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[0:04] Hi, everyone. We're going to go ahead and get started right now.
[0:11] So I wanted to welcome everybody to the City
[0:13] of Lacey Human Services Work Group for Thursday, August 8, 2024. First order of business, we are going
[0:21] to call to order the members of the board here. First, we have Nancy Dila. Juliette Lawson Hall.
[0:31] Here.
[0:33] Nathaniel Clay.
[0:36] Dahlia Martinez.
[0:37] Yes.
[0:38] She is going to be over zoom, but I did hear you Dahlia.
[0:43] Awesome.
[0:44] And my self-brand and Steven's present.
[0:47] Not present tonight are excused absences,
[0:50] Tiffany Walker and James Broman.
[0:53] I wanted to start with the land acknowledgement.
[0:56] We, the city of Lacey, are on ancestral land of the tribal people of the Treaty of Medicine
[1:02] Creek, including the squally Indian tribe and squawks in Island Tribe.
[1:07] We acknowledge and remember those tribal people not recognized today who were absorbed
[1:12] or relocated into other tribes for survival.
[1:15] We recognize the ancestors and their descendants who are still here.
[1:19] We recognize and respect the tribal people of the Treaty of Medicine Creek as the traditional
[1:25] stewards of this land since time immemorial, and their role today in taking care of these lands
[1:31] and perpetuity. We recognize and have the responsibility to call attention to the histories
[1:36] of dispossession, force removal, and to bridge treaty rights that allowed our nation state and
[1:43] city to develop as they have today. We recommend the community members read the medicine
[1:48] of 1854,
[1:52] so for item number four we will approve the agenda previous minutes and consent items.
[1:59] Do I have a motion to approve that? Do I have a second?
[2:04] So those have been approved.
[2:07] And next, do we have anybody signed up for public content? Sorry.
[2:13] Do you mind calling for vote for the approval of the agenda?
[2:19] Sorry, all in favor of those, all those in favor for the approval of agenda.
[2:24] Previous meeting minutes and consent item say aye.
[2:27] Aye.
[2:28] Thanks.
[2:29] Yes, we do have approval of that.
[2:31] Polligents.
[2:32] And next, do we have anybody signed up for a public comment?
[2:35] Oh, Jim's made it.
[2:37] Thanks, Jim.
[2:38] Yes.
[2:38] Jim's president.
[2:39] Yes.
[2:39] Yes.
[2:41] So yes, Jim will be joining us.
[2:44] So just Tiffany, not here tonight.
[2:47] Was anybody signed up for public comment?
[2:51] No, great.
[2:52] All right, then we'll move on to our business items.
[2:54] That's the human services, grant application summary and presentations.
[2:59] And I'm going to pass this over to Michelle Chavez, the Human Services Coordinator.
[3:04] Thank you, Chair.
[3:05] I appreciate it.
[3:06] Good evening.
[3:07] Welcome, everybody.
[3:07] Welcome all the applicants.
[3:08] and those that are online in those are in person.
[3:13] I'm just going to give a brief staff report on the we're at so far with applications we've received.
[3:19] We have two council members with us today.
[3:21] I believe we have Deputy Mayor Malcolm Miller and council member Greenstein with us.
[3:27] So welcome. Thank you so much for being here today.
[3:30] I wanted to just go kind of do a quick recap of what we've received so far.
[3:35] We, as you know, we have $300,000 allocated by the City Council generously out of the general fund budget to allocate for human services in the City of Lacy.
[3:48] We've received 16 applications from 15 non-profits.
[3:53] 15 of the applications were for service based programs.
[3:56] One application was for capital project, which is brick and mortar project here in Lacy.
[4:00] The city received over $1.1 million in requests for this initial funding round of $300,000, so we're very happy with the community response to the grant program.
[4:12] And again, we thank everybody who took the time to apply and thoughtfully give us input on their projects and programs that they're running in the community.
[4:22] We had 10 applicants that emphasized housing, 10 applicants that emphasized survival, and 12 applicants
[4:29] that emphasized security as their priority areas for the grant program.
[4:35] So with that, part of this business item is to give the folks who applied the 16 applications
[4:42] from the 15 agencies to give them an opportunity to talk to our human services work group
[4:48] about their project and we have, because we do have quite a few, we did have to limit it
[4:54] to five minutes per presentation and then allow our work group members to ask questions
[4:59] of you all.
[5:00] So I believe we are going to have a time where that's going to be a Zoom.
[5:04] So if for some reason you go over here like the gentle ding or something like that, so just
[5:10] want to let you know.
[5:11] So, the first application we have, I went in order of when the applications were received in order to be fair.
[5:20] So, the first applicant is homes first and I believe that they were going to be online.
[5:27] Do we have homes first on Zoom?
[5:31] I do not show the presenter as listed.
[5:34] If they are online, if they could raise their hand and I can promote them in.
[5:37] That would be Trudy Sukhu.
[5:39] So,
[5:51] if we don't have anybody present for homes first was just move on to the next applicant
[5:55] that's dry tikes and what wipes, Lance Benson.
[6:03] That would be great.
[6:14] Hello.
[6:15] Excuse me.
[6:15] I'm Lance Benson.
[6:16] I'm the executive director of dry tikes and wet wipes.
[6:21] So, I do property management for a living, but I started the diaper bank back in 2014.
[6:27] When I noticed several of my tenants that were really struggling to choose to pay rent or buy diapers.
[6:35] So, which led into starting a diaper bank.
[6:38] Just last month, we celebrated our 10-year anniversary,
[6:42] so we're really happy about that.
[6:44] We are the only diaper bank in Thurston County.
[6:48] There are a few organizations and churches that do assist
[6:50] with diapers in our community, but they only help it,
[6:55] if they get a few donated boxes of diapers.
[6:59] And many of those organizations, they do receive diapers from us as well.
[7:04] Currently, dryer types and wet wipes, we're giving out 16,000 diapers each month.
[7:11] And in April and May of this year, we broke records back to back with April.
[7:16] We give out 19,200 diapers and in May, we give out 19,300 diapers.
[7:25] In 2020 through 2023 we opened a little hub office in Shelton.
[7:31] There's a very large immigrant population in Shelton and they were struggling to make it into Olympia.
[7:37] So we were able to open up a little hub office out there and give out diapers and then also last year we opened up a hub office in Yelm to help some of the clients out in the Yelm, Roy, Rainier and the Clearwood area.
[7:54] Our main focus is diapers, but we also give out wet wipes, baby food, formula, baby blankets,
[8:01] which are made by a local women's group, clothing, diaper rash, cream, hygiene items.
[8:06] And starting last year, we added a period product program, and we were currently giving
[8:12] out 1500 tampons and pads each month.
[8:19] Our staff is completely volunteers and every penny goes to our mission.
[8:24] People often describe our organization as a grassroots, nonprofit, created by the community
[8:31] for the community.
[8:34] Over the years, I've heard hundreds of stories of our clients coming by, but there's
[8:40] one story that's always stuck with me.
[8:42] There was a woman out in Aberdeen and her sister gave birth to a preemie baby and every store out there
[8:49] They could not find preemie diapers. So she hopped on a bus. She's also bound to a wheelchair
[8:56] So she hopped on a bus and was able to make it all the way out to Olympia to pick up her pack of diapers
[9:02] And of course when I found out how far she came I was able to load her up with extra diapers because we had a ton of preemie diapers in our office
[9:13] But there's a lot of more stories that I would love to share.
[9:16] I just don't have the time.
[9:17] But there's a lot of people that really need
[9:20] the diapers in our community.
[9:21] Thank you.
[9:28] So I'll open it up to chair Stevens to encourage
[9:32] the work group to ask questions of dry types and
[9:34] wet wipes if they're interested.
[9:36] Yeah.
[9:37] If you wanted to come back up for just a second,
[9:39] if anybody has any questions.
[9:42] I did have one question.
[9:44] Do you have an idea or an approximation of the amount of residents of Lacy that you're currently
[9:53] servicing?
[9:54] I know that you mentioned a lot of other places.
[9:58] Yeah, so our office is right smack in the middle of Olympian Lacy on Martin Way, so in
[10:04] between Slater Canyon, Lily, right over there.
[10:08] So I would say for Lacy, I would easily say half of the clients that come in that pick up right now we're on average giving out 16,000 diapers every month.
[10:21] So I would say half of those are going to Lacy.
[10:26] So when you, your stakeholders essentially, they're not really obligated to give you like information on where they live or their residency,
[10:34] you're just basically just providing the service and diapers and if they're in need then.
[10:38] Yeah, we do have zip codes and addresses, so that's what we collect. We collect a name
[10:44] address, zip code, and the date and time that they come in and what items they're picking up.
[10:51] And so it's a quick fill out of form, but we do the count, but we don't break it down unless we're
[10:59] you know, applying for a grant or if someone's asking for it, then we can go back and look at how many.
[11:05] So I don't have that number off the top of the head, but I do.
[11:08] I don't mean to.
[11:10] Yeah, I don't doubt.
[11:11] Yeah, yeah.
[11:12] But easily, I wouldn't say half.
[11:14] I mean, Lacy's such a growing area, growing city.
[11:20] I wouldn't be surprised if more than half is from Lacy.
[11:24] Did anybody else have any other questions?
[11:32] All right.
[11:33] Thank you.
[11:34] Thank you so much.
[11:37] Thank you so much.
[11:38] Our next applicant is garden raised bounty.
[11:43] The grub garden project.
[11:49] Yes, we are pulling up your slides.
[11:59] May I practice before my five?
[12:02] Okay, it's working.
[12:05] Okay.
[12:07] Howdy.
[12:08] I'm Savannah.
[12:09] I use any pronouns.
[12:10] And I am grub's garden project manager.
[12:14] So, at Grub, we have a mission of growing healthy food, people, and communities with roots
[12:20] in the land.
[12:21] We create opportunities for people to learn, lead, and thrive.
[12:25] We envision an equitable world, where all are nourished by healthy relationships, resilient
[12:29] community, and good food, great food, I might add.
[12:34] So as the Garden Project, we have hopes to have the impacts of increasing access to fresh
[12:40] food, which allows people to have enhanced food security during the growing season with the
[12:45] garden beds that we build, long-term physical and mental health benefits from getting out
[12:48] in the garden, increasing skills and abundance, knowledge is power, cultivating resilience
[12:54] and communities. So, improving peer support and a sense of belonging, creating that community,
[13:00] people experience purposeful work and value their own contributions to growing their own
[13:04] food, and promoting equity. We partner with people who have experienced marginalization,
[13:09] And we distribute resources to empower people to create solutions to issues that are affecting them personally.
[13:18] It's kind of hard to see, can I let step out?
[13:22] In 2024, staff were supported in their efforts to plan and build gardens and provide gardening support, like free workshops that are open to everybody,
[13:30] as well as gardening mentorship.
[13:31] We build 11 gardens at no cost for low-income families within Lacey.
[13:36] Garden recipients receive custom garden beds, plant starts and seeds, again at no cause
[13:41] and quite a variety, high quality soil and other gifts to help them grow a successful
[13:46] garden.
[13:48] In 2024 we came together with military veterans, staff, other community members as well as residents
[13:53] and family members to build each of these backyard gardens.
[13:57] We built around 40 altogether.
[13:59] We also have been able to support four community gardens, three of them being installed
[14:03] at Tarnie House Villages throughout Olympia, and one of them projected to being installed
[14:08] at an apartment complex that is for low-income folks and specifically brought to us to support
[14:13] a group of refugees who have been resettled there who named having access to cultural, culturally
[14:19] relevant food as one of their highest needs. We also are facilitating nine-plus gardening event,
[14:24] so that looks like free workshops on a monthly basis as well as different celebrations
[14:28] and things like that.
[14:31] In 2025, we hope to have a couple of different outcomes, so increasing access to healthy local
[14:35] and sustainable food, so building another 35-plus backyard gardens, another eight-plus
[14:41] workshops and celebrations geared towards what you're going to be looking at in their
[14:46] backyard gardens in that month, which will inevitably increase access and ability to grow their own
[14:51] food, as well as continuing to distribute seed packets and vegetable starts based on what people
[14:58] are hoping to grow and what people are familiar with.
[15:00] Both from our farm and from communities seed libraries we have around town. We hope to improve individual skills, resilience, and empowerment.
[15:08] Participants can engage in leadership opportunities through a variety of options. They receive one-on-one garden mentoring.
[15:15] Both throughout their bill were also available to them and support them throughout their gardening season. And throughout the whole year you can garden your round here.
[15:23] We have those free workshops that, again, you know, are going to be what's in your backyard garden.
[15:27] So garden planning, harvesting, pest control, soil health, et cetera, they also receive different
[15:32] resources like gardening books and other things.
[15:36] We also hope to increase the sense of connection to communities.
[15:39] So we have a lot of volunteers who come on who put in a lot of hours supporting our program
[15:44] and other group programs.
[15:46] And with this money from the city of Lacy, it will allow us to build another 10 to 12 gardens
[15:50] in Lacy.
[15:53] We've got some lovely pictures here.
[15:54] So in these pictures we have grubb staff, grubb volunteers, grubb interns, and garden bed recipients.
[16:02] And pictures of the lovely things that they have been growing has been so delightful seeing all the wonderful stuff that people have been growing and enjoying to eat.
