Patrick Kennedy mentioned that
The Report listed 27 recommendations, which are:
- Expanded armory use: The city should make the National Guard armory in the city available as a shelter year-round
- Family shelter: The city should commit to with other local government jurisdictions and non-profit organizations to create a shelter for homeless families
- Use of vacant bay of homeless services center: The city should use this bay for a 15-20 bed shelter
- Safe sleeping zones in city parks: Allow the parks director to designate a safe sleeping zone in city parks when there is a shelter emergency
- Medical emergency motel voucher program for homeless persons: This program provides a safety net for homeless people who are ill, injured, or contagious and cannot stay at local emergency shelters that require residents to leave during the daytime hours.
- Safe, legal vehicular sleeping: The city should support programs to expand safe, legal vehicular sleeping for the homeless
- Letter on camping citations: Distribute consideration letters to homeless defendants who are not aware of their rights and responsibilities regarding camping citations
- Conflict resolution downtown: Institute a downtown focus program for conflict resolution
- Legal assistance for homeless and very poor defendants: The city should support development of a pro bono legal program
- New police approach to drug overdose reports: Take steps to develop a policy with respect to the heroin overdose epidemic that will allow the city and police to deal with this problem in specific ways, including not arresting those that call to report such problems
- Drug education in jail: Make drug education available in jail so that those that leave jail know that they are more vulnerable to overdoses when they leave
- Hate crimes protected class designation: A systematic approach is needed for assaults that are targeted crimes
- Youth education and violence prevention: Youth of the middle school age should receive anti-violence and anti-hate crime education
- Self-help violence prevention: Support programs for victimization-reduction of the homeless, such as self defense education for women
- Relations between police and homeless community: Develop a working program of police and homeless representatives to share information about needs, problems, and resources
- Police training on homeless issues: develop a course for police officers related to homeless issues
- Community education and outreach: Create documents to be distributed to the community providing basic information about homelessness and how the community can get involved
- Jurisdictional funding shares: Develop an approach to fairly share the costs for providing homeless services
- Social services program funding: The city should devote increases in human services funding to homeless services agencies
- City staff coordination of homeless services: The city should hire staff to coordinate the city’s work on homeless services
- County-wide coordination of services: Work with other jurisdictions to comprehensively coordinate homeless services in
- Working groups: Direct the City Manager to form groups to develop detailed implementation plans for these recommendations
- Resource guide: Create a consumer-friendly resource card of homeless services
- Ombudsperson: Create an autonomous ombudsperson position to serve the homeless community of
- Homeless garden project: Fund additional positions for homeless persons at the garden project to provide more homeless persons with employment opportunities
- Employment and training programs: Develop a range of employment and training programs targeted at homeless persons
- Safe haven shelter: Create a safe haven shelter for homeless adults that are at-risk on the streets due to mental health and/or and drug/alcohol problems
- Alcohol and drug treatment services: support a significant increase in capacity for treatment and recovery services for the homeless
Though some of these recommendations are specific to
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