WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.130 --> 00:00:09.790 Vicki Halliday: 16. 2 00:00:12.100 --> 00:00:12.750 This 3 00:00:13.010 --> 00:00:14.850 Vicki Halliday: it was That's the 4 00:00:15.390 --> 00:00:17.830 there's whether it is. 5 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:43.130 Vicki Halliday: Yeah. 6 00:04:48.200 --> 00:04:48.930 Vicki Halliday: Okay. 7 00:08:27.200 --> 00:08:28.450 Vicki Halliday: Hi, Jody. 8 00:08:28.870 --> 00:08:29.540 Hmm. 9 00:08:29.790 --> 00:08:32.970 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: Hi, Vicky. Nice to see you. 10 00:08:33.260 --> 00:08:37.150 Vicki Halliday: I mean, how's everything with your family. 11 00:08:37.780 --> 00:08:40.440 It's been a world. When for the last week 12 00:08:40.539 --> 00:08:42.679 Vicki Halliday: I thought about you. 13 00:08:43.280 --> 00:08:44.250 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: I haven't. 14 00:08:44.520 --> 00:08:49.590 and I haven't had a a moment by myself. I think they Won't let me be by myself. 15 00:08:50.140 --> 00:08:53.380 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: So I really haven't been had a chance to grieve. I know i'm gonna 16 00:08:53.810 --> 00:09:02.780 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: do it soon. Maybe i'll go down by the ocean or something like that, and do it by myself. It's right at the surface, You know what I mean. 17 00:09:03.270 --> 00:09:05.630 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: Yeah. So 18 00:09:07.260 --> 00:09:13.680 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: also on the way back. We were bringing back the reason to go up there with. I was picking up her elderly dog to bring it back. 19 00:09:13.850 --> 00:09:24.010 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: and it escaped at one of the rest, stops and ran off into the to the orchards, and we never got it. But I thank God, and it was elderly. 20 00:09:24.030 --> 00:09:42.140 Vicki Halliday: I think we just got a note from one of the shelters that they found her. So we're gonna have to drive up again tomorrow all the way back up the Sec to Sacramento and back. Oh, wow! Almost actually it's already. It's almost already at least the dog was found. Yeah, but she's very old. So 21 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:45.550 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: But yeah, my mom would be happy. That that's done. 22 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:49.380 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: I'm going to be here. I'll be on the I'll be here. So 23 00:09:50.100 --> 00:09:52.600 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: okay, thank you for your your kind thoughts 24 00:09:52.760 --> 00:09:57.780 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: absolutely. They found her at the end of the bed. She started. She started falling. 25 00:09:57.910 --> 00:10:07.080 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: went down really quick, and she was telling me on the phone. She was hearing neighbors singing, and she could hear chanting. 26 00:10:07.300 --> 00:10:11.780 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: And I guess I should have made the connection. That's what people would call the angels. They're calling. 27 00:10:12.060 --> 00:10:12.680 Vicki Halliday: Yeah. 28 00:10:12.810 --> 00:10:18.040 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: most people called it, and I just didn't make the connection. She had fallen, and then she. 29 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:22.460 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: my brother, found her on the floor, so she must have fallen on the hit her head again. 30 00:10:22.630 --> 00:10:23.410 Vicki Halliday: Yeah. 31 00:10:23.890 --> 00:10:24.960 it was quick. 32 00:10:25.010 --> 00:10:25.890 Vicki Halliday: Well. 33 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:29.090 Vicki Halliday: there's that part that's blessed right? 34 00:10:29.250 --> 00:10:30.730 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: Yeah, yeah. 35 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:33.260 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: I had like a 15 page 36 00:10:33.850 --> 00:10:38.960 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: that I wanted to talk about all of our memories, and you know, just never got it. You don't want to wait 37 00:10:39.030 --> 00:10:41.230 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: definitely. Don't want to wait. 38 00:10:42.250 --> 00:10:48.980 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: Okay. So i'm here. Okay, you're here. We'll. I'll get people in as they come in. I think 39 00:10:49.210 --> 00:10:53.250 Vicki Halliday: Frank, and Stand will be drawing up the rear because they were at something else. 40 00:10:53.280 --> 00:10:59.910 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: Okay, I'm gonna go over the the agenda right now. 41 00:10:59.960 --> 00:11:04.300 Vicki Halliday: Yeah, basically it's just the Circle team presentation. 42 00:11:04.340 --> 00:11:05.830 And then 43 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:11.050 Vicki Halliday: there's a a homeless round Table. And this is Frank. Hi, Frank. 44 00:11:11.400 --> 00:11:12.490 Vicki Halliday: Yeah. 45 00:11:12.990 --> 00:11:13.560 The 46 00:11:19.970 --> 00:11:23.460 Vicki Halliday: yeah, I mean, Jody and I are here now get everybody in. 47 00:11:24.260 --> 00:11:26.640 And it was. So you're running really late. 48 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:39.480 Vicki Halliday: Oh, okay. 49 00:11:46.390 --> 00:11:49.540 Vicki Halliday: okay. Well, I mean, you guys just come in when you can. 50 00:11:56.450 --> 00:11:58.960 Vicki Halliday: How many people do we need for quorum? 51 00:12:02.620 --> 00:12:04.680 Vicki Halliday: Okay. Okay. 52 00:12:06.820 --> 00:12:07.670 Vicki Halliday: Okay. 53 00:12:09.670 --> 00:12:12.850 Vicki Halliday: yeah. But you know, when you. 54 00:12:13.290 --> 00:12:15.830 Vicki Halliday: you know, come when you can. 55 00:12:15.880 --> 00:12:17.440 Vicki Halliday: you know I want for you. 56 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:23.810 Vicki Halliday: Okay, great, All right, perfect. Thank you. All right. 57 00:12:31.810 --> 00:12:34.250 Vicki Halliday: Yeah. They're running a little bit behind. 58 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:47.350 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: You know what I think. I'm gonna ask 59 00:13:47.440 --> 00:14:01.530 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: What's that? That's the Circle team. If I can't do a right along for an hour or 2 with them for one day. There you go. I bet they would be amiable. and they should be. I would hope so. Okay, I'll find out a lot doing doing that. 60 00:14:02.170 --> 00:14:05.160 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: Okay. I was sailing today when sailing 61 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:10.640 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: on. It was a little rough out there, but it's good. It's a big dealings when you go out there. But 62 00:14:10.680 --> 00:14:13.100 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: yeah. peaceful 63 00:14:13.110 --> 00:14:17.520 Brian U: Hi, Brian. 64 00:14:18.610 --> 00:14:19.830 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: Hey, bye! 65 00:14:19.910 --> 00:14:22.900 Brian U: Why did we get the results back for the Vnc. 66 00:14:22.930 --> 00:14:27.700 Vicki Halliday: I think unofficially on Friday, and then official is not until April 67 00:14:29.680 --> 00:14:35.250 Brian U: is they? Are they harvesting ballot somewhere in town? 68 00:14:35.260 --> 00:14:38.660 Brian U: Who knows? I hear you. 69 00:14:39.900 --> 00:14:43.230 Brian U: I can stand. We're both running late, so 70 00:14:43.400 --> 00:14:45.630 Vicki Halliday: i'm praying. We have quorum. 71 00:14:52.210 --> 00:14:52.970 Vicki Halliday: but 72 00:14:54.190 --> 00:14:56.390 Brian U: homeless committee always comes through right? 73 00:14:58.190 --> 00:15:01.680 Brian U: Yeah, I mean it'll it'll work out. 74 00:15:03.660 --> 00:15:10.630 Brian U: This is gonna to how many nice people we have versus challenging these guys. 75 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:13.590 Brian U: I mean, you have stories 76 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:24.700 Vicki Halliday: that makes, for we need one more after the lives, and we're good. 77 00:15:33.910 --> 00:15:35.240 Vicki Halliday: Let me see if I can 78 00:15:36.800 --> 00:15:37.850 Vicki Halliday: at. 79 00:15:58.210 --> 00:15:59.660 Vicki Halliday: Oh, there he is, great! 80 00:16:18.900 --> 00:16:27.530 Vicki Halliday: Good evening. Everybody will just wait for a few more minutes to see who else shows up, and we're still waiting on our presenters. 81 00:16:27.670 --> 00:16:31.040 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: Oh, there's one excellent 82 00:16:39.040 --> 00:16:40.160 Elizabeth Wright: Hi! Everyone. 83 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:42.990 Vicki Halliday: hey? 84 00:16:48.510 --> 00:16:50.780 Vicki Halliday: Just waiting on Shannon. 85 00:16:54.130 --> 00:17:00.170 Vicki Halliday: Both Frank and Stan are going to be late, so i'm going to go ahead and start the meeting, or Frank 86 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:05.960 Vicki Halliday: and we'll go from there. 87 00:17:12.089 --> 00:17:12.839 Okay. 88 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:29.510 Vicki Halliday: and one 89 00:17:32.410 --> 00:17:33.470 Vicki Halliday: I one. 90 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:38.060 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: Hi, Vick and everyone how you doing. 91 00:17:38.410 --> 00:17:39.920 Brian U: Thank you. 92 00:17:42.500 --> 00:17:44.450 Vicki Halliday: Are you enjoying recess week? 93 00:17:46.470 --> 00:17:54.480 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: Yeah, I mean, we're busy, you know. It's not as much of a recess for field, but you know it's 94 00:17:54.580 --> 00:17:57.240 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: a little bit more calm. Not much more. 95 00:18:00.070 --> 00:18:02.710 Vicki Halliday: But I see Tracy's in Washington. So 96 00:18:03.570 --> 00:18:10.640 Brian U: yeah, the Council woman is. But yeah, you know, the the work continues on the ground. 97 00:18:11.320 --> 00:18:12.130 Brian U: She 98 00:18:13.560 --> 00:18:17.960 Brian U: she hasn't stopped. Don't seem like she's taking a day 99 00:18:18.980 --> 00:18:22.740 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: all right. Maybe one day in the last 100 00:18:22.770 --> 00:18:26.590 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: 100 and change days right? Maybe I think so. 101 00:18:26.800 --> 00:18:28.200 Brian U: It's amazing. 102 00:18:28.380 --> 00:18:32.060 Vicki Halliday: Let me go ahead and call the role proud of you guys. 103 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:35.680 Vicki Halliday: Frank will be in later. Brian. 104 00:18:38.780 --> 00:18:42.840 Vicki Halliday: are you Here. 105 00:18:45.670 --> 00:18:46.860 Vicki Halliday: Liz. 106 00:18:47.010 --> 00:18:48.270 Brian U: give me a 107 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:00.660 Vicki Halliday: liz. Are you here 108 00:19:03.310 --> 00:19:04.080 Elizabeth Wright: here. 109 00:19:04.670 --> 00:19:07.120 Vicki Halliday: I'm. Here. Jody. 110 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:08.010 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: here. 111 00:19:08.190 --> 00:19:14.920 Vicki Halliday: Thank you. And we'll just log the other ones in when they get here. We've got one. And Shannon 112 00:19:15.170 --> 00:19:16.970 Vicki Halliday: Hmm! Who have 113 00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:20.140 Vicki Halliday: graciously agreed both to come back 114 00:19:20.320 --> 00:19:32.230 Vicki Halliday: and together. This time Shannon is the Circle Program manager for the Mayor's office. and one is on Tracy Park staff for CD. 11. 115 00:19:34.010 --> 00:19:37.050 Vicki Halliday: And what we'll do is 116 00:19:37.460 --> 00:19:44.210 Vicki Halliday: you guys do your thing, and then we'll have some questions from the committee and some from the audience. How about that. 117 00:19:46.030 --> 00:19:54.150 Vicki Halliday: Yeah, that works for me, Vicki. Do you need my camera on right now? You caught me kind of in transition right now. 118 00:19:54.770 --> 00:20:06.940 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: Okay, do you want me to do, for Well, actually, I can give just a brief update on my end, and then i'll put you back off of shadow. I I think we were going to focus a little more on on Shannon's team in the Circle team 119 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:27.050 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: far as us right now. We we did hold our our Town Hall last week, virtually regarding the Abh. We are gonna be following up with the second Town Hall. We got a lot of people's questions answered, but we know there were still some, some people that wanted to ask more questions, and there were some 120 00:20:27.050 --> 00:20:37.660 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: follow ups we got after the meeting, so more details will be coming out on the following on the follow up Town Hall regarding the Adh. Other than that right now 121 00:20:37.770 --> 00:20:53.260 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: we are working with the sales office on the 41 18 signs, I think Abbott Kenny's already been posted. So we're gonna be working with the outreach teams to inform everyone of the postings that are going up. 122 00:20:53.330 --> 00:21:04.310 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: and we'll have a a better understanding of all the dates, probably of the full installation of all the locations. We have probably in the next week and a half 123 00:21:04.340 --> 00:21:20.070 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: just waiting for an update from the CEO's office. But that's kind of in in a in a nutshell. We continue to work on finding and looking for additional permanent, supportive housing and interim housing sites. 124 00:21:20.070 --> 00:21:36.940 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: There's a lot of balls in the air on that front that we're trying to manage with various departments to see if a you know, we can do certain things on certain sites, or we'll not even do certain things on certain sites just yet, just asking if there's 125 00:21:36.940 --> 00:21:48.300 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: options to be able to explore certain sites, and then just working with the Mayor's team to see when we could do another inside safe in the district 126 00:21:48.300 --> 00:22:05.680 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: other than that right now. One of the bigger things that we're starting to kind of try and catch up with is our parent care plus days, which is our service days, where we clean up some of the encampments, we do know that there are a few that have been growing and being problematic. 127 00:22:05.690 --> 00:22:12.460 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: But the rains have really set us back in that sense. When it rains we 128 00:22:12.600 --> 00:22:24.140 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: essentially lose the day. It becomes a spot cleaning day, so it's not a comprehensive service day, and, as everyone's aware, pretty much a lot of February and March, we've 129 00:22:24.250 --> 00:22:37.530 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: gotten a lot of rain which is good on some parts in terms of we need it. But again, even on our backlog with getting some of these location service, it it has really slowed us down, but we are hoping to start 130 00:22:37.550 --> 00:22:40.210 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: catching up, and then 131 00:22:40.540 --> 00:22:53.610 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: other than that, I don't have any other further updates just yet. If anyone has questions feel free to to ask me, and if I have the answer i'll, i'll provide it. If I don't i'll, i'll make sure it'll follow up. 132 00:22:54.260 --> 00:22:56.400 Vicki Halliday: Take you on. Hey, Shannon! 133 00:22:57.710 --> 00:23:01.920 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Hi! Hello! Everyone Nice to see you. I 134 00:23:01.940 --> 00:23:07.520 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: I have a couple of folks from Urban alchemy. I see that they're on the 135 00:23:07.660 --> 00:23:10.890 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: they're they're in the participant list. And I 136 00:23:10.920 --> 00:23:17.270 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Yeah, that would be great, I think. Like Toya is on there and Keenan 137 00:23:18.810 --> 00:23:23.120 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: and Catherine as well. I think those are the 3 folks 138 00:23:25.220 --> 00:23:31.120 Vicki Halliday: and Kathryn Napoleon. Right? Yes, thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. 139 00:23:35.650 --> 00:23:36.810 Vicki Halliday: Okay. 140 00:23:37.380 --> 00:23:40.820 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: So I was. So 141 00:23:40.930 --> 00:23:47.630 Brian U: there's a 31, she said. I'm trying to get him. He keeps declining. Oh. 142 00:23:47.730 --> 00:23:54.290 Vicki Halliday: okay, Well, he can speak when I can allow him to speak. 143 00:23:54.960 --> 00:23:59.810 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: All right. Well, i'm happy to take it from here unless there was more. 144 00:24:02.010 --> 00:24:06.270 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Is that all right, Vicki? If I 145 00:24:06.870 --> 00:24:10.370 Vicki Halliday: what you're gonna say. So you guys just go for it. That's great. 146 00:24:10.710 --> 00:24:25.820 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Yeah, so I do, I will share my screen and go through some slides, so we can create a good foundation for understanding for the program, and we'll also share some data, and then we can open up to questions if that works. 147 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:45.440 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: But I should should first introduce myself and just mentioned that you know I'm Shannon prior with the Mayor's office. I work on the circle program on behalf of the Mayor's office, and we are very excited to work with Juan. I knew him before from his other 148 00:24:46.100 --> 00:25:02.300 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: position with another Council district. So it was great to be able to work with him at CD. 11. So so we're very much in contact with his office and making sure that we're coordinating and and trying to address all the issues that are out in the West Side. 149 00:25:03.490 --> 00:25:11.030 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: I'm. Going to hand it over to the Urban alchemy. Folks introduce themselves, and then i'll share my screen. So i'm going to hand it over to Latoya. 150 00:25:13.920 --> 00:25:29.070 LaToya Stevenson: Thank you. Hello, everyone. My name is Latoya Stevenson. I am with Urban Alchemy circle program as they are mental health director. We have Katherine Napoleon here with us. She is our program manager through Urban Alchemy. 151 00:25:29.470 --> 00:25:31.640 LaToya Stevenson: me and we all 152 00:25:35.540 --> 00:25:36.520 Vicki Halliday: oops. 153 00:25:36.690 --> 00:25:40.780 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: and he is out there 154 00:25:45.900 --> 00:25:48.600 Katherine Napoleon (She/Her): that cut off a little bit. 155 00:25:52.870 --> 00:25:58.090 Katherine Napoleon (She/Her): So my name is Katherine Napoleon. I am the project manager for the circle, and i'll pass it over to Keenan. 156 00:25:59.590 --> 00:26:05.820 Kenon Joseph: Yes, thank you, Katherine. My name is Keen and Joseph, and I am one of the directors with the circle program. 157 00:26:06.930 --> 00:26:08.220 Kenon Joseph: Thank you, bye, bye. 158 00:26:08.550 --> 00:26:16.140 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Thanks, thanks, guys. All right. I'm going to share my screen. Give me a moment, because sometimes when I do that I am. 159 00:26:16.560 --> 00:26:26.870 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: I have weird audio settings that sometimes mute me so. Oh, could you enable me to share my screen, Vicki. 