[16:09] We've got some quotes from gardeners. So one person said that so second year with grubb, it's been another positive experience to work with grubb staff and have such a successful garden.
[16:18] Um, this next one's my favorite, the garden beds have been such a gift to our family.
[16:22] They've helped me bring me and my team boys, teenagers, closer together, and have helped
[16:27] increase the feeling of day-to-day wellness and joy.
[16:30] Um, it's really so grateful for the whole experience and how so many people have benefited
[16:34] from this, uh, so community building in action.
[16:37] Um, this last person down here said, I'm disabled, but I explain where and how I got my garden.
[16:42] Um, folks who know them know that they don't know how to garden, but seeing everything
[16:45] that they've done, their garden, um, they hope to help recruit.
[16:50] And that's, well, you guys helped grow up to be able to do with this funding.
[16:56] Thank you.
[16:57] So we're going to chair Stevens.
[16:58] We'll open up the questions for a grab.
[17:01] Did we have any questions from our board members?
[17:05] I'm just curious how people access.
[17:07] How do you decide who the 11 will be?
[17:10] Yeah, so we have kind of a process for who we're going to choose.
[17:12] So the first on our list I suppose is we prioritize people in the
[17:18] Bicoc BIPOC community and the LGBTQ community.
[17:21] Next is kind of going to be veterans, elderly, people with larger families.
[17:25] And then after that, it's, you know, that's how we prioritize.
[17:30] Thank you.
[17:33] The $6,000 will be going directly to gardens or is this going to be some sort of sport money
[17:39] for the staff or?
[17:41] So it kind of encompasses all of the costs for each garden, so we do have staff.
[17:47] We have costs for gas and getting out there, lumber, soil, nails, things like that.
[17:54] But it's not necessarily covering a lot of the admin things on top of that.
[17:58] It's pretty directly the gardens.
[18:02] Jim, anything?
[18:06] All right.
[18:07] Thank you.
[18:07] Thank you.
[18:09] Thank you so much.
[18:11] We actually now have Trudy Sukup from Homes first on Zoom and she would love to be able to
[18:18] present at this time and she's going to share her screen because she has some slides.
[18:24] So go ahead Trudy.
[18:27] I'll just be one moment while she's here.
[18:36] You mean, it's like, and you've seen me look up because I have a screen that's up here.
[18:41] Hi.
[18:42] First, I thank you for your patience.
[18:45] got home, got little distracts by a kid. So I am here to present about our projects that
[18:52] we're doing in the city of Lacy to add some accessory dwelling units to the back of properties
[18:58] that we already own. So we started this project in 2021, believe it or not, with an application
[19:05] to the housing trust fund, to acquire the funds that we needed to do the bills. And if you'll see
[19:13] in this picture is everybody seeing my screen.
[19:15] No, let me know if I don't see my screen.
[19:19] In the background, that beige building
[19:21] is the home that we already own.
[19:23] And that is a home for four adults with developmental disabilities.
[19:27] And we've owned that property, I think,
[19:29] since 2007 for a very long time.
[19:34] We have found that with the fewer and fewer houses
[19:38] on the market to purchase,
[19:41] We're looking into building on land that we already own.
[19:45] So we have 58 properties now and we've been examining the properties that we have for
[19:52] being able to access riddleliness.
[19:55] And the city of Lacey already has an awesome program with pre-plan designs.
[20:00] You have a lot of ways that you support us with reduction of permitting and fees to allow us
[20:06] to do this kind of work, but it's still not cheap.
[20:09] Never, it's never cheap when you're using Department of Commerce funds and over the last few years.
[20:16] We have found that because it's taken quite a long time to make this all happen, aren't costs keeping creasing.
[20:23] So this is part of the build out that you're seeing right here.
[20:27] This is a form of construction was working on this with us.
[20:31] And then of course, I'm going to see if I can actually, I'm going to stop my share and share a different screen.
[20:36] So you can see some of the other work that's being done.
[20:41] These cabinets work given to us at cost by cabinets by Trevana in Lacey.
[20:47] And, of course, it doesn't want to move the screen.
[20:50] And we actually had a volunteer from the Olympian Master Builders come in and install them for us.
[20:56] So we've been doing what we can to reduce our costs by getting discounted materials by using volunteers
[21:04] who will help us complete some of the work, but we're kind of down to the point now
[21:10] we're, with about $50,000 more dollars, we can finish this and it's all the interior work.
[21:16] And, you've probably heard, Husky going up every time, you know, time is money as they say,
[21:22] and every time we're delayed, we end up with a little bit more that we have to pay.
[21:26] And we're at this point where we've come back to the city of Lacey and, you know,
[21:30] would thanks for all what you have contributed and now asking you to contribute some actual cash money
[21:37] to help us finish these two accessory dwelling units that will be homes for individual adults
[21:44] with developmental disabilities. You don't necessarily need to live in a group home on the
[21:49] front of the property. They'll have people who will care for them as they need care. We'll have eyes
[21:55] on them, but they'll have some independence.
[21:58] And one of our values as an organization
[22:02] and I think as a community,
[22:04] is that people have the right kind of home
[22:07] that means they are personally need and for us.
[22:10] This is one of the ways that we can do that.
[22:13] The entire project, each property
[22:15] is costing over $400,000 per property to build.
[22:19] And we're down to that last 50,000 to finish it all off.
[22:22] And that's what we are requesting.
[22:24] from the city of Lacey, a little bit more than that, but
[22:28] question 50,000. Thank you. I am open to take
[22:31] questions.
[22:34] Any questions?
[22:39] So with the ADU, I'm
[22:42] assuming you're probably place one tenant in those per
[22:46] at a time. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. You know, we've been around for
[22:51] 34 years. We don't have just one tenant who lives in a
[22:56] We have many tenants over like any home in a community right they come in and they go and for many
[23:02] Especially our D.D. tenants this becomes their lifelong home and often
[23:06] They're leaving when they pass because they've had a safe and secure place that they could depend on for their lives
[23:15] They becomes their whole kind of whom we all want to have does does homes first
[23:21] Charge any type of rent for those or yes. Oh, yeah, that's based on
[23:26] It's based on income and also by our funders, so these are for people at 30% or less of
[23:33] area of media income as defined by the housing trust fund who gave us the majority of the funds
[23:39] to do this work.
[23:42] Thank you.
[23:45] Any other questions?
[23:47] Thanks for your time.
[23:48] Thanks for jumping on.
[23:49] Thank you.
[23:50] Again, apologies for being late.
[23:51] No worries.
[23:51] Thank you, Trudy.
[23:53] Up next, we have senior services for self-sound home share program.
[24:12] So, my name is Rebecca Hutchinson.
[24:14] I'm the home share program manager with senior services for self-sound.
[24:18] I have with me Brian Windrop, who is our fabulous executive director.
[24:23] And we're here today to share a little bit about our home share program,
[24:27] which is essentially a matchmaking service in which we connect people seeking safe and affordable housing
[24:33] with folks who have extra space in their home to share.
[24:38] Before I begin, I do want to give a big thanks to the City of Lacy not only for your time today but also because
[24:44] the City of Lacy is what sort of spearheaded our decision to resume our program in the first place.
[24:49] So in late 2021, the former City Manager Scott Spence approached Senior Services for South Sound
[24:55] and had some discussions with us around how we could get this program up and running again.
[25:00] At that time, we received gracious funding from the City of Lacey and we were able to resume operations.
[25:08] Since that time, we've been successful in securing other funding from other funding partners, such as the City of Olympia, the Regional Housing Council.
[25:16] And we've secured the community development block grant through every funding cycle.
[25:21] We haven't just been successful in securing funding.
[25:25] We've also been successful in our day-to-day operations.
[25:27] So that first pilot period year began in March of 2022 and at that time, we were able for that year we were able to facilitate eight matches and average home share rent was $509 a month and we saw over 1,300 service hours exchanged.
[25:43] In the following year of 2023 we facilitated 15 matches and average home share rent was $527 and we saw over 1,500 service hours exchanged.
[25:54] So far, in 2024, we facilitated five matches,
[25:59] average home share rent is $507 and just this year,
[26:02] we've already seen over 2,500 hours of service exchange,
[26:06] which has supported seniors to stay in their homes and live independently.
[26:12] Home share is a very unique and innovative program,
[26:15] and that's because we're using existing housing stock that is not on the market.
[26:20] So these are empty bedrooms that we are able to fill with people who are seeking safe
[26:24] affordable housing.
[26:28] There are thousands of empty bedrooms like this and they're
[26:30] staying county. The most subsidized rent in their staying county is $1,099 and the
[26:37] average home share rent is $577. That's quite a stark difference. The other
[26:42] thing that I really want people to keep in mind is that lots of the seniors in our
[26:45] community are living solely on social security and the average social security
[26:49] check. Hubbers around $1,900 a month and often much, much less. Home shares
[26:55] public service program. So the bulk of our expenses are in staffing so we have very few
[27:01] variables to consider when we're budgeting for this program and it is a far more effective way
[27:07] to address the housing crisis than capital which can take millions of dollars and many years
[27:12] to build. I can place people right now at a fraction of the cost.
[27:19] Home share also is unique in that
[27:20] we don't just assist people in finding and accessing safe and affordable housing but we also assist
[27:26] current homeowners and seniors in our community and maintaining the home that they have.
[27:31] We often see providers in our program that really needs some financial or functional
[27:36] assistance to continue aging and place and living independently in their home, and they're
[27:41] able to do that through the seekers that we connect them with.
[27:45] Finally, I do, I know I have very little time, but I want to share a quick story of a successful
[27:49] placement that we currently have, Greg and Helen, so Greg applied to our program after hearing
[27:55] about it at one of our local senior centers.
[27:58] He was inspired to help someone, but also knew
[28:00] that it would really help him out with some financial assistance.
[28:03] He was struggling with increased cost of living.
[28:05] Helen, at the same time, was actively living out of her vehicle
[28:08] following a pretty extensive surgery.
[28:11] She was on a pain pump and has a colostomy bag
[28:13] and caring for herself without power or running water
[28:16] and her vehicle is no easy feat.
[28:18] We connected the two together.
[28:20] They became fast friends, and they consider each other family now.
[28:23] I just saw Helen two weeks ago and she looks like a totally different person with the weight
[28:31] of being unstabely housed lifted from her shoulders.
[28:36] So that's one of many successful stories in home share.
[28:38] Thank you so much for your time.
[28:40] I would love to answer questions or open the floor to our executive chair.
[28:43] The only thing I would like to add if I could is that it is a matchmaking service.
[28:47] It's nothing like a listserv or a Craigslist, Rebecca and her colleague receive applicants who
[28:55] have rooms they'd like to share in their home, and they interview them, do background checks
[28:59] on them, an extensive process, the same thing with people seeking housing, and the magic
[29:05] of it is that they get matched over time.
[29:08] So it takes a lot of work to get a successful match, and there's much more to it than just
[29:15] you know, listserv sort of affectivities.
[29:17] Compatibility is key.
[29:19] We take a lot of care in that.
[29:21] Thanks.
[29:22] Did we have any questions?
[29:24] Nancy.
[29:26] I'm intrigued by what you do.
[29:30] I know that it's a great experience for the people that are involved.
[29:35] Also great risk for the people who house homeless in their homes.
[29:41] What's the follow-up?
[29:42] I mean, I heard you say that you saw the lady a couple weeks ago, is there like an official follow-up system?
[29:50] Yes, there is. So we follow up with our clients over a period of 190 days.
[29:55] At which point we stop calling to check in on our clients, but they are always-
[30:00] To call and check in with us, we do provide mediation services. So if a match pair gives me a call and says, hey, this isn't going well. I am always willing and able to come out to the home and perform mediation. And of course, if that isn't effective, we can refer to the DRC. Thank you.
[30:20] It's such an innovative program in this climate where housing is just continuously climbing and also the matchmaking.
[30:32] Can you explain to me like when you say service hours, what that means?
[30:36] I'm assuming that's in place of money.
[30:39] Yes, so our service exchange hours are either in lieu of rent or come with a reduced rent.
[30:45] So, after the most common things we see are lighthouse work, transportation, meal, prep, sometimes
[30:52] we see pet care, so things like that, or sometimes we see home repair.
[30:58] So we do ask that all of those tasks are very clearly laid out in the contracts together,
[31:03] just to prevent any conflict in the future.
[31:06] But yes, those service hours are either in lieu of or reduced rent.
[31:12] If I could follow up on the question that was asked, Rebecca is wonderfully qualified to do
[31:17] this because she prior to coming back to senior services.
[31:20] She was a case manager with the area agency on aging, so she has a skill set that includes
[31:26] a lot of things that these people need support with, knowledge of the county resources.
[31:34] Awesome.
[31:35] Thank you so much.
[31:38] Thank you.
[31:39] Thank you very much.
[31:40] up next for our presenter, we have rebuilding together
[31:45] Thursdays and counties critical home repair program.
[31:54] I think I'm short of that other people who've been up here.
[31:58] Good evening, my name is Kathy Johnson and I'm the executive director of
[32:01] Rebuilding Together, Thursdays and county and our mission is to repair homes,
[32:08] revitalize communities, and to rebuild people's lives with the work that we do.
[32:13] So we have been existing for over 20 years, and that time period we've helped improve
[32:21] an ADA modify more than 400 homes, and we've had an impact on over 600 people residing
[32:28] in those homes.
