CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS Navigation Center Update Margaret King City Coordinator’s Office May 22, 2019
Convening Lead Nuria Rivera-Vandermyde City Coordinator Nav Center Operations Project Operations Facilities Sam Strong Margaret King Chuck Lutz Red Lake Secretary Project Manager City Steve Horsfield CPED Coordinator’s Office Simpson Exec. Director Housing and Health Data Tracking Property Management Services Coordination Shelter Operations Public Safety Simpson Housing Project for Pride in Adam Fairbanks Simpson Housing MPD/MFD/EMS Living City of Minneapolis Red Lake Native Navigators AICDC Meals MIWRC Catholic Charities Better Futures – custodial Avivo Community-based Service Organizations Mpls Health Dept. and Hennepin County and EPG - security Homeless Access Livio Health Sage Prairie External Communications City Communications Department Spiritual and Cultural Services Simpson Red Lake AICDC Margaret King Red Lake 1
Navigation Center • Opportunities • Challenges Co-location of shelter and services • • Operational structure – no lead beneficial to guests, effective with historically disenfranchised agency complicates individuals communication and decision- making • Efficiencies for providers and emergency responders • Right-sizing intensive low barrier program • Safety and harm reduction
Census: Reduction over time: ~52 % positive exits (to date) 200 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 1-Jan 8-Jan 15-Jan 22-Jan 29-Jan 5-Feb 12-Feb 19-Feb 26-Feb 5-Mar 12-Mar 19-Mar 26-Mar 22 May
Stabilization overtime 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 January F ebruary March C enus Overdose PoliceInteraction EMS PatientContacts Narcan by Simpson
Census and exits 176 guests at peak (January 2019) • 130 exits to date: Positive Exits= 68 • 58 housing (Avivo and various other, including moving in with family) • 2 mental health commitment (involuntary treatment) • 3 nursing home • 5 inpatient treatment Negative exits= 62 • 8 jail • 10 unknown (disappeared) • 7 shelter (most still working on housing but it is slow going) • 20 asked to leave, destination unknown • 2 died • 14 exited in May for not engaging with services • 1 other (beyond scope medically)
Current census: 46 Status (as of May 22, 2019) • 10 have firm housing or treatment admission dates for prior to June 3 • 28 actively working on housing and will transition to alternate shelter for interim • 8 will likely exit prior to closure and are not accepting services being offered • Exits for non-participation: Beginning in May, Simpson began exiting guests who were not actively working to come up with a housing plan. In all cases alternate shelter was offered; roughly 10 accepted other shelter, and the others presumably returned to unsheltered homelessness.
Housing outcome rate in context Rate of housing placement out of the Navigation Center is significantly higher than other traditional shelters. Why? • Majority of placements are through Avivo/Red Lake partnership with Housing Support state benefit- easily scalable, uncapped resource • Benefit doesn’t begin until housing begins- making work with individuals while still homeless difficult for agencies to finance • For Navigation Center, philanthropy and state contributed $243,000 seed funds to enable Avivo to expand team by six case managers, to house additional 90 people • Housing longevity in these placements too early to assess
Closure date: June 3 Status on closing day: Projected to be 20-30 guests remaining, all of whom have housing (or treatment) • referrals, but whose units are not yet ready for them to move in. • They have all accepted temporary alternate shelter until they can move into their housing. These waits will range from a few days to a several weeks. • Community outreach, shelter, and housing agencies will remain connected to this group after Navigation Center closes to help ensure placements occur as planned. • Avivo housing program will continue to enroll guests and former guests on their housing wait list.
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