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Haggard said 19 intakes occurred in July and that nearly all referrals that month came from the San Diego Rescue Mission. He said about 57% of those intakes reported being in places not meant for habitation the night before intake and that many clients had long durations of homelessness (two to 10 years or more).

Services and partners: Haggard described BCNC services including VI-SPDAT housing assessments, cash assistance, housing search help, employment support, assistance obtaining vital documents (DMV, Social Security), bus passes, Chromebooks and referrals to partners such as North County Lighthouse, Bellis Academy (haircuts) and other social-service organizations. He said BCNC provided classes (mental health meetings, NA/AA), recreational programming and items such as Chromebooks and bicycles to assist clients in job searches.

Exits and length of stay: In July BCNC recorded 15 exits; Haggard reported about 67% of those were \"positive exits\" (move into their own housing, family reunification, rehab or skilled nursing). He said the average stay for clients who achieved a positive exit in July was longer than normal (about 114 days for those who moved to permanent housing in that month) and that screening and client readiness can affect which exits succeed.

Operational notes and challenges: Haggard said placement competition with other shelters and occasional last-minute referrals to other agencies can disrupt planned moves into housing. He also said the center looks closely at whether clients are ready and tries to be discerning when a placement appears likely to fail.

Ending: BCNC will continue to report operational metrics to the committee; staff said permanent housing remains the primary success metric and that they will continue to refine screening and case-management practices to improve permanent-housing outcomes.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Standing Committee on Homelessness Meeting, August 28th, 2025","oneSentenceSummary","Buena Creek Navigation Center reported 19 intakes in July, most referred by the San Diego Rescue Mission, and described on-site case management, job supports, document assistance and partner referrals.","taxTitle","Vista, San Diego County, California","taxId",2844,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6479604,"San Diego Rescue Mission outlines outreach caseloads, by-name list and housing outcomes",54,3758000,3812000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5693244-fac8823c2d2bf4c11aacb6e648667745&start=3758&end=3812","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5693244-fac8823c2d2bf4c11aacb6e648667745/thumbnail_3758000.jpg","/articles/6479604/Vista/San-Diego-County/California/San-Diego-Rescue-Mission-outlines-outreach-caseloads-by-name-list-and-housing-outcomes","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6479604-492a1baf8117c0b123843d1ed50ac65b/orig.mp4?Expires=1770398115&Signature=bJzRKolH-EUN1f2LHUuQ-U6vSDTt-2CVEQZuvBJ2NNn-ZxQZLDHajT~agy8hvSL4qVVqFpeFJ2mBbKQzRVY~NVK7JOaLjcbOdkxrB0ftJIw~fMGjgxDLeDYtVzT5gCcPMTc0qc4S~8DJJPIekAZRIgYVtC-aZKcoHF3umwaIs8ikMV6WuxXnus9NedoQ8XpH9MWP3VGHX35SYxFjs~3dfGYZo6Tgoh-uscLrwWAHAbrYKMBJ9FZlN3NQUxn1wxyx6Syt2cpG-4w5ewz1RWei6gIWXELrXBtA5Bub4W9J19PQ9srQAgQyt8iJQFJSVzdm4i1QHLi16EEIcEp8Rtic-A__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Kenneth Tolbert, data specialist for San Diego Rescue Mission (SDRM), presented the month-of-July outreach report showing 125 unduplicated clients contacted during the month and 768 total outreach interactions. Tolbert said 108 of that group were recorded as \"place not meant for habitation\" at first contact (sleeping in vehicles, tents, on the streets or in creeks).

Tolbert said 66 of the July contacts were new to SDRM and that, across the program's inception in November 2024 to the July reporting period, SDRM had contacted 473 unduplicated unsheltered individuals in Vista. He also said that, during the month of July, the Rescue Mission recorded multiple exits to substance-use treatment, transitional programs and permanent placements, and that capacity constraints in nearby programs (notably La Posada and changes at North County Lighthouse) had affected referral patterns.

Caitlin Jason, an associate social worker recently added to SDRM's team, introduced herself as a clinician who will focus on higher-acuity clients and comorbidity including severe mental illness and substance use.

Why it matters: City leaders welcomed the Rescue Mission's data-driven approach and the committee emphasized use of Vista's by-name list to prioritize chronically unsheltered residents in the ERF grant area. Council members noted that many people contacted by outreach have long histories of homelessness in Vista and asked SDRM to continue disaggregating data by locality and chronicity.