160 00:26:39.910 --> 00:26:46.090 Vicki Halliday: I'm going to make you a co-host. So you can do that because I can't that on this. So 161 00:26:47.650 --> 00:26:50.850 Vicki Halliday: you can. 162 00:26:51.040 --> 00:26:58.130 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Okay, i'm gonna go ahead and share my screen. Now. here we go. 163 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:02.880 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Okay, Can everyone hear me? 164 00:27:02.950 --> 00:27:03.730 Vicki Halliday: Yes. 165 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:08.280 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: fabulous. All right. Let me make this a slide show here. 166 00:27:09.110 --> 00:27:15.280 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: all right. so we'll go through these slides, and everyone can see that right. 167 00:27:16.470 --> 00:27:21.260 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Yes, yes, okay, perfect. We'll go through the slides, and then 168 00:27:21.330 --> 00:27:35.450 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: i'll talk to you with my colleagues at urban alchemy, and then we'll open up to questions. So circle stands for crisis and incident response through community led engagement. Hence why we call it circle. 169 00:27:35.650 --> 00:27:48.490 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: and it is a alternative response program that deploys train crisis response teams to address non urgent Lapd calls related to on housed individuals. 170 00:27:48.840 --> 00:27:59.500 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: There's a component of the program where we conduct a proactive outreach in areas where there's concentrations of unhouse folks intervening before Lapd needs to be called. 171 00:27:59.520 --> 00:28:11.920 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: and we started as a 6 month Pilot. You guys probably remember we started in January 2022 in Hollywood in Venice and that was a partnership with the Mayor's office, in Urban alchemy. 172 00:28:12.550 --> 00:28:25.990 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: And the the purpose of the program is to minimize interactions that law enforcement have with unhoused individuals and address those incidents that are related to unhouse individuals, so that our officers are freed up 173 00:28:25.990 --> 00:28:44.940 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: to focus on their core law enforcement responsibilities so preventing and solving crime and things of that nature Also, we want to deploy these train teams that have resources and connections to services, so that hopefully we can improve the outcomes that we're having when we do interact with our unhoused 174 00:28:44.950 --> 00:28:46.120 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Angely knows. 175 00:28:47.390 --> 00:29:02.200 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: and I'm gonna hand it over to Keenan so he can share some information about urban alchemy. They were selected through a request for proposals process in July 2,021, and i'll hand it over to him. So you can explain a little bit more about their organization. 176 00:29:05.430 --> 00:29:07.400 Kenon Joseph: Yes, indeed. Thank you so much, Shannon. 177 00:29:07.660 --> 00:29:21.020 Kenon Joseph: Good evening. Everyone again Keen and Joseph, one of the directors with the circle program and Urban alchemy, want to talk a little bit about urban alchemy as a whole, as a a nonprofit social enterprise 178 00:29:21.110 --> 00:29:25.050 Kenon Joseph: urban alchemy. We were incepted 179 00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:29.380 Kenon Joseph: in 2,018 in San Francisco 180 00:29:29.570 --> 00:29:39.500 Kenon Joseph: that's; our base. That's our main sort of our main office there in San Francisco, and we've we've now spread out into other areas. We're now, of course, in Los Angeles. 181 00:29:39.590 --> 00:29:56.770 Kenon Joseph: and also in Austin, Texas. Currently so, again, urban alchemy as a social enterprise. Again, we do put a focus on hiring those individuals with former lived homeless experience as well as those individuals who have been formally encouraged. 182 00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:10.990 Kenon Joseph: So again we 183 00:30:12.980 --> 00:30:29.000 Kenon Joseph: can. You let him know he's not. You're kind of breaking up. 184 00:30:29.280 --> 00:30:35.400 Kenon Joseph: and then have faced troubles with 185 00:30:35.650 --> 00:30:38.670 Kenon Joseph: the with the justice system. Like I said. 186 00:30:41.070 --> 00:30:43.830 Kenon Joseph: Oops: yeah. Hello, hello. 187 00:30:44.060 --> 00:30:47.540 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Yeah. You're you're breaking up. 188 00:30:48.760 --> 00:30:50.720 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Yeah, so I think we can hear you now. 189 00:30:50.790 --> 00:30:55.860 Kenon Joseph: Okay, Can you hear me now? Is that good? Okay. Okay, Great Great. 190 00:30:56.110 --> 00:31:10.670 Kenon Joseph: So again, we were like, I said we were founded in 2,018, and our mission is to help unhouse individuals and provide a living wage and a a meaningful, meaningful career. Opportunities to citizens returning into the work field 191 00:31:10.670 --> 00:31:29.340 Kenon Joseph: and some of the services that we provide. And Shan is gonna talk about our outreach teams in just a second. But some of those services that are outreach teams are able to provide our connections to interim housing. You know, of course, homeless outreach all around. 192 00:31:29.830 --> 00:31:33.240 Kenon Joseph: You know, La County, in specific areas. 193 00:31:34.450 --> 00:31:46.510 Kenon Joseph: also community engagement hygiene services. sorry hygiene services, and also street cleaning. So we do have a a department within urban alchemy called La Street clean. 194 00:31:46.510 --> 00:32:04.980 Kenon Joseph: They're primarily based in down Los Angeles, and they partner with businesses not only to keep the streets clean, but also to safely dispose of of trash in the downtown area, and then we also have a residential housing department. 195 00:32:04.980 --> 00:32:15.780 Kenon Joseph: We have 3 residential housing programs that we run and operate in Los Angeles in partnership with Lhasa, and we can house anywhere from 175 to 200 individuals on any of the night 196 00:32:16.900 --> 00:32:24.430 Kenon Joseph: and then of course, another arm of circle program. So with that i'll turn it back over to Shannon. Thank you all. 197 00:32:25.040 --> 00:32:26.290 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Thanks, Kaden. 198 00:32:26.920 --> 00:32:48.260 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Okay. So I just want to at the top before we get into kind of the details of how the program works explain the types of incidents that the program addresses. So we work very closely at the Mayor's office with urban Alchemy, with Lapd to identify the types of incidents that would be appropriate for this program. So those are going to be incidents 199 00:32:48.260 --> 00:32:57.130 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: that involve an unhoused individual, but they're not criminal, violent, or medically urgent. Those types of incidents are going to go to other partners to address that. 200 00:32:57.130 --> 00:33:13.700 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: So some examples would be well, being checks or request for assistance. So you may see someone who is unhoused or on the ground. Looks like they're breathing, you know doesn't look like they're They're need medical attention necessarily, but they seem like they need some help. 201 00:33:13.890 --> 00:33:19.690 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: So that's something that the Circle team can address request for assistance. We see this 202 00:33:19.790 --> 00:33:35.210 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: with some of our officers. Actually, they encounter on house folks on the street, and they'll ask them, you know. I'm interested in some help and some housing, or what? What have you? And that's something that Lapd can defer to circle. 203 00:33:35.310 --> 00:33:45.600 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: The other common incident that we address is indecent exposure, really lack of adequate clothing, so the person is not being lewd, they just aren't properly closed to be out in the public 204 00:33:45.610 --> 00:34:00.700 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: loitering and or noise complaints that those are 2 big ones that we get and address those, and those are things that Lapd often doesn't have time to get to in a timely manner, and can be, you know. 205 00:34:00.950 --> 00:34:12.170 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: time intensive as well sometimes to deal with those issues. person, and no substance of an influence, but not actively consuming, and then syringe disposal. So those are the examples of those 206 00:34:12.230 --> 00:34:27.380 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: kind of non urgent non criminal, nonviolent non medically urgent situations that we're addressing. And the way to access the program is through Lapd's non emergency line 8 7 7. Ask L. A. Pd. 207 00:34:27.380 --> 00:34:37.580 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: And you would select the option for non emergency police dispatch to get to an operator and let's see. and 208 00:34:37.710 --> 00:34:55.639 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: the way that E. Oh, sorry we can. We can discuss more details about kind of the experience of talking to the operator about circle. You can request circle by name, but basically they filter the calls for us, and then it then they make sure that it's within our scope of work, and then transfer to us. 209 00:34:55.710 --> 00:35:03.520 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: But where is circle operating over the last fiscal year? So we're still in this fiscal year started July. 210 00:35:03.520 --> 00:35:23.270 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: We expanded to 3 additional areas. So we were already operating in Hollywood, and on the west side we expanded a little bit. We expanded quite a bit in those areas. Not so much the West Side, but definitely expanded Hollywood. Quite a bit. We expanded to the Metro area so it's a downtown area. You could see on the 211 00:35:23.270 --> 00:35:33.250 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: on the map here. Then we went to the valley in December and in South La. We just launched in February, so you can use that QR. Code 212 00:35:33.370 --> 00:35:39.900 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: to scan it and open up a Google map where you can kind of zoom in and see exactly where we're we're operating. 213 00:35:40.860 --> 00:35:41.840 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: So 214 00:35:42.100 --> 00:35:55.740 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: let's talk about the program. Just want to share some details about the different components to it. So we have a call center. Our crisis response teams, our proactive outreach teams, and then we have a decompression center, and I'm going to actually. 215 00:35:55.920 --> 00:36:04.540 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: if Latoya has a good connection, i'm going to hand it over to her to talk about these components if she doesn't mind 216 00:36:04.840 --> 00:36:06.720 PatRaphael: before going away. Is there any way to 217 00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:10.500 PatRaphael: that? We show the QR. Code real quick. 218 00:36:11.640 --> 00:36:14.620 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Me hope when we go forward. Oh. 219 00:36:15.140 --> 00:36:16.120 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: hold on. 220 00:36:17.190 --> 00:36:20.740 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: We'll see. Go back. Sorry about that. 221 00:36:23.270 --> 00:36:24.160 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: There we go. 222 00:36:26.620 --> 00:36:29.770 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: and I can send a FAQ 223 00:36:30.060 --> 00:36:34.450 Vicki Halliday: that has the QR. Code as Well. 224 00:36:35.640 --> 00:36:36.590 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: okay. 225 00:36:36.830 --> 00:36:41.210 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: hopefully. we're able to pick it up off the screen. 226 00:36:43.290 --> 00:36:44.170 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Okay. 227 00:36:44.210 --> 00:36:50.130 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: So gonna move on ahead and hand it over to Victoria. 228 00:36:50.260 --> 00:37:06.720 LaToya Stevenson: Thank you. And i'm hoping that my connection remains stable. So when we talk about the 4 components of circle, our first component is our call center. As Shannon stated, our calls come in through the Ask a Pd. Hotline 229 00:37:06.720 --> 00:37:25.670 LaToya Stevenson: once they are routed through Lapb. We do have an internal call center that's based out of our Metro office that's able to take in the call. Taking all of the information necessary, transfer that information to our teams in the field and dispatch them to the proper location 230 00:37:25.690 --> 00:37:28.390 LaToya Stevenson: From the call center 231 00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:42.080 LaToya Stevenson: we go into our crisis response team, our crisis response team? Or is the team who's going to be directly responding to those diverted 9. 1 one calls so, of course. First and foremost. 232 00:37:42.080 --> 00:37:59.900 LaToya Stevenson: we have to make sure that the call me that criteria which is non emergency, nonviolent calls and vote involving a person experiencing homelessness. Each crisis response. Team is a 3 member team, and those 3 members include a mental health counselor. 233 00:37:59.900 --> 00:38:10.290 LaToya Stevenson: a supervisor as well as a practitioner with lived experience earlier. Keenan explained a little bit about what lived experience means. 234 00:38:10.680 --> 00:38:22.770 LaToya Stevenson: and typically that translates into many of our practitioners having been homeless before having been previously incarcerated, and we find that. 235 00:38:22.860 --> 00:38:25.900 LaToya Stevenson: having that unique lived experience that 236 00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:48.940 LaToya Stevenson: skill set allows those practitioners to be able to formulate a connection with people who are experiencing homelessness, especially having gone through that themselves. So each crisis response team is equipped with a vehicle for transport. They're equipped with water, snacks, clothing, protective personal equipment. 237 00:38:49.050 --> 00:39:07.810 LaToya Stevenson: They have. All of the teams have access to Hms. Which is the homeless management information system as well as Narcans to reverse opioid overdoses, and when the teams aren't responding to those diverted 9, 1 one calls. They conduct proactive outreach within the community. 238 00:39:09.510 --> 00:39:22.380 LaToya Stevenson: So, going into our proactive outreach teams. These are teams that are on the ground present within the community, made up of 2 members, one practitioner as well as one supervisor. 239 00:39:22.380 --> 00:39:39.960 LaToya Stevenson: and these are our teams who are building those relationships and providing that traditional outreach to people experiencing homelessness in the community. So the thought behind the proactive team is by having a proactive team present that would minimize 240 00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:52.350 LaToya Stevenson: the interaction between that pump, that person experiences experiencing homelessness and law enforcement. So, of course, when we talk about 241 00:39:52.620 --> 00:39:55.020 LaToya Stevenson: the secret to our success 242 00:39:55.130 --> 00:40:23.430 LaToya Stevenson: within the work we do. It is relationships. So by having teams that are constantly present within the community throughout the day, throughout the business hours. It not only allows the community members and enough themselves to get comfortable with the teams, it also allows business owners as well as potential participants, people experiencing homelessness to become familiar with us and build that relationship needed to encourage them towards services. 243 00:40:26.210 --> 00:40:32.880 LaToya Stevenson: And our last component is our decompression center. So all 5 of our facilities 244 00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:48.090 LaToya Stevenson: host a decompression center, and the decompression center or 2 rooms that are equipped with small cats, and it serves as the service hub for us where we're able to bring back vulnerable 245 00:40:48.090 --> 00:41:04.920 LaToya Stevenson: participants to get more in-depth services so at our decompression centers. We have a care coordinator we also have access to a longer more in depth session with the mental health counselor for that location. 246 00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:22.280 LaToya Stevenson: They, the decompression Center, also serves as a deployment base for our circle team, because, of course, it is a part of our office. So typically, when someone comes back for a decompression session, they would get assigned to a room, a decompression room. 247 00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:34.260 LaToya Stevenson: They would get visited by either the Care Coordinator or the Mhc. Who will sit down with them and basically conduct a crisis, counseling session. 248 00:41:34.590 --> 00:41:36.400 LaToya Stevenson: At the same time 249 00:41:36.460 --> 00:41:48.840 LaToya Stevenson: there are team members who are looking up the person on Hmi. Yes, see and give. There are any referrals in the system, if not creating those referrals. And another part of 250 00:41:48.840 --> 00:42:15.380 LaToya Stevenson: that interaction is developing a quick service plan, which is basically a one page list of different services that are available to the person experiencing homelessness, and we go through that list and identify what services would be appropriate, and then from there work to get them connected to long term care whether that's substance use related whether that's medical, whether that's long term mental health, psychiatric. 251 00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:29.820 LaToya Stevenson: And of course, once again, all of our all of our locations. Currently, host, the compression sites. So that's Venice West Side Valley, Metro, Hollywood and South La. 252 00:42:32.370 --> 00:42:38.050 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Thanks for Toya. Got your connection with. 253 00:42:38.180 --> 00:42:41.890 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Do you want to talk about the sorry god 254 00:42:41.980 --> 00:42:57.470 LaToya Stevenson: was that 2 bedrooms only? I was just curious in each decompression center, in each decompression center. It's 2 bedrooms, and in each room there are 2 cats, so total it's 4 beds. There is a 4 h time limit 255 00:42:57.470 --> 00:43:13.520 LaToya Stevenson: that are that I forgot to mention on each cat, however, depending on the circumstance, we will keep people a little bit longer. For example, we encountered it over Valley team encountered a lady who was experiencing homelessness. 256 00:43:13.520 --> 00:43:28.100 LaToya Stevenson: who was also blind, and her cane was broken. So with that being said by us encountering her at the end of the day we ended up actually keeping her for an extended amount of time until the morning team came in. 257 00:43:28.100 --> 00:43:35.730 LaToya Stevenson: and they were able to complete the interim housing referral and actually get her place that same day due to her circumstances. 