Ventura-- The Board of Supervisors adopted a homeless solutions plan Tuesday, Feb. 27, which authorizes the addition of two regular full-time positions to the County Executive Office, three regular full-time positions to the Human Services Agency, and 10 fixed-term, full-time positions to the Sheriff’s Office to support the effort to end homelessness in Ventura County.
Christy Madden from the County Executives Office presented the item and said she’s following up on the LeSar Development Consultants’ Dec. plan to prevent and end homelessness.
She said the homelessness plan is divided into five action areas: Housing Prioritization & Funding, Regional Coordination and Leadership, Outreach & Service Delivery, Data-Driven Decision Making, and Representation and Delivery.
“Each prioritized action plan area, we’ll present goals and next steps that, when completed, will address homelessness across the region,” she said. “Each area is specifically targeted to address the top five gaps, and exhibit one, to your board letter, summarizes all that information.”
“The LeSar study identified a system imbalance in their quantitative analysis, and it showed that we have far more people entering the homeless system than exiting the homeless system,” Madden said. “A system that outflows and outpaces the inflows, paired with insufficient housing,…
