2018	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
(Reports dues 10^th of January, April, July, October)				X

Individuals Served this Quarter	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
New Individuals this Quarter	55	45	37	58
New Families w/Children this Quarter	1	3	1	10
Individuals Carried Over	42	35	28	27
Families Carried Over	5	7	4	3
Total Clients seen this Quarter	104	90	70	98

Demographics this Quarter	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
Female	47	53	41	54
Male	52	40	31	42
Trans	3	3	3	2
African American	13	17	17	12
Native American/Pacific Islander	6	3	2	3
Caucasian	80	75	52	69
Hispanic/Latin American	1	3	2	3
Mental Illness	49	52	33	49
Substance Abuse	27	36	16	23
Dual MI/SA	27	36	16	23
Veteran	1	1	2	1

Housing Status this Quarter	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
Unsheltered	9	13	10	14
Emergency Shelter	23	25	27	36
Precariously Housed	20	35	20	31
Housed (Includes “Doubled Up”)	20	24	21	29
Unknown	23	7	4	7
Evictions this Quarter Despite Efforts	0	0	3	4

Additional Information	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
Approved for Disability this Quarter	3	3	0	0
Employed this Quarter	3	6	3	5
Chronically Homeless	47	40	22	35
Individuals Housed this Quarter	15	17	17	12
Families Housed this Quarter	1	2	2	5
Households Avoiding Eviction	17	19	9	20

Narrative:  For the final quarter of the year the outreach team assisted in helping house 12 individuals and 5 families, while aiding 20 households avoid eviction. The total number served was 98, with an increase in families from an average of 1.33 for the previous 3 quarters to 10 in the final quarter of the year. Another area of notice is that the team worked with a higher number of females than males, which is contrary to the overall population demographic nationally and in years past locally.

For the year, the outreach team assisted in housing 61 individuals and 10 families, and assisted 65 households with avoiding eviction, while 17 persons obtained employment.

The major challenges continue to be the high cost of housing and inadequate affordable housing stock for no and low-income households, sufficient Emergency shelter space, opportunities for persons experiencing homelessness to increase their household income, and the level of need or number of persons needing assistance compared to the level of assistance available in the community.

Gaps in housing services also involves a need for no income housing, or an ability to pay for housing on someone’s behalf while they work towards establishing income through employment or disability income options. It also includes a lack of landlords who are willing to work with local providers or rent to households with lover income. The number of individual landlords that are known or willing to work with low-income populations has severely contracted.

As the population of Lawrence has increased, so too has the population of persons experiencing homelessness. The need for services targeting this population has therefore also increased. This is highlighting a need to not only add affordable housing stock, but to increase the number of people employed to work directly with the population. Homeless Outreach case loads continue to be exorbitantly large. Outreach workers are therefore unable to serve everyone in need. Although the majority of those in need have local ties and are not immigrating from distant places.

Shelter bed space and staffing is also included in this need for an increase in local services. The bed space available at the Lawrence Community Shelter is insufficient to meet the need of those who have no other shelter options. Staffing levels are equally insufficient to operate the shelter adequately.

Substance use in the form of Methamphetamine is also explicitly observed at unprecedented levels, along with long wait times for inpatient treatment, which highlights the need for local, inpatient treatment options for all persons. There is presently no inpatient treatment within Douglas County, KS available for males, for example.