARS FOR ONE OF THOSE, UH, THREE DEPARTMENTS ALONE.
SO WE GAVE AN EXAMPLE OF THIS KIND OF
AND THAT WOULD BE JUST SETTING UP CITY TRASH BINS WITH REGULAR WASTE COLLECTION, WHICH DESIGN LOCATION, UM, WHERE THERE ARE ENCAMPMENTS OR THERE ARE NUMEROUS PEOPLE WHO ARE UNSHELTERED.
WE TALKED ABOUT SETTING UP A DA COMPLIANCE, PORTABLE TOILETS AT COMING LOCATIONS, AND WE TALKED ABOUT PROVISION OF
AND THOSE NUMBERS ARE BASICALLY BASED ON HAVING SMALL BUDGET.
OF COURSE WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE OF ALL THESE SERVICES.
SO THAT WAS OUR SECONDHAND RECOMMENDATION.
UM, DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK? ALRIGHT, I, YEAH, GO AHEAD.
EVERY, HONESTLY, INCREDIBLY NEW TO THIS.
UM, BUT I SAT IN ON THE BUDGET HEARING LAST NIGHT AT CITY COUNCIL AND WAS THRILLED THAT THE COUNCIL IS TALKING ABOUT UPSTREAM, UH, AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK DOING SOME, SOME REAL PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT THAT.
UH, AND SO ONE OF MY QUESTIONS IS THESE, I UNDERSTAND WHAT'S BEING RECOMMENDED AND I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND THE NEED.
UM, HAVING BEEN DOWNTOWN FOR 12 YEARS, ARE WE THINKING AS A COMMITTEE ABOUT UPSTREAM SOLUTIONS OR ARE WE FOCUSING ON MORE IMMEDIATE DAY-TO-DAY SERVICES? SERVICES? SO OUR, OUR PRIOR DISCUSSIONS ON THIS AND TELL WHITE OTHERS SHARE THEIR THOUGHT AS WELL.
BUT, UM, LET'S DO WE TALKING ABOUT OUR POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS.
WE SAID, OF COURSE, EVERYBODY WHO'S EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS LEAVE, YOU KNOW, ALL SORTS OF, UM, SERVICES TO, TO PREVENT, FIRST OF ALL, AND THEN, UH, LONG-TERM SUPPORTIVE HOUSING, THAT'S WHAT'S NEEDED.
BUT WE LOOKED AT THE IMMEDIATE CRISIS OF PEOPLE BEING IN SHELTER AND KIND OF THE ACUTE PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF THAT.
AND WE HAD GIVEN, YOU KNOW, KIND OF THE LIMITED RESOURCES THAT THIS HAS.
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BUT WE MADE A DIFFICULT DECISION OF POLICY SUBCOMMITTEE WOULD SAY WE WOULD ACTUALLY RECOMMEND SHIFT SOME RESOURCES, NOT ALL RESOURCES, BUT SOME FROM MORE OF THE LONG TERM PERMANENT HOUSING EFFORTS TO SHORT TERM SHELTER AND SHORT TERM SOLUTIONS JUST BECAUSE OF THE KIND OF EXTREME CRISIS PEOPLE BOTH.SO THAT WAS A, A PHILOSOPHICAL DECISION.
THAT WAS THE, AND UNDERSTANDING THAT ALL OF IT IS, DO, DO OTHERS HAVE ANYTHING THEY TO ADD? YEAH, MY EXPERIENCE IS
UM, THERE WERE UPSTREAM, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS, BUT I DON'T THINK WE'VE HEARD ANY UPDATES ABOUT IT.
SO THAT COULD BE SOMETHING WE MAY WELL DISCUSS, TALK ABOUT BEFORE AND, AND THIS STRATEGY OF EATING UP A GOOD, RIGHT.
JIM, YOU HAD SOMETHING TO ADD? NO, WELL, JUST THE FACT THAT I EATEN THAT MIGHT BE MORE OF CONCEPT ADVISORY COMMITTEE, YOU KNOW, TO BE A LITTLE MORE PROACTIVE THAN OUR MORE
BUT AGAIN, I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY HOW TO DO IT, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE MORE PROACTIVE.
THE, THE SECOND RECOMMENDATION WITH REAL, REALLY BREAKING DOWN, THESE ARE SOME SPECIFIC THINGS FOR US TO TRY EXPERIMENT, BUT DO WE HAVE THE CAPACITY WITH THE KIND OF DOCUMENTATION THAT THE STAFF DOES TO IDENTIFY, FOR THEM TO IDENTIFY THAT THIS IS WHERE WE ARE SEEING THE MOST ENCAMPMENT ACTIVITY, OR THIS IS WHERE WE ARE SEEING A REAL IMPACT ON SANITATION, PUBLIC BELT ON A NEIGHBORHOOD.
SO WE HAVE THAT KIND OF GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF WHERE YES, THINGS ARE HAPPENING.
I MEAN, OKAY, THERE DEFINITELY AN UNDERSTANDING OF HERE ARE WHERE WE'RE SEEING SIGNIFICANTLY MORE PEOPLE, BUT PUTTING SOMETHING HERE WOULD NOT MAKE SENSE BECAUSE THERE'S
SO, YOU KNOW, IF THIS WERE TO MOVE FORWARD, IT WOULD DEFINITELY BE A CONVERSATION OF LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, OUR AVERAGE DATA OUTREACH REQUESTS AND, YOU KNOW, WHERE WOULD, IS THAT THE LARGEST IMPACT? TRADITIONALLY? ANSWER YOUR QUESTION.
LAST YEAR, ONE OF OUR, WE HAD FOUR OR FIVE RELEVANT PATIENTS LAST YEAR, AND ONE OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS WAS TO CONTINUE KIND OF PROACTIVE PREVENTION PROGRAM AND RENTAL ASSISTANCE.
AND WE STILL STAND BY THAT, BUT WE KIND OF SAID, WELL, WE'RE, WE'RE AT HOMELESS SERVICES ADVISORY AND THAT'S MORE UPSTREAM.
SO LET'S GET A LITTLE BIT MORE SPECIFIC.
THAT'S, AND THIS REALLY IS HELPFUL FOR SOMEBODY COMING IN NEW BECAUSE I, I WAS, IT WAS THE FIRST TIME LAST NIGHT THAT I HAVE HEARD ANYBODY PROPOSED THAT OUR CITY BUDGET INCLUDE RENT SUBSIDIES THAT WERE SPECIFICALLY TO BE MATCHED WITH PEOPLE THAT ARE HOMELESS OR FINALLY GOTTEN A FOOT IN THE BOARD WITH THE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING DID.
SO THEY WERE REPUBLICAN ELECTION, THOSE CENTRIC IDEAS ABOUT IMPLEMENTING IN A MODEST, VERY MODEST WAY THIS UPSTREAM PREVENTATIVE WORK.
UM, BUT I'M SURE THAT GET THERE IS CRISIS AND IMPORTANT, THE WHOLE
ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR FEEDBACK ON THIS DOCUMENT? AND I AM PRESENTING IT BASICALLY WITH JULIE'S HANDWRITTEN EDITS IN HERE, ASSUMING WE'RE GOING TO
UM, SO THEN I'LL, I'LL ASK, YOU KNOW, ALL IN FAVOR? OH, IS THERE, IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT FROM THOSE IN THE ROOM? ALL RIGHT.
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SEEING NONE, ALL IN FAVOR OF ACCEPTING, UH, RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE 2024 HOMELESS SERVICES ADVISORIES, THE MAKE ANNUAL REPORT WITH POLICYA ANY OPPOSED, ANY ABSTAIN? OKAY, GREAT.
WELL, WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT THAT IS SENT TO THE MAYOR AND IMMEDIATELY WITH NEXT YEAR.
UM, ITEM NUMBER FOUR, RECOMMENDATIONS.
RECEIVE AND FILE A PRESENTATION ON THE HOMELESS SERVICE BUREAU OUTREACH TEAM APPROACHES FROM THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
IS THERE A FUNCTION? SO, ALRIGHT, IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? WELL, LET'S DO THE PRESENTATION AND THEN WE'LL HERE
UH, SO I HAVE JOEL AND FOR JOINING US, UH, HERE YOU PRESENT ON THIS.
SO I'M GONNA PASS IT OVER, UH, TO THEM TO LEAD UP SOME PRESENT.
I AM THE, UH, FIELD BASE PROGRAMS OFFICER, SO I OVERSEE ALL OF OUR FIELD BASE PROGRAMS.
MY NAME IS JEAN, I'M OUTREACH REPORT, UM, WORKING TWO O AND OUR ASSISTANT COORDIN.
SO, UM, ONE, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME TODAY.
I THINK THIS IS THE FIRST MEETING THAT I'VE COME TO IN CASE THAT THAT IS IN PERSON SINCE BEFORE LIKE 2020.
I KNOW WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME, YOU KNOW, THE COMPUTER SCREEN AND ALL THAT AND
UM, SO I KNOW THE FESTIVAL FOR AN OVERVIEW ON SPECIFIC QUESTION ABOUT, UM, I WANTED TO KIND OF JUST GIVE A OVERVIEW OF ALL OF OUR FIELD BASED PROGRAMS JUST SINCE WE CAN, OBVIOUSLY HOW THEY WORK TOGETHER AND IS, UH, HOW PART, UM, I KNOW IN THE PAST FOR SOME OF YOU WHO, UM, WILL, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, HOMELESS SERVICES BUREAU OR PROGRAMS THAT OUTREACH WAS A LOT OF THE, UM, THE FOCUS, UM, AND OPERATE WAS A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, HOW WE ENGAGED WITH FOLKS.
BUT WE'VE, I THINK WE'VE EVOLVED AND WE HAVE, UH, A FEW MORE PROGRAMS NOW.
WE TRY TO INVOLVE AS MANY, UH, INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE GET PEOPLE ENGAGED AS POSSIBLE.
SO THE PRESENTATION COVERED EVERYTHING.
I, SO THIS IS A PRE, UM, WE ALL KNOW THE PURPOSES BUREAU.
UM, WE WORK TOWARDS EVERYBODY IN THE CITY OF LONG BEACH AVENUE TO STAY HOME.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE WORK AT A CASE OF OUR PARTICIPANTS, BUT OUR GOAL IS KIND OF, UM, WE PROVIDE MENTAL HOUSING FIRST APPROACH.
UM, WE DO PROVIDE WRAPAROUND SERVICES, AS YOU'RE GONNA SEE IN SOME OF OUR PRESENTATIONS AND OUTREACH.
YOU KNOW IT, A LOT OF THE TIMES IT'S OUR FIRST TOUCH POINT, BUT WE TRY TO INVOLVE AS MANY SERVICES AS POSSIBLE.
AND THAT INCLUDES, YOU KNOW, THE WORK THAT WE DO AT THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER.
BUT TODAY WE'RE JUST GONNA FOCUS ON FIELD BASED PROGRAMS. UM, THIS WAS A QUESTION THAT I WAS ASKED TO, UM, KIND OF SPEAK ABOUT TODAY.
WHAT APPROACHES ENGAGEMENT METHODS, OUR, OUR OUTREACH TEAMS AND, UM, KIND
YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT EASY FOR SOMEBODY WHO MOVES.
UM, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY WHO'S OUT IN THE FIELD TO KIND OF TRUST SOMEBODY WHO'S COMING UP TO THEM, ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE WEARING LIKE A CITY LOGO SHIRT, THINGS LIKE THAT.
YOU KNOW, WANT TO, UM, EXPRESS THE INTENTION OF LIKE GETTING 'EM OUT OF THE SITUATION IF THEY'RE ALSO, WE HAVE TO KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, LIKE RESOURCES ARE NOT ALWAYS AVAILABLE.
SO, YOU KNOW, TAKING THAT TIME TO BUILD THAT, THAT TRUST FROM FORWARD IS IMPORTANT.
THERE'S LIKE, THERE'S GONNA BE A FEW SNACKS HIT ALONG THE ROAD OF HOUSING.
IT'S, IT'S NOT LIKE A, LIKE AN A TO B JOURNEY.
SOMETIMES IT'S LIKE A FEW DIFFERENT TURNS, YOU KNOW, TRY TO GET BACK ON TRACK AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, BUT IF YOU DON'T BUILD THAT RAPPORT
UM, SO THESE ARE SOME OF OUR, UH, THINGS ARE VALUES, UM, THAT ARE CORE TO, YOU KNOW, OUTREACH AS WELL AS THE HSB IS, UM, HOW FIRST WE GO.
