out i want to acknowledge the staff they've been committed and helpful to secure veterans heirs. the san francisco housing association has a virtual security deposit they'll provide up to one thousand dollars that's available once an individual moves out of the apartment it helps to streamline and move veterans in i've gotten to speak to the small property owner property organization and the aspects of the section 8 they've been reticent to participate and made it difficult and we've had to be more creative it is may or may not thinking. i know that ah a we're going to

pilot programs to look at people that are homeless the allocating and this is an important part in addition to hud and the va and the human services agency and the plowshares the housing authority gets a lot of criticism but nicole tour lead point of contact with barbara smith they've been incredibly focused focused in helping us to audio identify on the case by case basis and i'm excited to hear from our partners >> thank you, mr. duffey. i want to invite joyce up from ah a >> good morning, supervisors. i want to point out on the slide when scott gets it up are the

two housing buildings under the umbrella of the human agencies. we have veterans common to our left and in so moved, commissioners, that item passes district and mary helen rogers to your right in supervisor london breed's district veterans common is dedicated to 73 unit in the building and mary helen rogers how many units. a hundred units 20 set aside for homeless citizens. so as what is referenced earlier in the 2015 count approximately one hundred and 70 veterans were identified which is a reduction from the 2011 homeless count.

17 percent of the homeless count and survey responded said they were 55 and age-old and 3 percent of approximately one hundred and unnecessary were age 60 plus. let's talk about the seniors in our adult emergency starts the veterans are identified in the in take process into changes so we don't do a monthly or daily cut because shelters are always moving by a person can answer the question whether or not they're a veteran so let's look

at 2012 through 2014 and the consistent between individuals 60 to 99 years of age has been consistent. in 2012 it was 15.42 percent and 2013 it was 14 with the 67 percent and january through april of this year we're at the 15.3 percent. so the percentage of the seniors has remained consistent we set aside senior beds we've identified 12 beds that are managed by the mission resource center they identify individuals in emergency of short time services and they can directly

enter them into the system and have 90 daybeds for the individuals whom those 3 agencies feel they need stabilization in their lives at that point. so veterans in our adult shelter we don't track them but we have a contract through e pill community services with the va administration there are thirty beds directly to ah a and they corridor with the outreaching of those clients the va is responsible for placing those individuals in shelters by the they coordinate to link them to

veterans benefits services including housing placement. let's look at our senior housing and seniors in housing. seniors of any anchorage housed through the protocol but there are 4 buildings with housing unit plastic for seniors the howard hotel is the only dedication in the tenderloin area we have the house in the western edition mary hell con rogers in the western edition and mary go is going to talk about park view stares but a total of did and 4 unit specifically for the seniors and it comes from the adult emergency system and the sf hot

team. ellis act eviction prevention we currently have a contract with the tenderloin housing client and asian pacific islander organization they target the low and moderate disabled folks facing eviction under the ellis act. and some of the services they provide are legal representation with 4r7b9d lawyers and representatives provide the services to the non-bilingual spanish and anothers as well as english speaking clients. one particular program that we have under the homeless prevention funds is the san francisco chronicle sharing funds. all funds are raced through

private donations year round but the fundraising is in november and december and stories dpaefrnd featured in the chronicle of people helped by the season of sharing. so residents who are 60 years and old and a disabled vet can receive services in the he benefits of the security deposits and critical family needs which are medical apparatus not covered by insurance and delineate utility bills and beds for those who are mowing out of homelessness into permanent housing it this fund is over $4 million a year for the season of sharing. i want to introduce megan who is

our staff on the homeless corresponding board responsible for our king i didn't grant megan is going to talk about the coordinating assessment and our program with the 25 cities initiative of which san francisco is one of the 25 cities >> great. >> thank you joyce and good morning, supervisors. i'll walk you through the plan that. so tests a new practice how people are placed into homeless stoplights shelters and to insure the most vulnerable and longed term need folks are placed into housing first and then the temporary rental assistance and low cost services

