All Home Vehicle Residency Work Group

All Home Vehicle Residency Work Group

All Home Vehicle Residency Work Group

3/3/17

1) Introductions (10)

2) Purpose (3)

3) Proposed design (2)

  • Core group periodic meetings, regional groupings more frequent meetings

4) Inputs for Guidance (15)

  • AH Vehicle Residency Policy
  • Car Talk summaries
  • Road to Housing data/experience
  • Pruss location data (Seattle centric)
  • Seattle U. reports (legal)
  • Faith community host experience
  • Regional law enforcement protocols
  • CEA and other outreach

5) Process (20)

  • Subgroups to include themes on

 Legal/Laws

 Outreach Alignments local configurations

 Congregational hosting locally

 Building community engagement locally

 Seattle specific group (starts 3/8)

  • AH VR Policy changes to be considered/recommended
  • Structure outline for a Work Plan to send to All Home Coordinating Board
  • Immediate harm reduction proposal(s)

6) Questions/Thoughts (10)

7) Next meeting

First Meeting Respondees:

Merina Hanson, City of Kent

Jeff Watson, City of Federal Way

Jean Darsie, Scofflaw Mitigation Project, Seattle

Jenn Adams, Scofflaw Mitigation Project, Seattle

Mary Anne deVry, West Seattle Interfaith Network

Karina O’Malley, Lake WA UMC

Sarah Davidson, Kent UMC

Jack Roos, Newport Presbyterian Bellevue

Alaric Bien, City of Redmond

George Scarola, City of Seattle

CCGS Rep TBD

Hilary Carr, Road to Housing, Seattle

Mark Putnam, All Home

Bill Kirlin-Hackett, Interfaith Task Force on Homelessness

Joe Ingram, Interfaith Task Force on Homelessness

Graham Pruss, WeCount

Valerie Craig, St. Vincent de Paul/University District Conversation on Homelessness

Brief meeting notes:

  • We reviewed (off agenda, attached above):

 Purpose – to advance responses to those homeless living in vehicles

 Proposed design – Doing regional smaller groups that meet more frequently than this “umbrella/oversight” group, which might meet more at first and settle into quarterly meetings. Consideration is also open to “Process themes” (from agenda item 5) that are held countywide, such as “Legal/Law.”

Inputs for guidance – handouts, some as listed; some All Home current process. “Car Talk” notes are from the 2016 ITFH event of the same name, formed in 4 groups (see “1st edit Nov. 30th,” attached), and served as a kicking off of a renewed VR Workgroup for All Home.

 Process -- To form regional subgroups to begin immediate work on safety, harm alleviation, attaching outreach to necessary systemic pathways, building out congregational networks, fostering community engagement, and working with law/legal efforts to reduce and ultimately end the onerous debt and costs attached to living in a vehicle.

  • The current All Home Vehicle Policy was distributed in an edited form (attached; the unchanged portions are the original AH VR Policy, which may also be found as a clean copy HERE . The attached edited version emerged from several-to-many persons who felt the policy as passed deserved more input and time for consideration. You are asked to review, edit, add/remove, or simply leave it “as is” if you feel it is sufficient. I am proposing we consider and if changes are acceptable, that we submit such a document to the All Home Coordinating Board as “new policy” for consideration and approval.
  • I proposed that every meeting, core and regional efforts, consider one harm reductions proposal that can be presented in the region or across the county. Obviously, these will be recommendations to jurisdictions, or to Public Safety, and so on. Perhaps some can be presented to King County Police Chiefs when they gather, or to City Attorneys, or to Councils via the Sound Cities Association. PLEASE CONSIDER how we might do this. Meetings will not be adequate without actions, and we ought to start building the habit. The proposal I lifted from the “Harm reduction ideas” attachment is #3 on the short-side list…. “No impounding vehicles in which children are present.” IU would like to say this does not happen, but it does, and had at least one occurrence over the week of “Count Us In,” family of 9, living in an Explorer that was impounded. One other “Harm reduction” effort will be furthered this Legislative interim (end of session until start of next one) as we work with Rep. Macri on a proposal made by the ITFH to have car tabs be complimentary for the indigent. Indicate to me your interest. We already will be working with Disability Rights WA, and others, to hopefully include Columbia Legal Services.
  • We discussed realities of Vehicles Residency, since not everyone has had the same experience. I see that as an asset. Fresh eyes help. I have attached the full presentation done by Graham, Joe and me at the 2013 WLIHA annual conference.
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