Slides from the Ending Youth Homelessness - Strategies for Increasing Community Support and Improving Your Ten Year Plan. (Richard Hooks Wayman, Hearth Connection).

1. FOCUSING ON YOUTH!
Strategies for Increasing Community Support
& Improving 10 Year Plan
Model Example: Heading Home Hennepin

2. HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
MARCHING ORDERS – Call to Action
 TOPIC AREAS – What was our focus?
 Prevention
 Housing
 Services
 What we added
 Outreach
 Self-Support (Education & Employment)

3. LEADERSHIP
 Organized by County/City Continuum of Care
 Identification of Key Facilitators (Cochairs)
 Monica Nilsson – The Bridge
 Rich Hooks Wayman – StreetWorks Collaborative
 Approached other leaders – full spectrum

4. Existing Strength in Homeless Youth
Services- multiple points of input!
 FHPAP Youth Rep.
 Street Outreach
 Emergency Shelter
 Transitional Housing
 Drop-in Centers
 Case Management
Services
 Culturally specific
organization (SE Asian
Council, American Indian
Community Dev. Corp,
Afro-centric and African
Immigrant cultural
outreach and service
 Health Clinics
 Permanent Supportive
Housing
 Police
 Business Community
(Downtown Council,
Chamber of Commerce
 District Court
 Commissioner of Public
Health
 Suburban Counseling
and Outreach
 Mpls Public School
 School Board

5. How to fill gaps when there’s no
spectrum of youth serving agencies
 POINT IN TIME COUNT
 Separate Out Youth (24 and under)
 Recruitment of agencies, case workers, youth
 Identify lead organization for coordination
 Map out locations and sources of data
 Facilitate collection of data
 Promote the quality of data (training) and analyze data
 Frequent timing – to show progress
 NATURAL SYSTEMS: Child welfare, Juvenile
Justice, Schools, Community Services
 CREATE CAPACITY – organization, process,
goals/plans

6. RECRUITMENT: Making the Time
 100 day plan – short and focused (small
commitment)
 Diversification of voices & stakeholders
 Planning meetings (every 2-3 weeks) – 25 people
 Organized committees for focused
recommendations (5-6 people on each
subcommittee)
 Identification of leaders (facilitators) to DRAFT and
EDIT (narrative is time consuming)

7. ANALYZE CURRENT STATE OF
SERVICES
 PIT, Gaps analysis
 Hearing from homeless youth
 Hearing from other communities
(Listening session)
 Tough choices – emphasizing or
prioritizing competing parts of the
spectrum – shelter vs. housing,
outreach vs. case management

8. DOING OURWORKTOGETHER–
 Structure – Co-facilitated
 Committee
 Prevention
 Housing
 Services
 Self-Sufficiency
 Outreach
 Quick report backs – recommendations
 Timeline for plan – drafting, editing, consensus
vote

9. PLANNING AND PREPARING FOR
IMPLEMENTATION
 Creation of Plan – what next?
 Capacity to carry out implementation?
 Keep doing existing work/focus
 Drop some things
 Demand public system focus by hiring
County/City staff

10. PLANNING AND PREPARING FOR
IMPLEMENTATION
 Creation of Plan – what next?
 Capacity to carry out implementation?
 Keep doing existing work/focus
 Drop some things
 Demand public system focus by hiring
County/City staff