folks are then placed. so thinking about the federal goals first federally funded homeless grant programs are required to parking lot like the housing programs in the emergency solution and grant programs are required to participate in san francisco our largest investments are in the former shelter care and the other protocols. there must be prioritization to referrals this is the principle you'll explain to the homeless to people understand how their assessing housing and people who are turned away understand. this is meaning all veterans with children will be treated

the same whether or not it they're working with the salvation army and similarly every homeless family will be treated the same not a family of 5 vs. is an individual veteran. throughout the federally funded grant program by 2017 we have changes so we're going to start a pilot in san francisco in july of 2014 >> now our local goals san francisco has struggled with the long-term homelessness so our pilot for the continuum of care program to reduce the length of homelessness in san francisco we're housing the vulnerable first and getting folks what folks call the right dosage

support housing and folks with more moderate needs have the low cost intervention so your using resources wisely. it's important to say about the coordinated assessment that will not create for beds but we'll continue to have a majority of folks who won't have a bed immediately available we'll not interview every he homeless people in san francisco they feel there be ready to be housed that's not true. we have a high-level of client choice and improve the data on how long is takes folks to get into housing and others information. let's talk about the veterans initiative the va and the housing council open

homelessness and hud have called together 25 cities with the largest concentrations of homelessness. they've asked those cities who have been through the partnerships that was mentioned hud is at the table and the va the veterans fairs supportive housing program and to think about the coordinated saementd for veterans and the developers are being provided tied and other veterans are being reached out to using the veteran program. san francisco has taken them up on the challenge and will be kicking this off specifically for veterans to reduce the chronic homeless in-laws on june 5, 2014.

the structure of the two pilots will be slightly different. as i mentioned the veterans is very focused on using be vulnerability as to which veterans will be place first especially because we have many experience with programs we want to reduce the length of homelessness and not focusing only on vulnerability. let's talk about prioritization they will be scored it's in our packet the vulnerable tool. this is a tested tool that's promoted by one hundred expert and san francisco will conduct a register week it will be scheduled at the end of june and it will be social workers and other experts on homeless veterans and volunteers taking

to the streets where the veteran congregate and scoring them on the tool and coming up with a range of list >> when when is this going to start. >> late july or early august this is speed originated process. >> great. >> that work will gone and our vulnerable vets where they are and the most vulnerable will be prioritized for all our properties this talks about the opportunity to house the veterans on kearny that will be one hundred and 6 new are supportive beds for homeless vets those will be filed with our most vulnerable veterans who live on the streets and in

shelters so that's fantastic. the continuum of adults will not be focused on one property there this will be in the portfolios there will be 8 in a month and when a new property opens obviously a lot more units will be available. we have the team to provide the shelter for years they've be leading the way to reiterate this is based on the data information to start. they will be prioritizing those people in placing them into the unit targeting the target population population and reaching out to them for the vacancies. that's a lot to process.

any questions >> that's great it's the similar timeframe. >> that's more planned that will literally kickoff for july 1st. >> awesome and next jason from the department of housing for adults. >> good morning. i'm going to briefly talk about the services that department of aging adult services provides a department that focuses with the tasks of serving seniors with all ages. the central door and the one stop shop for seniors we provide information assistance for adults with disability that need access to long term facilities. and this is for all san

franciscans who are housed who are at risk the losing homes that we refer to our case managed housing addiction preventions and it's been food for congregate meal sites and legal and medical and mental health services that's only a list of some services we give information on. besides giving information about services in the community we are also a central door for a lot of the services at the dos and we're tasked with trying to keep people in the community and providing long term services and supports to those big programs are in home support services and

home delivered meals we do the applications as well as adult protected services investigating abuse or self-negligent we provide referrals for what's called the community living fund locally funded initiative that helped to provide instituti institutiontion primarily with the hospital. we provide transitional care for people coming out of hospitals that needs the case management from preventing them from returning to the hospital. some of the services in dos that services the homeless population in home support services is an agency it's a statewide program and we provide services in the community also in shelters or

