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Bringing Our Community Home
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ending homelessness

It is with great pleasure that we present to you the 10-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness throughout Santa Barbara County, Bringing Our Community Home.

homeless waomn drawingThis Plan represents an unprecedented collaboration of over one-hundred community leaders throughout Santa Barbara County. Our success requires moving beyond our jurisdictional and political boundaries and instead, working collaboratively and cooperatively to solve one of the most troubling, expensive and difficult societal challenges faced in this country.

We cannot continue along the same path of managing chronic homelessness. Instead, we must transform our system to provide sustainable solutions and truly impact the causes of chronic homelessness.

It is our combined political will and ongoing commitment to ensure that homelessness becomes a rare and preventable situation for the people in our community. It is incumbent upon us to work smarter, not harder. We cannot afford to do otherwise, not in our budgets, not for the well being of those affected by homelessness, and not in our overall community role as providers of the public’s health and safety.

Helene Schneider
Leadership Council Co-Chair

Sylvia Barnard
Leadership Council Co-Chair

 

 

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