Agenda Package - City of Vernon

Evaluation of Homelessness Strategy for the North Okanagan
¡ Family Resource centre Provide 70-75 hampers each Christmas,
¡ Junction Youth Centre works with/supports 40 to 60 youth a month 320 meals serv¡ce
each month
EMERGENCY SUPPORT SERVICES
EstablÌsh a Permanent Shelter
Create a Drop ln Program with Wrap Around Services
Establish a Downtown Health Centre
Conduct a census of homeless camps and provide outreach to homeless campers
Create a orotocol resardins the discharse from VJH of someone who is homeless
Successfully Completed
Successfullv Completed
Successfully Completed
Successfully Completed
Successfully Com pleted
MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTIONS
More local access to a ranse of detoxification services
Create a Harm Reduction Strategy
Not Completed
Successfullv Completed
INCOME/EMPLOYMENT
Lobbv for an lncome Assistance Outreach Worker
Create a Childcare Prosram for Parents at Risk
Provide Access to Employment Services for People Who Are Homeless
Successfullv Completed
Successf ullv Completed
Successfully Completed
HOUSING
Lobbv for a Housins Outreach Worker
Create an Affordable Housing Strategv
Create a Land Trust Societv
Build More Supported Housing and Treatment For People with Addictions/Mental
Health
Build More Affordable Housing for lndividuals and Families
Create a Memo of Understanding (MOUI between BC Housing and City of Vernon
Develoo Non Profit Housins Business Plans
Establish Under One Roof Partnerships
Distr¡bute an Affordable Housins lnformation lnsert throush the Morning tar
Host a Housing Forum
Successfullv Completed
Successfullv Completed
Successfullv Completed
Some Success
Some Success
Some Success
Successfullv Completed
Successfully Completed
Successfully completed
Successfully Completed
COMMUNITY AWARENESS
Work with local media to hiehlieht homelessness issues and recommended actions
Host events and activities durinE Homelessness Action Week
Oneoing
Onsoins
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