UM, WE HAVE A TRAUMA, TRAUMA INFORMED APPROACH.
UM, WE, THESE ARE THE CORE VALUES TO OUR, TO OUR BUREAU, AND THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE, UM, YOU KNOW, TALK TO OUR STAFF ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW WE ENGAGE WITH FOLKS, HOW
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT, UM, OUTREACH AND FOR SOME OF OUR SERVICES IS THAT
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WE HAVE TO BE CONSISTENT.IF ONE OF OUR OUTREACH WORKERS IS, UM, IS OUT THERE AND THEY'RE SPEAKING TO SOMEBODY FOR THE FIRST TIME AND SAY, OKAY, YOU KNOW, I'LL BE BACK TOMORROW WITH A DM E DOCTOR OR WITH, UH, SOME WATER, SOME TOILET OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, AND THEY DON'T SHOW UP, THAT'S BREAKING THE TRUST LIKE RIGHT OFF THE BACK, RIGHT? SO CONSISTENCY IS IMPORTANT.
UM, BEING ABLE TO, UM, YOU KNOW, BE HAVING OUR, OUR STAFF AND OUR, OUR, OUR FACULTY FOR TEAM, OUR FIELD-BASED TEAMS SAY SOMETHING TO SOMEBODY THAT THEY'RE GONNA HELP 'EM OUT AND THEN THEY ACTUALLY DO IT.
THAT'S, THAT'S BUILDING TRUST.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S OUR EXPECTATION FOR OUR, OUR TEAM.
WE'RE NOT JUST THROWING PROMISES OR SAYING THAT WE'RE GONNA DO THINGS AND NOT FOLLOW THROUGH.
THAT'S GONNA DO, THAT'S GONNA BREAK TRUST, RIGHT? RATHER THAT'S, UM, UM, LEMME SEE.
UM, SO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO, UM, OUR OUTREACH TEAMS ARE CASE MANAGERS WHO ARE OUT YOU.
SO THEY CAN DO MOST OF THE THINGS THAT OUR CASE MANAGERS AT THE MSC DO, BUT THEY'RE OUT IN THE FIELD.
UM, A LOT OF THE TIMES, AND I STARTED WITH RAPPORT BUILDING 'CAUSE FOR THE FOLKS WHO ARE ABLE TO GET TO THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER AND, UM, AND YOU KNOW, ARE MAKE IT THERE, THEY'RE ALREADY MORE THAN LIKELY ENGAGE SERVICES OR THEY'RE LOOKING FOR SERVICES OR LIKE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE CHECKING THE RESOURCES.
MANY OF THE FOLKS WHO ARE OUT IN THE FIELD, UM, YOU KNOW, WHO ARE ENGAGING WITH OUR OUTREACH TEAMS OR FIELD-BASED TEAMS, UM, THEY MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE IT TO THE, THEY MIGHT NOT, UH, THEY MIGHT NOT WANNA GO TO THE MSC, IT'S, THEY, YOU KNOW, IT IT MIGHT BE, YOU KNOW, FACT THE TRUMP INFORMED IT MIGHT BE TRIGGERING FOR THEM.
UM, SO WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THAT AND THAT'S HOW WE APPROACH IT.
UM, WE TRY TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE FOR OUR, OUR STAFF TO HAVE, UM, WHAT THEY NEED WHEN THEY GO OUT TO AN ENGAGEMENT, UM, WHEN THEY GO OUT TO DO OUTREACH OR WHEN THEY'RE AT THE MAC AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO, UM, THEY DO EVERYTHING FROM ASSESSMENTS, REFERRALS, UM, YOU KNOW, TRANSPORTATION.
WE WILL TAKE 'EM TO, UH, D MG TO GET THEIR IDS, GET ANY OF THE BIO DOCS THEY COULD DONE, MAKE APPOINTMENTS FOR OUT IN THE FIELD.
ALL OF OUR, UM, OUR FIELD BASED TEAMS ARE SUPPLIED WITH A CITY CELL PHONE.
SO THEY EACH HAVE A NUMBER THAT THEY CAN REACH OUT TO.
UH, IF FOLKS DON'T HAVE A CELL PHONE OR A PHONE, WE KNOW LIKE CERTAIN AREAS OF THE CITY WHERE WE CAN BREAK THEM AND THEY CAN PICK UP A PHONE.
LIKE, SO WE'RE, LET'S PHONE OUR APPROACH AND NEXT WE HAVE TO BE, UM, UH, UH, SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX AND I FEEL LIKE A LOT OF THE TIME OUR STAFF ARE THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX.
I MEAN, WE, WE, WE ENCOURAGE THEM.
UM, SO AS YOU'RE CAN SEE, WE DO HAVE LIKE DIFFERENT, UM, DIFFERENT AVENUES FOR, OR NOTS, BUT DIFFERENT SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE TO OUR, UM, PEOPLE EXPERIENCING OUTSIDE HOMELESSNESS.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE AN
UM, WE'RE ABLE TO DO REFERRALS, WE'RE ABLE TO TAKE PEOPLE TO THE D OR UM, BRING 'EM TO THE MSC IF THEY WANT SHOWER AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO WE, WE HAVE A LOT OF FLEXIBILITY OUT THERE.
BUT AS, AS I SAID, AND YOU'RE GONNA SEE IN A, IN A SECOND WHEN I START TALKING ABOUT THE OTHER FIELD BASED PROGRAMS, IS THAT IT'S NOT ONLY A, AN ENGAGEMENT TO, UH, IT'S NOT A ONE SIZE FITS ALL APPROACH TO, TO, UH, ENGAGING WITH FOLKS.
WE ALSO HAVE ONE OF OUR CLINICIANS HERE FOR BREACH TEAM CARLA, WHO'S, UM, OUT THERE AND SHE BRINGS A DIFFERENT DYNAMIC TO OUR TEAM.
UM, YOU KNOW, FOLKS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN LIKE THERAPY AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
MAYBE THEY'RE NOT INTERESTED IN, UH, IN HOUSING AT THE MOMENT, BUT THEY DO WANNA TALK TO THE THERAPIST, SOMEBODY WHO'S LIKE GOING LISTEN, GETTING CONNECT TO OTHER SERVICES.
SHE'S, SHE'S GOT A, A CASELOAD OF PEOPLE THAT SHE'S ACTUALLY WORKING WITH AND SHE'LL SEE 'EM OUT IN THE FIELD AND PROVIDE THAT, THAT KIND OF LIKE THERAPY AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
THERE'S ALSO A, A PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES ON THAT TEAM, JUST KIND OF LIKE, IF I COULD DESCRIBE HER ROLE, SHE'S KIND OF LIKE A, A, A MEDICAL HEALTH CASE MANAGER, CONNECTING FOLKS TO PCP, UH, TO A PRIMARY CARE PROVIDER AS WELL AS LIKE ANY KIND OF, UM, LIKE NEEDS INSURANCE, QUESTIONS ABOUT MEDICATION, THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO IT IS, YOU KNOW, THE BEST WAY I CAN DESCRIBE IT IS LIKE A, A MEDICAL CASE PLAN.
UM, WHAT ELSE WE GOT? UM, WE DO HAVE CONNECTIONS TO LIKE MOVING SUPPORT AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS? I DON'T WANNA JUST LIKE KEEP TALKING IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE, FROM THE COMMITTEE.
IS THERE A GENERAL QUESTION, BUT ONE I HAVEN'T ASKED BEFORE.
I, YOU CONSIDERED YOUR LOCATION WHERE THE YOU'RE, UH, WORKING OUT OF THE CENTER.
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A DISADVANTAGE OF HAVING IT WHERE IT IS? I, UM, THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER SERVICE CENTER, UM, I MEAN, I MEAN THAT'S FINE.IT'S NOT YOUR OVER, NOT YOUR, YOUR PROGRAM, BUT I MEAN, IT'S NOT AN NIKE LOCATION.
I MEAN, IT'S BEEN THERE 25 YEARS.
IT IS PRETTY WELL ESTABLISHED.
LIKE, WELL, YOU'RE LIKE, A LOT OF PEOPLE GET THERE AND HOW UP NOBODY'S GONNA GO.
AND I'M LIKE, I WOULD THINK THAT TOO IF I DIDN'T KNOW, AND IT WASN'T THERE ON A REGULAR BASIS, BUT PEOPLE MAKE IT THERE IF IT'S PRETTY WELL KNOWN AND LIKE PEOPLE FIND A WAY.
SO AS MUCH AS IT MAY NOT BE THE IDEAL, AND AS JOEL'S GONNA SPEAK TO HOW WE'RE TRYING TO FIND OTHER LOCATIONS AND LIKE WAYS THAT PEOPLE CAN APPROACH IF THE MSC IS TOO HARD TO GET TO, LIKE, HE'LL TOUCH ON THAT IN A MINUTE, BUT IT'S NOT AN IDEAL LOCATION.
BUT I'M ALWAYS SHOCKED AT LIKE HOW MANY PEOPLE MAKE IT THERE ON A DAILY BASIS.
WOULD IT, IS, WOULD IT HELP TO, AND I KNOW THIS IS THINKING WAY OUT, IT HELPS TO HAVE OTHER SORT OF SUB LOCATIONS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE CITY.
AND I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE BEEN WORKING FOR THEN JOEL KIND PRESENTATION
UM, SO THESE ARE, UM, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT OUR FIELD TEAMS
THAT'S BECAUSE EV NO DATA IS THE SAME.
UM, THEY WOULD BE ENGAGING, YOU KNOW, ON THE RIVER BED ONE DAY ENGAGING ON THE BEACH NEXT OR, YOU KNOW, TAKING SOMETHING TO
UM, BUT DAY SHE, BUT, YOU KNOW, I'M TRYING TO, UM, TALK ABOUT OUR APPROACH.
SO THERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS, UM, WE, AS I SAID EARLIER, LIKE OUR, OUR MAIN GOAL IS PERMANENT HOUSE.
UM, OUR, OUR STAFF, OUR SUPPORT OR LIKE A SUPPORT SYSTEM WITHIN THAT HOUSING JOURNEY.
UM, WE CAN MAKE SUGGESTIONS FOR, WE DO NOT TAKE LEAD IN THEIR HOUSING, BUT, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NOT TO LIKE TALK ABOUT BECAUSE IF, UM, WE HAVE TO ENSURE THAT, UM, THAT THE PARTICIPANT OR THE PERSON THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH IS THE PERSON THAT SETTING THE GOALS AND ASK THEM FOR THE, FOR OUR STAFF TO LIKE JUST BE THE SUPPORT IN THAT.
AND I, I, I FEEL LIKE OUR, OUR TEAM DO THAT VERY WELL.
UM, SO, UM, TALK ABOUT OUR INTERDEPARTMENTAL APPROACH.
OUR FIELD BASED TEAMS, UM, INTERACT WITH A LOT OF DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THE CITY.
SO THAT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, POLICE DEPARTMENT, PUBLIC WORKS, FIRE DEPARTMENT, UM, MANY DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS COULD ALL HAVE, UM, KIND OF LIKE A A A STAKE IN, YOU KNOW, AND EXPERTISE IN SOME OF THE INDIVIDUALS WHO WE, UM, WHO WE WORK WITH THOSE PARTICIPANTS, LET'S SAY FOR EXAMPLE, UM, SOME OF OUR, UH, PARKS AND REC STAFF OR PUBLIC WORKS STAFF HAVE A BETTER, HAVE A GOOD UNDERSTANDING WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE OUT THERE BECAUSE THEY SEE 'EM EVERY SINGLE DAY.
SO THEY COULD BE THAT BRIDGE THAT, THAT TO, TO LIKE THAT WARM HANDOFFS, LIKE, HEY, THIS IS SO AND SO.
I'VE KNOWN HIM, BEEN HERE FOR A WHILE.
LIKE HE, HE FEEL GOOD FOR SERVICES NOW.
LIKE, AND WE, WE SPEAK AT LEAST WEEKLY.
WE DO HAVE A STANDING MEETING WHEN WE SPEAK WEEKLY.
AND ALSO LIKE OUR TEAMS ARE ENGAGING WITH EACH OTHER LIKE INTERDEPARTMENTALLY ALMOST ON A DAILY BASIS.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S A WAY THAT WE CAN EXPAND OUR NETWORK.
