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Final 4.15.11 <br /> 25 <br /> To continue with the emergency services such as the hotline as well as the follow up services such as rent assistance. I also believe that senior rent assistance has kept our county numbers of homeless from going up and feel that this program too should be considered important as these households do not have the capability of increasing income. <br />X. What other information should we know about your agency, your work <br />with the homeless population, and homelessness issues in Kittitas County? <br /> Below are the responses from the respondents. <br /> We seem to be the place that is suggested after all other points have said no. <br /> General Homelessness issues: 1.) Cold Weather Shelter; and 2.) Emergency Shelter that allows stays of up to 30 days – especially for single males. <br /> One other barrier the homeless face in Kittitas County is our lack of public transportation. We have the Hopesource Bus and Central Transit that is confusing to me and most of my clients. Many clients I work with never take advantage of the bus system. <br /> We have tried but mostly failed to provide a representative to attend the meetings of the Kittitas County Homelessness and Affordable Housing Committee, but with the completion of this survey, we have concluded that we need to raise the priority of our participation with the committee’s efforts to address the housing issues of the clients and families with which our agency interacts. Delton Hauck has volunteered to represent DCFS and start attending committee meetings again. <br /> EnTrust Community Services works with the hardest of the hard to serve. They don’ turn away individuals or families without referral to another program or suggestion for services. Union Gospel Mission is used only as a last resort having expensed all resources within our expertise to house folks in Ellensburg. It is our pleasure and within the scope of our mission to do so. Additionally, we work with whole families, not just the one person. Further, we address all issues in the family with an assessment tool called the Arizona Self-sufficiency Matrix. We feel this tool should be used as a measurement of all persons utilizing homeless funding. It provides quantifiable, measureable goals and enumerated data which can be used as current data to garner future grants funds for the county <br /> We provides crisis response, transitional housing, crisis bed for those who are mentally ill, case management to those who are mentally ill and homeless residence of Kittitas county and meet criteria. <br /> We do not have direct homeless services for homeless individuals, however we know that we have individuals in treatment who are homeless. <br /> <br /> <br />