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.
This 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 |