[32:29] In that time period we've helped 66 military veterans, 73% of the homes that we've repaired
[32:36] have had a disabled resident living in it, 46% have someone who's 62 or older in it,
[32:43] 18% have someone who's 18 years or younger living in the home, so we're helping an awful lot of community need with our services and our average median income is about 21,000 but to be perfectly honest most of our clients heard about 12 or 13,000 dollars a year
[32:59] for their income. So if something gets broken if now they need a wheelchair ramp their hot water tank has failed
[33:07] So they don't have the money to do it, and that's where we come in.
[33:11] So we repair and do the ADA modifications at absolutely no charge, and so that enables
[33:17] them to continue living safely in their home.
[33:21] And most important with that too is that it prevents homelessness because so many people
[33:26] can't afford to make those repairs, and so if we can come in and do those repairs, it enables
[33:31] them to continue aging in place and not have to leave their home because of untenable conditions,
[33:36] which we've done awful lot of people who have been living with no hot running water for a couple of years.
[33:41] Because they didn't know about us and they're hot water tanked broken.
[33:44] Or maybe their pipes were leaking so in order to save their house they turned off their hot water.
[33:49] So we've seen awful lot of things like that.
[33:50] Plumbing the flaster was our number one repair request so that was the first.
[33:55] We do an awful lot of smoke detectors and grab bars, handrails, 88 toilets and flooring.
[34:01] Our official name for flooring is squishy floors.
[34:03] So someone's had a water leak for a while and now their floor is compromised, and so we go in and help with that.
[34:10] And we play a while with others.
[34:11] So there's many other service organizations who are here who also do some fantastic work.
[34:17] We'll do some repairs and habitat may help the same homeowner.
[34:21] We work with community action council.
[34:22] We get referrals from senior center.
[34:26] So we do an awful lot of exchanging of work and referrals in the community.
[34:31] And so many times, we'll go in and modify a bathtub to make it a walk-in unit and then habitat will come and do the roof so it works really well that we can help people.
[34:41] And one of our biggest changes this last year is we are modifying bathtubs to make a walk-in unit.
[34:47] So instead of having to rip out an existing bathtub for 10 or 15,000 dollars to do the bathroom for anywhere from 1,000 to 2,500 dollars, we can cut into the bathtub and make it a walk-in unit for them.
[34:59] So it's a total life changer for people.
[35:02] We could probably put in one a month for the many requests we get for that.
[35:06] And we've helped people who literally have not had a shower and like three years,
[35:11] because they couldn't get up and over the side of the bathtub to take a shower.
[35:15] So this is a really a big game changer for them.
[35:18] And we have an awful lot of volunteers and contractors and business partners who do our work.
[35:24] So it keeps our labor costs down.
[35:25] About 80% of our work is done by volunteers,
[35:28] which is huge because the money that we get from the city of Lacy and other communities
[35:33] goes more to our materials and the really skilled work that needs to be done versus having
[35:38] to pay for that work to be done. So that is a tremendous difference for us. So some quick
[35:44] examples of people that we've done. We just with Lacy, CDVG funds completely
[35:50] read the wiring in a couple's home here in Lacy. They were disabled, low income, they had a house
[35:57] in the early 1950s of the electrical was failing.
[36:01] And so we were able to replace their wiring
[36:03] and reduce the chance of a house fire
[36:06] and hazards with the electricity.
[36:08] We replaced some flooring and doors for fillers.
[36:13] And so now she's no longer tripping over carpeting
[36:17] that was, you know, how it gets those
[36:18] all the little lumps in it, rolls in it.
[36:20] So she's not gonna be failing on that.
[36:24] We've replaced a hot water tank.
[36:26] We replaced an external roof beam for someone's homes that way it protects the home.
[36:31] So we do an awful lot of little projects in the community as well as some bigger ones
[36:35] because of grant funds from you, and it just makes a tremendous difference in people's lives.
[36:41] They can safely age in place, you know, they're most of our clients are living in manufactured
[36:45] home parks with a park run of about $650 a month with an income of $1200 a month.
[36:52] So you can see there's not much room, not much wiggle room there for any sort of
[36:55] maintenance are repair. And so that's where we come in and where you come in. Questions?
[37:04] Any questions? I just want to clarify. Your paperwork says that you prioritize seniors,
[37:13] but the applicants have to be 18 years of age or older. And then also it says in another place that
[37:19] some at least one person has to be 62. So you're talking about the family unit.
[37:25] So we have four criteria basically, the people living in the home,
[37:30] somebody in the home either has to be 18 years older, younger,
[37:35] or a military veteran, or 62 and older, or disabled.
[37:40] So they may fit one of those criteria, as they may fit all of them,
[37:43] but they just have to fit one of those to receive your focus.
[37:47] Yes. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Other questions?
[37:55] Fantastic.
[37:55] Thank you. Thank you very much.
[37:57] I'd prepared a little bit more information,
[37:59] which I'll pass around.
[38:00] Sure, thank you.
[38:07] OK, so the next presentation is, thank you, a hybrid.
[38:11] We have some people in person
[38:13] that we have an individual on Zoom.
[38:16] The next presentation is, Thurston County Council
[38:19] on Aging Medical Equipment Bank.
[38:37] Do we have anybody here from the medical equipment bank?
[38:45] And I don't think we have anybody online.
[38:48] I'm not showing the listed presenters if they are online if they could raise their hands.
[38:54] Thank you for allowing us to come and speak today.
[38:56] I really appreciate it.
[39:00] With me, my name is Joyce Swelms.
[39:03] I'm the president of Thirston County Council on Aging.
[39:06] Everybody gets confused on who we are.
[39:10] Otherwise, everybody calls us a medically equipment bank.
[39:12] with me is Nore Hanson, and she's the treasure
[39:17] that keeps everything going.
[39:22] Does anybody know the medically quitment banker
[39:25] have any knowledge of it?
[39:29] So, let me, Jim does too.
[39:33] The medically quitment bank is located on Martin Way.
[39:39] We are open three days a week.
[39:41] We're here to serve older adults, adults with disability, a lot of times people be hurt and
[39:49] go to the hospital and they need a wheelchair right away and by the time it gets to insurance,
[39:56] they don't need it anymore.
[39:59] And so we're there to help everybody.
[40:01] We also provide a lot of bandages to the homeless people.
[40:06] They come in quite often for bandages.
[40:10] Our goal is to help people, older adults, 60, plus, and disability, family caregivers,
[40:20] and we're trying to keep everybody in their home as long as they can.
[40:27] The service we provide on the equipment part is trying to enrich the older adults' life,
[40:35] So they can get out and about, that's very, very important.
[40:41] Most of the people we help are very low-income people that need a helping hand.
[40:48] We are run by volunteers.
[40:52] We usually have about 15 volunteers every time we're open,
[40:57] 4 hours a day, at 4 hours, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
[41:02] So that's quite a few volunteers that keep everything moving.
[41:07] We have, when you come into the medically equipment bank, there's two doors, one is for donations.
[41:13] So the donation side is, we take donations of unused, cotton and supplies, medically equipment.
[41:24] We have a person, we have people that go and check them, make sure the screws are tight.
[41:31] Maybe there's two wheelchairs, maybe we can make one wheelchair out of it.
[41:38] And we recycle a lot, and we have a recycling department, too.
[41:47] By doing the recycling we're protecting our environment, I would hate to see if someone
[41:53] came by and saw everything we have in our shelves.
[41:56] All of these items would have been in the landfill.
[41:59] but now they're being reused for somebody else.
[42:05] A lot of, the medically, there's some kind of constant aging
[42:08] managers that medically equipment bank.
[42:11] And then we're 501C3.
[42:14] Many people confuse us with Lewis Mason,
[42:17] there's an area, agency on aging.
[42:21] And we're not the same.
[42:23] But we do a lot of work back and forth,
[42:24] and there are big supporter of ours.
[42:27] But we're indifferent.
[42:29] There are government, we're not government.
[42:31] I wish we were government.
[42:34] We'd have more money then.
[42:38] But, in order, do you have anything you want to add?
[42:40] No, we've been at this location on Martin about a year.
[42:45] We had a lease.
[42:47] And so we're looking for a long-term placement.
[42:51] So we found a place on 20704 Pacific Avenue. It used to be a florist shop before. And the state
[42:59] Legislature gave us 250,000, but we have to match the money in order to get the 250 from the state.
[43:07] And that was in the last budget that they had passed. So we've we've had a grassroots campaign
[43:14] trying to get donations in and the public just responds.
[43:20] I was telling Joyce, there were 15 checks in the mail today.
[43:23] You know, some of them are just really small checks from individuals that just want to help.
[43:29] And some others give a lot more if they have more to give.
[43:32] So that's kind of where we're going in the future.
[43:35] We'd like to stay in one location.
[43:38] One of the things we have to have the money raised now,
[43:42] Now, the deadline now is October, because if we're going to buy it, we have to sign the
[43:48] papers before October 15th.
[43:51] And so we're working hard on trying to raise some money.
[43:55] This is a great for the community.
[43:58] We have over 750 people that we've helped just in, Lacey, because we keep track of the people
[44:05] we help.
[44:07] Thank you.
[44:08] Any questions?
[44:08] Thank you. Any questions?
[44:13] I don't know. No, no, no real quick.
[44:16] Just will this be going towards that $250,000.
[44:21] The $250,000 that you need to raise.
[44:24] Will the funds that you're asking for for the medical equipment bank?
[44:28] Is that going towards that to match that?
[44:31] We're planning to use that for operating costs, right?
[44:33] Yeah. Okay. But we're still we have people are sending money for the building fund.
[44:40] Mm-hmm. It's designated just for the building fund.
[44:43] I see. Thanks for clarifying. Jim. Jim has a question for you. He's on. He's on zoom there.
[44:52] I do. Yes. Good evening, Joyce. It's, you know, Joyce for, well, another lifetime, I guess.
[45:00] Well, it's good to see you again. And thank you again for the work you do. The question I have is, being a senior who has used different pieces of medical equipment, I have a couple that I need to want to donate.
[45:14] But when I go to the website, it says that you are full of donations and you are not able
[45:22] to take any more equipment, which I guess is a good news, bad news story, but I just
[45:29] want to clarify about that. Are you still taking donations for equipment?
[45:35] Well, that's on the new building.
[45:39] Yes, and no. Some items are going to take.
[45:43] We have, like, adult tab diapers, we have boxes, over a hundred boxes of those.
[45:52] So we're not taking any of those.
[45:54] Now we're going to be opening it up for other items, and we're going to put those on the website that we have room for.
[46:00] We just ran out of space, and that's why we said we couldn't take anymore.
[46:05] But people are still bringing them anyway.
[46:08] Okay.
[46:09] Thank you.
[46:09] you're welcome. Thank you.
[46:18] Thank you for that presentation. The next presentation is community
[46:25] action council of Lewis Mason and Thurston counties, Lacey Housing Services.
[46:45] I have horrible
[46:46] stage right now. I'm just in the car and my daughter said the best part was a cussie. So I'll
[46:51] try really hard to do better. Thank you for the opportunity to
[46:59] are proposal for the LAC housing project, and an expansion of services provided by the Community
[47:05] Action Council of Lewis Mason and Thurston County. I'm Nikki Gatton, and I'm the Program
[47:10] Manager of Housing. For over 58 years, our organization has been dedicated to addressing the
[47:19] complex needs of our community with a deep commitment to fostering partnerships and coordinating
[47:25] with various, various stakeholders.
[47:28] We firmly believe that a strong network of providers
[47:31] yield the best outcomes in our diverse array of partnerships
[47:36] allows us to leverage shared resources
[47:39] and create a more comprehensive support system for clients.
[47:43] And a lot of our partners are here in their amazing.
[47:46] Today, I'm here to share our vision
[47:49] for enhancing the lives of places most vulnerable residents.
[47:52] those experienced homelessness or at risk of housing insecurity.
[47:58] This project is designed to create a sustainable pathway toward an improved quality of life,
[48:06] addressing both immediate and long-term needs.
[48:09] At the heart of this initiative is the equivalent of two full-time case managers who will
[48:16] be dedicated to serving the lazy communities.
[48:20] These individuals are trained in trauma and formed housing first practices and will provide personalized support, helping our clients identify and achieve their goals, overcome barriers and ultimately secure or stable housing.
[48:35] Through weekly outreach activities and drop-in services, we will actively engage with
[48:41] Lacy's Realving Houseless Population, building a connecting resources they need.
[48:47] This includes the provision of emergency rental assistance, moving costs, and connecting
[48:54] to resources.
[48:57] But our commitment to our clients extends beyond the immediate crisis.
[49:01] We understand that long-term stability requires a multi-faceted approach through intensive
[49:08] case management. Our staff will work closely with each individual to address underlying
[49:14] issues, connect them to job training programs, health care services, and other activities.
[49:23] Importantly, this project is rooted in a client-centered philosophy, where the voices of those
[49:29] We serve guide, our decision making, and program refinement.
[49:35] We will regularly collect feedback through surveys of local businesses, residents, and individual
[49:41] client interactions to ensure our service remain responsive and effective.
