>> Good morning. It's 9:31 A.M.
on August 8, 2023. The meeting
of the public safety and human
services committee will come to
order. I'm Lisa Herbold chair o
the committee. Will the clerk
call the role.
>> Councilmember Mosqueda.
Councilmember Nelson.
>> Present.
>> Councilmember Pedersen.
>> Present.
>> Vice chair Lewis.
>> Present. Chair Herbold.
>> Here.
>> Five present.
>> Thanks so much. On today's
agenda, we have four items. We
will hear the appointment of
Josh Sadler as administrative o
the Seattle municipal court and
receiving the one year report
from the 988 suicide and crisis
lifeline serving King county an
we will hear from the human
services department in King
county on both the Seattle
community safety initiative and
the King county regional
approach to gun violence and
then we will receive quarter 1
and quarter 2 metrics from huma
services department and the law
enforcement diversion program.
That will be the last item on
the agenda for today. With that
we will move to approve the
agenda for today's committee
meeting. If there is no
objection, today's agenda will
be adopted. Hearing and seeing
no objection, today's agenda is
adopted. We will transition int
public comment. I will moderate
the public comment period in th
following manner. Each speaker
is given two minutes to speak.
will alternate between virtual
and in person public commenters
if there are both, but it
appears that there is only
virtual commenters today. I wil
call on each speaker by name an
in the order in which they
registered on the council
website and on the sign in form
If you have not yet registered
to speak but would like to do
so, sign up before the end of
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the listening options on the
agenda. We have three people
signed up for public comment.
Three are virtual. There are
none signed up to speak in
person. So, we will start with
the speaker signed up. First
Howard Gael followed by John
Schiff.
>>
>> Good morning. Howard Gael.
Since today may be the last tim
a member of the public can
comment on things not on City
Council agenda, let me take thi
opportunity to point out that
the things that fail to get on
council agendas are sometimes
more important and revealing
than those that do. Things that
never made the public safety
committee agenda, OIG whistle
blowers in 2019 and 2021.
Revolations of serious
malfeasance by the office of
inspector general investigators
in 2021 and 2022 including the
fact that an OIG investigator
with a prior career as a cop
rubber stamped hundreds of
audits and OAP investigation.
Failures of the CPC to do the
federally court mandated duties
to investigate patterns of
inadequate OP investigations an
parents of abuse by SPD, the
unrelenting patterns of shootin
and killing those experiencing
behavioral health crisis. That
never made it on an agenda. The
failure of the CPC for or six
years to investigate a propose
as mandated by the ordinance an
appeals process for people
abused by police when the OPD
investigations are improper.
Failure of the CPC to
investigate and propose also as
mandated by ordinance
investigating alternatives to
the SPD doing their own interna
investigations in cases of the
use of deadly force. And then w
have the failure to ever hold
OPA or OIG department heads
responsible for corruption and
malfeasance. The failure to hav
hearings or ask questions about
the shooting of unarmed black
teen just last February. The
failure of over -- seven months
of any monthly reports on the
failed effective persons progra
despite the requirement being i
legislation and most recently
the failure to address real
change revelation. Federal cour
Mon nor serves the interest of
the SPD not the interest of the
accountability. These are thing
that never made it on an agenda
>> Your next speaker is John
Schiff. John is showing as not
present so we will move down to
David Haynes and if Mr. Schiff'
status changes, we will hear
from him after Mr. Haines. Go
ahead, Mr. Haines.
>> Thank you. David Haines. Why
is City Council still going out
of their way to sabotage the
integrity of police reform.
Using more tax dollars to pay
off people that are unqualified
to judge people based on
repeating drug offender problem
and you are not requiring polic
to question the junkies and
repeat offenders to find out
where they got the drugs to shu
it down. Thanks to City Council
if you sell drugs and do drugs,
you are exempt from jail. No
need for bail. Straight to
housing and services while
innocent are suffering from
racist discrimination. Yet we
have community safety who has
totally failed the community wh
keeps running interference for
troubled souls that repeat
offend. Council leadership has
tripped progress into a societa
mess attempting to manipulate
skin collar at the expense of
judging content and character.
We need new trustworthy leaders
You have undermined public
safety repeatedly.
>> Thank you. Our last public
speaker is still showing not
present. I will call for Mr.
John Schiff. See if that status
changes. John Schiff. John is
still not showing as present.
So, with that, we will conclude
our public comment period. And
move into our items for today.
Can you, please, read in item
number 1.
>> Agenda item one, appointment
of Josh Sadler as court
administrator Seattle municipal
court.
>> Thank you so much.
>> Folks join us at the table,
please.
>> As we are joined at the
committee table by our
presenters, I will start with
some introductory remarks. We
are joined today by the Seattle
municipal court residing judge
to present an appointment of Mr
Jay Sadler as court
administrator of Seattle
municipal court. A court
administrator must be appointed
by the judges of the Seattle
municipal court subject to
confirmation by a majority of
the City Council. The court
administrator guides a staff of
200 employees to coordinate all
administrative and operational
functions of the Seattle
municipal court as the court's
operation executive. This work
includes leading much of the
court's internal diversity,
equity and inclusion work
leading strategic initiatives
and allocating resources for
efficient function of the
courts. Mr. Sadler has been
serving as interim court
administrator for about a year
now. The latest role in his nin
years of service with the
Seattle municipal court. With
that, I will hand it over to
presiding judge to present the
appointment. Thank you.
>> Okay. Good morning. I am Fay
chess presiding judge of Seattl
municipal court. I am pleased t
introduce you to Jeff Sadler
that I an pointed to the role o
court administrator with the
support of and recommendation o
Seattle municipal court
executive leadership team.
Seattle municipal court and the
city of Seattle are fortunate t
have a well positioned leader t
lead the court during an
extraordinary time of
significant organizational
change and challenge. Josh was
the finalist in our most recent
court administrator recruitment
As you heard he has served the
court for nine years in several
leadership positions and most
recently served as interim cour
administrator since August 2022
I chose to appoint Josh in lieu
of a formal recruitment because
the court is at a critical time
with several major initiatives
that we must ensure are
completed successfully without
delay. We are nearing our goal
live date for a new municipal
court administration system, a
60 million-dollar investment
completing a court wide
reorganization negotiating five
labor contracts and facing a
likely significant city budget
deficit in 2025-2026. As interi
court administrator, Josh has
successfully moved the court
forward, established strategic
vision and priorities while
shoring up leadership capacity,
governments, prince pals and
improving communication
throughout the court
reestablishing trust and
employee and stakeholder
engagement. So, we are hear to
ask for your support in moving
his appointment to the full
council.
>> Mr. Sadler.
>> Thank you for having me. I
appreciate the support and
confidence of the judge, Seattl
municipal court judges.
>> Thank you.
>> Turning to my colleagues, an
questions? I have a few. All
right, great. Thank you. So,
yeah, just a few questions to
get a little bit of a
conversation going on here. If
you could, just maybe speak a
little bit. You have been
filling the role for I think we
said nine months now. Are there
opportunities for improvement
that you have observed since yo
have been playing this role?
>> Absolutely. I mean, I starte
this role in the midst of quite
a turbulent cascade of changes
as the judge outlined and we
chose to see a lot of those
changes through including an
entire reorganization of the
executive leadership team. We
used to have an 11 member
executive leadership team. We
condensed that down to four. We
completely reorganized court
operations into four more
streamlined less siloed areas.
We continue to look at case flo
coming out of the pandemic and
like judge chess said, we are
about to see through a sizable
technology investment by the
city that goes live in March of
2024 with the case management
system. Right now we are
operating on a home grown case
management system from the
1980s. This is new technology
that will help us dramatically
change the way we deliver
service to the public.
>> Can you speak to how this ne
case management system will be
something that people can
experience the difference?
>> Sure. Internally facing, for
our new employees who start at
the court it's tough for them t
learn a DOS based computer
system from the 1980s. They wil
have a more streamlined user
experience. In terms of serving
the public, what we have done
throughout the entire process i
put a customer centric lens on
the services starting with how
they view files online, how the
can access court documents. We
have started to build videos
that accompany the case
management system, such as the
infraction process. What does i
look like to come to court for
an infraction. Really thinking
about how, especially in a
remote setting, customers acces
justice through the municipal
court.
>> Fantastic. Thank you. And
then if you could speak to how
you approach organizational
management and how you could
describe your leadership style?
>> Organizational management or
change management, sorry.
>> The later, thank you.
>> Okay. Well, luckily this is
something that we have been
creating as part of our new cas
management system. What we
realized the change is broader
than the technology. We have
started to incorporate all of
that change into something that
we have been calling a
communication cascade which
seeks to engage the voices of
everyone in the organization to
talk about the changes, to lear
about the information and to
deliver it in their own voice t
their colleagues. That is
something that I am proud of. I
terms much management style,
it's a collaborative approach a
the court, especially with the
executive leadership team and
the judges in court work throug
the national center for state
courts we talk about productive
pairs between the court
administrator and presiding
judge. I believe that extends
throughout the entire court
system. We need to be on the
same page and I see myself as a
colleague with everyone else on
the leadership team.
>> Thank you. And I just -- thi
isn't a question, it's a
statement. I really appreciate
the work of everybody at Seattl
municipal court as it relates
specifically to high priority
project for this council, the
probation evolution. Excited to
see the many months work maybe
even years at this point coming
to a conclusion and looking
forward to that work and
potential for change in our
community. Thank you.
>> Mr. Sadler an I participate
in the mayor's even if anyonena
system work group together and
your knowledge of the history o
the court and its proceedings
inspires a lot of competence an
in my meeting with presiding
judge chess the other day she
sang your praises. I ever
nothing but confidence that you
are the right person for this
job. I appreciate you stepping
up. I have a question about the
court administrator position.
Has it always been an
appointment -- appointed
position?
>> Yes, it has always been an
appointment by the presiding
judge.
>> Okay. Thank you very much.
Thank you very much for your
service.
>> All right. Any additional
questions? I am not seeing any
either in person or virtually.
Calling one more time. All
right, with that, I would like
to move appointment 02581 for
passage. Is there a second?
>> Second.
>> Thank you so much. I have no
additional questions or comment
other than saying thank you for
your service and thank you as
well for going to be formally
selected and chosen for this ne
leadership role.
>> Thank you for your time. We
appreciate it.
>> Will the clerk please call
the role.
>> Councilmember Mosqueda.
>> Aye.
>> Councilmember Nelson.
>> Aye.
>> Councilmember Pedersen.
>> Aye.
>> Chair Lewis.
>> Yes.
>> Chair Herbold.
>> Yes.
>> Five yes.
>> Thank you. This appointment
moves on to full council on
August 15th and we can
communicate twerch now and then
about whether or not Mr. Sadler
intends to be present. He is
welcome to. He is not required
to. But happy to have him be
present informal -- and formall
accept the final vote, thank
you.
>>> Mr. Clerk can you read in
item number 2.
>> 2988 suicide and crisis
lifeline serving King county
year one report.
>> All right, great, thank you.
As we are being joined to the
table, a couple of introductory
remarks. We will be joined by
Michelle McDaniel, chief
executive office of crisis
mentions. Our presentation will
touch on the crisis continuum o
care related to 988 and
behavioral health. The first
point on a crisis response
continuum is that call for help
whether it's to 911 or 988. The
new nationwide 24-7 phone numbe
to call for behavioral health
centers is -- health crisis is
988 and celebrating the first
year of operation this summer.
In June of last year, several
partners from King county as
well as Michelle joined us in
this committee to discuss plans
for the 988 launch. So, it's
very appropriate that we are
back here again to find out how
that went and where we are
planning to go. It is intended
to connect people in crisis to
compassionate accessible care
and support for anyone Xer --
experiencing distress, mental
health crisis and 988 if they
are worried about a loved one
that may need crisis support.
The federal vision goes beyond
someone to talk to. In the long
term, 988 will be billed out to
include someone to respond such
as rapid crisis response
services for people in
behavioral health crisis as wel
as some place to go meaning for
people in crisis to stay and
recover while receiving
treatment. Washington state is
ahead of other states in 988
implementation. Thankfully we
are one of only four states to
rapidly enact a 988
infrastructure bill complete
with funding. This was back in
2021. Earlier this year I had
the privilege of testifying in
support of house bill 1134 from
representative Warhol crisis
teams, recommendations for
training and liability
protections. That law went into
effect last month. Appreciate
that our state legislators
continues to lead the way on
implementation of the full 988
vision. With that, I will pass
it on to Michelle McDaniel.
>> Thank you for that
introduction, councilmember
Herbold. Good morning to the
entire council. Pleased to be
sharing with you our one year
report for 988. I am the CEO of
crisis connections. I am going
to provide you a little bit of
background about our
organization. Before we launch
specifically into the
presentation with the update an
I am going to attempt to move
the slides forward. There we go
What we will discuss today is a
overview of the 988 system, the
role within the crisis
behavioral health system and
year one report about how it's
going within Washington state
and King county and Seattle. I
will talk about how we are doin
coordination work between 911
and 988 and then we now in year
two of the 988 program, we will
be able to give you an update o
what is ahead for this year and
I will leave some time for
question and answers. Very
briefly, my organization has
been operating since 1964, a
nonprofit organization. We have
been operating crisis lines for
a very long time. In fact we ar
offering the 24 crisis line for
King county, second oldest
crisis line in the United
States. As you can see on this
slide, we offer many programs
that are focused on help line
and text or chat. That includes
of course, covering the King
county as well as eight other
counties and Washington state a
a 24-hour crisis line and call
out King county 211 which we
launched in 2006 for informatio
referral. We are pleased to be
provider of a program we call
one call that particularly
councilmember Herbold has been
champion for, a dedicated line
for the first responders in Kin
county and Seattle to call en
route or when they get to the
scene of a situation where it
appears that there maybe a
behavioral health component.
They can talk to a clinician to
get support on the call. Many o
the programs that cover across
Washington state as our focus o
a behavioral nonprofit. I wante
to provide context as
councilmember Herbold mentioned
my organization fit in a larger
continuum of care for crisis
services. With this slide, an
opportunity to give you context
where crisis connections and
similar programs fit in at the
extreme left is the left
restrictive option for people
experiencing a mental health or
substance abuse crisis. That is
a 24-hour crisis line. From
there we move to the right. You
can see we have items that are
in a little darker teal. Those
are services that are required
by the behavioral health ASO to
provide in every region of
Washington state. 24 crisis lin
is required. Mobile outreach
team which my organization is
one of the few organizations an
services that can dispatch
mobile crisis teams. Of course,
then, what we call the most
restrictive, the four walls of
involuntary or voluntary
psychiatric inpatient. Those ar
required throughout the state.
And the lighter green are those
that are optional. So, one of
the lessons here is that
throughout the state, there is
wide variety of behavioral
what part of the state you live
in. Within King county we have
some of the most robust. That
includes next day appointments
for people in need to see
someone in person or virtually
and so on and so forth. Crisis
connections in our role is the
front door to the whole
continuum of care and are able
to dispatch or recommend or be
able to connect people to many
of these resources that you see
here. The great thing that is
happening, I must mention again
in context of 988 is one part o
building out our behavioral
health system. Under resourced
for many decades and we are
seeing now a great amount of
momentum across the state as
well as the city and county to
address the need to build out
crisis care system as people ar
in greater need in our
commuity. So, as you are aware,
the crisis care center levee wa
passed. My organization was a
big pro upon incident of that
for people to walk in as if I
had broken my arm and needed me
yacht care, we will have the
opportunity for people that hav
behavioral health crises to wal
in and that crisis funds five o
those walk in centers. Effort t
increase the mobile outreach an
designated responders who are
the people that are given the
authority in extreme situations
to involuntarily committed
someone for psychiatric reasons
Then we know that programs such
as the law enforcement
assistance diversion and other
coresponding teams stood up. We
need all of those levers to
support the community. Again
more context, a national vision
behind behavioral health and
where the 90-day system -- 988
system fights in to. They fall
into having someone to talk to
immediately. Very low barrier
resource. Someone to respond,
such as mobile crisis teams and
then also some place to go, as
mentioned, when those
opportunities, the crisis care
centers stood up in King county
So, the 988 system ultimately
the 988 system is a change in
phone number. So, we have had
the national suicide prevention
lifeline across the country
since 2000. My organization,
crisis connection was -- has
been one of the providers of
that service since 2010. So, at
a simple level, this is changin
what was a 10 digit phone numbe
into a three digit number. I
will tell you in all honesty
that I couldn't have told you
off the top of my head what the
10 digit number was which means
the average person in the Unite
States wouldn't be able to
recite that as well. Part of th
function of U.S. congress
passing the suicide hotline
designation act in 2020 which
gave the pathway of moving from
10 digit to three digit line wa
to reduce barriers for people
accessing behavioral health
across the country. Crisis
connection is one of about 200
behavioral call centers across
the country that are answering
this line. Again, it's a free
and confidential service 24-7,
365 across the country. I will
let you know that it was a
national launch on July 16, 202
but what we would term a silent
launch. Not every community in
the United States was truly
prepared as we were in
Washington state to launch this
program. So much of the
marketing or publicity is
reactive, to media stories. You
will now see in year two as the
system is getting more built
out, you will start to see more
marketing and more visibility
for this program. Again, the
point is to connect community
members who are experiencing
mental health, substance abuse
or suicide crisis with a traine
crisis counselor. Within
Washington state, there are
three providers of the 988
system. Of course crisis
connections but also our
partners over at frontier
behavioral health which you can
see from the map here are
supporting eastern Washington
and then volunteers of America
of western Washington. Crisis
connections, we are the first
line for those calling from Kin
county area code. It's importan
to note right now there is not
Geo location for 988 nationally
Meaning as people are mobile an
may not change their phone
number. If they call 88 from a
206 area cod and they are in
frees Scott, Arizona, they will
be routed to the crisis
connection call center. That
being said, it's a network
across the country. If for some
reason in the support that our
team is providing, we need to
connect them to local resources
we have the ability to be do
that easily and do a warm hand
off. We have a team right now o
35 bachelor degreed clinicians
and mostster level staff that
operate the 988 crisis line for
crises connections and all of
those staff members are remote.
One of the ways that we have
been able to manage the
workforce crisis within human
services and specifically
behavioral health is to offer
the opportunity for remote work
That has been quite successful.
But it allows us to have
employees and people answering
this line across the country,
specifically we have employees
in Texas, Arizona, New York,
Mississippi and Ohio that are
answering the phone when 988
rings. They are highly trained
and being able to be able to
connect to local resources. Tha
is not a barrier. So, what
happens when you call 988? Firs
there is a phone tree to be abl
to connect you to specific
specialized services. So, again
when 988 is dialed, it goes to
the national call distribution
service which is operated by an
organization called vibrant
behavioral health. They are
contracted with the federal
government to provide the --
essentially back end routing
services and make sure that
there is criteria for all 988
call centers that they must
adhere to and standards. That
call is routed first to that
general switchboard and you wil
get an automated answer. That
will offer you opportunities to
press one to be connected to th
veterans crisis line. Two to
receive your services from 988
in Spanish as well as
connecting, if you dial, press
three, to the pref adviser
project for those LGBTQ plus
population but under 25 years
old is connected to the Trevor
project then something exclusiv
to Washington state, we operate
the native and strong lifeline.
As I mentioned before, there ar
three 988 providers in
Washington state volunteers of
America stood up to the nation'
first and only help line
dedicated to our Alaska native
and American Indian population.