258 00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:37.330 Brian U: Thank you. 259 00:43:39.830 --> 00:43:48.410 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Thank you, Latoya. Yeah. I think it's. You know we can't tell you all the stories because we don't have enough time, but it really does 260 00:43:48.580 --> 00:44:01.290 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: serve as a great resource, especially in those moments where someone is particularly vulnerable, and there's really no, no other place to take them. And remember, this is a 24, 7 program. So 261 00:44:01.350 --> 00:44:13.150 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: we're, you know. I shouldn't, say we, but they are out there to respond when a lot of other programs have, you know, closed up shop for the day. So we've definitely seen 262 00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:31.440 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: in those moments that the team, step up and really provide. Fill those gaps, and and especially for someone who is, you know, either medically vulnerable or even. You know, women and children. We've seen that a lot. So the toy, I think I'm gonna also 263 00:44:31.910 --> 00:44:36.410 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: have you tackle this next slide. If you don't mind talking about some of the training 264 00:44:36.580 --> 00:44:47.580 LaToya Stevenson: absolutely. So, as we stated, our circle teams are trained to deal with crisis situations. Our mental health counselors are a 265 00:44:49.090 --> 00:45:04.610 LaToya Stevenson: I myself. I'm a license clinical social worker. Our images are people who hold a 4 year bachelor's degree, as well as a 2 years master's degree in disciplines related to psychology, counseling, and mental health 266 00:45:04.610 --> 00:45:28.620 LaToya Stevenson: Our overall teams are also trained as well in harm. Reduction trauma-informed care, motivational interviewing de escalation, and as well as advance the escalation safety cpr first aid Narcan distribution. They are trained on the on, on the utilization of Hmi S. The homeland, homeless management information system. 267 00:45:28.620 --> 00:45:36.710 LaToya Stevenson: They are trained on transitional age. Youth. LGBT. Plus communities. 268 00:45:36.860 --> 00:45:47.450 LaToya Stevenson: Some of informed care. One thing that's not on here is identifying a person in distress which is the training that's utilized 269 00:45:47.610 --> 00:45:59.320 LaToya Stevenson: to identify who's capable of coming back to the decompression Center, because at the end of the day we do want to make sure anyone that we're inviting back. They are cognizant of what's happening 270 00:46:01.580 --> 00:46:09.670 LaToya Stevenson: able to consent to coming back to the decompression center, and they're willing to accept those services. And I believe that 271 00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:15.380 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: that covers most of our training that we do. That's great. Thank you. 272 00:46:15.420 --> 00:46:34.180 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Thank you. So I wanted to share some of the data for the West for the program and then for the West Side as well. So you can get a sense of the work. That's that's been done. So this is for the this fiscal year, July through February so recent. And so we've seen that 273 00:46:34.180 --> 00:46:48.670 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: we've been able to take as far as the West Side over 1,300 calls incidents from lapd, and I kinda touch on these earlier. But the most common types of incidents we're addressing are the loitering. 274 00:46:48.680 --> 00:46:59.330 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: the noise complaints. So maybe someone's yelling, or maybe it's playing a lot of music from an encampment or something like that. And those Indies even decent exposure calls. And so. 275 00:46:59.500 --> 00:47:11.530 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: you know, we're very pleased that that we are able to send a team within 15 to 20 min to respond to these issues, and hopefully use that as an opportunity 276 00:47:11.530 --> 00:47:29.340 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: to have a conversation, start building that rapport and get someone one step further on a path towards stability. So it doesn't always happen in that moment. It takes some a lot of interactions, but I wanted to share some of this data with you, so I also wanted to share. 277 00:47:29.480 --> 00:47:42.050 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Let's see if I can click forward. There we go, all of the other work that's done. So. Yes, we are call diversion program. But there's so much work that goes into 278 00:47:42.050 --> 00:48:00.800 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: what the teams are doing so. It's not just about just taking those things off the plate of of L. A. Pd. Although that is very important. There's all types of activities that are happening. Housing related activities like creating those interim permanent emergency shelter referrals and placements. 279 00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:13.960 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: creating profiles in the homeless management information system. Again, not to go too far into the weeds here. But if you don't have a profile, if you're an unhouse person, you don't have a profile in this system that it's used by all the 280 00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:33.630 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: home, the services providers. You're really not gonna get any referrals or or anywhere closer to, you know, getting the help that you need, whether it's housing or even mental health care, substance, abuse, help, anything like that. So it's really important that those teams are out there. They're creating those profiles and getting folks 281 00:48:33.630 --> 00:48:39.310 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: one step closer to the services that they need. And then the social services 282 00:48:39.470 --> 00:48:49.440 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: work. That's also done so that can be anything from, you know, distributing a blanket or something like that, or helping someone obtain documents. So a lot of the housing 283 00:48:49.680 --> 00:49:01.820 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: opportunities require you to have some type of Id and things of that nature, and so getting someone help like a D. And voucher and help with that process is really important 284 00:49:01.980 --> 00:49:11.130 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: as well as getting them connected to public benefits that are going to get them back on their feet. And then the medical and mental health related referrals. And I think 285 00:49:11.220 --> 00:49:16.230 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: so. If you look at the numbers the West Side area, I think some of the 286 00:49:17.140 --> 00:49:30.700 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: the sessions and mental health Clinician sessions are a little bit lower, because we haven't had a fully operating decompression center in the west side, one just opened up, and so we'll. We'll see those numbers go up as time goes on. 287 00:49:31.480 --> 00:49:37.520 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: and then let's see. I think that was it. So I am going to 288 00:49:37.770 --> 00:49:51.260 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: stop sharing. I'm going to pause. If Latoya or Keenan or Catherine want to share any kind of Venice specific stories that that come to mind. But 289 00:49:51.290 --> 00:50:01.480 I, just when we meet with the teams and talk about the the work they're doing in the field. It's always very inspiring, because often there are really great success stories like. 290 00:50:01.780 --> 00:50:14.140 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: you know, we've been working with this guy for months. He didn't like us at first, and we built up that trust, and we just got him in the Abh, or whatever housing opportunity. It was. Things like that. 291 00:50:14.280 --> 00:50:21.200 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: And so I don't know if there's anything you wanted to add. 292 00:50:21.620 --> 00:50:40.900 LaToya Stevenson: Yes, there is something that I would. I want to add Venice specific when it comes to their decompression center. I believe it launched maybe 3 or so weeks ago, 2 or 3 weeks ago, but at the beginning of their launch myself, as well as Catherine. We're presence overseeing that launch. 293 00:50:40.900 --> 00:50:59.540 LaToya Stevenson: And on our first visit to the fully operational decompression center, our team did bring back someone who was medically vulnerable, an elderly and older man, and they were able to get him connected to recuperative care 294 00:50:59.540 --> 00:51:15.080 LaToya Stevenson: so he could get some long term medical attention. He had been outside, homeless for quite some time, and thankfully the team were able to bring him back. Get all of the paper work done that was necessary. 295 00:51:15.080 --> 00:51:33.260 LaToya Stevenson: submit that and also transport them. They transported him as well. So that was definitely a success story, and it shows the importance of being able to have a place like the the compression center, where you can bring someone back and work with them for an extended period of time, because it does get difficult 296 00:51:33.260 --> 00:51:38.340 when you're trying to make more advanced referrals while in the field. 297 00:51:41.120 --> 00:51:43.550 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Keenan, did you want to add something? 298 00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:48.810 Kenon Joseph: Absolutely, and you know currently 299 00:51:48.880 --> 00:51:54.290 Kenon Joseph: so just on the tail end of what Latoy is saying. Currently, our area lead. Mark 300 00:51:54.560 --> 00:52:01.310 Kenon Joseph: him and his team are working with a senior veteran. So this guy is 70 plus years old. 301 00:52:01.510 --> 00:52:12.890 Kenon Joseph: has been living on the streets. He's a veteran, and he he was not service connected. and, as we know, sometimes our veterans don't want to, you know, travel back down that road if you will. 302 00:52:12.900 --> 00:52:24.140 Kenon Joseph: of those past traumas. But we were able to get him connected, and hopefully we can get him off of the streets and into some shelter. So so it's a working success story. I would, I would definitely say. 303 00:52:25.430 --> 00:52:31.710 Kenon Joseph: but but just really making a marks, and we're fortunate to to have partner with you all and to be on the call. 304 00:52:32.810 --> 00:52:37.660 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Thanks, Ken. So that's I will open it up to questions. I'll hand it back to you, Vicki. 305 00:52:38.090 --> 00:52:42.970 Vicki Halliday: One. Do you want to add anything before we start taking questions from our audience? 306 00:52:43.100 --> 00:53:01.470 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: Thanks. Vicki actually was about to chime in on the team real quick. I'm hopefully keen in with the council ones. As we have the updated ami for our veterans, we are able to assist him. As we know, some veterans from the Va. We're able to down. Go into Psa to hopefully open up some beds so hopefully that will help you. 307 00:53:01.470 --> 00:53:16.400 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: That letter in that specific situation. And then just another, quick by this story for the team here, as we do have our ocean for a walk team and a a working group on Fridays that meets, and the Circle team is a part of that. 308 00:53:16.400 --> 00:53:28.690 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: And last week some of the team was out there, and they, through their relationships, were called out actually proactively, as they were doing proactive 309 00:53:29.010 --> 00:53:41.980 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: outreach. The individual reached out to the team, who was having a mental health issue, and the Circle team was able to take them in that very. They get them some services. So I wanted to. Personally, Thank you guys, I know there were some neighbors in the area that 310 00:53:41.980 --> 00:53:49.550 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: that we're impacted, and we're we're the individuals. So a lot of the work is happening. And to me and for us I 311 00:53:49.590 --> 00:53:55.000 have been pushing to see if we can get the program expanded to other parts of the district. 312 00:53:55.280 --> 00:54:13.310 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: as well as educating a lot of our constituents on what it what they do, one of the biggest things being M. Shannon, mentioned that pretty much they're still available after one or 2 Pm. A lot of the service providers with Las usually are ending their day around that time. 313 00:54:13.310 --> 00:54:19.000 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: and the circle team is around is around all day, so if 314 00:54:19.330 --> 00:54:31.980 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: they're very helpful on that front, and it is an additional tool that I I really hope that the Venice community is aware of, and and starts taking more advantage of That's all I wanted to add right now, because 315 00:54:32.220 --> 00:54:39.590 Vicki Halliday: thank you the way for accept the agenda up. We're going to take audience comments first. 316 00:54:39.630 --> 00:54:43.360 Vicki Halliday: Please limit your question to 1 min. 317 00:54:43.510 --> 00:54:53.730 Vicki Halliday: and then you do have 30 s for a follow up if you need it, so get those hands up, and we'll start with Shawn or Brian Sh Shawn. Go ahead. 318 00:54:54.420 --> 00:54:56.370 Vicki Halliday: Hold on here, there we go. 319 00:55:00.420 --> 00:55:02.080 Vicki Halliday: I think you're unmuted. 320 00:55:06.800 --> 00:55:08.760 Vicki Halliday: There we go. Sorry about that, Shawn. 321 00:55:08.890 --> 00:55:10.320 Sean Obrien: Okay, Thank you. 322 00:55:10.360 --> 00:55:14.180 Sean Obrien: Enjoy the presentation bit of a dog and pony show. 323 00:55:14.250 --> 00:55:15.800 Sean Obrien: I got to be quick here. 324 00:55:17.770 --> 00:55:28.780 Sean Obrien: At first I didn't know what Circle team met. I thought it was how I experience it. I spend an hour, 2 h calling. Ask Lapd. 325 00:55:29.410 --> 00:55:33.390 Sean Obrien: I get transferred, or they call you. 326 00:55:33.710 --> 00:55:41.370 Sean Obrien: Nothing happens. You guys come out. Nothing happens. Then I got to call the police, so I thought that's what the circle is. 327 00:55:41.540 --> 00:55:42.500 Sean Obrien: Call. 328 00:55:42.630 --> 00:55:46.320 Sean Obrien: and you guys come out. Nothing happens, and I have to call again. 329 00:55:46.480 --> 00:55:54.330 Sean Obrien: I've witnessed on many occasions. Oh. stuff that you guys should be involved in 330 00:55:54.470 --> 00:56:04.500 Sean Obrien: just on your patrols and walking by not doing anything, and even having bystanders as hey? This guy's having a mental breakdown swinging a bat in the street. 331 00:56:04.520 --> 00:56:09.570 Sean Obrien: you know. Can you get them out and like you know, and nothing, you know. They walk away 332 00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:11.510 Sean Obrien: many times. 333 00:56:11.630 --> 00:56:20.830 Sean Obrien: No health care, professional license, technician, or whatever you want to call it. I see that all the time. I'm: I'm told that you're limited down to like 334 00:56:20.840 --> 00:56:22.780 Sean Obrien: 2 at certain times. 335 00:56:22.970 --> 00:56:26.490 Vicki Halliday: Shawn. You get a question in there and wrap it. 336 00:56:26.580 --> 00:56:30.100 Sean Obrien: Yeah, we're just just pressing those issues. 337 00:56:30.220 --> 00:56:44.570 Sean Obrien: And the most important thing. I think you guys need a direct line for the people. It's ridiculous to have us wait 2 h to Lapd, and then have to wait to talk to you, and then I always have a tough time 338 00:56:44.620 --> 00:56:52.050 Sean Obrien: Get? I always demand, not demand. I always ask to be called when they're on site, so I can go out and address them. 339 00:56:52.240 --> 00:56:53.830 Sean Obrien: And 340 00:56:54.210 --> 00:57:01.830 Vicki Halliday: when it comes to private property it should be a no Shawn. You need to wrap it up and let Shan answer 341 00:57:03.020 --> 00:57:07.860 Vicki Halliday: if you could. I was looking into a minute. You've gone on for over a bit. 342 00:57:07.910 --> 00:57:09.720 Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Vicki. You're welcome. 343 00:57:12.050 --> 00:57:22.640 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Hey, Shawn? Thank you so much for your comments and your feedback. I I think i'll address some of it, and then i'll hand it over to my colleagues to maybe address some of the other concerns. 344 00:57:22.750 --> 00:57:30.760 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Yeah, I think. Going through 877. As La Pd. Is not our ideal. 345 00:57:31.000 --> 00:57:48.690 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: you know, situation. We would like to have other avenues for the public to access the program, and there, maybe, you know, we're we're brainstorming some options, but for the time being. It's still going to be asked. L. A. Pd. You know. I think it's important to flag 346 00:57:48.700 --> 00:58:08.460 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: for the Council Office as well. You know I've been flagging to my leadership. That one of the challenges is that we don't have enough operators over at the Communication Center for Lapd, and that leads to those whole times which is incredibly frustrating, and it's, and it impacts the efficacy of the program because people don't want to call. 347 00:58:08.460 --> 00:58:28.310 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: or because they don't want to wait on hold, or the time that you're waiting on. Hold. The situation is evolving, so that by the time that we get the information, you know. We respond pretty quickly, but you've already been. It's already been 20 min that you've been on hold. So we go out there. Another person's not there anymore. So that's an impacting 348 00:58:28.310 --> 00:58:42.650 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: kind of the efficacy of our program as well. So it's something that we're flagging for decision makers. And we're also brainstorming other options. Right now we really do rely on Communication Center because 349 00:58:42.740 --> 00:58:56.740 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: they are able to decipher and filter what is appropriate for us versus Lapd or Laf D, and they're also because we're not city wide. They're also able to identify like is this within our geographic area. 350 00:58:56.740 --> 00:59:09.310 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: So we're relying on them for those things right now, but certainly trying to find some other options, and then I will plan it over to the Urban Alchemy folks to address some other comments. 351 00:59:11.930 --> 00:59:28.410 LaToya Stevenson: Thank you, Shannon, for answering the first part of Shan's question. So to answer the second part to your point, it is a three-person team. Srt: the crisis response team and the other team are 2 people team absolutely correct 352 00:59:28.470 --> 00:59:42.190 LaToya Stevenson: in that specific situation. When we talk about anything that's deemed or being used as a weapon. It's not a call that circle would respond to simply because it's outside of our criteria. 353 00:59:42.190 --> 00:59:51.340 LaToya Stevenson: because there is a what weapon involved many times a call like that wouldn't even make it to our team, simply because a weapon 354 00:59:56.740 --> 01:00:03.340 LaToya Stevenson: reduced into the situation that you're observing where you believe it 355 01:00:05.170 --> 01:00:17.380 LaToya Stevenson: would be appropriate for the Circle team the as La Pd. Line, and so we are able to mainstream it. Somebody a streamline in some way. Yeah, that's that's the only 356 01:00:23.640 --> 01:00:29.020 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: toy is frozen for me. I'm not sure. Yeah. She's from the other phones real feedback that I had. 357 01:00:33.370 --> 01:00:42.660 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: What do you want to add anything else? You were? You were kind of frozen there for a second. Okay, I'm not sure where I left off, but it is my hope that 358 01:00:42.870 --> 01:00:44.080 LaToya Stevenson: as 359 01:00:44.540 --> 01:00:47.900 LaToya Stevenson: we grow as we grow. 360 01:00:49.880 --> 01:01:05.840 LaToya Stevenson: We especially going into these next couple of months, that you will continue to utilize circle. If you do see a situation in which you, being circle, may be appropriate, and until then I would say, please give us race. We are hearing your concerns, and we are trying to work through those 361 01:01:05.840 --> 01:01:17.480 LaToya Stevenson: with the appropriate channels, especially when it comes to those delayed boy times, as well as somewhat expanding. The type of calls that we respond to has been a discussion as well. 362 01:01:20.900 --> 01:01:24.310 Vicki Halliday: Shawn, do you have a follow up, or is that good? 363 01:01:24.650 --> 01:01:38.060 Sean Obrien: Well, yeah, I don't want to take up too much time. My neighborhood has worked in the past with Stan Muhammad in the Helper Foundation, and they seem to have had better success. 