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9 <br /> political and business leaders, service providers, and homeless people —to produce the <br /> plan <br /> - *A collaborative workgroup of the Coordinating Council of Calhoun County involving 40 <br /> providers of services, consumers of those services, funders & city/county reps. <br /> Specific data for Calhoun County related to homelessness: <br /> - 75% "episodically" homeless <br /> - 25% "chronically" homeless <br /> - 32% women <br /> - 68% men <br /> - 33% mental illness <br /> - 48% drug and/or alcohol addiction <br /> Other context: <br /> - Research showed there was a growing trend in homelessness. There had been some success, <br /> but it had stagnated. The visibility of the homeless problem seemed to be cyclical. Temporary <br /> shelters got people off the street, which is important, but didn't solve the problem of chronic <br /> homelessness. <br /> - Housing First approach provided more support. To really address chronic homelessness takes <br /> time, effort and leadership— not easy to pull off. <br /> - With temporary shelters, the visibility wasn't as pronounced and pressure was eased up on. <br /> - Shelters were funded by beds being occupied, not having empty beds. Other providers were also. <br /> If you changed the mandate for keeping beds empty, there's no funding for that. Even showing up <br /> for Coalition meetings weren't funded — had to volunteer to that. <br /> - Whole system tends to gravitate toward the easy to do stuff. If you want to end homelessness, <br /> have to figure out how to break the vicious cycle. <br /> As a result of the work in systems thinking, homelessness didn't end, but did lessen. The group process <br /> the Homeless Coalition used focused on: <br /> - Reducing and reframing shelter use <br /> - Sharing a vision of Housing First <br /> - Investing in affordable housing with support services <br /> - Asking the question: how are we implicated in this? <br /> Outcomes <br /> - Homeless Coalition coalesced around a plan and the plan was funded <br /> - Homeless Coalition voted unanimously to reallocate HUD funding from one service provider's <br /> transitional housing program to permanent supportive housing program run by another provider <br /> Quantitative results: In the plan's first six years of operation (2007-2012), which included the <br /> economic collapse of 2008, the county reported the following results: <br /> Homelessness decreased by 14% (from 1658 to 1419) <br /> DESPITE a 34% increase in unemployment and 7% increase in evictions <br /> Deepening Our Understanding of Problems: The Iceberg <br /> Mr. Goodman then invited participants to apply The Iceberg Framework to better understand <br /> their issue of food insecurity. Participants were instructed to work in their small groups to <br /> answer: <br /> - Why do we have this issue or challenge? <br /> - Identify the underlying Structure (Brainstorm list of factors or drivers) <br /> - Why has it persisted this long? <br />
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