State homeless board outlines centralized campus vision, calls for coordinated system and accountability

Randy Shumway, chair of the Utah Homeless Services Board, told the Health and Human Services Interim Committee that the board supports using a proposed transformative centralized campus to provide treatment while increasing accountability for people experiencing homelessness. “Compassion without accountability … is indifference,” Shumway said, adding that “expectations without compassion is harshness.”

Shumway said the board is recommending several changes: consolidate the three federal Continuums of Care into a coordinated statewide system; co‑locate a certified community behavioral health clinic (CCBHC) on the centralized campus with an expected 300–400 beds reimbursed by Medicaid PPS; and create a secure residential placement — an accountability center — where people sanctioned to enter would have a likely…