364 01:01:38.070 --> 01:01:50.440 Sean Obrien: and I would hope that maybe you I have a meeting with them, and maybe i'll work with him as and his his thing. and I would like to see this successful. 365 01:01:51.480 --> 01:01:53.310 Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Sean. Thank you. 366 01:01:53.940 --> 01:01:58.090 Vicki Halliday: Daryl. If a hold on here. 367 01:01:59.050 --> 01:02:00.320 Vicki Halliday: Go ahead, Daryl. 368 01:02:02.650 --> 01:02:09.540 Darryl DuFay: Thank you very much. My name is Daryl Duffy. I've been a resident of Venice for 44 years. 369 01:02:09.670 --> 01:02:21.520 Darryl DuFay: I spent the last 6 or 7 years following everything that I could on homeless, etc. I am so pleased with having a new Council person 370 01:02:21.600 --> 01:02:32.790 Darryl DuFay: when they talk about homeless, etc., etc., and a keyword is transparency. So my question is, I'd love to but presentation? Okay. 371 01:02:32.850 --> 01:02:38.150 Darryl DuFay: But who does the independent evaluation of circle. 372 01:02:38.210 --> 01:02:44.520 Darryl DuFay: That's what I would like to know. because I've set in meeting after meeting being told everything 373 01:02:44.950 --> 01:03:05.770 Darryl DuFay: and tell everything, and then find out it just didn't happen, so i'm not pointing anything I really liked your presentation. And so if there, I was wondering if there is, in fact, an independent evaluation of circle that goes on so that we have someone else. Look at it. Thank you. 374 01:03:07.570 --> 01:03:12.640 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Hey, Darrell. Thank you so much for your question, and that's a really good point. I think 375 01:03:13.090 --> 01:03:28.300 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: you know internally at the Mayor's office we have contemplated like. Do we want to get a university to come and help us look at the program and things like that. So that's not off the table. But I will say that you know my office. The the Mayor's office 376 01:03:28.300 --> 01:03:47.240 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: works very closely with urban alchemy to look at the data to get the data right. It's. It's an evolving thing, especially as the program what went from a pilot to an actual program. We started to focus on some gathering, some other points of data. 377 01:03:47.260 --> 01:04:05.500 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: So it wasn't just about like, oh, how many calls are we taking, and what are the outcomes? But it was like, you know what. What's the number of referrals? What are we doing? How can we show the work that's being done, not only to ensure that we're, you know, spending our taxpayer dialers wisely. 378 01:04:05.500 --> 01:04:15.290 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: but also to make sure that we're having a real impact, and so. and and moving the ball forward as far as it comes to this homelessness crisis. So 379 01:04:15.370 --> 01:04:25.810 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: you know, our office meets with urban Alchemy weekly. We also meet with Lapd every Other Week to go over any issues that that come up, either 380 01:04:25.830 --> 01:04:37.220 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: through the call center out in the field with our our Lapd officers, and I just want to mention another thing that we're we've started to do with our officers is 381 01:04:37.640 --> 01:04:49.610 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: share with them. You go out and go to their role, calls, educate them on the program so that they can utilize it themselves so they can go to their dispatch and request circle 382 01:04:49.610 --> 01:05:06.140 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: directly when they see an issue, or, for instance, if they get called out to deal with a situation that might be a little bit violent, and they go out, and they either de escalated or they realize you know, this actually wasn't a violent situation. 383 01:05:06.140 --> 01:05:18.060 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: There's nothing more I can do here As an officer, i'm gonna close this out, but it involves an unhouse person that might benefit from from circle. They can go to their dispatch and request circle to come out. So 384 01:05:18.060 --> 01:05:26.300 we're trying to create other avenues, not just for the public, but for our partners to access the program, so that we make sure it's being utilized. 385 01:05:26.680 --> 01:05:31.360 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: And we're getting. You know we're we're being responsible stewards of the taxpayer dollars. 386 01:05:32.980 --> 01:05:36.510 Vicki Halliday: Okay, Daryl: Did you have a follow up, or did that 387 01:05:36.720 --> 01:05:40.920 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: add to that, Vicki? This is one, and I know you were asking more of a broader 388 01:05:42.270 --> 01:05:55.280 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: text and balance on that front. If there's ever a direct incident then happens that maybe you have questions or concerns with. You can always reach out to me about anyone specific, and Shannon and her team are great to 389 01:05:55.280 --> 01:06:09.250 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: kind of go down and pinpoint that one specific call or an individual call that you may have made, or someone made that either you weren't happy with the results, or something didn't happen right, and you just wanted more background on it. 390 01:06:09.380 --> 01:06:29.180 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: Shannon and her team have been pretty great about working with us to try and resolve some troubleshoot some of these issues that they do pop up again and again. I just want to remind everyone to shed and said: this program, technically is still very much in its infancy. So we really do appreciate all the feedback at all levels. 391 01:06:30.160 --> 01:06:31.200 Vicki Halliday: Thanks. One. 392 01:06:31.900 --> 01:06:39.700 Darryl DuFay: Daryl. Did you have any follow up? No, because I just heard from the other. The other person that's so important is one. 393 01:06:39.820 --> 01:06:42.420 Darryl DuFay: and Tracy together 394 01:06:42.540 --> 01:06:46.570 Darryl DuFay: makes me feel very good. Thank you. Thank you, Daryl 395 01:06:48.080 --> 01:06:49.960 Vicki Halliday: Erica Moore. Go ahead, please. 396 01:06:51.870 --> 01:07:06.300 Erica Moore: Hi, there my name is. and I had a situation that I think you could have maybe really helped with. I do encounter lots of homeless people. I actually 397 01:07:06.340 --> 01:07:22.020 Erica Moore: feed the homeless to a structured program, but aside from that, at my business location people will come by and need food or water and things like that, so I provide that with to them. But I had a gentleman who was in a wheelchair, who I used to feed pretty much every day. 398 01:07:22.330 --> 01:07:32.040 Erica Moore: and then, when it started raining really heavily. he had nowhere to go. I couldn't bring him into my facility. It's a food facility, and he did have like some feces, and 399 01:07:32.050 --> 01:07:37.040 Erica Moore: you know, smell them things. And I, you know, for health reasons, couldn't bring him inside. 400 01:07:37.240 --> 01:07:39.650 Erica Moore: And so I started making phone calls 401 01:07:39.750 --> 01:07:47.800 Erica Moore: to try to find somebody to come get him because he literally is I mean so vulnerable. He's just out in this spot. He can't get up and go somewhere. 402 01:07:47.860 --> 01:07:58.430 Erica Moore: And I just spent like 2 h on the phone with no responses of anybody who could help Basically, 3 1 1 403 01:07:58.450 --> 01:08:18.109 Erica Moore: is where I kept to, and I to throw that out there that I think the 3 1 one people absolutely need to know about you as a resource I call different facilities, and they all said, Well, he has to walk in here. I'm like well, he can't walk in there, and I said, don't you have someone who can drive and pick him up? I mean 404 01:08:18.109 --> 01:08:29.069 Erica Moore: it was. It was horrible! I felt so horrible for him. I mean. All I could do was give him a like a rain poncho. And it it just was heartbreaking to see that. And 405 01:08:29.300 --> 01:08:37.050 Erica Moore: I mean, I realize you guys are in your infancy, but I think that that he's the kind of candidate that would be perfect for your program. Is that correct? 406 01:08:41.050 --> 01:08:43.870 Erica Moore: Oh, that was a question I don't know if you can't answer that. 407 01:08:44.930 --> 01:08:47.350 Erica Moore: Can you hear me? 408 01:08:47.770 --> 01:08:53.540 Kenon Joseph: Yeah, I know I can. I can 409 01:08:53.720 --> 01:08:58.229 Kenon Joseph: put a little bit more context on what circle is and how we operate. 410 01:08:58.439 --> 01:09:01.550 Kenon Joseph: you know. Again, we are a diversion 411 01:09:01.760 --> 01:09:07.609 Kenon Joseph: sort of outreach program. So our main objective is to respond to situations 412 01:09:07.740 --> 01:09:16.680 Kenon Joseph: and engage with the Ph. Or the person experiencing homelessness it it. It may not always be that we are able to remove them 413 01:09:16.979 --> 01:09:25.450 Kenon Joseph: from certain situations, but we definitely engage. and if if a Ph wants to go and shelter, hey? We will transport them. 414 01:09:25.609 --> 01:09:33.859 Erica Moore: But he did want shelter. I couldn't give it to him. I mean that that was the whole point. He did want to go somewhere to be out of the rain. 415 01:09:34.340 --> 01:09:35.240 Erica Moore: and 416 01:09:35.410 --> 01:09:39.640 Erica Moore: it just I I mean I I couldn't help him, you know. 417 01:09:40.689 --> 01:09:47.470 Kenon Joseph: Are you able to use the 877 as an Ipd number did you have? I had no idea to call that 418 01:09:47.500 --> 01:09:56.970 Erica Moore: and all the different numbers I called, kept just referring me to 3, 1, one, and then I would get a different. That's why i'm saying that I think that 419 01:09:56.980 --> 01:10:01.740 Erica Moore: they're clearly not of a aware of your existence. I mean, maybe they are. 420 01:10:02.020 --> 01:10:05.530 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: I don't know. Yeah, Erica. Thank you so much. I mean, I think that's 421 01:10:05.580 --> 01:10:12.130 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: one of the reasons why we're here tonight is to raise the awareness, and I i'm sorry that 422 01:10:12.240 --> 01:10:31.530 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: we weren't on the radar view, or 3 1 one for that situation; but I will ping them and make sure that that the operators over there are aware. And just i'm so grateful that you brought up the situation, that you're here, and you're learning about the program. And so hopefully, next time you can utilize it, and 423 01:10:31.740 --> 01:10:37.640 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: you know, keep us posted on how it works out, because, as one said, feedback is really important to us. 424 01:10:38.050 --> 01:10:43.380 Erica Moore: Yeah, I definitely encountered other people that don't have proper clothing and things like that. 425 01:10:43.590 --> 01:10:52.320 Erica Moore: So I I now that I know, but I am concerned about if it's just big, long hold times, and and it's so hard for you to get the information to be able to 426 01:10:52.520 --> 01:11:00.990 Erica Moore: respond. That is concerning to me, because I am running a business, and I can't just sit there on the phone. You know what i'm saying. It's like, Thank you, Erica. So 427 01:11:01.050 --> 01:11:17.620 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: thank you. Yeah, no, thank you so much. And I think just give it a try. I mean, I've called the program myself through 877, and you know I don't know if it was just a magic hour. But I only waited on hold for 3 min, so I I think it just varies depending on You know what's going on. 428 01:11:18.930 --> 01:11:22.260 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: and that this is one, Eric I. 429 01:11:22.480 --> 01:11:23.320 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: If they 430 01:11:23.670 --> 01:11:27.090 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: was it 3, 1, one, or 2 1 1, 431 01:11:27.410 --> 01:11:42.410 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: it might have been hopefully. It was 2, 1, one, this 3, 1, one is more for reporting any cabin, or like a city service the 2 1, one is more of the to be able to assist someone in that need, especially if it was at the rate. 432 01:11:42.410 --> 01:12:00.980 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: And then we can also work with St. Joseps, because that's more of an immediate need for someone to come in that needs shelter to get you those on contact, especially for our businesses. Maybe that's something we discuss in terms of having a training or an information session with 433 01:12:00.980 --> 01:12:24.000 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: our service providers specifically for our business partners, and how we cannot collaborate, as we know that you guys engage with just as much with our UN House neighbors on the streets as anyone else, and it's good for you guys to know the basics, especially since, like in this situation, you had someone that was ready to go in on some of those instances 434 01:12:24.000 --> 01:12:27.290 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: you can call our office as well. 435 01:12:27.490 --> 01:12:34.880 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: I will then do what I can to either personally Bug Shannon and her team to see if they can help me right away. 436 01:12:34.890 --> 01:12:44.490 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: or also Saint Joseph Center, who is our lead outreach service provider in the area for any emergency vouchers 437 01:12:44.610 --> 01:12:56.540 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: or anything like that to try and assist the specific individual when the situation arises. So yeah, a lot of it is just getting the information out there to everyone and knowing where to call. 438 01:12:57.470 --> 01:13:16.960 Erica Moore: That sounds amazing. And that was actually my last question. Was, is there like a little tear sheet, or something that has some of these numbers to call, or maybe steps to take for people like me in the community that could be easily accessible. So we have a resource to reference, because when I did originally call it, was 3, 1, one, and I think they did direct me to 2. 1, one 439 01:13:16.960 --> 01:13:26.410 Erica Moore: when I called them. Actually, this was this was several months ago, and I honestly don't remember, but I think they did direct me to a different number. I mean I direct. It was directed to like several different places 440 01:13:26.570 --> 01:13:28.390 Erica Moore: over a 2 h period. 441 01:13:29.270 --> 01:13:36.970 Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Erica. All great information, Lisa Redmond, please go ahead. 442 01:13:39.740 --> 01:13:48.050 Lisa Redmond: Yeah, I could use me. I'm just curious. I Haven't heard. Do we still have a compression center in Venice? And I have more questions. 443 01:13:48.060 --> 01:14:05.550 Lisa Redmond: My bigger question tonight, though, is, i'm really trying to understand why the Circle team needs access to Hms. And what they're doing with it, and I know Latoya mentioned that it's to look up to see if there's referrals. But then, what do you do with those referrals? 444 01:14:05.570 --> 01:14:17.020 Lisa Redmond: And then you mentioned also using it for long term services and care and housing, and it's all very convoluted on how you're different than 445 01:14:17.090 --> 01:14:20.160 Lisa Redmond: you know, working to get interim shelter than 446 01:14:20.260 --> 01:14:37.970 Lisa Redmond: then loss of than Saint Joseph's, because here it is. I'm out on the street, and I can't tell you. I hear this all the time, and this is probably because the Circle team is so prevalent and visible on the street to our unhouse neighbors, but they are constantly telling me the Circle team 447 01:14:37.970 --> 01:14:42.170 Lisa Redmond: promised me housing. The Circle team promised me they're going to get me off the Street. and 448 01:14:42.620 --> 01:14:49.620 Lisa Redmond: I hear that all the time, and it also devolves into the circle team is lying the Circle team Isn't helping me. 449 01:14:49.650 --> 01:14:59.250 Lisa Redmond: And you know we just can't keep telling on how people that we're going to do something and not follow through, because we know what a crisis it is out there, and how 450 01:14:59.390 --> 01:15:07.550 Lisa Redmond: awful it is to be out on the street, and for them to hear promises. or to think that something is happening. And it's not 451 01:15:07.730 --> 01:15:16.680 Lisa Redmond: is really not fair to people as well. So if you can explain to me how that all works, I'd really appreciate it. 452 01:15:16.830 --> 01:15:17.820 Lisa Redmond: Thanks. 453 01:15:24.680 --> 01:15:35.760 Kenon Joseph: absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you for your your question, and you know, I think the first thing that I will say is, you know, when it comes to outreach I mean, I've been doing this this work 454 01:15:35.980 --> 01:15:41.670 Kenon Joseph: for a very, very long time, and I mean almost 20 years. So just to put 455 01:15:41.820 --> 01:15:45.320 Kenon Joseph: just to put the you know, a number on it. 456 01:15:45.360 --> 01:15:52.630 Kenon Joseph: But you know one of the things that we teach our our our teams and we train our teams to do is to not promise anything. 457 01:15:52.760 --> 01:16:04.000 Kenon Joseph: We have to definitely manage our expectations. Our main goal is always to get them connected to whatever services they seek. That may not always be shelter. 458 01:16:04.110 --> 01:16:22.050 Kenon Joseph: So you know, clients. They do run with narratives. They do, you know oftentimes, and i'm not blaming clients. We don't blame clients in our in our business. But when we look at what clients say in terms of getting housing. There is entitlement 459 01:16:22.170 --> 01:16:30.210 Kenon Joseph: that comes along with with homelessness, and that's a reality. But and I heard a term earlier, dog and pony. 460 01:16:30.280 --> 01:16:41.900 Kenon Joseph: I've been doing this work again a long time. I've been around dog and pony shows. Urban alchemy is is nowhere close to to this, and it's very easy to say that from the outside, looking in. 461 01:16:41.900 --> 01:16:56.660 Kenon Joseph: we're boots on the ground, we're doing the work. We're making a difference in your community in the Venice area, and if that's getting one homeless Ph. Off the street, you know that is again making a difference. So I I again, I just wanted to highlight that. 462 01:16:56.700 --> 01:17:00.920 Kenon Joseph: And you know i'm gonna put my information in the chat. 463 01:17:01.260 --> 01:17:17.600 Kenon Joseph: you know, just in case I mean, I know you're a business owner in the area, and it may be difficult getting through to our 877 as a Pd. Number. But just to have someone that you can get in contact directly, i'll definitely provide my contact information to you. 464 01:17:17.880 --> 01:17:20.810 Vicki Halliday: It may be Keenan. We don't 465 01:17:20.820 --> 01:17:28.490 Vicki Halliday: utilize the chat windows, but maybe Shannon can send us some context tomorrow that we can get out to everyone. 466 01:17:29.580 --> 01:17:30.630 Lisa Redmond: Can I follow up? 467 01:17:30.700 --> 01:17:31.770 Vicki Halliday: Of course 468 01:17:31.860 --> 01:17:36.700 Lisa Redmond: I I I would hold on 1 s. I just want much for you to chime in, and maybe 469 01:17:36.860 --> 01:17:40.410 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: add some more information regarding Hms. And whatnot. 470 01:17:40.640 --> 01:17:48.370 LaToya Stevenson: Yes. So I apologize for not being able to respond. Earlier. My Internet has been this call. 471 01:17:48.740 --> 01:17:53.090 LaToya Stevenson: But I do believe I got the gist of your question. So first 472 01:17:54.830 --> 01:18:02.170 LaToya Stevenson: Latoya, maybe i'm trying to my video off My access is because, of course, the homeless management information. 