HomeMy WebLinkAboutReg 2023-05-01 Item 4 - Presentation - King County Regional Homelessness Authority 5-Year Action Plan and Sub-Regional Implementation PlanTukwila, May 2023
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Theory of Change
If we create a homeless response system
that centers the voices of people with
lived experience,
Then we will be able to meet needs and
eliminate inequities,
In order to end homelessness for all.
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Background
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●More Than 5,600 individuals, couples, and families moved to
Permanent Housing in 2022
●Over 1,000 people engaged throughout 2022: UUHP and Five-Year Plan
●Emergency Housing Vouchers: 100% utilization rate and nearly twice
the utilization rate of peer communities (over 1,400 households)
●Launching Re-procurement using our equitable procurement manual
●Ensured encampment resolutions are focused on housing
●Improved coordination and effectiveness of severe weather response
Progress to Date
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Five-Year Plan Development
●Summer - Fall 2022: Community Engagement Across King County
○Workshops with sub-regions, systems, and sub-populations
●Fall - Winter 2022: Content Development with Community Review
○South King City Staff weighed-in throughout process
●January 2023: First Release & Public Comment Period
○City Staff Feedback
○Provider Leadership Lunch and Learn & Feedback Sessions
●February - March 2023: Restructure
●April (Now): Implementation Board & Governing Committee Review
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Scope & Scale
of the Issue
- How Many People are
ExperiencinĀ Homelessness?
- Who is ExperiencinĀ
Homelessness?
- Racial Disproportionality
- Sub-populations and identities
- Limitations on Data
- Our Work in Memoriam
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Ways to Count Homelessness
Administrative
DatasetsStatistical
Projections Annually versus a
moment in time
Regardless of method, all numbers indicate that we do not have enough
temporary housing/sheltering options for people.
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Who is Experiencing Homelessness?
South King County has 10 Service
Providers Offering Emergency Shelter
2 EmerĀency Shelters welcome drop-in
Āuests
Emergency Shelter
King County Sub-Region Beds % of Countywide
East 715 15.5%
North 143 3.1%
Seattle 3,009 65.3%
South 568 12.3%
Southeast 89 1.9%
Snoqualmie Valley 44 1.0%
Urban Unincorporated 41 0.9%
Total 4,609 100%
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Who is Experiencing Homelessness?1
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Who is Experiencing Homelessness?
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Our Work in Memoriam
(Source: KinĀ County Medical Examiner’s Office)
Number of Deaths of People
Experiencing Homelessness
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Current &
Future State
- How the current homelessness
system is ÿunctioninĀ
- Our ideal system state
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Current State
Service Provider Organizations
●Staffing
●Wages
●Data/Reporting
●Funding
●Training
●Increased Acuity
●Overdose Deaths
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Current State
Network of Homeless Services
●Data Sharing Between Providers
●Referral pathways
●Sub-regional gaps
●Sub-population gaps
●How our programs are fairing
●How the system operates
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Current State
System-to-System Connections
●Lack of collaboration and alignment
●Limited connective tissue between systems
●Data sharing and transparency
●Accountability and Role Clarity
●Coordination on funding sources
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Ideal System State
Every service
provider is able
to adequately
hire and retain
trained staff that
can carry out
best practices
when servinĀ
clients.
All service providers are
coordinated throuĀh
data, every sub-reĀion
has services, and all
disproportionately
impacted
sub-populations are
served.
No missed opportunities
to intercept someone
beÿore becominĀ
homeless.
Supportive transitions.
