LANDMARK At Home In Medicine Hat 2019-2020
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Year
LANDMARK
At Home In Medicine Hat
10
OUR PLAN TO END HOMELESSNESS
2019-2020 PROGRESS REPORT
A DECADE OF INNOVATION, DISRUPTION AND CHANGE
Year 10 is a landmark that signals a decade of coordinated intentional work to end homelessness.
It is the cumulation of our efforts, our successes, our failures, and our persistence in staying the course,
despite challenges that have impeded our progress.
We pause to appreciate the progress over the past 10 years, to honour everyone that has achieved
and maintained their housing, and the supports that guided their journey along the way. We also
reflect on the work ahead to improve our systems to support peoples’ pathways out of homelessness and
maintain housing stability.
Innovation, disruption, and the commitment to improvement are our underlying mechanisms to achieve
impact. These are the prerequisites to action that our system is built upon, along with compassion,
voice, and accountability. We remain committed to being innovative and disruptive in both our thinking and
delivery and to question how we can serve better.
Imagine what greater things this community can accomplish with renewed focus and moving
unwaveringly towards those goals.
An anticipated year-long celebration for the progress over the past 10 years was planned, however, that
was met with another global landmark. The pandemic that engulfed our worlds and overshadowed the best
intentions to rise above and honour the work; the decade of progress, of change, of challenge.
Little did we know the most challenging year was waiting for us.
Jaime Rogers
2 LANDMARK OUR PLAN TO END HOMELESSNESS 2019-2020LANDMARK LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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We acknowledge that we are situated on Treaty 7 and neighbour
to Treaty 4 territory, traditional lands of the Siksika (Blackfoot),
Kainai (Blood), Piikani (Peigan), Stoney-Nakoda, and Tsuut’ina
(Sarcee) as well as the Cree, Sioux, and the Saulteaux bands of
the Ojibwa peoples. We also honour and acknowledge that we are
on the homelands of the Métis Nation within Region 3.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
2019-2020 Community Council On Homelessness
Alberta Health Services
City of Medicine Hat
Community Foundation of Southeastern Alberta
Community And Social Services - GoA
Landlord Representation
Knowledge Keeper
Medicine Hat Community Housing Society
Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat Police Service
Service Canada
2019-2020 OUR PLAN TO END HOMELESSNESS LANDMARK 3Year
2009-2020
10 IMPACT OF HOUSING FIRST IN MEDICINE HAT
PARTICIPANTS HOUSED
Since the onset of the housing first initiatives on April 1, 2009,
formerly homeless individuals have been housed and supported.
962 Adults 323 Children
1% AGES
9Veterans Housed
721 115 6
21
Caucasian Indigenous No Response
Ethnicity
81% 63 57
Positive Program Exit
Other Not Reported
Household Type At Exit Central Intake
April 1, 2019 - March 31, 2020 MHCHS (OSSI & RH Funded)
21% Medicine Hat Community Housing Society
Subsidized Housing Central Intake assesses individuals presenting
as homeless or at risk of becoming
58% homeless to determine the level of support needed.
Market Housing
392 New Individual Assessed
13% 314 Re-Assessments
Family of Friends
8% 706 Total Assessments
Other
262 Diversions
Main Source 29 Transition and Discharge Planning
of Income At Intake
Housing First Program
AB Works/Income Support 40% Individuals Housed Through
The Medicine Hat Women’s Shelter Society
(OSSI Funded) 25
No Income 29%
AISH 13% Rapid Re-Housing
Individuals Housed Through MHCHS
Employment 7% (OSSI Funded) 28
Employment Insurance 3%
Permanent Supportive Housing
Other 8% Individuals Housed Through CMHA
(OSSI Funded) 19
2019-2020 OUR PLAN TO END HOMELESSNESS LANDMARK 5Graduate Rental Assistance Initiative (GRAI)
MHCHS (OSSI Funded)
The GRAI program is a monthly subsidy provided to landlords to assist
individuals that have graduated from the Housing First programs
and require rental support.
55 $16,347
Individuals Assisted Monthly Average Provided
Through GRAI to Landlords
Financial Administrator
Counselling Program CMHA (OSSI Funded)
RH & OSSI Funded
191 Budgeting for
Beginners Workshops
Individuals Assisted
Miywasin Friendship Centre
44
Youth Hub Outreach
MCMAN (OSSI Funded)
Individuals Participated
141 in Workshops
Individuals Assisted
w/ 28 Returning
246
47 Community-Based
Family Reunifications Addictions Crisis Workers
CMHA (OSSI Funded)
Inn Between Community Bed Individuals Assisted
MCMAN (OSSI Funded)
16 Youth Served
49
Drop-In Coffee Club
MHFB (OSSI Funded)
281 Individuals Served
6 LANDMARK OUR PLAN TO END HOMELESSNESS 2019-2020UTILIZATION OF PUBLIC SYSTEMS IN HOUSING FIRST
The approximate cost of homelessness on public systems (per individual) is
estimated to be between $66,000 - $120,000 annually. The cost of providing
housing with supports is estimated to be between $12,000 - $34,000 annually.
20,000
19,510.5
18,000
NOTE: The data represents 100% of individuals housed At Intake
16,000 through the housing first programs and who have exited In Program
the program (successfully and unsuccessfully) and those n=962
who remain in the program. Assessments are completed with
14,000 each individual at three month intervals and spans
the duration of time they are in program.
12,000
10,000
32% 66%
9,246.5 Reduction
8,000
Reduction
6,000 6,704
6,244.5
4,000
40%
19% Increase
2,000 Increase
2,303
1,645
971 1,159
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Intake Duration Intake Duration Intake Duration Intake Duration
Days in Hospital EMS Interactions Days in Jail Court Appearances
TOTAL COMMUNITY BASED SHELTER USAGE 2019-2020
MCMAN INN BETWEEN COMMUNITY BED MEDICINE HAT WOMEN’S SHELTER SALVATION ARMY CENTER OF HOPE
SOCIETY ADULTS 205 CHILDREN 125
16 Unique Individuals 330 Unique Individuals 358 Unique Individuals
SHELTER UTILIZATION DOWN 39% SINCE 2009
2019-2020 OUR PLAN TO END HOMELESSNESS LANDMARK 7#104, 516 - 3rd Street SE Medicine Hat, AB T1A 0H3 Phone: 403.527.4507 info@mhchs.ca @mhjourneyhome @journeyhomemh
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