Agate Housing and Services

Emergency Services programs - 1,366 served:shelter programs - shelter is offered at two locations, 510 and fcc, to up to eighty-six adults every night while we work with them to access Housing and support Services. In fiscal year 2024, 571 individuals were provided shelter between the two shelter locations. Street outreach - this program provides the first contact for individuals living outside. Partnering with many local agencies and government offices, this intensive outreach connects people to shelter, Housing, and other Services. In fiscal year 2024, 795 unique unsheltered individuals worked with Agate's street outreach team. This does not include the thousands of interactions they have with other unhoused individuals, who are not actively engaged in seeking Housing either on the street or at our welcome center using our mail Services (~1,500), free showers, or receiving other, one off support.

Permanent supportive Housing programs - 1,151 served:supportive Housing programs - family and single adult supportive Housing programs provide long term, scattered-site Housing (non-agate-owned) supportive Services for families and single adults who have experienced long-term homelessness and have a documented disability. In fiscal year 2024, 155 families and 209 single adults received long-term case management. Minneosta Housing - Housing trust fund subsidies - rental subsidies are an important tool for helping some single adults and families maintain their Housing while they work toward self-sufficiency. These subisidies are provided through Minnesota Housing and serve up to 126 single adults and families. 510 board and lodge - this program provides permanent Housing and support Services to single adults. This program is maintained in a dormitory style living situation with shared rooms, where residents are provided three daily meals. In fiscal year 2024, 210 individuals were served in this program. Va beds - this program provides 12 beds at our 510 board and lodge site for use by veterans. Our veteran residents typically stay in this setting for a few months while they utilize our case management Services to seek more independent settings for their next move. This program served 33 individuals in fiscal year 2024.park7 - Agate provides permanent Housing and support Services to residents at the park 7 building in downtown minneapolis, with 61 units of affordable Housing. The building is managed by trellis, an affordable Housing provider in the area, and all Services are provided by Agate. 70 individuals were served in fiscal 2024.metro inn - Agate opened a converted motel to single occupancy permanent Housing in fiscal year 2024. The property provides 38 affordable homes.

Time limited Housing programs - 1,524 served:rapid rehousing programs - these programs helps families and single adults transition quickly from shelter into Housing with supportive Services and short-term rental subsidies. 245 households were served, including 35 single adults, and 204 families including 393 children. Prevention programs - these programs work with families and single adults who are at risk of losing their Housing. The programs provide short - to medium - term financial support and case management Services to prevent homelessness. 72 households, including 31 single adults, and 41 families including 46 children were served in fiscal year 2024.next step assessments - this program is funded to provide coordinated entry system Housing assessments for families experiencing homelessness in hennepin county. Coordinated entry is the county program through which those experiencing homelessness are prioritized to get into Housing. In fiscal year 2024, 762 assessments were completed with families. This is more than double the number of assessments completed the previous year.

Food centre - this program provides community meals 365 days a year, operating under a "no questions asked" philosophy where no one is turned away. This program provides meals to the community at large, as well as feeding the residents at our 510 board and lodge facility and our shelter sites. In fiscal year 2024, we served 96,512 meals. Representative payee Services - this program serves 504 individuals with managing their financial lives, including budgeting, as well as issuing the payment of rent, bills, personal needs, and ensuring that client benefits remain active. In fiscal year 2024, Agate added a veterans rep payee program (macv), which served 47 individuals.a day in the life (education and advocacy) - this program advocates for systemic change through a day in the life. This is an experiential learning program that gives participants an opportunity to learn directly from people experiencing homelessness. In fiscal 2024, 170 participants attended the program. Birth certificate program - this program supports people in acquiring needed personal identification documents, primarily birth certificates. In fiscal year 2024, we facilitated the retrieval of 729 birth certificates for 667 people from 43 statesprovincesterrirtorieshandbook of the streets - in fiscal year 2024, 18,556 minneapolis handbooks of the streets were distributed, with plans for our next edition in fall 2024. We distributed 9,285 st. paul books, with a new edition planned for spring 2025. We continue to broadly distribute street outreach trifolds, having sold over 8,000 copies.

Community engagement (education and advocacy) this program advocates for systemic change. The program offers a day in the life, an experiential learning program that gives participants an opportunity to learn directly from people experiencing homelessness, education, and advocacy opportunities.

Other resources in fiscal year 2022, these programs connected more than 1300 people experiencing homelessness or poverty to essential resources, such as representative payee Services and birth certificates. In addition, more than 24,000 handbooks of the streets were distributed to help navigate community resources.