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Title: Homeless Action Plan: Lets Get This Party Started


1
Homeless Action PlanLets Get This Party
Started!
  • March 2009

2
Welcome
3
Agenda
  • Origins and Evolution of the Homeless Action Plan
  • Qualities of Successful Plans national
    perspective
  • Overview of Work Group Process
  • Lunch and Work Group Orientation
  • Work Group Meetings
  • Closing and Next Steps

4
Goals for the Day
  • Meet the stakeholders
  • Review a sample of Best Practices Plans
  • Establish planning approach and work group
    membership
  • Initiate Work Group tasks
  • Review existing materials
  • Schedule future work group meetings
  • Start brainstorming!

5
Coming soon
  • New Website for the Homeless Action Plan planning
    process
  • relevant data and background materials
  • Agendas and minutes of Work Group meetings
  • Schedule of Work Group meetings
  • And more!

6
Qualities of Successful Homeless Plans
7
The Financial Benefits
  • Closely considers areas where homelessness
    creates cost
  • Identifies savings brought about by solutions to
    homelessness

8
Homeless Planning Common Principles
  • End not manage homelessness
  • Reduce reliance on shelter
  • Open the back door
  • Close front door

9
Homeless Planning Common Principles (contd)
  • Build on housing as primary solution
  • Offer housing first
  • Lower thresholds to services
  • Tailor for chronic homelessness

10
Homeless Planning Common Principles (contd)
  • Create mainstream resource accountability
  • Identify various financing options
  • Use national research
  • Integrate need for income

11
Qualities of a Good Homeless Action Plan
  • Exhausts possibilities
  • Seeks to be both ambitious and feasible
  • Echoes national themes
  • Meets unique local needs
  • Maintains an inherent flexibility

12
Qualities of a Good Homeless Action Plan
  • Identifies specific funding sources
  • Specifies quantity and cost
  • Has specifics on implementation (who, what,
    where, when and how)
  • Identifies performance measures
  • Specifies timeline

13
Work Group Process and Leader Introductions
14
Planning Groups
15
Funders Group
  • Mayor Frank Cownie
  • City Council Person Christine Hensley
  • City Council Person Chris Colman
  • County Board Supervisor Robert Brownell
  • County Board Supervisor Angela Connolly
  • State Senator Jack Hatch
  • State Senator Matt Mc Coy
  • Ron Olson , Polk County Manager
  • Sheila Lumley, Polk County Housing Trust Fund
  • Shannon Cofield, United Way of Central Iowa
  • Kristi Knous, Greater Des Moines Community
    Foundation

16
Overall Plan Concepts
  • Has support from Funders Group
  • For all of Polk County
  • For all homeless subpopulations
  • Not just chronically homeless
  • BUT, cant be everything to everyone
  • Build off of progress made in existing chronic
    homeless plan
  • Leverage all available funding opportunities and
    other planning processes

17
Work Group Composition
  • Staffed by City employees
  • Guided by TAC
  • Chaired by key community representatives with
    experience and knowledge
  • Composed of housing and service providers,
    advocacy groups, government agencies, funders and
    other relevant community members

18
Work Group Leaders
  • Permanent Housing
  • Kristin Saddoris, Conlin Properties
  • Prevention and Emergency Services
  • Deirdre Henriquez, Primary Health Care
  • Behavioral Health and Support Services
  • Lynn Ferrell, Polk County Health Services
  • Economic Support and Income
  • Jane Fogg, United Way of Central Iowa

19
Permanent Housing - Scope
  • Affordable housing
  • Permanent supportive housing
  • Transitional housing

20
Behavioral Health and Support Services - Scope
  • Housing stabilization
  • Housing search
  • Support services in housing

21
Prevention and Emergency Services - Scope
  • Discharge planning
  • Homelessness Prevention
  • Diversion from shelter
  • Assessment and triage
  • Emergency shelter
  • Street and shelter outreach
  • Food pantries, drop-in centers, soup kitchens,
    etc.

22
Economic Support and Income - Scope
  • Employment
  • Job training
  • Supported employment
  • Benefits
  • Entitlements
  • Vocational rehabilitation

23
Overall Workgroup Tasks
  • Understand problem
  • Inventory resources and availability
  • Review existing policies
  • Review Best Practices
  • Develop key strategies
  • Prioritize recommendations
  • Identify funding sources/policy changes
  • Establish time line, accountable parties and
    outcomes

24
Planning Timeline
  • Today 1st work group meeting
  • April 2nd and 3rd work group meetings
  • May 4th and 5th work group meetings
  • June 6th work group meeting (if needed)
  • June draft Plan available
  • July Final Plan

25
Goals for First Work Group Meeting Today
  • Get to know members
  • Appoint minute taker
  • Review composition and identify missing members
  • Establish any needed subgroups
  • Review scope and make any needed changes
  • Schedule next 5 meetings

26
Goals (continued)
  • Clarify overall goals establish strategies and
    implementation action steps
  • Review local data
  • Solidify guiding principles
  • Brainstorm
  • What is working
  • What isnt working
  • What additional information is needed

27
  • 1130 1200
  • Lunch for
  • Permanent Housing
  • Behavioral Health/Support Svcs
  • Orientation for
  • Prevention/Emerg. Svcs.
  • Economic Support/Income
  • 1200 1230
  • Lunch for
  • Prevention/Emerg. Svcs.
  • Economic Support/Income
  • Orientation for
  • Permanent Housing
  • Behavioral Health/Support Svcs

28
Next Steps
  • Share information via the website
  • Work group meetings 2-5
  • Conference calls with TAC
  • Work group leaders
  • Regular work group meetings

29
Contacts
  • Merlie Crowley
  • Polk County Housing Continuum Coordinator
  • mcrowley_at_pchtf.org
  • 515.282.3233 x 4
  • Emily Cooper/Marie Herb
  • Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc.
  • ecooper_at_tacinc.org or mherb_at_tacinc.org
  • 617.266.5657
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