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    1) Over 1,200 people were homeless in Guilford County in 2007, with over 200 chronically homeless for over a year. 2) The plan aims to help chronically homeless individuals achieve stable housing to reduce resource usage and help others. 3) The plan focuses on increasing housing and prevention/supportive services using evidence-based practices proven successful elsewhere. It establishes objectives, strategies, and recommendations in these two areas to ultimately end chronic homelessness locally.

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    1) Over 1,200 people were homeless in Guilford County in 2007, with over 200 chronically homeless for over a year. 2) The plan aims to help chronically homeless individuals achieve stable housing to reduce resource usage and help others. 3) The plan focuses on increasing housing and prevention/supportive services using evidence-based practices proven successful elsewhere. It establishes objectives, strategies, and recommendations in these two areas to ultimately end chronic homelessness locally.

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    1) Over 1,200 people were homeless in Guilford County in 2007, with over 200 chronically homeless for over a year. 2) The plan aims to help chronically homeless individuals achieve stable housing to reduce resource usage and help others. 3) The plan focuses on increasing housing and prevention/supportive services using evidence-based practices proven successful elsewhere. It establishes objectives, strategies, and recommendations in these two areas to ultimately end chronic homelessness locally.

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    Partnering to End

    Chronic Homelessness
    in Guilford County,
    High Point, and
    Greensboro

    Executive Summary

    Prepared by
    The Guilford County/High Point/Greensboro
    Task Force on Ending Homelessness

    Photography by Bert VanderVeen


    Executive Summary
    On January 24, 2007, over 1,200 persons were homeless in Guilford County, Prevention And Supportive Services Objective: Provide prevention and
    sleeping on the streets or in temporary shelters. Over 200 of those persons had supportive services to prevent persons from becoming chronically homeless
    been homeless more than a year, some for as long as twenty years. The majority and to enable those who are chronically homeless to move to and remain
    of people who become homeless in Guilford County are assisted by a full in a stable housing situation and maximize their self-sufficiency.
    “Continuum of Care” which moves them from emergency shelter through
    Strategy 1: Ensure that every person being discharged from jail, hospitals, mental
    transitional housing to permanent housing. Last year, 243 people moved
    health care, or foster care has a discharge plan that leads to stable housing and
    from transitional living facilities into permanent housing situations.
    supports a community policy of “zero tolerance” for discharge to homelessness.
    But some homeless persons are unable to successfully move through our current
    Strategy 2: As a precondition for the success of other strategies to target chronic
    system to stable housing. For these individuals, homelessness has become a
    homelessness, develop a task force to enhance mental health and substance abuse
    chronic condition. Most long-term, chronically homeless individuals are disabled
    services in Guilford County.
    by mental or physical illness or substance addictions, and utilize large amounts of
    public and private crisis care services, including emergency rooms, mental health Strategy 3: Increase coordination between mainstream supportive services and
    facilities, police time, jails, and shelters, without achieving a positive outcome. providers of housing.

    This plan is targeted toward helping these chronically homeless persons in our Strategy 4: Provide training and resources to providers for development of
    community achieve stability in housing. Helping these individuals achieve Treatment and Housing teams to wrap services around permanent supportive
    stability will decrease their usage of existing resources and make those resources housing, building on the successful model used to assist persons displaced by
    more available to assist other community members, including other, non-chronic, Hurricane Katrina.
    homeless persons. Our plan builds on evidence-based practices that are proving Strategy 5: Increase resources for supportive services.
    successful in cities such as New York, Denver, San Francisco, Portland, Asheville,
    and Raleigh, and many other communities. Strategy 6: Provide training and technical assistance to housing and service
    providers to build capacity and usage of best practices.
    The plan focuses on two major strategic areas: (1) Housing, and (2) Prevention
    Strategy 7: Provide training and technical assistance in obtaining benefits
    and Supportive Services. The major objectives and recommended strategies to
    chronically homeless individuals are entitled to receive, including Social Security
    achieve them are as follows.
    disability and other benefits, to ensure that they are obtained at the maximum
    Housing Objective: Provide a variety of supportive housing for chronically entitlement level without lengthy delays.
    homeless persons, targeting the least restrictive model under which the client
    Strategy 8: Create a centralized 24 hour Resource System with direct links to
    can be successful and enabling the client to move within the levels as indicated
    housing, health, mental health, and legal services.
    by their circumstances.
    Strategy 9: Establish a day center in High Point and a day center in Greensboro
    Strategy 1: Develop a Housing First model to be used with other housing models
    that have linkages to the Central Resource System.
    to meet the individual needs of chronically homeless persons.
    Strategy 10: Increase coordination of services between mainstream job training
    Strategy 2: Increase the supply of permanent housing for chronically homeless
    employment and education programs, supportive employment agencies, homeless
    persons.
    services agencies, and homeless clients.
    Strategy 3: Address regulatory issues and community perceptions that inhibit the
    This Task Force believes that implementing these evidence-based practices in our
    location and potential supply of permanent housing opportunities.
    community will ultimately enable us to end chronic homelessness and reduce all
    Strategy 4: Increase funding resources for permanent supportive housing. homelessness within Guilford County.

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