Data highlights and operational notes: Tolbert said SDRM's July caseload included 125 unduplicated clients, 66 new contacts, and that 87 clients remained in places not meant for habitation due to resource constraints; of those 87, Tolbert later clarified that 12 clients had explicitly refused offers of shelter. Tolbert also summarized demographic information and said 15 clients identify as disabled and five as veterans (counting only self-reported veteran status in the July snapshot).

Coordination and next steps: Committee members asked SDRM to include more detailed case-flow metrics (intake, shelter-ready, sheltered, stabilization, permanent housing) in future reports and to provide a narrative on how clients move through the phases. SDRM said it documents case phases in HMIS and can share clinical summaries that protect privacy for high-acuity clients when appropriate. SDRM also highlighted a recent success story: a client who had been homeless for 11 years entered permanent supportive housing with coordinated partner support.

Ending: SDRM committed to continue providing monthly data, to share by-name-list details with city partners and to offer additional demographic and case-stage breakdowns on request; the committee requested a future workshop-level discussion of rapid-rehousing fund design and program coordination.","The San Diego Rescue Mission (SDRM) presented July data from Vista outreach including counts of contacts, shelter placements and demographic breakdowns; city leaders pressed for continued coordination and use of the by-name list to prioritize chronically unsheltered residents.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6479609,"Shared-housing pilot shows early placements; committee asks for per-person monthly cost and longer financial detail",188,7541000,7729000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5693244-fac8823c2d2bf4c11aacb6e648667745&start=7541&end=7729","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5693244-fac8823c2d2bf4c11aacb6e648667745/thumbnail_7541000.jpg","/articles/6479609/Vista/San-Diego-County/California/Shared-housing-pilot-shows-early-placements-committee-asks-for-per-person-monthly-cost-and-longer-financial-detail","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6479609-bc5359eccee9f47cf7c0e4a72cce8c02/orig.mp4?Expires=1770437859&Signature=Jn7gdtkhF39tKs-LMKQ-4KDVCtWeCN79Iu2PFxedDlvji4JD2Sc6kEy2h3DHLfW6IAgNN~cqL9uC2y9~INtDRTLrJwbEXu~~13Ruxq8sIFlc~N3q1bEdKoyJrQ0OXC34EilUGgB6D2Ez~fU3w7rSAOqHkTfU~vpHItgdeYLhMUsF8UrFnGwleuWgX97~skiSrCaYFWRNyhCFSYuEY2QoNp6Mc4sXvjyaDXz17V9JFsAUNwyreD6Q7LrfOFrPGsK9DrKssUvPr~tiqjxP0U4WZstH4cCzat-dhAQWUwoVqFmxHzRzob2ouwnPvmGF5KjwDatjM0DnH7PrzJTJIyolhQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Brenda Viveros, program lead for the Townspeople shared-housing pilot, reported year-to-date outcomes and said the program had placed households into shared and master-leased units while providing stabilization services and rental-assistance subsidies.

Viveros said that from July 2024 through July 2025 the navigation and housing activities served 59 adults and 8 children across 50 households (67 total people served). She reported 9 master-leased units in the current portfolio and that overall retention in shared-housing placements was high: Viveros said about 80% of clients remained housed in the program and the program recorded 100% positive exits among the small number of closures in stabilization during the month displayed.

Why the committee pressed for financial detail: committee members and the mayor asked for a simple, auditable breakdown of spending: total city dollars spent on the pilot, total months of rental assistance provided (\"housing-unit months\"), and average city subsidy per adult per month. The mayor said that data will determine whether the city should scale the model and cited shared housing as a potentially efficient way to increase housing capacity while keeping costs controllable.

Viveros presented a summary slide of average rental-assistance requests per household and average subsidy levels. Committee members asked staff to follow up with a clean per-adult-per-month figure and a total program expenditure for the pilot's operating period; Townspeople agreed to provide that breakdown. Committee members emphasized they wanted the information in advance of the committee's next workshop so the council can assess scaling options.

Program structure and outcomes: Townspeople described the program trajectory as intake/navigation, placement into shared housing (including master leases where Townspeople is the lessee), and stabilization support (weekly to monthly case management). Viveros said stabilization specialists meet with households to implement individualized housing support plans and that many participants were working or receiving Social Security benefits.