So, we are proud of that. We
hope that that is replicated in
other states. And the
opportunity for people who need
to utilize the relaser vice and
a text and chat function to the
988 service. You will start
seeing like I mentioned, outwar
marketing to be able to create
more awareness as other
communities build up the 988
capacity. It's a safer situatio
that call centers throughout th
country will not be overwhelmed
and you will start seeing
marketing such as this ad right
here. What are the top reasons
so far that people are
contacting 988? The first
probably wouldn't surprise you.
Those are people with suicidal
ideations or the next extent
have a specific plan. We have
quite a few people, probably 30
that call because they are
seeking help for someone else.
teenager, parent, spouse. We
have a high number of folks tha
are calling because they need
de-escalation from a behavior
health crisis. Sometimes it's
simple just empathetic
compassionate ear that people
are seeking and connection to
resources. As you heard, we are
able to be that compassionate
listening ear. About 80% of the
calls that we take we are able
to resolve at that level.
Another 20% or so we are
bringing in additional resource
to support folks and try to
prevent the next crisis.
Deescalate the crisis and
prevent the next crisis. I want
to go into the anatomy of a 988
call, the sense and flavor of
the focus. This should look
similar across the country. For
us, what you can expect in
particular, as I mentioned, les
than a minute you will be -- th
phone will be picked up by the
recording and you will have the
options as I listed earlier. It
will actually get to a human
being, a live person within 30
seconds. That is one of the
standards for 988. So, for my
organization, we are able to
pick up the phone and get a liv
answer, 90% of the time between
80 and 95% of the time within 3
seconds or less. This is where
the counselor hears the client
story, assess for safety. This
is, of course, suicide
prevention resource. So, it's
not uncommon for people to be
experiencing suicidal thoughts
or putting together a plan. So,
they listen for the story and
assessing. Then this is really
important part. This is about
building rapport. We want this
safe accessible resource for
all. So, they are going to
explore the situation and what
we are looking for is to make
sure that we have folks that ar
able to assess the need but
utilize people's strengths. We
want to leverage the resiliency
that everyone has and natural
supports. Continuing to listen
and assessing for safety, this
is where maybe assessments for
potential domestic violence
abuse may occur. And then reall
racking up the call to work and
establish safety and resolve th
issues. I won't read all of thi
but developing coping
strategies. Engaging the caller
988 is not an advice line. It's
to try to engage people in
figuring out the navigating
through the crisis and
preventing the next crisis.
There is an opportunity as well
to do follow-up calls. So, we
use peer counselors to follow-u
with someone two days later, a
day later if they would like,
see how they are doing with
there coping strategies. That i
a new feature in crisis lines t
have a peer counselor call back
and make sure that it was a
successful intervention and if
they need more support or
different support. Again, 80% o
the calls close out the call,
invite them to call back any
time and make sure that their
emotional state is stable and m
of on to the next call. Out
comes for 988, the most common
is that we are successful in
deescalating and no threat to
themselves or others. This
includes also safety concerns,
established using less
restrictive interventions. Ther
is a continuum of care. We are
looking for the least
restrictive option for people i
order to support them such as
next day appointment s mobile
crisis team coming out to their
home and so forth. Refer
community resources and
follow-up services that I
mentioned. Mobile crisis team
and more serious cases
designated crisis responder if
we feel someone needs to be
involuntarily committed for
psychiatric services and care.
That is less than 5% of
interactions. The last is first
responder intervention meaning
that there may be a life safety
situation that we are not able
to resolve.
>> Question on the slide. Could
you just give us a sense of the
difference between the category
-- the outcome category on this
slide for referrals to mobile
crisis team or designated crisi
responder and the two percent
that are referred to a first
responder, like a sense of what
makes the difference of whether
or not there is the former out
come and the later outcome? And
whether or not for the first
responder intervention is that
exclusive to fire, police and
paramedic or broader.
>> I will address the fir
question. When our clinicians
assess if there is additional
services needed, what
distinguishes recommending a
mobile crisis team or responder
or more immediate like EMS, fir
or police is really about the
caller. Are they cooperating?
Are they safety planning with
us? Are they able to bring in
other people within their circl
to help support them? There is
lot of art as well as a little
bit of science. The best
practices around crisis
intervention. If we have a wher
someone for example is
expressing suicidal thoughts,
has a plan, has a means and is
not safety planning with us, is
not actively working to move to
resolve it, that would be one o
those rare statistically
situations where we would be
bringing in 911 and reaching ou
to them. 988 cannot trace calls
nor do we want to. We can get
caller ID and in most extreme
case would dispatch out 911.
It's such a rare part of what
happens in the intervention but
it does occasionally happen and
that is when we have concern
about someone's safety or other
and they are not collaborating
with us and resolving.
>> Thank you. I will invite you
-- I think I know the answer to
this question -- but community
resource or follow-up service,
invite you to speak to the
capacity and the access that yo
have to those necessary
services.
>> Absolutely. When there is
determined the need for
additional services, that is a
struggle. So, I mentioned many
times the mobile crisis teams
are the crisis responders. If w
are determining and working wit
a caller to say, yes, I'm
willing to have a mobile crisis
response to my home to be able
to work and they come out in
two-person teams as behavioral
specialists, there could be
extensive wait times. Right now
it do be days. That is a
situation that we determined
someone needs to be eval you wa
waited -- evaluated for service
including involuntary
detainment. If we have lack of
resources to say here is the
next step, A, we are not helpin
to resolve the crisis. We find
that people are utilizing crisi
connection services as their
mental health provider. Again,
we are the short term crisis
intervention, trying to resolve
it, but we end up maxing out ou
services. We now exceed --
nearly 675,000 contacts every
year with the community a
three-fold increase from eight
years ago and particularly
before covid, massive increase.
We experience firsthand the lac
of resources across the
continuum and puts more people
in a situation to receive
services from us when really
they need more intensive wrap
around services. Does that help
answer the question?
>> Yes. Thank you.
>> We are also -- you can see
here, we have a launch date of
July of 2022. You can see a
steady increase in calls.
Statewide we have averaging
6,000 calls per month, 20%
increase since launch compared
to the prior month. Overall we
are trending 45% of call volume
increase if we look at the same
period January through May. We
are reaching people, which is
wonderful. To my point the more
people contacting 988 means
stickily the more people that
need support. It creates a
crunch there. One of the areas
that we have been focusing on a
crisis connections is to packag
what I call the ecosystem of th
continuum care. So, we have, of
course, 988 that we have been
talking about. 901 is an
integral part of the continuum
of care and then, of course,
211, choice mentioned before.
This is connection to resources
and really want to make sure
that people understand that the
211 system, which is not the
topic today but an area where w
are working hard to be able to
adequately fund, that is the
prevention component of all of
this. Ultimately what we would
like to do, what I would like t
do is see a decrease in calls
from 988 over time because the
need is not there at that crisi
level. It's being resolved
earlier. Building a strong 211
system, choice national but not
the funding that 911 and 988
have would be an asset in makin
an impact in supporting the
community. I want to talk
briefly about the different
lanes between 911 and 988 and
how do we work together. The
focus of 911 is to be able to
assess quickly and get the righ
resource out in a very short
period of time. It's prompt
dispatch. It's around life
safety, fair, medical crime. We
have become inappropriately
dependent on the 911 system on
EMS, law enforcement, fire to b
able to respond because it's so
quick. And when there is a
crisis and we need to be able t
support people and there is a
multiday in the behavioral
health system it often escalate
to a 911 call. We want to diver
that. 988 ideally will be a
number of things, not just a
quick response as far as being
able to talk to someone but be
able to make sure that we can
get the additional resources ou
and stop this dependence on 911
which should be focused on what
is listed here. Then 988, as I
mentioned before, about
assessing, crisis resolution.
When we hear a term of suicide,
it's a very different response
when a 911 operator hears that,
we need to get somebody on the
scene. Many when we hear that,
it's a cause for more questions
and building rapport and
understanding. Again, it's abou
life safety but for the most
part, we are -- clinicians are
successful in deescalating and
not send out additional
resources from the emergency
system. Then that cross over.
Like I said, less than two
percent of calls that come in
get to the point where we need
to dispatch and include 911.
That is when someone is activel
not working to deescalate the
situation.
>> Another question here. May I
Another question in this area.
You may have covered it. I feel
the need to lift it up again. I
have heard concerns about the
fact that some people who are
practitioners in this area
believe that we are moving away
from better integrating 911 wit
988. I understand that we want
to make sure that the first --
the right first responder shows
up, but I have been led to
believe there are specific step
that the state has taken to mak
that actually -- that
integration more difficult. I'm
wondering if you can speak to
that?
>> Absolutely. First of all, we
recognize that 911 and law
enforcement is often not the
right response. We have relied
lot on our first responders to
be social workers and behaviora
health clinicians. We recognize
for certain populations, a
higher rate that the situation
can be escalated versus
deescalated. Particularly in ou
communities of color, black
community in particular. We
recognize that, accept that, ow
it. So, we want to make sure
again that the right response i
dispatched and, again, we need
to partner with 911 and all
first responders to make sure
that we are standardizing how w
are interacting across the stat
between 911 and 988 and make
sure that the right call is mad
as to what to do next. We have
done extensive work with 911
leadership across the state to
literally map out how we want
the responses to go, educating
our first responders on
behavioral health and it's not
new to be partnering with as
crisis line with 911. That is
happening since we started in
1964 but we are being more awar
and methodical and thoughtful
about how that interaction
happens and that hand 067. This
is where programs like crisis
connection one call is really
important where we are able to
provide information and coachin
to first responders on a way to
behavioral health situations or
when they get on the scene. So
that we have found that law
enforcement in particular is
open to this engagement,
partnership. If we want to make
a difference and make sure that
we are providing the right care
and support and safe and
accessible support to the
community, we have to partner
and work together to do that
with first responders.
>> Thank you.
>> Nearly done with my
presentation. Hopefully we have
time for more questions. I
wanted to let you know now we
are in year two. What is
happening in Washington state?
As mentioned, there are three
988 providers, crisis connectio
is one of them. If a call is no
picked up within 30 seconds by
one of the 988 crisis call
centers across the country, it
will be routed to a centralied
backup system that I believe is
primarily in New York. We want
to retain any calls that
originate from Washington state
area codes in Washington state.
So, we are rolling out thisnal
backup system. If a call to 988
to the area that crisis
connections covers is not picke
up within 30 seconds, the call
rolls over to one of our two
partners, frontier or volunteer
of America and that happens
throughout -- throughout the
system. So, we are working on
that. It's really important tha
we have a local response as
possible. Then we are expand
being the chat and text
capacity. As I mentioned before
it's possible. So, crisis
connections will add that. We
are focused on answering the
help line and will get into
offering our interventions
through chat and text. Right no
that is an increasing mode for
people, particularly as you can
imagine, younger people feeling
more comfortable and safe
interacting through those
options. Then we will launch
early next year colocation. We
will I am bed 988 clinicians
into 911 peace apps. We will
likely start with valley com in
south King county. We have been
in conversation and meetings
with Seattle 911 so we can have
immediate response, support the
911 staff and knowing when to
move a call to us and, so, we
expect we will have stronger
support and intervention and,
again, get the first response
being the right response.
>> Thank you for mentioning tha
last effort about working towar
colocation. I think that's also
an element that addresses some
of the concerns I have heard
about integration with 911. Tha
is helpful. I'm just looking to
see among my colleagues. My on
line viewing is temporarily --
okay. Looking to see if there
are any virtual hands here. I'm
not seeing any. Councilmember
Nelson.
>> I might have misunderstood
are you saying that you are
trying to backup all calls? I'm
asking that because of your dat
storage capacity and for
example, if a behavioral health
professional wants to reach one
of the service provides to
confer about someone who is
seeking ongoing help, is that
possible?
>> Let me clarify what I meant
by backup. The idea is if a cal
comes in top crisis con next an
we can't pick it up, the call
doesn't get routed out of the
state. It stays within the stat
but to address your question
about are we literally recordin
calls and so forth, so, again,
we want to make sure that peopl
understand that we honor the
fact that, as much as possible,
when we operate the crisis line
that they are confidential and
safe. That is one of the hall
marks of people calling and
feeling comfortable. Now, with
that being said there are times
where we collect information
from the caller willingly
because, yes, I'm willing to
have next day appointment. We
need information there. Then th
calls are recorded for vibrant
for quality assurance. We have
strict Hipaa laws that we
subscribe to as well as nationa
call center. If we have a
situation where -- if I
understand the question
correctly, roll back the tape
for example.
>> Right.
>> We could do that to assess i
we did the right intervention
not to track an individual but
make sure that we are evaluatin
the response and whether or not
it was adequate.
>> Thank you.
>> Any other questions or
comments. Councilmember
Mosqueda.
>> Thank you so much. Thanks fo
the update on this. I know we
are excited about the
opportunity as well as in the
future to be able to have 988
connect people with the
alternative crisis responders a
the chair noted with the hope
that when people see somebody i
crisis know that someone withou
a badge and gun might show up t
have the ability to treated
people that we are ex per --
treat people that are
experiencing. I want to ask you
to comment on whether or not if
we are seeing somebody who is
having a crisis right now, if w
should encourage them to call
988? If we see somebody having
crisis should we call 988? A
good way to try to get them
direct services before calling
911 and while I have the mic I
want to thank you for your work
I think the last time I saw you
in person was when we were
announcing check tip ofly King
county in partnership with
community partner the prop pro
session to bring the crisis
center to fruition and support
for the workers and your speech
was amazing and impressive. To
be able to remind people that
you are working around the cloc
and don't have the appropriate
places to bring people to and
allow them to heal was moving.
Congratulations on a win and
thanks to the voters for
supporting that effort. You mad
a tremendous impact. Thank you
so much.
>> Appreciate it. Thank you for
your question. Yes, we want
people to call 88. We -- in
Washington state, as
councilmember Herbold mentioned
we are one of four states that
funded this resource. We have
the capacity when to call 988.
If this is an immediate life
safety issue. If someone is
running this in and out of
traffic, looks like they may
harm themselves or others, that
is a 911 call. You need
immediate response and the righ
resource at that time. We want
to make sure as I mentioned tha
we are diverting calls that hav
been going to 911 that are more
behavioral health. If you are
determining -- it's not up to
the public to do a mental
gymnastic what number should I
call. If you feel an immediate
safety risk, please call 911.
The other component, as I
mentioned, we are working
closely with 911 as a 988
provider to make sure if a call
does go into a different
channel, there is no wrong door
and we will get the person to
the right place. If it's an
immediate safety issue, harm to
self or others, crime in
progress, things like that, we
want the public to call 911.
>> Thank you so much.
>> Thank you. There are no
further comments or questions
before you go, I want to thank
you for everything that you hav
done. Thank you for your
advocacy on the one call projec
that I think is so critically
important to help first
responders and thank you for
your willingness to come back
and speak to us today a year
after your launch. And I am als
looking forward to joining you
in a listening shift later this
week. That will be great. Very
soon now, I think another coupl
months, the city will be
launching its own duel dispatch
program where both police
officers and a new care team of
behavioral health responders
will come to the scene of
certain calls. Officers are not
required to stay but they are
going to have swashing shownnal
awareness -- situational
awareness when the care is
dispatched. It's important to
have clearly defined response
protocols. We send the
appropriate resources but not
just to only focus on who is
responding, that is important,
but we also need to maintain th
view and the reality that the
need for help lasts longer than
just the response. I referenced
the discussion going on in
Washington state around the
integration of 988 and 911.
There is a recent landscape
analysis offered by
professionals at the U-Dub
school of social work that look
at the statewide behavioral
health crisis continuum as
presented to us here today.
There are a couple of
recommendations coming out of
that analysis that I would love
to share with the public and
committee members. It does
recommend that every region of
the state have coresponse
programs available as an
essential crisis service and
recommends that they coresponse
systems share information and
closely collaborate with the
988-led behavioral health
systems including call centers,
mobile crisis teams and
stabilization facilities. Those
are important recommendations
for jurisdictions throughout th
state to stay focused on.
>> I'm confident that we are
focused on that integration her
in King county. The roll out of
duel dispatch in another couple
months as councilmember Mosqued
mentioned the April profit of
the King county center levy,
these are important milestones
in revisioning how we think
about crisis response but
integration will take time, wil
require ongoing public attentio
and oversight and developing no
just the systems to respond but
the systems to continue to offe
care as needed is something tha
will continue to need our focus
Again, thank you so much for
your work in this area.
>> Thank you for the
opportunity. Thank you for your
support.
>> Mr. Clerk, read in item
number 3.
>> Agenda item 3 Seattle
community safety initiative and
King county regional approach t
gun violence.
>> Thank you, Mr. Clerk. As
people are joining us at the
table, a few owning remarks. I
want to thank everyone for
joining us here today to
continue our ongoing
conversation around community
safety and the city's
participation in the regional
public health and data driven
approaches to addressing and
preventing gun violence in our
communities. We hosted many
previous briefings on this issu
over the last several years in
2021 we invisited a panel of
presenters from the Seattle
community safety initiative
including some folks that are
joining us this morning to shar
their approach to building
community safety hubs in three
Seattle communities and we
received several briefings from
the human services department o
$12 million supported by the
City Council to provide support
for and build community safety
efforts. Last year received gun
violence prevention from from
multifrom partners, human
services department and more. W
have learned about the regional
domestic firearms unit, we
learned about the Harborview
medical center hospital based
intervention program and we
learned about the youth
leadership intervention and
change program sometimes
referred to as link which I
serve on the board for and we
heard about the regional
approach to gun violence
reduction and how it is the onl
regional effort in the flakes
selected to participate in an 1
month White House community
violence collaborative and we
heard from and learned a lot
about the fantastic work.
Regional peacekeepers
collective. I appreciate you
joining us here today, this
morning. I do want to age that
everyone joining us was impacte
by a July 28 shooting at the
southeast network safety event.
Your organizations were engaged
in that somewhat to prevent gun
violence and support healing or
in responding that very evening
I'm grateful there were no
fatalities but I recognize the
trauma you are experiencing
today and the frightening and
senseless injuries that many of
you engaged in this work are
recovering from still today. I
want to thank you for joining u
this morning to share your good
work and your expertise despite
this trauma. With that I believ
the human services department
will start us off to talk about
the Seattle community safety
initiative. Thank you.
>> Good morning. Okay, great.
For the record, I'm Tanya Kim,
director of the human services
department.
>> Good morning, I'm Annie Lee,
interim deputy director for the
human services department.
>> Good morning, I'm Dominic
Davis CEO of community
passageway.
>> Do you want to introduce
yourself.
>> Sure thing. Director of the
regional gun violence program
for public health Seattle in
King county. Good morning.
