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Laying the Foundations for Change

Laying the Foundations for Change. Housing, Homelessness & Healing An update on Ten Year Plans to End Chronic Homelessness In Winston-Salem and Asheville. The Importance of Being Housed. Overview. Introduction to Ten Year Plans & Goals History of Homelessness Pre- Ten Year Plans

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Laying the Foundations for Change

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  1. Laying the Foundations for Change Housing, Homelessness & Healing An update on Ten Year Plans to End Chronic Homelessness In Winston-Salem and Asheville

  2. The Importance of Being Housed

  3. Overview • Introduction to Ten Year Plans & Goals • History of Homelessness Pre- Ten Year Plans • Housing First • Progress & Learning

  4. Brief History of Interventions • 1980’s--Emergency Shelters • 1990’s—Transitional Housing • 2000’s--Permanent Supportive Housing, Data, Chronic Homelessness • 2010’s--Evidence-based practices, HPRP results, Rapid Re-Housing, Coordinated Intake • HEARTH Act—signed 2009, implemented 2012

  5. How the SystemDeveloped

  6. Ten Year Plan Movement • US Interagency Council on Homelessness • Expansion of interagency collaboration at federal and state levels • Over 1,000 U.S. mayors and county executives have developed Ten Year Plans • NC Coalition to End Homelessness—dialogue groups continue to share best practices

  7. NC Communities with TYPs • Asheville/Buncombe County • Chapel Hill/Orange County • Charlotte/Mecklenburg County • Durham/Durham County • Fayetteville/Cumberland County • Gastonia • Greensboro/High Point/Guilford County • Greenville/Pitt County • Raleigh/Wake County • Shelby/Cleveland County • Wilmington/Brunswick/New Hanover/Pender Counties • Winston-Salem/Forsyth County

  8. Winston-Salem/Forsyth CountyVISION STATEMENT Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, with the full support of the community and homeless service providers, will provide effective solutions and accessible services to eliminate chronic homelessness and improve the system’s effectiveness for all persons experiencing a housing crisis.

  9. Why a Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness? Bethesda Center Salvation Army Recue Mission Because Shelter is not a Home

  10. It is achievable It’s the Right Thing to Do! 1) Morally 2) Fiscally

  11. Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Goals • Ensure all people who experience homelessness have access to community housing and benefit screening; • Creation of approximately 600 new units of permanent, service enriched housing for individuals and families who are homeless; • Development of employment services to ensure that persons who are homeless are assisted in finding work and achieving their employment goals; • Strategies to improve collaboration among service providers; • Adoption of a “Housing First” approach; • A series of general system enhancements to ensure that mainstream resources and homeless-specific services are more effective.

  12. National Picture of Homelessness 2007-2011 2011 Point-in-Time (PIT) Estimates of Homelessness: Supplement to the Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) , December 2011.U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

  13. Winston-Salem/Forsyth County PIT Count 2005-2011

  14. Housing Development 2006- 2012 • Goal 598 Units

  15. 5th Street Project

  16. Hunters Hill

  17. Veteran Helping Veterans Heal Add VHVH photo

  18. 5th St Extenstion

  19. Partnership with Public Housing Authority • Shelter Plus Care • HOME Tenant-based Rental Assistance • Section 8 Vouchers • Public Housing Units • Family Reunification Vouchers

  20. The Commons- the ultimate collaboration to end homelessness

  21. Average Length Homeless2010 CHIN Data • Individuals in Emergency Shelter: 243 days • Families in Emergency Shelter: 119 days • Individuals in Transitional Housing: 112 days • Families in Transitional Housing: 95 days

  22. Forsyth Rapid Re-Housing Collaborative • Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing • Served 278 (528 ind) Households from 2009-2012 • 96% success at keeping prevention households Permanently Housed • 88% success at keeping re-housing households housed • Average cost per household $6963 ($3,666 per person) • Average participation 286 days

  23. Veteran Re-Housing Program • Served 113 households (222 ind) • 77 exits • 100% of Prevention cases stably housed • 78% of Re-Housing cases stably housed (5 moved in with friend)

  24. PROPOSED SYSTEM

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