Rapid Results Veterans Boot Camp Westchester County, NY 60 Day Review Monday, October 28,

Our 100-Day Goal 11 * October data to-date

Progress, Key Accomplishments We’ve passed 50% mark with 40 veterans housed as of 10/21/13 New Partners: Bronx VA, Common Ground, shelters, county & municipal veterans service agencies, Vietnam Vets of America DSS reorganization underway - new prevention, services New links: DSS single point of contact for veterans, Medicaid-funded case management, kitchen kits, linens Joint training in January: CTI, trauma, wraparound services Branding (Patriot Housing), Facebook, Twitter, and wiki page Linked to CoC and NYS OASAS housing subsidies, YMCA Over 20 landlords recruited to offer Patriot Housing units, including a new 20-unit facility in Yonkers in December Transitioned to VI-SPDAT to assess and triage all single adults

System and Behavior Changes Built consensus: house ALL vets, not just VA-eligible Major redesign of DSS homeless services underway: new DSS long-term casework services for chronic homeless is direct outgrowth of boot camp discussions So is single point of contact for DSS 1-time assistance CoC, two VAs, SSVF, Common Ground, CVR (HUD-VASH) administrator all working together for 1st time Example: VA & CVR did joint letter campaign to recruit Patriot Housing landlords, county Veterans office volunteered to make f/u calls to landlords not responding Local CoC lifted residency rules for 1st time for vets Using VI-SPDAT to identify vets eligible for specific programs, will use in coordinated CoC-wide assessment

Level of Confidence Given all of this, what is your level of confidence that the goal will be achieved? 4

Next 40 Days New Homeless Services Director will push shelters to speed housing placements, particularly for chronic homeless veterans Meeting biweekly to allocate roles to create rehousing plans for most vulnerable and longest -term chronic homeless Refining process for maintaining unduplicated housing count CVR to test pre-inspecting HUD-VASH units to speed housing We will test group visits to sequence of available units (“rolling housing fairs” as described at Philly boot camp) Planning press conferences with mayors in Yonkers, Mt. Vernon and Peekskill to solicit more Patriot Housing landlords Local paper doing story on Patriot Housing for Veterans Day CVR encouraging clients to use HUD-VASH more swiftly Creating list of sources with eligibility for furniture, linens, etc.

Support needed: The Westchester CoC needs a waiver from HUD to allow us to reallocate some of our smaller rental assistance programs, including a Samaritan Initiative project, to create a new leasing + supportive services program for chronically homeless adults, particularly veterans and medically vulnerable individuals (as measured by the VI-SPDAT). Having rent costs budgeted as leasing will enable us to maintain chronically homeless people in stable permanent housing without incurring financial losses, even if they are not yet willing to consistently make full client rent contributions. We will be able to individually negotiate initial client rent contributions as needed to encourage long-term homeless people to come in off the streets.