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Collaboration: Homeless Service Programs & the Department of Corrections

Join us in discussing the challenges and successes of connecting justice-involved individuals with housing stability. Share your feedback and connect with community correction system stakeholders.

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Collaboration: Homeless Service Programs & the Department of Corrections

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  1. Kate Erickson | Correctional Programs Director| DOC • Katelyn Warburton | Homeless Programs Grant Manager | DHS • Marcel Urman | Community Action Agency Grant Manager | DHS Collaboration: Homeless Service Programs & the Department of Corrections

  2. Agenda Why are we here? Time to work! What happens next? Run, run at the 5K!

  3. Baseline: Policy Challenge 24 CFR § 91 and 576 “90 days or less”…. “fewer than 90 days” “…institutional care facility, including a jail, substance abuse or mental health treatment facility, hospital or other similar facility…”

  4. Setting the Stage… • Those who have been incarcerated once before are 7 times more likely to experience homelessness than the general public; • Individuals who have been incarcerated two or more times are 13 times more likely than the general public to experience homelessness. • Picture from: Pioneer Press • Couloute, L. (2018, August). Nowhere to Go: Homelessness among formerly incarcerated people. Retrieved from https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html#recentlyreleased

  5. In Minnesota… • Approximately 110,000individuals are on correctional supervision in the state of Minnesota. • Approximately 10,000individuals are incarcerated in state correctional facilities, and approximately 7,500 individuals are released to communities every year. • Approximately 4,500 individuals on correctional supervision in the state of Minnesota are homeless/experiencing housing instability. • MCF St. Cloud

  6. First Steps

  7. What barriers do you see within your work that prohibits individuals who are justice involved from connecting with services and resources? • What are the successes, and what do you believe led to those successes? • What do you need in order to best do your work in regards to supporting housing stability and why?

  8. Contact Kate if trying to connect with community correction system stakeholders. • Feedback from local/frontline perspective will be shared with current administration. • Additional session at the Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless Conference.

  9. Thank you! Kate Erickson, kate.a.erickson@state.mn.us Katelyn Warburton, katelyn.warburton@state.mn.us Marcel Urman, marcel.urman@state.mn.us

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