WE UNDERSTAND THERE'S A LOT OF, EACH IS A HUGE CITY.
WE DO HAVE, UM, GOOD STAFF THAT ARE KNOWLEDGEABLE OF THE CITY, BUT I, WE CAN, YOU KNOW, IMPLEMENT DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS WHO ARE REGULARLY ENGAGING WITH THESE FOLKS.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT, IT, IT MAKES WORK EASIER ON OUR OUTREACH TEAM AS WELL AS LIKE OUR OTHER FIELD-BASED TEAMS. UM, OKAY.
I TALKED ABOUT OUR WEEKLY MEETINGS.
UM, YEAH, SO CROSS COLLABORATION INFORMATION SHARED BETWEEN OUR DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS IS, UH, IS VITAL.
UM, IF WE KNOW THAT, AND THIS IS WHERE THE TRAUMA INFORMED COMES IN AS WELL, IF WE KNOW THAT LIKE ONE OF THE INDIVIDUALS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO WORK WITH DOESN'T LIKE, UM, LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, WATER OR A CERTAIN KIND OF FOOD OR THINGS LIKE THAT.
LIKE THEY WILL INFORM US AND, YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S JUST LIKE A KIND OF LIKE BROAD STROKE EXAMPLE.
UM, BUT IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE KNOW ABOUT BECAUSE SOMEBODY ALREADY HAS RAPPORT, LIKE, YOU KNOW, THAT HELPS US ENGAGE, THAT HELPS US BUILD A RAPPORT AND HELPS US BUILD THE TRUST LIKE RIGHT
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OFF THE BAT.UM, FOUR BUMPING YOU ON OUR INNER APPROACH.
UM, SO SPEAKING OF LIKE WHAT STRATEGIES OR WITHIN OUR FIELD-BASED TEAMS, AS I SAID, OUTREACH IS USUALLY THE STARTING POINT, BUT IT'S GROWN SO MUCH FROM THERE.
UM, IT'S NOT ONLY, IT'S NOT ONLY JUST GOING OUT
WE HAVE, AS JIM MENTIONED, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR MAIN ACCESS POINT IS THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER.
WE GET AROUND 200, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE AVERAGE IS NOW, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF FOLKS THAT GO INTO THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER.
SO WE WANNA BE SURE THAT EVERYBODY WHO'S EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS HAS ACCESS TO RT AS WELL AS SERVICES AND RESOURCES.
SO WE KIND OF, WE COME AT THIS BEING IN DELAWARE CITY, HAVING A LOT OF, UM, LOCATIONS THAT ARE NOT EASILY ACCESSIBLE BY, UM, OUR PUBLIC.
UM, WE'VE HAD IT COME WITH A, YOU KNOW, KIND OF AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH, WHICH THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT GONNA BE STREET OUTREACH.
STREET OUTREACH IS, YOU KNOW, BEING ON THE FIELD, ALL 52, THE
UM, THEY TRY TO BRAG ABOUT OUTREACH, BUT WE'RE ALSO RECEIVING AROUND, I WANNA SAY 400 AND LIKE 30, UH, REQUESTS THROUGH EMAIL, PHONE CALLS, THINGS LIKE THAT FOR DISPATCH.
UM, WE DO KEEP ALL THAT INFORMATION.
UM, UM, AND WE, YOU KNOW, I THINK THREE FOCUS MORE ON DIFFERENT DATA GA SO I'M SORRY, COULD YOU REPEAT HOW MANY DIVISIONS? FOUR DIVISIONS.
SO, UH, NORTHEAST WEST SIDE, WE BREAK IT UP THE SAME AS THE POLICE DIVISION.
IT JUST MAKES SENSE BECAUSE EACH POLICE DIVISION HAS THEIR OFFICERS, UM, AND WE WORK WITH THEM PRETTY UP.
UM, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE AS MUCH STAFF? WE DON'T HAVE AS MUCH STAFF
SO WE'RE ABLE TO GET OUT MOST CALLS EVEN BEFORE THE, BEFORE GET OUT THE WINDOW.
SO LIKE WE, OUR TEAM'S PRETTY MUCH UP OF IS, UM, RESTORATIVE ENGAGEMENTS WITH STUDENT COLLECTIVE HEALTH.
UM, OUR REACH TEAM THAT'S, YOU KNOW, CARLA, THAT IS OUR, UM, OUR MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM.
UM,
UM, WE DO HAVE A NURSE ON THAT TEAM.
WE ALSO HAVE LIKE IF SOMEBODY
UM, THAT TEAM IS GOING THROUGH A BIT OF A, AN ANOTHER EVOLUTION THAT WE'RE, WE'RE ALL GROWING.
AND, UM, SO IT'S GONNA LOOK A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT IN THE, IN THE, YOU KNOW, UPCOMING FEATURES.
THAT'S OUR MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM.
THAT TEAM CONSISTS OF, UH, ONE CLINICIAN, PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE, UM, AND TWO OUTREACH WORKERS.
ONE OF THE OUTREACH WORKERS IS GONNA START WITH US ON MONDAY.
AND THEN THE COORDINATOR FOR THAT, UH, FOR THAT PROGRAM IS GONNA START WITH US ON MONDAY AS WELL.
OUR, WHAT ELSE DO WE HAVE? MOBILE ACCESS CENTER, BUT THAT, SO THIS IS GOING TO JIM'S QUESTION ABOUT, UM, ACCESS TO OUR TEAM.
UM, WE KNOW THAT LONG BEACH IS A HUGE CITY AND MULTI SERVICE CENTER IS NOT IN THE MOST ACCESSIBLE PART OF THE CITY.
UM, SO WE DO HAVE THE MOBILE ACCESS CENTER, WHICH IS STATIONED THROUGHOUT THE WEEK IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE CITY.
THE MOBILE ACCESS CENTER IS, CAN DO MOST OF THE SERVICES THAT WE CAN COM ACCOMPLISH AT THE MSC EXCEPT FOR SHOWERS.
BUT WE DO HAVE A SHOWER, UM, SERVICE THAT DOES, YOU KNOW, MEET UP, UM, THE, THE MAT.
UM, IT IS OUR ANSWER TO LIKE LOBBY BEING A BIG CITY, THE MSC NOT BEING AS ACCESSIBLE, YOU KNOW, TO WHERE PEOPLE, IF ALSO IF PEOPLE DON'T WANNA GO TO THE MSC, WE HAVE THE, THE MAP.
UM, AND IT'S BACK TO THAT LIKE ASSISTANT OUTREACH OR CAN SEE THE SAME OUTREACH WORKERS SAME DAY, WE ALL THAT STUFF.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S UM, KIND OF LIKE OUR APPROACH TO, UH, YOU KNOW, IT IF PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO GO TO THE MSC OR KIDS.
UH, WE HAVE, UH, THREE, WELL, FROM THE TIME WE HAVE FIVE, UM, HEALTH EDUCATORS OR, UH, OUTREACH WORKERS STATIONED AT, UH, VILLAGE KING LIBRARY, UM, TUESDAYS OF FRIDAY,
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AND THEN WE HAVE, UH, MICHELLE OBAMA LIBRARY, UH, SAME HOURS IN MARCH 20.SO WHAT THEY'RE DOING THERE IS IF PEOPLE COME IN OR EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS THAT, THAT ANOTHER LOCATION THAT'S, UH, THAT'S OUTSIDE OF THE MSC OUTSIDE OF ISLAND, BUT IT'S, IT, IT'S LOCATED IN A PLACE THAT'S CONSISTENT AND PEOPLE CAN GO GET THEIR CASE MANAGE SERVICES OR THEY DON'T HAVE TO GO ALL THE WAY TO THEIR
SO WE HAVE ONE LOCATION OR UM, ONE LOCATION CENTRAL AND THEN ONE LOCATION SOUTH OF, AND THERE IS A MENTAL HEALTH, FINANCIAL MENTAL, OH, THAT'S IMPORTANT.
THERE'S A MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN ACTUALLY OVERSEE THE PROGRAM AND, AND THEY TAKE ON, UH, CLIENTS AS WELL OR FOR THERAPY AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, WE DO HAVE A MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN HARM REDUCTION, UH, STAFF THROUGH THE HILTON, UM, FOUNDATION.
UM, THIS, UH, MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN LICENSED, UH, THEY'LL SEE, UH, FOLKS, THEY CAN SEE FOLKS IN THE FIELD, THEY CAN SEE FOLKS AT THAT MULTI-SERVICE CENTER.
UM, UM, UH, A LOT OF THIS PROGRAM WAS, UH, IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR, UH, THE CAMP RESOLUTION MONTH TO BE LOOKING AT KIND OF LIKE THE NEXUS BETWEEN LIKE, LIKE UH, FOLKS WHO ARE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS BUT ALSO HAVE DIFFERENT, UM, DISABILITIES, WHETHER BE MENTAL HEALTH OR, UM, OR, YOU KNOW, UH, SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER.
SO THAT'S LOOKING AT THAT KIND STUFF.
SO WE DO HARM REDUCTION SPECIALISTS WHO, YOU KNOW, GET SUPPLIES, UH, HARM REDUCTION SUPPLIES AS WELL AS, UH, TRY TO GET PEOPLE TREATMENT, THINGS LIKE THAT.
I LIKE THINK THAT YOU HAVE THERE, YOU PRESCRIBING THE MEDICATION THAT'S
SO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE, UM, JUST WALKING AROUND KIND LIKE YEAH, OUT OF IT.
HOW ARE WE GETTING ANY
I MEAN THAT'S ONE OF THE WAYS, BUT FOR OUR STAFF, SPECIFICALLY FOR, UH, THE FOLKS WHO ARE NOT ENGAGING AND THEY PERHAPS THEY DO HAVE SOME SORT OF MENTAL HELP GOING ON AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, OUR, OUR STAFF DO HAVE A GOOD, UH, GOOD, UH, PARTNERSHIP WITH UH, DMH, THEIR HOME TEAM.
THEY'LL, THEY'LL MAKE, UH, REFERRALS THERE.
UM, THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT OUR STAFF'S WORK DONE.
UM, WE STILL HAVE TO LIKE TRY TO ENGAGE, KEEP, UM, YOU KNOW, RECORDS AND LIKE, OKAY, THIS IS HOW MANY TIMES WE GAVE, THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE'RE SEEING, ALL THAT STUFF.
SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN, YOU KNOW, HSB OR THE HOME SERVICES BUREAU AND UH,
IT CAN TAKE A MINUTE, BUT PEOPLE CAN BE PRESCRIBED ME TO DEATH.
UH, WE ALSO DO PARTNER WITH SEVERAL STREET MEDICINE TEAMS. THEIR PRIMARY FOCUS IS PHYSICAL HEALTH CARE, BUT THEY WILL ALSO PRESCRIBE SITE VENT AS WELL THROUGH, UH, A COUPLE OF THOSE PROGRAMS AS WELL AS THERE'S AN URGENT CARE CLINIC, BUT THAT IS OPENED AT THE OLD COMMUNITY HOSPITAL.
UH, THE PROVIDER ON ONLINE WHOLE PERSON CARE.
UH, SO THAT URGENT CARE DOES SEE A WIDE RANGE OF SUPPORTS AND THEY'RE ALSO ABLE TO PRESCRIBE TYPE MEDICATIONS AS WELL.
SO IF SOMEBODY IS INTERESTED AND WANTS TO PERCEIVE THAT THERE ARE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT WAYS OF, WE CAN GET PEOPLE LINK FOR MEDICATIONS, BUT WE DO SOMETIMES HAVE PEOPLE SAY, HEY, I'M NOT DOING SO WELL AND I NEED, I NEED SOME SUPPORT WITH THAT.
OTHER PEOPLE, THE ROUTE MIGHT BE WHAT YOU SAID, WHICH IS A HOLD AND SWITCH ON.
I'VE NEVER SEEN ANY TREATMENTS.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY LIKE WHAT KIND OF
I THINK WE HAVE ABOUT FIVE MINUTES AND I WANNA MAKE SURE YOU GET THROUGH YOUR WELL FOR THIS AGENDA ITEM, AND I WANNA MAKE SURE WE GET THROUGH YOUR WHOLE PARENT.
I HAD A QUESTION, WHICH I MEAN OPERATED
WHAT ABOUT YOUR STAFF? YOU HAVE A PROGRAM FOR STAFF SUPPORT.