>> We have a two-parter. So, we
will swap out. She can drive fo
the IPC conversation. I don't
want to take up too much time
but it was very important for m
to join the table today and
offer my appreciation to
council, to the mayor's office,
chief Diaz and others but more
importantly age as you have
shared, the importance of our
community partners and what the
do on a day in and day out. I
think what is unique and Annie
will describe the work itself
and CEO/founder of community
passageway, coach dom will fill
in the blanks and answer any
questions and give voice to the
work that is actually happening
It was important for me to show
up because I also want to
express the department's, the
city's commitment to the work
and why this particular body of
work is a little different
because it was developed and
birthed from community. It's
implemented by community and we
are a proud partner in
supporting and trying to get ou
of coach dom's way as well as
our other partners. I need to
acknowledge and we will go into
more detail but we have members
and leaders of organizations
here. So, I want to recognize
some important people sitting i
chambers and hopefully I have a
-- hopefully nobody else just
walked in recently then I will
give voice to those who I think
are working right now, too. So
want to acknowledge Marty
Jackson specifically with the
boys and girls club of King
county. I understand the trauma
-- really caring for her staff
and prioritizing staff. Just
thinking of her team. Of course
executive director Chantel. I
have to give a shout out to Pau
as well with urban family for
their work. Marvin Marshall wit
the YMCA and no introduction bu
dom with community passageways.
It's the work. We are committed
and really appreciate the
opportunity to Facebook here to
talk about the model and a
status update on outcomes and
performance measures. Thank you
With that I will be driving thi
and passing it over to Annie
Lee.
>> Thank you, director Kim.
Today our agenda for our
presentation is as follows. We
will be introducing and giving
background on the CSI
initiative. We will be talking
little bit about the partnershi
that CSI has with SPD, contract
and program focus areas, metric
and program performance then
leave some time for questions.
This slide may look familiar to
the committee but we included
this information to center the
conversation around our mission
and six impact areas.
>> We are having technical
issues.
>> This happens when I'm
driving.
>> We will continue on. Six
impact areas are preparing you
for success, affordability and
live ability. Addressing
homelessness, public health,
safe communities and promoting
healthy aging. The Seattle
community safety initiative or
SCSI falls within the community
impact area and within our safe
and thriving communities
division. Next slide. By way of
background, in 2020, the City
Council added $4 million to
HSD's Seattle community safety
initiative. In 2021 the safe an
thriving community division was
created combining existing and
additional safety investments.
In 2023 the adopted budget
included ongoing funding of $4.
million for the SCSI work. SCSI
scales up gun violence
intervention and prevention
efforts by facilitating home
list stick and trauma informed
community support to improve
safety and well-being. SCSI
began as an elite organization
subcontracting to three other
agency hubs. This year working
with our partners we shifted to
individual contracts that gives
additional flexibility to the
partner agencies while
maintaining the collective
approach of the programs that
make the SCSI include community
passageways, YMCA of greater
Seattle, boys and girls club of
King county and urban family
association. Community
passageways continues to serve
as a lead agency and directs
policy, meets weekly with SPD
and convenes system meetings an
coordinates and ms reporting fo
the hub organizations. SCSI
partnership with SPD includes a
memorandum of understanding
outlining mutual goals, types o
independents for SPD
notification for community
passageways, on scene protocol
and expectations for ongoing
communication. They meet weekly
where they discuss shots fired
information and immediately
following that shots fired
incident, the SCSI partners
convene for a coordination
response. They organize size
resources into a cohesive
structure and a collaborative
community response to critical
incidents. This slide provides
breakdown of the SCSI agency
hubs and their contract amounts
for 2023. Each agency hub serve
the respestive geographic area
of the city. SCSI's approach an
straits are community based
drawing on evidence backed best
practices from Seattle and othe
communities. Agencies and
services are embedded in
community to meet individuals
where they are and minimize
barriers to receiving services
when they are needed. Gun
violence reduction strategies
that build relationships that
address well-being, trauma and
safety. The population for SCSI
youth and young adults of color
and their families. Individuals
age 12 to 30 years old
primarily. These individuals an
families are from black and
brown neighborhoods in Seattle
where they live, go to school o
work. There is a focus on youth
and young adults who had some
contact with the criminal legal
system, experienced incidents o
community violence or have some
contact with groups or gangs.
The contract program focus area
-- I will go into more detail i
the following slides, critical
response and hot spot
remediation, safe passages,
resource navigation and trainin
and professional development.
Start wearing critical incident
response, these hot spot
remediation are focused on the
ground -- are focused on the
ground support expertise and
resources aim to deescalate
violence. This response
accelerates recovery of those
involved and aims to return
people to everyday functioning.
In some inbound assistances, SP
notify face the community safet
team director who disspasms
critical incident responders.
Individuals and community
members may reach out to SCSI
hubs directly for support. The
safe passage activity includes
strategy that is based in
schools by geographic regions t
promote a zone of safety on and
around school campuses. Safe
passages works to decrease and
deescalate fight and incidents
of violence on school campuses
and connects young people and
their families to supportive
services and providers to meet
their needs. The zone of safety
is created by engaging with
students, school administrators
teachers, community center staf
and neighboring business owners
Social services include
mentorship, housing navigation,
employed, academic support,
legal system advocacy and
navigation. Resource navigation
intervention and wrap around
support services to engage
participates in ongoing
services. The first phase
addresses immediate needs, vigi
and funeral support, housing an
relocation and referrals to
agency hub services for long
term support. The second phase
of knee source navigation
focuses on ongoing support to
the individual and family
members. And the agency hubs
work together on making sure
mentoring, grief counseling,
navigation, victim assistance
resources, medical resparses
housing opportunities are
available for families. Lastly
SCSI emphasizes continuous
collective learning for the
staff and partners, training an
professional development are
essential components of the
work. Community passageways is
the lead in bringing in externa
facilitators for training agenc
hubs in areas like community
safety, de-escalation, outreach
crowd control, active shooter
response and retaliation
prevention. Urban family is the
lead for critical response
training for agency hubs. So,
HSD works with partners to trac
contract performance goals. We
look at how much we do, how wel
we did it and is anyone better
off. The metrics on this slide
talk about how we track the
number of at risk individuals
that complete case management o
the number of case management
participates enrolled or create
a service goal or plan. The
number of events for hot spot
remediation. Number of critical
responses dispatched by law
enforcement and the number of
community safety trainings
hosted for all three agency
hubs. We know we did well by
tracking the number of case
management participates that
complete at least one goal in a
number of areas, housing,
education, financial,
employment, social, behavioral,
mental health. And then we are
measuring how better off people
are by looking at the number of
case management participants wh
report a decreased involvement
in violence and general crime o
report a feeling of being safer
We also track the number and ge
information from our contractin
agencies on the number of shots
fired, incidents that are
responded to by the SCSI
partners, number of at risk
individuals that engage or
completed hub case management
intake processes. The number of
engagements before goals were
completed and the number of
individuals that complete one
goal in a variety of areas. You
can see '21 and '22, '23 year t
date totals. That's my quick ru
through of SCSI. Now is an
opportunity for questions.
>> Thank you. We will have a
second presentation but I wante
to pause here to see if there
are questions associated with
what we just heard from on the
Seattle community safety
initiative? No. Councilmember
Nelson is here with me. Any
virtual questions? I'm not
seeing any. I do have a couple
of my own. So, two questions
around the programs themself. O
slide eight there was a
discussion of the program
strategy and the protective
factors that are identified as
part of the program strategy.
I'm wondering if you could spea
about how those protected
factors were developed and
established to be protective an
then, secondly, as it relates
specifically to safe passages,
I'm wondering are those safe
passage programs informally
established or is there an
active formal agreement with th
schools that they serve?
>> So, I was having trouble
hearing you. I kind of heard yo
a little. Can you repeat that?
>> I can. The first question
relates to program strategy.
There is a identification of th
protective factors that are
identified and established. I'm
wondering if you could speak a
little bit to how that is done,
are specific agreements with th
individual schools on your work
there?
>> I will address the protected
factors. So, the protective
factors STC ongoing work,
codesigning exchange for gun
violence reduction and communit
well-being. We look at research
from organizations like cities
united, goes Johns Hopkins
university, ready Chicago and
academic from it conducted on
Seattle, Boston, Flint and
Youngstown. A body of literatur
that talks about it for
community based enter vehicles.
We are working to align our
investments.
>> In the national data, speaks
volumes to being able to come u
with protective factors also. W
know the gun violence has
increased on a national
platform. When we start -- my
bad. When we start looking at
protective factors in my
perspective, I look at it as th
boots on the groundwork that we
do and what we are seeing, the
trends. We analyze it and come
up with a safety plan with the
data. So, when you say
protective factors, they are
talking about different nationa
studies but in our community we
have to look at our community
and figure out what is a good
safety plan for each area in th
city and the hubs that we are
operating out of, what does it
look like to be able to operate
from the lens of protecting and
putting safety plans in those
areas, boots on the ground
through the training and evenin
else that Annie Lee talked abou
and the presentation. The safe
passage piece is something that
we pooled from the safe passage
team, Marty's team, Marty
Jackson's team did safe passage
a while ago. As we came togethe
to put this collaboration
together, we put it together to
even me late that model. Each
safety hub works around a numbe
of schools in that area. We hav
agreements with those schools.
We have understanding with thos
schools. Those schools have
opened up, some have given us
space to be able to operate and
do circles and we do community
feeds. We feed the kids after
school a few days a week. So
apparently lot of times we are
finding ourselves in spaces
where we had to step into
schools that aren't in the
safety hub area because there
was a high level of violence.
Kids getting robbed at gunpoint
at middle schools at one point.
When we heard of that, we put
collaboration together and
decided to put a safe model in
that space. We will be there
escorting kids to their
transportation, METRO, school
buses. Safe passage is a number
of things. And arms are growing
outs of it and supporting
families out of it. Other thing
are growing from that service.
>> Thank you. I have been a
great fan of the safe passage
program since I became aware of
it as part of the Rainier beach
beautiful place to live and
tried before the pandemic to ge
it replicated in denning and
south and AM happy that despite
my unsuccessful efforts
replicating it in that way it
has been replicated at that
school campus. It's very welcom
there. So, moving on to the
contract performance goals and
program data, I just want to
lift up that council central
staff put in a request that the
human services department
provide the reports from which
this data was drawn. I am going
to second that request here. I
appreciate the way the slide is
laid out to map performance
metrics to the question that
each is trying to answer. And,
so, again, it would be helpful
to have the data mapped out the
same way. And I think another
specific question about the
performance goals, the question
in itself may be my showing my
ignorance about the ability to
track data or to know that
something is true in a way that
you can track it, I'm wondering
are we able to track subsequent
involvement in gun violence of
the individual participate leve
or is there a reason why that i
not possible or not the right
question to ask?
>> Literally when you ask me
that question, it makes me
uneasy because at the end of th
day, we are very careful how we
document the criminal
involvement. We don't want to
put anybody in a situation wher
collective data of individuals
that might have some
vulnerability, right. Our goal
is to help and aid and be a
safety measure. So, when we
collect data, we do know who wa
involved in gun violence and wh
was a victim of it, right? But
when it comes to the
perpetrators, we try to figure
that. It's a fine balance,
community safety is really a
balancing act at the end of the
day. You have to keep your
credibility in the community an
trust in the community. So,
however we maneuver that. We do
collect the data. We know how
many victims there are because
we help the victims. If there i
a victim, there has to be
perpetrators. Our goal is
getting in front of stopping th
perpetrators. Another point,
uptick in gun violence in our
community has been stressful on
our end and we are putting
ourselves in the middle of the
violence on a daily basis tryin
to do the outreach that we can
and pull people into case
management that we can but so
many young people being
recruited by the gangs and
jumping 234 the streets that
it's mind blowing. It's like
playing whack-a-mole. You help
handful of people and twice as
many jump in the streets. A
large recruitment happening by
older guys. It's been hectic fo
us to do our work and we are
effective at what we do, you
don't get to see what we stop,
right? You don't get to see wha
we are able to not make happen.
You only see what does happen o
the news or whatever.
>> As tragic and upsetting as
the numbers -- not numbers but
people are, I often say -- I
would hate to imagine the
numbers and the people behind
those numbers, how they would
increase if you guys weren't ou
there doing the work that you
are doing, all of you. My last
question, can we put up the
program data slide one more
time? There is I think -- thank
you. It's really startling to
see that as of May SCSI
responded to as many incidents
as you did in each of the last
two complete years. The again,
want to pause on this to amplif
the work that you are doing and
recognize that this obviously i
-- shows how you are working
overtime on the response. Just
wondering for purposes of just
getting a sense of what these
numbers mean, is this a doublin
of critical incidents? Are you
being pulled in more frequently
A combination of both things?
And just trying to get a sense
of your observations in the
field on what that means?
>> I would say it was a
combination of both things. I
lid tear rally -- as our team i
being stretched very thin due t
the uptick, yeah, the
combination is -- the trust tha
has been built with SPD to be
able to respond in an effective
manner and then at the same tim
being connected deeply into the
community and the community now
knows to call, or hit us up whe
they see something happening
when there is a shooting or
incident. Not just SPD calling
us all the time. Now the
community is calling us for
incidents when they -- sometime
we arrive at the same time as
law enforcement arrives. We put
a system in lays that community
trust and law enforcement trust
I think those two things, those
two factors are coming into pla
with the uptick. So, we are
answering more calls and it's
stressful at the end of the day
because you are showing up at
these spaces and seeing the
carnage, the aftermath. Our tea
has been -- I have to put it ou
there. We have to do a lot
therapeutic healing services fo
these guys. It's traumatic. A
lot of times since we are
connected to the community,
these are relatives and people
are connected and friends and
daughters and cousins. It's
taxing.
IT HAS BEEN PRETTY TAXING.
>> COUNCILMEMBER NELSON.
>> BACK TO WHEN WE WERE TALKING
ABOUT AGREEMENTS WITH SCHOOLS,
IS GARFIELD I KNOW THAT THERE
WERE REQUESTS FROM FACULTY AND
PARENTS THAT HELP WAS NEEDED
AND THERE WAS ALSO AN EXPRESSIO
THAT THEY WANTED COMMUNITY
DRIVEN HELP. NOT NECESSARILY
MORE OFFICERS ON THE SCENE. CA
YOU JUST TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU
ARE DOING?
>> WE DON'T HAVE AN OFFICIAL
AGREEMENT WITH GARFIELD AT THIS
POINT. WE WILL BE WORKING ON
THAT GOING INTO THE NEW SCHOOL
YEAR. I WAS AT THE MEETING THAT
WAS HELD AND WE GOT THE
MESSAGES BACK THAT THEY DID NOT
KNOW THERE WAS COMMUNITY
SUPPORT AVAILABLE OR SOMETHING
TO THAT EFFECT. WE WERE AT
WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL DOWN
THE STREET, SO EVERY TIME THERE
WAS AN INCIDENT AND WE WERE
RESPONDING TO THE INCIDENTS THA
HAPPENED AT THE SCHOOL THAT
MADE THEM HAVE A MEETING IN THE
FIRST PLACE, WE WERE ON THE END
OF TRYING TO DEAL WITH THE
AFTERMATH OF SOME OF THOSE
ISSUES AND SHOOTINGS THAT
HAPPENED AND WE WERE ON THE
FRONT END OF WORKING WITH YOUN
PEOPLE ON A REGULAR BASIS. WE
HAVE AMBASSADORS AND CASE
MANAGERS WORKING WITH A NUMBER
OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO DO ATTEND
THE SCHOOL AND LIVE AROUND THE
AREA OF THAT SCHOOL, SO WE ARE
DOING THE WORK, BUT NOW WE WANT
TO MAKE SOMETHING OFFICIAL WITH
GARFIELD. WE WILL BE WORKING
WITH THEM AND WE HAVE BOOTS ON
THE GROUND. WE HAVE FOUR OR
FIVE PEOPLE TO START ROTATING
THROUGH THEIR TOWARD THE END O
THE SCHOOL YEAR AND STARTED
PROVIDING SERVICES. WE EVEN HAD
TABLES SET UP. VOLUNTEERS CAME
OUT HANDING OUT FOOD. WE
STARTED MAKING OUR PRESENCE
WELL KNOWN SINCE THE INCIDENCE
STARTED ESCALATIN AROUND THE
SCHOOL, SO WE WILL STEP INTO
THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR TRYING TO
GET SOME TYPE OF AGREEMENT WITH
THEM, BUT WE WILL BE BOOTS ON
THE GROUND ON THE PERIMETER.
>> I WILL ALSO ADD THAT HST HA
BEEN WORKING WITH PARKS ON A
MORE DEFINITIVE STRATEGY. OUR
YOUTH AND FAMILY EMPOWERMENT
DIVISION HAS BEEN WORKING WITH
PARKS TO SET UP SUPPORT
SERVICES FOR STUDENTS IN THAT
GARFIELD AREA.
>> THANKS.
>> I HAVE A FOLLOW-UP QUESTION.
ON PAGE 4 OF YOUR PRESENTATION
UNDER THE BACKGROUND, IN 2020
THE CITY COUNCIL ADDED $4
MILLION TO THE COMMUNITY SAFETY
INITIATIVE. UP FROM WHAT? WHA
WAS IT BEFORE, BECAUSE THAT
PRECEDED MY TIME HERE?
>> I'M SORRY, I WANTED TO MAKE
SURE I UNDERSTOOD THE QUESTION
YOU ARE ASKING ABOUT THE AD AND
WHAT IT WAS FOR.
>> NO, WHAT WAS IT BEFORE 2020,
BECAUSE THIS SLIDE SAID IT
ADDED $4 MILLION, SO WHAT IS TH
BASE FUNDING?
>> IS THIS THE ONE TIME?
>> THE FIRST.
>> AS I HAD MENTIONED, TRULY,
THE CITY HAS INVESTED IN
DIFFERENT ITERATIONS OF
COMMUNITY SAFETY EFFORTS WITH
YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS. THERE
HAVE BEEN TRANSITIONS. WE HAVE
INVESTMENTS STILL THROUGH
DIFFERENT PROCUREMENT
PROCESSES. DURING THE PANDEMIC
AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, I THINK
THE NATION WAKING UP TO WHAT IS
KIND OF EXISTED FOR SOME TIME
AROUND INSTITUTIONAL RACISM AN
HARMS BEING DONE. COMMUNITY
PASSAGEWAYS AND OUR COLLEAGUES
OUR LEADERS SITTING BEHIND THE
TABLE RIGHT NOW, HAVE A
PROPOSAL. SO THIS WAS THE START
OF SEED MONEY. ONE TIME FUNDS
FOR THE SEATTLE COMMUNITY SAFET
INITIATIVE AND THEN FROM THERE
AFTER THE ONE TIME DOLLARS
ADDED -- THIS IS ACTUALLY A
REALLY GOOD DEMONSTRATION OF
COLLABORATION. SO YOU KNOW
THERE IS KIND OF THE CITY
CONTRACTING WAY AND THEN THE
COMMUNITY LIKE, HERE IS HOW WE
DO IT, AND THEN MELTING IT INT
A CONTRACT, SO IT BECAME
ONGOING DOLLARS AFTER THAT. SO
THIS IS WHERE IT STARTED, WITH
PROGRAM MODEL DEVELOPED BY
COMMUNITY AND COUNCIL ADDED TH
DOLLARS HERE. THANK YOU.
>> ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. LET'S
MOVE ON TO THE SECOND PART OF
THE PRESENTATION.
>> OKAY, GREAT. THANK YOU.
