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EDUCATION OF HOMELESS CHILDREN & YOUTH FACT SHEETS Student Homelessness in Sacramento: 2022 Fact Sheet Student Homelessness in Sacramento CoC: 2006 - 2022

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FACT SHEETS & PUBLICATIONS Overview: Homelessness in Sacramento County: 2022 Myths & Facts Criminalization of Homeless People Ethnicity/Race: Homeless People of Color Health Care Homelesss Employment Homelesss Students Homelesss Seniors Safe Parking Program Systemic Racism Violence Against Homeless People

MISSION to end and prevent homelessness in the Sacramento region through policy analysis, community education, civic engagement, collective organizing and advocacy HISTORY SRCEH was founded in July 2013, after Bob Erlenbusch, founder, met with key advocates in the community to determine their interest in being on a founding board & was well received. The current board represents people with lived experience of homelessness, civil rights attorneys, healthcare, homeless youth & housing advocates, direct service providers & the interfaith community. The first board meeting was held September, 2013. SRCEH received an initial capacity building grant of $7500 from the Sierra Health Foundation in December, 2013. SRCEH received its nonprofit status in April, 2014.

HEALTH EQUITY Advocacy Priorities: Organize to create the Treatment on Demand Alliance - a broad, inclusive coalition of stakeholders to advocate for the County Board of Supervisors to fund a Treatment on Demand program, as part of the City-County Homelessness Partnership Agreement; Continue to participate in Public Health Advocates First Response Transformation Campaign's Equity Advisory Committee; Zero Tolerance Policy for institutions [hospitals, jail, foster care system, shelters] discharging people "to the streets;" Monitor the implementation of SB1152: Hospital Patient Discharge Process: Homeless Patients [effective 1/1/2019]; Continue to participate in the County's Methamphetamine Coalition; Continue to advocate for the expansion of respite or recuperation care beds in Sacramento County; Advocacy for new County jail discharge procedures for homeless people with mental health issues - modeled after Los Angeles County; Annually research, produce and disseminate the Sacramento County Homeless Deaths Report

HOUSING FACT SHEETS Housing Inventory Count [HIC] [Emergency; Transitional; Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH)] Sacramento CoC: 2020 - 2023 LINK TO HIC EMERGENCY SHELTER FACT SHEET LINK TO HIC TRANSITIONAL HOUSING FACT SHEET LINK TO HIC PSH FACT SHEET

BECOME A MONTHLY SUSTAINER: JOIN SRCEH's HOME TEAM JOIN THE FIGHT TO END & PREVENT HOMELESSNESS: BECOME A SUSTAINING MEMBER OF SRCEH'S HOME TEAM HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT WHY BECOME A MONTHLY SUSTAINER? EVERY HOME NEEDS A STRONG FOUNDATION Your sustained monthly gift allows SRCEH to budget based on predictable, consistent income. This stability allows us to focus on what really matters - end homelessness for our unhoused neighbors Monthly giving allows you, a member of our Home Team, to invest in SRCEH what makes sense for you and your family. It is fast, easy, manageable. One time set-up on SRCEH's Pay Pal account and you have invested in social change. When you are a member of our Home Team, you are joining a growing network of people whose monthly giving supports SRCEH's mission of end & preventing homelessness Levels of Home Team Support: Advocate: $10/month Justice: $25/month Equity: $50/month Community Builder: $100/month Link to become a Monthly Sustainer & Member of SRCEH's Home Team

FOUNDING GUIDING PRINCIPLE In order to promote equity, policymakers and the community must address the underlying issues of structural racism and its intersections with class, gender, gender identity sexual orientation, age disabilities and the political, economic and social structures that creates and perpetuates hunger, homelessness, the lack of accessible and affordable housing and disinvestment in neighborhoods of color GUIDING PRINCIPLES We can end and prevent homelessness We - public policymakers and the community - must address the underlying issues of structural racism and its intersections with class, gender, gender identify, sexual orientation, age, disabilities, and the political, economic and social structures that create hunger, homelessness, the lack of decent affordable housing, and disinvestment in neighborhoods of color We declare that safe, decent, affordable and accessible housing, healthy food and access to quality healthcare are basic human rights We believe that people experiencing homelessness should not be criminalized, or otherwise deprived of their rights, due to their lack of stable housing We believe that coalition-building with community members and public education are effective catalysts for change We believe that currently and formerly homeless people must be active and equal participants in all decision making bodies that address the crisis of homelessness

VIOLENCE AGAINST PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS FACT SHEETS Violence Against Homeless People: 2017 Fact Sheet PUBLICATIONS Violence Against People who Are Homeless: The Hidden Epidemic

HOMELESS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE Advocacy Priorities: 4 Common Sense Solutions to Sanitation Issues 1. Portland-style Loos &Mobile Bathroom program 2. Hand sanitizing stations 3. Mobile Shower Program 4. Trash receptacles & Mobile Encampment Trash Pick Up Program

WOULD YOU SAY...? ... IF IT MAKES YOU CRINGE TO SAY? The neighborhood already has its fair share of people on welfare This neighborhood already has its fair share of Latino's The homeless should only be be placed in commercially zoned areas Jews should only be placed in commercially zoned areas This neighborhood is not suitable for mentally ill people This neighborhood is just not suitable for Asian people Permanent supportive housing for homeless people lowers property Housing for seniors lowers property values and is values and is a drain on public services a drain on public services Housing for people with disabilities must be separated by 500 feet Housing for Catholics must be separated by 500 feet We deserve to be warned when people with mental illness We deserve to be warned when gays and move onto our street lesbians move onto our street We don't want homeless people, but we will accept seniors We don't want Muslims, but willing to accept Protestants If homeless people are going to live here - then I want the building If black people are going to live here, then I want to have: the building to have: + 12 foot walls around it + 12 foot walls around it + bars on the windows + bars on the windows + windows that don't open + windows that don't open + frosted windows so they can't look out + frosted windows so they can't look out + a curfew + a curfew + drug testing + drug testing Cringe Test pdf

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