[49:47] Our program will expand on services we have now, and we are set to start at, I'm sorry,
[49:58] on October 1st. The five key opponents are at reach
[50:04] walk-in days, case management, supply distribution, and rental assistance. The outreach team
[50:10] would split Lacy into four zones and rotate coverage areas weekly, working closely with Lacy
[50:16] officials to identify target, and target high priority areas. This outreach work will focus on
[50:24] building relationships and connecting people to essential resources, including shelter, coordinated
[50:29] entry, and treatment centers.
[50:32] We currently have 50 Lacy residents who engage in case management.
[50:36] The Lacy housing program will expand on that number of focus on evidence-based practices
[50:41] to work on short and long-term goals based around housing and employment.
[50:46] In closing, the Housing Project represents community auction councils on wavering commitment to the
[50:56] will-being of LAC's most vulnerable residents by expanding our housing services and delivering
[51:01] a comprehensive client-centered program.
[51:04] We aim to create a sustainable pathway toward an improved quality of life for those in need.
[51:11] With your support, we can make a tangible difference in the lives of our community members
[51:16] ensuring that everyone has access to the resources and stability they deserve.
[51:22] Thank you for your timing to the situation.
[51:25] Thank you.
[51:26] You did great.
[51:29] Any questions?
[51:35] I couldn't find it in your paperwork.
[51:38] How many people are you hoping to serve?
[51:41] Do you plan on serving, especially focusing on the LAC residents?
[51:45] So, for outreach, so walking days, we could serve whoever comes in, we already have walk
[51:52] in days and it's mostly centered on Lacey residents because our office is in Lacey,
[51:58] and so there's not so far there hasn't been a number where we've been like, whoa, but for
[52:07] rental assistance, it would just depend on the amount of funding and for those that we wouldn't
[52:12] be able to help we would connect to local resources, which is what we do now.
[52:18] Is this a new service or your restart and relaunch?
[52:23] It's not either necessarily, so there are new elements to it, but we already do almost all of this through a program called FCS or a Foundation Community Support.
[52:35] And it's a case management service where we already connect to resources and help people find
[52:42] renting assistance we do outreach and we have walk-in days and provide supplies.
[52:47] This will just help us focus on the LAC residents and have some a lot of our stuff right
[52:53] now we have to for like rental assistance we depend a lot on community resources and this will
[53:00] give us funding specifically where we could help those LAC residents.
[53:06] Sorry, these are two new case managers.
[53:12] So what I would probably do is take people that I have trained already and move them over,
[53:21] and we would incorporate some of the case load that they have now for Lacey,
[53:28] and then there would be room for new residents as well to join.
[53:36] Approximately how many potential people are served by one case manager on any given?
[53:41] I don't know.
[53:42] I don't know.
[53:43] So, right now our case loads are averaging between 35 and 50.
[53:52] We don't do by numbers, but we do is we do it by needs assessment and then we even
[53:57] out the case load based on our client's needs and the amazing thing is because we have foundation
[54:03] community support, even if we had more people in Lacey's that one is a enroll in case management,
[54:09] we could absorb them into our other program. So it's just a wouldn't cap out at those two
[54:15] case managers. We have other case managers that would be able to help with that case management.
[54:22] Thank you. Thank you.
[54:25] Thank you. So our next presenter is in person and it is capital Christians center, solid
[54:35] Rock Ranch Camper Fund.
[54:39] Good evening, everyone.
[54:41] My name is Christy Tharman.
[54:42] I'm a pastor over here at Capital Christian Center.
[54:45] I'm also the Chief Financial Officer.
[54:47] I've been a resident of this area in my whole life.
[54:50] I went to North Dakota School District and I've been on staff over here for 22 years at the
[54:55] church.
[54:56] I've had a part of the community in the church for 30 years.
[54:59] So I want to talk today.
[55:01] There's some pictures up here.
[55:02] I want to talk today about a program that we started back in 1995.
[55:06] and it's a youth mentorship program we call it Sald Rock Ranch.
[55:10] And the program is for youth ages 1st grade through 12th grade.
[55:16] And it's a pretty amazing program.
[55:18] What we do is we teach life-giving skills.
[55:21] What we do is build by building a bridge for students
[55:24] to cross into adulthood with mentorship programs and activities.
[55:27] So you're going to see more of the activities up here.
[55:32] By giving them tools they need to build a firm foundation of emotional health.
[55:35] Our heart is to furnish a safe and wholesome environment for all students to cultivate and promote healthy mature relationships by bringing them together with local business owners and leaders who will turn mentor, educate, and teach students.
[55:51] So, our very first program, like I said, happened in 1995 and we had 35 students.
[55:57] We're now serving 400 students every summer.
[56:01] It's a four-week program.
[56:03] And so right now, we have about 100 students out there.
[56:06] So each week is 100 students.
[56:09] And so over the course of the 30 years that we've been doing
[56:11] and we've impacted about 6,000 students.
[56:14] The fee for the program is 350 dollars per student.
[56:18] And if you look at the state average for programs like ours,
[56:21] the typical fee would be a thousand dollars per student.
[56:24] And out of our students, about 75% of those are from low income families and they don't have it in their budget even afford the 350, even that that reduced cost.
[56:35] Many of those families have multiple children and so if they had four children it would be $1,400 and it's just too difficult.
[56:43] So our motto is not one child turned away and so what we do is we do everything we can to raise funds to help get these kids into a mentorship program.
[56:54] I have a personal story that I'd like to share in how it impacted me in 1995, right before we
[57:02] did our very first ranch.
[57:03] My four nieces came to live with me and they were placed in our care after being in three
[57:09] separate foster homes and they were able to participate in this life-giving experience and they
[57:16] started out as a really young age all the way through a senior in high school and then after
[57:20] that there's more opportunities to become mentors
[57:22] to the younger generation.
[57:25] So like all four of my girls are now participants
[57:28] of the program, but what's really cool
[57:30] is not my grandkids that are going to it too.
[57:33] So my niece says I adopted, I ended up adopting all of them.
[57:37] And so now I have a huge family.
[57:38] But anyway, that's a program.
[57:42] We serve, like I said, about 400 kids a year,
[57:47] the program, just the summer program,
[57:49] is about $200,000 to run, and so we are coming to ask for funds to help run the program.
[57:56] We also do other fundraising events, we do an annual auction, we do other things just
[58:00] because about 25% of our kids, about 25% of our kids are the only ones that are able
[58:05] to afford the program.
[58:08] Any questions?
[58:11] questions? Could you give us a couple of examples of some of the activities or curriculum that
[58:22] the youth might be using to move forward in their life that would be an pertinent to?
[58:30] Yeah, absolutely. So we have 150 volunteers up on the program and with those 150 volunteers
[58:36] They go through a program called Trust Base
[58:38] with relational intervention, which helps with kids
[58:42] that are having difficulties.
[58:43] So a lot of our kids are coming out of foster homes
[58:46] are very difficult environments.
[58:48] And what happens is we're teaching them
[58:50] how they're some coping mechanisms or partnering them
[58:53] with kind of like a big brother or a big sister.
[58:56] And those relationships don't end over that after that week.
[59:00] And so we have people that have grown up in the program,
[59:05] And they're now business owners and different things like that because they've been attached or partnered with business owners
[59:13] Is solid rock ranch a concept or is it not a physical place like it's a physical play
[59:18] Okay, capital Christian center owns 60 acres out in ten I know and on the school come check river and
[59:25] Office, go check road and so that's where we do
[59:28] We you know all the kids come out there like I said there's about a hundred a week and
[59:33] Yeah, so that's what I do it
[59:35] Okay, Jim, how's the question for you on Zoom there?
[59:40] Yes, you do, Kristi, thank you very much for your presentation.
[59:44] And I have two questions actually.
[59:46] First one is, do you have any idea of what percentage of your campus come from city of LIC?
[59:55] Yes.
[59:56] Yes, so about 25% of our campus are through the city of LIC.
[1:00:00] We, because I did the demographic before I came, because I figured you guys are going to ask me that question.
[1:00:05] It's unbelievable. These kids are coming from actually all over the United States, all over the nation.
[1:00:11] And about 25% of them are coming from the city of Lacey.
[1:00:16] Okay, and the other question I had is, because you are a Christian-based organization.
[1:00:24] And what percentage of the campus time with you is involved with a spiritual or religious instruction?
[1:00:34] So there's a portion of the program. So every day we have a service in the evening.
[1:00:38] And so out of a 24 hour day, I would say about three to four hours out of that day.
[1:00:43] Okay. Thank you.
[1:00:46] Any other questions?
[1:00:48] Nancy.
[1:00:49] Could you just confirm this is a residential week?
[1:00:53] Correct or is it a day camp?
[1:00:55] So what it is is we have the first through third grades.
[1:00:59] We're calling it a day camp where they come and go.
[1:01:02] Because like with my kids when they went they all start crying and getting home sick.
[1:01:06] So we realized they were too young to stay the night.
[1:01:09] One second at a fourth grade they stayed overnight.
[1:01:12] So it's a week long program.
[1:01:13] Okay, thank you.
[1:01:14] And we don't mix the ages so we have four different camps so that we're not mixing ages.
[1:01:20] Thank you.
[1:01:22] Thank you.
[1:01:22] Thank you.
[1:01:23] Thank you.
[1:01:27] So our next presentation is Family Support Center of South Sound.
[1:01:31] The homeless family services program.
[1:01:33] And I believe we have Trish Gregory online on Zoom.
[1:01:36] Who will be presenting by Zoom?
[1:01:45] It evening.
[1:01:45] Hopefully you can hear me okay.
[1:01:48] I apologize.
[1:01:49] I'm having some issues with my camera so if it turns off I apologize.
[1:01:52] It's on, and my hands aren't touching it, but it's got a mind of its own.
[1:01:56] But thank you so much for having me here tonight.
[1:01:58] My name is Trish Gregory, I'm the Executive Director of Family Support Center of South
[1:02:01] Found.
[1:02:02] Our mission is working together to strengthen all families and survivors.
[1:02:06] And one of our core programs that we've had for the last 30-plus years is our homeless
[1:02:11] family services program.
[1:02:13] And that's what I wanted to talk with you about tonight, and that's what we're applying
[1:02:16] for funding for.
[1:02:18] So, our homeless family services program is the umbrella program for all of the services
[1:02:22] that we're providing to families with children and survivors
[1:02:25] of domestic violence who are experiencing homelessness
[1:02:29] or who are at risk of homelessness.
[1:02:32] Family Support Center serves as the lead coordinated entry
[1:02:34] provider for Thurston County.
[1:02:36] What that means is we are the organization in charge
[1:02:40] of developing the entire system of how people enter
[1:02:43] into our housing system.
[1:02:46] We're the designated entry point for families with kids
[1:02:48] for survivors of domestic violence and for single adults.
[1:02:54] Currently on our coordinated entry master list,
[1:02:57] which is the tool that we use to place families into housing.
[1:03:01] We have a total of 340 families that are waiting for an opportunity to get into shelter
[1:03:07] or a situation that's better where they are than where they currently are.
[1:03:11] All of those are families that are literally homeless,
[1:03:13] So they're either sleeping in a shelters, sleeping outdoors,
[1:03:17] in a place not meant for habitation, or staying in a hotel
[1:03:21] that's paid for by another organization or private person.
[1:03:27] Families with children are the largest population
[1:03:30] of homelessness while they're the least visible.
[1:03:32] In Thurston County right now,
[1:03:34] we have 233 people on our master list,
[1:03:37] 1100 of those are families with kids.
[1:03:40] So it's either children or their parents
[1:03:42] or combination of those two.
[1:03:45] As far as City of Lacy, I did pull this specific data.
[1:03:48] We asked the question of when you were in housing,
[1:03:51] what was your last address?
[1:03:53] Those that were living in the City of Lacy,
[1:03:56] it's about 10% of the families that we serve,
[1:03:59] or currently 34 families that are on our household,
[1:04:03] or 102 people.
[1:04:06] As I mentioned, while this particular ask isn't
[1:04:09] specifically for the single adult population,
[1:04:11] I do thought, did think it would be interesting for you to hear as well, that 31% of all of the people on our masterless waiting for housing are from the city of Lacey in the single adult population.
[1:04:25] So the homeless family services program is a very broad program. What it encompasses is support to help people get into housing as quickly as possible.
[1:04:35] And then provide the supports and services that are necessary to retain that housing.
[1:04:40] We also have a responsibility and work really diligently to prevent homelessness from
[1:04:46] beginning, doing a lot of diversion with people as they're coming to our coordinated
[1:04:51] entry door or as we're going to where they are to do outreach about coordinated entry.
[1:04:58] So a good portion of our work is also looking for how can we keep them from meeting the
[1:05:03] services that we offer, so offering diversion and working to prevent homelessness, or in a lot of cases,
[1:05:12] in addition to families that are literally homeless, we have a large population of families that
[1:05:16] are couch serving or moving from place to place. We consider that prevention when we have people
[1:05:22] that are homeless under that category and helping them move, excuse me, helping them not to need
[1:05:29] the homeless services system were to become literally homeless.
[1:05:33] So these funds were requesting $50,000,
[1:05:36] which is the gap that we currently have in our homeless
[1:05:38] family service budget.
[1:05:40] Specifically, we're looking for funding to support our staffing
[1:05:43] that is working with families with kids and survivors
[1:05:46] of domestic violence to keep them in their housing.
