Transgender. So they are a part of that program. So lets move on to highlight women that are in our permanent Supportive Housing program. And we have 118 women in our permanent Supportive Housing, 33 are in what we call the care not cash program. And 89 in the care not cash programs. And two, women are the veron and the Mary Elizabeth inn, which is also the entity that manages both of those properties. They are called the mayor elizabeth inn. And our Services Provided in the permanent Supportive Housing is intake and assessment, out reach and engagement and food pant triin some of our buildings and definitely medation and housing and conflict resolution. And so i want to end my presentation this morning, and tell you about a very Exciting Program that hsa was able to win one of five awards across the nation. And it is called families moving forward. And it was a National Competitive prokurment through the department of health and human services. We were awarded a 4. 3 million grant, an
Shelter to house the two populations together because they move from church to church. This Pilot Program has been awarded to the providence foundation, and it is going to be held in the Western Addition at the bethel ame church. And at one point, it was the family winter shelter and we changed locations about two years ago. So, we are going to pilot this program with 30 mats for women only, it will begin the sunday before thanksgiving and it will end the last calendar day in the month of february. So some of the services that are provided are universal services in our shelters that are provided for women, who access our shelters. And what i would like to highlight that i highlighted when we talked about shelters is that we do have a Public Health nurse, who is assigned to both the single adult shelter and the family shelters who can intervene when clients have a higher aquuty that requires more medical attention and that is kate shooten from the department of Public Health. So the cen
Meet the goal. 216 families on the San Francisco centralized wait list for shelter, the last count showed an increase in the number of Homeless Individuals and families and a decrease in the percentage of those living on the street, 15 percent of homeless families in 2011 were on the street and 5 percent in 2013. Families experiencing homelessness are as a whole, similar to other low income family and face a range of obstacles, they face things. In San Francisco, it is most frequently cited cause of homelessness, followed by job loss, my colleagues at hsa and the department of Public Health will describe our Service Model in more detail but i would like to share the highlights to the Services Offered to the families. Coordinated entry, and wait list, and compass connectg points and transitional housing families who can qualify, can also access assistance from housing counselors, rental subsidies and benefits access assistance and a separate shelter and housing system for Domestic Viole
Of it would have been possible without the foresight and leadership of this board and of the city of San Francisco. So on behalf of our peers Members Around the world we extend our gratitude and thanks. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Patton murphy, george papadous. Good afternoon, my name is Patton Murphy and representing get around. I wanted to thank chairman rolan and director reiskin and directors of the board. I wont reeight the benefits that christine and hailey have mentioned. As was mentioned get around and instant car sharing allows people to instantly find rent and unlock a vehicle, so they dont have to own their own vehicle. So the benefits of car sharing are widely reported burb its basically there is an environmental benefit, a transit benefit and entrepreneurial benefit in the case of get around. For the environmental benefit, susan from uc berkeleys data suggests that car sharing vehicles eliminate 913 cars from the road. Over the course of the program, hailey mentioned
Want to do whatever we can to ensure your success. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [ reading speakers names ] good afternoon. Im a Campaign Director with peers the organization that hailey is a member of. We launched in july of last year and since then, almost 300,000 people around the world have taken action to support the sharing economy through initiatives like the sfmta car sharing parking program. Hayeys online petition is just one of the initiatives we have worked on in past year. There is say diversity of issues relevant to the economy that enrich peoples lives and people care about. When we heard about haley and how she wanted to support the Car Sharing Program as a car owner and car sharer, we saw she wanted to take action not just for herself, but for real people in the community, which is why we choose to support her and help her get her petition online to get signatures. Get around the Nonprofit Organization city car share and others have done tremendous work to