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Guest speakers include Danielle Fischer, resource liaison and Hillary Evans, supervisor with Solari, (formerly Crisis Response Network).
This âone-stop meetingâ is a chance each month to connect over an informal lunch hour chat at 11:30 a.m. the second Thursday each month. Meetings continue to be hosted online to assure participantsâ safety during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Thereâs time toward the end of the meeting for a general roundtable where participants share news about upcoming events, opportunities for community involvement, voice issues or concerns, and ask other attendees for ideas or assistance.
This meeting provides a great way to network and build collaborations with other people that are all in one place at the same time. To request the Zoom online address or phone number for Thursday’s online and teleconference gathering, call Elsa Bobier at Gila County Community Action Program, 928-474-7192 or email ebobier@gilacountyaz.gov.
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According to the January 2020 point-in-time count of the nation’s homeless, over one-quarter (28%) of the people experiencing homelessness nationally are in California, while the state represents only 12% of the country’s total population.
To get a better handle on managing homelessness, California’s Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council (HCFC) developed the Homeless Data Integration System, a data warehouse that will allow the state to make data-driven policy decisions.
Built in partnership with the state’s 44 Continuums of Care, HDIS gathers and anonymizes homelessness data into a single repository. On a regular schedule, each CoC pulls data from its homeless management information system and sends it to HDIS via a secure file transfer system.
During the past year, there have been many national news reports about mental health issues climbing due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its restrictions. The
Roundup, as part of its series on law enforcement and mental health, asked Payson Police Chief Ron Tischer and Gila County Sheriff Adam Shepherd, if their offices experienced more encounters because of mental health issues the past year.
Tischer and Shepherd agree encounters between their officers and those suffering with mental illness or mental health issues have increased.
âAbsolutely, the pandemic has played a large part in people having both short-term and long-term mental health issues,â Tischer said. âIt has also affected all ages. Being locked down for most of the past year in isolation has created some unique issues that we havenât encountered before. The pandemic has exacerbated the problems with those in our community that already had issues with mental health. The inability for some to get in-pe