1. Behavioral Wellness Community Housing and Support Services
March 2019

2. Behavioral Wellness Housing Focus
Increase and develop affordable housing opportunities for the department’s clients in cooperation with County partners
Deliver various types of housing and adequate/flexible services to support recovery and independence
Prevent homelessness and housing crises
Step down from acute and out of country placements including Jail, PHF, and MHRC/IMDs

3. Examples: PATH, Good Samaritan, Salvation Army
Temporary housing
Crisis Residential
Average: days
Max: 90 days
Beds: 32 by end of FY 18-19
Cost per Bed $370
Current provider Anka
Shelter Beds
Average: Short Term
Beds: 43
Cost per Bed $40
Examples: PATH, Good Samaritan, Salvation Army
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4. Licensed Board and Care Residences
Short/Mid Term Residential
Average: 180 days
Beds: 12
Cost per Bed $137
Example: Alameda and CG
Long Term Residential
Average: months
Beds: 60
Cost per Bed $137
Examples: McMillan Ranch, Phoenix, Mountain House
Daily cost and some explanation for them each

5. Partnership with SB City Housing Authority - Via Vida
Master Lease - Rental Voucher and Community Based Provider
Average: 180 days
Beds: 5
Cost per Bed $45

6. Trends of Licensed Residential Care Beds in County Care

7. Leveraging care to support Permanent Supported Housing
Permanent supportive housing combines affordable housing with voluntary support services to address the needs of homeless people.
Be Well partners to provide case management services which are designed to build independent living and tenancy skills, connect people with community-based health care, substance use treatment and other local services.
At Residences at Depot with 35 units includes a full time case manager will be on site in designated office space for the department. Annual cost of this staff is approximately $100,000 a year ongoing

8. Permanent supported housing
Goleta Pescadero Lofts - 9 units
Any quantification of the services we provide

9. MHSA funded permanent supported housing
Santa Barbara
Garden St. Apartments -
10 units

10. MHSA funded permanent supported housing
Santa Maria
Rancho Hermosa -
12 units

11. MHSA funded permanent supported housing
Lompoc Home Base on G –
8 units

12. MHSA funded permanent supported housing
Santa Maria
Residences at Depot
35 units under
construction

13. Other housing developed by leveraging funds
1992 HUD agreement to provide housing at Casa De Mural Currently this provides Permanent Supported Housing
2002 as Part of AB 2034 provided funds to Transitions Mental Health for property purchase of 6 units which still serve clients in Santa Maria

14. No Place Like Home (NPLH)
Background Information:
Dedicates up to $2 billion in bond proceeds to invest in the development of permanent supportive housing for persons who are in need of mental health services and are experiencing homelessness, chronic homelessness, or who are at risk of chronic homelessness.
The bonds are repaid by redirecting funding from the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA).
(estimate of 1.4 million for 20 years for our county)

15. No Place Like Home (NPLH)
Purpose:
To acquire, design, construct, rehabilitate, or preserve permanent supportive housing for persons who are experiencing homelessness, chronic homelessness or who are at risk of chronic homelessness, and who are in need of mental health services.

16. No Place Like Home (NPLH)
Key features include:
Counties will be eligible applicants (either solely or with a housing development sponsor).
Funding for permanent supportive housing must utilize low barrier tenant selection practices that prioritize vulnerable populations and offer flexible, voluntary, and individualized supportive services.
Counties must commit to provide mental health services and help coordinate access to other community-based supportive services.

17. No Place Like Home (NPLH)
Population to be Served :
Adults with serious mental illness, or children with severe emotional disorders and their families and persons who require or are at risk of requiring acute psychiatric inpatient care, residential treatment, or outpatient crisis intervention because of a mental disorder with symptoms of psychosis, suicidality or violence and who are homeless, chronically homeless, or at risk of chronic homelessness.

18. Current No Place Like Home status
Current NPLH status:
50% of Departments No Place Like home technical assistance funds were allocated update to homeless plan spearheaded by County Housing and Community Development Department
Notice of Funds (NOFA) release in October 2018
Letters of interest received from development partners
Letters reviewed for site control, cost per unit, options for leveraging of county land
Initial project prioritized to use of a portion of NPLH non-competitive funds for 13 units in Santa Maria
Additional NOFA will be posted later this year
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19. Strategies and goals moving ahead
Work to develop and create diverse housing options for individuals to meet their needs
Develops individualized and flexible services to support recovery, independence and housing retention
Develop data regarding housing as an intervention that leads to positive clinical outcomes including avoidance of relapse, vocational progress, and decrease in hospitalization and incarceration