'CAUSE THIS IS SOME OF THE TOUGHEST WORK TO DO AND SOME SOMETIMES YOU DON'T GET MUCH GRATITUDE.
HOW DO YOU, WHAT DO YOU HAVE GOING ON TO YOUR STAFF TO KEEP THEM MOTIVATED? I MEAN, I THINK AT THE MOMENT WE'RE GOING THROUGH LIKE HAVING A TOUGH TIME.
I THINK OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM DOES WELL WITH CHECKING IN WITH STAFF AND JUST ATTORNEY.
UM, THE CITY DOES PROVIDE LIKE A WHY AM I CREATING, I KNOW THAT EAP, UM, IT'S KIND OF LIKE A EMPLOYEES EMPLOYEES PROGRAM THAT'S THROUGH THE CITY, BUT A LOT OF THE TIMES I CHECK JUST ENSURING THAT PEOPLE ARE OKAY, PEOPLE NEED TIME OFF.
LIKE I, I DON'T THINK ANY OF OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM IS LIKE,
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SORRY, WE CAN'T HAVE A DEAL.YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE WE, WE ARE, WE ARE PRETTY, UH, WE'RE FLEXIBLE.
AND WE'RE ALSO LIKE, WE ALSO KNOW THAT IT'S SELF WORK.
I THINK A LOT OF US HAVE COME FROM, UM, LIKE, YOU KNOW, WORKING FRONTLINE.
AND WE THINK WE UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT EASY OUT THERE.
SO, AND DO HAVE A LOT OF STAFF WITH FINANCIAL LIFE EXPERIENCE.
UM, AND AGAIN, OUR MENT HEALTH CLINICIANS THAT ARE FOCUSED ON LIKE PARTICIPANT SUPPORT AND CARE, BUT THEY WILL STEP INTO SUPPORT WITH LIKE INCIDENTS AS THAT COME UP WHERE A STAFF MIGHT NEED TO DO AN INITIAL LIKE, DEBRIEF AND LIKE DECOMPRESS FROM THAT SITUATION.
UM, WE TRY TO PROVIDE FLEXIBILITY.
MOST OF OUR STAFF DO THEIR, UH, CHARTING AND NOTES FROM HOME.
UM, SO WE LET PEOPLE DO THEIR ADMINISTRATIVE WORK AT HOME REMOTELY.
UM, MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE JUST GETTING IT IN.
UH, BUT WE WERE FLEXIBLE WITHIN THAT.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, MENTIONED IT EARLIER, UH, LIKE LAST COUPLE SUMMERS WE HAVE LIKE A SUMMER BREAK PROGRAM.
WE'RE TRYING TO DO SOME ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SUPPORT.
WE TRY TO BLEND THAT IN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AS WELL.
SO, YOU KNOW, MOST OF THE TIMES I'VE BEEN DOING LIKE ONCE A MONTH ON THURSDAY AFTERNOONS WE'LL GO DO LIKE A TEAM MEETING IN THE COMMUNITY WHERE PEOPLE CAN KIND OF GET KEY UPDATES BUT THEN TAKE SOME A DEEP BREATH, SHARE FOOD, ENJOY EACH OTHER'S COMPANY AND JUST KIND OF HAVE THAT MOMENT TO BREATHE WITH THE WORK WITH PEOPLE THAT ARE ALSO GOING THROUGH IT.
SO, I MEAN, NOT ENOUGH AND THAT'S, THAT'S REALITY.
IT'S LIKE, AND THERE WILL SOUND GOOD, BUT STILL YEAH, ON THE DAY-TO-DAY JOB AND WHAT WE, WE HAPPEN AND HEARING FROM OUR STAFF THAT STILL NOT, WE DO UNDERSTAND THAT LIKE FOLKS WHO WORK IN HOMELESS SERVICES HAVE SORT OF LIKE A CALLING TO THIS WORK.
YOU KNOW, THIS ISN'T SOMEWHERE WHERE YOU'RE UM, JUST END UP IN A SHOT.
AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT FROM OUR
THEY'RE OUT THERE, THEY'RE SEEING IT EVERY SINGLE DAY AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ARE ACTUALLY DOING THE WORK TO GET PEOPLE OUT.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE TRY TO BE AS FLEXIBLE AND AS UNDERSTANDING AND, YOU KNOW, GETS AS GRACIOUS AS WE CAN BE OTHER, THE OTHER THING, AND IT'S NOT SO MUCH A WELLNESS THING NECESSARILY, BUT I WOULD MENTION IT BECAUSE I THINK IT'S A MAJOR ISSUE WITHIN HOMELESS SERVICES ACROSS THE BOARD IS, AND YOU KNOW, I WOULD LOVE US TO SEE A WAY OF GETTING THERE WITH SUBCONTRACTORS AND I WOULD, IT DOES HAVE A VEGETARIAN IMPACT THAT A REALITY.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BROUGHT UP AND HAD LOWER CLASSIFICATIONS FOUR OR FIVE YEARS AGO FOR OUTREACH WORKERS FOR OUR STAFF OVER AT THE MSC AND WE SAID WE CAN'T BE BRINGING PEOPLE IN MAKING 17 OR DOLLARS AN HOUR.
UM, SO LIKE WE'VE ATE OVER TIME HAVE RECLASSIFIED AND WE USE CLASSIFICATIONS THAT ARE ALL STARTING ABOUT $25, BUT THAT WAY'S NOBODY'S AT RISK OF BECOMING HOMELESS THEMSELVES AS THEY'RE DOING THE WORK.
UH, NOT THAT LIKE $25 WILL LOOK STRAIGHT, BUT WITH THE CITY STEP SYSTEM THOUGH, AN OUTREACH WORKER CAN MAKE, YOU KNOW, ONCE YOU'VE BEEN IN HERE FOR A LITTLE BIT AND YOU'VE MOVED UP OR YOU CAME IN WITH EXPERIENCE, YOU CAN MAKE A DECENT ONE OF BEING MAKING 70, $75,000 A YEAR AS AN OUTREACH WORKER ONCE WE GET HERE FOR A BIT.
SO I MEAN, TO ME IT IS VITALLY IMPORTANT THAT THE STAFF THAT ARE DOING THE WORK AREN'T AT RISK OF BECOMING ALL THIS THEMSELVES.
ALRIGHT, WELL WE HAVE 25 MINUTES LEFT IN OUR MEETING AND I WANNA MAKE SURE WE HEAR FROM JOEL AND YOU HEAR OUR DATA PRESENTATION.
OH, UM, JUST WITH, UM, JUST TIME PROGRAM.
THERE'S SOME PROGRAMS, UH,
BUT YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, THE FREEWAY OFFICE THAT'S NOT OUTSIDE CALIFORNIA.
UM, THE RIVERBEDS IS LA DEPARTMENT CLUB OF FOREST.
THAT'S WHY THE NEXT THREE ARE ALL LIAISONS,
UM, IT IS KIND OF LIKE CONNECTED BETWEEN A LOT OF THESE ENTITIES THAT AREN'T PART OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH WITH THE CITY OF LONG.
SO THIS PERSON'S THE ONE THAT KIND OF CONNECTS THEM.
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OUR HOME SERVICES OUT, WHICH THEY ONUM, HE'S VERY GOOD AT, UH, YOU KNOW, ENSURING THAT THOSE COMMUNICATIONS GETTING OUT TO THE TEAM QUICKLY.
OUR TEAMS DO GET OUT THERE QUICKLY.
UM, A A LOT OF OUR COMMUNICATIONS WILL, YOU KNOW, COME BACK TO THEM.
HE WILL RESPOND TO A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, REQUESTS AND DON'T SPEAK TO PEOPLE, LET 'EM KNOW OUR PROCESS AND ALL THAT.
UH, AND THEN WE HAVE A IMMEDIATE LIAISON, KIND OF A NEWER ROLE, BUT THIS ROLE IS MEANT TO BE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, UM, BRINGING IN MORE, UH, PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN OUR NON-PROFITS, UM, AND ENSURING THAT LIKE THE CITY IS A PARTNER AND NOT JUST LIKE TAKING ON THE ROLE OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS THE ONLY ONES WHO HELP.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A PLACE THAT THIS IS LIKE OUR COMMUNITY AND WE WANT TO DO THAT WAY.
SO THAT'S KIND OF LIKE THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY LIAISON.
UM, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE.
I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS.
UM, YOU DID MENTION, UM, THERE IS A ONCE A WEEK CHART THAT'S CANCELED THAT WAS AT
UM, YEAH, THAT'S ANYMORE, UM, I HOPE WE CUT BACK.
THERE WILL BE IN OUR CITY, THE NON-PROFIT WILL
UH, I THINK THAT'S WORKING OUT.
UM, I DID NOTICE THE
NOT EVERYBODY HAS A GOOD LIKE VERY MUCH TAKING LIKE, OKAY.
I MEAN ONE OF, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE SHY ON TIME, FIGURE OUT IF WE'RE CALLING HOW TO LET
UM, MY OTHER PART, MY OTHER QUESTION ARE YEAH, QUESTION.
UM, NOW WE ALL KNOW LIKE IT'S LIKE THAT THAT HOUSING THING AND I KNOW YOU'VE ONLY LIKE SUB PEOPLE TO LIKE FIND A JOURNEY AND NAVIGATE THEM ON THE WAY.
UM, MY EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH HOMELESSNESS, UM, AND PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS, IT'S ALWAYS HOUSING.
EVEN IF THEY HAVE A CAPACITY, THEY HAVE A JOB, ALL THAT THEY CANNOT FIND A HOUSE.
AND UM, I'VE BEEN ADVOCATING FOR LIKE FIVE, SIX YEARS NOW ABOUT MORE COMMUNITY HOUSING, MORE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING THAT BE THOSE LIKE A LOT, UM, BECAUSE OF THE CRISIS OF HOUSING.
SO WHEN PEOPLE ARE OUT THERE, I THINK YOU GUYS WERE GIVING THEM LIKE COMPANIONSHIP TOO, MY HOPE.
SO I KNOW LIKE WE'RE OUTTA FIVE PEOPLE, YOU PROBABLY UP TO ONE SHELTERING THAT NIGHT THAT YOU TALKED TO THEM.
WE CAN'T, YOU CAN'T GIVE THEM LIKE, YOU CAN'T EVEN THE NEXT DAY IT'S GONNA BE LIKE 20, 30 DAYS BEFORE THEY FIND SOMETHING.
SO JUST WANTED TO, SORRY THAT YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH THAT.
THANK YOU FOR BEING OUT THERE.
I DO APPRECIATE YOU, YOU KNOW, BRINGING IT UP BECAUSE IT'S AN UNFORTUNATE REALITY BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT MORE
THAT'S WHY IT'S SO ESSENTIAL TOO, HOW TO DROP AROUND SURFACE SERVICES AND SUPPORTING IN OTHER WAYS WHILE THEY'RE WAITING FOR THEIR HOUSING OR WAITING FOR THAT SHELTER TO HAVE HAPPEN BECAUSE THERE ARE RESOURCES IN OTHER AVENUES.
IT'S JUST TRYING TO GET THAT REFERRAL BASE TOO.
BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE ARE WORKING WITH OUR COUNTY, UH, PARTNERS.
UM, THEY ARE THE NEW DEVELOP THING CALLED ECRC AND THEY'RE KIND OF GONNA WORK WITH US IN TERMS OF LIKE, IF THERE IS LIKE A HIGHLIGHTED ENCAMPMENT THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, MAYBE OVERLIES OUR DISTRICTS, THEY'RE GONNA KIND OF SUPPORT HOSPITAL SUPPORT.
SO KIND OF WORK WITH THE COUNTY CAN OTHER THAT'S MORE LIKE, MORE LIKE REGIONAL.
UH, YOU KNOW, THE WAS KIND OF AT ABOUT 40% HOMELESS IN WHEELS AND, AND THERE'RE THEY'RE SHELTER, BUT THEY'RE SHELTERED IN VEHICLES AND, AND CAMPERS AND STUFF.
DOES THIS SERVICE, UH, TOUCH THOSE FOLKS AS WELL AS OTHERS? YEAH.
UH, WHEN YOU, WHEN I SEE, UH, YOU KNOW, A KIND OF A, A A, A VEHICLE PARKED THE SAME PLACE EVERY TIME, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY'S SLEEPING THERE AND THE OUTREACH IS TOUCHING THOSE FOLKS, LIKE TOUCHING OTHER YEAH.
