QUESTION
What is the average client service rate at the Main Chance site, and what were the reasons for its closure?
2:41:18
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Council Member Carlina Rivera questions the decision-making process around closing the Main Chance drop-in center, including the average number of clients served, the rationale behind the closure, the metrics used, and the future provision for these clients.
- The Department of Social Services aims to integrate drop-in centers with stabilization beds for a comprehensive care system.
- The closure decision is part of a realignment towards providing a more collaborative setup for the unsheltered, ensuring a pathway from seats at drop-in centers to beds and eventually to permanency.
- Joslyn Carter highlights efforts to communicate alternative drop-in center locations to Main Chance clients.
- The remaining Manhattan locations at West 14th and West 30th streets are being promoted as replacements.
- Rivera urges collaboration with Main Chance to keep it operational and acknowledges the contributions of the archdiocese in supporting the homeless.
Carlina Rivera
2:41:18
On average, do you know how many clients does this site currently serve a day?
2:41:23
How was the decision made to close this center.
2:41:27
What metrics were utilized?
2:41:29
You mentioned that they don't have beds.
2:41:31
Was that ultimately what prompted you.
2:41:35
And where is the next closest drop in center located?
2:41:38
Does it have adequate funding and capacity to serve additional clients?
Molly Wasow Park
2:41:42
Thank you, counsel.
2:41:43
Remember, I'm gonna start now.
2:41:44
I'll pass it over to administrator Carter.
2:41:46
So, yes, the the basic premise is that we've been trying to move our drop in center model slowly, but towards a system where we're coupling drop in centers with stabilization or safe haven beds so that we're really providing a true continuum of care for clients, but administrator Cutter can speak to the additional details.
Joslyn Carter
2:42:08
Thank you and thank you, council member.
2:42:10
I'll get back to you in terms of a number of clients.
2:42:12
But one of the things that our Street Solutions division has been looking at is how do we administer services to the un sheltered?
2:42:21
And so I talked about how do we help earlier in the subway safety plan, the throughput.
2:42:26
And so we do wanna make connections and make the that that unit, that division to be able to have a connection from our cheers to bed to exits.
2:42:36
And so we are moving that division from to have that real collaborative setup where you can come into a chair, make that connection to a staff to be able to get to a bid and to move to permanency.
2:42:47
So that's how we're trying to realign to reassign our street solutions area.
2:42:52
So that is why we made that decision for the main chance.
2:42:56
One of the things that we're also doing is really making sure that those who use main chance that they know where the other ones are.
2:43:04
Manhattan is the only bird that had 3 drop in centers.
2:43:09
The other out of bars only had 1.
2:43:10
So there are 2 that's in Manhattan.
2:43:13
There's 1 in West 14, and there's 1 in West 30.
2:43:15
So we're making sure that they're aware of where those are.
2:43:19
We're gonna be putting up signs, and they're beginning to talk to the clients as they come in of where the they're gonna be able to make sure we share that to you.
Carlina Rivera
2:43:25
Thank you.
2:43:25
I just before you do all that, I I wanna make sure that we're working with the people at main chance because our goal here, as you heard from from my colleague, council member, is very invested and decide is is to keep it open and operating.
2:43:37
They're they're critical to that area and and and to the work that you do.
2:43:42
So I just wanna ask very quickly with my time.
2:43:46
I see the archdiocese is here.
2:43:47
I wanna thank them for making available Saint Brigades and the work that there that we're doing there.