473 01:18:02.470 --> 01:18:03.290 LaToya Stevenson: Okay. 474 01:18:04.210 --> 01:18:06.190 Vicki Halliday: Can you all hear me now? 475 01:18:06.370 --> 01:18:07.690 LaToya Stevenson: Yes. Okay. 476 01:18:07.790 --> 01:18:23.560 LaToya Stevenson: So our use of Hmi Yes, is first and most because we are working with unhoused individuals. Right? Yes, we are responding to diverted 9. 1 one calls, but outside of that a big portion of what we do 477 01:18:23.560 --> 01:18:31.960 LaToya Stevenson: is outreach. So if we do encounter a an individual who is experiencing homelessness, who has not been 478 01:18:32.010 --> 01:18:43.920 LaToya Stevenson: working with any outreach program? Let's say it's an individual who is newly homeless, who's newly unhoused. We will enroll that individual in Hmis. 479 01:18:44.690 --> 01:18:49.420 LaToya Stevenson: After that we are capable of completing an interim housing referral 480 01:18:49.420 --> 01:19:09.560 LaToya Stevenson: ourselves as well as being able to conduct the Cs Survey, which are all things that are necessary to go indoors. I think one of the things that wasn't touched on is the lack of shelter, slash, housing placement in West Side area. 481 01:19:09.560 --> 01:19:12.510 LaToya Stevenson: Earlier today we received 482 01:19:12.960 --> 01:19:15.570 LaToya Stevenson: a a inquiry 483 01:19:15.770 --> 01:19:21.740 LaToya Stevenson: about a vulnerable person experiencing homelessness that came directly from Shannon, right in you a's area. 484 01:19:22.180 --> 01:19:26.560 LaToya Stevenson: We completed an interim housing referral on her in september 485 01:19:27.060 --> 01:19:28.690 LaToya Stevenson: of 2,022, 486 01:19:28.760 --> 01:19:47.230 LaToya Stevenson: and since then there had been no availability for the type of placement that she was looking for. However, our Care Coordinator did follow up on that referral, and as of today she is the first person who is next in line to go into the place that she's aiming to go 487 01:19:54.020 --> 01:20:05.620 LaToya Stevenson: to the big part of it as well, because we don't have housing ourselves. However, we do those referrals to housing which goes to us having Hms. Access, so we are able to 488 01:20:06.080 --> 01:20:14.690 LaToya Stevenson: complete Those referrals. Follow up on those referrals and also coordinate services with any other team that may be active with that person. 489 01:20:16.100 --> 01:20:24.800 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Yeah, thank you so much, Laure: yeah, I want to add, Lisa, that I think Hms. Access is critical for this work because of 490 01:20:24.930 --> 01:20:38.510 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: of the other programs that are operating in this area. We don't want to create create confusion for folks. We don't as ken is that we don't want to promise anything, so that's that's a great reminder to remind the teams don't promise anything, you know 491 01:20:38.560 --> 01:20:46.290 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: unfortunate if anyone got that impression. But it's critical for the teams to be able to go into H. Andis see 492 01:20:46.510 --> 01:21:03.650 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: who else is working with this individual. And even, you know, pinging that casework, or maybe like we saw your client out there today. They're asking about, you know, whatever referral that other service provider made, and kind of making sure that we're bridging that gap 493 01:21:03.650 --> 01:21:10.580 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: and communicating with all the other providers, so that we're not duplicating work or causing confusion, because we really don't want to do that. 494 01:21:12.890 --> 01:21:29.620 Lisa Redmond: Thank you, Shannon, for that information. Thank you. Everyone Keenan. I'm actually not a business owner. I'm a proactive outreach person myself. I've got all the tools I've got, the narcan and the clothes and the snacks. I even have. Id waivers. I just Don't have access to Hms. 495 01:21:29.750 --> 01:21:42.180 Lisa Redmond: But I appreciate that answer just, and I do understand, because of my experience, the narrative of unhouse people and the misunderstandings, and how things can change. But 496 01:21:42.300 --> 01:21:51.340 Lisa Redmond: it's it's is interesting to me that that's almost the first thing I hear from everyone. And so, if it's like one or 2. That's a coincidence, but it's really a trend. So 497 01:21:51.440 --> 01:22:03.020 Lisa Redmond: I really would appreciate. Yeah, if you could remind to the team to mit Ctl. And you know, I say to people, I don't have access to housing, but I have access to the people who do, and I can help you be in contact with them. 498 01:22:03.230 --> 01:22:09.850 Lisa Redmond: and that seems to work. And one quick question you never answered. Is our compression center now still in Venice? 499 01:22:11.670 --> 01:22:18.680 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Yes, it's not at Westminster. It's at another location and 500 01:22:19.120 --> 01:22:24.480 Lisa Redmond: forgive me because I don't know it off the top of my head. 501 01:22:24.670 --> 01:22:26.270 Katherine Napoleon (She/Her): 7, 2 for Lincoln. 502 01:22:26.790 --> 01:22:34.600 Lisa Redmond: Yeah, it's the one on Linkedin. Okay, I didn't know if you had that there. I just knew that, you know you weren't at Westminster Park anymore. So i'm glad there's still the decompression center. 503 01:22:34.730 --> 01:22:39.460 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Alright, yeah. And and Lisa. By the way, when we started the program, we didn't actually 504 01:22:40.130 --> 01:22:57.000 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: require the teams to have access to Hlos, and we quickly realized that that was really hindering them from actually following through and helping folks some really key referrals. So yeah, I do know that. And that's interesting that you can also help with Ces. So 505 01:22:57.000 --> 01:23:01.070 Lisa Redmond: I am also in agreement that the more we get in the better it's going to help in the long run. 506 01:23:01.330 --> 01:23:07.750 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: if there is any like if you want to meet up out in the field, and just, you know. 507 01:23:08.070 --> 01:23:14.600 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: to see us at work, or you know you seem like you have a lot of relationships, too. So it might be helpful 508 01:23:14.730 --> 01:23:18.060 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: that there is anything that we can do to help what you do as well. 509 01:23:18.260 --> 01:23:22.070 Lisa Redmond: Thank you, Shannon. Thanks all for being here tonight. 510 01:23:22.230 --> 01:23:26.180 Kenon Joseph: We we want to change that narrative, Lisa. We won't 511 01:23:27.540 --> 01:23:31.070 Kenon Joseph: to change that narrative of circle. I want to work. I want to work with you closely. 512 01:23:31.350 --> 01:23:34.640 right? So we can we? We can put that in a better light. 513 01:23:35.500 --> 01:23:37.550 Kenon Joseph: But thank you for your concern and what you do. 514 01:23:38.550 --> 01:23:44.540 Vicki Halliday: Thanks, Lisa. Next question is Lt. Lt: Go ahead, please. 515 01:23:47.600 --> 01:23:57.800 LT: Hi. My name is Laura. I'm a Venice resident. I appreciate everything from the the previous question answers about 516 01:23:57.900 --> 01:24:10.820 LT: trying to streamline the process on the on the back end, and the importance of Hms. Access and all that. My question was about streamlining on the front end and acquiring buy-in from other 3 517 01:24:10.850 --> 01:24:17.520 LT: city departments. There's been some. some, I guess, concern raised about 518 01:24:17.920 --> 01:24:30.700 LT: how aware other people within city government are aware of this program, and so I was just wondering what efforts Specifically, the Mayor's office is undertaking to make sure that 519 01:24:31.240 --> 01:24:41.050 LT: everyone within city government is aware of that of the partnership with, with, with, with the circle program, with urban alchemy, to make sure that 520 01:24:41.680 --> 01:24:48.960 LT: you know the the issues that can be handled by them are being directed to them. I'm thinking of the previous question. Ask her who 521 01:24:49.610 --> 01:24:55.950 LT: said they spent a couple of hours on the phone and and never heard about this program. That sounds like it would have been 522 01:24:56.660 --> 01:25:10.230 LT: specifically designed to handle the issue that this home unhouse person was was dealing with, but it never got there. So how is the Mayor ours office? Kind of trying to fill in that communication gap? 523 01:25:11.930 --> 01:25:23.500 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Yeah, Thank you so much for that question. Yeah, we are. You know we're we're a little bit of a small team, so I must say it is challenging, making sure that we're engaging with all of our stakeholders. There's so many different 524 01:25:23.670 --> 01:25:40.740 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: internal and external stakeholders that we have, and we try to communicate with and educate. And among those our city departments, like our libraries, like recreation and parks, and certainly the fire Department and La Pd. 525 01:25:40.740 --> 01:25:55.920 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Those are kind of like the main ones, and we also, you know, meet frequently with our Council office partners and their field deputies to kind of educate them about the program, so that they can then spread the good word, because 526 01:25:56.030 --> 01:26:02.470 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: there aren't a lot of us at this point to to do all that engagement work. But 527 01:26:02.480 --> 01:26:07.930 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: I think that's a really good point. I will try to brainstorm other ways that we can kind of 528 01:26:08.150 --> 01:26:27.060 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: educate, even, you know sanitation, or whoever it may be, because we have a lot of city employees out there right, doing the work and encountering unhoused individuals, and we want to make sure that they understand that this is a resource, and they, if they do encounter, you know, constituents. They're able to then direct them as well. 529 01:26:29.590 --> 01:26:38.940 LT: Okay, Thank you. My, My follow up would be. I would just be in if you don't have an answer available for this off the top of your head. 530 01:26:38.980 --> 01:26:48.530 LT: But I would be curious what the buy in has been from the lapd and lafd specifically in terms of their willingness to 531 01:26:48.800 --> 01:26:59.400 LT: reach out to to defer non-violence non emergent cases to to circle where it may be more appropriately handled. 532 01:26:59.670 --> 01:27:06.860 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Yeah, no, we've actually it's been pretty great, You know. We've been going to roll calls. We've been 533 01:27:06.880 --> 01:27:24.890 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: meeting the senior lead officers. We did a training for senior lead officers. That was like a citywide kind of senior lead officer training, just trying to raise awareness among that group. And, honestly, our officers have been on the front lines of this issue for so long, and 534 01:27:24.890 --> 01:27:37.860 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: a lot of them want to help, and they just don't have either the time or really the tools to to really help, and so they're relieved. They're very happy to have this program, and actually, officers, i'm always 535 01:27:37.960 --> 01:27:53.060 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: kind of sad when I get, you know, a call or an email from an officer? That's not in an area where we service because they're they're kind of clamoring for this type of thing. So yeah, it's been. It's been pretty positive. I must say. 536 01:27:53.920 --> 01:27:58.100 LT: Okay, I I appreciate that response, said. Then I guess my my 537 01:27:58.610 --> 01:28:03.090 LT: last question would be: has the the Mayor's office considered 538 01:28:03.630 --> 01:28:13.130 LT: redirecting any funds that are currently directed to the lapd towards this program, since it seems that there is an Appetite for it where it doesn't currently exist. 539 01:28:14.200 --> 01:28:28.190 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: That's a good question. I don't have the answer to it. I know people are for feverishly working on the budget because we are in budget season right now, but I am not at that level, so I guess I will say state we'll have to stay tuned 540 01:28:28.320 --> 01:28:29.220 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: for that. 541 01:28:29.680 --> 01:28:33.820 LT: Okay, waiting with bated breath. I appreciate your responses. Thank you. 542 01:28:33.910 --> 01:28:39.180 Vicki Halliday: Thank you. 543 01:28:47.720 --> 01:28:48.660 Vicki Halliday: Julie. 544 01:28:52.190 --> 01:29:00.930 Judy Goldman: Hi. Sorry it's great that you're doing this. I think it's so important that we have this transparency. 545 01:29:00.960 --> 01:29:19.480 Judy Goldman: At the end of last year a group of neighbors actually met with Jose Ramirez, Chay. Brian Buckner and Hector Martinez, and they were gonna follow up with us to answer some questions, and also to have a coffee 546 01:29:19.500 --> 01:29:30.150 Judy Goldman: with the community members to get to know some of the Circle members. But it never happened so i'm still waiting. I hope it does happen. In the meantime 547 01:29:30.350 --> 01:29:33.390 Judy Goldman: I have a couple of questions. 548 01:29:33.410 --> 01:29:38.980 Judy Goldman: I had a very I. By the way, I've a 50 year resident in Venice. 549 01:29:39.320 --> 01:29:51.500 Judy Goldman: and last fall last. As to actually at the end of last year, I had a very unfortunate incident that was that involved a threat 550 01:29:51.630 --> 01:29:58.540 Judy Goldman: by somebody who trespassed and threatened to slip my throat. 551 01:29:58.770 --> 01:30:01.810 and I called the police department. 552 01:30:02.020 --> 01:30:07.860 Judy Goldman: and they asked me for a description of the person. and I gave him a little description. 553 01:30:08.320 --> 01:30:12.480 Judy Goldman: and the police never came, and when they called back 554 01:30:12.660 --> 01:30:23.790 Judy Goldman: I asked what happened, and I happened to then get hooked up with the urban alchemy call Center and the lapd, and I listened to the 555 01:30:23.840 --> 01:30:30.920 Judy Goldman: 2 people, and I actually have a recording of the argument that they had about how to refer this case. 556 01:30:31.330 --> 01:30:36.330 Judy Goldman: So it was an act of that vandalism which I won't go into, and then a threat. 557 01:30:36.880 --> 01:30:44.980 Judy Goldman: And I said, somebody needs to come here. And so Lapd showed up and circle showed up. 558 01:30:45.490 --> 01:30:51.720 Judy Goldman: and it ended up. The circle left and the lapd cleaned up was a 559 01:30:52.150 --> 01:30:55.460 Judy Goldman: terrible mess that was left behind here. 560 01:30:56.550 --> 01:30:58.560 Judy Goldman: I never had any follow up 561 01:30:59.250 --> 01:31:06.210 Judy Goldman: except with the police, they apologized. But it question I have is. 562 01:31:06.440 --> 01:31:09.970 Judy Goldman: How are the operators trained to determine 563 01:31:10.360 --> 01:31:19.830 Judy Goldman: who should be sent to a particular situation, and how to determine whether or not there is actually a crime 564 01:31:20.060 --> 01:31:23.460 Judy Goldman: involved? If it's an unhoused person. 565 01:31:23.600 --> 01:31:33.990 Judy Goldman: I had the feeling that the operator meant well, but because the person was, she determined by the way that they were dressed. They were unhoused. 566 01:31:34.060 --> 01:31:44.510 Judy Goldman: that there was no need to send the police, and she did actually send her an alchemy, and they said that by the time they got there they didn't see anything which. 567 01:31:44.650 --> 01:32:03.190 Judy Goldman: anyway, it was a mess. So what how does that referral work? How are the operators in the call centers trained to determine who should be sent. And then how do the police and urban alchemy? What criteria do they use to determine who should handle a particular situation? 568 01:32:03.330 --> 01:32:05.850 Judy Goldman: Because this was a mess 569 01:32:05.930 --> 01:32:07.450 Judy Goldman: it really was. 570 01:32:07.600 --> 01:32:10.870 Judy Goldman: and i'm concerned. I'm afraid 571 01:32:11.070 --> 01:32:17.360 Judy Goldman: that I don't have access to anybody. If i'm in a situation that feels unsafe. 572 01:32:17.490 --> 01:32:25.450 Judy Goldman: Why should in this situation calling the police clearly didn't work? Maybe Shannon could answer that. 573 01:32:25.990 --> 01:32:32.050 Judy Goldman: That's that's that? And then the other path of that question I have is how? 574 01:32:32.320 --> 01:32:35.800 Judy Goldman: What is the hiring practice of urban alchemy? 575 01:32:35.820 --> 01:32:42.880 Judy Goldman: How are the workers in that program trained? And what is their background? 576 01:32:45.690 --> 01:32:55.160 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Hey, Judy? Thanks. Yeah, we did meet some months ago, and was working with Kerry from your community to do a coffee. 577 01:32:55.320 --> 01:33:11.110 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: and went back and forth, and never quite settled on a date, so i'll follow up with her again to see if she's interested, and if not, maybe we'll just host it ourselves, maybe even at the decompression center that just opened. But as far as 578 01:33:11.110 --> 01:33:25.230 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: the training the operators, you know, we've gone to roll call trainings for operators at the Communication Center to educate them on the program. We work with Lapd 579 01:33:25.240 --> 01:33:33.750 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: communications very closely, like I mentioned earlier. We we with them every Other Week, so that we can discuss kind of issues like this, you know. 580 01:33:33.750 --> 01:33:47.410 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Sometimes there is a gray area, you know. Is this a police matter, or is this a urban alchemy matter? Is it a. You know an example would be. Someone is improperly close exposing themselves. 581 01:33:47.410 --> 01:34:06.770 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: But oh, no, it's within a certain amount of feet from a playground that's gonna be an lapd situation, not a a circle situation. So there is some gray area, and I think you know, really appreciate you raising issues, and you know, flagging things, so that we can go back 582 01:34:06.770 --> 01:34:25.000 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: and have a conversation with Lapd about. You know W. What you know which which situation can go to them that go to circle. And I think some of this because it is so new. It does require some of that tinkering and that kind of you know a situation 583 01:34:25.000 --> 01:34:39.010 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: until you see it sometimes. And so I think that's why we have a line of communication directly with 9, 1 one, so that we can, when we respond and recognize, you know. Oh, no! This person's actively consuming an illegal substance. 584 01:34:39.010 --> 01:34:58.860 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: This is not within our Scope that we've agreed upon with Lapd. We have to refer it back, and that's what we'll do. And so, if it is a trespassing issue and something like that criminal issue, there's a trespass or trespass order on file. It's not going to go to Urban alchemy or to circle it's going to go to Lapd. So 585 01:34:58.860 --> 01:35:15.100 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: there is training that we do we go to those? You know, the the 9 1 one communication center. Those operators are trained on circle. They received information about what criteria is to be met. What incidents go to us. 586 01:35:15.100 --> 01:35:31.450 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: and then, as well as our operators. And and I think, Urban, I mean to speak more to this; but we even have employed at our call center former 9, 1. One communications operators. So they're professionals, and they bring that professional experience with them. 587 01:35:31.450 --> 01:35:44.290 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: But, like I said, you know it's a new thing. So we're still kind of figuring out some of those great situations. So I think that's maybe what you experienced, and then I will hand it over to Urban Alchemy to talk about hiring process. 