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Business Leaders LuncheonAugust 14, 2013

Welcome!

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Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions• Update

• System change

• Smart Solutions to Homelessness

• 180/180 & 100 Day Dash

• Q&A / Discussion• Business Leaders Task Force• Wrap-up by 1:30

What’s wrong with the system?

Many different programs

Cobbled together

Johnny Cash & “One Piece at a Time” Cadillac

What do we need to do?

Rethink the system

Rebuild the system

Smart Solutions to Homelessness Leadership Council

Working together to reduce and ultimately end homelessness in Santa Cruz County





“Smart Solutions”

• Evidence-based - proven to work

• Cost effective - saves $

• Results are measurable

These results have a positive impact on both the individual and the whole community

Leadership Council Vision & Mission

Vision: a Santa Cruz County in which every community member has some form of safe shelter, and where homelessness is a rare occurrence.

Mission: to improve the way Santa Cruz County works collaboratively to reduce and ultimately end homelessness.

Leadership Council Goals

1. Create broader and more diverse community engagement

2. Improve public understanding of the realities of homelessness

3. Foster community dialog on homelessness

4. Develop better communication & coordination

5. Share information about successful models and solutions

6. Sustain a diverse community leadership group to shape policies

7. Develop a shared vision for change and agreed-up action steps

What we heard you say…

• Give us something tangible to do that will have impact

• Help people get jobs through training programs

• Leverage our communication and marketing capabilities

• Bring Jerry Neuman back (Home 4 Good in LA)

• Answer the Q: What is the cost impact of homelessness?

• Improve volume of housing… work with RE community

• Redesign delivery of system of services to reduce cost and increase effective access to services

• Get a small group of business folks together to solve (homeless) problems









Permanent Supportive Housing

“The solution to chronic homelessness is permanent supportive housing – permanent housing coupled with supportive services as needed.”



Professional Case Managers link clients to primary care, behavioral health care, and substance abuse treatment using a Housing First approach.

…connecting participants with supportive services that help increase housing retention by addressing substance abuse, mental illness and chronic health issues.

How this works

Permanent

Supportive Housing

saves lives and saves money

Permanent Supportive Housing is cost effective





• Permanent homes for 100,000 homeless men, women and families by July 2014

• 214 participating communities

61,998 people housed

• 79 people housed

• 600+ people surveyed• County Board of Supervisors

voted to fund +1 Case Manager

• Selected for Good Times Community Fund

• United Way “Advocate Organization of the Year”

180/180 Campaign Highlights



System

180/180 worked with the Housing Authority of Santa Cruz County to create an exception to their Section 8 waiting list process; a new housing subsidy voucher preference for disabled and medically vulnerable homeless persons




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• Our monthly housing placement rate has more than doubled - from an average of 3 during first 6 months to 9 in 2013 and most recently… May: 13, June: 13, July: 15!!!

• At 10 / month we can meet and exceed our 180 goal by July 2014

On the road to 180



100 Day Dash – Rapid Results approach to accelerating homeless housing placements in Santa Cruz County

• Helping communities around the world and the VA & 100k homes

• 100-day projects build capacity for large-scale change

• Nadim Matta, President of Rapid Results Institute named #25 in the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine



What is “Rapid Results”?

“We have found that this approach energizes teams and provides an intense focus on getting results. At the same time, it is helping to build the capacity of our organization to drive transformational change.”



- Martha Marsh, President and CEO, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Palo Alto, CA

“100 day dash” is a project to house 10-20 visible, vulnerable and “problematic” street-homeless individuals in the downtown commercial centers of Watsonville and Santa Cruz in 100 days



100 Homes Jacksonville: Ending Homelessness In 100 Days, 100 People At A Time

How will our 100 day dash work?

Use the proven system of 180/180

IDENTIFY: Work with Local Business, Outreach, Law Enforcement, and Service Providers to identify the 20-30 most visible, vulnerable and “problematic” people who are homeless in (each) Watsonville and Santa Cruz



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SURVEY: Use the 180/180 Vulnerability Index survey to learn more about each person’s situation and to identify program eligibility




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CONNECT: client with Case Managers to identify optimal program and benefit eligibility and partner with volunteer Housing Navigator to start the housing search process


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…and, provide ongoing support to help someone stay housed

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Your leadershipand support can help

make this happen



…is coming to town this Fall to hold a one-day workshop on implementing the 100-day approach for downtown Santa Cruz and Watsonville

Participate in the 100-day workshop

Support this effort:

1. Make a financial donation: • Security Deposit & Move in Fund• Case Management Fund

2. Help us develop Landlord and Property

Management relationships to create more

Section 8 Ready Housing

3. Help get the word out about 180/180 and the

100-day dash (e.g. tell a friend, invite us to speak at

business groups, community groups, faith-based groups, civic

groups, neighborhood groups, colleagues…)



Q&A

…and, form this groupinto an ongoing business leaders task force to take up the work of Smart Solutions to Homelessness

Thank you!





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