[1:05:49] We have a significant amount of funding
[1:05:51] to use me for diversion services
[1:05:54] as far as the direct dollars to help people
[1:05:56] to either pay utilities for a family member or a pay rent to a family member so that that person can stay in their home
[1:06:05] or sometimes it's providing some accommodations to help them stay there.
[1:06:11] But the staff dollars are lacking there. So we need someone that's able to distribute those funds and provide the really important
[1:06:19] problem-solving conversations that come to figure out what are the options that we have for this family to keep them
[1:06:24] I'm becoming literally homeless.
[1:06:29] I think it's also important to note
[1:06:32] that we're serving the most vulnerable families
[1:06:34] with kids in our community
[1:06:36] through the coordinated entry process
[1:06:38] for utilizing a housing equity assessment tool
[1:06:40] or heat tool that really looks at
[1:06:43] what are the characteristics of the family
[1:06:45] and what is it I'm running out of time.
[1:06:48] Darn it, I knew that would happen.
[1:06:50] I need to talk forever.
[1:06:51] But okay, any questions that you
[1:06:56] have.
[1:06:58] Could you clarify for me, I'm not sure I heard it right?
[1:07:02] Did you say that there were 233 families identified as homeless or 233 individuals?
[1:07:12] 233 total people in Thurston County and of that 340 households are families or 111 people are families that are homeless.
[1:07:23] So was this like a point in time assessment, is that where you got that figure?
[1:07:30] That does up today looking at our master list today and let the data that we have for
[1:07:35] who is on that master list waiting for a housing resource.
[1:07:38] Okay, thank you.
[1:07:40] Jim.
[1:07:42] I apologize, I is familiar with this particular dynamic as I would like to be, but I'm also aware
[1:07:52] of an organization on a safe place, operates in a period.
[1:07:57] You connect with them at all at coordinate
[1:07:59] or you totally separate them.
[1:08:02] Absolutely.
[1:08:02] They're a partner of ours.
[1:08:03] We actually have a memorandum of understanding with safe place
[1:08:06] and we have staff that are working on site within their shelter
[1:08:09] to support their clients that are at their shelter
[1:08:12] and accessing housing.
[1:08:14] They have their own housing program as well,
[1:08:17] but their capacity wasn't such that they were able to
[1:08:21] provide the level of peace management needed to a certain people so we stepped in as a partner
[1:08:25] to support that and yeah they're a longstanding partner and we refer to them regularly.
[1:08:32] They refer to us regularly as well.
[1:08:35] Thank you very much.
[1:08:40] All right.
[1:08:40] Thank you so much.
[1:08:43] Thank you.
[1:08:43] Thank you.
[1:08:45] Up next we have interfaith works, Sergio's service center.
[1:08:58] My name is Terry Lina, I'm the program coordinator for Interfaith Works Homeless Services.
[1:09:04] I've worked in Homeless Services in this area for about eight years now,
[1:09:09] pretty much every level of the Homeless Response System here.
[1:09:13] Thank you so much for the opportunity to come speak to you all today.
[1:09:17] I'm here to talk about our grant proposal for Sergio Service Center.
[1:09:21] We're asking for $120,000 in general operation dollars to help support expanding our hours and days of operation.
[1:09:30] We're currently open Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with hopes to expand more into the weekends when a lot of other providers and agencies are unavailable.
[1:09:42] We also intend on expanding our staff team to support our frontline workers who are currently
[1:09:49] consistently working over time and are just really kind of stretching themselves then to
[1:09:54] fill in the gaps in our schedule.
[1:09:57] Sergio's service center is a regional daytime service hub, primarily serving single adults
[1:10:03] and couples with no dependence who are experiencing homelessness in our regional,
[1:10:09] and county community.
[1:10:11] Our centers primarily seem people who are coming from places
[1:10:15] not meant for habitation, mostly in campments and people
[1:10:20] that are sleeping in their RVs or their cars.
[1:10:24] And they're coming from all around Thurston County,
[1:10:27] but primarily Olympia and Lacey throughout the Martin
[1:10:30] Way corridor is what we're seeing primarily.
[1:10:35] And our showers and laundry and charging stations
[1:10:39] are kind of the center focus of our services, but we also try and focus a lot on our partnerships
[1:10:46] and service connection with other agencies. Other providers and agencies regularly table
[1:10:52] throughout the week, meeting with their clients in our space and doing drop-ins to find
[1:10:59] their participants, notable agencies who are also serving citizens of LAC include value,
[1:11:06] you, Tim Berlin Regional Library, specifically the Lacey Branch husband coming out and partnering
[1:11:11] with us, DSHS and Providence Street Medical Team, though we have a lot more people that
[1:11:18] were partnering with throughout the area.
[1:11:23] Interfaithworks also typically holds the hazardous weather contract for our county, which
[1:11:29] means that it is the only site for hazardous weather response for a single adult experiencing
[1:11:33] seamlessness in Thirston County for daytime and nighttime in the event of emergency weather
[1:11:40] events. So far this year we've served 795 unique individuals with 7,167 total visits.
[1:11:51] We see about 54 to 68 people coming through per day. We started to see a pretty big increase
[1:12:00] in our numbers over the summer recently.
[1:12:03] Most recently we had a peak of 82 people that came in on our busiest day.
[1:12:09] Um, average number of showers is 15, average number of laundry is 9 loaves per day.
[1:12:14] We're frequently turning people away who are seeking showers in laundry.
[1:12:21] Services are sign up list for showers.
[1:12:24] Typically your range is up to 30 people and we're really only meeting about half of that need per day.
[1:12:32] We also have our navigation team which provides peer support services.
[1:12:37] They assist guests in accessing and services in navigating barriers to housing, health care and other connections.
[1:12:46] Most recurring services for guests include a system in medical appointments and enrolling with a primary care provider or mental health provider.
[1:12:54] signing up for EBT, replacing ID cards and driver's license, completing heats, which is the
[1:13:00] assessment, vulnerability assessment that was just talked about by Family Sports Center.
[1:13:07] And we see a lot of people trying to enroll an ABD that we're trying to help them with as
[1:13:10] well.
[1:13:13] So, yeah, I think Sergio serves a very necessary service in the greater Thurston County region.
[1:13:19] And I see the opportunity for this funding, means we could really expand access to our
[1:13:26] showers, laundry, and daytime sheltering to a very vulnerable population in this area.
[1:13:33] Again, I appreciate you all for your time, and I'm available for any questions.
[1:13:44] Yes, thank you for your presentation.
[1:13:48] I noticed that a significant amount of your great request is for staff, and how will
[1:13:55] that translate into increased access for showers and laundry?
[1:14:02] Yeah, that's a good question.
[1:14:04] If we don't have our staff available, we can't really be open more.
[1:14:09] The staff are the ones that are helping people sign up for the showers every day.
[1:14:13] They're helping people get into the laundry.
[1:14:16] They're also tracking a lot of that stuff.
[1:14:19] And so if we were to open for an extra day such as Sunday,
[1:14:24] we would typically run it with at least three staff present.
[1:14:27] That's both for building safety as well as just the operations itself.
[1:14:32] I can certainly see how this can be easily, well, not easily, but accessible to our homeless
[1:14:43] population on the Martin Lake hordor, as you mentioned, but how are you guys getting people
[1:14:50] maybe that are, oh, the Hawksbury, right, at that facility out there, down to Interfaith
[1:14:55] Works, which is way down town, is it like they have to solely rely on the bus system,
[1:14:59] Thank you very much.
[1:15:00] You know, it's tedious but it might be too far away or is there some sort of carpooling or anything like that?
[1:15:08] Yeah, we don't have like an internal system for getting people to our services.
[1:15:15] We really benefit from being right on a bus line. Pretty major one there on Martin Way.
[1:15:21] So I've seen quite a few people coming in from out in Hawksbury through the bus system.
[1:15:34] I appreciate what you're doing, and I know it's a difficult population to work with.
[1:15:40] A couple of questions I had for you is I want to frame this right.
[1:15:50] Well first of all, just to start with an easy one, do you have a robust volunteer program
[1:15:57] or is some of the money that you're needing for staff,
[1:16:00] could it be supported instead by volunteers?
[1:16:05] Mm-hmm.
[1:16:07] Our volunteer program, we do have volunteers that come through.
[1:16:11] Typically, we see that a lot of volunteers aren't able to do more
[1:16:14] than a four-hour shift backs.
[1:16:17] And so that doesn't super help us with, like,
[1:16:20] actual operations of the space.
[1:16:25] So, I would say, no, I don't think it could be full-eval into your base, just the way that it's running right now.
[1:16:31] Another aspect of it that we rely on our staff to do is that there isn't an intake process for people to come in,
[1:16:38] that is kind of how to be monitored for certain compliance things,
[1:16:42] because we do enter people into the homeless management information system.
[1:16:45] So, yeah, okay, and then my other question really is in your application you talk about mental health services, but do you provide mental health services or do you provide access to it?
[1:17:01] We provide access currently, so our navigators are able to help people connect if it is their goal, because all of the things that they're working on is goal oriented based on the client.
[1:17:12] So, if a client's like, I want to get connected to BHR or another organization like that,
[1:17:19] they would assist them in navigating through that.
[1:17:22] We are in the process of getting a value of you clinic built out in this space, and there
[1:17:28] is a possibility that that would become a thing in the next year.
[1:17:34] Yeah, that would be a great addition, wouldn't it?
[1:17:37] Yeah, it would.
[1:17:39] Thank you.
[1:17:40] Do you provide meals for people who seek shelter during the day time we don't we only do snacks right now
[1:17:51] But there are other providers that are doing regular meals daily, so people will typically just go to those
[1:17:59] Also, I really had
[1:18:03] I'm a receiving person
[1:18:04] Yeah, I think we did a course together. Why will you say?
[1:18:13] Thank you so much.
[1:18:15] Yeah, thank you.
[1:18:16] I also have pamphlets.
[1:18:17] OK, great.
[1:18:17] We'll take it.
[1:18:18] Well done.
[1:18:25] We have a request for bathroom break chair.
[1:18:28] OK, thank you.
[1:18:29] All right.
[1:18:29] It's been an hour and half almost.
[1:18:34] OK, great.
[1:18:34] We'll take a quick break of what?
[1:18:37] Ten minutes, five, ten, five minutes.
[1:18:39] Five minutes?
[1:18:40] Five minutes?
[1:18:41] Professor, get a drink of water, whatever.
[1:18:44] Thank you.
[1:24:32] Hi, okay.
[1:24:33] Oh, we're going to go ahead and resume.
[1:24:35] Now, thank you.
[1:24:37] Fuck it out of everybody.
[1:24:40] Return to their chair.
[1:24:44] There you are.
[1:24:44] Okay, we're resuming the meeting.
[1:24:47] Up next for presentations, the South Puget Sound
[1:24:50] have a tap for Humanity Home Repair Program.
[1:25:00] Hi, oh, my name is Amanda Skyler.
[1:25:02] I am the Home Repair Program Manager.
[1:25:07] I'm going to stick with what I've got here because I will go over five minutes very easily.
[1:25:13] So, so most of us here have heard the district that over the next decade, we need to build a million
[1:25:17] homes in order to keep up with the growing population here in Washington, say, on it is.
[1:25:23] I hear it all the time, kind of scary, but it is what it is.
[1:25:27] As South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity, we are doing our part in more ways than one.
[1:25:32] In my experience, it's very common that people when they think a habitat for humanity, they know that we've built homes, and that's great, we absolutely do that.
[1:25:41] We've built 84 homes since 1989.
[1:25:44] We have plans to build 164 more affordable houses for thirst and county in the next five years.
[1:25:51] We're definitely doing that, and that's awesome.
[1:25:53] But I also think it's super important to talk about our critical home repair program.
[1:25:57] because it takes less resources to keep someone in their current home than it takes to build a new home.
[1:26:06] Having a critical home repair program is very important in facing the housing issue that we are in right now.
[1:26:14] We fix things from leaking roofs that lead to massive water damage,
[1:26:21] quality electrical wiring that starts fires, flooring that people fall through, issues that make homes
[1:26:28] unsafe and therefore unlivable. We started a critical home repair program in 2020 and like
[1:26:34] any new program, it started out rather slow. In the first three years we started, we completed
[1:26:40] 14 projects and I am super excited to say that last year, 2023, we completed 34 home repairs. These
[1:26:49] projects have been super important to the lives and safety of our neighbors. We have been growing
[1:26:54] in a number of projects that we do and also the partnerships that we have. We've met some of
[1:26:59] our partners here today like rebuilding together, community action council, really great other
[1:27:04] partners that do a lot of similar things that we do or things that we don't do and we can send people them
[1:27:12] And then they do the same for us, which is really great.
[1:27:15] We also have been added to the Lewis Mason Thurston area,
[1:27:21] you didn't see on aging, a lot of words.
[1:27:24] We added aging and place program.
[1:27:27] Now that we are a contractor with them,
[1:27:29] we are partners with the city of Olympia,
[1:27:31] with their energizer Olympia program.
[1:27:33] Overall, our mission is to keep people in their home.
[1:27:37] So it's very important to us at Habitat.
