One Spokane. Safer. Smarter. Healthier. The 2019 Everybody Counts - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. Safer. Smarter. Healthier. The 2019 Everybody Counts Point-in-Time Count effort is one way that the City of Spokane strives to utilize data and knowledge for action, in order to improve the lives of our most vulnerable citizens throughout the region.

This presentation is designed to share data collected during the HELLO! 2019 Everybody Counts campaign’s Point -in-Time Count. This data provides a snapshot that captures the circumstances and situations of people experiencing homelessness in our region. ACTION DATA KNOWLEDGE

TODAY’S DISCUSSION One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. Safer. Smarter. Healthier. ▫ The Methodology ▫ The Data ▫ The Knowledge ▫ The Action

THE COUNT One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. Safer. Smarter. Healthier. ▫ The count date was January 24 th ▫ This date aligns with the rest of the state ▫ The count of unsheltered homeless lasted for seven days from January 24 th , however the surveys reflected where people stayed on the night of the count ▫ The count is focused on two main categories for persons experiencing homelessness: Sheltered during the night of the count (emergency shelter, transitional housing) - Unsheltered, or out-of-doors during the night of the count -

THE METHODOLOGY One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. (What Stayed The Same) Safer. Smarter. Healthier. Community Service Engaged Targeted Technology Involvement Connections Citizens Efforts Last year, we trained From mid-November to nearly 100 volunteers January, the City held a For the second year, we This year, we held four and had participation donation drive for We coordinated with 79 utilized an app youth-focused events to from three-quarters of winter clothing and service agencies and all developed by Simtech meet youth and young them on campaign essential needs items to outreach teams, Solutions. The app was adults in places they activities, including the distribute to people worked with County updated and improved already go and count and donation experiencing rural outreach centers, based on feedback incentivize their drive efforts. This year, homelessness during and expanded our provided from last year. participation. These we held nine trainings the Count. In total, known location list. This Data collected is events were designed for 142 people. More 4,021 items were year, we counted in 211 combined with HMIS and led by youth than two-thirds of donated by community locations (38 more data to give us a fuller service providers and those trained helped members and 1,956 places than 2018). landscape. young people. with counting events, items were purchased while others became by the City to create engaged in other ways. “Care Bags”.

THE METHODOLOGY One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. (What Changed) Safer. Smarter. Healthier. Improved More Targeted Increased Connection Opportunity Outreach Access While we overlapped For the first time, we with the Homeless held a Magnet Event Connect last year, this We added additional to ensure effective Questions were added year we finished the counting locations for counting veterans. this year to learn more Count with the critical services serving This event partnered about reasons for Connect (rather than people experiencing with veteran service homelessness and to starting with it). This homelessness, such as agencies, offering better align with allowed us to better The Needle Exchange, targeted resources and questions being asked count people living in meal sites, and services, as well as in the HMIS work flow. certain unsheltered clothing banks. provided a hot meal to locations, such as incentivize vehicles, etc. participation.

THE DATA Understanding the landscape of homelessness throughout Spokane County .

One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. Safer. Smarter. Healthier. 1,309 people which make up 1,070 households

GENERAL INFORMATION ALL PEOPLE

WHO WAS COUNTED One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. (All People) Safer. Smarter. Healthier. Children Only, Adults and Children 22, 2% Average Household Size (Families), 302, 23% 3.5 3.1 3 2.5 2 1,309 PEOPLE 1.5 1.2 1 1 0.5 0 Households with Households with Households with Adults and Children Adults Only Children Only Adults Only, 985, 75%

SHELTER TYPE One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. (All People) Safer. Smarter. Healthier. Unsheltered, 19, 6% Unsheltered, 1, 5% Transitional Unsheltered, Emergency Housing, 8, 36% 295, 30% Emergency Shelter, 154, Shelter, 613, 51% 62% People in Households with People in Households with People in Households with Adults and Children (Families) Adults Only Children Only Emergency Shelter, Transitional Housing, Transitional Housing, 13, 59% 129, 43% 77, 8%

