Business Leaders LuncheonAugust 14, 2013

Welcome!

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

Whatʼswrong withthe system?

Many different programs

Cobbled together

Johnny Cash & “One Piece at a Time” Cadillac

What do we need to do?

Rethink the system

Rebuild the system

Smart Solutions to HomelessnessLeadership Council

Working together to reduce andultimately end homelessness inSanta Cruz County

“Smart Solutions”

• Evidence-based - proven to work• Cost effective - saves $• Results are measurable

These results have a positive impact onboth the individual and the whole community

Leadership CouncilVision & Mission

Vision: a Santa Cruz County in which everycommunity member has some form of safeshelter, and where homelessness is a rareoccurrence.

Mission: to improve the way Santa Cruz Countyworks collaboratively to reduce and ultimatelyend homelessness.

Leadership CouncilGoals

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 solutions6. Sustain a diverse community leadership group to shape policies7. Develop a shared vision for change and agreed-up action steps

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

Permanent Supportive Housing

“The solution to chronichomelessness is permanentsupportive housing – permanenthousing coupled with supportiveservices as needed.”

Professional Case Managers link clients toprimary care, behavioral health care, andsubstance abuse treatment using a HousingFirst approach.

…connecting participants with supportiveservices that help increase housingretention by addressing substance abuse,mental illness and chronic health issues.

How this works

PermanentSupportive Housing

saves livesand saves money

Permanent Supportive Housingis cost effective

• Permanent homes for 100,000 homeless men,women and families by July 2014

• 214 participating communities

61,998 people housed

• 79 people housed• 600+ people surveyed• County Board of Supervisors

voted to fund +1 CaseManager

• Selected for Good TimesCommunity Fund

• United Way “AdvocateOrganization of the Year”

180/180 Campaign Highlights

System

180/180 worked with the HousingAuthority of Santa Cruz County to createan exception to their Section 8 waiting listprocess; a new housing subsidy voucherpreference for disabled and medicallyvulnerable homeless persons

• Our monthly housing placement rate hasmore than doubled - from an average of 3during first 6 months to 9 in 2013 and mostrecently… May: 13, June: 13, July: 15!!!

• At 10 / month we can meet and exceedour 180 goal by July 2014

On the road to 180

100 Day Dash –Rapid Results approach toaccelerating homelesshousing placements inSanta Cruz County

• Helping communities around the worldand the VA & 100k homes

• 100-day projects build capacity forlarge-scale change

• Nadim Matta, President of Rapid ResultsInstitute named #25 in the Top 100 GlobalThinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine

What is“Rapid Results”?

“We have found that this approachenergizes teams and provides anintense focus on getting results. Atthe same time, it is helping to buildthe capacity of our organization todrive transformational change.”

- Martha Marsh, President and CEO,Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Palo Alto, CA

“100 day dash” is a project tohouse 10-20 visible,vulnerable and “problematic”street-homeless individuals inthe downtown commercialcenters of Watsonville andSanta Cruz in 100 days

100 Homes Jacksonville:Ending HomelessnessIn 100 Days, 100People At A Time

How will our100 day dash work?

Use the proven system of 180/180IDENTIFY: Work with Local Business,Outreach, Law Enforcement, and ServiceProviders to identify the 20-30 most visible,vulnerable and “problematic” people whoare homeless in (each) Watsonville andSanta Cruz

1

How will our100 day dash work?

SURVEY: Use the 180/180Vulnerability Index survey tolearn more about eachpersonʼs situation and toidentify program eligibility

Use the proven system of 180/180

2

How will our100 day dash work?

CONNECT: client with CaseManagers to identify optimalprogram and benefit eligibility andpartner with volunteer HousingNavigator to start the housingsearch process

Use the proven system of 180/180

3

How will our100 day dash work?

Use the proven system of 180/180

…and, provide ongoing support to helpsomeone stay housed

4

Your leadershipand support can helpmake thishappen

…is coming to town this Fall to hold aone-day workshop on implementingthe 100-day approach for downtownSanta Cruz and Watsonville

Participate in the100-day workshop

Support this effort:1. Make a financial donation:

• Security Deposit & Move in Fund• Case Management Fund

2. Help us develop Landlord and PropertyManagement relationships to create moreSection 8 Ready Housing

3. Help get the word out about 180/180 and the100-day dash (e.g. tell a friend, invite us to speak atbusiness groups, community groups, faith-based groups, civicgroups, neighborhood groups, colleagues…)

Q&A

…and, form this groupinto an ongoing businessleaders task force to takeup the work of SmartSolutions to Homelessness

Thank you!