Prince your mic seems muted. I love the background though!

Thanks :)

Julie Jacobs, Choices/RCMI

Tolulope ola

Miriam Hauser - Center for Victims of Torture

Andrea Hinderaker - Safe Space Emergency Shelter

Alexis Dauenhauer American Indian Family Center

Hi, this is Davis from Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative

LuAnne Buck, RS EDEN Corrections Division

Sara Liegl, Project Home w/Interfaith Action

Jenn O’Connor, ED Crisis Social Worker, Region’s Hospital

Brooke Schultz, RADIAS Health (we do homeless outreach)

Trisha Kauffman, Solid Ground

Hi Patty Haggen for Terry Forliti from Breaking Free

Kathleen Turner, Catholic Charities of St Paul & Mpls

Tamara Stark, Tubman

Desiree Clater: American Indian Family Center

Tolulope Ola - Restoration for All, Inc.

Renee Lewis from Regions Hospital

Jessica Hancock-Allen Catholic Charities

Nate Bordeaux - American Indian Family Center

Ellen Watters, Outside In Collaborative

Rich Aylward: Guild

Kim Lieberman, Justus Health

Makeisha Hall Model Cities

Hi! Wendy Underwood with Catholic Charities of St Paul & Minneapolis

Mary Kay Bailey, Outside In

Hanna Getachew-Kreusser Face to Face Health & Counseling

Ulanda-MWK Catering in partnership with Ujamaa Place

John Slade, Metropolitan Interfaith Council on Affordable Housing (MICAH)

Sam Walker, MS Program Director for Continuum Care Center. Eric Bacon, LADC is on the phone - Executive Director for Continuum Care Center

Nick Gisi, Union Gospel Mission Twin Cities

Stephanie Mullen Breaking Free

Wendy Boppert, Saint Paul Opportunity Center-Catholic Charities

Allison Shaul, Catholic Charities

Christine Michels Director of Housing Stability and Opportunity at Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis. I oversee our adult emergency service locations in both Ramsey and Hennepin County.

Can you email us the presentation?

yes Reuben

How are the outreach efforts going to get the people who are using these services into calls like this?

Are there isolation spaces available for residents of congregate housing sites (not shelter, but shared baths/kitchens, with similar profile of high-risk clients)

Will there be assistance for agencies wanting to expand services to provide additional services during the pandemic and beyond- as well as expedited approvals to enable the service being provided?

How many hotel units have been secured so far?

Will you be sharing this data regularly?

Is there any central information hub where those of us providing Outreach services can share/obtain updated information?

Are public health resources available to assist treating/screening clients? I.e. visiting nurses, assistance taking temps, etc.

Can you make sure victims service providers who are sheltering and housing people are factored into the overall response systems for all ages? Our population reflects the demographics disproportionately impacted by the pandemic overall as well.

How quickly does Ramsey County hope to place more homeless residents into hotels?

Could you read DParker's question

If we have answers to any of these questions, how can we get them to those who are asking them?

Any thoughts regarding assuring that our front line partners caring for clients have safety measures (mask, thermometer) to assure their health and prevention of spread to clients?

We've been able to work with Freedom from the Streets in St. Paul - homeless and people recently homeless who are organizing themselves around these issues - we have bus tokens, food, and some limited stipends for central organizers. These kinds of supports could be helpful.

Thank you, Elizabeth!

What is the referral process to utilize the hotel shelter beds?

Are you aware of the number for families on the RC shelter wait list and are you going to be monitoring that number - watching it go up as evictions increase as we come out of this pandemic?

I understand this is a longer distance question, however: When all of this is over - will our community experiencing homelessness just be put back out on the streets or will Mary Hall and Hotels remain options for transitional housing?

Please have a place (webpage?) to share updates as they are available for transparency. Someplace people can get the most accurate info in real time. Also clarify point of entry for people. Will it be through coordinated entry or public health or triage/hotline?

Are those both active?

Hello. Are you currently working directly with partners providing outreach in Ramsey County. People Inc., Radius, Catholic Chariites and others who employee outreach staff who are currently coordinating their efforts to work together to respond to the needs of people living outdoors?

