Governor Newsom Highlights Modern Pilot Offering Assets and Companies to Folks Dwelling in Encampments

State hopes to copy the profitable effort in different communities throughout California

Cellular Homeless Join brings state and native providers on to people experiencing homelessness the place they’re, as an alternative of requiring individuals to journey to a patchwork of presidency places of work the place providers are often accessible. The state hopes to copy the profitable new effort in different communities throughout California. 

“The established order on homelessness is solely unacceptable – if we wish to see completely different outcomes, we now have to do issues otherwise,” stated Governor Newsom. “Authorities paperwork is difficult sufficient for these of us who’ve prepared entry to computer systems and vehicles. However individuals dwelling in encampments typically wrestle to sew collectively the providers they should get their lives again on monitor. Cellular Homeless Join acknowledges this actuality and provides a brand new state-local method to deal with it.”The three-day pilot concluding as we speak engaged greater than 100 individuals at 5 websites, offering them entry to an estimated 260 state and native advantages or providers. Folks experiencing homelessness have been supplied help with state and county providers together with provides of shelter or housing; assist accessing a beginning certificates, ID and Driver’s License data; Medi-Cal, CalFresh and CalWorks enrollment; workforce coaching alternatives and unemployment or incapacity advantages signups; and COVID-19 testing and vaccinations towards COVID-19 and Monkeypox. Estimated complete engagements embody 85 with the Division of Motor Automobiles, 52 with the Employment Improvement Division, 69 with the Los Angeles County Division of Public Social Companies and 41 with the Los Angeles County Division of Public Well being.

“It’s so vital to satisfy people experiencing homelessness the place they’re, as an alternative of requiring them to hunt out and journey to authorities places of work for the providers they want,” stated BCSH Secretary Lourdes Castro Ramírez. “Even when individuals are conscious of the providers accessible to them it’s typically tough, if not not possible, for them to journey to areas the place they will apply for these providers.”

Yesterday, Governor Newsom introduced $694 million in new Homekey awards, bringing the entire initiatives funded to greater than 200 statewide, creating greater than 12,500 everlasting and interim houses. The Governor’s multibillion-dollar homeless housing investments will present greater than 55,000 new housing models and remedy slots within the coming years. Constructing on final 12 months’s historic $12 billion funding to assist get essentially the most susceptible individuals off the streets, the state price range this 12 months invests an extra $2 billion in behavioral well being housing and encampment rehousing methods, creating a complete $14 billion package deal to confront the state’s housing disaster.

Over the following a number of days, the taking part companies, departments and community-based organizations will consider the Cellular Homeless Join pilot in Los Angeles and supply the administration with suggestions on the way it could also be replicated in different areas of the state. A full checklist of state, native and nonprofit service suppliers that participated in Cellular Homeless Join could be discovered beneath: