Examining the ambiguous keepers of the hotel shelter list
The hotel shelter program is a highlight of the City’s homelessness solution strategy, galvanized by the effects of the pandemic. In a December press release last year, the City boasted that it created 2,300 new temporary shelter and hotel spaces for physical distancing, and their Streets to Homes team, part of the Shelter, Support, and Housing Administration, or SSHA, helped move more than 1,100 encampment dwellers inside.
So, who is the keeper of the hotel shelter list? And how do referrals get through and who manages this intake?
By calling the municipal, 24-hour non-emergency line, 311, I spoke with an SSHA staff member in the Streets to Homes team who told me that the criteria for the hotels were that the person showed “Priority” and “Requirement” needs. Priority means they live in one of the four main encampments in the city: Moss Park, Alexandra Park, Trinity Bellwoods, or Lamport Stadium. Requirement needs
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The state Children, Youth & Families Department has introduced a much-needed, innovative lifeline for New Mexico kids who may be suffering from abuse and neglect – or are aware of someone else who is.
Knowing that youth today are most comfortable communicating via text message, CYFD recently launched a first-in-the-nation text-based platform that allows reporting directly to CYFD’s Statewide Central Intake.
“We tried to recreate the #SAFE experience, where people call that number from their cellphones…,” said spokesman Charlie Moore-Pabst. “Now, they have the option of reporting to Central Intake with a text message at 505-591-9444.”
It’s no surprise that reports of child abuse and neglect in New Mexico and elsewhere dropped precipitously with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Outside family and caregivers, kids spend more time at school than anywhere else. And with sc