588 01:35:49.020 --> 01:35:52.130 LaToya Stevenson: So, yes, and and, as you stated, we do have 589 01:35:52.290 --> 01:36:09.800 LaToya Stevenson: either 3 or 4 former lapd operators with 2030 plus years of experience. Some who were retirees, who came back to work specifically with the circle call center the internal. 590 01:36:12.060 --> 01:36:13.450 LaToya Stevenson: You have a 591 01:36:13.600 --> 01:36:20.450 Judy Goldman: what? I I also would like to know how you hire the people in the circle program who are working. 592 01:36:20.590 --> 01:36:22.540 Judy Goldman: you know, in the program. 593 01:36:24.660 --> 01:36:26.510 LaToya Stevenson: We hired them through 594 01:36:27.320 --> 01:36:39.410 LaToya Stevenson: hearing process. What is the criteria? What is their background? It depends on. It depends on the position. 595 01:36:39.610 --> 01:36:43.530 LaToya Stevenson: For example, as we spoke about with practitioners. 596 01:36:43.650 --> 01:36:51.750 LaToya Stevenson: we do look for a job employment history, of course, customer service skills. 597 01:36:52.050 --> 01:36:55.030 LaToya Stevenson: or for a second chance 598 01:36:56.270 --> 01:36:56.960 LaToya Stevenson: people. 599 01:36:58.910 --> 01:37:06.030 LaToya Stevenson: These are the people who actually are walking around the lived experience. Whether that's people who have experienced 600 01:37:06.690 --> 01:37:10.360 Vicki Halliday: okay is breaking up. 601 01:37:10.940 --> 01:37:19.120 Judy Goldman: What? What is the training that they receive for doing the intervention with somebody who is in distress. 602 01:37:20.810 --> 01:37:29.100 Kenon Joseph: So so a part of our onboarding process, our onboarding process is very general when we speak in terms of of outreach practices. 603 01:37:29.310 --> 01:37:36.110 Kenon Joseph: but once individuals are on boarded. We take them through a series of ongoing trainings. 604 01:37:36.290 --> 01:37:38.750 Kenon Joseph: specifically with the escalation. 605 01:37:38.820 --> 01:37:42.430 Kenon Joseph: harm, reduction outreach, one on one. 606 01:37:44.060 --> 01:37:50.830 Kenon Joseph: you know, substance, abuse, treatment, and also, you know, just knowing how to look at signs and symptoms 607 01:37:51.120 --> 01:38:06.160 Kenon Joseph: for individuals. We don't make any diagnosis. We do have trained mental health professionals who are a part of our team to make those those assessments. But we we we do have a rigorous onboarding process. But again. 608 01:38:06.210 --> 01:38:13.550 Kenon Joseph: we do hire those individuals with former lived experience and those formally incarcerated. So 609 01:38:13.560 --> 01:38:16.060 Kenon Joseph: again, that's a part of our secret sauce. 610 01:38:17.010 --> 01:38:20.350 Judy Goldman: How long are you, Judy? 611 01:38:21.140 --> 01:38:23.640 Vicki Halliday: Did you get your question? Answered Judy. 612 01:38:23.990 --> 01:38:41.650 Judy Goldman: I just have one last question. The the folks who have been incarcerated Have they been through programs during the incarceration or after to deal with the kind of crisis situations that they deal with on the street. 613 01:38:49.140 --> 01:38:50.860 Kenon Joseph: Absolutely. 614 01:38:51.570 --> 01:38:53.510 I me up. Okay. 615 01:38:55.800 --> 01:38:57.160 Kenon Joseph: hello to you. 616 01:39:00.140 --> 01:39:01.230 Kenon Joseph: Am I being hurt? 617 01:39:01.310 --> 01:39:03.220 Vicki Halliday: Yes, you are going 618 01:39:03.360 --> 01:39:09.820 Kenon Joseph: so so absolutely so. So we do have a We have what we call a. 619 01:39:10.470 --> 01:39:20.660 Kenon Joseph: I don't want to use this term prison to pipeline system, but we do have access to individuals who will be getting out of prison. 620 01:39:20.780 --> 01:39:30.470 Kenon Joseph: You know who do need jobs and who do need to get back into the work field. So again as as part of our onboarding. 621 01:39:30.740 --> 01:39:32.530 Kenon Joseph: If individuals are not fit. 622 01:39:32.560 --> 01:39:51.050 Kenon Joseph: then of course, we don't want to put them in this environment to where they're going to be, you know, traumatized and and maybe resurrect some of the traumas that they are dealing with. So again, we do take individuals through a rigorous training process, and that's continuous. That's ongoing. There's no cookie cutter solution to how to do outreach 623 01:39:51.050 --> 01:40:01.580 Kenon Joseph: right. It changes on a daily basis that I I mean, really it's it's really situational. And we see that come up as we do this work. So so we definitely do 624 01:40:01.690 --> 01:40:07.890 Kenon Joseph: we. We put investment in value in the individuals that we bring a board. Urban, how can we do this work? 625 01:40:09.150 --> 01:40:10.760 Kenon Joseph: And I hope that answered your question. 626 01:40:11.880 --> 01:40:24.760 Vicki Halliday: Thank you. I'm. Now I think, which time to switch to committee questions. I see Pat Rafael's hands up so Pat, please go ahead. And 627 01:40:27.200 --> 01:40:33.530 PatRaphael: so I've been trying to keep all these conversations 628 01:40:33.950 --> 01:40:46.020 PatRaphael: connected to one another. and one of the folks that we spoke to when we had our homeless Round Table mentioned to us that it would be important 629 01:40:46.080 --> 01:40:47.180 PatRaphael: to have 630 01:40:47.710 --> 01:40:52.700 PatRaphael: unconventional candidates sought out in search. 631 01:40:52.860 --> 01:41:01.550 PatRaphael: and especially folks who are local. because it seems like those people have more authority with the population that you're dealing with 632 01:41:01.760 --> 01:41:10.450 PatRaphael: when they come from the community that you are operating in. So that's the first question I wanted to kind of get a sense of. 633 01:41:10.520 --> 01:41:30.490 PatRaphael: What are you proactively doing to look for unconventional candidates that might serve well from the community. You're where you're working from. And another thing that they mentioned, they mentioned that it was important. I have a lot of background noise. I'm, please. Hands up. Is folks can hear me. They mentioned that 634 01:41:32.490 --> 01:41:38.360 PatRaphael: having clients go through a triage or a sorting system 635 01:41:38.420 --> 01:41:40.200 PatRaphael: through 636 01:41:40.820 --> 01:41:47.030 PatRaphael: graduating through tears. as the way to kind of get a sense of who can be 637 01:41:47.140 --> 01:41:52.270 PatRaphael: better suited to receive some of the more 638 01:41:52.660 --> 01:41:55.950 PatRaphael: hard to get services that is available. 639 01:41:56.040 --> 01:42:09.020 PatRaphael: So getting folks to kind of navigate through a place until you get there, and then maybe the end of that could even be a a a a job with you guys at the end of navigating 640 01:42:09.110 --> 01:42:16.070 PatRaphael: all all the way through to the to through that process. So those are the 2 questions I was I was wanting to get a sense of. 641 01:42:16.190 --> 01:42:25.270 PatRaphael: and I I also have another follow up with the 2, 1 one, and how you guys interact with 201. But i'd like to, I guess. Get those 2 642 01:42:25.380 --> 01:42:26.840 PatRaphael: set up first. 643 01:42:27.290 --> 01:42:27.860 please. 644 01:42:28.950 --> 01:42:31.550 Kenon Joseph: Absolutely. Thank you for that, Pat. 645 01:42:32.060 --> 01:42:38.630 Kenon Joseph: i'll address your initial question, and it was about, what have we done? 646 01:42:38.840 --> 01:42:49.960 Kenon Joseph: Sort of with our onboarding process and the type of individuals that we hire. We do. One of the things that we've done is we. We've looked at individuals that we can hire that are specific 647 01:42:50.330 --> 01:43:00.050 Kenon Joseph: to certain areas, so that they have a certain knowledge and certain familiarity, some familiarity. Excuse me with with with certain areas. So we call those local hires. 648 01:43:00.230 --> 01:43:04.220 Kenon Joseph: And of course, as you know, when you ride through your streets 649 01:43:04.320 --> 01:43:14.500 Kenon Joseph: in your neighborhoods and your communities. Once you see a a homeless encampment, it it's hard to unsee it. So again when when we hire those local 650 01:43:14.520 --> 01:43:18.590 Kenon Joseph: tires from community, they know the the communities like the back of their hands. 651 01:43:19.700 --> 01:43:22.210 Kenon Joseph: And then, secondly. 652 01:43:22.310 --> 01:43:25.290 Kenon Joseph: you know, to your second your second point. 653 01:43:25.750 --> 01:43:29.850 Kenon Joseph: You know one of the things that we rely heavily on 654 01:43:31.360 --> 01:43:43.520 Kenon Joseph: on this collaboration. This is another reason why we we use the Hmis system, you know, because it it does give us tracking on the individuals that we serve, and we see a lot of overlap there. 655 01:43:43.570 --> 01:43:52.420 Kenon Joseph: We see a lot of overlap from agencies that are doing some of the same working. We don't want to duplicate services. I think that's one of the things that we try to minimize at all costs. 656 01:43:52.510 --> 01:44:11.150 Kenon Joseph: But it it does happen, it does happen, and we have made success stories out of some of our individuals who have been in our residential housing facilities for individuals to come directly off the streets, get case management work their way through our program. We've actually hired individuals 657 01:44:11.200 --> 01:44:18.890 Kenon Joseph: to urban out. So so it has been successes on on on both both avenues, if you will. 658 01:44:20.910 --> 01:44:22.530 Vicki Halliday: you got a quick follow up. 659 01:44:24.580 --> 01:44:32.310 PatRaphael: Yeah. So right now it's kind of been unusually rainy. so it seems to me like one of the 660 01:44:32.480 --> 01:44:40.970 PatRaphael: the things that could have happened to unroll the 2. 1, one system better was to kind of not throw away the prior 661 01:44:41.020 --> 01:44:42.570 PatRaphael: system that we had. 662 01:44:42.700 --> 01:44:51.230 PatRaphael: before transitioning to the new voucher only system, cause with no walk in service for shelters, with no 663 01:44:51.250 --> 01:45:10.170 PatRaphael: access to warming shelters in the middle of the rain, being told to just wait, and there's nothing available. So how do you get the front of that when you know people trying to access services kind of get a wall everywhere else. And then you guys are there riding around on a bike, and 664 01:45:10.330 --> 01:45:12.170 PatRaphael: or maybe not on the bike, not like the 665 01:45:12.740 --> 01:45:20.050 PatRaphael: clean team, but or the safety, but but just to get to the point, how do you deal with the current 666 01:45:21.240 --> 01:45:25.120 PatRaphael: transition of services that's going on away from the 667 01:45:25.140 --> 01:45:28.030 PatRaphael: shelter system to the 211 system. 668 01:45:32.790 --> 01:45:51.540 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Yeah, so i'll i'll. I'll take that one. Unless, ken I I will. I just wanted to call my path that that's something that we definitely noticed. That was a departure from the past, and I think there's some positives. There's also a lot of negatives we've heard about right people waiting for hours on. Hold on 2 1 1 669 01:45:51.540 --> 01:46:08.840 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: need an an Id just barriers that weren't there before with the previous system. I do want to highlight that during the kind of historic storm that we had, the Mayor moved very quickly to open up emergency shelters that were more in the model of that former 670 01:46:08.840 --> 01:46:19.560 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: augmented winter shelter program that we partner with Lhasa to create 2 additional or 3 additional shelters, and so I think, circle 671 01:46:19.560 --> 01:46:35.760 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: and circle especially with, was instrumental in and making sure that people were getting referrals and transportation to those shelters during that period, and Urban Alchemy itself stepped up, stepped up to be the provider for the 672 01:46:35.850 --> 01:46:39.480 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: the Van Eyes shelter out in the northeast Valley. 673 01:46:40.630 --> 01:46:44.640 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: and i'll let Keenan address anything else that I 674 01:46:44.900 --> 01:46:49.650 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: missed, as far as the kind of the challenges of working in that new system. 675 01:46:51.010 --> 01:47:02.230 Kenon Joseph: Yeah. And Pat, you know. That's a tough one, Thank you, Shannon and Pat. That's a tough one. you know, because it's always a an individual's choice whether or not they want to go into shelter. We know that. 676 01:47:02.470 --> 01:47:04.950 Kenon Joseph: But when you when the rain comes. 677 01:47:05.100 --> 01:47:15.170 Kenon Joseph: you know you, you got one or 2 things, you know. Either you you deal with the elements, or you go indoors, and we've really relied on our winter shelter, augmented one of shelters. 678 01:47:15.310 --> 01:47:21.710 Kenon Joseph: and then, aside from that, we really motivate clients to hey? Look at family reunification services. 679 01:47:21.820 --> 01:47:30.640 Kenon Joseph: right? Or or maybe you know, shared housing. Shared housing is always another option. If individuals can can combine incomes 680 01:47:30.700 --> 01:47:38.940 Kenon Joseph: and find a place. So so these are some of the things that that we we we we want to teach our teams to motivate our clients to do 681 01:47:39.040 --> 01:47:42.430 Kenon Joseph: is think about alternate housing options 682 01:47:42.540 --> 01:47:46.660 Kenon Joseph: and just, you know, to help their immediate, homeless situation. 683 01:47:49.930 --> 01:47:51.990 Vicki Halliday: Okay. 684 01:47:52.010 --> 01:47:53.000 Vicki Halliday: was right. 685 01:48:00.920 --> 01:48:06.930 Elizabeth Wright: Could you give me an idea of how many people are in the West Side area. 686 01:48:07.160 --> 01:48:09.570 Elizabeth Wright: working as part of the circle? 687 01:48:10.690 --> 01:48:14.670 Elizabeth Wright: You You said it was small, but as well as small. 688 01:48:14.940 --> 01:48:17.730 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Yeah, so let me just give you an overview of 689 01:48:17.780 --> 01:48:31.070 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: like on any given day like so we do have the crisis response team that's available 24, 7. So that team is is out and about, either responding to a call or doing proactive outreach. That's 24, 7, 690 01:48:31.170 --> 01:48:39.690 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: and then we have our pro active outreach team, and that's that team that goes out into the community kind of like a what I call like a footbeat team. 691 01:48:39.720 --> 01:48:46.460 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: and they're available 7 days a week during business hours. So if it's like noon 692 01:48:46.470 --> 01:49:03.000 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: on a Tuesday or Saturday, or something like that, you're gonna have that crisis response to you. But you'll have the the proactive team out there and then the case Coordinator: who's kind of like the case manager. Yeah. So it's 5 people. And then the case coordinator who's kind of like the case manager. 693 01:49:03.260 --> 01:49:16.910 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Typically, you'll They'll be like a 40 h week work week for that person who's supporting the teams and referrals and stuff like that. And then, of course, you have. You know, higher level leadership Staff. That's kind of providing 694 01:49:16.910 --> 01:49:29.850 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: oversight and and and helping with the management of all the teams and kind of administrative, and all of that meeting with partners and all of that type of thing. So hopefully that gives you a sense of 695 01:49:29.850 --> 01:49:37.900 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: kind of the workings of one. And that's just the West Side right? So we have 5 operating areas, and you'll see that is duplicated in each of those areas. 696 01:49:38.250 --> 01:49:38.920 Elizabeth Wright: Yes. 697 01:49:40.600 --> 01:49:41.450 Elizabeth Wright: thank you. 698 01:49:41.670 --> 01:49:44.960 Vicki Halliday: Thanks, Liz Co. That Go ahead. 699 01:50:00.680 --> 01:50:02.050 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: call it. We can't hear you. 700 01:50:02.910 --> 01:50:04.060 Vicki Halliday: She's trying. 701 01:50:12.700 --> 01:50:16.800 Vicki Halliday: Jody, You want to go ahead. What college. figuring that out 702 01:50:17.530 --> 01:50:29.940 C Bailey: there she got it. Hold on there. She got it. Sorry that's all right. Unmute button wasn't working. I have a question about budget and accountability and 703 01:50:29.950 --> 01:50:34.480 C Bailey: a what are the measurable goals 704 01:50:35.100 --> 01:50:48.400 C Bailey: for for the program? How much money has been spent, how much money is planned to be spent, 2,000, you know, in 2,023 going into 2,024, and what 705 01:50:48.980 --> 01:50:51.920 C Bailey: can we expect to see as the results and outcomes? 706 01:50:53.740 --> 01:51:08.680 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Thank you. So the budget for this fiscal year. So we look at it, not in a calendar year basis, but fiscal year. So July through June was 8 million for the city wide program, and we received an additional 1.5 707 01:51:08.710 --> 01:51:23.110 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: 1 million through Federal funding through Congress, Member Ted Lew through the Department of justice. and so that that particular monies are used for the West Side portion, and that'll go that'll stretch through 708 01:51:23.550 --> 01:51:27.320 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: September, ish that money. And so. 709 01:51:27.470 --> 01:51:39.600 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: as we come upon the next. This we have to see how much funding is going to be dedicated, so we don't yet know. But this this funding for this fiscal year was to 710 01:51:39.600 --> 01:51:53.270 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: expand the program. And so, as I mentioned earlier, we expanded our existing areas, and then we also expanded to 3 additional areas throughout the City, and so 711 01:51:53.380 --> 01:51:58.870 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: the Metrics are the what are we taking away from Lapd? 712 01:51:59.120 --> 01:52:02.140 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: What kind of what? What are the numbers as far as 713 01:52:02.150 --> 01:52:13.110 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: the calls that we're taking from lapd the incidents that are being managed, and then, as far as the you know, referrals and services, what Connections to Services are being provided. 714 01:52:13.300 --> 01:52:20.640 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: And so that's how we're measuring the effect of the program. It's. It's evolved, it's still a new program. So 715 01:52:20.680 --> 01:52:33.440 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: again, the evolution of collect collecting the data, what kinds of data we want to see that has evolved over the course of these last, like 6 months. As we became went from a pilot to a program 716 01:52:34.760 --> 01:52:40.730 C Bailey: if you're taking money from Lapd or taking calls from Lpd: I'm: sorry I don't totally understand. 717 01:52:40.980 --> 01:52:45.230 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Yeah. So we're taking incidents away from Lapd, so that they don't need to respond. 718 01:52:45.460 --> 01:52:48.040 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: We're not. 719 01:52:48.770 --> 01:53:00.480 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: We're not. We are not taking money out of Lap's budget. This is from the general fund, so none of our dollars are from Lapd's budget. and as far as 720 01:53:00.770 --> 01:53:16.580 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: crime, I mean, we can ask when we have asked only Pd. To look at crime in the areas where we're operating. We saw it. We know from former lapd Captain Steve embrick from Pacific that crime dropped dramatically after 721 01:53:16.580 --> 01:53:21.220 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: the the camera to home. Operation. That's funny 722 01:53:21.640 --> 01:53:24.110 C Bailey: that I okay go ahead. 