ENCAMPMENTS AND THIS AND THAT SORT OF THING.
WE, WHEN YOU RECEIVE A LOT OF, UH, REQUEST FOR OUR, OUR LEADS AND, UM, AND VEHICLES, YOU KNOW, TENS THINGS LIKE THAT, OUR, OUR STAFF WILL ENGAGE WITH, WITH, UM, ANYBODY WHO'S EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.
SO IF WE GET THE REQUEST, WE'RE GONNA DO LOT.
BUT, UM, THE RVS CAN BE SOMEWHAT OF A CHALLENGE SOMETIMES JUST BECAUSE MANY TIMES IF THE RV IS FUNCTIONAL, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY FOR AN
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ACTUAL RV PARKING SPACE, BUT THEY HAVE MONEY TO MAINTAIN IT.THEY FEEL LIKE THAT'S THEIR HOME.
AND YOU KNOW, WHERE WE SAY OTHERWISE AS A CITY, IF WE TAKE SOMEBODY'S RV AWAY WHERE THEY GO, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE, WELL IT IS A PUBLIC STREET, RIGHT? SO THAT'S, THAT'S SEED, THAT'S THE BALANCING ACT.
YOU KNOW, LIKE THAT'S THE BALANCE WE HAVE TO DO FOR US.
WE'RE ALL ABOUT LIKE ENGAGING RESOURCES, TRYING TO GET PEOPLE HOUSED.
YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S, IF SOMEBODY HAS LIKE A, LIKE A ROOF OVER THEIR HEAD, WHICH IS AN RV, HOW ARE WE GONNA CONVINCE THEM TO GET OUT OF THE RV? BUT SHELTER WHERE THERE'S, YEAH, IT'S A LITTLE BIT D SO THAT'S, THAT'S OUR KIND RV SUCCESS RATE IS PRETTY LOW.
ONE OTHER QUESTION I HAVE IS MAYBE RELATED TO THIS, ARE THEY WITHIN THE CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, UM, FOR THEIR NEED, YOU KNOW, THEIR NEEDS, WHATEVER THEIR NEEDS ARE, HEALTH, MENTAL, UH, ARE THEY PRETTY WELL WITHIN THE CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DO YOU FEEL? AND I, I THINK WHAT'S, WHAT'S DIFFICULT ABOUT LIKE RVS IS THAT, UM, HEALTH NOT RIGHT? LIKE IT'S A PROCESS.
SO IF WE NEED TO GET SO HOUSING AND THEIR
SO THAT'S, THAT'S KIND OF, UH, WHERE IT, IT GETS A LITTLE BIT TRICKY WITH
YEAH, WE ENGAGE WITH THEM ALL THE TIME.
AND UM, WE TRY TO GET THEM INTO, UH, YOU KNOW, SERVICES, OFFER RESOURCES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
BUT, YOU KNOW, ALL WE CAN OFFER WE
ANY, ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC? UM, I MAY HAVE MISSED THIS IN YOUR DISCUSSION, BUT A COUPLE NIGHTS AGO I ENDED UP CALLING THE NON EMERGENCY POLICE LINE ABANDONED WHILE RIGHT DOWN THE STREET.
OBVIOUSLY HELP, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW IF HE WAS HOMELESS OR NOT.
ON THAT WONDER AFTER THEY PICKED HIM UP AND TOOK HIM OUT, I WASN'T THERE.
BUT, UM, WOULD THEY CONTACT YOU OR SHOULD I CALL THAT NUMBER AT SOMEBODY'S? SO IF IT IS AN EMERGENCY, I WOULD ALWAYS REFERENCE IT'S EMERGENCY, BUT HE WAS LIKE RIGHT THERE, AND THEN HE WALKED OFF TO AN HOUR LATER.
SO AFTER HOURS, THIS, THIS LINE IS NOT ANSWERED LIVE.
WHAT'S AFTER HOURS? SO IT'D BE, UH, FOUR O'CLOCK.
UM, BUT WE DO RECEIVE THE MESSAGES.
UM, AS SOON AS OUR DISPATCHER OR OUR
OUR TEAM ARE USUALLY OUT IN THE MIDDLE BY LIKE 7 30, 7 45.
AND, UM, DOESN'T MEAN THAT THAT PERSON MIGHT BE THERE, BUT IF YOU CALL THE NON-EMERGENCY LINE, UM, FOR A PD, YOU CAN ALSO HAVE LIKE THEM GO OUT AND JUST CHECK ON HIM.
SO THEY WOULD, IF THEY PICK THE GUY UP, WOULD THEY OFF, WOULD THEY REFER HIM TO YOU THEN? SO MORE THAN LIKE, IF THEY, IF THE CALL, IF THE CALL GOES TO THE NON-EMERGENCY DISPATCH LINE AND THEY SEE THAT THE PERSON IS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS, THAT CALL'S GONNA GO TO US.
SO NOT EMERGENCY DISPATCH WILL EVENTUALLY THAT'S COMFORTING.
THEY'LL, THEY'LL, THEY'LL LET US KNOW.
ANY OTHER PUBLIC PANEL? WELL, WE WANT TO THANK YOU AND YOUR TEAM SO MUCH FOR BEING PREPARED TO CONSENT.
IT'S VERY EASY, FORMATIVE, UM, CHAIR CARE ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTHCARE AND SUPPORT FOR STAFF AS WELL.
AND PAUL, THAT SALARIES HAVE GONE UP TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE IS FEELING REWARDED.
ALL PASS ON, PASS ON NEGATIVITY.
THANK YOU VERY AND ALL IN FAVOR OF THE RE RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE NEW SILENT PRESENTATION ON THE HOMELESS SERVICES BUREAU.
OUTREACH TEAM APPROACHES FROM THE HELPFUL YE AND YOU POST, YOU WILL SEE.
UM, SO WE DO HAVE 15 MINUTES LEFT IN THIS MEETING, SO I STICK AHEAD.
UM, SO THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS THE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FILE SERVICES BUREAU, QUARTERLY OPERATIONS, DATA REPORTS AND STAFF OPERATIONS AND UPDATES REPORT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
OH YEAH, I, ANYTHING, I'M SORRY I THAT LOUD.
I GOT REALLY MAD NERVOUS ENERGY.
UM, OKAY, SO I, PAUL JUST TOLD ME I HAVE FIVE MINUTES, SO I'M GONNA TRY TO GET THROUGH AS QUICKLY AS I CAN.
AS YOU'LL NOTICE, THERE'S A BIT OF AN UPDATE AND CHANGE TO LIKE HOW I'M VISUALLY PRESENTING THIS DUE TO LIKE SOME FEEDBACK FROM YOU ALL.
UM, SPECIFICALLY YOU ALL WANT MORE OF LIKE A TIMELINE THING HERE.
I'M GOING TO EXPLAIN SOME OF THE CONTEXT TO YOU BECAUSE SOME OF THESE LINES MIGHT LOOK A
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LITTLE WEIRD.FIRST AND FOREMOST, WHAT I'M GONNA SHOW YOU IS ENROLLMENTS BECAUSE THIS IS A DISCUSSION THAT WE TALKED ABOUT WITH THE FLOW INFLOW AND OUTFLOW OF INDIVIDUALS THAT GO INTO THE HOMELESS SERVICE SYSTEM AND OUTFLOW IT.
NOW, ALL OF THESE GRAPHS THAT I'M GONNA SHOW YOU HAVE TO, LIKE, I HAVE TO PUT CAVEATS THAT WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A, UH, AN INTEGRATION OF OUR HMIS SYSTEM INTO THE MAIN DATA SYSTEM THAT I AM USING TO PULL THIS INFORMATION.
WHAT THAT MEANS IS WE'VE TAKING OUR DATA AND WE'RE MIGRATING IT INTO, UM, THE GREATER LA COUNTY SYSTEM.
SO THAT HAPPENED, THE OFFICIAL BLACKOUT PERIOD.
SO WE STARTED OFFICIALLY JANUARY 26TH OF THIS YEAR.
YOU WILL NOTICE A, UH, ALMOST KIND OF A UBIQUITOUS DEAL IN THIS INFORMATION FEBRUARY LARGE PART BECAUSE AT THE END OF FEBRUARY, OR AT THE END OF JANUARY FROM THE BEGINNING OF FEBRUARY, THIS DATA JUST DID NOT EXIST IN THE SYSTEM.
WE ARE CURRENTLY TRYING TO MIGRATE IT OVER, BUT SINCE THEN WE HAVE REBOUNDED AND WE'VE ASKED ALL OF OUR CASE MANAGERS, ANYBODY THAT'S INPUT INFORMATION HAS ACCESS TO IT SINCE THEN.
AND SO SOME OF THESE NUMBERS WILL BEONE.
IN FACT, WE EVEN MIGHT SEE, UH, AN INCREASE HERE FROM THE DATA THAT WAS BACK DATED OR BACKLOGGED DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME AND THEN ENTERED IN MARCH.
OKAY? SO I JUST WANT EVERYONE AROUND HERE TO RECOGNIZE THAT FIRST FEW DATA POINTS HERE ARE GONNA LOOK A LITTLE WONKY.
SO FIRST AND FOREMOST, NEW ENROLLMENTS.
I'M GOING BY PROGRAM STYLE HERE.
SO, UM, WE'VE, WE KIND OF REORGANIZED, UH, LONG BEACH TERMINAL SERVICES BUREAU INTO LIKE FIELD-BASED AND SITE BASED.
AND SO THIS IS OUR, OUR, OUR MAJOR SITE BASED, WHICH IS, UH, THE MSC AND AGAIN, NEW ENROLLMENTS.
I DECIDED TO DISAGGREGATE THIS BECAUSE WE HAVE A, A PRETTY WIDE RAN OF ACCESS.
YOU'LL SEE THIS IN THE, IN THE NEXT SLIDE FLIP.
WHAT YOU'LL SEE IS, UM, KIND OF AGAIN A DIP HERE AND THEN A BIT OF A NORMALIZATION IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF ENROLLMENTS AT THE MSC.
THIS, IF YOU LOOK BACK ON, ON SOME PREVIOUS NUMBERS, THIS LOOKS RELATIVELY NORMAL.
UM, WE ARE GETTING ABOUT 500 TO 600, UM, INDIVIDUALS, NEW ENROLLMENTS AT THE SC PER MONTH.
BUT WE, YES, GO ON, BUT NO, NO, THAT'S FINE.
SO, BUT ENROLLMENT, DOES THAT INCLUDE SOMEONE WHO SHOWS UP ON TUESDAY, WANTS A SHOWER, YOU GUYS TAKE CARE OF 'EM, MAYBE ATTEMPT TO INTERACT WITH THEM, BUT THEN THEY'RE GONE? DOES THAT COUNT AS AN ENROLLMENT? THAT DOES CASES? YES.
SO I'M NOT, UM, NOT DISTINGUISHING THE EXTENT TO WHICH WE ARE ENGAGING WITH THIS INDIVIDUAL.
AND ENROLLMENT IS AN ENROLLMENT AND I CAN GET DOWN INTO A LITTLE BIT OF A, A MORE NITTY INTEGRATED HERE.
WE CAN TALK ABOUT THE SERVICES, HOW MANY SERVICES INDIVIDUALS GET.
I'VE ATTEMPTED TO SHOW THAT IN THE PAST AND I'VE, I'VE GOT MIXED REVIEWS IN TERMS OF HOW WELL WE'RE SEEN.
WE ACTUALLY LIKE TO LOOK AT SERVICES.
WE CAN DO A DIFFERENT DISAGGREGATION OF THIS IN THE FUTURE, BUT FOR NOW, THIS IS KIND OF, I I WOULD SAY THIS IS PROBABLY THE SAFEST THAT WE CAN SHOW RIGHT NOW.
AGAIN, UM, ENROLLMENTS HAVE IN MY GREATEST INTO THE NEW SYSTEM.
SO I, I REALLY COULD GIVE YOU NO GOOD PICTURE OF WHAT SERVICES LOOK LIKE RIGHT NOW.
BUT THIS IS GIVEN THE FACT THAT THAT DATA IS STILL IN OUR LEGACY SYSTEM.
SO THIS IS NEW ENROLLMENT IS HOW MANY PEOPLE, HOW MANY OF LINE ACRES MADE IT TO THE SERVICE? NOT EVEN NEW PEOPLE ARE SHOWING.
SO THIS IS, WELL I PRESSED THE SAME BUTTON TWICE THAT I, ALRIGHT, UM, THIS, I'M LOOKING FOR THE AREA.
