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• Beans BreadRenovation Addition Project
• Community Presentation

July 2009
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History Beans Bread Center

• 1977 Opened in the Fells Point neighborhood of
  Baltimore City
• 1986 SVDP was asked to take over the B B
  operation
• 1992 BB moves the program to 402-404 S. Bond
  St. to offer services beyond a meal
• 1997 SVDP expanded the Beans Bread Center
  facility by adding additional day program space
  and 20 units of transitional housing
• 2006 Beans Bread Center began placing its
  disabled homeless clients in scattered-site
  permanent supportive housing through its Home
  Connections program.

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Beans Bread Center
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Day Resource Center Services

• Meal service gateway to engagement (300 per
  day)
• Day respite support services (75 per day)
• Case management (27 point in time)
• Housing placement

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Project Description

• Project Goal
• To improve the Beans and Bread Center facility in
  order to better serve existing clientele and
  enable them to achieve greater stability,
  self-sufficiency, permanent housing, and an
  improved quality of life.

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Project Objectives

• To better accommodate our existing clients
  seeking services from the day resource program
  by
• Adding indoor space to move the meal line queue
  inside
• Creating a large daytime resource area and
  waiting room
• Extending current supportive services to more of
  our meal service clients
• Offering restricted shower and laundry services
  to clients actively engaged in case management
  services
• Improving access for people with disabilities
• Providing adequate and appropriate office space
  for existing staff and visiting partner agencies.

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Facility Improvements Space Utilization

• 2.5 increase in day room (30 to 80 person
  capacity), add in-door queue space, mail station,
  resource center, 2 group meeting rooms, 3
  showers (4 total), 3 laundry centers.
• New copy room, volunteer break room, increase
  offices from 12 to16 reduce cubicles from 8 to 5
  (total workstations 21 versus 20)
• Facility New elevator make handicap
  accessibility

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Overview of s Served (1993-2008)(Yearly
average)
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Annual Persons Served by Beans Bread
Center (Current Proposed)  
With the facility addition, the day resource area
and services will be able to serve twice as many
of the existing meal program guests a day, taking
it from 75 to 150 individuals a day. This equates
to a change from serving 23,000 to 46,000
participants in the day resource area annually.
These figures do not represent an increase in the
total number of people served daily, which has
remained fairly constant over the past 16 years
at approx. 300 per day.
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Extension of Services to Existing Meal Program
Clients
of Meal Program Clients 300 per day
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Common Questions Answers

• Is the Beans and Bread Center is expanding to
  serve more clients?
• Does Beans and Bread draw clients from all over
  the city to the center?
• Will the project result in even larger lines
  outside of Beans and Bread?

• No. It is a renovation of existing space an
  addition of new space to better serve existing
  clients. The dining room will remain the same
  size.
• No. Surveys show that the vast majority of
  clients of Beans and Bread come from the
  immediate and surrounding communities. The
  clients of Beans and Bread walk to the center
• No. A major objective of the facility renovation
  and addition project is to add substantial indoor
  space that will move the meal line queue inside
  and create a large daytime resource area and
  waiting room

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Common Questions Answers

• Will the new shower and laundry services draw new
  clients to the center?
• Is Beans and Bread Center going to become an
  emergency shelter?
• Hasnt Beans Bread increased the number served
  each year?

• No. Showers (4) and laundry (3) units will be
  restricted and only made available to clients
  actively engaged in case management.
• No. Beans and Bread is not an emergency shelter
  but, rather, a day resource center, and will
  remain so after the renovation project is
  complete.
• No. The average number served for a daily meal
  over the last 16 years has remained relatively
  constant increasing only by 38 people per day
  during this 16 year period.

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Questions Answers

• Thank you for your time and interest in the
• Beans Bread Center
• Renovation Addition Project.
• http//www.vincentbaltimore.org/bbrenovationprojec
  t.html
• For more information, please contact
• Lisa Knickmeyer
• 410-662-0500 ext. 217 lknickmeyer_at_vincentbaltimor
  e.org