ENDING HOMELESSNESS

Southern Nevada Homelessness Continuum of Care Board

Presentation to SNRPC

June 26, 2018

PURPOSE OF PRESENTATION

• Address concerns brought to Board of County Commissioners

• Overview of Continuum of Care (CoC) structure

• Update on current CoC initiatives

• Housing Outcomes Snapshot

• Outstanding Need

• Opportunity for County to become involved in the solutions

IS THE SOUTHERN NEVADA COC

• Help Hope Home is the Southern Nevada Homeless CoC, or regional planning body, that coordinates funding for housing and services for families and individuals experiencing homelessness

• Help Hope Home aims to end homelessness in Southern Nevada

• Help Hope Home believes that homelessness should be:• RARE,

• BRIEF, and

• a ONE TIME occurrence

WHAT DOES HELP HOPE HOME DO?

• Drives systemic change

• Promotes communitywide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness

• Applies for and receives annual U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) SNH CoCfunds

• Plans for the SNH CoC’s geographic area

• Designates and operates a Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)

• Operates the SNH CoC’s governance and system operation, including coordinated assessment, written standards, and performance expectations and monitoring

WHY DOES THE COC EXIST?

• HUD requirement

• Community-level planning

• Coordination and alignment

• Oversight and governance

• Capacity building and support

WHO IS HELP HOPE HOME?

An inter-agency planning body committed to ending homelessness.

Includes all who choose to participate and are concerned with and/or are providing services to individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness.

STAKEHOLDER PARTNERS

• Public Housing Agencies

• Affordable Housing Developers

• Law Enforcement

• Emergency Medical Services

• Faith Based Organizations

• Businesses

• Universities

• Workforce Investment

• Social Service Providers

• Advocates

• Mental Health Agencies

• Health Care Providers

• Organizations that Serve Homeless and Formerly Homeless Veterans

• People Experiencing or Who Have Previously Experienced Homelessness

COC STRUCTURE

COC WORKING GROUPS

SUB WORKING GROUPS

Built for ZeroPerformance

Measures (Data Collection)

Coordinated Outreach

Youth Working Group Housing

Governance Structure

Homeless Trust Fund

Homeless Trust Fund

United Funding Agency

Committee

SNH CoCBoard Member

Selection Committee

Homeless Count

Ad Hoc Groups

CONTINUUM WIDE SUPPORTIVE HOUSING TYPES

Emergency Shelter

Transitional Housing

Safe Haven

Rapid Rehousing

Permanent Supportive Housing

HOUSING FOR HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS

Type of Housing beds

Emergency ShelterTransitional Housing

Permanent Housing

Rapid Rehousing

Safe Haven

Beds for individuals

Family HHs or Units

# beds for people in families

# beds for HH w/only children

# beds under

development

Total # beds

1020 85 246 3 0 1269

539 9 17 12 0 568

2011 276 713 2 44 2726

165 141 471 0 636

25 0 0 0 25 25

OUTCOMES TO PERMANENT HOUSING

Total Exits to Permanent Destination (Jan 2016 - Dec 2017)

Street Outreach 57

Emergency Shelter 1,874

Transitional Housing 858

Safe Haven 16

Permanent Supportive Housing 277

Rapid Re-Housing 996

CURRENT COC INITIATIVES

• Diversion - to help people identify alternatives to entering shelter and prevent them from becoming homeless. Diversion is a process, not a program.

• Moving On – to become a conduit between supportive housing programs and partnering property owners and landlords to facilitate a coordinated exit strategy for individuals who are stable and no longer need supportive housing, thereby creating new openings for other individuals in need

• Veterans Aftercare – to promote sustainability in permanent housing for formerly homeless veterans in order to avoid recidivism

• Built for Zero – to end chronic homelessness; to establish and oversee a fundraising campaign for the addition of new Permanent Supportive Housing units needed for the identified chronic homeless individuals in the community

OTHER COC INITIATIVES

• Learning Collaboratives

• Data Integration

• Technical Assistance

• Communication

• Information Dissemination (Newsletter, Speakers Bureau, etc.)

HOUSEHOLDS ON THE COMMUNITY QUEUE WAITING FOR HOUSING

1317

17068

0

200

400

600

800

1000

1200

1400

Households w/o Children Families YouthCommunity Queue as of June15th

NEED AND OPPORTUNITY

• Community Need: Shortage of Affordable Housing

• Opportunity:

• allocate public funding

• recruit donors to fund apartment units

• fund supportive services and case management

STAY CONNECTED

• Sign-up to receive the Help Hope Home Newsletter

• Follow us on Facebook and Twitter @HelpHopeHome

• Join a Working Group:• Find our calendar of Meetings at:

http://helphopehome.org/attend-a-meeting/ • Attend a CoC Board Meeting (Regularly held at

2:00 pm on the 2nd Thursday of each month at the United Way, 5830 West Flamingo Road)