SO THIS NUMBER HERE DOES NOT REPRESENT, WHEN JOEL WAS TALKING ABOUT EARLIER, THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE ENTERING THE FRONT DOORS, RIGHT? THAT IS A MUCH HIGHER NUMBER BECAUSE WE GET A LOT OF REPEAT CUSTOMERS.
MOBILE ACCESS SETTING, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT THE ACCESS HERE CHANGES SIGNIFICANTLY, WHICH IS WHY I JUST DECIDED, GAVE THIS INFORMATION.
I DID NOT PUT IT ON THE SAME SLIDE, UM, BECAUSE THIS WOULD JUST LOOK LIKE A STRAIGHT LINE ACROSS THE BOTTOM IF I WAS WITH THE C WHAT YOU'LL SEE, AGAIN, IS A GIFT IN FEBRUARY AND THEN KIND OF A NORMALIZATION OF OUR, THE NUMBER OF NEW ENROLLMENTS FOR THE, FOR THE MOBILE ACCESS CENTER.
AND AGAIN, WE'RE RANGING HERE AND THERE IS SEASONALITY TO THIS.
IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHERE THE MAC IS PLACED, HOW MANY INDIVIDUALS KNOW ABOUT MACKEY IN THAT AREA.
AND SO, UH, AGAIN, WE ARE TESTING OUT LIKE DIFFERENT AREAS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
AND SO WE WILL SEE, AND WE DO TAKE THIS INFORMATION AND USE IT FOR FUTURE LOCATIONS AS WELL.
AND SO, UH, THE NUMBER OF ENROLLMENTS, THE NUMBER OF SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE THROUGH THE MOBILE ACCESS CENTER IS WE, WE DO TAKE A, A HISTORY OF IT AND DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THIS WAS A GOOD LOCATION FOR US.
NEW ENROLLMENTS FOR OUTREACH, AGAIN, WE'LL SEE A LITTLE BIT OF A PEAK HERE IN APRIL.
I'M ACTUALLY ASSUMING THAT THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OF, OF SOME BACKLOG THAT, UM, OF INDIVIDUALS, UM, THAT WE'VE NOT LOGGED IN THIS TIMEFRAME HERE.
SO AGAIN, A, A GENERIC PICTURE OF INFLOW INTO OUR SYSTEM.
SO IF YOU ARE THINKING 600 FOR THE TOP LAST TIME, 150 AND THEN 300,
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WE AGGREGATE ALL OF THOSE TOGETHER.WE'RE IN THE RANGE OF ABOUT A THOUSAND HERE, UH, AS OUR TOP RANGE PER MONTH, RIGHT.
SO ABOUT A THOUSAND NEW PEOPLE ARE ENROLLING INTO THESE PROGRAMS EVERY MONTH.
UM, AND AGAIN, UH, TAKE, TAKE SOME OF THIS OR AT LEAST THE, THE FIRST FEW DATA POINTS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT.
GIVEN THAT THIS INFORMATION'S A LITTLE WONKY THANKS TO OUR, OUR MIGRATION.
UH, I'VE NOW I'VE TAKEN A BIT MORE OF AN AGGREGATE LOOK HERE.
SO THIS IS NOT JUST OUR PROGRAMS, NOT JUST THE CITY OF LONG BEACH, NOT JUST THE LONG BEACH JOURNAL SERVICES BUREAU, BUT BY PROJECT TYPE.
WHAT IS THIS LOOKING LIKE ACROSS ALL THE PROGRAMS IN LONG BEACH? ALL OF OUR SHELTERS, ALL OF OUR PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING UNITS, UH, EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM DISAGGREGATED BY WHETHER OR NOT THERE ARE A PERMANENT HOUSING PROGRAM, INTERIM HOUSING PROGRAM FOR SERVICES ONLY.
JOEL, UH, GAVE YOU, UM, SOME INTRODUCTION TO OUR SERVICES ONLY PROGRAM THAT THE OUTREACH WOULD BE INCLUDED IN THIS RED LINE HERE.
BUT WHAT YOU'LL SEE IS THIS IS THE NEW ENROLLMENTS ACROSS THE ENTIRE COC PER MONTH DISAGGREGATED THIS FLAT LINE BEING TO, TO, OKAY, SO AGAIN, INFLOW INTO THE SYSTEM AND THERE ARE IMPLICATIONS SOMEBODY COULD SHOW UP, RIGHT? UNFORTUNATELY, YES.
THE ONE, ONE ISSUE WITH, WITH DEMONSTRATING IT THIS WAY IS THAT THERE COULD BE SOMEBODY WHO GET ENROLLED BOTH IN A SERVICES PROGRAM AS WELL AS IN TERMS OF PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING.
THERE IS SOME DUPLICATION HERE, NOT A TON ADMIT, BUT THERE IS SOME DUPLICATION.
THE PROBLEM WOULD BE ATTEMPTING TO DISAGGREGATE IT IS WHAT DO I PREFERENCE? DO I PREFERENCE THIS LINE OVER THIS LINE? LIKE WHERE, WHERE EXACTLY SHOULD I ELIMINATE THE DUPLICATION? I DON'T HAVE A GOOD RULE OF THUMB FOR THAT.
SO I JUST REMAIN, EVERYTHING REMAINS IN HERE.
SO THE UNIT OF ANALYSIS HERE IS THE ENROLLMENT, NOT PEOPLE.
SO THIS IS NOT, UH, UH, AN ACCESS ON PEOPLE, IT'S AN ACCESS ON ENROLLMENT.
AND WHAT'S THE COC WIDE? I I SAY COC WIDE BECAUSE THAT IS THEIR JURISDICTION, THAT IS OUR GEOGRAPHICAL JURISDICTION, AT LEAST FROM MY PERSPECTIVE AS THE DATA PERSON.
COC IN THIS CASE MEANS THE AREA THROUGH WHICH WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR, RIGHT? AND SO THE, BASICALLY THE CITY OF LONG BEACH, YOU COULD THINK OF THAT BECAUSE THAT IS OUR COC CHIEF.
IT'S NOT THE CONTINUUM OF CARE THAT IS THE, I MEAN, WHEN I SAY COC, IT IS CONTINUUM OF CARE IN DIFFERENT CIRCLES.
THAT MEANS DIFFERENT THINGS FROM SOMEBODY WHO DEALS WITH THE BUDGET.
THAT'S SPECIFICALLY THE FUNDING THAT WE GET FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN MY, FOR, FOR MY PURPOSES.
UH, AND FOR DATA AND FOR A REPORTING PURPOSES TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
COC MEANS THE, THE GEOGRAPHICAL JURISDICTION THAT WE'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOU.
I, I NEED A LITTLE MORE CLARIFICATION OF WHAT AN ENROLLMENT MEANS.
SO IT, IS IT AN ACTIVITY, A NEW REQUEST FOR AN ACTIVITY? IN OTHER WORDS, A EXISTING HOMELESS PERSON WHO REQUESTS, UH, A NOTARY, IT'S A NEW NOTARY.
IS THAT NEW ENROLLMENT TO THE NOTARY? NO.
THAT BE CONSIDERED A SERVICE IN THIS CASE, THE ENROLLMENT IS, SO I WALK IN THROUGH THE FRONT DOORS OF THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER AND I'M REQUESTING SERVICES.
A CASE MANAGER THERE IS GONNA SIT ME DOWN.
THEY'RE GONNA ENROLL IN THE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER PROGRAM.
AND THEN FROM THERE THEY'RE GONNA, THEY'RE GONNA ATTACH SERVICES.
THEY'RE GONNA PROVIDE ME WITH FOOD AND WATER NOTARY SERVICES, ANYTHING ELSE THAT I REQUEST THAT'S GONNA BE LOGGED AS A SERVICE.
MY ENROLLMENT REMAINS ATTACHED AND REMAINS ACTIVE THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, UNTIL I DECIDE THAT I NO LONGER WANT TO VISIT THE MSE, OR I DECIDE, OR, OR I GET HOUSED AND I MOVE INTO A, A HOUSING PROGRAM, MY ENROLLMENT THEN ENDS.
SO LIKE I'M NO LONGER AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN THE MSC 'CAUSE I NOW EITHER HAVE SHELTERED OR I HAVE A BROKEN HOUSING NOW, BUT NOT THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OR ANALOGY THERE BECAUSE THE MS WE STILL PROVIDE SERVICES AT THE MSE EVEN FOR PEOPLE IN SHELTERS.
BUT THE POINT IS, LIKE AN ENROLLMENT SIMPLY MEANS THAT YOU ARE ACTIVE WITH THIS PROGRAM.
WE HAVE A CASE MANAGER WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR YOU, WHO WILL CALL YOU UP IF SOME ACTIVITIES HAPPEN AND YOU ARE NOW, YOU KNOW, MATCHED TO BE HOUSED, THAT CASE MANAGER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTACTING YOU.
IF HOWEVER, THAT CLIENT IS NO LONGER ENROLLED, THEY EX THEY EXIT THE PROGRAM, UM, THEN YOU KNOW, IT IT IT SIMPLY MEANS THAT THEY'RE NO LONGER ACTIVE.
WE'RE NOT ACT ACTIVELY ENGAGING WITH THAT CLIENT.
IT'S DIFFERENT THAN A SERVICE.
I HOPE THAT, THAT I WAS ABLE TO DISSIPATE.
I GUESS WHAT I'M STRUGGLING WITH, IT'S A THOUSAND NEW PEOPLE IN ROME AND OUR HOMELESS POINT IN TIME COUNT IS 3000 MM-HMM
THOUSAND AND IT'S A THOUSAND TIMES, 12 MONTHS IS 12,000.
SO WHAT'S THAT GOING ON? WHAT IS, WHAT IS THAT? YEAH, SO THAT'S SUGGESTING, AND IN REALITY THAT IT HOMELESSNESS IS A FLOW.
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A STAGNANT NUMBER.THE INDIVIDUALS THAT YOU SEE ON, UH, IN JANUARY ARE NOT THE SAME INDIVIDUAL THAT YOU'RE GONNA SEE IN MARCH.
THEY FLOW IN AND OUT OF THE SYSTEM.
PEOPLE ARE USING THEIR FEET AND LEAVING LONG BEACH.
THEY ARE GETTING OUT THEY DIFFERENT LOCATIONS.
AND SO YES, PEOPLE ARE MOVING IN.
AND SO I, THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT, THAT ARE A LOT OF MOVEMENT THROUGHOUT LA COUNTY, CORRECT? SOMEBODY'S GONNA GO TO FIVE DIFFERENT SPOTS TO SEE
SO FOR, I MEAN, PEOPLE, PEOPLE GET HOUSED ALL THE TIME.
AND UNFORTUNATELY THE REALITY IS THAT PEOPLE LOSE THEIR HOUSING ALL THE TIME.
AND SO THIS IS, UH, UNFORTUNATELY A CHURN OF INDIVIDUALS THROUGH, IN AND OUT THE SYSTEM.
SO YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD POINT WE BRING UP.
THIS DOES NOT LOOK LIKE OUR POINT IN TIME NOW, BUT THAT'S BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE CONSTANTLY MOVING IN AND OUT.
NOW THIS IS WHERE I WANT TO PUT A PRETTY BIG CAVEAT HERE BECAUSE IF YOU'RE TRYING TO COMPARE ENROLLMENTS RIGHT HERE, USE GOT LIKE 1600 NUMBERS WITH OUR 700 PEAK HERE, THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE CORRECT BECAUSE OF THE DATA MIGRATION.
OKAY? AND I WILL ADMIT THAT EXITS TEND TO BE LOWER THAN ENTRANCE THAN ENROLLMENTS.
HOWEVER, ONE LARGE TREATMENT POINT WE'RE NOT SEEING PRO EXITS IS BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT YET INSTITUTED OUR, UM, OH INACTIVITY POLICY.
WHAT AN INACTIVITY POLICY IS, IS SOMEONE ENROLLS IN THE PROGRAM, BUT THEY DON'T SHOW UP FOR THREE MONTHS.
WE NO LONGER WANT TO KEEP THAT CLIENT ACTIVE IN THAT PROGRAM AND TAKING UP SPACE AND TAKING UP A CASELOAD FOR A CASE MANAGER.
WE EXIT THEM AFTER A PERIOD OF INACTIVITY.
