CAM Detroit Newsletter May 2019

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Meetings & Events

RRH Workgroup
Thursday, May 9, 9-11am
HAND, 3701 Miracles Blvd

Veteran BNL Leadership Meeting
Thursday, May 9 & 23, 12-1pm
HRC, 1600 Porter St

Shelter Workgroup
Tuesday, May 14
Single Shelters 9-10am, Family Shelters 10-11am
HRC, 1600 Porter St

PSH Workgroup
Thursday, May 16, 1-2pm
HRC, 1600 Porter St

PSH Consult Meeting
Thursday, May 16 & 30, 2-3pm
HRC, 1600 Porter St

Street Outreach Workgroup
Thursday, May 16 & 30, 3-4 pm
HRC, 1600 Porter St

The CAM will be closed for:
Memorial Day
Monday, May 27th

To learn more about upcoming meetings and events please visit our calendar.

Statistic of the Month

73.9%

of clients on an employment survey implemented at CAM Access Points indicated that their employment or income goal was to "Get a job to support myself completely."

CAM Referral Data

Between April 1-30, CAM made 664 referrals for family, single adult and youth consumers to emergency shelter or a housing program.

Consumers presented at a CAM Access Point and met with a CAM Assessor and assessed with our standardized tool to be matched with the appropriate shelter and/or housing resource.

Based on availability, CAM Staff generated an 'outgoing referral', which indicates a consumer was matched with an emergency shelter provider or to either Rapid Re-Housing (RRH) or Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) housing program. The RRH referral number also includes security deposit referrals.

The graph below breaks down the 664 referrals as Family, Single Adult or Unaccompanied Youth and which resource they were matched to.

Note: RRH and PSH are the number of consumers assigned to a housing agency,not the number of consumers actually housed.

Reading Corner

In Overcoming Employment Barriers, the National Alliance discusses barriers people experiencing homelessness face, how people over come these barriers and what we can do about it.

"Research consistently shows that people experiencing homelessness want to work... 'there are consistent reports in the literature that homeless people rise above the barriers and find ways to earn income and employment.'"

Recommended Resources

HUD's webinar series: "Housing + Employment Works".

Heartland Alliance's webinars:

To learn more about the Continuum of Care Lead Agency, visit the Homeless Action Network of Detroit (HAND)

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