>> CHAIR HERBOLD, MEMBERS OF
THE COMMITTEE, THANK YOU FOR
HAVING US BACK. THIS IS AN
UPDATE. YOU WERE KIND ENOUGH T
INCLUDE US IN A COUPLE OF
DIFFERENT BRIEFINGS. YOU
MENTIONED EARLY IN YOUR REMARKS
THAT WE CAME IN AND
PARTICIPATED IN SOME PANELS AND
OFFERED AN OVERVIEW OF THE WHOL
PROGRAM. BEFORE I BEGIN I WOULD
LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND THANK
THE INCREDIBLE WORK OF OUR
PARTNERS AND COLLEAGUES AT HSD
AND THE SAFE AND THRIVING
COMMUNITIES DIVISION AND THE
WORK OUR COLLECTIVE PARTNERS AR
DOING. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO
COMMENT BRIEFLY OFFERING MY
HEARTFELT RESPECT AND REGARD FO
BEING ABLE TO WORK WITH DON
DAVIS EVERY DAY ON THE
COLLABORATIVE STRATEGY TO
INCREASE SAFETY ACROSS OUR
REGION AND ALSO URBAN FAMILY,
THE YMCA AND THE ALIVE AND FREE
PROGRAM AND MOST IMPORTANTLY I
WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE MARTY
JACKSON AND ECHO THE SENTIMENTS
THAT THE CHAIR SHARED TODAY. I
THINK I WANT TO POINT OUT ABOU
WHAT HAPPENED IN RAINIER BEACH,
BRIEFLY. IN REAL TIME
COMMUNICATION THAT EVENING,
WITH URBAN FAMILIES, THE TEAM
WAS DEPLOYING AND AS EVERYBODY
WAS EXPERIENCING THE IMPACT OF
WHAT JUST HAPPENED. I WANT TO
MENTION THAT MARTY'S TEAM HAS
BEEN OUT IN THAT PARKING LOT
SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THIS
INITIATIVE AND VIOLENT CRIME IS
DOWN OVER 30% IN RAINIER BEACH
IN LARGE PART BECAUSE OF THE
EFFORTS EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT FOR
THAT TEAM TO BE OUT THERE AND
SUPPORTING COMMUNITY AND
PROVIDING CARE AND WELL-BEING
AND AN EMPHASIS ON LOVE AND
CONNECTION. I HAD A CHANCE TO
SPEAK WITH THE STORE MANAGER O
THE SAFEWAY JUST YESTERDAY AND
HE WAS SPEAKING ALSO ABOUT HOW
GRATEFUL HE IS FOR THE
INVESTMENT THE CITY IS MAKING.
THE PASS-THROUGH MONEY TO HELP
SUPPORT EXPANSION EFFORTS IN
THE RAINIER VALLEY AND ALSO NOW
INTO SKYWAY. AGAIN, ECHOING TH
SENTIMENTS OF GRATITUDE AND
APPRECIATION AND RESPECT FOR
THE WORK OF EACH OF OUR
COMMUNITY PARTNERS. I WILL BE
PRESENTING AT THE REQUEST OF
CHAIR HERBOLD SOME UPDATES ON
WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE
HOSPITAL-BASED INTERVENTION AND
SOME QUALITATIVE DATA AND
QUANTITATIVE DATA AND THEN
SHARING A BIT ABOUT WHERE WE AR
GOING FROM HERE, SO THANK YOU
VERY MUCH AGAIN FOR THE TIME.
JUST BECAUSE I AM NOT GOING TO
DO A PRESENTATION ON THE WHOLE
MODEL, BUT A REFRESHER AND
SPEAKING TO SOME OF THE
INCREDIBLE ELEMENTS BUILT INTO
SCSI AND THESE ARE STRATEGIES
THAT ARE BOTH COMMON AND BEST
PRACTICE FOR EVIDENCE-BASED
ACROSS THE NATION. SO YOU WILL
OFTEN SEE FOLKS IN THIS FIELD
TALK ABOUT THESE PARTICULAR
STRATEGIES, BECAUSE OF COURSE
THEY ARE WHAT WORKS. OUR WORK
INCLUDING SOME OF THE STRATEGIE
MENTIONED, STARTING WITH THINGS
LIKE SHOTS FIRED REVIEW,
NOTIFICATIONS FROM LAW
ENFORCEMENT PARTNERS AND
INCREASINGLY SOUTH KING COUNTY
AND THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE.
PERHAPS IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS I
WILL INVITE DAWN TO SPEAK TO
THE KNOWLEDGE AND CREDIBLE
MESSENGER APPROACH AND I THINK
WANT TO TAG IN THAT QUESTION
ABOUT THE PROTECTIVE FACTORS.
CREDIBLE MESSENGERS ARE A
PROTECT DIV FACTOR AND AN
ELEMENT OF HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE
RESIST VIOLENCE AND MOVE TOWAR
OPPORTUNITY. CRITICAL RESPONSES
WE HAVE HEARD. VIOLENCE
INTERRUPTION, WHICH IS EMBEDDED
IN THAT. HOSPITAL-BASED
INTERVENTION, WHICH WE WILL
SPEAK TO. THE ACTIVITIES IN
RAINIER BEACH AND OUR
COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS ACROSS
THE REGION. OUTREACH AND
STRATEGIC COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
REFERRAL HAPPENS AS A RESULT OF
EVERYTHING TO THE RIGHT-HAND
SIDE OF THIS GRAPHIC, WHICH ARE
THE REFERRAL PATHWAYS WHERE
YOUNG PEOPLE, FAMILIES IN NEED
ARE IDENTIFIED. YOU WILL HEAR
LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE STRATEGY
WE ARE NOW EMBEDDING AS WE ARE
PILOT. WE ARE RECOGNIZING THER
ARE MANY CRITICAL ELEMENTS IN
PLAY AND STILL SOME GAPS THAT
ARE MISSING AND THE MOST
IMPORTANT BEING ENGAGEMENT AND
COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL
INTERVENTION. BOTH
EVIDENCE-BASED AND BEST
PRACTICE STRATEGIES THAT DOM
AND I DEEPENED OUR LEARNING
ABOUT IN TRIPS TO CHICAGO AND
NEW JERSEY AND OTHER PLACES
AROUND THE NATION. I WILL SPEA
TO HOW WE WILL BE RESOURCING
THAT. I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT
IT. THIS MOVES INTO HEALING
CENTERED CARE COORDINATION,
LIKE YOU HEARD IN THE CASE
MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AND
NAVIGATION STRATEGIES. SCSI IS
DOING GREAT WORK. FAMILY SUPPOR
SERVICES. ATTACHED TO THE
HOSPITAL AND INVESTMENTS THAT
BOTH THE CITY AND COUNTY ARE
MAKING TO ALLOW TEAMS TO BE
NIMBLE IN MEETING THE NEEDS OF
FAMILY WHO MAY NEED EMERGENCY
RELOCATION. THEY MAY NEED
ACCOMMODATIONS AS THE RESULT OF
BEING VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE.
COMMUNITY RESTORATION HEALING
EVENTS AND THAT BRINGS US BACK
TO WHERE WE ARE CONTINUALLY
ANALYZING DATA AND CONDUCTING
EVALUATION WITH EPIDEMIOLOGIST
IN PUBLIC HEALTH. WE ARE LOOKIN
TO BUILD CAPACITY WITH COMMUNIT
TEAMS TO MEASURE THE IMPACT OF
THEIR WORK. THE HOSPITAL-BASED
INTERVENTION, SO, I LOVE TO
SHARE THIS. THE REMARKABLE PAU
CARTER IS NOT HERE IN PERSON,
BUT CERTAINLY IN SPIRIT AND YOU
HAD A CHANCE, CHAIR HERBOLD, T
HEAR FROM PAUL DIRECTLY AT THE
BOARD OF HEALTH BRIEFING NOT
TOO LONG AGO. WHAT HAPPENS WITH
THE HOSPITAL-BASEDINTERVENTION
IS BEDSIDE CARE AND CONNECTION
THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE
HOSPITAL AND MOST IMPORTANTLY
SERVES AS A PATHWAY TO REFERRAL
TO COMMUNITY CARE. THE BLENDED
FUNDING THAT THE COUNTY
GENERATED THIS PROJECT AND WITH
GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM THIS
COMMITTEE AND FROM THE MAYOR'S
OFFICE HAVE CONTINUED TO INVES
IN AND SCALE UP HOSPITAL-BASED
INTERVENTION. NOW WE ARE THREE
POSITIONS DEEP. WE ARE
CO-INVESTING IN THAT WITH A
50-50 SPLIT RIGHT NOW AND WITH
ONE TIME INVESTMENT TO INCREASE
THE HOSPITAL THROUGH A GAP THA
WAS IDENTIFIED. THE
HOSPITAL-BASED INTERVENTION, TO
SERVE AN OLDER POPULATION. WIT
COUNCIL ACTION WE WERE ABLE TO
DO THAT ONE TIME FUNDING. THEY
ARE GROWING THEIR TEAM AND
SEEING IMPORTANT RESPONSE.
COMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS IS THE
LEAD ORGANIZATION RECEIVING
REFERRAL FOR THOSE AGES 12 TO 2
YEARS OLD. THE GAP FOR THE NEED
OF OLDER ADULTS IS SUPPORTED IN
A NEW CONTRACT WITH URBAN
LEAGUE, WHO ARE NEARING SOME O
THE STRATEGIES AND APPROACHES
YOU HEARD ABOUT TODAY. THE
INVESTMENT OUTLINED HERE AND
THE REFERRAL I MENTIONED BOTH
FROM THIS YOUNGER POPULATION AN
SLIGHTLY OLDER POPULATION AND
BEYOND TO THE URBAN LEAGUE AND
WE HOPE TO SEE AN INCREASE AND
OVER TIME AND EXPANSION OF THE
SERVICES TO MEET THE NEEDS OF
THE OLDER ADULT POPULATION.
LASTLY WE ARE PROUD WITH OUR
PARTNERSHIP WITH THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF
COMMERCE, COMMUNITY VIOLENCE
INTERVENTION PREVENTION. WE
WORK CLOSELY WITH THEM. THEY
WATCHED CLOSELY THE WORK THAT
WAS HAPPENING AT THE HOSPITAL
AND ARE NOW CO-INVESTING
SUPPORT FOR THE HOSPITAL.
SPECIFICALLY A DIRECTOR POSITIO
AND ADDING SERVICE NAVIGATORS.
I RECENTLY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY T
GO WITH DOM AND HIS TEAM TO
MEET WITH FOLKS AT HARBORVIEW
AND SEE THE EXPANSION AND
COORDINATION AND MUTUAL RESPECT
THAT IS HAPPENING. IT IS QUITE
REMARKABLE. IT IS ALSO AN
EVIDENCE-BASED AND BEST
PRACTICE STRATEGIES SUPPORTED B
THE VIOLENCE INTERVENTIONS,
PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
TO US ON THIS PROJECT, AS WELL
SOME OUTCOMES TO SHARE. YOU
KNOW I GOING TO HAPPILY PROVID
ANY DATA THAT COUNCIL ASKS FOR
BUT BECAUSE THE EPIDEMIOLOGIST
HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH COMMUNIT
PARTNERS CLOSELY WITH OUR
EFFORTS AND COMMUNITY
PASSAGEWAYS, SPECIFICALLY WITH
OUR OTHER PARTNERS. WE ARE
SEEING A POSITIVE MOVE TOWARD
BEING ABLE TO MEASURE INDIVIDUA
BEHAVIOR CHANGE OVER TIME.
CURRENTLY THIS IS IN THE
EVALUATION READINESS AS PART OF
THE PILOT AND SINCE OUR LAUNCH
TO THE HOSPITAL YOUNG PEOPLE
WERE ADMITTED AS VICTIMS OF GUN
VIOLENCE AND REFERRED FOR
ONGOING CARE AND SUPPORT. VERY
PROMISING, OUT OF THE GATE
MEASURE, THAT 100% OF THOSE
YOUNG PEOPLE THAT THEY ENGAGED
IN THE HOSPITAL THEY WERE ABLE
TO REFER TO COMMUNITY
PASSAGEWAYS. COMMUNITY
PASSAGEWAYS AND THEIR PARTNERS
TO DATE OVER 375 YOUNG PEOPLE.
213 FAMILIES. RESPONDED TO OVE
135 CRITICAL INCIDENTS. HOSTED
OVER 264 COMMUNITY EVENTS AND
HOTSPOT ENGAGEMENTS, WHICH ARE
DISTINCT. NOT JUST POP UP
EVENTS, BUT STRATEGICALLY
LOOKING TO COOL TENSIONS AND
DEFLECT POTENTIAL RETALIATION
OR MITIGATE POTENTIAL
RETALIATION. 93 COMMUNITY
HEALING EVENTS. I WANT TO POINT
OUT ABOUT INCIDENT RESPONSE.
THE TEAMS ARE RESPONDING TO 100
OF NOTIFICATIONS BUT NOT ALL,
AS DOM WOULD TELL YOU, ARE
DEPLOYABLE. THEY MAY RECEIVE A
APPLICATION, BUT THAT DOES NOT
MEAN THERE IS AN ACT OF SINGING
TO GO AND SERVICE. THEY ARE
DOING SOPHISTICATED WORK TO
DETERMINE WHAT IS THE BEST
STRATEGY TO FOLLOW UP AND
IDEALLY LEAD TOWARD MITIGATION
AND HERE, I WOULD LIKE TO POIN
OUT, CHAIR HERBOLD, A LOVELY
PHOTOGRAPH OF HERSELF . THANK
YOU FOR PARTICIPATING IN OUR
GIVEAWAY AND SUPPORTING
COMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS GRAND
OPENING. OR, RIBBON-CUTTING.
SOON TO BE GROUND OPENING OF TH
HUB IN THE CENTRAL DISTRICT. I
WANTED TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT OF
THE QUANTITATIVE. SOME OF WHAT
OUR EVALUATION TEAM HAS BEEN
SHARING WITH COMMUNITY
PASSAGEWAYS, THAT THEY ARE
SEEING STRENGTHENED SUPPORTIVE
RELATIONSHIPS REPORTED BY YOUNG
PEOPLE AND AGAIN BACK TO THE
NOTION OF PROTECTIVE FACTORS.
HOW CRITICAL THAT POSITIVE
RELATIONSHIP IS, THE YOUNG
PEOPLE FEEL STRENGTH AND
EFFICACY AND COPING. CREATING
VALUES OF SELF. A FUTURE VISIO
FOR THEMSELVES. CONTINUALLY
ADDRESSING TRAUMA. LEARNING OR
IMPLEMENTING NEW COPING SKILLS
AND FEELING SAFER. I THINK THOS
ARE IMPORTANT REPORTS FROM OUR
YOUNG PEOPLE AND FROM THE FOLKS
BEING SERVICED BY COMMUNITY
PASSAGEWAYS AND OUR PARTNERS.
STRENGTHENED FAMILIES. THE
MOTHERS WHO WERE ASKED WERE
REPORTED INTO US ARE EXPRESSING
THAT THEY ARE MORE AT EASE. TH
YOUNG PEOPLE ARE BEING WRAPPED
AROUND WITH CARE AND SUPPORT
FROM COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
FAMILIES FEEL REUNITED AND THA
HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANT. THEN
STRENGTHENING MATERIAL NEEDS.
FOOD, HOUSING SUPPORT, ACADEMI
SUPPORT. IMPROVED ATTENDANCE.
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES.
AGAIN, POSITIVE SIGNS OF
ATTACHMENT TO PRO SOCIAL THING
AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS WE
MENTIONED EARLIER. PART OF THE
COINVESTMENT IS ALLOWING FOR
EXPANSION, AS WE KNOW.
GENTRIFICATION HAS
SIGNIFICANTLY AND SUBSTANTIVELY
IMPACTED THE COMMUNITIES ALSO
MOST IMPACTED BY GUN VIOLENCE
AND DISPLACEMENT FROM SEATTLE
NEIGHBORHOODS TO COMMUNITIES I
SOUTH KING COUNTY HAS
NECESSITATED THIS REGIONAL
APPROACH TO GUN VIOLENCE AND
CO-INVESTING ALLOWS US TO BE A
WEB OF SUPPORT THAT REACHES FRO
THE CENTRAL AREA OF SEATTLE
THROUGH WEST SEATTLE THROUGH
COMMUNITIES AROUND RAINIER
BEACH AND SKYWAY AND NOW
INCREASING INTO OTHER
MUNICIPALITIES IN SOUTH KING
COUNTY. CURRENTLY WITH THE
BLENDED FUNDING WE ARE
EXPANDING TO SKYWAY TO ADD A
SAFETY HUB AND SKYWAY WILL BE
MANAGED AND SUPPORTED BY OUR
PARTNERS, URBAN FAMILY, AND IT
WILL BE PART OF THE EVOLUTION O
OUR WORK WITH THE COALITION AN
ADDITIONAL PARTNERS EXPANDING
SERVICES AROUND RAINIER BEACH.
THE REGIONAL GUN VIOLENCE
PROGRAM I MENTIONED IS FOCUSING
ON SCALING UP AND IMPLEMENTING
GEOGRAPHICALLY FOCUSED SERVICE
HUBS. THERE IS A DIRECT
CORRELATION BETWEEN COMMUNITIES
DISPLACED FROM THE CENTRAL ARE
NOW RESIDING IN KENT, SO THE
EFFICACY AND POWER BUILDING THA
COMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS HAS DONE
HAS A GREAT EFFECT AND A GREAT
IMPACT IN THE CITY OF KENT.
BURIEN WILL BE SUPPORTED BY THE
YMCA PROGRAM. THE URBAN FAMILY
AND WE ARE VERY EXCITED THAT
THE GREAT WORK THAT IS HAPPENIN
IN THE HUB OF MODELS IS
EXTENDING AND THE APP IS STRON
IN SOUTH KING COUNTY AND THEY
ARE VERY ENCOURAGED BY THE
OPPORTUNITY TO BRING SERVICES
HOME AND DOWN THE ROAD TO SEE
FURTHER INVESTMENTS IN ENSURIN
THAT CAN LAST FOR THE LONG TERM
REGIONAL GUN VIOLENCE HAS SELEC
DID AN INTERMEDIARY. I THINK W
HAVE SHARED THAT OUT. CERTAINLY
THIS, AND INTERMEDIARY TO
PROVIDE OVERSIGHT AND SUPPORT
IT REALLY ALLOWS COMMUNITY
ORGANIZATIONS, AS DOM
MENTIONED, TO FOCUS ON THE BOOT
ON THE GROUND EFFORTS AND DO
THEIR WORK WITHOUT BEING
ENCUMBERED BY THE PHYSICAL
BARRIERS THAT SOMETIMES HAPPEN
WHEN WE HAVE SMALL CAPACITY AND
REALLY NEED TO BE ON THE FRONT
LINES TO WORK. SO WE WILL BE
ANNOUNCING SHORTLY WHO OUR
PARTNER IS, BECAUSE WE ARE IN
NEGOTIATIONS. WE WILL WAIT
UNTIL THOSE THINGS ARE FINAL AN
WE ARE HAPPY TO REPORT THAT
BACK. A LITTLE BIT OF ADDITIONA
PROGRESS I WOULD LIKE TO
MENTION. TAKING A REGIONAL
APPROACH AND THIS IS AS WE HAVE
TALKED IN OUR EVALUATION TEAM
ABOUT MEASURING THE IMPACT OF
COLLABORATION AND COORDINATION.
THESE ARE SOME POINTS I CAN
MAKE SPECIFIC TO THE FINDINGS I
THAT AREA. THE REGIONAL
APPROACHES HELPED US INCREASE
COORDINATION ACROSS SYSTEMS,
ALLOWED BETTER COLLABORATION
BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND
COMMUNITY. AS MENTIONED THAT
RELATIONSHIP IS VERY STRONG.