WE HAVE NOT INSTITUTED THAT INACTIVITY POLICY JUST YET IN OUR NEW H MINUS INSTANCE.
THESE NUMBERS WILL, WILL PICK UP ONCE.
THAT IS THE REASON WHY WE HAVE NOT DONE THAT IS BECAUSE THERE SHOULD BE DATA MIGRATED IN WHICH KEEPS PEOPLE ACTIVE.
AND SO THAT'S ONE REASON WHY WE HAVE NOT INSTITUTED THAT.
OTHERWISE WE NEED TO KICK PEOPLE OUT OF PROGRAMS THAT SHOULD NOT BE KICKED OUT OF THOSE PROGRAMS. SO ONCE THE DATA FOR SERVICES AND CLIENT NOTES GET INPUT INTO THE NEW INSTANCE, WE ARE GONNA REACTIVATE OUR INACTIVITY POLICY.
THESE NUMBERS WILL PICK UP, THERE'S GONNA BE A LITTLE BIT MORE BALANCED IN TERMS OF ENROLLMENTS VERSUS EXITS.
SO I JUST WANT THAT TO BE A PRETTY LARGE CAVEAT FOR THESE NUMBERS HERE.
QUESTIONS ON THAT? I RECOGNIZE THAT THAT'S GOOD, BUT I'M ASKING A LITTLE BIT.
I'M ASKING QUITE A BIT FOR YOU ALL TO KIND OF, YOU KNOW, STOMACH IN TERMS OF TAKING A LOOK AT MY NUMBERS AND COMPARING CONTRAST.
NOW HERE IS, SO IF YOU LOOK LIKE JUST RAW NUMBERS, YOU'RE PROBABLY THINKING TO YOURSELF, I WANT TO KNOW PERCENTAGES.
LIKE WHAT ARE THE POSITIVE OUTCOMES THAT ARE COMING FROM THIS? YOU'RE GIVING ME, I GAVE YOU EXITS, TOTAL EXITS.
NOW WHAT ABOUT POSITIVE EXITS? WHAT ABOUT THE EXITS? TWO PERMANENT HOUSING PH THE STATES MEANS EXIT TO PERMANENT HOUSING AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE TOTAL EXITS BY THE PROJECT PLAN.
OKAY, SO WHAT DOES THIS LOOK LIKE? NOW, THE STORY THAT I'M ATTEMPTING TO TELL HERE IS THIS FALLS THE GREEN LINES UP TOP INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE PART OF PERMANENT HOUSING PROGRAMS. YOU ARE HOUSED WHEN YOU LEAVE THAT PROGRAM, YOU'RE FAR MORE LIKELY TO LEAVE HOUSED THAN IN ANY OTHER PROGRAM HERE.
THE SUCCESS RATE FOR GETTING PEOPLE EXITED INTO HOUSING, IT MAKES SENSE THAT IF YOU WERE ALREADY PREVIOUSLY HOUSED, YOU'RE GONNA STAY HOUSED.
IT'S KIND OF THE STORY OF INERTIA HERE.
IF HOWEVER, YOU ARE A PART OF A PROGRAM AND YOU ARE CURRENTLY, UM, WITHOUT HAVING, YOU ARE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS, YOU HAVE A RATE OF EXITING THOSE PROGRAMS TO HOUSING IS FAR LOWER.
A FEW THINGS ABOUT WHERE THESE CURVES ARE GOING.
THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A DATA ISSUE HERE IN MARCH WITH SOME OF OUR, WITH ONE SPECIFIC, UH, PROGRAM, UH, THAT TRANSITIONED INTO ANOTHER PROGRAM.
SO THAT'S WHY WE SEE A LITTLE BIT OF A DIP.
UM, IN TERMS OF THESE NUMBERS HERE YOU SEE A BIT OF A BUMP FROM OUR HOMELESS PROGRAMS OR PROGRAMS THAT ARE SERVICING INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.
AND IN LARGE PART THAT'S BECAUSE WE HAD A PRETTY MAJOR VISA IN A PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING PROGRAM, WHICH WAS 120 BEDS.
149 BEDS WERE LEASED UP AT A SPECIFIC SPOT.
AND SO THE RATES AT WHICH PEOPLE WERE BEING HOUSED, THE RATES AT WHICH THEY WERE EXITING PROGRAMS AND BEING HOUSED WAS MUCH HIGHER.
I DO NOT ANTICIPATE THAT THIS IS A NUMBER THAT'S GONNA CONTINUE.
JUST LOOKING BACK TO EVERYBODY ONCE THOUGHT, ALEX, THAT'S OUR, UH, FACT TURNED ON.
THAT HAS THE BIGGEST IMPACT ON THE SERVICE ONLY.
I WAS GONNA SAY, ONCE AUTO EXITS COME BACK ON PEOPLE WHO ARE INACTIVE IN THE SYSTEM, YOU'RE GONNA SEE THIS RED LIGHT TICK DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY.
PEOPLE ARE NOT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE LEAVE, UH, THE CITY, UH, THEY'RE NOT ENROLLED, BUT MULTI-SERVICE CENTER ANYMORE, THEY'RE JUST NOT RECEIVING SERVICES ANYMORE.
THAT'S A, THAT'S A ONE MAJOR REASON WHY THIS NUMBER WOULD MORE
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FIT DOWN.I'M JUST GONNA GO AHEAD AND SAVE IT.
THIS BLACK LINE REPRESENTS THE AVERAGE ACROSS ALL THREE, THE AVERAGE.
SO WHEN I SAY TOTAL HERE, IT'S THE, IT'S, I TAKE THE SUM OF ALL THE EXITS, THE SUM OF ALL POSITIVE OUTCOMES, AND THEN THIS IS THE, SO IN ESSENCE IT IS AN AVERAGE, A WEIGHTED AVERAGE QUESTION.
THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS THAT YOU'RE IN PERMANENT HOUSING, YOU'RE PROBABLY GOING TO MOVE TO ANOTHER PERMANENT HOUSING.
WELL THAT MAKES ALL THE SENSE AS WELL.
BUT THAT'S WHAT WE ALL DO THAT ARE SITTING IN THIS TABLE.
WHEN WE MOVE FROM OUR PERMANENT HOUSING, WE ALWAYS MOVE TO PERMANENT HOUSING.
SO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS, BUT HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IN THAT PERMANENT HOUSING? I AGREE WITH YOU TO GET TO THAT, BUT WE'RE ALSO FACING THE PROBLEM THAT WE MAY SEE TO A GREAT EXTENT, THE END OF SUBSIDIES FOR PERMANENT HOUSING.
IT LOOKS LIKE VERY POSSIBLY THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
SO, UH, AS I SAY, YOUR STATISTIC OF COURSE MAKES SENSE.
IF YOU'RE IN PERMANENT HOUSING, DON'T STAY IN.
THIS, THIS, I, IF YOU ASK PETE, I THINK THIS, THIS UNDERLINES THE IMPORTANCE OF PREVENTION, RIGHT? AND THAT HOW KEEPING COMPUTER, BECAUSE KEEPING COMPUTERS EASIER.
HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE REALLY IN PROMINENT HOUSING? SEE, I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT'S A MISNOMER TO START WITH PERMANENT HOUSING BECAUSE WE'RE SAYING THAT THIS PERSON IS GONNA SPEND THE REST OF THEIR LIFE IN THIS PROGRAM.
THE ONLY PERMANENT HOUSING I KNOW THAT PEOPLE STAY IN PERMANENTLY IS A GRAVEYARD.
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DO PEOPLE CHANGE, PEOPLE DO STUFF.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, WHAT THE OTHER DO, AND I KNOW WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO WITH THE END, WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, ALL THE INTERIM HOUSING SERVICES ONLY BECAUSE WE MAY NOT HAVE THAT ACCESS ALL.
SO THIS LINE IS MADE UP OF TWO THINGS.
IT IS MADE UP OF THE SH WHICH IS OUR PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING, LONG-TERM SUBSIDY, AND OUR RAPID REHOUSING, THE LARGE MAJORITY OF THESE EXITS UP HERE ARE RAPID REHOUSING BECAUSE IT IS TIME LIMITED.
THERE ARE EXITS FROM PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING APPROACH.
SO THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT THEIR LIVES GET BETTER.
THEY'VE BEEN IN A PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING PROJECT FOR 10 YEARS AND THEY NO LONGER NEED THAT.
SO THE REALITY OF THIS IS, HEY, OUR PSH IS WORKING WELL IN GETTING, KEEPING PEOPLE IN AND BOUNCING.
THEY'RE NOT EXITING BACK TO THE STREET.
UM, I DO OUR RAPID REHOUSING, YOU KNOW, THEY ENROLL SOMEBODY, THEY'RE NOT IN A PLACE YET.
THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT RAPID REHOUSING IS GONNA WORK OUT.
MAYBE A PERSON MAY STRUGGLE TO FIND A PLACE.
WHAT WE WERE SAYING IS IT IS STILL WORKING AT A DECEMBER.
THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN OUR RAPID REHOUSING PROGRAMS ARE FINDING A PLACE THAT WILL RENT TO THEM AND UPON EXIT THEY'RE STILL HOUSED AND IN THAT PLACE AND THEY'RE TAKING OVER RENT ON THEM.
UM, RETURNS TO HOMELESSNESS FROM RAPID REHOUSING, YOU KNOW, ONCE WE LOOK A YEAR OUT, ARE MUCH HIGHER THAN SOME OF OUR OTHER AREAS BECAUSE
RAPID REHOUSING IS THE BEST PROGRAM WE HAVE FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE IS YOU DON'T LET THE PERSON HIT THE STREET AND BECOME ACCULTURATED TO A DIFFERENT LIFESTYLE.
OF COURSE, THEY'RE FROMT HOUSING.
YEAH, I MEAN ALL MY CONCERN WITH UOC AT GREENLINE YEAH.
WE NEED MORE FROM HOUSING RESOURCES BECAUSE THE INFLOWS IS NOT LIKE SHELTER.
AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE MOVING TO PERMANENT HOUSING, ISN'T TAXING WELL, BUT THIS IS WHERE PEOPLE ARE LOCKED.
SO, UM, LAST NIGHT HERE IS, IS HONESTLY THIS IS JUST CONNECTIONS TO OUR REFERRAL PROCESS.
LIKE PEOPLE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN GETTING HOUSING AND SHELTER, WE PUT THEM ON OUR COMMUNITY QUEUE.
THE REASON WHY I SHOW THIS, YOU'LL SEE, AND I KNOW THAT THAT TITLE WILL CORRECT MY A PROBLEM.
UH, THIS BOTTOM LINE HERE IN IN ESSENCE WHAT YOU SEE ARE MONTHS OF THIS STRAIGHT, NOTHING.
AND THIS IS TO AGAIN, UNDERSCORE THE FACT THAT WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF MIGRATING THIS INFORMATION.
AND THE REASON WHY I ALLUDED TWO MONTHS THAT ARE NOT REALLY SUPPOSED TO IN THE SCENE IS TO SHOW YOU THAT WE DIDN'T
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RECENTLY INSTITUTE REFERRALS TO THE COMMUNITY QUEUE THAT HAPPENED IN JULY.UH, AND SO EVEN FROM THE MONTH OF AUGUST, WHICH IS ONLY SIX DAYS OLD, WE ALREADY HAVE A SIGNIFICANTLY LARGER NUMBER OF REFERRALS THAN WE HAVE IN ANY OTHER MONTH PAST.
IF ANYTHING, THIS IS AN ATTEMPT OF ME TO SAY ALL THE NUMBERS THAT YOU HAVE SEEN BEFORE, THEY WILL SHIFT.
WE'RE STILL SEEING IT MOVE AND SHIFT A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE OF THE NEW INSTANCE AND ALL THE INFORMATION THAT'S BURNED.
SO I WANTED TO GO AHEAD AND SAY THANK YOU.
UH, AND ARTS, IS THERE ANY ONE LAST QUESTION FOR ADULTS OR TO, I, I, I TRIED.
I STILL
THE STAFFING AND OPERATIONS UPDATE, I WOULD SAY ARE THERE THINGS THAT AREN'T, THAT THEY CAN'T FREEZE? THE NEW THINGS WE SHOULD HAVE? WELL, THERE'S A FEW THINGS THAT I'D LIKE YOU QUICKLY ADDRESS.
UM, SO IT'S A REALLY BUSY MOMENT.
