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Families and Individuals who are living on the streets, in shelters and transitional housing programs, and discharged from public and private systems of care such as health care facilities, foster care or other youth facilities, and corrections programs and institutions

According to the 2003 City of Pasadena Homeless Count there are 853 persons who are homeless on a given night in the City of Pasadena. Of these persons, 304 (35.6%) were sheltered and 549 or nearly two-thirds (64.4%) were unsheltered. The count also notes that 312 persons were chronically homeless, which is defined by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as individuals who are homeless for one year or more and/or homeless four (4) times within the last three (3) years. In addition, such persons must have a physical or mental disability.

In order to help these persons exit their lives on the streets, in shelters and transitional housing programs, and prevent them from becoming homeless upon discharge from public and private systems of care, the City of Pasadena 10-Year Strategy to End Homelessness will focus on the following:

a. providing public and private street outreach teams with the resources necessary to help homeless persons (particularly those who are chronically homeless) to exit their lives on the streets and into appropriate housing with case management services;

b. providing shelter and transitional housing programs with the resources necessary to provide comprehensive case management services (including employment services, housing placement services, and access to mainstream resources such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, General Relief, Food Stamps, Veterans Health) in order to help homeless persons permanently exit their lives in shelters (including the winter shelter program) and transitional housing programs;

c. implementing a discharge planning policy to prevent persons from being discharged into homelessness from public and private systems of care

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