1. www.unitedwaytriangle.org 100,000 Homes Campaign United Way of the Greater Triangle Southeast Regional Conference May 2012

2. www.unitedwaytriangle.org United Way of the Greater Triangle  Multi-county United Way as of 1998  Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina  Wake (Raleigh), Durham (Durham) and Orange (Chapel Hill) County  Heavy county identity despite merger  Johnston County merged in 2010 2

3. www.unitedwaytriangle.org UWGT Involvement in Homelessness  2002 - Lead agency for regional Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services grant  2004-2007 – Funded and developed 10 year plans to end homelessness in three counties  2007-2011 – Funded Project Homeless Connects and pilot employment project targeting the chronically homeless  2010 – 2011 – Assisted Wake County Human Services and Step-Up Ministry in accessing federal Department of Labor Funds for reemploying Homeless Veterans ($300,000 each year for two years)  2010 – Served as evaluation contractor for initial DOL grant  2011 – Secured contract from the State of NC to design evaluation of the State of North Carolina’s Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Project  2011 – Planning for 100,000 Homes Campaign  2012 – Registry week 3

4. www.unitedwaytriangle.org 100,000 Homes Campaign  National movement to permanently house 100,000 of the country’s most vulnerable and chronically homeless people  Surveys those on the street or in shelters to create a by name registry prioritized on the basis of severe health risks and length of homelessness  Re-aligns existing resources to match to those prioritized by the survey  Administration of the Vulnerability Index – shifts the priority of housing to a public health related issue  Registry Week  www.100Khomes.org www.100Khomes.org  “Housing the sickest, the quickest” 4

5. www.unitedwaytriangle.org Rationale for involvement  United Way Worldwide is a supporter and endorsing partner  Reenergize our 10 year plans  Increase community awareness  Regional project has higher awareness impact  Engage volunteers in short term, one-time event 5

6. www.unitedwaytriangle.org UWGT supported  Participated in weekly training conference calls and engaged the campaign’s East Coast organizer  Volunteer organizing committee made up primarily of service providers  Contracted with a community organizer to organize registry week  Sent three county lead service providers and the community organizer to registry week – strategic with regard to who we sent  Planned and implemented volunteer recruitment, training, and scheduling for registry week activities  Developed media plan and trained volunteer organizing committee  Incentives of McDonald Gift Cards  Regional data entry/reporting 6

7. www.unitedwaytriangle.org County partners  Responsible for finding a training location  Identified a “hub” where teams of outreach volunteers could meet at 4 am  Recruited additional service providers and law enforcement for the outreach days  Educated service providers about the event and its outcomes  Identified those who would participate in the matching follow up activities. 7

8. www.unitedwaytriangle.org Community challenges to the fidelity of the model  Frame of reference is Point In Time Count  Survey  4 am – 7 am over three days  Volunteers interacting with those on the street  Law enforcement  Pictures  Informed consent  Housing 8

9. www.unitedwaytriangle.org Regional planning, county implementation  Meeting of regional planning body  Monthly August – October 2011 then bi-monthly in December 2011 and January 2012  Decided to do on top of the PIT count at the end of January 2012  Focus was on volunteer recruitment and training, corporate sponsorship, data entry, and media plans  County based meetings  Monthly to plan logistics  Planning follow up of matching, housing, and volunteer engagement 9

10. www.unitedwaytriangle.org Hiccups  Durham County withdrew from the project  Did not want to adjust their PIT survey  Transition in 10 Year Plan leadership/process  Wake County had rescheduled their Project Homeless Connect to coincide with PIT count  What do we do about housing?  No corporate sponsors emerged 10

11. www.unitedwaytriangle.org Successful registry week  Two trainings the weekend before  Training curriculum  Team identification planning based on geography  Three days at 4 am  Engagement of EMS, Police and Sherriff  Engagement of 120 service providers and volunteers  Informed consent, pictures taken, surveys administered  781 respondents – see our results  Media participation 11

12. www.unitedwaytriangle.org Lessons  4 am didn’t matter in rural camps  Consistent relationships mattered  Natural gathering places  Incentives worked  Law enforcement – engage early to ask them to think about camp sites outside of normal outreach; who do they have calls on? For what? Where do they go?  High profile event  High volunteer engagement activity  Not a systemic solution to the problem of homelessness- helps us prioritize within the current system we have 12

13. www.unitedwaytriangle.org Afterwards  Reenergizing local communities  Continuing relationships between outreach workers and law enforcement  Matching process is going on by engaging diverse service providers in the conversation of the available housing  Four housed  Engagement of Triangle Apartment Association  Looking for common elements for those not eligible for housing  Criminal history is an emerging barrier  Identifying follow-up stories for media 13

14. www.unitedwaytriangle.org Contact information Stan Holt, VP of Regional Initiatives 919-463-5023 sholt@unitedwaytriangle.org 14