Ending: Townspeople will return with the requested per-adult-per-month cost, total months of assisted housing and the total city expenditure for the program period. The committee signaled support for the pilot's goals but asked for clearer financial and performance transparency before authorizing expansion.","Townspeople presented results from a shared-housing pilot that has moved dozens of people into stabilized housing; city leaders asked for clear per-adult-month cost metrics and consolidated financial reporting before expanding the program.",{"_33":100,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":101,"_41":102,"_43":103,"_45":104,"_47":105,"_49":106,"_51":107,"_53":108,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":109,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":110,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6479613,"Vista leaders press for faster placement of families after safe-parking data show children among enrollees",176,6216000,6392000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5693244-fac8823c2d2bf4c11aacb6e648667745&start=6216&end=6392","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5693244-fac8823c2d2bf4c11aacb6e648667745/thumbnail_6216000.jpg","/articles/6479613/Vista/San-Diego-County/California/Vista-leaders-press-for-faster-placement-of-families-after-safe-parking-data-show-children-among-enrollees","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6479613-c4ea1916d12ef2df9414b35efb24f92b/orig.mp4?Expires=1770437859&Signature=ApD4sfIYrvOZaVfejElczpdobL0nmXTUtrojqLfprVqfaStz9MkZsff2mMsL9om2Xugax73N485UeAwIOmYqjoIN~LPw7isIOOGjx68UtLirnUFOpOVFe2M8eoCvknPMw-a-r6BXOyz~0FmVVgeZAV6Ppu24jym9ge-pLrnF-wvyq~uIxmfzjybWUlsCnCRoY2kPl5A7A53uoWbQ9J27yJqEndDDshbZBwco4Hftaf-fk96GUb9kz2fWCGDoey0tTOtzbG-OjriSrJCOl1izG5Uf6QsIWV-ElWWflx5MVIXo~XZes1t4Lz2j5iYQbzCs6BbTs2sEDYgmkk-me1QhrA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Jesse Mendez, director of the Jewish Family Service (JFS) safe-parking program, presented enrollment and exit figures for Vista in July and said the site's average nightly occupancy in July was roughly 68% with an average nightly count of 17 vehicles.

Mendez said 25 households were enrolled overall and that 31 individuals were recorded in the program during July; the age breakdown for newly enrolled households in that month included two children. \"We need to get those kids out of living in cars,\" Mayor (name not specified) said during the meeting, calling for an urgent case conference among city and nonprofit partners.

Why it matters: Council and committee members said family homelessness should receive rapid, priority intervention because children living in vehicles face added health, education and child-welfare risks. The committee asked staff to report back with more detailed status information on the families with children and to convene partner agencies for a case review.

Program context and outcomes: Mendez said Vista is one of JFS' more heavily funded local partners and that, since program inception in Vista, 160 household exits had been recorded with roughly 53% classified as positive (moved into family reunification, permanent housing or other stable settings). He said about 37.5% of exits overall were into what JFS records as a permanent housing unit.

Data and next steps: Committee members asked for a follow-up presentation with deeper family-level detail, including whether exits for families were into permanent housing, temporary shelters or reunification and which agencies were involved. The mayor asked for an immediate case conference on the families that were living in vehicles and requested that staff track program costs and occupancy rates to compare per-person costs against indoor shelter alternatives.

Ending: JFS agreed to provide more granular family-level outcome data at the next committee workshop; the committee did not vote on the item.","Jewish Family Service reported safe-parking enrollments in Vista for July, and several city leaders said the presence of children sleeping in vehicles demands immediate follow-up and cross-agency casework to move families into indoor housing.",{"_33":112,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":113,"_41":114,"_43":115,"_45":116,"_47":117,"_49":118,"_51":119,"_53":120,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":121,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":122,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6479618,"County outlines hotel-based regional shelter program; Vista mayor presses for information-sharing after renewed encampments",102,231000,333000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5693244-fac8823c2d2bf4c11aacb6e648667745&start=231&end=333","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5693244-fac8823c2d2bf4c11aacb6e648667745/thumbnail_231000.jpg","/articles/6479618/Vista/San-Diego-County/California/County-outlines-hotel-based-regional-shelter-program-Vista-mayor-presses-for-information-sharing-after-renewed-encampments","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6479618-ef869555866bc97abea6451aced04f92/orig.mp4?Expires=1770437859&Signature=oc~EnBpYviAS0WbnpI-tf~8ATWFsQCn3DJyuhTGlysNEvJBSkidbO4-rA8m51vtiahYAyisZIT4Hxn5w2KzDtdyQ6zmnhSmAp2ExF5lRju4HIsaO2nttAVmRrc-rhNVex9JPy4qsP3xGKCOClLHtOhKyJPv67GIesOaxE~pd90UK6j45Czu4xsLnbAzf-HJ3q~lgY5jyQGcXUQ0kJRWYMzIzhHfEfloZ83~8GOipwkDjA3M8Ohjk~mG7tQWWzOYuRYujD-nNnneZpI147GxzKbZByB0yfUl3naa8kyPwrS4L7HLVFmjLQh3x65ND3yeIW7e~qmVAYcJGIyvLZigAqg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Diana Beck, director of the Office of Homeless Solutions for the County of San Diego, told the City of Vista committee that the county's Regional Homeless Assistance Program (RHAP) began in January 2020 and uses hotels and motels to shelter people while offering case management and housing navigation.

