Slides from the Ending Youth Homelessness - Strategies for Increasing Community Support and Improving Your Ten Year Plan. (Richard Hooks Wayman, Hearth Connection).
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Ending Youth Homelessness - Richard Hooks Wayman
1. FOCUSING ON YOUTH!
Strategies for Increasing Community Support
& Improving 10 Year Plan
Model Example: Heading Home Hennepin
2. HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
MARCHING ORDERS – Call to Action
TOPIC AREAS – What was our focus?
Prevention
Housing
Services
What we added
Outreach
Self-Support (Education & Employment)
3. LEADERSHIP
Organized by County/City Continuum of Care
Identification of Key Facilitators (Cochairs)
Monica Nilsson – The Bridge
Rich Hooks Wayman – StreetWorks Collaborative
Approached other leaders – full spectrum
4. Existing Strength in Homeless Youth
Services- multiple points of input!
FHPAP Youth Rep.
Street Outreach
Emergency Shelter
Transitional Housing
Drop-in Centers
Case Management
Services
Culturally specific
organization (SE Asian
Council, American Indian
Community Dev. Corp,
Afro-centric and African
Immigrant cultural
outreach and service
Health Clinics
Permanent Supportive
Housing
Police
Business Community
(Downtown Council,
Chamber of Commerce
District Court
Commissioner of Public
Health
Suburban Counseling
and Outreach
Mpls Public School
School Board
5. How to fill gaps when there’s no
spectrum of youth serving agencies
POINT IN TIME COUNT
Separate Out Youth (24 and under)
Recruitment of agencies, case workers, youth
Identify lead organization for coordination
Map out locations and sources of data
Facilitate collection of data
Promote the quality of data (training) and analyze data
Frequent timing – to show progress
NATURAL SYSTEMS: Child welfare, Juvenile
Justice, Schools, Community Services
CREATE CAPACITY – organization, process,
goals/plans
6. RECRUITMENT: Making the Time
100 day plan – short and focused (small
commitment)
Diversification of voices & stakeholders
Planning meetings (every 2-3 weeks) – 25 people
Organized committees for focused
recommendations (5-6 people on each
subcommittee)
Identification of leaders (facilitators) to DRAFT and
EDIT (narrative is time consuming)
7. ANALYZE CURRENT STATE OF
SERVICES
PIT, Gaps analysis
Hearing from homeless youth
Hearing from other communities
(Listening session)
Tough choices – emphasizing or
prioritizing competing parts of the
spectrum – shelter vs. housing,
outreach vs. case management
9. PLANNING AND PREPARING FOR
IMPLEMENTATION
Creation of Plan – what next?
Capacity to carry out implementation?
Keep doing existing work/focus
Drop some things
Demand public system focus by hiring
County/City staff
10. PLANNING AND PREPARING FOR
IMPLEMENTATION
Creation of Plan – what next?
Capacity to carry out implementation?
Keep doing existing work/focus
Drop some things
Demand public system focus by hiring
County/City staff