2.8: expert forum: advancing the federal strategic plan
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2.8: Expert Forum: Advancing the Federal Strategic Plan Presentations by Barbara Poppe.TRANSCRIPT
February 10, 2011
Advancing the Federal Strategic Plan
Purpose of the Plan
Targeted, solutions-driven goals
Cost-effective/strategic use of government expenditures
Roadmap for joint action by 19 Council agencies
Guide development of programs and budget proposals
Set of priorities the federal agencies will pursue over the 5-year period: FY 2010 - FY 2014
Vision
No one should experience homelessness.
No one should be without a safe,
stable place to call home.
Core Values
Homelessness is unacceptable.
There are no “homeless people,” but rather people who have lost their homes who deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
Homelessness is expensive – it’s better to invest in solutions.
Homelessness is solvable – we have learned a lot about what works.
Homelessness can be prevented.
There is strength in collaboration – and USICH can make a difference.
Goals & Targets
Finish the job of ending chronic homelessness by 2015
Goals & Targets
Prevent and end homelessness among Veterans and their
families by 2015
Goals & Targets
Prevent and end homelessness for families, youth, and children by
2020
Goals & Targets
Set a path to ending all types of homelessness
Goals & Targets
Prevent and end homelessness for families, youth, and children by
2020
Ending Family homelessness by 2020
Increase Leadership, Collaboration, and Civic
Engagement
Ending Family homelessness by 2020
Provide Affordable and Permanent Supportive
Housing
Ending Family homelessness by 2020
Increase Meaningful and Sustainable Employment
Ending Family homelessness by 2020
Improve Health and Stability
Ending Family homelessness by 2020
Transform Homeless Services to Crisis Response Systems
Implementation Activities
Veterans and their families
Other families with children
Unaccompanied youth
Veterans and their families VA understands the new face of OEF/OIF Veterans
Increased focus on female Veterans and their families in DOL’s HVRP program
Collaborative work to review barriers to mainstream programs for Veterans with families
Education and VA working together to ensure VA has information about educational rights of homeless children
Interagency push for PIT
Number of VASH vouchers helping Veteran families
Other families with children
Significant work on 10K Housing
Choice Vouchers despite
Congressional decision
Weekly interagency engagement
Common vocabulary discussion
HPRP
Engaging Education’s state coordinator
and local liaisons about local and state
involvement
Unaccompanied youth
Youth signature initiative
Significant dialogue among federal agencies and stakeholders Engagement with White House and Center for American
Progress
HHS ACF focus on different types of youth in and out of foster care
Consolidate models to encourage demonstration opportunities
Call to Action
Commit to goals and focus on results
Take action
Be active partners
Local implementation
Role of state and regional interagency councils
Local plans that reflect family goal
What’s Next … Questions to Ponder
Is your community still managing homelessness in shelter settings and on the street, or are you changing your practices to prevent homelessness whenever you can, rapidly returning people to housing as quickly as you are able, and reaching out to the people who have been homeless the longest and finding a way to combine housing and support in permanent supportive housing?
What unique partnerships are being fostered that bring us closer to our vision that no one should experience homelessness?
What’s Next … Questions to Ponder
• What are your local agencies currently doing to ensure that people who are most vulnerable are accepted into these programs? What is/will be done to break down barriers to admission and ensure that programs aren’t creaming”? Does your local plan target Families, Children and Youth?
• Are you making sure that the community HMIS is major part of plan’s data collection function?
• Are you targeting HPRP dollars to families who are on the brink of homelessness?
What’s Next … Questions to Ponder
• Do existing agencies that offer transitional and emergency housing, open to all people who are homeless?
• Do the programs ensure that permanent housing is available on the back end?
• Are you considering health reform in the plan and what it will mean to existing programs and agencies?
What’s Next … Questions to Ponder
• What does Medicaid coverage mean for families that are homeless? This includes health exchanges, health homes, and accountable care organizations
• And when we/you succeed in changing the landscape of homelessness in America, when there is no longer a need for homeless programs, will you be prepared to adjust your programs accordingly?