The City offers various voluntary services to provide support for those individuals choosing to end their homelessness. Homeless clients may access shelter services, reunification assistance, identification document replacement, entitlements assistance, and referrals to medical/ mental health/ substance abuse providers.
Unified Efforts Update: In the last 30 days, our Homeless Outreach Services Team, and Police-Homeless Resources officers (HRO) have been focused on our augmenting collaboration within City Departments to address encampments. The unified outreach team has added Environmental and Sustainability to the team to address encampments affecting the dunes.
Raising Awareness: The Homeless Outreach Services Team has been working with the City’s Marketing and Communication Department, to look at ways to raise awareness of the services offered by the city to serve the community.
The following are updated services numbers for HOT encompassing October 1, 2021, through May 31, 2022:
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Placements
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256
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Family Reunifications
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72
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