Agenda 12-02-19 Item 4-d - Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness

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5 Street Outreach Program • Remains a gap • Change from 1 LCSW-level staff to 2 peer support-level staff to increase coverage time and to integrate with Home- Link program that can offer connections to mental health treatment • Could be phased in over two years by adding one peer support staff in Year 1 then the other peer support staff in Year 2;3%cost of living increase included for Year 3 FULL IMPLEMENTATION PHASED IMPLEMENTATION GAP FULL ANNUAL COST YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3 Street Outreach $130,753 $69,468 $130,753 $134,675 Further budget details on page 5 24-Hour Bathrooms in Downtown Chapel Hill/Carrboro • Remains a gap • Town of Chapel Hill Downtown Bathrooms Workgroup proposing a phased-in approach:improving existing facili- ties, new pilot project,and finally use data to plan more permanent community bathroom • Costs TBD,other community partners taking leadership roles Accessible&Housing-Focused Shelter • Partially filled gap-women and families need met by IFC HomeStart • IFC Community House unable to meet this gap for men who make up 80%of people experiencing homelessness because of the Good Neighbor Plan • Next steps will be to come to community consensus on how to fill gap:realignment of IFC Community House, build a new shelter,or another approach • Facilitated community conversations coming in 2019-2020 Diversion Funding • Gap filled by Focus on Franklin nonprofit,created by UNC undergraduate students in the Fall of 2018 • Diversion implemented by CEF and DSS at coordinated entry access sites • $6,145 and 4 mediations provided since October 2018 to divert 26 households • 27%of households seeking shelter diverted from homelessness • Funding estimate to maintain program:$400/household x 32 households= $12,800 • If funding needed from other sources,could be phased in over three years 2