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Best Practice Basics: Volunteering for Winter Weather Shelter

October 15, 15, 201 2019

QUIZ: Z: Winter Emergency Shelter in Clark County

 How many shelters do we have in the

winter, and where are the shelters located?  Is there enough shelter for everyone who wants it?  How do shelters create an environment that everyone can feel comfortable in?  What can you do to help?

What does CFTH do?

Leadership

Engage the community

• Outreach, education, understanding

Identify and monitor needs

• Data collection and analysis

Convene & Collaborate

• WHO & Severe Weather Shelter

Advocacy

Increase Affordable Housing Tenant Rights

Solutions

Diversion School Programs VHA Partnerships

Leadership: Convene and Collaborate, Community Engagement

• Community Engagement
• Continuum of Care/Crisis Response System
• Coordinating and planning body around

homelessness

Advocacy: 2019 Legislative Session Wins

• Increased HEN program Funding
• Housing Trust Fund
• Tenants Rights
• Landlord Incentives

Solutions: Housing Solutions Center

• Single point of entry into HCRS
• Severe Weather Planning
• Diversion
• School Partnerships

HUD Key Elements of an Effective Homeless Crisis Response System:

Access and Prioritization

• Outreach
• Coordinated Entry/Assessment
• Diversion

Crisis and Interim Housing (November 12th)

• Emergency Shelter
• Transitional Housing

Assistance to Return to Housing

• Rapid Re-Housing
• Permanent Supportive Housing

Winter Hospitality Overflow (WHO) November-March

17 years and counting! Partnership between Share, CFTH, St. Andrew and St. Paul Lutheran Churches AND…. Many, Many more volunteers!!

• St. Andrew: 50 beds; Single Women, Couples and Families
• St. Paul: 30 beds; Single Men

Share House Emergency Shelter Overflow: 30 beds; Single Men

Severe Winter Weather Shelter

49 Severe Weather Nights in 2018-2019 27 Severe Weather Nights 2017-2018 54 Severe Weather Nights 2016-2017 17 Severe Weather Nights 2015-2016

Severe Weather Shelter Locations

• Living Hope (~80 beds)
• Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church (~18 beds)
• Immanuel Lutheran Church (~22 beds)
• Refuel Washougal/St. Matthew/Washougal

Community Center (~25 beds)

Warm & Welcoming

People welcomed regardless of barriers or household composition (Living Hope) Allows the three Ps Safety and Respect for guests and volunteers All night access (Living Hope)

Shelter + Housing Programs

Housing Solutions Center Housing Hotline 360-695-9677 Street Outreach Law Enforcement Emergency Shelters Winter Shelters Severe Weather Shelters

Housing Programs Affordable Housing

Back to the Quiz…

 Locations  Do we have enough?  Behavior Based Rule Enforcement; Each site sets rules  Volunteer!

Takeaways:

 Volunteers make it happen  Some sites coordinate guests through the Housing Hotline; Some do not  Each site operates according to their own capacity  Training is provided  No experience necessary  A warm, safe place to sleep is one of the most essential human needs.  Connecting people to housing programs when possible.

Take Action

Volunteer with the WHO or severe weather shelter!!

Visit the booths in the foyer to learn more

Volunteer with Point in Time Count or Project Homeless Connect Contact Laura 360-993-9526 Talk about what you learned Advocate for more Housing Programs & Shelter See you on November 12th back at the VHA for Best Practice Basics: Emergency Shelter

Take Action some more…

Apply to volunteer online at

• utsidersinn.org/sws

Have a pancake breakfast at Applebee’s on October 27th between 8am – 10am.

• Hazel Dell
• Orchards
• Mill Plain (@SE 2nd Cir.)

Hear Directly from volunteers and a former guest:

Charles Hanset, former shelter guest Brian Norris, Pastor Living Hope Church And more…

Go Forth and Volunteer!

Thank You

www.councilforthehomeless.org | 360-695-9677