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How We Get
There
- One, Overall Goal
- Metrics oÿ Success
- Activities Sequenced & Within
BudĀet
- FundinĀ StrateĀy Shiÿt
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One, Overall Goal:
“Bring Unsheltered People Inside as
Quickly as Possible to Prevent Death and
Further Harm”
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Metrics of Success
●Number oÿ households accessinĀ the homelessness response system
●Number oÿ households enterinĀ the homelessness response system
●Number oÿ households exitinĀ the homelessness response system to
permanent housinĀ
●Number oÿ households returninĀ to homelessness aÿter 6, 12, and 24 months
ÿrom a permanent housinĀ exit
●Number oÿ temporary and permanent housinĀ units in the system
●ThrouĀhput throuĀh temporary and permanent housinĀ units in the system
Where possible, these measures will be broken down by:
●Household type: SinĀle Adults, Families with Children and Youth and YounĀ
Adults
●Race & Ethnicity
●ProĀram Type
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Snapshot: Year One Priorities
Year 1 - Year 2
Key Actions Topic Areas Impact Status
Develop a real-time bed availability tool inclusive of
all types of shelter and emergency housing
Data
Resource Availability
Insight into real-time shelter vacancies will allow for greater
enrollments into the shelter system at any given time which will
improve our understanding of how many single adults, families
and youth may be accessing the system.
In-Motion
Partner with the behavioral health organizations to
support connections to behavioral health services.
Behavioral Health
Health Care
High-Acuity
System Connection
Enhanced Care
Establishing connections and providing smooth transitions for
individuals to behavioral health supports enhances the quality of care,
mitigates future needs for support, and increases the chances of
success in permanent housing; ultimately reducing rates of return
into homelessness and increasing throughput in homelessness
programs.
Partner with King County Behavioral Health and
Recovery Division and Public Health and Healthcare
for the Homeless Network to improve communication,
coordination, education, and information sharing
across our homelessness response system for high
acuity individuals.
Behavioral Health
Health Care
High-Acuity
System Connection
Partnerships across systems allows for efficient use of resources,
better understanding of system processes, and increased ability to
care for people quickly which can increase the chances of success
in permanent housing, increase throughput in our system, and
reduce returns to homelessness.
In-Motion
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Prioritization of Activities
Within Current Budget:
Table 1: Activities for Years 1-2 of plan
Table 2: Activities for Years 3-5 of plan
Go First Strategies for New Funding:
Table 3: Activities that would require new funding
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Five Year Plan
The strateĀic roadmap to
transÿorm the homelessness
response system
What does it mean to
implement and act on these
Āoals in South KinĀ County?
South King County
Sub-Regional
Implementation Plan
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Key Components of Sub-Regional Plans
Rooted in equity & social justice principles, there are six key components:
1. Landscape of services
2. Investment/Funding
3. Lived experiences
4. Gaps and Needs
5. Action steps
6. Timeline
2023 HIC/RSD
Updated 2023-2024 Biennium Figures
CI Request with Participatory Researchers
Re-Analyze + Cloudburst
Implementation Plan
Implementation Plan
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Sub-Regional Implementation Plan: Approach
●From the Five-Year Plan, 30 activities will be tailored to each
sub-region
○Identified in collaboration with service providers,
community partners, and city human services staff
○Some activities require either region-wide
standardization or are KCRHA administrative tasks
●Action steps and timelines developed in partnership with
SKC community
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Subject Matter
Working Groups
(Examples: Cities/Jurisdictions; Service
Providers; LGBTQIA2S+; Native &
IndiĀenous; Families w/Children)
230+ Individuals Identified Already
Will work on tarĀeted initiative
areas to develop action steps
and timelines.
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Sub-Regional Implementation Plan: Example
Activity: Deploy an effective communications strategy to ensure the Ombuds Office is
well-known and easily accessible, including the creation of centralized contact mechanisms
(e.g., a hotline).
This activity will be developed to include action steps and timeline appropriate for South King
County.
Example Action Steps for South King County could look like:
1.Educate South King community on Ombuds office; identify stakeholders to convene;
develop strategy.
2.Deploy - January 2025
3.Review & enhance - January 2026
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Sub-Regional Implementation Plan: Feedback
- What do you want to see in the Sub-Regional Implementation Plan?
- What should be built into the South King County Homelessness Response?
- What is missing from the South King County Homelessness Response?
- What level of guidance would you like to see in the plan?
- How would you as a council like to stay informed or involved?
- Which key stakeholders should we engage in the plan development process?
Any other suggestions?
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