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See schedule orapid rehousing and permanent supported housing:share utilizes a housing first approach to assist people who have chronically experienced homelessness. In 2023 and 2022, supportive services housed 82 and 87chronically homeless households, respectively, and provided on-going support, including rental subsidies. Thirty-two of the most vulnerable people in the community, who otherwise may most likely die on the streets, are supported by Share's supportive services at lincoln place.share's affordable housing and stability (ahas) program provides supported housing through case management to families and single adults on their way to stability and self-sufficiency. Ahas is a coordinated system for providing case management, housing and connection to supportive services in the community for homeless families and individuals. Ahas served an average of 76 households each month for 2023. The program served 238 people in 2023.share owns three homes that provide group living environments and case management for single people (one serving single women, one serving single men and one serving single men who are veterans). An additional home provides housing for a family. Share also owns a duplex of two 3-bedroom homes for families, which are rented at less than half of fair market value as part of efforts to keep housing affordable.share's housing and essential needs program helps single people found by the state of Washington to be temporarily unable to work due to mental or physical health issues. The program began as an entitlement program offered by the department of health and social services. In november 2011, it was reallocated to nonprofit organizations and counties across the state as a non-entitlement program that could pay rent, utilities, and provide essential needs, such as hygiene products, toilet paper and other basic needs. This program served an average of 110 clients per month in 2023.

See schedule ocovid-19 prevention funds:during april -june of 2023 Share accepted funds from clark county community services to help prevent evictions for households who were struggling because of covid-19. Temporary staff were hired to help support 258 households with one-time financial assistance to maintain their housing

See schedule oshelters:share provides temporary, emergency housing at four year-round shelters. Share orchards inn and Share homestead shelter homeless families and are operated by Share staff, although the buildings are owned by vancouver housing authority. Share house for single men is both owned and operated by Share. Share also operates a women's shelter at st. luke's episcopal church called women housing and transition (what). Share provides staff support to one shelter through the winter hospitality overflow program, a partnership with council for the homeless and st. andrew lutheran church. In 2023, Share's housing navigators help assist 63% of household to move out of shelter and into housing.

Meal & nutrition programs:share's hot meals program provides daily, free meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) for people experiencing homelessness and low-income people; the program served 88,788 meals in 2023. The number of meals served each month remains at a record-high, more than double the number of meals served before the pandemic hit in march 2020. Much of the food used in the program is donated through food drives and local grocery stores or purchased through the clark county food bank and is prepared each day by staff and volunteers.share's backback program operates during the school year to help provide food over the weekends to low-income families who qualify for free or reduced-fee school meal programs. Research shows that a child that is even mildly under-nourished during critical periods of growth impacts their behavior, school performance and overall cognitive development. The program delivers 1,000+ food bags each week to 85 schools in five school districts; also delivered are 65+ hotel bags with foods that do not require a can opener or a kitchen to prepare for unaccompanied youth, families living in a vehicle or many other situations in which a family might find themselves without a kitchen or utensils. The program also delivers 27 pantry food boxes and operates 18 fresh food pantries, each of which is open one per month. The program operates almost exclusively on the generosity of our community, including a partnership with the clark county food bank, financial donations from community members and local businesses and the dozens of volunteers that fill and deliver all the food bags and pantry boxes each week. Share's summer meals program partners with ymca, vancouver parks & recreation, vancouver public schools, police activities league, fort vancouver regional libraries, as well as several church groups and low-income apartments to provide free meals to kids and teens ages 18 and under at 19+ locations from the end of june to early august. In 2023 and 2022, Share provided 10,236 and 11,285 meals to children and their families for this program, respectively. Share outreach program:share's outreach program began in 1996, the result of a taskforce formed by community leaders to find solutions to the issues of homelessness in downtown vancouver. Today, the outreach team serves those who are hardest to reach by going into the community and bringing services to them. Many of our clients struggle in accessing services due to mobility, physical and mental health concerns, or difficulty in being around large groups of people. Our outreach team works to bridge that gap so that everyone experiencing homelessness in clark county has access to a variety of services that can better their situation. During 2023, due to the growing number of people experiencing homelessness, the program grew from a team of nine to a team of 15 who served 544 people and aided 191 in becoming permanently housed in 2023.talkin' trash, a partnership with city of vancouver:visible trash on the streets, parks, neighborhoods and near businesses has a negative effect on the community and impacts health and safety. Some in the community attribute this to the increasing number of people experiencing homelessness. In 2017, Share began a program called talkin' trash that employs people who are or have been experiencing homelessness, as well as a crew leader, to pick up refuse within the city of vancouver; in its first year, the crew collected 60 tons of trash. In 2023, the program disposed of 226 tons of trash removed from sites on a weekly route that includes esther short park, vancouver library, Share house and the surrounding blocks, the fourth plain corridor from downtown to east vancouver, and multiple bicycle paths and city parks.