Share

Covid prevention funds: throughout 2022, Share accepted funds from clark county community services to help prevent evictions for households who were struggling because of covid-19. These efforts involved Share maintaining a temporary staff of 14 to aid keeping people housed. Over the course of 2022, 951 households were helped by Share with these funds.

Shelters: Share provides temporary, emergency housing at four shelters. Share orchards and Share homestead shelter homeless families and are operated by the organization but owned by the vancouver housing authority. The Share house for single men is both owned and operated by Share. The women housing and transition (what) shelters women in church space. Share also operated an overnight shelter called who (winter hospitality overflow) by providing staffing support to one winter overflow shelters in partnership with the council for the homeless and local churches.

Housing: Share has a permanent housing first component to this program, providing housing to chronically homeless individuals. In 2022, the permanent supportive housing component housed 122 individuals (87 households) in units scattered across the county and has been providing them with on-going support, including rental subsidies. Thirty of the most vulnerable people in the community who are most likely to die on the streets are supported by Share's supportive services at lincoln place, eighteen were supported at the pacific (which ended oct 2022), and another thirty were supported at meriwether place (ended april 30th 2022). 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. The ahas program is a coordinated system for providing case management, housing and connection to supportive services in the community for homeless families and individuals. Last year, the ahas program served 129 households for a total of 247 unduplicated people served in 2022. Share received a significant amount of funds designed to address homelessness that will expire in 2024.

Supportive services: Share's street outreach provided street outreach services to 449 hard-to-reach and hard-to-serve homeless individuals in 2022, and aided 76 in becoming permanently housed. In addition, case managers meet with clients on a one-to-one basis to assist them in accessing existing social services, stable housing situations or to assist with whatever needs they may have.