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2018 |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
Q4 |
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(Reports dues 10th of January, April, July, October) |
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X |
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Individuals Served this Quarter |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
Q4 |
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New Individuals this Quarter |
55 |
45 |
37 |
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New Families w/Children this Quarter |
1 |
3 |
1 |
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Individuals Carried Over |
42 |
35 |
28 |
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Families Carried Over |
5 |
7 |
4 |
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Total Clients seen this Quarter |
104 |
90 |
70 |
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Demographics this Quarter |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
Q4 |
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Female |
47 |
53 |
41 |
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Male |
52 |
40 |
31 |
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Trans |
3 |
3 |
3 |
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African American |
13 |
17 |
17 |
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Native American/Pacific Islander |
6 |
3 |
2 |
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Caucasian |
80 |
75 |
52 |
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Hispanic/Latin American |
1 |
3 |
2 |
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Mental Illness |
49 |
52 |
33 |
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Substance Abuse |
27 |
36 |
16 |
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Dual MI/SA |
27 |
36 |
16 |
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Veteran |
1 |
1 |
2 |
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Housing Status this Quarter |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
Q4 |
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Unsheltered |
9 |
13 |
10 |
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Emergency Shelter |
23 |
25 |
27 |
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Precariously Housed |
20 |
35 |
20 |
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Housed (Includes “Doubled Up”) |
20 |
24 |
21 |
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Unknown |
23 |
7 |
4 |
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Evictions this Quarter Despite Efforts |
0 |
0 |
3 |
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Additional Information |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
Q4 |
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Approved for Disability this Quarter |
3 |
3 |
0 |
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Employed this Quarter |
3 |
6 |
3 |
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Chronically Homeless |
47 |
40 |
22 |
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Individuals Housed this Quarter |
15 |
17 |
17 |
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Families Housed this Quarter |
1 |
2 |
2 |
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Households Avoiding Eviction |
17 |
19 |
9 |
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Narrative: The outreach program assisted with housing 19 households and assisted with preventing eviction for 9 households this quarter. For a large part of the quarter the team was working with only 1 worker as one of the outreach team was out for illness and eventually resigned due to health complications. Kinser Vonderfecht has been hired to replace the former worker and is slowly acclimating to the working environment.
The Bert Nash CMHC has also added another PATH outreach worker and a data and SOAR specialist to the federally funded PATH outreach program, which works with the city outreach program. In total, PATH and city outreach workers now therefore total 4 ˝ workers.
The Outreach team lead requested increased city funding for the 2019 year with the intention of adding a 3rd outreach position back to the city funded team. And although increased funds were allocated by the city, which Bert Nash and the outreach program are grateful for, the funding amount was less than requested and insufficient for adding a 3rd position. It is the outreach team lead’s and Bert Nash administration’s impression that the increased funds were intended to increase the flex funding available for assisting clients served and has reached out to the city for further guidance regarding this.
The Outreach team lead is working with other community partners to begin the process of attempting to increase affordable housing stock. An example is the affordable housing event co-hosted with LDCHA and Catholic Charities, and attended by many other service providers, inviting landlords and property managers to engage in conversation about services available and affordable housing needs.
Affordable housing, opportunities for establishing household income, and emergency shelter space remain challenges for individuals experiencing homelessness in the Lawrence and Douglas County, KS area. Case challenges worth mentioning are elderly/aging cases in with the individual has lost housing due to diminished self-care capacity and downturns in income. These cases prove challenging because there are no care facilities immediately available for low-income elderly populations with self-care challenges.