Chatham-Savannah

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Chatham-Savannah Authority for the Homeless
Strategic Plan
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Vision
A city free of homeless people
Mission
To partner with service providers and the
community to help assist homeless and near
homeless people in reaching self-sufficiency
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Organizational Profile
The State Legislature created the
Chatham-Savannah Authority for the Homeless in
1989. The intent was a comprehensive
programmatic approach for the then increasing
numbers of homeless people in the community.
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Purpose
Through creative partnerships and an
all-inclusive approach, Chatham-Savannah
Authority for the Homeless serves as the umbrella
organization that provides planning and
coordination for a city free of homeless people.
As a direct result of this comprehensive
approach, the Authority and its certified
providers have reduce the number of homeless
people by 45 since 1992. With continued
collaboration with partner agencies, the
Authority will fulfill its vision for a city free
of homeless people.
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Role of Agency

• Develop a comprehensive community based plan
  to respond to the needs of homeless people
• Ensure maximum coordination among all
  service providers to achieve a seamless delivery
  of services
• Serve as the primary entity to represent the
  needs of homeless people through advocacy and
  building community support
• Contract with public and private agencies to
  implement programs and provide training and
  technical assistance.
• Develop new and innovative funding sources
  crucial to the improvement and expansion of
  services
• Develop and maintain a data collection system

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Organizational Chart
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Accomplishments of the Chatham-Savannah
Authority for the Homeless Model The Bottom
Line This collaborative, all-inclusive approach
has enabled the number of homeless people to be
reduced by 45 since 1992.
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Accomplishments

• Quantified decrease in the number of
  homeless people
• Sustainable results because of emphasis on
• Employment
• Case Management
• Permanent Housing
• Self-sufficiency
• Our future
• Continue to impact the chronic homeless
• 71 behavioral health needs
• Primary care

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William Micheal Elliott,PresidentUnion Mission,
Inc.

• Employment Since 1987, Micheal has been the
  President of Union Mission, Inc. in Savannah,
  Georgia. Union Mission is a series of housing and
  supportive services each targeting homeless men,
  families with children, persons living in
  recovery and persons living with AIDS. Under his
  leadership, it has grown from one facility in
  1987 to nine facilities in 1998, representing
  services to over three hundred people each day of
  the year and the annual operations budget grew
  from 40,000 to over 3.9 million.
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• Prior to Union Mission, Micheal served as the
  Executive Director of the Louisville Coalition
  for the Homeless in Louisville, KY (1986-87) and
  as the Pastor/Director of the Jefferson Street
  Baptist Chapel in Louisville, KY (1979-1986).
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• Recognitions In 2000, Micheal was the winner of
  a Community Leadership Award from the Robert Wood
  Johnson Foundation. In 1999, Union Mission was
  awarded the John G. Gunther Blue Ribbon Best
  Practices by HUD. The Georgia Hospital
  Association presented Union Mission with its
  "1999 Community Leadership Award". In 1993, Union
  Mission was the recipient of two Georgia
  Affordable Housing Awards one for "Most
  Outstanding Entry for Emergency Shelter Provider"
  and for "Most Outstanding Entry for Special Needs
  Housing".
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• Micheal was also listed as an honored
  professional in American Professionals (1996-97
  edition) was selected as a Community Hero to
  carry the Olympic Torch for the 1996 Olympics
  his book, Why the Homeless Dont Have Homes and
  what to do About it, was recognized as best
  paperback of the year in 1993 by the Mid-America
  Book Achievement Awards he is a graduate of the
  1990 class of Leadership Savannah, and Micheal
  was a keynote speaker at the Annual Meeting of
  the Womens Missionary Union at the 1985 Southern
  Baptist Convention in Dallas, TX.
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• Publications Micheal has published seven books
  The Society of Salty Saints, (1987) Community of
  the Abandoned, (1989) Partners In Grace, (1991)
  Why the Homeless Dont have Homes (1993), Running
  With the Dolphins (1995), Playing Hide and Seek
  A Non-Church goers path to Finding God (1996) and
  Out From Under the Rock (2001) He has also had
  articles published in many national publications.
  
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• Education Micheal is a graduate of Groves High
  School (1974), Georgia Southern University
  (1979), and the Southern Baptist Theological
  Seminary where he received a Masters of Divinity
  degree (1982) and a Master in Social Work (1986).