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Question 3: Unwitlingness to participate and timited avaitabitity are listed <br />as the top barriers to accessing services. How can we address these <br />barriers? (People with lived experience were asked: what are your <br />barriers to accessing services? What was successful/what worked wetl?) <br />People with Lived Experience: When asked what are their barriers to accessing services, peopte <br />with lived experience with hometessness listed the fottowing: <br />Addiction/substance use disorder <br />Peopte who are judgmental <br />Having a criminal history <br />Lack of funding for homes <br />Not having dependents <br />Not having a disabitity <br />Lack of tenant history <br />Being hometess but housed <br />Having pets <br />Having to do muttipte intakes/paperwork and tetting same story over and over <br />Weekty goats that hard to manage/achieve (monthly goals might be more manageabte) <br />Lack of organizationaI skitls <br />Changes in case managers <br />DSHS wait times <br />Not having an address <br />When asked what has been successful or worked wetl for them, they discussed the funding for <br />hetping people find emptoyment, inctuding support with ctothing and hygiene; encouragement to <br />seek mentat heatth services; having a good attitude towards peopte experiencing hometessness, <br />being nonjudgementat, and giving people the time of day; advocacy on behatf of clients; and <br />support with addiction and sober housing. <br />. "...there are peopte who don't have dependents, people trying to get their kids back, <br />adutts who don't have a disabitity (they're just a single individuat on the street trying to <br />make their way. ) They feel hopeless because they don't have anything to hetp them get <br />their foot in the door." <br />. "For me personatty, the biggest issue woutd be lack of tenant history." <br />r "...but intake after intake after intake after intake after intake after intake-it gets reatty <br />exhausting to tetl the story 5,000 times especialtywhen you are trying to move past it.". "l betieve the funding for hetping fotks for getting back on their feet and employed has <br />been a very big help as they atso help provide clothing for interviews for jobs...." <br />. "When there's not an attitude about it, that hetps a [ot. I go through weird stuff in my <br />tife. I go through things most people don't go through, that's just how my life has <br />been....so to have someone work side-by-side with me and give me the time of day...that <br />makes me want to keep going and not give up." <br />Service Providers: Unwittingness to participate resonated with some participants who have <br />experience with people not showing up for hetp. However, they recognize that there are a lot of <br />barriers to accessing hetp and it's important to be there when people are ready. One participant <br />suggested it is about an "inabitity to participate." Other barriers cited included substance abuse, <br />not being abte to get a job, readiness for change, stigma and judgment, traumatic pasts, and lack <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />8