Good morning, everybody.

We're going to call this meeting of the housing and homelessness committee meeting to order.

We are noticed from 11 to 1230.

We'll start with introductions in the room or join in the room by uh counsel.

Um I am Jared Gerker.

Traps we have anybody on the phone.

Okay.

All right.

It was a late night last night.

So we have folks some time to trickle in.

Uh, we're gonna go and get started, and we have a presentation on homelessness and health metrics on the dashboard.

You'll just come up to the table, introduce yourself, and get started.

Thank you so much.

Kimberly Rash, Anchorage Health Department.

Shannon Campbell, director of region.

Steve Williams, director of diversion programming for the Anchorage Police Department.

And hopefully shortly we will have AFD join us as well because they have some slides that they will be presenting in the slide deck.

This is uh not a TIA special here.

Uh so we will be going uh through it pretty quickly.

And so some of this, most of this you've already seen uh since we're giving the presentation to you today.

Uh next slide.

All right, so as we know, what what does success look like?

Uh we want fewer people sleeping outside.

We have a year-round safety net system.

We want more crisis care, we want more housing, and we continuously work with partners looking for funding and continuously adding data metrics into our um repertoire that we have here.

Uh homeless and health strategy, that is the strategy that was set forth by Mayor LaFrance when she came into office.

That is still the same strategy that we are working towards.

Next slide.

As we know, uh there uh was a point-in-time count earlier this year.

We have saw a 28% decline in the number of unsheltered people from last year to this year.

Uh, we still have a lot of work to do in this area, and we continuously will.

Um, so nothing has changed uh with these data points that we see here today.

Next slide.

Um, okay.

So this is where AFD would come into play.

Uh, but I can kind of go over this.

So uh they track all of the um opioid related incidents.

Uh so Narcan kits given out um or administered here at the health department.

We also distribute Narcan kits uh within community locations.

We have them at libraries, fire departments, and we are always looking for locations to have those kits.

Uh so in quarter one and quarter two of this year, we distributed six hundred and ninety-six Narcan kits, and AFD reported 152 to 183 opioid related incidents per month.

So it's about five per day.

Uh so we are still seeing a uh epidemic in opioid related uh crisis.

All right, this is uh the same document that everyone has seen.

It is um our MOA Safety Net Shelter and Crisis Response.

So on the uh middle section here, this is everything that the municipality funds.

Uh, one of the things that we are working towards that was on the agenda last night was an update to sixteen dot one two oh.

That will be, or that is pushed until the next uh meeting on 106.

We are hoping to increase the capacity from 150 to 200 individuals before coming uh to the assembly for approval.

If that passes, we will be increasing the East 56 location up to 200 individuals.

Uh Linda's place, uh the when it's at full capacity uh with the surge would be 150 people, and then the Alex Hotel stays at a standard 100.

Currently, as of yesterday on Tuesday, we added 40 additional shelter beds, uh 20 at East 56 and 20 at Linda's place.

We will be adding another 40 on September 28th, which is a Monday, which would bring that up to 80 beds within September.

Um, so again, we follow the crisis collaborative um model as well.

Next slide.

All right, so mobile team calls for service.

Uh, this is a combination of APD, AFD, uh as well as the Anchorage Safety Patrol.

Um, again, not much of this data has changed from the last time you saw it.

Uh, quarter one and quarter two of this year, the clinic outreach team had 4,191 contacts.

That is a lot of contacts for our very small public health nursing team.