THE SCSI WORK LED BY THE
COMMUNITY. THERE ARE VERY
POSITIVE SIGNS OF THE
COLLABORATION AND WILL TO WORK
TOGETHER. REALLY INTERESTING,
WELL, A COMMENT THAT CHIEF DIA
MADE THE OTHER NIGHT. I THINK
WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS.
LOOSELY ATTENDED. IN LIGHT OF
WHAT HAPPENED ON THAT FRIDAY
EVENING, 100 PEOPLE MAXED OUT
THE CAPACITY OF THAT ZOOM
MEETING TO WEIGH IN. CHIEF DIAZ
COMPLIMENTED THE WORK OF
COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND STRESSED
THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT CANNOT DO
THIS ALONE AND COMMUNITY
PARTNERS ARE CRITICAL TO THE
OVERALL SAFETY FRAMEWORK OF AN
GOOD PUBLIC SAFETY APPROACH. S
I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT
AND CALL THAT OUT AS A TESTAMEN
TO IMPROVING AND STRENGTHENING
THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN
GOVERNMENT, SYSTEMS, AND
COMMUNITY PROVIDERS. THE BLENDE
INVESTMENTS ALLOW SERVICES TO
BE AVAILABLE TO YOUNG PEOPLE AN
FAMILIES REGARDLESS OF ZIP
CODE. WE ARE PROUD OF THAT AND
AS YOU MENTIONED, CHAIR
HERBOLD, IN YOUR OPENING, THIS
WAS THE ONLY REGIONAL APPROACH
SELECTED BY THE WHITE HOUSE IN
PART BECAUSE OF OUR WILL TO
COLLABORATE AND RECOGNIZE THE
IMPACT OF THE CRISIS, RACISM,
AND DESTABILIZATION OF
COMMUNITY AND THE IMPACTS OF
GENTRIFICATION AND HOW CRITICAL
IT IS TO MAKE SURE SERVICES
FOLLOW PEOPLE WHERE THEY LIVE,
WORK, AND LEARN. SAFE GUN
STORAGE EFFORTS HAVE RESULTED I
THE DISTRIBUTION OF OVER 600 GU
LOCKBOXES SINCE THE SUMMER OF
2022, WHEN WE STARTED OUR
PROCESS OF ACKNOWLEDGING
NATIONAL VIOLENCE AWARENESS DAY
WITH THIS ACTIVITY AND THIS YEA
IN ADDITION TO THE THREE
NEIGHBORHOODS IN SEATTLE WHERE
WE HAVE HISTORICALLY DONE THESE
GIVEAWAYS, WE ARE NOW INCLUDING
THE CITY OF KENT. WE ARE
INCLUDING SKYWAY. WE ARE
INCLUDING WHITE CENTER AND
TUKWILA AND BURIEN WILL BE
NEXT. WE WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE
OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE FOR
FOLKS TO COME OUT. MOST
RECENTLY AND TUKWILA IT WAS THE
MOST ATTENDED EVENT AND THE
NEED FOR GUN LOCKBOXES AND THE
FACT FOLKS FELT BOLD ENOUGH TO
COME AND REQUEST THAT EQUIPMENT
RAN US OUT AND NOW THERE IS A
WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT 100
LOCKBOXES, SO WE SIGN THE HARM
REDUCTION LED BY COMMUNITY WHO
PROVIDES EDUCATION AND
DISTRIBUTES THE RESOURCES AND
URBAN FAMILY DOES A REMARKABLE
JOB OF PUTTING ON ENGAGING IN
BEAUTIFUL EVENTS TO MAKE SURE
FOLKS FEEL WELCOME AND
PARTICIPATE. COLLABORATION WITH
COMMUNITY PARTNERS. PUBLIC
HEALTH, CITY OF SEATTLE, TACOMA
CITY AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
WE WERE ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY
PULL OFF OUR FIRST ANNUAL
TOGETHER WE END GUN VIOLENCE
CONFERENCE IN TACOMA. WE WERE
THANKFUL FOR DIRECTOR KIM AS
WELL. ONE OF THE MODERATORS ON
OUR PANEL ABOUT INVESTING AND
FUNDING THE WORK LONG-TERM. TH
APPETITE HAS GROWN SO MUCH THAT
I FEEL SAFE TO SHARE, BECAUSE
NOTHING IS WRITTEN IN STONE, BU
THE SEAHAWKS HAVE INVITED US T
HOST OUR NEXT CONFERENCE AT TH
STADIUM NEXT YEAR. THE INCREASE
DESIRE AND APPETITE HAVE SPACE
WHERE MORE PEOPLE CAN
PARTICIPATE BEYOND THE 300 AND
THEN I EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THA
WE SECURED OVER $500 IN FUNDING
TO SUPPORT TECHNICAL ASSISTANC
FOR A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT
THINGS. WE HAD A GREAT
RELATIONSHIP WITH CITIES UNITED
AND AS YOU KNOW, CONDUCTED OUR
WELL-BEING PROCESS UNDER
THEIR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE A
COUPLE OF YEARS BACK. WE HAVE
ALSO BEEN WORKING THROUGH THE
WHITE HOUSE MODEL WITH TECHNICA
ASSISTANCE FROM THE NATIONAL
INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE
REFORM AND OTHER PARTNERS. WE
ARE ADDING SPECIFIC TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE FOR THAT CURRICULUM
I MENTIONED EARLIER. THIS IS
WHERE WE ARE INVOLVING OUR PILO
AND DOING BEST IN CLASS WORK T
PROVIDE COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL
INTERVENTION THAT WILL BE
CONDUCTED BY THE VIOLENCE
INTERRUPTERS AND STREET
OUTREACH WORKERS IN IMMEDIATE
AND PROXIMATE WAYS TO YOUNG
PEOPLE TO HELP DEAL WITH THE
MINDSET CHANGE THAT NEEDS TO
HAPPEN FOR LONG-TERM SUCCESS
AND MOVE AWAY FROM INVOLVEMENT
IN VIOLENCE AND STRENGTHEN THEI
ABILITY TO RESIST THE
RECRUITMENT THAT DOM WAS
TALKING ABOUT. THROUGH THOSE
RELATIONSHIPS THIS INTERVENTIO
WILL ENHANCE SOME OF THE GREAT
WORKS ALREADY HAPPENING AND SOM
OF THE PROGRAMS AT OUR
ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDING DEEP
DIVES WITH COMMUNITY
PASSAGEWAYS. LASTLY WITH THE
INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE
REFORM, THEY WILL BE SUPPORTING
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO CONDUC
A COST OF VIOLENCE ANALYSIS, A
PROBLEM ANALYSIS, AND CONTINUE
TO GIVE US THE INFORMATION WE
NEED TO MAKE SURE WE ARE
INVESTING IN THINKING LONG-TERM
ESPECIALLY AS THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT IS FACING FUNDING
CLIFFS. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATIO
IDENTIFIED $5.6 BILLION TO BE
AVAILABLE TO THIS WORK EMMA BUT
DEPENDING ON WHAT HAPPENS WITH
NEXT ADMINISTRATIONS, THOSE
GUARANTEES ARE NOT IN PLACE.
THERE WILL BE AN INCREASED NEE
TO RECOGNIZE AND SUPPORT
COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION
WORK. THE SERVICES THAT ARE
HAPPENING WITH FUTURE
INITIATIVES LED BY THE
COMMUNITY. WE ARE LOOKING TO
MAKE SURE WE HAVE ALL OF THE
RIGHT INFORMATION TO GUIDE THE
NEXT STEP FOR LONG-TERM
SUSTAINABILITY. I WANT TO
MENTION, TOO, THAT DOM SPOKE T
THE EMOTIONAL HEALTH AND
WELL-BEING OF THE FRONT-LINE
WORKERS AND THE TRAUMA IS REAL
AND IN MANY CASES IT IS DIRECT
TRAUMA. AS DOM MENTIONED SO
OFTEN, THE VICTIMS OF GUN
VIOLENCE OR PERPETRATORS OF GU
VIOLENCE FRANKLY COULD BE
EITHER AT ANY TIME IN A
CONFLICT. ARE KNOWN TO OR
RELATED TO OR DEEPLY CLOSE IN
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER TO THE
PRACTITIONERS WHO ARE PROVIDING
THIS SERVICE AND CERTAINLY AS
IS EVIDENCED BY WHAT HAPPENED
LAST WEEKEND WHAT DOM MENTIONE
ABOUT THE STRESS AND DURESS. WE
ARE INTERESTED IN CONTINUING T
FIND WAYS TO SUPPORT HEALING AN
WELL-BEING AND EMOTIONAL HEALT
IN THE LONG TERM FOR FOLKS ON
THE FRONTLINE WHO FACE THIS
ISSUE EVERY SINGLE DAY AND IN
MANY CASES, PUTTING THEIR LIVES
ON THE LINE. I ALSO WANT TO
THANK DOM AND MARTY AND MARVIN
AND THE FREEDOM PROJECT AND
PROGRESS PUSHERS AND FOLKS
INVOLVED IN THE COALITION WHO
ARE AT THESE FRONT LINES AND
WORKING TOGETHER EVERY DAY TO
ADDRESS OUR COMMUNITIES. THE
VIOLENCE IN OUR COMMUNITIES.
THIS COMES FROM THE WORK THE
EPIDEMIOLOGISTS ARE DOING. I
WILL SOME THINGS UP. AS I
MENTIONED, INTERMEDIARIES ARE
BEST PRACTICE AND I THINK THAT
IS SOMETHING THAT IMPACTED
FUNDING THAT CAME OUT BECAUSE O
THE UPTICK IN GUN VIOLENCE AND
MANY REPORTS RELATED TO STRESS
CAUSED BY COVID-19 AND ECONOMI
DISTRESS AND OUT OF SCHOOL
TIME AND A LOT OF THINGS THAT
INCREASE COMMUNITY PRESSURES.
SO MAKING SURE OUR COMMUNITY
CAN DO THE WORK AND ARE
SUPPORTED TO BUILD THEIR
BACKBONE THROUGH THINGS LIKE
TEMPORARY OR EVEN LONG TERM, AS
IN CHICAGO, INTERMEDIARIES WHO
SUPPORT THAT WORK IN THE BACK
OFFICE. VIOLENCE PREVENTION MUS
BE INCLUDED AS A PILLAR AND
CORNERSTONE OF ANY PUBLIC
SAFETY FRAMEWORK AND AGAIN I
MENTIONED CHIEF DIAZ'S COMMENT
AS WIDELY UNDERSTOOD THAT
COMMUNITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
AND GOVERNMENT, NONE OF US CAN
DO IT ALONE AND IT IS CRITICAL
WE WORK TOGETHER AND FIRST
RESPONDERS AND INTERVENTION
WORK BE RECOGNIZED AS SUCH.
LIKE FIREFIGHTERS AND MEDICS,
THEY HAVE A HIGH SET OF SKILLS
AND THEY HAVE TO USE THEIR LIVE
EXPERIENCE EVERY DAY TO FACE
THE WORK, SO I WANT TO HIGHLIGH
THAT. COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
NEED LONG-TERM COMMITMENT. IT
TAKES IMPLEMENTATION. SCIENCE
TELLS US IT TAKES A MINIMUM OF
THREE YEARS TO GET GOOD AT
SOMETHING AND MOVE IT TOWARD
FIDELITY AND IT TAKES TIME TO
IMPLEMENT THINGS THAT WILL
SUSTAIN LONG-TERM, SO I WANT TO
CONTINUE TO HIGHLIGHT THE
INVESTMENT AND SUPPORT FOR
BUILDING CAPACITY AND CONTINUIN
IMPLEMENTATION. ONE NOTE, OUR
PARTNERS HAVE BEEN DOING THIS
WORK FOR DECADES, BUT BECAUSE
OF THESE INITIATIVES, WE ARE
ASKING THEM TO RAPIDLY BRING
THINGS TO SCALE AND TO
SUCCESSFULLY COORDINATE ACROSS
ORGANIZATIONS AND TO
COLLABORATE. THAT IS A LOT OF
WORK FOR COMMUNITY PARTNERS
DOING A LOT OF WORK.
HIGHLIGHTING THAT AND THAT WE
HAVE A COLLECTIVE COMMITMENT T
SUPPORTING THAT IS IMPORTANT TO
US. INTERVENTION MUST INCLUDE
COGNITIVE INTERVENTION. YOU CA
CHASE AMBULANCES. I HATE TO SAY
IT THAT WAY, BUT WE CAN
CONTINUALLY SUCK PART CRISES,
BUT IF WE CAN'T PROVIDE
ALTERNATIVES AND A PLACE WHERE
THEY CAN MAKE A MENTAL SHIFT
WITH POSITIVE OPPORTUNITIES, WE
WILL CONTINUE TO BE IN CRISIS
MODE. EVALUATION, FUNDING,
SHARED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE MUS
BE SUSTAINED TO SEE AN IMPACT
AND I KNOW THE QUESTION
ULTIMATELY IS, HAS GUN VIOLENCE
GONE DOWN? WHILE WE ARE STILL
SEEING AN UPTICK IN GUN VIOLENC
IN SOME WAYS, IN SOME PLACES, W
ARE ALSO SEEING TARGETED
APPROACHES THAT ARE HAPPENING.
JUST A COUPLE OF COMMENTS. AGAI
THIS GOES BACK TO THE
QUALITATIVE DATA, BUT HEARING
DIRECTLY FROM THE PARTNERS. A
HUGE SUCCESS HAS BEEN HELPING
YOUTH GET TO THE POINT WHERE
THEY WANT TO CHANGE AND DO
SOMETHING DIFFERENT. WE HAVE TO
ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THEY WON'T GET
IT ON THE FIRST TRY AND HAS BEE
ENCOURAGING TO SEE YOUTH TRY
OVER AND OVER TO BE SUCCESSFUL
AND CHANGE THEIR MINDSET AND I
PERSONALLY AM ENCOURAGED TO HEA
THAT THE WORKFORCE FEELS THAT
WAY, BECAUSE WE ALL WANT OUR
YOUNG PEOPLE TO THRIVE AND WHE
THEY DON'T THRIVE WITH THE FIRS
TRY, THE POWER OF THIS WORK IS
TO NOT GIVE UP ON THEM AND STAY
THE COURSE. THEN BUILDING
FACE-TO-FACE RAPPORT WITH THEIR
TEAM AND THE HOSPITAL
INTERVENTIONISTS. AT BEDSIDE.
IT IS EXCEPTIONALLY IMPORTANT
FOR PARTICIPANT BUY-IN. HEARIN
FROM FOLKS FEELING THE IMPACT
WITH THE SHARED EXPERIENCE OF
THEIR BEDSIDE AND HELPING THEM
NAVIGATE TOWARD RECOVERY HAS
BEEN VERY POWERFUL AND LASTLY
THE SLIDE FORWARD. I'M SORRY,
THE LAST SLIDE. THE PATH
FORWARD, CONTINUING TO HOPE
THAT WE EXPAND AND FULLY
RESOURCE AND COORDINATE OUR
SERVICE SAFETY HUBS. AGAIN,
PEOPLE MOVE AROUND AND WE WANT
TO MAKE SURE WE INSTITUTE THESE
LOCATIONS, PLACES, AND SPACES
WHERE PEOPLE CAN ACCESS SERVICE
REGARDLESS OF WHERE THEY LIVE.
MENTIONED THE TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE IN THE NEAR-TERM. W
ARE NOW MOVING FORWARD WITH
INSTITUTING AN ACADEMY OF
COMMUNITY LED SAFETY TO CERTIFY
CREDENTIALS IN PARTNERSHIP WIT
FOLKS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
CHICAGO AND OUR GOOD FRIEND
FORMERLY OF THE NATIONAL CENTER
FOR SAFE COMMUNITIES. EVERY
TOWN IS SUPPORTING THAT EFFORT
AS WELL AND WE WILL REPORT OUT
ON THE NEXT STEPS AS WE CONTINU
TO ITERATE. SECURING LONG-TERM
FUNDING TO SECURE THE WORKFORCE
THE REGIONAL PEACEKEEPERS
COLLECTIVE IS PENDING FUNDING
TO BLANKET AREAS AND SUPPORT
THE WORK IN SEATTLE AND AREAS O
SOUTH KING COUNTY AND PARALLEL
EFFORTS IN INDIVIDUAL CITIES O
THE EAST COAST HAVE AS MANY AS
150 STAFF. ENSURING RESOURCES
FOR THE FRONTLINE STAFF.
PROVIDING ONGOING TREATMENT AND
DEVELOPMENT I MENTIONED AND
INCREASING BUY-IN WITH PUBLIC
AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS. THE LAST
COMMENT I WILL MAKE IS THAT ON
METRO BUSES RIGHT NOW, LAUNCHE
JUST A FEW DAYS AGO, IS OUR
TOGETHER WE END GUN VIOLENCE
CAMPAIGN. IT PROVIDES A LINK T
A RESOURCE PAGE THAT DETAILS TH
WORK OF THE INITIATIVES WE
SHARED TODAY AND ADDITIONAL
RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES AND
INDIVIDUALS IMPACTED BY GUN
VIOLENCE. THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH. NORMALLY
WOULD WANT TO ALLOW TIME FOR
QUESTIONS. WE DO HAVE ANOTHER
ITEM ON OUR AGENDA THAT WE DO
NEED TO GET THROUGH. SO I THINK
WHAT I WOULD RECOMMEND FROM
COMITTEE MEMBERS IS THAT WE
COLLECT QUESTIONSWE MIGHT HAVE
FOR FOLLOW-UP AND REACH OUT TO
HSD AND KING COUNTY PUBLIC
HEALTH WITH THAT FOLLOW-UP. I
AM GOING TO TAKE THE PREROGATIV
OF BEING THE CHAIR, JUST TO PU
ONE THING OUT. I WAS REALLY
EAGER TO HEAR AN UPDATE ON THE
EXPANSION, THE COUNCIL FUNDED
EXPANSION OF THE HOSPITAL-BASE
GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM
I APPRECIATE THIS MORNING I DI
RECEIVE THE PROGRAM DESCRIPTIO
FROM THE CONTRACT WITH THE
URBAN LEAGUE AND THE
NOTIFICATION THAT IT IS GOING
THROUGH THE FINAL AND HSD WIL
SHARE IT WITH ME WHEN IT IS
FINAL. I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO
BIRD-DOG THIS FUNDING PROVIDED
IN LAST YEAR'S BUDGET AND IT IS
NOW AUGUST AND WE DON'T HAVE A
COMPLETED CONTRACT YET, SO I
UNDERSTAND IT TAKES TIME TO
NEGOTIATE THE CONTRACTS. I AM
HOPING THAT GIVEN THAT THE
NEGOTIATIONS ARE ONGOING, I
HOPING THAT YOU CAN TELL ME WE
HAVE THE OLDER COHORT TO --
>> I WILL CLARIFY THAT THE
CONTRACT HAS BEEN SIGNED AND
THEY ARE PROVIDING THE SOCIAL
SERVICE ASPECT. HARBOR VIEW DID
GO AHEAD AND STAFF UP TO SERV
THE OLDER POPULATION, EVEN
THOUGH THE PUBLIC HEALTH ASPEC
IS GETTING FINALIZED AS WE
SPEAK. OH, ACTUALLY IT WAS
SIGNED TODAY. THAT PIECE IS
SIGNED, BUT THE STAFFING --
>> I KNEW THAT THAT PEACE HAD
HAPPENED.