people living in advancing solis so long as we know we'll provide in home care that includes the personal care or changing someone's decategory. adult protective services division includes the adults services does serve the homeless population we get referrals for people that are homeless and investigate could be abuse by others or self-negligent issues people are not get the mental health care they coordinate with the local homeless team and others case management that provides mental health services. the other part of the legislation service is the

guarded conservative areas they serve people that are homeless with the public conservatives office if someone is a 5150 their motto with the legislation service agencies is to keep people in the least restriefk environment so people that are homeless could cannabis in a locked facility or a board care or living in a single occupancy hotel room but they get involved to try and transition people out of the conservativeship process and with the guardianship

program it is there to provide involuntary services for the least restrife so they're in charge of medical decisions for people who lack the capacity to make the decisions so a lot of those folks are in nursing facilities are some in the community being managed by that program. there's also the county veteran office that's there to serve veterans of any honorable or dishonorable status to help to get access to the benefits the financial and medical benefits. the aging program at dos manages all the contracts we've funded through dos there's a lot of funds i highlighted 3 of the

agencies we refer to most often are specialized with the homeless population that's itself e pill population they provide a wide array of services including access to a shelters and food and case management and digits prevention and they provide the case management at the meal sietsz and medical services and for mental health services we contract out and many more as that provide but that's one agency that specialize in case management. so i'm not sure who i i'm going to turn it over to now >> so joyce are we through that. >> yes. thank you very much i

know i don't know if i very specific slides to talk through. if we can speed through because we have people in the va is here to speak >> so we're going to speak through the slides a little bit but you have them available. we have a lot more data available and a lot more programs in dph and veterans we don't collect the data about veterans we would like to that's a plan for the future and working to make it happen. i just wanted to remind people that 14 percent of the population of san francisco is over 65 we talk about seniors over and over and over 55 i'm

giving you the population where you can see our population is over 58 percent and from health care program for the seniors with hiv we have the homeless seniors is at 45 percent. in terms of diagnose and conditions i've put a slide together now the slides are about seniors we don't have separate data for veterans. you can see the serious medical conditions are high for our seniors higher than the rest of the population embarrassed with the other population that that used the medical abuse programs and the problems are diabetes and high blood pressure. the majority of homeless in san

francisco will be over 55 there's the population it increases by one year per year so that's a statistic population so that's where the increase comes in and 48 percent percent of the population include a number of seniors their low income with 40 percent between 10 percent and there 10 thousand and 20 thousands of annual income. the average call for seniors i want to point out out in the dph is $20,000 more 90 thousand vs. 71 this course and the homelessness for the seniors is higher than the general

population over 10 years homeless for seniors is 45 percent and i also want to point out something we'll hear about from the public testimony which is the aging age population with hiv is experiencing a decrease in income so with different ages 55 and 62 will be going into ssi. those are some of the services and i'm comparing the sides with the dow sides with the homeless seniors we set aside 24.5 percent of our unit hover 58 percent of our unit are used by

people over 55 those slides we have quite a few of the senior slides by 2015 >> just one quick question. i think it's staggering to think that the majority of the homeless population is going to be over 55 in terms of we talk about the facing genericly population we want to address this issue the more senior people get health becomes more of an issue do you building that will continue to grow >> it's the time we see like i said, the senior population actually gets a year older every year by now it used to be less than that so f that definitely

has increased so if we now have 58 percent over 55 that number will only increase. i flipped over the services but we have a lot of good providers from family service agencies have special programs for seniors. and we will continue to develop those because we definitely see the need. we have mental health for the seniors and other programs for seniors and we need to serve that population and serve it separately >> thank you, thank you very much. and so late we have i really want to thank our department of veteran affairs i want to invite bobby and thank you for being here and thank you for meeting with me beforehand and your work

the floor is yours >> did you found out find out that question about your father what year. >> he did i'm blanking on the year he had a big smile on his phase my father as a veteran was laid up in traction around vietnam i'll get that to you. >> i wanted to see who was his social worker. i'm bobby the transition coordinator my territory i coordinator for northern nevada and to bakersfield and the fun part hawaii and guatemala so we have a small territory s