QUESTION
How can the $3,500,000 budget cut be restored, or is the Department of Social Services open to the safe haven proposal?
2:35:49
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The Department of Social Services is open to considering the safe haven proposal, subject to a competitive RFP process, while currently focusing on a continuum of care model integrating drop-in centers with beds.
- Commissioner Wasow Park expresses willingness to evaluate the safe haven proposal.
- The proposal must undergo a competitive RFP process.
- The department's current emphasis is on combining drop-in centers with beds for a continuum of care model.
- This approach is believed to better serve clients.
Gale A. Brewer
2:35:49
What can we do to risk or the $3,500,000 or would you be ame amenable to the safe haven proposal?
Molly Wasow Park
2:35:58
Thank you, council member.
Gale A. Brewer
2:35:59
All this that I care about this.
2:36:01
Thank you.
Molly Wasow Park
2:36:02
As as we've as you've discussed with me and with your administrator, Carter, we're happy to look at safety then proposal.
2:36:07
It will need to go through the competitive RFP process, but we're more than happy to take a look at that.
2:36:13
Our shift has generally been at this point towards looking at drop in centers that are coupled with beds.
2:36:18
We feel like that.
2:36:19
They'll have a continuum of care model work better for clients.
2:36:24
Okay.
