Rebuilding Lives:

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Rebuilding Lives
New Strategiesfor a New Era
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Community Shelter Board

• A leader in Franklin County for 21 years

No one should go homeless, for even one night,
in Columbus.
Mel Schottenstein
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Focus on Rebuilding Lives

• Launched in 1999
• Focus on people homeless for a long time

Commons at Chantry
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• Research Findings

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Homeless in Franklin County

• 7,000 men, women and children

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Improved Geographic Distribution

• At the outset of the study period, shelter
  programs were concentrated in downtown Columbus
  (63 of all beds).
• By 2006, 70 of shelter units were located in
  other zip codes.

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Daily Cost of Emergency Shelter
Note Excludes Youth Shelter, which is
undesignated by gender.
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Making a difference

• Decrease in shelter admissions

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Success for families

• Impact More families in housing

Data for 2001-2002 is unavailable.
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Emergency Shelter Results and Outcomes

• Housing Outcomes
• Family shelters improved housing outcomes to
  almost 70 by 2007.
• Single adult housing outcomes also improved.

• Return to Shelter and Multiple Shelter Use
• Single men (36.4) and women (25.9) return to
  shelter at relatively high rates.
• For families, repeat shelter episodes are a
  considerably rarer event (10).

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What is the overlap with other programs and
systems of care?

• Huckleberry House
• 5.9 of Huck House youth also accessed adult
  emergency shelter services at some point.
• No substantial relationship between the youth and
  the adult shelter stays.
• Minimal cross-over between the shelters.

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What is the overlap with other programs and
systems of care?

• CHOICES
• 34.4 of women served by CHOICES had also a
  record of stay in the adult emergency shelter
  system.
• High percentage of single adult women entering
  shelter in a short period of time after their
  exit from CHOICES.
• Substantial cross-over, more likely for women of
  black race and with no children.

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What is the overlap with other programs and
systems of care?

• ADAMH the Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Board
• 21.7 and 18.2 of the single adults accessing
  shelter received mental health and substance
  abuse services, respectively.
• The longer people stay in shelter, the more
  likely they are to access ADAMH and consume a
  disproportionately high share of services.
• ADAMH service use shows dramatic increase in the
  month prior to shelter entry.

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What is the overlap with other programs and
systems of care?

• Franklin County Childrens Services (FCCS)
• 56 of adult women in shelter with families and
  46.9 of single women had records of FCCS cases
  when they were children.
• 14.7 of adult men in shelter with families and
  22.8 of single men had records of FCCS cases
  when they were children.

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What is the overlap with other programs and
systems of care?

• Franklin County Department of Job and Family
  Services

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Homeless Outreach

• Services are currently provided by multiple
  programs in a scatter shot approach with
  limited emphasis on housing placement.
• Nine (9) programs provide a variety of services
  with 33 FTE staff.
• Only 6 of FTEs use a Housing First approach

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Permanent supportive housing

• Total of 1,292 in virtually every ZIP code

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Permanent Supportive Housing Residents

• Average 42.3 years old
• Almost three-quarters were male
• Two-thirds of them were black
• Only 12 reported being employed at the time of
  moving into this housing.
• 59 reported zero income at admission.

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Supportive housing works

• 70 stayed housed
• Reduced the use of shelters - only 9 return to
  homelessness
• Increased employment and benefits (30 gained
  access to benefits)
• Greater independence
• Lower costs than institutional settings

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Rebuilding Lives Program Impact on Shelter
Utilization
Shelter Use by Rebuilding Lives Residents vs.
Control Group
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Changes in Supportive Housing Capacity Over Time
By Program Type
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Funding Sources for Rebuilding Lives Programs,
2006, by Local, State, Federal
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What is the overlap with other systems of care?

• ADAMH, the Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Board
• ADAMH services use decreased by 6.1 from
  pre-admission to post-placement into the RL-PSH
  unit
• Drastic reduction in substance abuse services
• Increase in outpatient mental health services

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What is the overlap with other systems of care?

• Franklin County Childrens Services (FCCS)
• 58 of adult women RL PSH had records of FCCS
  cases when they were children
• 13 of adult men in RL PSH had records of FCCS
  cases when they were children

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What is the overlap with other systems of care?
Franklin County Department of Job and Family
Services
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What are the answers?

• New Rebuilding Lives strategy

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100 community leaders
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Rebuilding Lives

• Access
• Making sure community resources are available
  to prevent or end homelessness

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Rebuilding Lives

• Crisis response
• Preventing and resolving housing crises as
  quickly as possible

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Making it work

• Single point of access to emergency shelter for
  adults

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Rebuilding Lives

• Transition
• Guiding exits from homelessness to
• stable housing

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Making it work

• Developing 1,400
• more supportive housing units

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Rebuilding Lives

• Advocacy
• Leveraging public policy to work toward ending
  homelessness

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• Questions?

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Community Housing Network Communities In
Schools Gladden Community House Homeless Families
Foundation Lutheran Social Services/Faith
Mission Maryhaven National Church Residences The
Salvation Army Southeast, Inc./Friends of the
Homeless Volunteers of America of Greater
Ohio YMCA of Central Ohio YWCA Columbus
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• community shelter board
• 111 liberty street, suite 150
• columbus, ohio 43215
• 614 221 9195
• www.csb.org