>> THE FINAL CONTRACT IS
PUBLIC HEALTH. WE ARE GETTING
SIGNATURES, BUT WE SIGNED IT AN
I BELIEVE THEY SIGNED IT AS
WELL.
>> EXCELLENT. SO THE HOSPITAL
STAFF, THEY HAVE BEEN HIRED AN
HAVE BEEN DOING THE WORK FOR A
WHILE NOW. THE SOCIAL SERVICES
COMPONENT THAT URBAN LEAGUE
PROVIDES. WE SEE THAT THE
CONTRACTS CHANGED. THE FELT
EXPERIENCE OF THE CLIMB CLIEN
IS GOING TO BE THAT THEY ARE NO
ABLE TO ACCESS SERVICES THEY
WEREN'T BEFORE. IS THAT MORE O
LESS IT IN A NUTSHELL?
>> YES AND WE ARE HAPPY TO
REPORT BACK.
>> THANK YOU MUCH.
>> I JUST HAD A THANK YOU.
>> I'M SORRY, COUNCILMEMBER
1024.
>> I KNOW YOU SAID NO QUESTIONS
I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU T
THE PANEL AND THE FOLKS
HIGHLIGHTING SOME OF THE FUNDIN
INVESTED IN 2020. I CAN'T MISS
THE OPPORTUNITY TO HIGHLIGHT
THAT THAT IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF
WHERE WE USE MONEY WITHIN THE
SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT
HAS BEEN MISCHARACTERIZED AND
MIS-FRAMED AS SOMEHOW HARMING
SPD. FUNDING UNABLE TO BE USED
FOR THE HIRING AND UNABLE TO B
USED FOR THE RETENTION
STRATEGIES AND WE MOVE THAT
FUNDING TO THE UPSTREAM
SOLUTIONS LIKE THE $4 MILLION.
I JUST WANTED TO LIFTED UP AND
SAY THANK YOU FOR FEATURING
THAT AND FOR TELLING US HOW WE
HAVE ALREADY SEEN A RETURN ON
THOSE INVESTMENTS AND NOW IT I
SAVING LIVES AND MAKING AN
IMPACT. VERY POWERFUL, SO THAN
YOU.
>> CAN I MAKE A CLOSING
STATEMENT? WELL, THANK YOU. TH
FUNDING, THE CITY AND COUNTY
COMING TOGETHER FOR THE FUNDING
THE HOSPITAL APPROACHES A
BEAUTIFUL THING. THE REFERRALS
HOSPITAL, THAT HAS BEEN THE
CRUX OF US BEING ABLE TO SUPPOR
THE FAMILIES WITH ALL OF THE
AFTERMATH OF THE HARM THAT IS
DONE AND AT THE SAME TIME THE
SCSI REFERRAL PROCESS, COMING
THROUGH THE RESPONSE IN THE
CITY, COMING THROUGH OUR HUBS
AND INTERACTIONS AND OUR BOOTS
ON THE GROUND WORK. I THINK IT
IS WHAT HAS BEEN MAKING THIS
SUCCESSFUL. THE HOSPITAL ON ON
END AND THEN THE ACTUAL WORK I
THE CITY. THAT IS ALSO SPILLIN
OUT AROUND THE REGION AND NOW
WE ARE BUILDING THESE HUBS, SO
WE ARE ABLE TO TAKE THE HUB
MODEL AND PUT THAT AROUND THE
REGION IN KENT AND SKYWAY AND
OTHER PLACES. SO I WANT TO SAY
THANK YOU FOR BEING ABLE TO FUN
AND SUPPORT THIS AND PUT US IN
POSITION TO NOT JUST AFFECT OU
CITY, BUT THE WHOLE COUNTY. THI
WILL BE BEAUTIFUL AND I WANT T
THANK THE COUNCIL MEMBERS. I
WANT TO THANK YOU FOR FUNDING
AND PUSHING THIS FORWARD. I JUS
WANT TO PUT THAT OUT THERE.
>> I APPRECIATE THAT. I DON'T
THINK I HAVE ANYTHING TO FOLLOW
NORMALLY I WOULD END WITH
CLOSING REMARKS, BUT THAT DOES
IT. WE ARE MAKING SURE THAT
COMMUNITY VIOLENCE AND
PREVENTION IS INCLUDED AS A
PILLAR OF OUR PUBLIC SAFETY
FRAMEWORK AS RECOMMENDED. THAN
YOU. MISTER CLARK, CAN YOU
PLEASE READ THE FINAL ITEM ON
OUR AGENDA.
>> LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTED
DIVISION L.E.A.D. AND
CO-L.E.A.D., QUARTER ONE AND
TWO METRICS REPORTING.
>> THIS IS A FOLLOW-UP
PRESENTATION FROM THE SAME
FOLKS WE HEARD FROM ON MAY 9 IN
THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND HUMAN
SERVICES COMMITTEE, WHERE WE
HEARD ABOUT THE NEW HUMAN
SERVICES DEPARTMENT CONTRACT
FOR BOTH L.E.A.D. AND
CO-L.E.A.D. AND PARTICULARLY TH
NEW PERFORMANCE METRICS
INCLUDED. I AM HAPPY TO HAVE
EVERYONE BACK TO REPORT ON THE
PERFORMANCE METRICS COLLECTED
UNDER THE NEW CONTRACT. AS A
GENERAL REMARK I KNOW THE SLIDE
REVIEWED TODAY WERE CREATED BY
THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT
AND I HOPE OUR PARTICIPANTS
WILL FEEL FREE TO RESPOND TO
QUESTIONS FROM COMMUNITY
MEMBERS OR ADD THEIR THOUGHTS A
WE WORK THROUGH THE
PRESENTATION. I BELIEVE YOU WIL
LEAD US OFF WITH A QUICK
OVERVIEW.
>> GOOD MORNING. ANN GORMAN,
COUNCIL CENTRAL STAFF. JUST A
BIT OF BACKGROUND FOR TODAY'S
PRESENTATION. EARLIER THIS YEAR
THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT
AND PURPOSE, DIGNITY, ACTION
WORKED TOGETHER TO DEVELOP
PERFORMANCE METRICS FOR THE
CONTRACT WITH PDA TO BETTER
UNDERSTAND THE USE OF CITY
DOLLARS AND TELL THE STORY OF
THE L.E.A.D. AND CO-L.E.A.D.
PROGRAMS. THE 2023 CONTRACT IS
THE FIRST ONE THAT BREAKS UP TH
BUDGET FOR L.E.A.D. AND
CO-L.E.A.D. CONSISTENT WITH TH
DIRECTION COUNCIL PROVIDED AND
THE COUNCIL ACTION LAST FALL,
SO ALSO AN APPROPRIATE TIME TO
RE-EXAMINE THE PROGRAM. HSD
WAS LAST IN THIS COMMITTEE ON
MAY 9 AND PROVIDED AN OVERVIEW
OF THE METRICS AND BUDGET
INFORMATION. TODAY'S
PRESENTATION WILL WALK THROUGH
THE FIRST TWO QUARTERS OF
PROGRAM DATA. PEOPLE SHOULD
UNDERSTAND THAT THE NEW RUBRIC
MAY MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO
COMPARE 2023 RESULTS DIRECTLY
TO THOSE FROM PRIOR YEARS, BUT
STAKEHOLDERS ALL FELT IT WAS
IMPORTANT TO PROVIDE A FULLER
PICTURE MOVING INTO THE FUTURE
AND I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE
ONCE AGAIN THE DILIGENT AND
COLLABORATIVE WORK OF HSD AND
PDA IN DEVELOPING THE METRICS
THIS YEAR AND THE TRANSPARENCY
HSD BROUGHT TO CONVERSATIONS
AROUND THIS WORK. I THINK PEOPL
WILL SEE THAT THE NEW METRICS
WILL BRING INCREASED CLARITY T
OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPACT
OF PDA PROGRAMS AND ALSO OF
THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THEY
OPERATE.
>> SO, GOOD MORNING. COMMITTEE
CHAIR HERBOLD, MEMBERS OF THE
COMMITTEE. FOR THE RECORD, MY
NAME IS MICHAEL BAILEY AND I
HAVE THE PLEASURE AND PRIVILEG
OF SERVING AS ONE THE DEPUTY
DIRECTORS HERE AT THE
DEPARTMENT. I JOINED BY ONE OF
OUR DEDICATED POLICY ADVISORS -
CHRIS KLAEYSEN. I ALSO JOINED
BY THE EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP OF
PDA, LISA DAUGAARD AND TARA
MOSS. CHRIS AND I ARE THANKFUL
FOR THE INVITATION TO JOIN YOU
HERE TODAY. THE MISSION OF THE
HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT IS TO
CONNECT PEOPLE WITH RESOURCES
AND SOLUTIONS DURING TIME OF
NEED. WE CREATE A CITY WHERE
ALL RESIDENTS CAN LIVE, LEARN,
WORK AND TAKE PART IN A STRONG
AND HEALTHY COMMUNITY. DURING
TODAY'S COMMITTEE PRESENTATION,
THE PANEL BEFORE YOU WILL SHAR
ONE OF OUR CONTRACTED PROGRAMS
AND SHOW HOW IT SEEKS TO
PROVIDE CRITICAL RESOURCES AND
SOLUTIONS. AS OUR RELATIONSHIP
CONTINUES TO GROW, OUR ABILITY
TO IMPROVE METRICS, OUTCOMES,
AND DATA SHARING WILL GROW. YO
HEARD A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE
PATH FORWARD. YOU WILL SEE THAT
REFLECT DID TODAY AND YOU WILL
ALSO HEAR THOUGHTS ON HOW WE
CAN CONTINUE TO COLLABORATE TO
CONTINUE THAT GROWTH. BEFORE
HANDING IT OVER I WOULD LIKE TO
THANK CHAIR HERBOLD FOR HER
INTEREST ON THIS MATTER. WE
APPRECIATE YOUR LEADERSHIP AND
THE DESIRE TO SEE CITY SERVICES
CONNECTED. WE ALSO WANT TO
THANK THE LEADERSHIP FOR BEING
OPEN, RECEIVING FEEDBACK, AND
BEING OPEN AS WE STRIVE TO MAKE
A MEANINGFUL DIFFERENCE. I WIL
NOW HANDED OVER TO CHRIS.
>> GOOD MORNING, EVERYBODY. I
BRIEFLY WANT TO PROVIDE AN
AGENDA FOR THE PRESENTATION
TODAY. I'M BRIEFLY GOING TO GET
INTO INTRODUCTION AND THEN SOM
BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT ABOUT TH
L.E.A.D. AND CO-L.E.A.D.
PROGRAMS AND THEN WE WILL TAKE
LOOK AT THE PERFORMANCE METRICS
OVER THE FIRST TWO QUARTERS OF
THE YEAR BEFORE TRANSITIONING T
CO-L.E.A.D. AND I AM HAPPY TO
TAKE QUESTIONS AS WELL. BRIEFLY
ON THIS SLIDE, DEPUTY DIRECTOR
ARE MICHAEL BAILEY SPOKE TO
THIS, BUT I WANT TO MAKE A NOTE
THAT THE L.E.A.D. AND
CO-L.E.A.D. PROGRAMS BOTH SIT
UNDER THE SUPPORTING
COMMUNITIES IMPACT AREA OF HSD
SOME CONTEXT ABOUT THE PROGRAMS
AS I DISCUSSED. REGARDING
TODAY'S PRESENTATION, AGAIN, W
WILL BE FOCUSING ON L.E.A.D.
AND CO-L.E.A.D.. THE FORMER IS
KNOWN AS LET EVERYONE ADVANCE
WITH DIGNITY. ALLOWING LAW
ENFORCEMENT AND COMMUNITY
MEMBERS TO REFER INDIVIDUALS
ENGAGED IN LOW LEVEL OFFENSES
TO COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES
RATHER THAN JAIL AND
PROSECUTION. PDA SUBCONTRACTS
WITH EVERGREEN TREATMENT
SERVICES FOR OUTREACH AND CASE
MANAGEMENT SERVICES. WHILE PDA
ITSELF PROVIDES OVERALL PROJECT
MANAGEMENT AND LEGAL SERVICES
FOR CLIENTS. CO-L.E.A.D. IS A
RELATED PROGRAM THAT LAUNCHED
IN 2020 AND PROVIDES TEMPORARY
LODGING AND CASE MANAGEMENT TO
UNSHELTERED INDIVIDUALS. PDA
ITSELF PROVIDES THE OUTREACH
AND CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES TO
CLIENTS AND SUBCONTRACTS FOR
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SERVICES AN
WE DELIVER CARE FOR ALTERNATIV
SAFETY RESPONSE AT CO-L.E.A.D.
FACILITIES. AND ONE FINAL
BACKGROUND NOTE, L.E.A.D. IS
GOVERNED UNDER A MEMORANDUM OF
UNDERSTANDING BY A POLICY
COORDINATING GROUP, TO WHICH
PDA'S PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM
REPORTS. THAT COORDINATING GROU
SETS THE POLICY AND APPROVES
OPERATIONAL PROTOCOLS FOR
L.E.A.D. ONE MORE PIECE OF
CONTEXT, AS MENTIONED, THE 202
CONTRACT DOES PROVIDE SEPARATE
AND DISTINCT BUDGETS FOR
L.E.A.D. AND CO-L.E.A.D.. THIS
GIVES AN OVERVIEW OF THE
FUNDING. L.E.A.D. HAS A TOTAL
OF $14.6 MILLION AND $9.9
MILLION FROM THE CITY OF
SEATTLE. IN 2023 CO-L.E.A.D.'S
TOTAL ALLOCATION WAS $14.5
MILLION ROUGHLY WITH $6.7
MILLION FROM THE CITY OF
SEATTLE. THIS INCLUDES A PORTIO
OF FUNDING BY HST TO SUPPORT
THE LEASING OF A CO-L.E.A.D.
HOTEL. AS MENTIONED THIS YEAR,
HSD AND PDA HAVE THE OPPORTUNIT
TO COME TO THE COMMITTEE AND
SHARE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT
CONTRACT. ONE OF THE MAJOR
TAKEAWAYS WAS THE COLLABORATIO
TO DEFINE THE PROGRAMS AND
METRICS WITHIN. IT HAS BEEN A
REWARDING SIX MONTHS AND THE
WORD COLLABORATION HAS BEEN USE
A LOT AND THAT IS TRUE. I THINK
YOU WILL SEE IN THE ENSUING
SLIDE A WEALTH OF INFORMATION
THAT HAS ALLOWED GREAT
DISCUSSION AND EVEN MORE
DISCUSSION ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DO
IN 2023 TO FURTHER DISCUSS
L.E.A.D. AND CO-L.E.A.D..
>> ONE POINT I WANT TO MAKE
BEFORE YOU MOVE ON. I REALLY
APPRECIATE THE AGREEMENT FROM
HSD. I THINK PROBABLY A YEAR
AGO NOW TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS
WORK AND CONTRACTS ARE HOUSED I
THE SUPPORTING SAFE COMMUNITIES
DIVISION OF THE HUMAN SERVICES
DEPARTMENT. PREVIOUSLY IT WAS
IN ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS AND
AS WE KNOW THAT IS NOT THE RIGH
FIT FOR THIS PROGRAM, SO I JUS
THINK IT IS, AGAIN, WITHIN THE
CONVERSATION WE JUST HAD ABOUT
COMMUNITY SAFETY AS PART OF OUR
PUBLIC SAFETY CONTINUUM, IT IS
REALLY IMPORTANT AND USEFUL
THAT THIS WORK BE HOUSED IN TH
SUPPORTING SAFE COMMUNITIES
DEPARTMENT. THANK YOU.
>> SO AS PROMISED WE ARE GOING
TO FIRST FOCUS ON PERFORMANCE
METRICS AND THIS FIRST SLIDE
CENTERS ON REFERRALS INTO THE
L.E.A.D. PROGRAM. AGAIN A CALL
BACK TO THE PREVIOUS
PRESENTATION, BUT LAW
ENFORCEMENT REFERRALS ARE
PRIORITIZED FOR L.E.A.D.
HOWEVER THERE ARE SEVERAL
PATHWAYS INDIVIDUALS FIND
THEMSELVES TO THE PROGRAM.
BRIEFLY THESE INCLUDE ARREST
DIVERSION REFERRALS AND THIS
INCLUDES WHEN RON LAW
ENFORCEMENT REFERS AN INDIVIDUA
RATHER THAN ARRESTING THEM.
SOCIAL CONTACT REFERRALS ARE
INITIATED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
AND THESE OCCUR WHEN SPD REFERS
INDIVIDUALS THEY BELIEVE ARE
ENGAGING IN VIOLATIONS BUT HAVE
NO PROBABLE CAUSE TO EXIST.
THERE ARE ALSO TRUE BLOOD
REFERRALS WHICH SERVE
INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL HEALTH
NEEDS AND OTHER DISABILITIES AN
FINALLY COMMUNITY REFERRALS
IDENTIFIED VIA NEIGHBORHOOD
STAKEHOLDERS, BUSINESSES, AND
OTHER COMMUNITY-BASED
ORGANIZATIONS. THIS YEAR, JUST
BRIEFLY, THERE WAS AN INCLUSION
OF NINE FOCUS IMPACT AREAS THA
WERE INTRODUCED FROM WHICH THE
MAJORITY OF COMMUNITY REFERRALS
ARE MADE. IN TURNING TO THE DAT
-- THERE HAVE BEEN A TOTAL OF
226 REFERRALS WITH 108 IN Q1
AND 118 IN Q2. THE CHART ON TH
LEFT PROVIDES THE BREAKDOWN OF
THOSE BY TYPE. THE MAJORITY AR
COMMUNITY INITIATED WHICH MAKES
UP ROUGHLY 64% OF REFERRALS,
FOLLOWED BY SOCIAL CONTACT AT
25%. TRUE BLOOD AT 9% AND
ARREST DIVERSION AT 3%.
REGARDING THE TIME IT TAKES TO
INTAKE A CLIENT FROM REFERRAL,
OVERALL AVERAGE IS 85 DAYS. A
COUPLE TAKEAWAYS. WE ARE
ENCOURAGED TO SEE THE FLOW OF
REFERRALS FROM Q1 TO Q2,
ESPECIALLY THE INCREASE. THE
SHARE OF COMMUNITY REFERRALS I
THINK SPEAKS TO THE APPROACH
AND WE HOPE TO DIVE INTO THAT
DATA MORE IN THE MONTHS AHEAD.
ONE AREA TO LOOK AT IS REDUCING
THE AVERAGE DAYS TO INTAKE, TO
MAKE SURE INDIVIDUALS ARE
RECEIVING SERVICES AS QUICKLY A
POSSIBLE AND BEING BROUGHT INT
L.E.A.D.
>> SIMILARLY ON THIS SLIDE, THE
NUMBER OF COMMUNITY INITIATED
REFERRALS REALLY ENCOURAGED, T
SEE THAT NUMBER. THIS COUNCIL
WAS ALSO ACTIVE AS AN ADVOCATE
TO BROADEN THE REFERRAL
PIPELINE, SO IT IS NOT DEPENDEN
ON A LAW-ENFORCEMENT REFERRAL.
