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Presented by: J.Aguilar,Psy.D.

Who We Are

• 501 (c) (3) nonprofit

• Celebrating 25 years of rebuilding lives for people experiencing homelessness on Skid Row

• 23 buildings in our portfolio

–1 building under Construction

• 1534 units- Shelter Plus Care, Section 8, Market rate

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Vision

• All residents of downtown Los Angeles have a home that is affordable and safe

• People who are low income, homeless or disabled can live in their own homes

• All members of the community have opportunities to improve the quality of their lives, their neighbors’ lives and their neighborhoods

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Homes. Support. Success.

• Providing HOMES for the most vulnerable men and women on the streets

• Providing critical SUPPORT services for our residents to achieve stability, health, well-being

• Ensuring SUCCESS by reducing homelessness through opportunity for our residents and better neighborhoods for our communities

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Housing and Services – sense of “home”

Aesthetics of buildings

Community Spaces

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Housing First

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An alternative to a system of emergency shelter/transitional housing progressions.

Rather than moving homeless individuals through different "levels" of housing, known as the Continuum of Care, whereby each level moves them closer to "independent housing“, Housing First moves the homeless individual or household immediately from the streets or homeless shelters into their own apartments.

Skid Row Housing Trust

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Housing and Services

“Blended Model” of resident services/property management – to ensure successful tenancy of all residents

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Housing Operations Team

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Property management ensures the health of buildings;

Services ensures the health of residents Onsite Services Staff • Program Managers • Resident Service Coordinators • Physician assistants, psychiatrists, LVNs, benefit advocates, recovery

specialists, therapists

Onsite Property Management Team • Resident Managers

• Assistant Resident Managers, Desk Clerks, Rover Desk Clerks

• Maintenance Staff

• Janitorial Staff

Harm Reduction

Harm reduction is a set of practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing negative consequences and the stigma associated with drug use. It incorporates a spectrum of strategies from safer use, to managed use to abstinence to meet drug users “where they’re at,” addressing conditions of use along with the use itself.

What HR Looks Like at SRHT

• Harm Reduction Team

– Goal is to educate staff and residents

• Mixed environment of Individuals who are drug abstinent, who are not, and everywhere in between

• Safety

91% of chronically homeless individuals with

severe mental illness, and co-occurring disorders

were able to maintain their housing.

Systems integration in permanent housing is

the key to ending homelessness.

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Overwhelming Results