Thank you. I appreciate the limitations of what you can provide, and, there is a long way to go. I am concerned about those with disabilities who cannot meet the criteria. I mean, this would have a Chilling Effect on them, even seeking shelter. If they know they are not going to be accepted. If they know they cant do the care they have to, what happens . There has to be a whole population of people. I mean, there is a level of sophistication among people who are homeless. They know what they can access on what they cant access. It is a great question. It is something we also struggle with. Ive artie mentioned that we try to work with our other city departments because our department is not funded with any sort of board care, partial new nursing care and so on and so forth. We try to communicate smoothly with them. Another factor is, as you know, disabilities are very wide ranging and our shelters are basically congregate settings. There are people who cannot handle a congregate setting
Tomorrow night for the reservation. Thank you. I appreciate the limitations of what you can provide, and, there is a long way to go. I am concerned about those with disabilities who cannot meet the criteria. I mean, this would have a Chilling Effect on them, even seeking shelter. If they know they are not going to be accepted. If they know they cant do the care they have to, what happens . There has to be a whole population of people. I mean, there is a level of sophistication among people who are homeless. They know what they can access on what they cant access. It is a great question. It is something we also struggle with. Ive artie mentioned that we try to work with our other city departments because our department is not funded with any sort of board care, partial new nursing care and so on and so forth. We try to communicate smoothly with them. Another factor is, as you know, disabilities are very wide ranging and our shelters are basically congregate settings. There are people wh
We have about 45 minutes for this session and then will leave about 15 for q and a. The sponsors for our panel. Are stay with us . [applause] im happy to introduce our moderator for this session. Hes not only an attorney im sorry. I skipped over this. Hes over there. Moderator is an associate professor at the university of mississippi and hes also at the southern journal and positive. Thank you all for coming. We appreciate the presence of our guests on the panel here at the book festival. Its getting big and better every year. I will introduce briefly our guests and will carry on a discussion and i hope you all have some questions for the panel towards the end. Bestselling author of several books. Her newest book is amazons best book. Maybe some of you read this, it captures the bill of that age and its gangsters. They also call her book a well researched and highly engaging work filled with intriguing infidelity, murder and headline catching courtroom drama. Glad to have you with us.
I appreciate the limitations of what you can provide, and, there is a long way to go. I am concerned about those with disabilities who cannot meet the criteria. I mean, this would have a Chilling Effect on them, even seeking shelter. If they know they are not going to be accepted. If they know they cant do the care they have to, what happens . There has to be a whole population of people. I mean, there is a level of sophistication among people who are homeless. They know what they can access on what they cant access. It is a great question. It is something we also struggle with. Ive artie mentioned that we try to work with our other city departments because our department is not funded with any sort of board care, partial new nursing care and so on and so forth. We try to communicate smoothly with them. Another factor is, as you know, disabilities are very wide ranging and our shelters are basically congregate settings. There are people who cannot handle a congregate setting. There we
We are working to expand those thousand beds. Our reason for setting part of our strategic framework was not was not a standalone. We are also trying to expand our housing and our problemsolving to help address this. In at fiveyear Strategic Plan we hope to end family homelessness, transitional aged Youth Homelessness and reduce chronic homelessness with adults by 50 . I was asked specifically to address rules and issues with pets and Service Animals in our Emergency Services. Service companion and support animals along with pets, in the facilities are welcome in some facilities, we do not have where we can accommodate we always do. We consider transfers were possible and what we rely on is that the owner of the animal is in control of the animal at all times because these are congregate settings. We rely on the person for their care and control and what i am pleased to say is that our Navigation Center model which tries to be as low threshold as possible is open to pets as well as com