[1:27:39] When I first started the first assessment that I went on, it was for a disabled veteran, he had seizures,
[1:27:46] he walks with a cane, he'd been hospitalized multiple times from falling, getting in and out of a shower,
[1:27:53] getting down the steps to his home, just doing things that you would think that you could just do,
[1:27:59] but for him it was very difficult. And I left that assessment in tears, just heartbroken that a lot of
[1:28:06] people live their lives in their homes like that.
[1:28:11] A few months later, I left that same home also in tears,
[1:28:14] but this time happy that we were able to take out their tub,
[1:28:19] give him a walk in shower, add in grab bars,
[1:28:22] build a railing up and down his stairs to his front door
[1:28:25] so that he could get in and out safely
[1:28:27] and not have to worry about falling.
[1:28:30] That is one of my favorite things that we've done.
[1:28:32] We've also helped a domestic violence survivor.
[1:28:36] She was disabled from the violence that she,
[1:28:41] the violence that happened to her,
[1:28:43] she had an electrical panel that caught fire,
[1:28:46] caused a lot of damage to her home,
[1:28:48] with that DMH, a lot of moisture gotten her house,
[1:28:51] and she was without electricity for over a year.
[1:28:56] So, when we went to her assessment,
[1:28:58] it was freezing cold, she had no way to take a hot shower,
[1:29:01] do her own laundry, do her dishes, we fix her piano, we close it up all of the windows, the
[1:29:09] garage door, all the things that we're letting all of them wish her and cleaned up the
[1:29:13] mold, put up new sheet rock. And if you just drove by her house, you would have no idea that
[1:29:19] this is happening because so many people are suffering in silence because you don't see them on
[1:29:22] the street, it does not mean that they don't have a decent home to live in. So critical home
[1:29:27] here is super important. And as our program grows and gains momentum, the funding needs to grow
[1:29:35] as well. We currently have seven applicants on our list within the city limits, and that's
[1:29:41] hard. It is hard to find people within the city limits. Like you think, oh, people, there's
[1:29:45] so many people live in Lacey. Find people in the city limits, which is what funding like this
[1:29:49] is very particular about. But we have seven applicants on our list right now that need repair work
[1:29:57] Like this, leaking riffs. Dangerous.
[1:30:00] Electrical issues, plumbing issues, they need wheelchair ramp, they need grab bars, various needs, and with the lazy human services grant funds, we anticipate to be able to help all seven of our applicants that are waiting right now, plus hopefully 35 more depending on what those needs are.
[1:30:17] needs very, there are things that are super expensive. We're placing a roof cost like 20,000 dollars for some homes and some
[1:30:26] other repairs cost very minimal. These repairs are needed to keep homes safe and livable. The cost of repairs
[1:30:33] people can't afford them. Life is expensive and being a homeowner. A lot of people are very fixing
[1:30:39] home and when stuff like this happens that they are expecting, they can't afford it on their own and so
[1:30:44] We, at Habitat believe that everyone deserves a decent place to live and we are doing our best
[1:30:48] to make that a reality for as many people as possible.
[1:30:51] Thank you.
[1:30:54] Thank you.
[1:30:55] Wait to get that all in under five minutes.
[1:30:57] Sorry.
[1:30:58] Sorry.
[1:30:58] I took everything.
[1:30:59] I couldn't.
[1:31:00] Everything I could.
[1:31:01] I tried to say.
[1:31:03] Thanks.
[1:31:04] Any questions?
[1:31:07] When you say there are seven people, seven, seven active applicants that are waiting for funding?
[1:31:15] Are you insinuating that you're going to earmark these funds specifically for those?
[1:31:23] Yes, so how it works. We get a lot of different funding and so when we have funding that is very specific to various specific regions like
[1:31:33] Like CDBG for example that is very specific to within the city limits. So we have an applicant that's within the city limits
[1:31:40] that's the funding we need. So we have some people who are within the city limits. We would
[1:31:45] be like, oh, this funding, that's going to go to them because other funding they might be in
[1:31:50] Lacey, but they're outside of the city limits. We have other funding that would kind of go to them
[1:31:55] because otherwise there is no funding to help those people. So we have to be very strategic because
[1:32:00] there are a lot of requirements when there's great funding.
[1:32:09] Any other questions? Okay, thank you so much.
[1:32:18] Okay. Thank you. Next up we have Boys and Girls Club of Thurston County scholarships for youth experience and homelessness.
[1:32:31] Hi. Thank you. I'm Shalika Trevino on the CEO for Boys and Girls Club of Thurston County.
[1:32:36] Our mission at Boys and Girls Club is to inspire and enable youth to realize their greatness.
[1:32:41] We do that in a number of different ways, but today I'd like to talk to you about a partnership that we have with North Thurston Public Schools that started in 2017.
[1:32:49] At that time, the Director of Transportation at Northeastern reached out to us and wanted to work with us to more intensively serve kids who were experiencing housing insecurity.
[1:33:01] Of course, we'd always serve that group of kids, but this meant that we would serve substantially more of them and they would have a ride home at the end of the night to their temporary place of residents.
[1:33:12] Our commitment to the partnership meant that these kids would attend the Boys and Girls Club each afternoon and during school breaks at absolutely no charge.
[1:33:20] In addition to having access to after school programming at the club, like I mentioned before, they would have an opportunity to get a ride home or to their temporary home at the end of the night.
[1:33:31] In addition to that, we signed them up for our adoptive family program and collaboration with North
[1:33:36] Houston.
[1:33:37] We signed them up for our shop of the cop program that we do with the LAC Police Department.
[1:33:42] And they have that.
[1:33:43] The parents have that stability in knowing that they'll be safe for a few hours in the afternoon.
[1:33:49] And then return to them at the end of the night.
[1:33:52] Prior to the partnership, these kids were spending a few hours on the bus every afternoon.
[1:33:57] So, the McKinney Vento Act requires that a school district provide transportation to youth experiencing homelessness in certain circumstances, and so it's an unfunded mandate, a federal mandate.
[1:34:11] And so what would happen is to make sure that the transportation was provided to those kids.
[1:34:16] They would remain on the bus for a couple hours and then eventually make it to their final destination, and that could be a hotel in Tacoma.
[1:34:24] it could be a homeless shelter nearby. It might be that they're couch surfing with a friend or a family member,
[1:34:31] but that meant that they spent those two to three hours on the bus before they got to that place.
[1:34:37] At Boys & Girls Club, they have access to mentoring, they have snack with their friends,
[1:34:42] they get an opportunity to work on homework, and for a few more hours each afternoon they get to just be kids.
[1:34:49] They get to set aside the worries of their housing situation and enjoy being kids.
[1:34:55] Well, we keep our fees low at Boys and Girls clubs.
[1:34:58] Families in this situation cannot afford to even pay nominal fees.
[1:35:02] 63% of the kids that we do serve are on a scholarship program, a few reduction plan.
[1:35:09] But again, these families are not in a position to pay even a small fee.
[1:35:14] So, waving those fees was crucial for this to work.
[1:35:17] grants are a huge part of our funding plan each year. 9% of our funding is made up through grants,
[1:35:24] a 25% of our funding which includes grants, apologize, 25% of our funding is through fees that we charge families,
[1:35:32] while 75% of our funding is made up through fundraising efforts including grants.
[1:35:39] Let's see.
[1:35:41] I think you have our budget and your proposal that we submitted, but about 68% of the
[1:35:47] Lacy Club's budget is for staffing.
[1:35:50] We run our program through staffing, we supplement with volunteers, and so the resources
[1:35:54] that we submitted, the request for, will go directly to the Lacy Club, all of the kids
[1:35:59] who attend their attend north or some public schools, and are enrolled in the McKinney
[1:36:04] Vento Support Program.
[1:36:07] I wanted to share with you something personal.
[1:36:10] If I had an opportunity to have a family here to speak to you, that would be nice for you
[1:36:16] to hear directly from one of our families.
[1:36:18] But the reality is, those families are working on basic needs.
[1:36:21] They're trying to look for work, they're trying to look for housing.
[1:36:25] Instead, I'd like to share with you something about my own childhood.
[1:36:29] From the time I was in the first grade, through eighth grade, my family was homeless countless
[1:36:34] times. What I can tell you about that environment, and you've heard a lot today about adult
[1:36:39] homelessness and youth homelessness, as having been in that situation, I can tell you that
[1:36:45] the burden that these kids are carrying is far too great for any child to ever have to deal with.
[1:36:51] They can't just be kids, but every moment that we add back to that period of their life is a moment
[1:36:57] that we're adding into their adulthood, where they can be caring, productive, responsible members
[1:37:02] of this community. That's what you're funding when you choose to fund this program. Thank you.
[1:37:14] Happy to answer any questions.
[1:37:24] Yeah, so this particular school year, it was $150 per month at the
[1:37:28] full price level. At the full scholarship, which is the 80% level, it was $30 per month for a
[1:37:34] kiddo to attend the Boys and Girls Club. And again, these kiddos in this program pay zero.
[1:37:41] You're welcome.
[1:37:49] Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you.
[1:37:55] Okay, our next presenter,
[1:37:58] North Thurston Education Foundation, Student Assistant Assistant Scrantz.
[1:38:34] Hi, everyone.
[1:38:34] My name's Diana East. I'm the Executive Director of North Thurston Education Foundation.
[1:38:39] We also partner with the school district and a lot of the people here in this room.
[1:38:46] So if I can get this, there we go.
[1:38:53] Our mission is to mobilize resources necessary to enrich programs, provide basic needs, enhance
[1:38:59] educational opportunities for the students and staff of Northhurst and Public Schools.
[1:39:04] Our vision is that every student, regardless of their background or financial situation,
[1:39:10] has the opportunity to achieve their dreams.
[1:39:17] So for our school district, as you know we have a very diverse school district, and last year
[1:39:25] 1,024 students were identified as McKinney Vento.
[1:39:30] Of those students, 307 are on a company at home with youth, 147 of them were in high school,
[1:39:39] and 127 of these students were unhoused.
[1:39:43] The school district also has 6,469 students that are on our free and reduced lunch program.
[1:39:50] We have about 14,500 students, so you can see almost half of our students are on free and reduced lunch.
[1:39:59] So, our program, we are non-profit that supports the district, so just where I'm clear, we're not the district,
[1:40:06] but we do work with the district. I worked for North or some public schools for 18 years.
[1:40:11] So I'm very familiar with our homeless programs and our programs that assist students.
[1:40:18] So our funding, again, for that, an unmet need of, uh, uh,
[1:40:24] making evento funding, we provide the funds to the district to buy basic needs for the students.
[1:40:31] The clothing, food, whatever they need to be successful.
[1:40:35] Those are the funds we give directly to the district.
[1:40:37] We also support low-income students at the at the schools, and we give that money to the counselors at the at the
[1:40:45] the buildings. So these needs can be quickly and quietly taken care of by staff. So there's only one staff member for my
[1:40:54] organization and I am it. The rest are volunteers. We utilize the district staff to distribute what is needed when and quickly.
[1:41:06] So, here's some of the highlights of what we were able to do with our funds last year.
[1:41:13] So, as you can see, nearly 3,000 students got clothing directly purchased by a staff member at their school when they needed it.
[1:41:24] And these are all students that are on free and reduced lunch when I'm recognizing that area.
[1:41:31] The kimchi pantry, this is food directly at the school, they miss breakfast, and a staff member can quickly go to a closet and just grab something and get that student something quietly and quickly.
[1:41:44] So nearly 7,500 students served by that over a thousand gas cards, and we're trying to find some way.
[1:41:54] These are mostly McKinney-Vento students and how do they get to school.
[1:41:59] So transportation takes two to three weeks to set up.
[1:42:02] Unfortunately, just the way it goes.
[1:42:04] And so we have to find some way to get those kids to school.
[1:42:07] To important importance and to be there.
[1:42:11] 12,000 coats were given 130 families were given emergency food cards,
[1:42:17] lots of sources for food in our area,
[1:42:19] but sometimes they need something like right now.
[1:42:24] And 111 students kept in their home or helped to move in a home with our rental emergency rental assistance.
[1:42:33] So this is my budget for this year.
[1:42:35] We've had to reduce because of some lack of funding.
[1:42:39] But we're strong and this is at least what we'll provide for the school year if we get our grants coming in.
[1:42:46] And so we give, like I said, funds directly to the school district, or we do purchase some items.
[1:42:54] We also get businesses and community members together, and also support programs.
[1:42:58] So that's not listed on here, but it's a hard part of one to show.
[1:43:06] All right. So, do I have any questions about our program?
[1:43:14] We did ask for two different things.
[1:43:16] of our student support, Korean, and that was 30,000 towards our rental assistant program,
[1:43:24] and then our 30,000 and 30,000 towards our clothing, all of them under our student support.
[1:43:31] So.
[1:43:31] Yeah, thanks for clarifying that, because the information we just have is just for the full
[1:43:37] amount.
[1:43:37] So that's good to know.
[1:43:40] Any other questions?
[1:43:46] Thank you so much for your time.
[1:43:48] Thank you.
[1:43:50] Okay, we're getting down to the end of our presentations.
[1:43:54] We have two more.
[1:43:55] Our next up is together and together has two applications for two different programs.
[1:44:02] So we're going to welcome them up today and they're going to have ten minutes, because they have two programs that they're proposing.
[1:44:12] Huh?
[1:44:13] Oh, sure.
[1:44:17] Okay.