THERE'S A LOT GOING ON AND THERE IS A LOT OF UN UNCERTAINTY.
SO, YOU KNOW, AS IT STARTS WITH THE STAFFING UPDATES, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME GOOD THINGS WITHIN THE CITY BUDGET.
THERE ARE SOME VERY CONCERNING THINGS WITHIN OUR OVERALL BUDGET.
THERE ARE, YOU KNOW, LAYOFFS THAT ARE POTENTIAL WITHIN THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
UH, THERE'S ABOUT 40 STAFF THAT HAVE BEEN ON LOSS OF FUNDING.
WE'RE TAKING ON SOME OF THOSE STAFF WITHIN OUR BUREAU.
OUR BUDGET AND HOMELESS SERVICES IS LOOKING BETTER THAN OUR OVERALL HEALTH.
UM, BUT WE ARE LOOKING AT SOME ADJUSTMENTS OURSELVES OVER THE NEXT COUPLE YEARS.
RIGHT NOW WE'RE SOMEWHAT STABLE.
WE HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL NEW PROGRAMS THAT BOTH MY ON AS LEANNA POINTED OUT, UH, THERE'S SOME ADDITIONAL PREVENTION FUNDING COMING THROUGH MEASURE A, THERE'S SOME EXCITING NEW THINGS.
UH, YOU KNOW, CASH ASSISTANCE SUPPORT, FLEXIBLE SUPPORT FOR YOUTH, THE BATTLE SUBSIDY FOR OLDER THEIR ADULTS.
WE'RE WORKING ON WITH THE HOUSING AUTHORITY, GETTING THAT UP AND GOING, ADDITIONAL TENANT PROTECTIONS, UM, ADDITIONAL RENTAL SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE, UH, AT RISK.
SO THERE'S SOME NEW EXCITING THINGS GOING, SOME NEW YOUTH RESOURCES, BUT WE'RE TAKING ON SOME MORE, UH, EXPENSES IN OUR SHELTER SYSTEM AND OTHER THINGS THAT ARE HAVING SOME IMPACT.
SO THERE WERE SOME POSITIONS THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT BRINGING ON BOARD THAT WE HAVE FROZEN.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE MONITORING, WE ARE LOOKING AT OUR BUDGET.
WE ARE PROJECTING OUT TO THE FUTURE.
THE STATE PROVIDED US HALF THE FUNDING THEY DID LAST YEAR, RIGHT, THAT THERE'S STILL SOME FUNDING.
THE COUNTY BUDGET IS LOOKING ROUGH GOING IN NEXT YEAR.
THEY ARE PROJECTING LOWER REVENUE FOR MEASURE EIGHT.
UH, THE CITY BUDGET HAS ITS CHALLENGES.
PEOPLE HAVE HEARD, UM, NOT AS BAD AS SOME OTHER MAJOR CITIES IN THE REGION, LIKE WE'RE IN A BETTER SPOT THAN A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE, BUT WE DO HAVE TO MAKE SOME DIFFICULT CHOICES.
SO, UH, HOMELESSNESS STILL IS A TOP PRIORITY CITY.
SO IT'S SOME GOOD THINGS, UH, WITHIN THAT.
SO THERE ARE A BUNCH OF, YOU KNOW, FUNDING UPDATES AND SOME POSITIVE THINGS.
UH, WITHIN THAT ON THE FEDERAL SIDE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE HOUSE PUT FORWARD THEIR BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS.
THE SENATE JUST FINALIZED WHAT THEIR RECOMMENDATION.
THE SENATE'S RECOMMENDATIONS ARE INCREASES TO MOST PROGRAMS, UH, INCLUDING EVEN AN INCREASE TO CDBG, WHICH PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING WE'RE GONNA CUT THAT.
SO, UH, WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
AND THEN THE HOUSE WILL ACCEPT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE SENATE SAID.
BUT EVEN THE HOUSE BILL THAT WAS RECOMMENDED FOR, UH, KEEPS LEVEL FUNDING WITH SOME INCREASES IN CERTAIN PROGRAMS. SO, UH, WE ARE NOT
WHICH
BUT AS FAR AS LIKE LOSS OF VOUCHERS, LIKE THERE WILL BE STABILIZATION, WE ARE HAVE GOTTEN GUIDANCE FOR DHBS AND HOW TO TRANSITION 'EM IN A LESS PAINFUL MANNER.
SO, UH, AVOIDING IMPACTS, UM, LOTS OF, WE DID SEE A REDUCTION IN OUR FUNDING FOR SHELTER BED OF
UH, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT AND MAKING UP THE DIFFERENCE IN OUR BUDGET WHILE CONTINUING PUSH FOR THAT.
UH, BUT IT'S DEFINITELY, YEAH, HAS SOME IMPACTS ON
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OUR ABILITY TO DO SOME OTHER STUFF.UM, AND THEN WE WERE ABLE TO DO, UH, THROUGH CONNECTIONS WITH CHAP AND PAUL, WHICH IS A, UH, REALLY ADVOCACY AND RESEARCH GROUP THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, REALLY FOCUSED ON YOUTH HOMELESSNESS AND DISPARITIES.
UH, WE DID A THREE DAY LISTENING SESSIONS MEETINGS WITH THEM, UH, LAST MONTH.
SO THEY WERE ABLE TO BEAM WITH THE MAYOR.
THEY WERE ABLE TO, UH, LISTEN TO THEIR PROVIDERS, LISTEN TO OUR STAFF, LOOK, LISTEN TO YOUTH THAT HAVE EXPERIENCED THEMSELVES, UH, SO THAT SOME OF, LET'S SAY YOU RECOMMENDATIONS LIKE THE CASH ASSISTANCE, UH, FLEXIBLE ASSISTANCE FOR YOUTH, UH, SOME ADDITIONAL FOCUS ON FOSTER YOUTH AND SOME OTHER STUFF THAT'S HAPPENING.
SO, UH, THERE IS SOME EFFORTS AROUND THAT.
YOU KNOW, THE MAYOR HAS BEEN
UH, I DON'T HAVE AN EXACT DATE OF ONE OPEN.
WE'RE STILL WORKING WITH THE SERVICE PROVIDER AS FAR AS CONTRACTING.
UM, BUT HOPEFULLY WITHIN THE NEXT MONTH WE'LL HAVE YOUTH COMING IN AT THAT SITE.
AND NEXT MONTH WE'LL HAVE A RIBBON CUTTING FOR, UH, THEY'LL OF FREE IN REMODEL.
SO THAT'S 78 ADDITIONAL GRANTS.
UH, THERE ARE TWO PROJECTS THAT THE COUNTY IS FUNDING, UH, ONE THROUGH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH BRIDGE FUNDING THROUGH, UH, THE EFFORTS AROUND MENTAL HEALTH CARE AND ADDITIONAL REALIGNMENT OF STATE DOLLARS THAT DMH GOT.
SO, UH, THERE IS A COMMUNITY MEETING MONDAY NIGHT ON A PROPOSED NEW SHELTER, UH, THAT WILL TAKE OVER THE EXTENDED STAY AMERICA AS A HOTEL CONVERSION THAT WILL BRING ON 150 ADDITIONAL BEDS FOR THE REGION.
THERE WILL BE YOUTH AND THEN THE REST OF THE BED WILL BE GENERAL POPULATION.
AND THEN THERE IS A, UH, EXTENDED STATE OF AMERICA NEXT TO THE GRAND, OH, IT WAS AN EXTENDED STATE.
SO THAT IS NOW OWNED BY A COMPANY NAMED SKYBRIDGE, UH, PROPOSED PROVIDER OF IS, UH, STATE AGENCY CALLED AND, AND SO THAT'LL BE 150 NEW SHELTER BEDS, NEW SHUTTLE BEDS ANTICIPATED TO OPEN.
THEY'RE SAYING END OF THE SPOT THAT SEEMS VERY AMBITIOUS.
SO 7,850 AND 12 12 10 60 MORE THAT ARE BEING FUNDED THROUGH THE SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL, UH, COUNTY PROGRAM THROUGH DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
SO THERE ARE 60 ADDITIONAL VETS ON SANTA FE THAT WILL BE PROVIDING RECOVERY BRIDGE HOUSING AS A PARTNERSHIP THROUGH ROOTS RECOVERY.
SO LISTEN, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'RE GONNA SEE A WHOLE LOT OF SHELTER AFTER THIS ROUND RIGHT HERE.
LIKE, LET ME JUST SAY IT MIGHT BE A MOMENT, BUT THIS IS A GREAT LIKE THREE MONTH RUN HERE WHERE SEVERAL, ALMOST 300
300 ADDITIONAL BEDS AND IN SHORT PERIOD IS, IS PRETTY AMAZING.
SO, UM, REALLY THOSE ARE THE, THE KEY HIGHLIGHTS.
THERE'S OTHER STUFF, YOU KNOW, ONE LAST THING JUST GOT A SHOUT OUT TO, UH, THE TEAM.
YOU KNOW, THERE WAS THAT TSUNAMI WARNING BUCKLING AWESOME IF IT'S NOTHING MAJOR, UM, BUT WHEN THE TEAM MOBILIZED, BUT AN HOUR NOTICE OF HEY, WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA MOBILIZE, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKELY NOT GONNA BE SIGNIFICANT AND THERE WON'T BE ANY FLOODING IT BACK.
YOU KNOW, IT'S BETTER TO OVER PREPARE AND RESPOND.
UH, SO THE TEAM DID GO OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, UH, ON ALONG THE RIVER BEDS.
YOU'VE WARN PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS, WE'VE NEVER GONE OUT LIKE AT GOOD NIGHT ENGAGE PEOPLE.
SO IT'S LIKE I'M A BULLHORN TRYING TO LET PEOPLE KNOW.
WE RECOMMEND GETTING AWAY FROM THE RIVERBED, YOU KNOW, IS LESSONS LEARNED.
BUT A MAJOR SHOUT OUT, WE HAD, YOU KNOW, ALMOST 20 STAFF FROM OUR BUREAU RESPOND WITH WOW, OUR PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY, OUR PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TEAM.
UM, SO THEY WOKE UP, GOT INTO THE OFFICE AT 10 30 AT NIGHT, GOT ONTO THE RIVERBEND, LET PEOPLE KNEW WHAT'S HAPPENING, LOTS OF LESSONS LEARNED.
SO IT'S GREAT PRACTICE, BUT THE FACT THAT POINTING STAFF ARE WILLING TO GET UP AND MOVE, GET OUT THE RIVER BED, IT'S NOT, NOT A, YOU KNOW, EASY PLACE TO NAVIGATE IN THE DARK.
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MAJOR SHOW OUT TO BE ABLE TO THAT LET'S MOVE THE MAIN THINGS MORE THERE AND THE WRITING.VICTOR, IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? NONE.
AND, UH, I, I BELIEVE THAT'S IT.
UH, ALL IN FAVOR OF RECEIVING AND FILING THE HOMELESS SERVICES BUREAU, QUARTERLY OPERATIONS S REPORT AND STAFF OPERATIONS AND UPDATES REPORT FROM THE HEALTH? YES.
WHO, WHO MADE THE MOTION TO RECEIVE AND SO MOVED.
THE SECOND, ONE MORE ITEM ON GENA, AND IT IS THE RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE AND FILED FUTURE HOMELESS SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE WITH GENA ITEMS PROMOTION.
IS THERE A SECOND? UM, ARE THERE ANY FUTURE AGENDA? I DO ACTUALLY THINK, YOU KNOW, THE UPDATE NOW.
I'D LIKE TO ADD, UM, I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE LEAVE, UH, WITH AND FALL ONLY BECAUSE I'VE RECENTLY BEEN IN CONTACT WITH SOME ORGANIZATION AND A ORGANIZATION WITHIN THE STATE THAT ARE CONCENTRATING ON DEVELOPING PROGRAMS FOR THEM.
METRIC SHOW YOUTH, LIKE THIS SOLUTION FROM 17 AND
SO I'M EXCITED FOR THAT AND I HOPE LIKE CITI AND CONTINUES TO COLLABORATE, THEY CAN HEAR MORE ABOUT UPDATE AND DISCUSSION.
ANY OTHER FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS? NOT RIGHT NOW, BUT I, I WORRIES ABOUT THAT.
ANY OTHER AGENDA ITEMS? ALL RIGHT.
UM, AND THEN ANY PUBLIC COMMENT IN GENERAL ON NON AGENDA? NO, SEEING NONE.