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Housing and Development Newsletter » Casa Pacifica: $80,000 to fund an additional SAFTY mobile crisis counselor to respond to youth experiencing mental health emergencies. » The Cecilia Fund: $50,000 to expand coverage of medical and dental costs for patients who have no other way to pay for needed care. » Children & Family Resource Services: $100,000 to provide training and support for volunteer Promotores to become certified Family Health Navigators. » Children’s Resource & Referral of Santa Barbara County: $100,000 to expand child care capacity by supporting more women to become licensed child care providers. » Doctors Without Walls - Santa Barbara Street Medicine: $60,000 to sustain the daytime outreach specialist providing medical and mental health services to the homeless. ....
Housing and Development Newsletter At its site-specific street clinics, locations without brick-and-mortar structures, DWW–SBSM has annually served more than 500 unduplicated patients and had 1,370 medical encounters, ranging from respiratory diseases to women’s healthcare to mental health counseling and other services. Studies show that those experiencing unsheltered homelessness are significantly more likely to have reoccurring and life-threatening health conditions compared to the general population or people living in shelters. “Many of the homeless clients served by DWW are CenCal Health members but are unable due to their life circumstances to access the healthcare system, or are difficult to contact,” said Paul Jaconette, DWW-SBSM Board president and CenCal Health COO. ....
March 2, 2021 at 5:35 pm by Holly Rusch In the two months since Good Samaritan established 20 temporary pallet homes in Isla Vista to provide relief to houseless residents beleaguered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the service provider has provided housing, job opportunities and basic needs support to 36 people. The pallet homes were installed in early December in the parking lot of the Isla Vista Community Center. Max Abrams / Daily Nexus Installed in early December in the parking lot of the Isla Vista Community Center, the pallet homes â currently occupied by 26 people â will continue to provide shelter to houseless residents until June, according to Gina Fischer, district representative for SB County Third District Supervisor Joan Hartmann. ....
By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue December 9, 2020 | 6:49 p.m. Collaborators and leaders from SB Act gathered the public for a virtual webinar on Wednesday to discuss their various efforts to tackle homelessness in Santa Barbara before bringing the ideas to the City Council. “I’m here because, for the very first time, I see a light at the end of the tunnel,” said Marguerite Sanchez, interim executive director for Doctors Without Walls-Santa Barbara Street Medicine. “For the first time in 14 years, I actually believe we can resolve this problem.” A recent count by SB Act, in partnership with City Net, found 340 homeless individuals in the State Street, Eastside and waterfront neighborhoods at the end of September. Additionally, Doctors Without Walls served 3,093 unsheltered homeless individuals in 2019, Sanchez said, with 525 of those individuals unique to Santa Barbara. ....