WE WANT TO SEE BOTH AND I THIN
THIS IS REALLY GOOD EVIDENCE O
OUR EMPHASIS AND ADVOCACY FOR
THAT CHANGE. THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU AND MAY I JUST AD
THAT OUR GOAL THIS YEAR WAS 15
REFERRALS I BELIEVE IN IS YOU
CAN SEE THESE NUMBERS ARE
EXCEEDING THAT ALREADY. JUST O
THIS SLIDE, A COUPLE OF OTHER
NOTES. WE ARE ACKNOWLEDGING TH
IMPORTANCE OF DIFFERENT FRONT
DOORS TO THIS APPROACH TO
SERVICES, INCLUDING COMMUNITY
REFERRALS. THE ARREST REFERRAL
NUMBER GENERALLY IN THE HISTOR
OF L.E.A.D., IT DRIVES A
SHORTER SPAN OF TIME FROM
REFERRAL TO INTAKE. WE ARE
ANTICIPATING ARREST REFERRALS,
POST ARREST, PRE-BOOKING
REFERRALS, TO ACCELERATE
PURSUANT TO THE ANTICIPATED
ORDINANCE IN PUBLIC USE.
MEETING LATER TODAY WITH THE
FRAMEWORK ON DIRECTIVES AND
PRIORITIZATION OF THOSE
REFERRALS BY OFFICERS. I THINK
IT IS INEVITABLE THAT THAT
NUMBER WILL RISE AND DRIVE THE
REFERRAL DOWN. INDIVIDUALS IN
THE CLASS WITH SERIOUS MENTAL
ILLNESS TYPICALLY HAVE A LONGE
ARCTIC COMPLETED INTAKE, BECAUS
INTAKE INVOLVES AN ESCALATED
RELEASE OF INFORMATION. FOR
PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS IT
REQUIRES TRUST AND ALSO SORT OF
BEING ABLE TO ENGAGE WITH CASE
MANAGERS IN A TIME AND PLACE
WHEN IT IS CLEAR WHAT IS BEING
AGREED TO AND WHY. THAT RARELY
CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED FOR THE
POPULATION, WHICH IS THE
POPULATION THIS FRAMEWORK IS
REALLY WELL DESIGNED FOR, SINCE
PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT LEGALLY
COMPETENT CAN BEST BE ADDRESSE
OUTSIDE OF THE COURT SYSTEM,
OFTEN. WE DON'T WANT TO EXCLUDE
THE POPULATION FROM THIS WORK,
EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE TIMES
WHEN THE INTAKE COULD BE LONGER
>> TURNING FROM REFERRALS, YOU
WILL LOOK AT THIS SLIDE AND
TOTAL CASELOAD. THIS SERVES AS
A SNAPSHOT IN TIME FOR THESE
QUARTERS. THEY SERVE A TOTAL O
759 UNIQUE CLIENTS IN QUARTER
ONE AND TWO, RESPECTIVELY. THE
TABLE TO THE LEFT REQUIRES A
BREAKDOWN BY CLIENT STATUS.
ACROSS BOTH QUARTERS, 10% OF
CLIENTS WERE CONSIDERED TO BE A
OUTREACH. THESE WERE CLIENTS
THAT L.E.A.D. IS LOOKING TO
ENGAGE AND BRING TO SERVICES,
BUT ALSO CRITICALLY TRYING TO
ENGAGE AFTER CONTACT IS LOST,
FOR INSTANCE. THIS GROUP IS
CATEGORIZED, AS YOU CAN SEE ON
THE SLIDE, AS HAVING LESS THAN
ONE SUBSTANTIVE MEETING WITH
THE CASE MANAGER IN THE LAST 90
DAYS. 80% OF CLIENTS ARE
CONSIDERED ACTIVE, MEANING THE
HAVE ONE OR MORE SUBSTANTIVE
MEETING WITH THE CASE MANAGER T
ACCESS RESOURCES, WORK ON
BEHAVIOR SHIFTS AND ALSO
ACHIEVING IDENTIFYING GOALS THA
WILL BE TALKED ABOUT. THE FINA
GROUP OUR ALUMNI WHO COMPRISE
9% OF THE TOTAL AND THESE ARE
PLANS THAT HAVE REACHED ABILIT
AND NO LONGER REQUIRE INTENSIVE
SUPPORT, THOUGH THEY DO REMAIN
IN THE LEAD UNIVERSE. REGARDIN
TAKEAWAYS IT IS GOOD TO SEE TH
VAST MAJORITY OF CLIENTS ARE
ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN WORKING WIT
CASE MANAGERS FOR A REFERRAL. W
ALWAYS WANT TO INCREASE THE
SHARE OF CLIENTS GETTING TO THA
STAGE AND CRITICALLY IN THE
PROGRAM BECAUSE OF GOALS BEING
MET AND ON COLLABORATION HSD
WANTS TO WORK OVER THE NEXT FEW
MONTHS TO LOOK AT THE
DISCHARGE REASONS AND HOW MANY
OF THOSE ARE POSITIVE FOR
PEOPLE WHO HAVE FULLY EXITED TH
PROGRAM UPON REACHING STABILITY
>> CAN YOU SPEAK TO AND MAYBE
L.E.A.D. IS PREPARED TO DO SO,
THE FACTORS THAT HELP YOU
DETERMINE WHICH STATUS A
PARTICULAR CLIENT IS IN? I DO
RECOGNIZE THAT YOU RAISED YOUR
HAND AND I RECOGNIZE YOU AS
WELL, WHETHER OR NOT IT IS TO
ANSWER THAT QUESTION OR OFFER
ANOTHER OBSERVATION.
>> LOOKING AT THIS TABLE IT IS
IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT THESE AR
NOT THE SAME PEOPLE. SO THE 40
WHO ARE ALUMNI IN Q2 ARE NOT
NECESSARILY SUBSUMED IN Q1.
THERE IS MOVEMENT THROUGH THESE
CATEGORIES AND NOT REFLECTED -
FOR FUTURE IT WILL BE IMPORTANT
TO ADD ANOTHER LINE TO SHOW
DISCHARGED. ALUMNI IS NOT
DISCHARGED. ALUMNI ARE
CONSIDERED PARTICIPANTS OF THE
PROGRAM, BUT THEY DON'T NEED
INTENSIVE SUPPORT. MAINTENANCE
STABILIZATION STATUS. IN Q1,
THERE WERE 45 PEOPLE WHO WERE
ALSO DISCHARGED. THERE ARE TWO
DIFFERENT REASONS YOU CAN BE
DISCHARGED, CALLING OUT THAT I
WILL BE IMPORTANT TO SURPRISE
THESE IN REPORTING. ONE REASON
WOULD BE THAT PEOPLE ARE STABLE
IN THE COMMUNITY AND DO NOT NEE
TO BE ENROLLED. SO,
SUCCESSFULLY GRADUATED IF YOU
WILL AND THEN THE OTHER IS
ECAUSE DESPITE OUTREACH, YOU
KNOW, L.E.A.D. DOESN'T JUST NO
FIND THE PEOPLE. THE OUTREACH
TEAMS ARE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE.
USING DATA AND PARTNERSHIPS TO
FIND PEOPLE WHO WERE REFERRED
TO THEM FOR A REASON, BECAUSE
THEY WERE EXPECTED TO BE ENGAGE
IN PROBLEMATIC ACTIVITY IF
THERE IS NOT AN INTERVENTION. W
ARE NOT JUST INDIFFERENT. AT A
CERTAIN POINT IF WE HAVE NOT
BEEN ABLE TO FIND SOMEBODY OR
IF SOMEONE IS HONESTLY JUST NOT
WORKING, RIGHT? THEY ARE NOT
ENGAGING AND IT IS THEIR CHOICE
THOSE PEOPLE ARE ALSO
DISCHARGED BECAUSE IT IS NOT
EFFECTIVE. SO, BOTH OF THOSE
ARE OUTSIDE THE FRAMEWORK, BUT
PROBABLY IMPORTANT IN SHOWING
THE WAY THAT THE PROGRAM PARSE
FOLKS THAT WERE REFERRED. SO,
OUTREACH STATUS CAN BE THAT
BEGINNING CHAPTER BEFORE PEOPLE
ARE REGULARLY ENGAGED OR IT CA
BE SOMEBODY WHO HAS DROPPED
INTO A LESS FREQUENT ENGAGEMENT
LESS THAN ONE SUBSTANTIVE
MEETING IN THE LAST 90 DAYS.
ACTIVE FOLKS HAVE HAD MORE THAN
ONE SUBSTANTIVE MEETING IN THE
LAST 90 DAYS AND ALUMNI ARE IN
TOUCH, BECAUSE THAT IS HELPFUL
AND THEY MIGHT NEED A LIGHT
TOUCH SUPPORT, BUT ARE NOT
ANTICIPATED TO NEED REGULAR
MEETINGS.
>> AND IF I MAY I WILL SAY THAT
PDA HAS BEEN INCREDIBLY HELPFU
GOING THROUGH THE DATA. WE
RECOGNIZE THAT WE ARE SEEKING
TO IMPROVE. THIS IS PART OF THA
IMPROVEMENT. WE WILL INCLUDE
THAT IN FUTURE GRAPHICS. YOU
SHOULD HAVE THAT CLARITY. THE
INDICATORS IF THEY ARE UNCLEAR
WE WILL BE SURE TO INCLUDE THAT
IN THE NEXT PRESENTATION.
>> I THINK HSD HAS BEEN
COLLABORATIVE. WE REALLY
APPRECIATE THIS ACTIVE CHECK-I
APPROACH TO, ARE WE CAPTURING,
ARE WE TELLING THE STORY? ARE W
CAPTURING INFORMATION THAT
STAKEHOLDERS AND PUBLIC FUNDER
NEED AND ARE ENTITLED TO AND
LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING --
>> GLAD TO HEAR THAT.
>> AND GOING OFF OF THAT AS
WELL, I THINK TO THE NEXT
SLIDE, LOOKING TO THE METRICS
PUT INTO THE 2023 CONTRACT,
CENTERING ON GOAL ACHIEVEMENT.
AS MENTIONED, CLIENTS WANTED T
BECOME ENGAGED. WORKING TOWARD
PLANS TOWARDS STABILIZATION AN
OUTLYING SERVICE CONNECTIONS
TO HELP THEM REALIZE THAT. THE
GOALS THAT CLIENTS COME UP WITH
WITH THEIR CASE MANAGERS COVER
A RANGE OF TOPICS INCLUDING
ASSESSING BASIC NEEDS, FOOD,
CLOTHING, TRANSPORTATION,
IDENTIFICATION, HOUSING,
SHELTER AND CRITICALLY
OVERCOMING LEGAL BARRIERS. THE
CHART TO THE LEFT SHOWS THE
SHARE OF L.E.A.D. CLIENTS THAT
HAVE ACHIEVED ONE OR MORE GOALS
IN A QUARTER. AS YOU CAN SEE, %
434 CLIENTS OR 57% OF ALL
PARTICIPANTS HAVE ACHIEVED A
GOAL AND THIS ROSE TO 479
CLIENTS IN Q2, BUMPING THE SHAR
TO 64%. AS THIS IS A NEW
METRIC, WE ARE ANALYZING THIS
TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS FOR
SUCCESS AND PUTTING DOWN A
BENCHMARK GOING FORWARD, BUT W
ARE HEARTENED TO SEE THAT 10%
INCREASE QUARTER OVER QUARTER.
ONE NOTE THAT WE FOUND IS THAT
THE GOALS THEMSELVES ARE FAIRLY
BROAD. WE WOULD LIKE TO WORK TO
CAPTURE MORE SPECIFICITY IN
TERMS OF WHAT ACHIEVEMENT MEANS
WITH LEAD AND JUST A NOTE AS
WELL THAT THE NARRATIVE REPORTS
FREQUENTLY PROVIDE THAT
ADDITIONAL CONTEXT THAT REALLY
GROUND WHAT ACHIEVEMENT IS IN
CONCRETE TERMS. JUST A COUPLE O
EXAMPLES OF THAT. I READ
NUMEROUS ANECDOTES ABOUT
INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE ABLE TO
FINALLY LEASE THEIR OWN
APARTMENT WITH THE HELP OF
L.E.A.D. CASE MANAGERS. CASE
MANAGERS ATTENDING APPOINTMENTS
TO ENSURE INDIVIDUALS GET THE
NECESSARY CARE AND ASSISTANCE
AND COLLECT THE DOCUMENTATION
FOR BENEFITS. SO I THINK
TAPPING INTO THAT LEVEL OF
DETAIL AND FIGURING OUT A WAY
TO GET THAT INTO REPORTING WOUL
HELP FURTHER DISTILL
ACHIEVEMENT AND SOLID
TERMINOLOGY AND PROVIDE THE
CLARITY AROUND PROGRESS AND
ACHIEVEMENT THAT EVERYONE WANT
TO REALIZE. IN TERMS OF HOW
INDIVIDUALS ARE SUPPORTING THE
PROGRAM, THE SLIDE IS GOING TO
KEY IN ON REFERRALS BASED ON
CLIENT NEED AND I WANT TO
PROVIDE A COUPLE OF CAVEATS
BEFORE GETTING INTO THE DATA.
FIRST THIS IS A JOINT METRIC
REPORTING ON BEHALF OF L.E.A.D
AND CO-L.E.A.D. CLIENTS. EARLIE
IN THE PRESENTATION I SPOKE
ABOUT REFERRALS. THESE ARE A
DIFFERENT TYPE OF REFERRAL.
THESE ARE CONNECTIONS TO OUTSID
SERVICES FOR L.E.A.D. AND
CO-L.E.A.D. CLIENTS BY THEIR
CASE MANAGERS. THERE WERE 730
REFERRALS AND THAT ROSE TO 792
IN Q2. OVERALL THAT IS A TOTA
OF 1522 TOTAL DUPLICATED
REFERRALS THROUGH THE FIRST SIX
MONTHS OF THE YEAR AND THESE AR
TRACKED BY FOUR CATEGORIES,
WHICH YOU CAN SEE A BREAKDOWN
AGAIN ON THE CHART ON THE LEFT.
NOT SURPRISINGLY, LEADING
SERVICES, 35%. FOLLOWED BY
SUBSTANCE USE TREATMENT
PROGRAMS. BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
PROGRAMS AT 19% AND FINALLY
CONNECTIONS TO STABLE INCOME
SOURCES AT 15%. THE SLIDE
REALLY DEMONSTRATES MAKING
ROBUST CONNECTIONS TO THE
SERVICES COMMUNITY FOR THEIR
CLIENTS. THE QUESTION AGAIN
COMING FROM THIS IS THAT WE ARE
INTERESTED IN EXPLORING HOW
SUCCESSFUL REFERRALS ARE IN
CONNECTING CLIENTS TO SUPPORT
AND ENROLLMENT ON THAT AND WE
LOOK FORWARD TO SUPPORTING THAT
AS WELL. WE HAVE ALREADY HAD A
COUPLE OF DISCUSSIONS ON THAT,
TOO, SO WITH THAT I WANT TO TUR
THE FLOOR OVER TO YOU TO TALK
ABOUT WHAT REFERRALS MEANS.
>> YES, IT MAKES COMPLETE SENS
THAT WE WANT TO ACHIEVE MORE
THAN REFERRAL. WE WANT TO
ACTUALLY SEE PEOPLE CONNECTING
AND MAKING PROGRESS IN
CHANGING THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES. S
MANY OF THESE CATEGORIES,
COMMENCEMENT OF SERVICES. I
WILL JUST READ SOME EXAMPLES.
FOR SUBSTANCE USE TREATMENT,
CLIENT ATTENDS INTAKE OR A
FOLLOW-UP APPOINTMENT FOR
MAINTENANCE AND AN ASSESSMENT
BEING COMPLETED. CLIENT ATTENDS
OR COMPLAINTS AN OUTPATIENT OR
INPATIENT TREATMENT PROGRAM. FO
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, MENTAL HEALT
CARE. CLIENT RECEIVES MENTAL
HEALTH MEDICATION FROM A MEDICA
PROVIDER. CLIENT RECEIVES
MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING FROM
REGIONAL OR NON-REACH PROVIDER.
CLIENT CREATES CRISIS PLAN TO
MITIGATE HARMFUL IMPACTS. SO
THIS IS NOT RECOMMENDING THAT
SOMEBODY GO SOMEWHERE AND NOT
BEING AWARE, WHETHER OR NOT THA
ACTUALLY OCCURS. IT IS ACTUALLY
A COMMENCEMENT OF A SPECIFIC
NEW SERVICE AND THEN FOR LAWFU
STABLE INCOME, SOMEONE GAINS
EMPLOYMENT OR SUCCESSFULLY
ACCESSES BENEFITS. SO WE
APPRECIATE AND AGREE WITH THIS
GOAL TO MORE CONCRETELY
DISPLAY COMMENCED SERVICES, SO
WE WILL WORK ON THAT REPORTING
APPROACH THAT BREAKS THAT OUT.
IN THE FUTURE.
>> APPRECIATE THAT. SO THE KEY
TAKE AWAY IS THE NEED TO CAPTUR
IT IN THE REPORTING FUNCTION.
YOU ARE TRACKING IT ON THE
PROGRAM SIDE. THANK YOU.
>> AND, AGREE THAT THAT IS THE
RIGHT QUESTION.
>> WITH THAT WE ARE GOING TO
TRANSITION INTO THE CO-L.E.A.D.
SIDE OF THE CONTRACT. THIS
FIRST SLIDE IS GOING TO BE
LOOKING AT ENROLLMENT IN THE
PROGRAM. CLIENTS ARE ENROLLED B
PDA AND SUBSEQUENTLY RECEIVE
LODGING, SERVICES, AND
CONNECTIONS TO ASSIST THEM IN
ACHIEVING PERMANENT HOUSING.
THROUGH OUR CONTRACT OF ELEMENT
WORK, HSD AND PDA AGREE TO A
FLEXIBLE APPROACH IN MANAGING
BETTER ACCESS. WE MEET ON A
FREQUENT BASIS TO DISCUSS HOW
BEST TO UTILIZE THIS RESOURCE
ACROSS COMPETING NEEDS.
GENERALLY SPEAKING THERE ARE TW
PATHWAYS BY WHICH ENROLLMENTS
COME. THE FIRST ARE
UNSHELTERED, L.E.A.D. ELIGIBLE
PARTICIPANTS ENGAGED THROUGH TH
WORK WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER.
THE SECOND PATHWAY IS
PRESERVING ACCESS FOR CITY
PRIORITY, PUBLIC SAFETY AND
ENCAMPMENT RESPONSE AS WELL. SO
THE BIG TAKE AWAY, WE SEE
ENROLLMENTS RISING FROM 3 IN
Q1, TO 15 IN Q2. WHICH CAUSED
THE OCCUPANCY RATE TO INCREASE
TO 75%. THE CONTRACT
DEVELOPMENT WORK WAS BEGINNING
IN Q1, SO IT IS ENCOURAGING TO
SEE THE LARGE INCREASE WITHIN Q
AND WE ARE DEFINITELY LOOKING
TO FULLY UTILIZE THE RESOURCE
IN THIS QUARTER.