[1:44:20] So I'm going to get started talking because I'm going to pass some things out, which I'm going to be referring to.
[1:44:23] to. My name is Sierra Abrams. I you share they pronouns and I'm one of the co-executive
[1:44:28] directors of together. Callow is the other co-executive of together and I'm going to be
[1:44:33] talking about hostomes predominantly but I'm a share a little bit about together and we've
[1:44:37] been around for 35 years this year. Our mission is to advance the health and well-being of
[1:44:43] all young people. We have three major programs. We're going to talk about two of them today,
[1:44:47] hostomes and clubhouse. First and foremost you want to thank the City of Lacy for all your
[1:44:53] of support since we started and right now, City of Lacey funds our programs in Lacey Clubhouse.
[1:45:00] And host homes, and historically has. So we thank you for that partnership.
[1:45:05] Host homes, if you don't know already, is a national model that provides support in placing
[1:45:10] unaccompanied homeless youth, which you've heard a lot about already today, in host families
[1:45:15] in the community. It really reminds me of what senior services are talking about earlier
[1:45:21] with home share. It's a very similar concept of, like, how do we provide housing and the housing
[1:45:26] not already exists without building new shelters or building new homes, so it's very similar.
[1:45:31] It really came out of a grassroots community movement of people welcoming youth into their
[1:45:37] homes already, like family friends, coaches taking in sports players, things like that.
[1:45:43] It really started in BIPOC and LGBTQ plus communities.
[1:45:47] Some of that we wrote in our application, but it's spread through the past few years nationally.
[1:45:52] Our program has been around for three years, first was our building year, then a pilot year,
[1:45:59] and now is our first year fully operational. We have nine North American public schools,
[1:46:06] slash Lacey students, house right now, in a host family. And there's a few different,
[1:46:12] there's two different ways that that happens. There's the traditional host model, where we're
[1:46:17] recruiting hosts from the community who have space and want to house a student.
[1:46:22] and then they are matched, like they're talking about home share with a student in the community.
[1:46:27] We also do kinship matches, which is where someone, it's a known person to that student.
[1:46:33] So it could be an extended family member, it could be a teacher, something like that.
[1:46:38] And then we come in and offer our support and our case management for that relationship.
[1:46:45] We have five more in the pipeline and then towed 25 total AC students have been served since the beginning of the program.
[1:46:52] Our goal is to house 12 to 16 more this upcoming school year and to recruit 12 to 18 more host families in the Lacey community.
[1:47:04] And really the goals of host homes is to provide students, of course, with a safe and stable place to be so that they can finish their GED or high school diploma and transition to college or trade school or whatever is successful to them stable housing.
[1:47:22] Yeah, and I'm going to read a story of success.
[1:47:25] This is a student in the North Thurston Public Schools community.
[1:47:29] She graduated first in her class and has been awarded a merit scholarship to you, Doug,
[1:47:34] where she plans to study biology with the goal of entering the medical field.
[1:47:38] This young woman joined our program after experiencing the significant volatility in violence
[1:47:43] in her home environment, where her mother struggled to provide a consistently safe space
[1:47:47] to domestic violence, often left alone with unsafe adult, she lived in constant fear of being
[1:47:52] asked to leave the home. Upon entering the program through our traditional models, she was placed
[1:47:56] with a host that she didn't necessarily know, and she's one of our longest serving youth in
[1:48:02] our program. She developed a meaningful mentorship bond with her case manager, who provided critical
[1:48:06] support throughout her graduation process in college preparation. The warmth and support she
[1:48:11] received from her host for transformative, and she's reported significant improvements with her
[1:48:16] relationship with her mother. Our case manager also guided her mother to access resources for
[1:48:20] her own well-being. So we also work with the families. That's a question we get a lot because
[1:48:25] it is, they're not really inquishing any parental rights. It is a consent.
[1:48:34] It's something. It's
[1:48:35] fully wraparound. So we work with the family. They consent to have the student in our program,
[1:48:40] but they're not really inquishing any rights at all. And it's very autonomous. And so if the
[1:48:44] and at any point, if the program's not working for them and we can't figure out how to
[1:48:49] have it work for them, they can leave at any time, they can maybe switch different host family
[1:48:53] or anything like that. If the legal guardian does no longer consent because we check in with them
[1:48:59] for regular leave for legal consent, if they no longer consent, then they also can be out of the program.
[1:49:06] And so it's nothing that is out of anyone's control. Yeah, and the other thing I'll mention is that
[1:49:14] In addition to the wraparound case management, we provide a monthly use stipend.
[1:49:19] It's about $150 a month, is what we've been doing.
[1:49:21] And part of that is to teach them skills of financial management.
[1:49:26] We have a relationship with a bank that allows us, you know, okay, here's your debit card.
[1:49:30] Like, what are we going to buy this month and have, you know, really training them in that
[1:49:33] and giving them resources for that?
[1:49:35] We also have reimbursements for the host families.
[1:49:38] And so if they're purchasing things for the student that we aren't able to provide,
[1:49:43] We also do reimbursements for the host families rent if that's a barrier and so that number in the past 12 months
[1:49:50] We've distributed forty two thousand dollars directly to the host in the youth
[1:49:54] With those funds
[1:49:59] I don't know if we want to do questions after each program or or not. Okay, okay
[1:50:04] Any questions
[1:50:09] What percentage of the hosts are our our requesting some sort of stipend the the hosts?
[1:50:16] I believe all of them are to certain extent.
[1:50:20] There is a maximum that's, I think, $550 that they can request a month.
[1:50:27] And I don't, they're not all requesting the maximum amount, but they will, you know,
[1:50:30] whether it's like buying food for the student or clothes.
[1:50:34] You know, they're going to, we encourage them to take advantage of the resources,
[1:50:38] because we have it in grants that we've received.
[1:50:41] So they all are to some extent.
[1:50:48] Thank you.
[1:50:51] When I started this, when I started this, when I started this, when I started this, my name
[1:50:58] is Carlo. So I get to talk to you about Clubhouse, which Clubhouse holds a very special place
[1:51:04] in my heart. I started as an intern there from Evergreen about seven years ago. When I started
[1:51:09] there, there was such a language shame with students that were coming from Spanish speaking
[1:51:14] countries. So with time and experience and understanding a little bit more about youth
[1:51:21] development at that time myself. Another peer and I developed an in-house bilingual curriculum,
[1:51:28] named Atavort. So through that, we were able to really navigate that we really needed a lot of
[1:51:32] social and emotional learning. Support, we needed to develop professional and personal development
[1:51:39] for staff that really talked about not only like healing, but how to de-escalate, I mean all of
[1:51:45] different things with, you know, helping and supporting the child. Fast forward to this
[1:51:52] past year, OSPI, which a lot of us are familiar with, was not able to renew a competitive
[1:51:58] application that put a huge funding gap in our budget for this coming fiscal year. And that
[1:52:07] put at jeopardy two out of the four programs that we serve. So I'm now going to catch up with
[1:52:13] clubhouse I just wanted to get, you know, your interest. I feel like I did. So clubhouse serves currently four programs, two elementary programs called Pleasant Glade and Lydia Hawke and two middle school programs.
[1:52:26] She took middle school and in the squally middle school.
[1:52:32] So clubhouse has been doing all these amazing things for about 10 years, partnering with the school district and TPS.
[1:52:39] And before, even, we took it over, and together,
[1:52:43] the school district was running this after school program.
[1:52:45] So we just kind of took it over 10 years ago.
[1:52:49] It's such a great program.
[1:52:50] We serve roughly about 200 students.
[1:52:53] We do a lot of reporting and tracking.
[1:52:56] Like I'm saying, we do a lot of partnerships
[1:52:58] with community folks, like P.J. Soundastuary,
[1:53:02] I'm Hackie Farms Food Bank, some folks in here.
[1:53:05] More heavy on the partnerships,
[1:53:06] because we want to make sure that we support
[1:53:08] the whole child, which also means opening of avenues of interest in any kind of things like
[1:53:13] marine biology down to engineering, languageing, anything like that. Recently, maybe not
[1:53:19] too recently, like about two years ago, we started a new position, as we named it a family
[1:53:25] bilingual family support liaison position. And in that, it was because we really saw that
[1:53:31] the pandemic right through the pandemic. There was a lot of pain navigating
[1:53:39] finances, a lot of burdens, a lot of needs for like because of language barriers
[1:53:44] and not only that but recently this is the the the spirit I've been giving
[1:53:49] everybody. Recently there's been an increase of indigenous folks coming from
[1:53:54] southern Mexico and central America. We've been speaking about it because Spanish
[1:53:59] is now just a bridge language, it's not even the language that you should just know Spanish
[1:54:04] at this point because now we need to start learning languages like mom, kankoval and
[1:54:09] other languages because that's the community that's coming up here in those indigenous
[1:54:13] folks.
[1:54:14] Spanish is now just a bridge language so even our staff is now finding ways to really understand
[1:54:19] the new communities emerging and a lot of them are in Shelton but they have now increased
[1:54:24] here in Lacey and within our programs.
[1:54:26] So, the family support liaison is very connected to the families of the child.
[1:54:32] The clubhouse program is, before and after school, and they support the kids with academic
[1:54:36] social and emotional learning, family support liaison supports the families with parental
[1:54:41] assistance, utilities, taking them to the food bank, teaching them the cultural norms
[1:54:47] around this area, you know, laws, things like that, down to, you know, how to emotionally regulate
[1:54:54] yourself with your child because there's different cultures in different places and coming
[1:54:58] here, there's legalities, there's all these different things that we need to make sure that families
[1:55:02] are also aware of so that they're not jeopardized by, you know, outside sources that are wanting to
[1:55:08] do something.
[1:55:10] Let's see, there was another thing. Oh, student story. So just to go off of that,
[1:55:15] two, about two years ago, no names, everything, you know, but there was a student who went
[1:55:24] from Guatemala all the way here, walking trains with the mom and their aunt and it was
[1:55:32] the student and a little cousin and they came here, also indigenous because they were, you know,
[1:55:39] living a very violent familial dynamic that was happening, they come here, they're at Lydia
[1:55:48] Hogg and they're getting all this support and where what I really want to share with you
[1:55:54] is that immediately, I'll just stop there, be one. Okay, I was like, I'll just finish it immediately,
[1:56:02] what they needed more than anything was like access to language and access to understanding
[1:56:07] like the culture around here because you know folks that were working around them or that they were asking
[1:56:13] they were actually like sort of in jeopardy of being called like on CPS different things just because
[1:56:19] of literally language barriers and misinterpretation. So our program is very deep, deeply rooted in
[1:56:28] the cultural awareness, language accessibility, the social and emotional connection within like
[1:56:33] ourselves so that we're not so individualistic or more like, you know, community-based with all folks.
[1:56:40] So that's Clubhouse. Sorry.
[1:56:46] Do I have any questions?
[1:56:50] Does this is in Clubhouse is partnering with Northhurst and Public Schools,
[1:56:56] I assume, in these particular schools? I think it was in this there was three, but you
[1:57:01] had it pleasantly in there as well.
[1:57:03] Yeah, so because of that funding gap, we've had, you know, a very recent decision to do a transfer
[1:57:11] of operations of our pleasantly program to one of our partners in the community.
[1:57:16] Yeah, that, and what do you mean by that?
[1:57:18] That the pleasantly, after school program, we'll now starting October be supported by the
[1:57:26] YMCA YCare, the South Sound YMCA, which is great.
[1:57:29] They'll move the students to the, the why here.
[1:57:32] Yeah, it's going to be a warm hand up from us,
[1:57:34] so we're actually going to be leading it
[1:57:35] at the, let's say, like the first semester.
[1:57:37] And then they'll be, we'll be working a lot together
[1:57:40] so that they can eventually help us with that.
[1:57:43] Or else, we would just have to close.
[1:57:44] How are I, I'm assuming that these schools
[1:57:46] are the most in need?
[1:57:49] How are some of the other students in the north,
[1:57:51] there are some public schools that are at schools that are,
[1:57:54] Less needed finding out are they able to access this program or are they like other schools like
[1:58:03] Let's say lakes or something. Yes, they will you know the great thing about like folks
[1:58:08] Like the what I'm saying is that that they do have like a whitecare program. I'm basically every school here besides now Lydia Hawk
[1:58:14] R OSPI funded grant is specifically for these schools
[1:58:22] So, what we do is we just, first and foremost,
[1:58:26] this is the students in that school.
[1:58:28] And also, because we have limited staff,
[1:58:30] so usually it's like a site coordinator,
[1:58:32] two, three facilitators.
[1:58:34] We try really hard with internships.
[1:58:35] We work really closely with the Evergreen State College
[1:58:37] and their community and their faculty.
[1:58:40] So, we do have maybe three, four interns a year.
[1:58:43] That helps.
[1:58:43] But to serve 60 students, every day takes about five staff and truly we wish we could serve more but that really just has to do with staff.
[1:58:57] And because you guys lost some funding, that's why we removed the present grade.
[1:59:04] We wish, but they'll be renewing the application soon next year and also because there was some rezoning done with the school district.
[1:59:12] pleasant blade is no longer really in our grant anyways, so there are some decisions made
[1:59:18] recently.
[1:59:19] Thank you.
[1:59:24] Thank you.
[1:59:25] So last but not least we have our arc and the programs called Place of Safety and Home.
