Coordinating Board Meeting April 6, 2016 South Seattle Community College Georgetown Campus

Family Homelessness Strategic Plan

We envision: A time when no families with children are sleeping outside There are timely housing solutions for all families that need them An engaged and inclusive community leading to affordable housing options and living wage jobs Guiding Principles: We honor the rights and dignity of all people regardless of housing status, abilities, age, ethnicity, and race Those who are the recipients of homeless housing supports help inform and make decisions about policy and system changes System planning efforts include tools to critically evaluate the extent to which efforts eliminate racial disparities among people experiencing homelessness

Development of The Plan Advisory Work Groups Stakeholder meetings Consumer Advisory Council Consumer Focus Group Equity and Social Justice Review Family Advisory Group Final Review

Plan framework Aligned with the All Home Strategic Plan and Open Doors Federal Strategic Plan – Supporting race & social equity – Making homelessness rare, brief and one-time – Community action Elevates unique experiences of and strategies to address family homelessness Explicit link to race and social equity Glossary & race and equity tools

2010 Moving Forward Plan to Today What Will Continue? -Emphasis on Housing 1 st strategies and principles -Creating fair and equal access through coordinated entry -Right-sizing the system to reflect both needs and strengths of families What Is Different? -Increase understanding of racism and sexism as causes of family homelessness in order to develop strategies to address racial and gender disproportionality -Greater access & utilization of data

Goal: Ending Racial and Gender Disparities Reducing race and gender disparities Increasing system knowledge about the impacts of sexism and racism on homelessness and methods to address both Exits to permanent housing show disparities by race category and by intervention 2014 HMIS data → final plan will be updated with 2015 data

Goal: Homelessness is Rare Reducing the number of families experiencing homelessness 2014 HMIS data → final plan will be updated with 2015 data

Goal: Homelessness is Brief Reducing the number of families on the coordinated entry placement roster at any given point in time Increasing the number of families who access permanent housing each month and the rate at which they attain permanent housing 228 days 2014 HMIS data → final plan will be updated with 2015 data

Goal: Homelessness is One Time Reducing the number of families who return to the homeless housing system after exiting to permanent housing 8.3% 2014 HMIS data → final plan will be updated with 2015 data

Goal: A Community to End Homelessness More local, state and federal homeless housing resources will be made available as a result of increased engagement and activism from community members An increase in permanent housing outcomes to include more creative and flexible housing solutions beyond traditional housing outcomes currently utilized

What comes next? Data and evaluation – Dashboards to be developed for regular review – Updated data with 2015 data set Action Plans – Elevate priorities for – Clarify roles & responsibilities SWAP – Incorporate learnings from Focus Strategies report – Refine 2014 System Realignment Targets as needed

Rachel Mathison, Family Homelessness Advisory Group Co-Chair, Imagine Housing Danielle Winslow – All Home allhomekc.org

System-wide Analytics and Projection (SWAP)

Timeline JanFebMarchAprilMayJune Focus Strategies Key Stakeholder interviews Finalizing data collection and Base Year Calculator Scenario Modeling and Typology Analysis Present Draft Report and In-Person Visit Final Report SWAP will model changes to the following, by program type and at the individual program level: Impact of diversion/targeted prevention on new entries to homelessness Prioritizing beds and units for people who are literally homeless Utilization of existing inventory How long it takes to move people experiencing homelessness to housing Rate of successful exits to permanent housing Cost effectiveness Permanent housing exits that subsequently returned to homelessness Focus Strategies is leading the process help our community predict the impact of shifting investments and prioritize changes to bring about the greatest impact on making homelessness rare, brief, and one-time. System-wide Analytics and Projection (SWAP)

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Effects of Restrictive Parking on Vehicle Residents

A Multi – Tiered Approach

Quarterly Dashboards

Progress Updates

2016 Legislative Updates - Budget

2016 Legislative Updates - Policy

Additional Legislative Priorities HMIS Consent Behavioral Health