>> I JUST WANT TO FLAG, I HAVE
SOME SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE
THROUGH WORK THAT IS OCCURRING
IN THE WASHINGTON STATE
RIGHT-OF-WAY PROJECT. AND THE
CARE TEAM AND THE CITY FUNDED,
CO-L.E.A.D. BEDS. SO I HAVE
SOME SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE WHERE
IT IS THE CITY'S RELUCTANCE T
CONTRIBUTE CITY FUNDED
CO-L.E.A.D. BEDS TO AND
ENCAMPMENT MITIGATION THAT MAY
IN PART, BE DRIVING SOME OF
THESE ENROLLMENT NUMBERS. SO I
THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO FLAG
THAT AS WELL, SINCE I THINK AS
UNDERSTAND IT, MORE THAN THE
HUMAN SERVICE DEPARTMENT, IS
THE GATEKEEPER FOR THOSE
RESOURCES IN MANY INSTANCES.
SO THAT IS, I THINK, ANOTHER
AREA THAT WE NEED TO DO MORE
WORK ON. OH, I AM SORRY.
>> IF I MAY, I WANT TO
ACKNOWLEDGE THE RECOMMENDATION.
I WILL SAY THAT THE CITY OF
SEATTLE IS IN COMMUNICATION WIT
PDA ON HOW TO BETTER UTILIZE
THAT. WE SEE THE OPPORTUNITY.
WE WILL CONTINUE THOSE
COMMUNICATIONS AND PROVIDE THE
UPDATE --
>> THANK YOU, I DID NOT MEAN TO
DIMINISH THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
JUST MEANT TO LIFT UP THE FACT
THAT THERE ARE INSTANCES WHERE
THE PDA IS READY TO USE THE
BEDS, BUT THEY ARE NOT BEING
ALLOWED TO USE THE BEDS ON
SOME PARTICULAR ENCAMPMENT
MITIGATIONS THAT I FAMILIAR
WITH.
>> A COUPLE OF RELATED POINTS.
FIRST, LOOKING AT THE SLIDE, I
DOESN'T COME THROUGH HERE, BUT
THINK IMPORTANT CONTEXT IS THA
WE CAME INTO JANUARY, 2023 WITH
EXISTING CITY REFERRALS INTO
THESE BEDS. CITY FUNDING
STARTED IN JULY OF LAST YEAR AN
WE HAVE BEEN COLLABORATING WIT
THE CITY ABOUT WHAT IS THE
BEST, HIGHEST USE OF THIS
SCARCE RESOURCE, WHICH IS
COMPARATIVELY EXPENSIVE, BUT
HAS POTENTIALLY PROFOUND PUBLIC
SAFETY RAMIFICATIONS. THERE AR
OBVIOUSLY WAY MORE PEOPLE THAT
CAN USE THIS RESOURCE THEN WE
HAVE AVAILABLE, SO MAKING SMART
IMPACTFUL USE OF IT IS REALLY
IMPORTANT AND BEING ON THE SAM
PAGE ABOUT THAT HAS BEEN
IMPORTANT. THERE HAS BEEN, IN
INITIAL MONTHS, TENSION AND
ACKNOWLEDGED TENSION AROUND
PLACING INDIVIDUALS. IF WE WER
JUST DOING THAT, WE COULD HAVE
BEEN FULL ON DAY FOUR. PLACING
INDIVIDUALS AT HIGH RISK OF
EXPOSURE WITH THE LEGAL SYSTEM.
THE COURT COULD HAVE GIVEN US
15 PEOPLE. THERE ARE MANY
SOURCES THAT COULD GIVE US 50
OR 60 PEOPLE, BUT THERE WAS A
DESIRE TO HAVE AN IMPACT IN
SPECIFIC VULNERABLE IMPACTED
COMMUNITIES. SOME OF THE WORK W
HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO WITH THIS
RESOURCE IS A PROJECT THAT
INVOLVES MORE THAN ONE PERSON
BEING SIMULTANEOUSLY PLACED
INTO THESE CITY ROOMS. TWO
EXAMPLES. ONE, THE MICHIGAN
STREET ENCAMPMENT, WHICH WAS
TACKLED THIS YEAR. AT THE
CITY'S REQUEST. AND WE COULD
NOT HAVE DONE THAT IF WE HAD
FILLED UP ALL OF THE BEDS. THER
WOULD NOT OF BEEN ROOM TO FILL
THIS COLLECTIVE RESOLUTION AND
THAT IS BY AGREEMENT AND
INTENTIONAL HOLDING UP OF SET
SPACE TO DO THAT. THE OTHER,
WHY I AM CALLING OUT THE PEOPLE
OF COME IN BEFORE THAT POINT,
WAS THE APARTMENT BUILDING IN
WEST SEATTLE, WHICH WAS A
SITUATION REGARDING A LOT OF
PEOPLE WHO ARE HOUSING
VULNERABLE. THEY ARE ESSENTIALL
SQUATTING IN A LARGE APARTMENT
BUILDING THAT WAS HAVING A BIG
EFFECT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND
SPD, CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND
HSD ALL RECOGNIZED THAT
SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE THAT
IS NOT JUST EVICTING 45 PEOPLE
OUT INTO THE VERY COLD
TEMPERATURES AND WITH NO PLAN
OF WHERE TO GO. SO THE
RESOLUTION WAS THAT WE
COLLECTIVELY RESOLVE THIS GROU
OF PEOPLE SITUATION AND THAT
WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE I
WE WERE SORT OF ALREADY FULL. I
THINK THROUGH TRIAL AND ERROR,
LEARNING TOGETHER IS THE
HIGHEST, BEST USE OF THIS
RESOURCE. THERE HAS BEEN SOME
CLARITY IN THE LAST, I WOULD
SAY, TWO MONTHS, THAT WE ARE
PERMITTED TO PLACE AS MANY
PEOPLE FROM THE THIRD AVENUE
PROJECT, WHICH IS ONE OF THE
LEAD FOCUS AREAS, AS WE CAN
APPROPRIATELY MATCH TO THIS
RESOURCE. WE ARE DOING THAT AN
AS OF TODAY WE ARE ESSENTIALLY
FULL, BECAUSE WE HOLD A FEW
ROOMS OPEN FOR EMERGENCIES. THE
THIRD AVENUE PROJECT CAN
GENERATE ON ITS OWN A FULL
CENSUS FOR THE ROOMS. SO I
REALLY APPRECIATE THAT THIS IS
AN EVOLVING STRATEGY, I GUESS I
WOULD SAY. WE CAN DO A LOT OF
DIFFERENT THINGS WITH THESE
ROOMS. WE DON'T SELF AUTHORIZE
SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
WHAT WE DO IS ACCOMPLISHING TH
CITY OBJECTIVES.
>> ON THAT POINT AS WELL I
REALLY WANT TO MENTION THE THIR
AVENUE PROJECT. DEFINITELY I
THINK IT CALLS OUT COMPETING
INTERESTS FOR THESE BEDS AND HA
US LOOK SYSTEMWIDE IT WHAT IS
POSSIBLE AND REALLY HAS US
FOCUS ON COMMUNITY WORK AGAIN
FOR THESE CO-L.E.A.D. BEDS. SO,
THANK YOU, PDA. SIMILAR TO
L.E.A.D., THIS SLIDE SHOWS A
SNAPSHOT OF THE CASELOAD AND TH
CHART BREAKS IT DOWN BY CLIENT,
BY QUARTER AND CLIENT STATUS.
INDIVIDUALS ARE ACTIVELY HOUSED
IN CO-L.E.A.D. LODGING OR
RECEIVING SUPPORTS AND
AFTERCARE, WHICH IS SIMILAR TO
THE ALUMNI STATUS. AFTERCARE
INDICATES A CLIENT HAS GONE
INTO PERMANENT HOUSING. THEY DO
NOT RECEIVE THE REGULAR,
INTENSIVE CASE MANAGEMENT, BUT
ARE STILL CONNECTED SHOULD THE
NEED TO REMAIN STABLE HE HOUSED
I DO WANT TO MAKE A CRITICAL
NOTE ON THIS SLIDE. AFTER
PUTTING THIS POWERPOINT
TOGETHER AND FINALIZING IT, WE
DID WORK WITH PDA TEAMS. WE SA
THERE WAS ONE INACCURACY ON TH
SLIDE IN REGARD TO THE CLIENTS.
IN Q1 THERE WERE ACTUALLY FIVE
CLIENTS, NOT 14. THIS WAS DONE
AFTER LOOKING AT THE TRANSITIO
AND BREAKING THAT DOWN BY
FUNDER. AND THEN IN Q2, THE
NUMBER INCREASED TO 10 CLIENTS
COMPRISED OF THOSE FIVE CLIENT
FROM Q1 IN AFTERCARE AND FIVE
NEW CLIENTS IN AFTERCARE. SO
APOLOGIES FOR THAT. Q1 IS FIV
AND Q2 IS 10. THAT MEANS THE
TOTAL NUMBER OF CLIENTS SERVED
MOVED FROM 45 INDIVIDUALS IN Q1
TO 60 IN Q2. CURRENTLY THE
NUMBER OF ACTIVE CLIENTS
REMAINS UNCHANGED. WE DID SEE A
INCREASE WITH 10 ADDITIONAL
INDIVIDUALS RESIDING IN
CO-L.E.A.D. LODGING IN Q2.
WONDERFUL TO SEE THAT INCREASE
IN CLIENTS, AGAIN UTILIZING TH
CO-L.E.A.D. RESOURCES. A
CONTINUED NEED TO FOCUS ON THAT
WITH OUR PARTNERS AND
CONNECTING CLIENTS WITH
PERMANENT HOUSING OPTIONS AS
WELL AND I THINK SIMILAR TO
ALUMNI, WE WANT TO DIG A BIT
INTO THE AFTERCARE STATUS TO SE
HOW MANY INDIVIDUALS ARE
ENTERING AND EXITING THE PROGRA
ONCE ACHIEVING HOUSING
STABILITY.
>> WE COULD DO IT NOW OR ON THE
NEXT SLIDE, BUT GLOBALLY WE
OBVIOUSLY SHARE THE SENSE OF
URGENCY ABOUT BEING ABLE TO
MOVE PEOPLE INTO PERMANENT
HOUSINGS. THESE ARE TEMPORARY
LODGING, BEST USE TO WORK ON
HOUSING BARRIERS AND FIGURE OU
THE BEST HOUSING MATCH AND WOR
WITH PEOPLE DOWN THE ROAD. I
THINK IT IS USEFUL TO CONTRAST
THE OTHER SIDE OF OUR FUNDING
FROM THE STATE RIGHT-OF-WAY
MONEY FROM THE REGIONAL
HOMELESSNESS AUTHORITY. THAT
PROJECT HAS DEDICATED HOUSING.
ON THAT SIDE OF THE HOUSE WE
HAVE 25 PEOPLE MOVE INTO
PERMANENT HOUSING AND WE HAD 2
PEOPLE MOVE INTO PERMANENT
HOUSING. SO IT GIVES YOU A
NICE, COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WHAT
HAPPENS WHEN THERE ARE HOUSING
UNITS AVAILABLE. ARE THE PEOPLE
ABLE TO MOVE ON? YES. IS THE
STAFF GOOD AT MOVING PEOPLE ON
ABSOLUTELY. WE CAN WORK
TOGETHER WITH THE CITY AND
PUBLIC SAFETY LEADERS TO ENSURE
THAT PEOPLE WHO HAVE AN IMPACT
ON SAFETY AND ORDER IN THE CITY
CAN GET PRIORITY ACCESS TO
PERMANENT HOUSING IN THE SAME
WAY. THAT THE FOLKS LIVING ON
STATE RIGHT-OF-WAY HAVE BEEN
ABLE TO. THAT WILL TRANSFORM
THIS PICTURE, SO THAT IS A BIG
PRIORITY FOR THE REST OF THE
YEAR. AND I GUESS THE LAST
COMMENT, WE ARE STARTING TO SEE
SOME PURCHASE ON THAT WITH THE
THIRD AVENUE PROJECT NOW
INCORPORATED INTO THE
PARTNERSHIP TO ACCESS THAT
PRIORITY CHANNEL OF PERMANENT
HOUSING THROUGH KING COUNTY
REGIONAL HOMELESSNESS AUTHORITY
THAT PROJECT STARTED THIS
WEEKEND WE ARE STARTING TO
NOMINATE PEOPLE, SO ASSUMING
THAT GOES WELL, NEXT THE
REPORT FOR THE REST OF THE YEA
--
>> THAT IS GREAT NEWS. THAT TH
THIRD AVENUE PROJECT HAS BEEN
INCORPORATED INTO THE
PARTNERSHIP, ESPECIALLY GIVEN
THE PRIORITY ACCESS THAT
INDIVIDUALS HAVE FOR PERMANENT
HOUSING. THIS IS A CONVERSATIO
WE HAVE LONG HAD ABOUT
COORDINATED ENTRY AND THE NEED
FOR A WOVEN APPROACH TOWARD
IDENTIFYING THE VULNERABLE
POPULATIONS. THAT SHOULD BE
PRIORITIZED FOR PERMANENT
HOUSING, AS WELL AS POPULATION
THAT MAY NOT ONLY BE VULNERABLE
BUT HAVE GREAT IMPACT FOR THE
SURROUNDING COMMUNITY AND I
LOOK FORWARD TO FINDING WAYS T
MEMORIALIZE WHAT YOU ARE DOING
FOR OTHER HIGH-IMPACT AREAS
WHERE WE ARE DOING WORK,
WITHOUT A GUARANTEE OF
PERMANENT HOUSING PLACEMENTS.
>> OUR FINAL SLIDE REALLY TAKE
ANOTHER LOOK INTO THE EXIT SO
FAR. IN Q1, THERE WERE A TOTAL
OF FIVE EXITS WITH THREE
PERMANENT HOUSING DESTINATIONS
AND TO RETURNS TO HOMELESSNESS.
THE NUMBER OF EXITS ROSE TO SI
IN Q2, WITH ALL BUT ONE EXIT I
PERMANENT HOUSING, WHICH IS
WONDERFUL TO SEE. THAT MEANS
EIGHT OF THE 11 EXITS WERE TO A
PERMANENT DESTINATION. GOING
FORWARD WE ARE REALLY ENCOURAGE
BY THE NUMBERS FOR THE FIRST
TWO QUARTERS AND AGAIN WE HOPE
TO PUSH FOR MORE EXITS AND FEWE
RETURNS TO HOMELESSNESS.
ANOTHER AREA WE DO WANT TO LOOK
AT IS REDUCING LENGTH OF STAY
IN FACILITIES. AS YOU CAN SEE,
AS MORE EXITS OCCURRED IN Q2,
THE AVERAGE LENGTH OF STAY
INCREASED FROM 166 IN Q1 TO
228 DAYS IN Q2, SO I THINK THAT
IS PART OF THE LARGER
CONVERSATION WE ARE HAVING ABOU
PERMANENT HOUSING AND OUR FINA
SLIDE FOR THIS, I WANT TO SAY
AGAIN, A WEALTH OF DATA. STIL
PARSING AND WORKING THROUGH.
>> AND EVEN THOUGH I HEARD IT
SAID THAT THE COMMENTS AT THE
LAST SLIDE COULD ALSO BE
APPLICABLE TO THIS SLIDE, BUT I
THINK I HEAR YOU SAYING, LISA,
THAT IF WE HAD A SLIDE THAT WE
PUT NEXT TO THIS ONE, BUT USED
THE PARTNERSHIP WITH WSDOT'S
RIGHT-OF-WAY PROGRAM, WE WOULD
SEE VERY DIFFERENT OUTCOMES FO
EXITS TO HOUSING AND PERHAPS
LOWER EXITS TO HOMELESSNESS.
>> I WILL TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY
TO SAY IT WOULD BE HARDER TO
HAVE FEWER THAN WE HAVE. THESE
ARE LOW NUMBERS. WE ARE WORKING
WITH PEOPLE WITH VERY HIGH
BARRIERS. THESE HAVE BEEN
ALMOST NEVER SUPPORTED IN
SHOULDER, SO HAVING PEOPLE NOT
EXIT TO HOMELESSNESS IS GREAT,
BUT THEY NEED TO MOVE TO
PERMANENT HOUSING. THE OTHER
SIDE OF THE HOUSE IS A WELL
OILED MACHINE AT THIS POINT.
THEY ARE PLACED WITH A GOOD
MATCH THAT THEY CAN SUSTAIN AN
WE HAVE AN AFTERCARE TEAM
ENSURING THAT IS TRUE. WE ARE
WORKING WITH PEOPLE WHO NEED
SUCCEED SOMETIMES FOR PERMANEN
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING, SO WE ARE
HELPING PEOPLE MAINTAIN THAT.
THAT IS PRETTY MUCH WHAT I KNO
EVERYBODY IS LOOKING TO SEE. IF
YOU COMPARE THOSE TWO, WE
COMPARE WHAT IS ON THE SIDE. I
IS THE SAME TEAM. WHAT IS
MISSING IS DEDICATED RESOURCES
FOR THE POPULATION. WE ALL HAV
THAT GOAL TO SHOW. THIS PIEC
SETS THAT UP REALLY WELL, BUT I
ALSO BACKLOGS IF WE ARE NOT
ABLE TO INTRODUCE THAT. IT IS
OUR PILOT. CAN WE TAP THOSE
RESOURCES FOR THE CITY PUBLIC
SAFETY GROUP? ASSUMING THAT
WORKS WELL, THE LIMITATION IS
OING TO BE THAT THERE ARE NOT
MANY RESOURCES IN THAT. GETTIN
RESOURCE LISTS, THREE UNITS
YESTERDAY, IN THE ENTIRE
SYSTEM. SO YOU CAN SEE NO ONE
IS GOING TO SHOW FAST MOVEMENT
OF LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE
UNLESS THAT RESOURCE GROWS.
>> ALL RIGHT, THAT CONCLUDES OU
PRESENTATION. I AM HAPPY TO
TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.
>> I PEPPERED MINE THROUGHOUT
AND I DO NOT HAVE QUESTIONS. I
DO NOT SEE ANY VIRTUAL HANDS,
BUT I WILL PAUSE FOR A SECOND T
SEE IF THAT CHANGES. NOT SEEIN
ANY VIRTUAL HANDS, I WANT TO
SAY THAT I APPRECIATE THE KEY
TAKEAWAYS SECTION ON THE
SLIDES. IT REALLY HELPS ALL OF
US BE ALIGNED ON WHAT SORT OF
OUR NORTH STAR IS FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THESE EFFORTS
AND LOOK FORWARD TO THIS GROUP
OF FOLKS COMING BACK I THINK IN
DECEMBER TO HEAR THE ORDER
THREE REPORT. THANK YOU.
>> THANKS FOR HAVING US, THANK
YOU.
>> ALL RIGHT, THE NEXT MEETING
OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND HUMAN
SERVICES COMMITTEE WILL BE LATE
TODAY AT 5:30 P.M. A SPECIAL
PUBLIC HEARING AND THEN WE WILL
HAVE ANOTHER SPECIAL MEETING
SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY, AUGUST 14
AT 2:00 P.M. IF THERE ARE ANY
PLANNED ABSENCES, PLEASE LET M
OFFICE KNOW AND IF THERE ARE NO
ADDITIONAL COLLEAGUES FROM MY
COLLEAGUES, THE TIME IS 12:22
AND WE ARE ADJOURNED. THANK YOU
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