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HomeMy WebLinkAbout01-13-20 City Commission Packet Materials - SP1. HRDC Presentation on Homelessness - SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALSWithout a Home in Bozeman HRDC DISTRICT IX HEATHER GRENIER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CEO Without a Home in Bozeman  HRDC Update  Faces of Homelessness  FUSE HRDC Update  Community Action Agency  Served over 11,000 people in 2019  Programs Include:  Food and Nutrition  Housing  Transportation  Early Childhood Care & Education  Senior Services  Energy Assistance  Youth and Economic Development  Community Development Housing Continuum Source: Bozeman, Montana Community Housing Needs Assessment, February 2019 Housing Continuum Emergency Shelter Transitional Home Assisted Rental Subsidized Home Affordable Rental Market Rate Rental Market Rate Homeownership Emergency Shelter Transitional Home Assisted Rental Subsidized Home Affordable Rental Market Rate Rental Market Rate Homeownership Crisis Vulnerable At Risk Stable Safe Thriving Permanent Supportive Housing Current Need 01∙08∙2020  420 Households reported their housing status as homeless in 2018  101 Households experiencing homelessness  22 Families  22 Single Women  5 Unaccompanied Youth  7 Veterans  Totaling over 120 individuals Current Need  Warming Center  Season Shelter (Nov-March)  Warm, safe, place to sleep (7pm-7am)  Capacity to sleep 43 individuals Faces of Homelessness What does the Warming Center mean to you? “It meant a warm place for my kids, a safe haven, and to get my plans in place to be able to move forward from being homeless.” Guest found a home for her and her 3 children in Belgrade. Still working 3 jobs. Faces of Homelessness What did the Warming Center mean for you? “I needed some stability for a few months so I could get a job and get on my feet and such, And I’ve done that. And I couldn’t have done that without the help the Warming Center gave me.” Guest moved to Wyoming recently and called to let us know he is doing well. Faces of Homelessness What did the Warming Center mean to you? “Life and death. Nothing special. I probably wouldn’t have made it. I couldn’t borrow enough money to crash inside this year. So um, yeah, there was probably a lot of people that wouldn’t have made it.” Guest is now in subsidized housing and volunteers his time to shovel our sidewalks to make sure we’re safe. The cost of chronic homelessness Cost Savings following housing  Social Service cost reduction of over 87%, saving over $4,581 in service use.  Prior to attaining housing, hospital services totaled $34,982. After attaining housing, this cost was reduced to $9,303; a cost savings of more than 73%. Housing First Housing First: Rapid Re-Housing One year of rental assistance Supportive case management Emergency Food Assistance Preventative Health Care $11,860 annually per person A savings of $16,445 per person each year Housing First Village Emergency Shelter Transitional Home Assisted Rental Subsidized Home Affordable Rental Market Rate Rental Market Rate Homeownership Emergency Shelter Transitional Home Assisted Rental Subsidized Home Affordable Rental Market Rate Rental Market Rate Homeownership Crisis Vulnerable At Risk Stable Safe Thriving Permanent Supportive Housing FUSE Frequent User System Engagement Bozeman partners & data match agreements FUSE Partners: HRDC & Coordained Entry system, Gallatin County Detention Center, Bozeman Health, City of Bozeman, Community Health Partners, Western Montana Mental Health Center, faith-based community representatives FUSE data match partners: HRDC, Bozeman Health, Gallatin County Detention Center For data match • HRDC & Detention Center- Coordinated Entry MOU • HRDC & Bozeman Health – Business Associate Agreement and Limited data sharing agreement • HRDC completed data match, analyzed trends & deidentified Sharing data with team • Need agreements between Bozeman Health and any partner viewing deidentified data, no option for identified data • Outreach to individuals • New data sharing agreements requires FUSE in Bozeman: Data Match HRDC Warming Center & Bozeman Coordinated Entry System • Matched any individuals who either stayed at the Warming Center or were identified through the local coordinated entry system with a VISPDAT score • All individuals on this list are chronically homeless or have experienced homelessness during the June 1, 2018- May 31, 2019 timeframe • Collected: name, DOB, veteran status, sex, race, VISPDAT, nights at Warming Center, Chronic homelessness with a disabling condition status • Cost estimate created based on 2017- 2018 Warming Center per night calculation Match method based on duplicate DOB in full dataset to create individual entries across all three systems, completed by HRDC Bozeman Health • Matched any individual who visited the Bozeman Deaconess Emergency Department (only Emergency Department in Bozeman) four or more times • Collected: name, DOB, sex, race, number of Emergency Department visits, number of inpatient admits, number of inpatient care days, insurance provider • Cost estimate based on rough average cost per admit to the Emergency Department Gallatin Detention Center • Matched any individual who was incarcerated two or more times at the Gallatin Detention Center • Collected: All records of incarcerations and used: name, DOB, race, sex, number of incarcerations, number of bed days • Cost estimate based on average cost per incarceration Gallatin Detention Center 2+ incarcerations 1004 Bozeman Health 4+ visits to Emergency Department 915 HRDC Warming Center & Coordinated Entry 416 Engage with all systems: 23 Health & Housing: 26 Housing & Justice: 57 Health & Justice: 45 FUSE Bozeman, MT June 1, 2018- May 31, 2019 Individuals: 2157 Overlap two systems : 128 FUSE Bozeman, MT June 1, 2018- May 31, 2019 Trends • rarely veteran • majority White with few Native American/Alaskan Natives • majority male • nearly all on Medicaid • more than half chronically homeless status Avg. Age Avg. incarcerations Bed Days in jail Warming Center nights avg. per person VISPDAT score Avg. # Emergency Dept. Visits per person Avg. # of IP Admits per person Avg. # Inpatient Days per person 23 Frequent Users 43 4.3 35. 7 37.9 9.5 8.7 2.2 6.8 Without a Home in Bozeman  HRDC Update  Faces of Homelessness  FUSE Questions?