723 01:53:24.700 --> 01:53:40.020 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Well, that's what he is shared with me. But I don't know, and as far as you know, looking at calls for service for these types of issues where our teams are proactively out there. We've seen some declines in some areas, but a lot of it's like correlation. So it's. It's very hard to pinpoint 724 01:53:40.250 --> 01:53:43.030 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: some of these outcomes. 725 01:53:45.650 --> 01:53:46.420 C Bailey: Thanks. 726 01:53:46.810 --> 01:53:50.870 Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Jodie. Why don't you ask your question. 727 01:53:51.890 --> 01:53:55.280 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: Thank you, Vicki. Thank you very much, Shannon. 728 01:53:55.360 --> 01:54:05.970 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: and also want to thank in advance Victoria, Katherine and Keenan for coming out. I know, Shannon, you have a tough job first. I want to say, what are you in a panic room or an interrogation room? 729 01:54:07.810 --> 01:54:12.040 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: My kitchen? I didn't my 730 01:54:12.600 --> 01:54:15.890 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: It's just my my humble one bedroom apartment. 731 01:54:16.500 --> 01:54:25.510 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: Okay, here comes the No, I do think when when I averaged the numbers out over the last 9 months, it seems like it's only about 3 calls 732 01:54:25.900 --> 01:54:35.440 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: incidents per day, on average, 3 to 4 incidents per day within the last 9 months. It seems to me that maybe we could use some more in teams out there. 733 01:54:35.630 --> 01:54:37.830 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: another at least one more team out there. 734 01:54:37.920 --> 01:54:49.020 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: Also we can talk about, I think. Erica touched on it with first touched on it with the rain coming, and there's the the city really got. 735 01:54:49.620 --> 01:54:56.790 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: You know. I I I give the new mayor and your team a lot of props for what you're doing. But the last rainstorm we had. I had. 736 01:54:57.060 --> 01:55:03.660 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: I specifically new individuals that were in crisis, and could not get a a shelter anywhere. 737 01:55:03.690 --> 01:55:05.490 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: No bets at all. 738 01:55:05.540 --> 01:55:17.070 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: so there should have been more beds to be done, and I I hope that the the Circle team can work to improve something like that. A question, for I guess. Keenan ken I 739 01:55:17.450 --> 01:55:23.250 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: can. We bring somebody to the decompression centers if we need to 740 01:55:23.750 --> 01:55:24.900 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: doing outreach. 741 01:55:25.970 --> 01:55:48.170 Kenon Joseph: So we what we would like to do. I mean. We know individuals have mobility issues getting to our decompression centers it. Our decompression centers are not necessarily a drop in facility, but we we do utilize them to let individuals decompress and get out of the elements. If you take my contact information and you coordinate with me. 742 01:55:48.450 --> 01:55:52.830 Kenon Joseph: we can. We can work individuals into our decompression centers. 743 01:55:53.300 --> 01:56:05.040 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: Jody, Jody, are you with a particular group that does outreach, and that is that maybe we can. I'm with the committee. I'm. Also a veteran that does a peer peer support specialists. So I do it individually. 744 01:56:05.110 --> 01:56:06.120 Kenon Joseph: Okay, great. 745 01:56:06.360 --> 01:56:09.170 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Okay, yeah, let's definitely connect Jody. So we can support 746 01:56:09.660 --> 01:56:10.300 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: sure. 747 01:56:10.380 --> 01:56:22.690 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: And I do think that an ex, a direct line would be something also that the circle could really use, that you have in the past. I know you have to meet certain criteria. Maybe that criteria can relaxed a little bit. 748 01:56:22.700 --> 01:56:32.620 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: and and we can talk about the successful stories, or some improvements, or your turnover rate or anything. But would you be open for a right along for one of our committee members? 749 01:56:39.010 --> 01:56:41.190 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: Oh, absolutely, Joey, that's not. 750 01:56:41.500 --> 01:56:55.940 Kenon Joseph: That's the magic work. I don't know, man, we love that that that's how we engage Right definitely, definitely. I again do you? I I hopefully Shannon, can get my email out to you all, or somebody can drop my email that in the chat. 751 01:56:57.890 --> 01:56:59.730 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Yeah, i'll share it with Vicki after. 752 01:56:59.940 --> 01:57:02.460 Kenon Joseph: Okay, Great. Thank you. 753 01:57:02.740 --> 01:57:03.850 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: No problem. 754 01:57:05.850 --> 01:57:11.720 Vicki Halliday: Okay, I think Stan would like to ask something. Stan: go ahead. 755 01:57:12.370 --> 01:57:22.570 Ansar Muhammad: So I think one question I have is, is the Circle team a subcontractor to the herb of an allergy organization or you guys up. 756 01:57:26.360 --> 01:57:39.820 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: So we held a request for proposals process and Urban alchemy responded to our applied to be the operator of the program. So it's it's 757 01:57:40.100 --> 01:57:40.760 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: this 758 01:57:40.830 --> 01:57:46.710 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: urban alchemy is a contractor, but it's the Circle program, it's that they're operating. Does that help? 759 01:57:47.320 --> 01:58:00.370 Ansar Muhammad: Yeah. And the reason why? I'm asking because how? How do a local organization qualify to be a subcontractor with you guys? And the reason why i'm bringing this up? Because my agency. 760 01:58:01.230 --> 01:58:10.690 which is the helper foundation is responsible through the game reduction. You've development program through the Mayor's office to handle all the gang stuff. 761 01:58:11.020 --> 01:58:15.170 Ansar Muhammad: And when I tell you guys that my team is responding 762 01:58:15.530 --> 01:58:18.420 to a lot of the gang activity 763 01:58:18.730 --> 01:58:22.710 Ansar Muhammad: and practically as protecting some of your guys team members 764 01:58:22.750 --> 01:58:34.870 Ansar Muhammad: when it comes to the local gangs flaring up around these these and cameras, and I just got their report. Today we have to run an intervention, because, as you mentioned, and on the front end, brother, is that you guys deal with 765 01:58:35.030 --> 01:58:48.560 Ansar Muhammad: lived experienced folks, and formally incarcerated a lot of times. These are former gang members. and apparently one of your your your team members was identified. and there was a local gang member who basically hit him up. 766 01:58:49.020 --> 01:58:52.970 Ansar Muhammad: and the brother that works for you didn't shy away from that. 767 01:58:53.030 --> 01:59:10.390 Ansar Muhammad: But the neighborhood that he represent has always been a historical enemy to the finished online crypt gain. and it it damn there! It got real ugly. And so my team was notified, and we had to run an intervention. So I think, after this call we need to really be talking 768 01:59:10.570 --> 01:59:13.100 Ansar Muhammad: about how to qualify to get 769 01:59:13.480 --> 01:59:24.530 Ansar Muhammad: our agency in this. In this, in this mix with you guys, because not only we not only are we doing the gang and events and stuff, but we also doing intentional outreach. And this is when you have 770 01:59:24.830 --> 01:59:33.330 Ansar Muhammad: young brothers and individuals who was formly involved in the gain. Lifestyle is now living in the 10 in Venice. 771 01:59:33.480 --> 01:59:46.020 Ansar Muhammad: and they basically control and then campus quite as kept. So I want to have a follow up conversation because it's really it's almost like a parachute that came into Venice. You guys set up shot 772 01:59:46.040 --> 01:59:48.800 Ansar Muhammad: and you taking care of business. There's nothing wrong with that. 773 01:59:49.050 --> 02:00:05.250 Ansar Muhammad: But we we cannot discount the agencies that has been there for 25 years, providing public safety services on the ground. So i'm hoping we can have that conversation, and then the the final question that I have is you mentioned local? 774 02:00:05.340 --> 02:00:08.950 Ansar Muhammad: I really would like to see that policy because i'm being told 775 02:00:09.180 --> 02:00:22.200 Ansar Muhammad: that there is no one from Venice that I know that's lived experience like myself or for me, incarcerated like myself, right because i'm connected to all the folks that have been given an opportunity to work. 776 02:00:22.740 --> 02:00:26.120 Ansar Muhammad: So what is the policy when it comes to 777 02:00:26.760 --> 02:00:31.220 Ansar Muhammad: local hire? And can we have a conversation after tonight? Thank you. 778 02:00:31.740 --> 02:00:38.890 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Yeah. I. I definitely appreciate your comments, and I appreciate you raising these issues. I think, as 779 02:00:40.530 --> 02:00:59.550 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: fellow Mayor's office contractor, there's definitely ways that we can connect and have this conversation and resolve these issues together, because really we're not here to duplicate. We're not here to step on anyone's toes really trying to push in the same direction as as organizations like yourself, so 780 02:00:59.860 --> 02:01:12.990 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: we can provide our contact information to Vicki. She could share that with you, or you could work through your Mirror's office channels through Grid and our off Mayor's office of Public Safety to connect with me, and we can set something up. 781 02:01:13.700 --> 02:01:19.430 Ansar Muhammad: I would prefer Vicki because it'd be quicker, and I can probably more than likely reach out to you guys tomorrow. 782 02:01:19.670 --> 02:01:22.950 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Okay, fabulous sounds good. Thank you. 783 02:01:23.030 --> 02:01:24.100 Ansar Muhammad: You very welcome. 784 02:01:25.630 --> 02:01:31.980 Vicki Halliday: like your like comer. But do you have any questions. 785 02:01:31.990 --> 02:01:37.240 Ansar Muhammad: Stan Muhammad? I'm: just exactly the executive director for the Helper Foundation. 786 02:01:37.740 --> 02:01:42.870 Kenon Joseph: Okay, Stan Mohammed. Thank you. Thank you. I want to connect with you. I've done a lot of work with the grid. 787 02:01:43.120 --> 02:01:49.110 Ansar Muhammad: I don't know if you're familiar with Taco, or or or very familiar with all of them. 788 02:01:49.130 --> 02:01:57.380 Kenon Joseph: There you go, there you go. So I've done a lot of work. Maybe this is a great opportunity to connect, so Venice has always been 789 02:01:57.750 --> 02:02:09.050 Ansar Muhammad: different from in well, based on my my understanding. Venice is not like South Central. It's not like it's not like it's. It's like a island of its own Bro. 790 02:02:09.150 --> 02:02:28.460 Ansar Muhammad: And we we still have the B 13 S. The which is the threat, say, there we got to show lies there, so we have to respect. We have to respect this this population, so luckily we was able to identify who your worker was, because he he made it very clear where he was from. But what he didn't know. 791 02:02:28.570 --> 02:02:36.920 Ansar Muhammad: that there has been a historical beef because he's been gone for 20 years. Bro. So it's been a historical beef between his neighborhood 792 02:02:36.980 --> 02:02:52.430 Ansar Muhammad: and the show lines right. So one of my staff, one of my C. Iw's, got the call and had to literally go, and this was like in the evening. Now I had to literally go sit down and the brother on your answer. You know what I apologize, man, but the little little cat hit me up. 793 02:02:52.870 --> 02:02:57.970 Ansar Muhammad: So the the these are the things that we really need to really be conscious of. 794 02:02:58.190 --> 02:03:08.980 Ansar Muhammad: and that's why we need to be in the conversation even when the Rp. Come out. It's not about the help or getting the the the grant or proposal, but put something to you know 795 02:03:09.140 --> 02:03:24.230 Ansar Muhammad: kind of saying. In other words. you know what I'm saying because we're there. We're gonna be there. This is our this is our neighborhood. So we got. We got to be there, we there now. Matter of fact, this would be quite honest with you guys. Whenever there's an issue that law enforcement don't respond to 796 02:03:24.960 --> 02:03:31.150 Ansar Muhammad: your folks is calling my people. Hey, Spike, can you come through? We' to go over here and do this? Well to check. 797 02:03:31.520 --> 02:03:36.860 Ansar Muhammad: and my people under my direction. I'm letting them know. Go over there and help do whatever you can to help. 798 02:03:37.570 --> 02:03:45.720 Ansar Muhammad: But we're not being compensated in terms of what you all is receiving. We're being compensated through the through the the Grid office 799 02:03:45.810 --> 02:03:52.130 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: directly gang intervention stuff. So I just saying, we we we need to have a conversation off record. 800 02:03:52.400 --> 02:04:01.850 Ansar Muhammad: So we can really partner and collaborate in a real way, because Venice is a different. It's a different landscape there. Okay, Thank you. 801 02:04:04.440 --> 02:04:05.120 Vicki Halliday: Right. 802 02:04:05.510 --> 02:04:07.990 frank murphy: Yeah. 803 02:04:08.890 --> 02:04:18.310 frank murphy: Apologize for being late. I I very I'm typically not like not the 804 02:04:18.430 --> 02:04:21.010 frank murphy: Don't miss these meetings. 805 02:04:21.070 --> 02:04:32.790 frank murphy: but to segue in behind what Stan was referring to is. And also we found that a lot of the homeless within the homeless community 806 02:04:32.800 --> 02:04:41.050 frank murphy: that are perfectly capable of assisting in a lot of these issues that are coming up. Why 807 02:04:41.150 --> 02:04:43.910 frank murphy: isn't the circle team? 808 02:04:44.250 --> 02:04:52.120 frank murphy: Local hiring? I I don't get it. you know. It seems like there's a huge disconnect. 809 02:04:52.170 --> 02:04:55.240 frank murphy: and it's not. It's not playing out well 810 02:04:55.550 --> 02:05:05.510 frank murphy: with many, many of the residents housed and on and on house within, within Venice community, so i'm just 811 02:05:05.790 --> 02:05:09.720 frank murphy: curious as to why there isn't a huge, much 812 02:05:09.900 --> 02:05:17.190 frank murphy: greater effort to hire locals, including homeless, that are that are 813 02:05:17.340 --> 02:05:20.240 frank murphy: capable of handling handling. 814 02:05:21.910 --> 02:05:27.840 frank murphy: handling issues much more capable than the circle team that has presented itself 815 02:05:27.890 --> 02:05:35.460 frank murphy: has been able to handle it as we've seen. Can you help That's That's my question. 816 02:05:36.230 --> 02:05:38.770 PatRaphael: I would even add that I already doing it, Frank. 817 02:05:47.600 --> 02:05:49.450 frank murphy: I think that was for Shannon. 818 02:05:50.820 --> 02:06:07.900 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Yeah. So there is a requirement to hire locally because we want to make sure that the teams at least a portion of the teams reflect the communities for which you know there the outreach is being done. So you know Venice is very different from 819 02:06:07.920 --> 02:06:16.230 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: you know, a Pakima, or different from Hollywood. So there is that requirement, and I know that 820 02:06:16.670 --> 02:06:28.480 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: that urban alchemy does hire locally. Now is everyone local. No, you know we look at other requirements to make sure we're for filling. We are getting the array of of experience and 821 02:06:29.600 --> 02:06:37.900 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: talents that we want to see in our team. So. But if you know, I think another thing that we can share is the link to the careers page where people can apply 822 02:06:37.980 --> 02:06:46.530 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: to be a circle practitioner, and so folks can share that around to make sure that we we're getting 823 02:06:46.550 --> 02:06:50.030 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: a good full of applicants that are from the the Venice neighborhood 824 02:06:50.980 --> 02:06:55.820 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: and open to any other ideas as far as recruitment that you guys might have or thoughts. 825 02:06:56.490 --> 02:06:58.860 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: Well, maybe a little bit 826 02:06:59.260 --> 02:07:02.860 frank murphy: follow up. Question would be if You're getting a 827 02:07:03.190 --> 02:07:08.980 frank murphy: pool of applicants, Are they being deployed in the neighborhood that they're from? Not 828 02:07:09.600 --> 02:07:17.380 frank murphy: somewhere else? I mean. The the point is that they know the folks. you know, if you're hiring homeless folks. 829 02:07:17.700 --> 02:07:24.530 frank murphy: you know, on these streets they know the homeless folks, and therefore a lot of these issues can be circumvented 830 02:07:24.940 --> 02:07:29.490 frank murphy: long time before you know Stan's Grew knows the folks. 831 02:07:29.670 --> 02:07:31.410 frank murphy: so you know 832 02:07:32.090 --> 02:07:35.050 frank murphy: they can diffuse situations very quickly. 833 02:07:35.270 --> 02:07:37.890 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: I have. I appreciate 834 02:07:38.310 --> 02:07:42.730 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: this being raised, and I think you know we'll. We'll meet offline with 835 02:07:42.740 --> 02:07:54.120 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: with Stan's groups. It's the first I've heard about that issue so happy to investigate it further, and see how we can collaborate and see it's already Folks that want to work with our team, or 836 02:07:54.320 --> 02:08:05.930 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: we're collaborating some more more formal fashion, you know. I'm not sure, but I will say that, you know. For instance, we had a an area lead of our Hollywood area. 837 02:08:05.930 --> 02:08:14.490 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: He lives in the valley. So once we launched our valley area. We, you know, sent him out there because he knows that community, and you know it's. 838 02:08:14.540 --> 02:08:24.880 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: It makes sense. It makes sense. I think we're all in agreement here. And so if there are ways that we can fulfill that to a greater degree, definitely want to look at it. So I appreciate you guys raising that. 839 02:08:27.660 --> 02:08:33.220 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: I I can add to that on that front, having worked with urban alchemy for a few years now, and I think 840 02:08:33.220 --> 02:08:52.800 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: the goal is to get as many local hires as as they like. It doesn't always work out that way, but local also could be in the general West side la area in the areas that I've worked with them in the past. Whether that was Echo Park, West Lake, and Hollywood, as they've mentioned, especially once They've been there for a while. 