This month, in the Heading Home Hennepin Newsletter:
- 2022 Point in Time Count
- Severe cold warming center information
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Funding available to provide coordination and support to encampments
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SAMHSA announces new funding for harm reduction
- Minnesota homeless memorial, march, and service
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Continuum of Care (CoC) executive committee meeting recap
- Job posting: Youth Action Board Coordinator
2022 PIT Count is upcoming
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Each year, communities across the country conduct the Point in Time (PIT) count, to better understand the depth and breadth of homelessness in their communities. Conducting the PIT count provides a snapshot of homelessness from one year to the next. This year's count will take place on January 26, 2022. For information about the 2022 Point in Time Count, visit: www.Hennepin.us/PIT-2022. |
Needed: PIT Count surveyors and survey sites
Surveyors
PIT count surveyors are essential to ensure that our community conducts a comprehensive and thorough count. Surveyors will speak with people who are sleeping in places like cars, parks, abandoned buildings, bus or train stations, airports, camping grounds, bus benches and street corners.
In this role, you can expect to:
- Work with a team to administer surveys to people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in a predetermined geographic location
- Be outside in cold weather or at a community-based survey site for 2 to 4 hours
- Complete mandatory training
- Follow CDC guidelines for preventing the spread of COVID-19
Survey sites
We are looking to identify additional sites where surveyors can conduct PIT Count surveys. Ideal sites are locations in Hennepin County that regularly serve persons who are experiencing unsheltered homelessness. Possible examples of sites include meal services, churches, food shelves, or libraries. Sites have the option to have their staff conduct the survey or let volunteers come to your site to conduct the surveys.
Contact
If you are interested in being a surveyor or have your site used to conduct the count, contact endhomelessness@hennepin.us ι www.hennepin.us/PIT-2022 .
Severe cold warming centers
In extreme cold, frostbite can happen in minutes. Daytime warming centers offer refuge when the temperature or wind-chill become dangerously low. View a list of warming centers, overnight shelter options, and free and low-cost medical services at www.Hennepin.us/staywarm.
 Could your organization, church, or building provide warming space?
Contact us at endhomelessness@hennepin.us to partner with Hennepin County to provide this essential service.
Funding available to provide coordination and support to encampments
About the request for proposals:
Hennepin County and the City of Minneapolis are requesting proposals for the Street to Housing - Encampment Response initiative. The Street to Housing Encampment Response initiative is a 2-year project that will provide trauma-informed coordination and housing-focused support to encampments. View the Street to Housing RFP.doc.
The County is seeking to enter into two contracts for this project, including one that will specifically address the unique and complex needs of the urban indigenous unsheltered experience in the county.
View RFP documents and submit proposals
Proposals will be received in the Hennepin County supplier portal. To submit a proposal, you must first register with the supplier portal. For more information on how to register, please go to the supplier portal help page.
Closing date for all questions: December 13, 2021 at 2:00 p.m.
Proposal due date: January 6, 2022 prior to 2:00 p.m.
SAMHSA announces new funding for harm reduction
$30 million available to Help Address the Nation’s Substance Use and Overdose Epidemic
The purpose of the program is to support community-based overdose prevention programs, syringe services programs, and other harm reduction services. Funding will be used to enhance overdose and other types of prevention activities to help control the spread of infectious diseases and the consequences of such diseases for individuals with, or at risk of developing substance use disorders (SUD), support distribution of opioid overdose reversal medication to individuals at risk of overdose, build connections for individuals at risk for, or with, a SUD to overdose education, counseling, and health education, refer individuals to treatment for infectious diseases, such as HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and viral hepatitis, and encourage such individuals to take steps to reduce the negative personal and public health impacts of substance use or misuse.
For more information and to apply to this grant funding opportunity, click here.
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 37th Annual Homeless Memorial - Simpson Housing
Continuum of Care (CoC) executive committee
The CoC executive meeting is a group of key stakeholders that meets once every quarter to discuss important issues that impact those experiencing homelessness. The CoC Executive committee serves as the lead decision making body of the CoC.
Last meeting:
Next meeting:
View the Hennepin CoC governing boards and working committees.
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Job Posting: Youth Action Board Coordinator
The Youth Action Board Coordinator will be responsible for creating, developing, and facilitating a Hennepin County Youth Action Board (YAB) as part of the Youth Homeless Demonstration Project (YHDP). The intention of the YAB is to cultivate youth voice and infuse that voice into policy and program planning in Hennepin County that will directly contribute to the development of a comprehensive community plan to prevent, reduce, and eliminate youth homelessness. This role will be on staff at Youthprise and primarily working with Hennepin County and Hennepin County youth homelessness partners for the YHDP initiative. Learn more here.
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Additional job opportunities:
Touchstone Mental Health: Clinical Supervisor and more
Mission Inc.: Licensed Practical Nurse and more
YMCA of the North: Youth Support Program Manager - Homeless Outreach and more
The Heading Home Hennepin monthly newsletter aims to be a resource for the community of individuals that work to increase housing stability for residents of Hennepin County. Share feedback here.
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