TRENDS One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. (All People) Safer. Smarter. Healthier. 985 897 770 681 673 667 650 642 639 635 630 583 585 556 523 452 428 382 328 304 302 299 21 22 20 17 17 20 16 10 9 3 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Total People in HH with Adults and Children Total People in HH with Adults Only Total People in HH with Children Only

DEMOGRAPHICS One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. (All People) Safer. Smarter. Healthier. Transgender, 6, 1% Gender Non-Conforming, 3, 0% Under 18, 192, 15% Female, 511, 39% 18 to 24, 106, 8% GENDER AGE Male, 789, 60% 25 and Over, 1011, 77%

SHELTER TYPE BY AGE One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. (All People) Safer. Smarter. Healthier. 700 640 600 500 400 300 267 200 104 97 84 100 43 37 26 11 0 17 and Under 18 to 24 25 and Over Emergency Shelter Transitional Housing Unsheltered

RACE One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. (All People) Safer. Smarter. Healthier. Native Hawaiian or Other Native Hawaiian or Other Asian, 2.40% Pacific Islander, 2% Pacific Islander, 0.60% Multi-Racial, 8% Asian, <0.1% American Indian and Multi-Racial, 4% Alaska Native, 1.80% American Indian and Black or African Alaska Native, 8% American, 2% Black or African ALL PEOPLE American,9% SPOKANE COUNTY EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS White, 89.30% White, 73%

RACE One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. (All People) Safer. Smarter. Healthier. 800 758 700 600 500 400 300 179 200 74 72 72 100 47 27 26 23 19 6 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 White Black or African American Indian Asian Native Hawaiian or Multi-Racial American and Alaska Native Other Pacific Islander Families Adults Only Children Only

SHELTER TYPE BY RACE One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. (All People) Safer. Smarter. Healthier. 600 560 500 400 300 236 200 160 100 76 71 50 33 25 23 20 20 16 7 6 3 3 0 0 0 White Black or African American Indian and Asian Native Hawaiian or Multi-Racial American Alaska Native Other Pacific Islander Emergency Shelter Transitional Housing Unsheltered

ETHNICITY One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. (All People) Safer. Smarter. Healthier. Hispanic/Latino, 6% Hispanic/Latino, 8% ALL PEOPLE SPOKANE COUNTY EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS Non-Hispanic/Non- Non-Hispanic/Non- Latino, 92% Latino, 84%

SHELTER TYPE BY ETHNICITY One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. (All People) Safer. Smarter. Healthier. 800 722 700 600 500 400 300 246 181 200 100 58 24 24 0 Non-Hispanic/Non-Latino Hispanic/Latino Emergency Shelter Transitional Housing Unsheltered

VETERANS

VETERANS One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. Safer. Smarter. Healthier. 85 Veterans were counted, representing a 11.5% decrease from 2018 Veterans in Households with Adults and Children, 2, 2% Unsheltered, 19, 22% 8% 92% Veterans in Households Sheltered, 66, 78% with Adults Only, 83, 98%

TRENDS One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. (Veterans) Safer. Smarter. Healthier. 108 125 94 109 92 91 84 78 91 90 89 82 73 67 66 64 60 29 29 27 19 18 13 10 9 9 10 10 9 7 7 5 4 3 1 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Total Female Veterans Total Male Veterans Sheltered Unsheltered

CHRONICALLY HOMELESS

CHRONICALLY HOMELESS One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. Safer. Smarter. Healthier. 231 chronically homeless were counted, representing a 6.5% decrease from 2018 Households with Children, 7, 3% Unsheltered, 84, 36% 1 Minor youth, under 18, identified as chronically homeless and was staying in an Emergency Shelter 23 Veterans identified as chronically homeless, 13 stayed in Emergency Shelter and 10 were Unsheltered Households with Adults Only, 231, 97% Sheltered, 147, 64%

TRENDS One Vision. One Plan. One Voice. One Spokane. (Chronically Homeless) Safer. Smarter. Healthier. 208 292 270 190 247 231 224 147 142 198 136 135 158 151 105 91 88 85 84 84 80 74 67 66 63 86 59 80 74 45 29 21 12 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Sheltered Unsheltered Total Chronically Homeless

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