I appreciate the limitations of what you can provide, and, there is a long way to go. I am concerned about those with disabilities who cannot meet the criteria. I mean, this would have a Chilling Effect on them, even seeking shelter. If they know they are not going to be accepted. If they know they cant do the care they have to, what happens . There has to be a whole population of people. I mean, there is a level of sophistication among people who are homeless. They know what they can access on what they cant access. It is a great question. It is something we also struggle with. Ive artie mentioned that we try to work with our other city departments because our department is not funded with any sort of board care, partial new nursing care and so on and so forth. We try to communicate smoothly with them. Another factor is, as you know, disabilities are very wide ranging and our shelters are basically congregate settings. There are people who cannot handle a congregate setting. There we
Homeless connect. The plan is to have a booth there. We are going to be working with our Broad Network of community partners, and Nonprofit Service providers. We also have city departments who identifying natural touch points. If we have caseworkers on their working on something, for an individual, theyre going to encourage them and help them jump online and fill out the form. If you have other ideas, this is why it is important for us to have this conversation. Just trying to think of every opportunity that the city can leverage to get to people. We have our own community ambassadors. People who do the day outreach. I know participating in the census may not be somebodys number one priority when youre trying to survive in the streets , and just figure out where you are going to be, sleep or get some services. You will be survive surprised how many individuals once they understand how the census participation translates to funding, and decisions, and services and support for the things
I appreciate the limitations of what you can provide, and, there is a long way to go. I am concerned about those with disabilities who cannot meet the criteria. I mean, this would have a Chilling Effect on them, even seeking shelter. If they know they are not going to be accepted. If they know they cant do the care they have to, what happens . There has to be a whole population of people. I mean, there is a level of sophistication among people who are homeless. They know what they can access on what they cant access. It is a great question. It is something we also struggle with. Ive artie mentioned that we try to work with our other city departments because our department is not funded with any sort of board care, partial new nursing care and so on and so forth. We try to communicate smoothly with them. Another factor is, as you know, disabilities are very wide ranging and our shelters are basically congregate settings. There are people who cannot handle a congregate setting. There we
Shelter. These are not simple answers, because we deal with each person individually. We do have a system where we treat everybody fairly. If its the only bed that is left when youre out a reservation station is an upper bunk, and you cannot access that , we contact the shelter and we try to swap someone out. We cannot hold beds, any bed that is not claimed it will be released for one night use, even if the person can return tomorrow night for the reservation. Thank you. I appreciate the limitations of what you can provide, and, there is a long way to go. I am concerned about those with disabilities who cannot meet the criteria. I mean, this would have a Chilling Effect on them, even seeking shelter. If they know they are not going to be accepted. If they know they cant do the care they have to, what happens . There has to be a whole population of people. I mean, there is a level of sophistication among people who are homeless. They know what they can access on what they cant access. I
We try to swap someone out. We cannot hold beds, any bed that is not claimed it will be released for one night use, even if the person can return tomorrow night for the reservation. Thank you. I appreciate the limitations of what you can provide, and, there is a long way to go. I am concerned about those with disabilities who cannot meet the criteria. I mean, this would have a Chilling Effect on them, even seeking shelter. If they know they are not going to be accepted. If they know they cant do the care they have to, what happens . There has to be a whole population of people. I mean, there is a level of sophistication among people who are homeless. They know what they can access on what they cant access. It is a great question. It is something we also struggle with. Ive artie mentioned that we try to work with our other city departments because our department is not funded with any sort of board care, partial new nursing care and so on and so forth. We try to communicate smoothly wit