SMAC 2019 Annual Meeting

1. SMAC 2019 Annual Meeting Suburban Metro Area Continuum of Care

2. 2018 Year in Review What is SMAC anyway?

3. Prevent homelessness whenever possible, and otherwise making it rare, brief, and non-recurring PREVENT RARE BRIEF Episodes ofhomelessness New incidents Housing outcomes NON-RECURRING Recidivism

4. Who we used to be.

5. What is CoC? • The Continuum of Care is responsible for coordinating and implementing a system to meet the needs of the homeless population within the geographic area.

6. 2018 Accomplishments • Implementation of Case Consultation • Data Driven Strategies • CES Prioritization shift for ending Chronic Homelessness • Quarterly Provider workshops • SMAC/Ramsey combined Coordinated Entry supplemental questions • NOFA Scoring Tool TA • CoC Grantee Quarterly Review Process Implemented

7. What does the data say? And what does it mean!

8. Coordinated Entry Data: Total Households on the Priority List

9. Coordinated Entry:Unduplicated Households in 2018

10. Chronically Homeless Household on the Coordinated Entry Priority List

11. System Performance Improvement System Performance Measure 7 Increase 27% from 2016-2017 System Performance Measure 5 Decrease of 14.54%

12. 2018 Point in Time DataSystem Performance Measure 3

13. Areas to Improve System Performance Measure 2: Returns to Homelessness System Performance Measure 7: Successful Exits

14. Areas to Improve System Performance Measure 1: Length of Time Homeless

15. What’s up for 2019? And how can you be involved!

16. SMAC Priorities for 2019

17. Coordinated Entry Phase 2 Wait we have to do it all over again!

18. Coordinated Entry Today

19. Coordinated Entry of the Future

20. Hearth Act Definition • Minimum requirements for this systematic approach include: • Emergency shelters • Rapid rehousing • Transitional housing • Permanent supportive housing • Prevention strategies • Available resources through the Continuum of Care program are not sufficient to prevent and end homelessness, coordination and integration of other funding streams, including the Emergency Solutions Grants program and mainstream resources, is integral to carrying out the Continuum of Care System.

21. Prevention • Immediate response/System nimbleness • Integration with mainstream benefits • Centralized hub that understands prevention resources available across the CoC and can make warm handoffs to those resources • Coordinated access to prevention resources • Streamlined prevention assessment tool • Prevention approach includes supporting households housed through Coordinated Entry remain stably housed

22. Outreach • All outreach workers are CES assessors • Outreach updates assessments as contacts happen • Outreach can provide resources to reduce barriers while waiting for housing • Outreach provides support to resolve immediate housing crisis • Outreach workers provide navigation services as defined by the CoC as allowed by the funding stream • Outreach agency participates in Case Consultation • Incorporate outreach from non-traditional outreach resources

23. Crisis Response/Emergency Shelter • Access to shelter is low barrier and as immediate as possible • Screening is aligned and prioritized consistently across the region • Centralized hub for shelter resources • All assessors understand the crisis response options for households they are assessing • All assessors can make a warm handoff to available emergency shelter options • Emergency Shelter staff are an integral part of Case Consultation • Households in shelter are prioritized through Cases Consultation

24. Timeline • Integrated Outreach response Fall 2019 • Integrated Crisis Response/Emergency Shelter response January 2020 • Integrated Prevention response by Fall 2021

25. Planning • Coordinated Entry Work Group • County Partners • Shelter Providers

26. SMAC 2019 Initiatives As if all of that wasn’t enough!

27. Supporting Partnerships for Anti-Racist Communities: SPARC • People of color in Minnesota, specifically African-American and American Indian households, experience homelessness and housing instability at rates that are 7-8 times higher than their representation within the general population in Minnesota

28. SPARC in Minnesota • The Minnesota SPARC Learning Collaborative is designed to accomplish the following goals: • Increase the capacity of communities to understand and respond to racial inequities in homelessness • Assist communities in developing structural change objectives • Implement effective strategies to reduce the number of people of color experiencing homelessness

29. SPARC in SMAC • The Collaborative will occur over 12 months and will combine three in-person Learning Sessions and virtual coaching through specific, time-limited action periods. • Teams of 4-7 people representing the CoC, housing and homeless service providers, funders, people with lived experience of homelessness and other key stakeholders from each local community will focus on five stages of work:  • Community Engagement • Data Analysis • Action Planning • Implementation and Evaluation • Sustainability

30. True Colors Inclusion Assessment • True Colors United implements innovative solutions to youth homelessness that focus on the unique experiences of LGBTQ young people. • The Inclusion Assessment process in order to enable service providers to assess their current level of LGBTQ-inclusive and affirming practices and policies.

31. True Colors Inclusion Assessment in SMAC • Introductory Webinar Friday, March 29 1:00-2:00 • Targeting Emergency Shelter and Rapid Re-housing first • Three Step Assessment Process: • Organizational Overview • All-Staff Survey • Client Survey

32. Ending Veteran Homelessness

33. Work Sessions • SPARC • Youth • Affordable Housing Development • Coordinated Entry Phase 2

34. Thank you!! Please visit the SMAC website and sign up for the distribution list! smacmn.org For questions about today’s meeting reach out to Abby Guilford abby@mesh-mn.org