2. 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
9. Smart Solutions to Homelessness
Leadership Council
Working together to reduce and
ultimately end homelessness in
Santa Cruz County
10. “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
11. 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.
12. 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
13. 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
15. “The solution to chronic
homelessness is permanent
supportive housing – permanent
housing coupled with supportive
services as needed.”
16. 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
19. • Permanent homes for 100,000 homeless men,
women and families by July 2014
• 214 participating communities
61,998people housed
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21. • 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
22. 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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24. • 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
25. 100 Day Dash –
Rapid Results approach to
accelerating homeless
housing placements in
Santa Cruz County
26. • 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”?
27. “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
28. “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
30. 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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31. How will our
100 day dash work?
SURVEY: Use the 180/180
Vulnerability Index survey to
learn more about each
personʼs situation and to
identify program eligibility
Use the proven system of 180/180
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32. How will our
100 day dash work?
CONNECT: client with Case
Managers to identify optimal
program and benefit eligibility and
partner with volunteer Housing
Navigator to start the housing
search process
Use the proven system of 180/180
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33. How will our
100 day dash work?
Use the proven system of 180/180
…and, provide ongoing support to help
someone stay housed
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35. …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
36. 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…)