If we have people symptomatic in our congregate setting (halfway house) will the be able to go to Twin Town etc.?

There needs to be large spaces for people during the day in addition to hotel rooms. Current daytime centers are overcrowded as other sites or frequently visited locations are closed. A larger space allows for social distancing and health screenings while also being able to provide county social services, access to the federal economic impact payments, possibly other benefits, etc.

Ability to refer clients at all times of the day and every day that need appropriate level of shelter

I have heard reports from the Freedom folks that law enforcement - Ramsey County and St. Paul - are trying to 'enforce' the stay at home order on people without home (who are exempted by the Governor's order). So getting to the SPPD and Ramsey County Sheriff to make sure they're on board.

So, prior to the crisis, Ramsey County was using the HMIS system for Coordinated Entry. Is this system still in use?

Social distancing for families who have kids and how is child care being provided for single parents who have kids that may need to isolate or quarantine

We normally don't - but we are currently allowing parents to go to vital doctors appointments and allowing staff to watch their children when they go. We're also covering all transportation, so they do not have to take public transit.

Nursing visits can be scheduled through ARMHS services as well as whatever resources are available through public health.

will these systems have access to interpretation and language lines

We have Level III sex offenders in our halfway houses, would they be able to go to Mary Hall if they are symptomatic.

Has there been any thought of single parent who becomes positive and has children who are asymptomatic. What would be the options for those children who need to be monitored for rule out?

We are developing COVID-19 safety plans with families

Also - Mary Sue Hanson has a group gathered to think about what happens if a parent becomes unable to care for their children and goes to the hospital and there are no relatives to take the kids.

Sara Leigl this is a great consideration

will there be single-sex options available for those for whom it would be culturally inappropriate to stay in a co-ed shelter?

Ditto on Sara Liegl's earlier point - there will be a big surge of evictions after the peacetime emergency order is lifted (unless something is done to support renters) so consider that to be a 'second wave' of shelter need.

Some individuals are not compliant with existing norms and guidelines. These persons may have been evicted from existing shelter systems, and they now pose a great risk in terms of exposure to contagions. Can we have some guidance on available measures to help these individuals come in to shelter?

There are also people couch-hopping or doubled-up. They may be asked to leave or need a place to self-isolate.

We need PPE, pre-packaged meals, transportation vouchers to help those we are helping get into shelters.

More PPE-specifically masks, gowns, gloves...

PPE/Cleaning supplies

We need non-congregate sheltering space for families, and more space to take families in off the waitlist.

ditto NIck

Yes.

Additional temporal thermometer for screening purposes

hotel support for people who stay outside

Y'all saying cleaning supplies know about Splash (free bleach cleaner) & Hands for All (free sanitizer)?

we need clarity on the process for referring individuals who are symptomatic to isolation spaces--are there clear eligibility criteria

The people we see at 10 p.m. needed a place to sit and rest their feet during the day - often they are restricted from other settings and are left to wonder around town until 10 p.m when we open.

When shelter guests are moved to hotels, we must be able to keep those bunks open so as to create social distancing within the shelter.

Right. Restaurants and typical gathering places are closed

A need for hand sanitizer, masks as we get new people.

Pre-packaged food delivery, mobile testing priority for people staying with us, centralized hub to access range of resources to reduce risk and transmition

*transmission

So, I'm an RN. I am willing to help with mobile testing, 651-283-5116. Julie Jacobs, Choices.

Hand sanitizer for free - https://www.allhandsmn.org/

Great - thank you, Julie!

what about having screeners at the St Paul air port and opening it for non-symptomatic individuals to have snacks and a safe place to be. It is large enough to allow for social distancing and if possible some of the field can be tented.

^^ cheers for Julie

Thank you Julie!

Ensuring low barrier access to resources

Prepared food/MRE type food for people in encampments - some has been identified but more is likely needed.

Prompt ability to move a client once identified as demonstrating symptoms to an area to meet their health needs and limit exposure to other

But who will sport the purple background?

Sheltering should include support services for all and specially youth-they have multiple barriers and now compounded with this epidemic

Thank you!

Thank you all for this opportunity for feedback and sharing information, have a great day!

Thank you, Prince!!!

Thank you!