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For the first time since its
inception in the 1980s, the City's homeless delivery
system underwent a comprehensive program and
system evaluation. The goals of the evaluation
were:
- refining the strategy for
homeless service provision and the effective
management of resources;
- results-oriented
recommendations against which the effectiveness
of the programs and the system can be measured;
- recommendations for specific
action steps to be carried out within the next
five years; and
- recommendations for
increasing and/or reallocating resources to
carry out the action steps.
The Urban Institute (UI) was selected
to conduct the evaluation following a nationwide
competitive process. The Urban Institute is a
Washington, D.C.-based nonpartisan economic and
social policy research organization. The Urban
Institute and the project's principal evaluators,
Dr. Martha Burt and Laudan Aron, have completed
numerous evaluations of homeless services programs
and continuums of care, surveyed best practices and
are considered experts in the field. Prior
evaluations have used agency and project surveys;
sampling; literature review; site visits; fieldwork;
focus groups and data analysis. more... |
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The City of Santa
Monica’s homeless service system has undergone a comprehensive evaluation.
Click here for a downloadable
version of the evaluation report.
The evaluation report is available in print at the City Hall
Information Desk, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, and the Santa Monica
Public Library Main Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd., and branch libraries.
Themes from June 2007 Focus Group
Last
year, the City commissioned an evaluation of its
homeless delivery system by the Urban Institute.
One of the recommendations was to create
opportunities for broader community
participation in discussions about homelessness.
In order to begin implementing this
recommendation, a focus group was led by Mr.
Edelman, the City's Special Representative for
Homeless Issues. A number of themes
emerged at the focus group and are summarized
here.
Please contact the City of Santa Monica, Human Services Division at (310)
458-8701, TDD (310) 458-8696, for more information. |