Beck said RHAP is a scattered-site emergency shelter model designed for the county's large unincorporated geography, not a single brick-and-mortar shelter. \"We are currently providing shelter for up to 250 households on any given night,\" she said, adding that could be about 400 individuals. She said the program has served more than 2,600 people since inception and that roughly 40% of participating households exit to permanent housing, a rate she described as higher than many comparable programs.

The program is operated under contract with a vendor identified in committee remarks as ECWIS. Beck said hotels that host program participants sign agreements with the contractor and agree to monitor on-site activity, enforce participant rules and report problems to program managers. She acknowledged problems do occur and said the contractor and county respond to reports to mitigate them.

Why it matters: city leaders said they are not opposing the county shelters but want timely, actionable information so local outreach workers and public-safety staff can follow up when people move in and out of hotel sites inside Vista. Mayor (name not specified) said one woman she knew, referenced as \"Carla,\" was put on an involuntary psychiatric hold, later returned to the same outdoor location in Vista and remains unsheltered. The mayor pressed county staff for a way to share participant rosters with local service providers so case workers in Vista can coordinate follow-up and care.

\"We want better information sharing,\" the mayor said. \"If the people are in our city boundaries, then we need to have full awareness of what's going on.\" The mayor added that local professionals would not publish confidential records and asked the county to consider an information-sharing agreement with the city's outreach partners.

County response and limits: Beck and other county staff acknowledged legal limits around protected health information and said behavioral-health records are confidential. Beck said the county does provide weekly reports on the hotel the committee discussed and committed to continued outreach: \"We're sending weekly reports on the Equus Hotel here so that that's transparent as far as we're seeing positive exits out of the hotel into permanent housing.\" She also said her office would continue follow-up with behavioral-health services for the individual the mayor named.

On the question of whether the city can compel the county to share records, the committee's legal staff said local regulatory authority to mandate the county's communications is limited; instead, the parties should pursue an interagency agreement. Beck agreed to explore an information-sharing agreement with the city and to keep communicating with Jonathan (city staff) and Vista outreach partners.

Program details and next steps: Beck described other RHAP elements the county is adding or expanding: the county is procuring a new contractor agreement (reprocurement was underway at the time of the meeting), it recently stood up three safe-parking sites and is piloting a single-site sleeping-cabin project in Lemon Grove expected to include about 60 cabins with on-site case management and an anticipated average cabin stay of about six months. Beck said hotels used for RHAP sometimes are located inside incorporated cities (including a Vista hotel that housed about 22'24 households on average at the time of the briefing) because hotels are scarce in many unincorporated areas.

What the committee directed: City and county staff agreed to pursue a narrower, lawful way to share nonmedical case-management information with Vista's outreach providers and to continue weekly incident and exit reporting for the hotel in question. County staff emphasized statutory privacy protections for medical and behavioral-health records and said any agreement would have to respect those laws.

Ending: The committee did not take formal legislative action on the item. City staff said they would follow up with county counterparts to draft an interagency information-sharing agreement and report back to the committee; county staff said they would continue weekly reporting on the hotel and prioritize follow-up with the behavioral-health provider for the named individual.","The County of San Diego reviewed its Regional Homeless Assistance Program, which uses scattered-site hotels and motels including a site in Vista, and city leaders pressed county staff for faster, confidential information-sharing about program participants after encampment and public-safety concerns.","actionData","errors"]

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