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Home My WebLink AboutHSAB 2016-12-20 MinutesCity of Tukwila Human Services Advisory Board 6300 Southcenter Blvd., suite 115 12:30 pm — 2:30 pm Tuesday, December 20th, 2016 AGENDA TOPICS 1. Kona Kai _(Mychel, Shamsoe, McKenzie) 12:30 -1 2. Police Homeless Outreach Team (Boyd, Tran Valdez) 1:00 —1:20 3. Discuss allocation of funds Mychel's passion/vision is teaching healthy eating /cooking young adults. Hawaiian culture is under represented - beauty, welcoming. Kona Kai means Kona (lady -Queen Liliuokalani) Kai (ocean- surrounds Hawaii) Coffee (Hawaii is the only state in US that grows coffee). Store in Kent has typical Hawaiian character and elegance as a representation of culture. Goal is to teach students that food service is an excellent entrance into employment (you can go as far as you want in a career), creating a career, making a livable wage, under - represented populations - passion for those who deal struggle with addiction. Food, music, and coffee as a natural connector into all communities. Seeing the transformation of students is incredibly rewarding. Kent will be access point for students (keeping Kent store as DVR training center). Tukwila site will have some new enrollees (Foster and Tyee students) once built and all the nuances worked out. All programs are free. Barista program has morphed into culinary skills- always be able to get a job. Number one request from homeless is jobs. Focus on skills and building clientele thru relationships, great way to earn extra income to be a server - good lead into hospitality career. Highline College partnership (20 college credits once program is completed, feeds into Hospitality degree), Renton Tech College feeds into the Culinary Arts degree. KK staff assist with finding /applying for scholarships /grants to complete degree. Other community partners include: PS Skill center, YMCA, Youth Source, DSHS, Navos. Have designed and utilize an assessment tool for each student; identify /remove barriers that could interfere with student program completion. 6 -8 weeks of training, not everyone can come to Kent, so utilizing community partners (i.e. possibility of kitchens in other communities- more accessible). Soft skills are missing with many students; teaching those necessary skills to ensure student success in the work force is critical. Mychel enjoys working with autistic kids. Educators include a curriculum teacher (in -kind from Highline College) and Mychel teaches practical (cooking). Tukwila can be a training program that can also lead to creating jobs. McKenzie and Shamsoe are focusing on marketing, hosting events, social media, inviting community /business offering meeting space and catering (including United Way and Seattle Foundation). Everyone is welcome, even homeless (free coffee). Students are the ones catering -a great sense of accomplishment. Supper clubs are coming soon. HSAB was supportive of moving forward with funding this program. Important to acknowledge separation between his private business and his non -profit side. $10k for 2017 and I OK for 2018. Stacy presented details on Literacy Source to determine if HSAB was interested in re- instating funding -Jan yes, Jonathan yes, Charis yes, Terra yes to fund at 510,500 and 3 quarters of classes (no summer quarter). Somali Youth & Family Club case management work with all refugee populations providing emergency financial assistance. Board agreed to fund at $10k (yes from Jan, Charis (be consistent with Kona Kai), Jonathan H, Terra as long as they serve more than one population). Sergeant Boyd, Officer Tran and Officer Valdez work on the outreach team: Srgnt Boyd shared the Bell vs Boise (ground rules can/can't be done vs homeless issues and law enforcement) Will be looking at Tacoma's response to homelessness and implementing what makes sense for Tukwila. (working with the Prosecutor's office surrounding many complaints of human waste, needles, camping, etc. especially at CV Park, cut back landscaping to help eliminate opportunity). The goal is not to criminalize homelessness, but encourage utilizing available resources. Homelessness is not a criminal offense in Tukwila (can't be arrested /not a civil infraction). Pd's goal is to work within the law, from a humanitarian point. Consistency with the same officers helps build trust (Joe Zaler Crisis Intervention Officer works with a lot of critical situations). PD has learned that there are a variety of reasons why folks experience homelessness. Trying to prevent homeless like the `Jungle' from occurring here in Tukwila. PD is mostly working with adults experiencing chemical dependency, mental health issues. 4 Phases, notification, assessment, response and cleanup. Phase 1: complaint (9 -1 -1) call, Phase 2: are they on public or private property, PD team members visit camp site, # of people, kids, how long, what do they need? Phase 3: sharing info internally SMH (do site visit, do an intake, try to engage in necessary programs that can assist, getting enrolled, check -in, clean up and then leave site), HS. Give notice of needing to vacate space. Phase 4: After a month notice, 2 weeks to clean up camp and then city will come in and clean up and remove all that is left. Officer Tran created a simple tool to help identify the issues with the camper, and then refer to appropriate resources based on what `category' they fall in to (single, male /female /age, etc.). Officers Tran/Valdez checked all encampments in the city, all contained a single tent with a single person, not encampments! Valdez noted that those experiencing homelessness are moving around a lot - Tukwila Works a good option if residents /businesses spot an `encampment'. Only a small percentage of campers have addiction, criminal or mental health issues. Feel free to pass along homeless encampments that are spotted. We encouraged continued communication with HS office. Rev Jan has a great experience with the Homeless Outreach Team and was appreciative of their approach. They have built a mutually supportive relationship so that the Officers can refer to RPUMC site (safe parking and camping on church property) and assist if there is a problem. Rev Jan is hiring a case manager to work with homeless families, bi- lingual preferred (based on Best Starts funding). However, she is mostly housing Caucasian and African American residents (English is first language). Hygiene center and a supportive laundromat (like Burien) are missing necessary services. Friday, January 13`h, 2017 next meeting from 12:30 to 1:30 pm.