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Board directs staff to develop plan for housing and integrated behavioral‑health campus at 300 Forney Road
Summary
The board instructed staff to develop a plan to transition the temporary navigation center into a locally controlled housing and behavioral‑health campus at 300 Forney Road to better serve families and clients willing to engage in services, citing changing legal and funding landscapes and the unsustainability of the current model.
Olivia Byron Cooper, director of the Health and Human Services Agency, told the board on Aug. 26 that the ad hoc homelessness committee recommended exploring a revised model for emergency housing and treatment at 300 Forney Road to better serve families and households who will engage in services.
“Relying on our current funding matrix is not sustainable,” Byron Cooper said, noting recent legal and funding changes —…
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