California State Plan
Final Ten Year Homelessness Plan Cover Letter
Final Ten Year Chronic Homelessness Action Plan
California Policy Academy
June 21 - 23, 2006
Asilomar, Monterey, CA
Materials from this event are organized by topic below. There are four main sections as well as a posting of welcome packets handed out at the event and introductory resource materials. The first item in each main section is the rank order tabulation of strategies suggested by and voted on by delegates at the event. Behind that are additional resource materials available to and used during the process.
Welcome Packet
Agenda
Governor
Schwarzenegger's Chronic Homelessness Initiative
Creating
the Content
Participants
List (updated since event to reflect actual attendance/representation)
Table
Leader and Content Expert Biographies
Evaluation
Form
I. Background on Chronic Homelessness and its Solutions in California
Data and Dollars:
Prevalence
of Chronic Homelessness in California
Prevalence
of Subpopulations Among Homeless People in California
Recent
Data on Homelessness in California
Causes,
Definition, Barriers, Challenges and Solutions to Chronic
Homelessness
Mainstream
Systems Continuum of Care Paradigm
Continuum
of Care Funding Map
Eligible
Jurisdictions not Applying for Continuum of Care Funding
in 2006
Status
of Ten-Year Planning Map
California
Federal Competitive Grant Map
HUD
2005 Emergency Shelter Grants and 2005 State FESG Grants
Continental U.S. 2002 Continuum of Care Areas Map
How State Government Works:
California
State Government: The Executive Branch
The
Life Cycle of Legislation
How to Play the Legislative Budget Game [This hand-out is from a publication called 'Dollars and Democracy: An Advocate's Guide to the California State Budget Process' pages 20-21. This publication can be ordered by contacting California Budget Project at 921 11th Street, Suite 502 / Sacramento CA 95814 or via phone at 916.444.0500, fax at 916.444.0172 or e-mail at cbp@cbp.org.]
Budget
Backgrounder: Making Dollars Make Sense
Summary of Current California Legislation Affecting Extremely Low Income and Homeless Persons
Selected
Laws Enacted in California that Address Homelessness and
Housing (through 2005)
Selected Resources & Policy Academy:
Draft
Action Plan for California Homeless Families
Co-occurring
Disorders Joint Action Council (COJAC) State Plan Action
Plan [also available for download at www.cojac.ca.gov/index/htm]
Homelessness
and Housing in California: A Catalog of Research and Resources
Past
Homeless Policy Academies Resource List
Improving
Access to Mainstream Services for People Experiencing Chronic
Homelessness Resource Manual Table of Contents
Giving
Voice to Homeless People in Policy Practice and Research
by Nicole Glasser
II. Component One: Discharge and Transition Planning
Rank
Order Tabulated Ballots of Table Suggested and Voted on
Strategies
HomeBase
Summary of Local Planning Documents
Stakeholder
Input
Key
Proposals from the Davis Report
Policies
and Protocols
State
of California Highlight: MIOCRG Program
Project
Profile: Serial Inebriates Program
Project
Profile: Project Choice
Project
Profile: New Directions
Project
Profile: Supportive Housing Initiative Act Project
III. Component Two: Outreach, Treatment, and Services
Rank
Order Tabulated Ballots of Table Suggested and Voted on
Strategies
HomeBase
Summary of Local Planning Documents
Stakeholder
Input
Key
Proposals from the Davis Report
Key
Proposal: Hate Crime Legislation
State
of California Highlight: AB 2034
Project
Profile: Project Homeless Connect
Project
Profile: Project Coming Home
Housing First Services for People Who Are Homeless With
Co-Occurring Serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
by Deborah K. Padgett, Lelyla Dulcur and Sam Tsemberis available
for download at http://rsw.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/16/1/74
IV. Component Three: Housing
Rank
Order Tabulated Ballots of Table Suggested and Voted on
Strategies
HomeBase
Summary of Local Planning Documents
Stakeholder
Input
Key
Proposals from the Davis Report
HomeBase
Summary of Continuum of Care Housing Inventories
Compendium
of Housing Models that Meet the Needs of Persons with COD:
Proposed Framework
State
of California Highlight: SHIA Program
Project
Profile: Skid Row Collaborative
Successful
Strategy: Washington's Homeless Housing and Assistance Act
(HB 2163)
HomeBase
Summary of "Predicting Staying In or Leaving Permanent
Supportive Housing That Serves Homeless People with Serious
Mental Illness"
Public
Service Reductions Associated with Placement of Homeless
Persons with Severe Mental Illness in Supportive Housing
by Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen Metraux and Trevor Hadley
V. Component Four: Incomes and Employment
Rank
Order Tabulated Ballots of Table Suggested and Voted on
Strategies
HomeBase
Summary of Local Planning Documents
Stakeholder
Input
Key
Proposals from the Davis Report
Summary
of Continuum of Care Performance Outcomes in California
[as reported by 32 CoCs]
Project
Profile: Hope House
Project
Profile: L.A. Hope
Reducing
Medicaid Enrollment Barriers for Individuals who are Homeless
Protecting
Homeless Medicaid Beneficiaries Under Managed Care
Reducing
SSI Enrollment Barriers for Homeless Claimants
SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery
(SOAR) Technical Assistance Initiative Overview [This document
was created by Policy Research Associates, Inc. as part
of their SSI/SSDI Outreach and Recovery Technical Assistance
Initiative. To see more information from them or request
a copy of this handout please go to www.pathprogram.samhsa.gov/SOAR]
Challenges in the SSI/SSDI Process for Homeless Adults with Mental Illnesses and Strategies to Address Them
Expediting Access to SSA Disability Benefits:
Promising Practices for People who are Homeless [12 page
document, to request a copy or be added to the SOAR Listserv
please e-mail SOAR@prainc.com]