[1:59:42] Hello everyone.
[1:59:43] Thank you for allowing us to present our arc.
[1:59:46] We're going to present with y'all the, oh my glass.
[1:59:50] Um, don't we have a, here we go, something about that.
[1:59:57] Oh, you know, am I working this right?
[1:59:59] Oh my god.
[2:00:05] There we go. We want to represent our model of Family Social Printer Approach model, which we use in our POS program, which is the place of safety and home.
[2:00:17] You may want to act like, what is POS? It's the place of safety and home, right? It is a place where we dedicate to provide a safe, nurturing environment using the Family Social Printer Approach model.
[2:00:29] This model has been created for seven months only.
[2:00:33] It's been created by myself, and I'm so sorry about that.
[2:00:36] My name is Dana Brickett.
[2:00:37] I am the founder and executive director for our arc.
[2:00:41] Our arc has been around for three years.
[2:00:43] It's incorporating the housing,
[2:00:45] parental approach, ages 18 to 25.
[2:00:49] You may act like, what is the family social
[2:00:52] parental approach, and what does that mean?
[2:00:55] Oh, my gosh.
[2:00:57] Well, here, we have the family social printer approach is housing model,
[2:01:03] part emphasizes creating a nurturing family-like environment for housing,
[2:01:07] house homeless young adults ages 1825.
[2:01:11] It involves a lived-in house parent who provides consistent care
[2:01:15] to guidance and emotional support
[2:01:17] simulating a familiar structure.
[2:01:21] This approach forces a sense of belonging,
[2:01:23] safety, refuge, and community.
[2:01:24] You may think housing parent what housing parent all right let me tell you what a housing parent actually does
[2:01:31] We hear housing parent when you're parent, right this individual who provides emotional support
[2:01:39] Insurious safety and security
[2:01:41] building relationship
[2:01:43] Community with other professionals
[2:01:46] creating a family atmosphere that I've been doing for eight years. I've been walking in streets doing street outreach for eight years
[2:01:54] for homeless youth and young adults.
[2:01:56] And what they said to me,
[2:01:58] what they said to our teams is,
[2:02:00] I want a family, I want love,
[2:02:03] I want care,
[2:02:05] I want someone who's going to care about me.
[2:02:07] So what I said was, let's create a space.
[2:02:10] Let's create something to where I,
[2:02:12] young homeless folks who are in the jungle,
[2:02:14] who are living on the streets,
[2:02:16] can come by and receive a home cook meal,
[2:02:20] who can receive a hood,
[2:02:21] someone who's saying I love you and I care about you, a nice bed and a pillow.
[2:02:27] But we also, with our homeless house parents, is we provide life skills as well, learn
[2:02:34] how to cook, make your bed, clean it up, throw some sorts of things, but we also see their
[2:02:40] progress. Their progress is the most important thing for us and we also celebrate their
[2:02:47] when they get their ID, when their birthday comes, when their jobs comes, all that.
[2:02:52] We celebrate as a team and we celebrate as a family.
[2:02:57] So you may think we're all the benefits of having the family social parental approach.
[2:03:04] So the benefit is emotional development, social competence, cognitive academic growth,
[2:03:13] Stronger family bonds, lower incidents of behavioral problems.
[2:03:19] And the practice that our art does is family meetings weekly,
[2:03:25] routine and structure, positive reinforcement,
[2:03:31] and confidence of resolution and training.
[2:03:35] So, place family social printer process been around,
[2:03:39] like I said, seven months.
[2:03:41] So within those seven months, we have housed 13 young people within those seven months.
[2:03:49] And here is our data. Within 30 days, 90% of our young people behavior changes.
[2:03:57] In 60 days, 67% have gotten their first job.
[2:04:05] In 4 months, 46% of them have permanent housing,
[2:04:07] but still assistance with services.
[2:04:12] In 45 days, improvement of high school grades,
[2:04:16] which this past two years, two of my graduated,
[2:04:20] you have to be about that.
[2:04:22] 30% have enrolled in GD, because a lot of them
[2:04:25] don't have enough in high school.
[2:04:28] In 30 days, 85% have given back to volunteer,
[2:04:32] either without art or with another unity.
[2:04:37] In some of our 46% of our young people, our support name and code rate,
[2:04:43] minutes to ongoing process.
[2:04:47] I know my time is up, but I wanted to just
[2:04:50] introduce you to our house kids and they're going to tell you all their experiences with
[2:04:55] the Family Social Print approach in our post program.
[2:05:00] So hello, I am Autumn Bennett. I was homeless
[2:05:03] and I was Odin and ever since I heard Danny's voice it opened a door for me and I know there's
[2:05:09] Children out there that are young adults like me and others that have no experience and have
[2:05:14] nobody to lean on. Ever since Danny put a parent approach, I got myself a job. I've been
[2:05:20] so far for three months and I've been continuing my journey to be with my son. And if you
[2:05:26] guys know that our archives, our children, a chance, I know they can give me a chance, I know
[2:05:31] they can give all the chance. Everybody deserve to be loved and cherish and supported and I
[2:05:36] feel like this program will give out to all.
[2:05:38] Thank you.
[2:05:44] Hi, I'm Tay.
[2:05:47] So I just came to this program.
[2:05:50] And before I got here, I was kind of struggling with housing.
[2:05:54] You know, I was running a lot.
[2:05:56] And kind of the same thing, Autumn said coming to Danny's
[2:05:59] has just been really helpful.
[2:06:01] It's really helped me turn myself around and not
[2:06:04] continue making the choices that will ultimately lead me down
[2:06:08] about bad path, and I think, again, as Autumn said, it's very helpful, and I think if she can give us a chance, she can give anyone a chance, and I think it is truly a beneficial thing in the long run for anybody who needs it.
[2:06:26] What questions do you have?
[2:06:28] Thanks so much. Any questions?
[2:06:34] Yes, Nancy, go ahead.
[2:06:35] No, yeah, no, it's just a way to be acknowledged.
[2:06:38] Yes, I'm near you. Go ahead.
[2:06:45] The artist has been open for three years.
[2:06:48] Yes.
[2:06:48] That's a program that you've written has been used for seven months.
[2:06:54] So what differences do you see with the curriculum as opposed to before you have the curriculum?
[2:07:02] The curriculum is different because we just received housing enough grant to receive housing.
[2:07:08] have two homes as it is. We don't call them houses. We call them homes because our young people
[2:07:15] want to call them homes. So we do have two homes. This is when the curriculum has changed
[2:07:20] when we have homes. Before the homes were just conducting street outreach and I was only
[2:07:25] thinking that we were doing but once we received our homes that's when the curriculum has changed.
[2:07:30] Because our young people told us in my experience of eight years of doing street outreach that
[2:07:34] just say to want a home and not just the house or a shelter or a center.
[2:07:40] Do you?
[2:07:41] Um, so tell us a little bit about how each you have two homes.
[2:07:48] Oh, are each of those set up?
[2:07:51] How's it set up?
[2:07:52] How's it set up?
[2:07:52] It's in parent.
[2:07:54] Oh, many kids.
[2:07:56] So each home is set up with the house parent.
[2:07:58] That means someone is there 24-7.
[2:08:01] It's nothing unlike in third-sync outing.
[2:08:03] It's very wide in Washington state.
[2:08:07] So with that, our young people, as in these homes,
[2:08:11] they have someone there that they can talk to at any time.
[2:08:15] If anyone here has kids, you know, when it's screaming, yelling,
[2:08:20] or they need something at 2 o'clock in the morning,
[2:08:22] seven o'clock in the afternoon, someone is there,
[2:08:25] and that's what we're doing.
[2:08:26] We're creating that family structure that majority of our kids
[2:08:31] I missed, they missed on that.
[2:08:33] So we want to recreate that for them.
[2:08:36] So when they walked through that door,
[2:08:37] they got a home-cooked meal, they got a bed of laying in.
[2:08:39] But when they go on to distresses and insides,
[2:08:42] you know, the pressure on behavior stuff,
[2:08:44] they have someone to talk to, right then and there.
[2:08:47] They're not calling five different people
[2:08:49] to get to where they need to be.
[2:08:52] They had a one-person right there to say,
[2:08:54] let's have a conversation, let's talk,
[2:08:56] what's going on with you?
[2:08:58] And things are all weird, okay.
[2:09:00] But like I said, within 30 days, behavior change,
[2:09:03] because they have the support of case management,
[2:09:06] they also have support of peer support to as well.
[2:09:10] Not only the house parent,
[2:09:11] so there's three different people that they have support with,
[2:09:14] but also they also have support of their peers.
[2:09:17] They use peer.
[2:09:17] So that's four different people that this one person
[2:09:20] will have support with in direct contact.
[2:09:25] And how many kids for hosts?
[2:09:28] But the homes we have right now, we have three per house.
[2:09:31] Okay.
[2:09:32] The house that we want to create here,
[2:09:35] it's a place where a tier have one day.
[2:09:38] They just need one day just to rest.
[2:09:41] They could come in and they have a space to rest.
[2:09:44] Maybe a week they have a space to rest.
[2:09:47] And some of them in elite.
[2:09:50] It is a revolving door, but at least someone is there
[2:09:53] to give them a home cook meal.
[2:09:56] Someone is there to listen to their problems.
[2:09:59] Someone is there to say it's okay.
[2:10:01] give you a hug and say I love you. I care about you and I'm going to give you a hope.
[2:10:05] We are here. We're not going anywhere. We are present. That's who we are. It's a safety
[2:10:12] space in refuge.
[2:10:16] The curriculum aspect of it. This is how you're providing, I guess, resources
[2:10:22] for them for maybe job training or, you know, how to, this is like how to write a resume or,
[2:10:29] you know, how to access, getting to the individual life skills?
[2:10:33] Yes, we provide all of that.
[2:10:35] When it comes to doctors and mental health and things,
[2:10:38] those are referrals.
[2:10:39] We do have a specific partners that we do refer
[2:10:41] to our young people too.
[2:10:43] All of our young people do go to IOP.
[2:10:47] A lot of our young people also know that,
[2:10:50] but this helps it does help out a lot.
[2:10:52] From my experiences, creating this model.
[2:10:57] So they do get their individual life skills when it comes to financial literacy, JD like I've mentioned before, all of my kids who have not finished high school, they are enrolled.
[2:11:10] We have one right now, using both.
[2:11:15] We have two RAIDs that's enrolled and two of them have come from DCY up to as well.
[2:11:20] Most of our kids are coming to housing, they either come out to streets, DCYL, social working, or just word them out.
[2:11:31] Well, you guys just keep up the good work and what you're doing, you're doing a great job.
[2:11:36] Thank you.
[2:11:37] Thank you.
[2:11:38] Thank you.
[2:11:40] Thank you.
[2:11:43] So that concludes our presentations for tonight.
[2:11:46] I really like to thank again all of the applicants who took the time to come down today
[2:11:51] our council members who came to visit and see the presentations because our council really cares
[2:11:58] about this program. It is a new inaugural. This is the first year that we've had this
[2:12:03] allocation. So this is a new work group that we have set up here and we couldn't be more happy and
[2:12:09] pleased to see the response from the community tonight. So thank you again so much for being here.
[2:12:15] I just have a quick announcement. We are going to cancel the August 22nd work group meeting
[2:12:20] because we, in order to give you all some time to review applications and to give myself time to crunch the numbers and accumulate all the scores, our next work group meeting will be September 5th.
[2:12:37] Did anybody else have any other questions or comments?
[2:12:42] Okay.
[2:12:42] Oh, I have one more.
[2:12:44] I wanted to talk about the rubric.
[2:12:46] So you all have the rubric for scoring and I created a fillable PDF.
[2:12:51] I also have hard copies here if anybody needs extra copy.
[2:12:55] And then the other thing was on one of these attachments.
[2:13:00] I'm not sure I didn't, because I just look at it now,
[2:13:03] but I didn't see the host homes application
[2:13:06] and you're only the clubhouse.
[2:13:10] They are, it's one thing.
[2:13:12] They was all together because the budget only showed for host.
[2:13:17] It was a hard time with it.
[2:13:20] Okay, well, look, I just,
[2:13:21] It was the first time I got to see that.
[2:13:23] Yeah.
[2:13:23] And then the auto.
[2:13:24] Thanks.
[2:13:25] You're talking about the two.
[2:13:27] Yep.
[2:13:27] Good.
[2:13:28] If it's in there.
[2:13:28] Yeah.
[2:13:29] There you are.
[2:13:31] Okay.
[2:13:31] Thank you for clarifying.
[2:13:32] Thank you for bringing that up.
[2:13:33] I just.
[2:13:35] So yes.
[2:13:35] Make sure that you look all the way through it.
[2:13:37] Because I was only.
[2:13:38] And you scored separately.
[2:13:41] Yes.
[2:13:44] Okay.
[2:13:46] Actually.
[2:13:47] No.
[2:13:48] I was just going to clarify that the first one, both of them are asking.
[2:13:54] That's what I saw.
[2:13:56] Okay.
[2:13:57] It's for 25.
[2:13:58] Okay.
[2:14:00] All right.
[2:14:01] So with that, we will finish the meeting for Thursday, August 8, 2024.
[2:14:07] The City of Lacey, Human Services Work Group.
[2:14:11] Thanks.
[2:14:12] Thank you.