Stats on homelessness and homeless outcomes

1. THE LORD’S PLACE - FACT SHEET
The Lord’s Place represents and leads small agencies around the country in innovative
programs for the homeless
Homeless Stats:National andFloridaSpecific
 In the US 3.5- 5 million people experience homelessness annually (National Coalition for
the Homeless)
 1543 people are homeless on any given day in Palm Beach County. This includes 78
families with children (2013 Palm Beach County Point-In-Time Count)
 On any given night 3200 men, women and children are homeless in Palm Beach County
(estimate by the State of Florida)
 Nationally: $16,000 is the cost of housing a homeless person for one year –
 The Lord’s Place: The cost of housing a homeless person for one year is $5842. The cost of
housing one adult family member or child for one yearis $3,452.
 Florida is among the top 10 states for extent of homelessness. (State of Homelessness
report by NAEH).
 Palm Beach County ranked 5th in Florida for highest number of students in emergency or
transitional housing (Florida Department of Education 2012)
 Palm Beach County’s children go hungry three times more than the national average.
(National Center for Family Homelessness 2011)
 There are only 31 affordable and available rental units in Florida for every 100 extremely
low-income (<30% AMI) renter households (Shimberg Center for Housing Studies, Univ. of
Florida)
 South Florida ranks No. 1 among the largest 150 metro areas for the "housing burden" on
renters and homeowners — defined as spending that tops 30 percent of income (South
Florida Regional Planning Council)
The Lord’s Place Programs Stats
Housing:
 From 10/1/2013 to 9/30/2014, 324 individuals were residents in The Lord’s Place
housing programs. There were 60 families served consisting of 108 children and 72
adults.
 94% were no longer homeless at the end of the year.
 Of 152 individuals and family members who left our housing program during the year,
131 or 86% left to stable housing.
 51% of adults who exited our housing programs left with jobs and increased income
and savings.
 Housing residents are saving $123 a month, on average.

2. Employment:
 From 10/1/2013 to 9/30/2014, 439 individuals enrolled in our Job Training and
Employment Program.
 272 individuals participated in our Job Readiness classroom training program and 240
or 88% successfully graduated.
 82 individuals participated in our apprenticeship training programs.
 Our Job Training and Employment participants received 172 job offers.
 Of 49 employees hired by The Lord’s Place from 10/1/2013 to 9/30/2014, 36 or 73%
were program participants.
Reentry:
 The Transition from Jail to Community Project served 200 participants. A recidivism
rate of 34.5% compared favorably tothe 44% rate reported by the Pew Center and the
50% jail recidivism rate reported nationally.
 The Restore Program is for individuals returning from prison. Of 148 served, only
4.08% have returned to prison.
Mental Health:
 85% of those who left our mental health program were stable and taking their
medications at time of transfer to the local community mental health system.
 97% were connected with a medical home at time of discharge.
 95% had health insurance.
 90% were stably housed.
 55% were employed or receiving Social Security Disability benefits.
 Of those who left the program, 41 had psychiatric hospital diversions and 23 had
medical hospital diversions while in the program.
Social Returns:
 81% of alumni have remained free of emergency room visits.
 86% have remained free of criminal convictions.
 86% have remained free of psychiatric hospitalizations.
Agency Wide:
 For the calendar year 2014 we had 1382 active unduplicated program participants.
 In 2014, our walk in center had 247 new participants and we averaged 500 walk-ins
each month.
 On any given day we have 174 participants in our housing programs, 473 in job
training, 48 in reentry and 36 in social enterprises.
 We have 627 program graduates in our Alumni Relations program.
 In summary, in the course of a year we touch over 1600 unduplicated participants and
on any given day we have over 700 unduplicated individuals enrolled in ourvarious
programs.