Bringing Our Community Home Implements Jail Discharge Planning Program for Homeless Inmates
Bringing Our Community Home has announced the launch of the Homeless Inmate Jail Discharge Planning Program and the hire of the first Discharge Planner. The program is in collaboration with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department and is designed to prevent homeless people from being sent back to the streets when they are released from the county jail.
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Project Healthy Neighbors
The fifth annual Project Healthy Neighbors, a three-day health fair for the homeless population of Santa Barbara, announced that it served a record number of 624 homeless individuals throughout this year’s event, which took place on November 16th, 17th and 18th at Casa Esperanza Homeless Center.
Project Healthy Neighbors is a community collaboration and free mobile medical clinic bringing a range of critical medical services directly to the homeless community for free, including medical treatment, disease prevention, wellness care, mental health, and substance counseling.
Project Healthy Neighbors presents an extraordinary example of what can be accomplished in our community when individuals, public agencies, private nonprofits and foundations work together. Bringing Our Community Home is privileged to be part of this effort.
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Welcome to Bringing Our Community Home
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 |