841 02:08:53.020 --> 02:08:55.680 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: I have met a lot of the local hires 842 02:08:55.680 --> 02:09:16.630 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: that were previously unhoused in some of our encampments that we're already working in some of these sites as well as member. Some of them also do the mobile pit stops in our areas. So some of those individuals do have that experience from some of my streets or my areas that I've covered in the past. 843 02:09:16.630 --> 02:09:36.490 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: and to that sometimes simply because they may not be of that. You know, neighborhood. We have had just the simple fact that they have experienced homelessness, and can have that relationship in terms of just having that same experience. It does go a long way, having seen it first. 844 02:09:36.550 --> 02:09:55.780 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: So but that is a good point to bring up Frank, and if you guys have anyone as Shannon mentioned. They do have a a portal where you can submit applications and things like that, and I've personally met Dr. Miller, who's the CEO, and that is their primary goal is to try and have as many people that work 845 02:09:55.780 --> 02:10:05.340 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: in the local streets working. But, as you know, or as you may or may not know. I'm sorry. It's not always as simple as saying, Well, we're only going to hire if you live in the area. 846 02:10:05.460 --> 02:10:23.450 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: So if you are aware of any candidates, as Shannon mentioned, feel free to go on the website, you know, upload their information so that hopefully, as I'm, pushing for the councilwoman to expand the circle program within CD. 11 into other areas. 847 02:10:23.450 --> 02:10:28.630 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: They might already be in that pipeline for for possibly being interviewed. 848 02:10:31.140 --> 02:10:34.930 Vicki Halliday: I I have one quick question for one and Jim 849 02:10:36.040 --> 02:10:41.940 Vicki Halliday: one of the things that always helps the community understand. If we see stats now and again. 850 02:10:42.420 --> 02:10:50.380 Vicki Halliday: are you sending stats over to Tracy's office that we could get from one on a monthly or a quarterly basis. 851 02:10:51.380 --> 02:10:57.000 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Yeah, Vicki, Thank you for that question. So we are assuring it stats with the Council offices, and I think 852 02:10:57.080 --> 02:11:03.380 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: one of the one of my dreams is to have a website where we can close these stats. 853 02:11:03.440 --> 02:11:17.750 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: You know it's it's just to be candid, you know it's been, you know. I've I've been around for the ending of an administration in the beginning of a new one. So there's still a lot being worked out, so I hope at some point we will have a a nice website where you could just go and see 854 02:11:17.750 --> 02:11:30.340 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: kind of the latest greatest stats on their program. But i'm happy to share some more stats. That's why I wanted to include that in the the slides as well to to get a sense of the work that's going on. Now that the program has been operating for a little bit. Now. 855 02:11:30.620 --> 02:11:36.840 Vicki Halliday: that's great. It would really be appreciated. And I think it would. You know the community has something to say. 856 02:11:37.200 --> 02:11:51.820 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: Yeah, Vicki, we do get him. Actually, Shannon shared it today. So we do get him, and as we get on more than happy to share him. But I think Shannon, said she'd be happy to do that as well, and as we mentioned in our 857 02:11:51.820 --> 02:12:09.450 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: at our Town Hall, if you attended CD. Eleven's goal is to to have a kind of West Side homeless meeting at least once a month, where we bring all these partners to go over all of these to where we can have them present to the community kind of what they're doing 858 02:12:09.450 --> 02:12:38.540 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: to kind of at least once a month. So if there are numbers to report, they can report them, we can get updates on that from all our different service providers. so that that information that is asked for from a lot of community partners. Not just you, Vicki I. It is something that comes up. We can. We can share that information as we get it. As you know, the Council woman is very data driven, so she's asking this of the departments at city call as well. So we're hitting it on all angles. 859 02:12:38.590 --> 02:12:40.190 Vicki Halliday: Great, Thank you. 860 02:12:40.610 --> 02:12:43.230 Brian U: Hey. Sneak in real quick. 861 02:12:43.290 --> 02:12:52.330 Brian U: Yeah, of course. Thank you. Hi, Thank you all. It was great, Shannon, keen on everybody. I have a follow up 862 02:12:53.010 --> 02:13:04.430 Brian U: you've mentioned, keen on you mentioned, shared housing, and I'm. Involved in an organization called Share Self Help and Recovery Exchange. We had a contract with CD. 11. That's still in place 863 02:13:04.490 --> 02:13:07.970 Brian U: to house 100 people for $500,000. 864 02:13:08.120 --> 02:13:12.360 Brian U: We have 71 people since the end of last year. 865 02:13:12.480 --> 02:13:17.680 Brian U: and I just want to make sure that you guys are aware, just like 866 02:13:17.940 --> 02:13:23.040 Brian U: it seemed tonight, like you weren't aware of, stands group you weren't aware of Lisa's group. 867 02:13:23.050 --> 02:13:31.600 Brian U: Your whether you're aware of our group or not, and Juan's been terrific meeting with us and trying to figure out where we're contracts were. But 868 02:13:31.710 --> 02:13:35.270 Brian U: I just want to introduce you to the program. 869 02:13:35.290 --> 02:13:40.420 Brian U: We we found that 30% of the people in encampments are willing to go into shared housing 870 02:13:40.750 --> 02:13:43.440 Brian U: until the outreach teams come 871 02:13:43.480 --> 02:13:47.570 Brian U: inside safe, and those that are offering a better deal, so to speak. 872 02:13:48.630 --> 02:13:57.190 Brian U: So if you have areas that you're not doing inside safe, it would be a good place for us to go before 873 02:13:58.040 --> 02:14:01.690 Brian U: before the insights safe people get there. 874 02:14:03.370 --> 02:14:05.540 frank murphy: anyway. That that's my 2 sets. 875 02:14:05.550 --> 02:14:09.320 Brian U: and I thank you for for helping us out in this, too. 876 02:14:11.470 --> 02:14:18.190 Kenon Joseph: Yeah, thank you so much, Brian. Thank you for that. And I think that you know I I'm fortunate enough to be here with Shannon. 877 02:14:18.430 --> 02:14:22.100 Kenon Joseph: you know, to create these relationships 878 02:14:22.340 --> 02:14:34.220 Kenon Joseph: right? We we we don't know about what I don't know about your organization specifically, and i'm appreciative of the stats that you just threw out there about shared housing. because you know. 879 02:14:34.480 --> 02:14:45.800 Kenon Joseph: you know we have to be created. We kind of kind of think outside the box in terms of of how we bring resources to our our individual experience and home. This is on the streets. So so thank you, Brian. 880 02:14:45.820 --> 02:14:49.880 Brian U: You're welcome love to meet with you and and let you hear about our our group. 881 02:14:50.060 --> 02:14:51.690 Kenon Joseph: Absolutely. Let's do it. 882 02:14:51.950 --> 02:14:52.680 Brian U: Yeah. 883 02:14:52.900 --> 02:15:05.860 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: and and thanks, Brian. Well, as I as we're even us kind of getting our bearings in order as well, we're we'll circle back with everyone. Slight pun intended, I guess. 884 02:15:06.000 --> 02:15:25.620 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: with everyone on some of those resources. You're not supposed to share that i'm very living as it is but no wheels. We're definitely trying to partner with everyone, and I am actively looking at where we can bring some more interim housing. You're right, you know, when you get the inside safe offer that's probably the 885 02:15:25.620 --> 02:15:34.610 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: one of the better ones that's out there right now, but it is very limited, and even now, you know that's gonna be coming to a slower 886 02:15:34.640 --> 02:15:38.090 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: roll out now in this sense. But 887 02:15:38.140 --> 02:15:50.650 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: I think every option is is gotta be on the table, and we're currently exploring that. And I think it'd be great for all of us to start kind of collaborating a little bit better on on some of these sites that probably wouldn't 888 02:15:50.740 --> 02:16:03.600 Juan Fregoso - CD 11: qualify, I wouldn't say qualified, but probably aren't going to be on the inside safe shortlist anytime soon, especially here in Venice. We'll be of. We'll be in touch. 889 02:16:04.140 --> 02:16:05.120 Brian U: Thanks. One 890 02:16:05.640 --> 02:16:10.110 Brian U: just an extra tool in your tool belt guys. Thank you. 891 02:16:11.040 --> 02:16:18.340 Vicki Halliday: Right that that pretty much wraps it up. We've had great public comment and committee comment, and 892 02:16:18.620 --> 02:16:31.420 Vicki Halliday: I want to thank Shannon and Latoya and Kevin and Katherine, and one for for hanging in with us and explaining it all. I think it's it's really great for us to hear about it all. 893 02:16:31.880 --> 02:16:32.799 Vicki Halliday: Thank you. 894 02:16:33.049 --> 02:16:36.219 Shannon Prior - CIRCLE /LA Mayor's Office: Thank you so much. I really appreciate the opportunity. 895 02:16:36.459 --> 02:16:40.209 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: Thanks, Vicki. 896 02:16:40.230 --> 02:16:44.400 frank murphy: Welcome. I'm going to turn it over to you now, Frank, if you have a roundtable. 897 02:16:44.790 --> 02:16:49.180 frank murphy: I have no round table at this point. 898 02:16:51.299 --> 02:16:52.330 Vicki Halliday: All right. 899 02:16:52.480 --> 02:16:59.299 Vicki Halliday: so I I. The only thing would be left on our agenda tonight would be 900 02:16:59.440 --> 02:17:02.430 Vicki Halliday: public comment of not agendized items. 901 02:17:07.450 --> 02:17:09.000 frank murphy: Right? Correct? 902 02:17:09.469 --> 02:17:10.490 Vicki Halliday: Okay. 903 02:17:14.420 --> 02:17:18.299 frank murphy: So thanks all. Yeah, thank you, and 904 02:17:19.530 --> 02:17:23.590 Vicki Halliday: and we'll move right along. We've got some hands up for comment. 905 02:17:27.690 --> 02:17:29.879 Vicki Halliday: Judy. Go ahead. 906 02:17:33.879 --> 02:17:36.709 Judy Goldman: I already asked my question. 907 02:17:37.290 --> 02:17:39.920 Vicki Halliday: Thank you. He was back up. Okay. 908 02:17:40.330 --> 02:17:41.959 Judy Goldman: Thank you. Thank you. 909 02:17:42.920 --> 02:17:45.209 Vicki Halliday: Let's see. 910 02:17:46.780 --> 02:17:48.040 Vicki Halliday: Today. 911 02:17:50.440 --> 02:17:54.180 Vicki Halliday: I'm: I'm butchering that name. I know. Delay Fara. 912 02:17:57.430 --> 02:18:04.500 Talei Ferra: Hello. I'm a student at Lmu, and I was just curious to hear about everything around Venice. 913 02:18:04.680 --> 02:18:10.510 Talei Ferra: and I was just wondering if this would be posted onto the Venice. 914 02:18:10.520 --> 02:18:23.870 Talei Ferra: the website where this link was found. 915 02:18:24.420 --> 02:18:26.420 Vicki Halliday: Let's see here? 916 02:18:27.559 --> 02:18:30.549 Vicki Halliday: Well. 917 02:18:30.620 --> 02:18:31.850 Vicki Halliday: there is. 918 02:18:36.879 --> 02:18:49.420 Lionel Mares: Yes, thank you. Good evening. Ben is Neighborhood Council Homelessness Committee. My name is Lionel. I'm a resident City 6. The reason why i'm calling here because last week I was at the Tracy Park, Webinar. 919 02:18:49.540 --> 02:18:53.040 Lionel Mares: and unfortunately, quantity that, or anyone else 920 02:18:53.180 --> 02:18:55.870 Lionel Mares: from her office race. 921 02:18:55.879 --> 02:19:04.580 Lionel Mares: I'm muted me. I waited for an hour over an hour, and I was watching documentary about a phone line Pbs about homelessness, poverty, and politics. 922 02:19:04.670 --> 02:19:06.770 Lionel Mares: How the poorer neighborhoods 923 02:19:06.820 --> 02:19:11.570 Lionel Mares: like Example CD. 6, which is a predominantly working class. Poor neighborhood 924 02:19:11.629 --> 02:19:14.750 Lionel Mares: community suffered a burden of 925 02:19:15.270 --> 02:19:23.340 Lionel Mares: the homelessness crisis. I know, and and and poverty, whereas upper class neighborhood council are displacing 926 02:19:23.690 --> 02:19:34.379 Lionel Mares: unhouse neighbors to other poor neighborhoods, and I, I don't think it's fair for the West Side to displace on house people to poorer neighborhoods. All of us. 927 02:19:34.400 --> 02:19:40.620 Lionel Mares: we as a resident of Los Angeles, all of us from the valley to San Pedro to Chaffer, to somewhere. 928 02:19:40.780 --> 02:19:52.660 Lionel Mares: you know, to north. Probably we all we we all have to work together on solving. This. This is a city-wide issue, not a district issue a city-wide. Issue. This is a humanitarian crisis 929 02:19:52.720 --> 02:20:01.710 Lionel Mares: in that, and I don't think it's fair for one district or one neighbor to suffer the burden of providing housing, all of us to be providing housing 930 02:20:02.020 --> 02:20:10.020 Lionel Mares: to all working class and people who are unhouse. you know. And this is why Venice is under it's it's so frustrating. I've been. 931 02:20:10.200 --> 02:20:14.410 Lionel Mares: I think, for the past, you know meetings. It's not fair. No, thank 932 02:20:14.750 --> 02:20:18.410 Vicki Halliday: thank you, Lionel Lisa. Why, go ahead, please. 933 02:20:20.270 --> 02:20:29.060 Lisa Redmond: Well, I was gonna say this, but Lionel had a good point. I think it's sad that when Section 8 vouchers come up that they only 934 02:20:29.450 --> 02:20:33.930 Lisa Redmond: landlords that will take such as Section 8 vouchers, or in South La. 935 02:20:34.000 --> 02:20:49.400 Lisa Redmond: And so we're not doing our city a favor at all by centering poor people in certain areas. And as Tracy Park did note at her Town Hall last week. It's not a neighborhood by neighborhood versus pitting against each other. It's all of our issue 936 02:20:49.610 --> 02:20:58.330 Lisa Redmond: for housing so there. But anyway, I wanted to make a comment and say grabo to pat Raphael for standing in 937 02:20:58.420 --> 02:21:12.720 Lisa Redmond: for a 7 h counts board meeting last week to the very end to talk about the cap program, and to get that motion passed at a time at the very end of the 7 h meeting. 938 02:21:12.720 --> 02:21:22.030 Lisa Redmond: when no one wanted to listen to any more motions and not listen to him or wrap their head around the program. But it passed, and great Job pat for doing that. 939 02:21:22.090 --> 02:21:23.810 Lisa Redmond: Thank you for your service. 940 02:21:24.750 --> 02:21:25.770 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: You have 941 02:21:26.840 --> 02:21:29.800 Vicki Halliday: thanks, Lisa Erica more. 942 02:21:33.390 --> 02:21:43.240 Erica Moore: Hey, there! I just want to thank you guys, for having the meeting tonight, and I wanted to just touch on this subject for a minute is emergency preparedness. I know, I, 943 02:21:43.340 --> 02:21:49.020 Erica Moore: that I'm. On the Resiliency Committee at the Dnc. And is this something that we look at. 944 02:21:49.080 --> 02:21:58.130 Erica Moore: How is that going to affect our homeless population when there is an emergency? How are we going to mobilize to address these people's? Needs? 945 02:21:58.220 --> 02:22:10.870 Erica Moore: Is there something in place of how to gather these people together, to get them services, or to have accountability to make sure everybody is safe, and, you know, not stuck under some structure or something. 946 02:22:11.140 --> 02:22:15.260 Erica Moore: just something to think about, because I know that we haven't really talked about that 947 02:22:15.380 --> 02:22:18.390 Erica Moore: in our meeting, and i'm going to bring it up to 948 02:22:18.620 --> 02:22:21.130 Erica Moore: to the you know powers that be 949 02:22:21.180 --> 02:22:31.490 Erica Moore: in our group. But it is something I think we really need to think about, especially here in Venice, where there are so many people that are on the streets. Still, I mean, I know a lot of them have are inside now, which is great. 950 02:22:31.600 --> 02:22:33.750 Erica Moore: but there are still as a faction. That's not 951 02:22:34.070 --> 02:22:40.590 Erica Moore: so. It's just something that we need to think about. We need to be prepared for ourselves and to help those who can't prepare for themselves. Thanks. 952 02:22:41.900 --> 02:22:43.180 Vicki Halliday: Thank you, Erica. 953 02:22:43.360 --> 02:22:45.530 Vicki Halliday: Right over to you 954 02:22:47.420 --> 02:22:55.080 frank murphy: all right. Well, that's the last on the public comment on non-agendized items. 955 02:22:55.120 --> 02:22:59.470 frank murphy: Now it's committee comments on non-agend nice items. 956 02:22:59.770 --> 02:23:03.280 frank murphy: Anybody I have any further. 957 02:23:03.490 --> 02:23:09.700 Vicki Halliday: Oh, Frank, there is one thing we didn't do, because everybody was early. We did not 958 02:23:09.790 --> 02:23:13.380 Vicki Halliday: review, comment and adopt the minutes from last month. 959 02:23:15.090 --> 02:23:20.410 frank murphy: Okay. let's pick that up on the next. 960 02:23:23.560 --> 02:23:24.850 Vicki Halliday: Okay, okay. 961 02:23:25.390 --> 02:23:27.470 frank murphy: So Jody. 962 02:23:27.730 --> 02:23:29.750 Brian U: can't we make a motion now and approve it. 963 02:23:30.980 --> 02:23:41.170 frank murphy: Yeah, we can make it. Well, I don't know if I haven't posted I i'm. I'm. I don't think I have it posted. I need to post it and make sure we got everybody got it 964 02:23:41.680 --> 02:23:42.310 perfect. 965 02:23:42.420 --> 02:23:45.090 Vicki Halliday: Okay. Sorry for your 966 02:23:45.290 --> 02:23:52.200 frank murphy: No, no, no problem, thank you. Thank you, for I I just want to thank all the committee members, all of you guys, for the for the for the 967 02:23:52.440 --> 02:24:00.190 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: the warm. Come dull. It is that you sent over the last week. It helped a lot, especially during this first couple of days I was in a in a real days. 968 02:24:01.410 --> 02:24:02.760 jody mortimer VNC Homeless Comm. Mem.: Yeah, and for everyone. 969 02:24:02.800 --> 02:24:06.360 frank murphy: Well, that's what one of the most difficult things 970 02:24:07.000 --> 02:24:11.640 frank murphy: anybody has to face. Moms. Yeah. 971 02:24:15.350 --> 02:24:16.880 frank murphy: Any other comments 972 02:24:18.680 --> 02:24:22.930 PatRaphael: I understand. We will be writing a letter. Sorry I didn't mean to jump in on my? 973 02:24:23.030 --> 02:24:24.200 frank murphy: No, no problem. 974 02:24:24.210 --> 02:24:35.570 PatRaphael: Yeah. So we will be writing a letter. So is there any way to see how that letter comes together for that cap motion. Who's formulating it? What the next steps are? 975 02:24:36.010 --> 02:24:38.920 frank murphy: I think that's in Jim's hands now. 976 02:24:41.560 --> 02:24:46.560 frank murphy: So they voted on it, and they need to present that to Tracy. 977 02:24:47.150 --> 02:24:57.720 PatRaphael: Okay, and then don't forget guys. It's gonna rain tomorrow and Wednesday again. Once again we're dealing with crisis situation for some folks. 978 02:24:57.860 --> 02:25:03.620 PatRaphael: We don't just have a place to go and 2 1. One is not gonna be an answer. 979 02:25:04.710 --> 02:25:05.560 frank murphy: Yeah. 980 02:25:08.380 --> 02:25:14.800 frank murphy: all right, folks, Vicki, Can you ask Shannon to see if she'd send us the slideshow. 981 02:25:15.020 --> 02:25:25.000 Vicki Halliday: Let me send her something right now and remind her of all the phone numbers she's supposed to send me. and then i'll get it tomorrow. Thank you. Rick. 982 02:25:25.130 --> 02:25:25.710 Vicki Halliday: Yeah. 983 02:25:26.800 --> 02:25:34.930 frank murphy: All right. Well, that's that's that's a rap. So we can adjourn at this point in time. 984 02:25:35.600 --> 02:25:47.900 frank murphy: Thanks, guys. Thanks. Everybody. Thanks, thanks for doing it. Thanks for doing it. Thank you, Vicki, for covering. I appreciate the hell out of it. 985 02:25:49.340 --> 02:25:54.600 frank murphy: You get him, Stan. Go get him. Stan. Take care I have no choice. 986 02:25:54.630 --> 02:25:56.660 frank murphy: Yeah, hey, Liz. 987 02:25:57.280 --> 02:25:57.980 Brian U: but 988 02:25:58.050 --> 02:25:59.270 frank murphy: take care of Brian 989 02:25:59.360 --> 02:26:00.060 Brian U: bye.