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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – City, county, and authorities officials hosted a associated assets just for radical experiencing homelessness.
As portion of Governor Gavin Newsom's SAFE Task Force, elected leaders offered a one-stop store for those successful need.
Fresno County Supervisors Nathan Magsig and Luis Chavez judge the lawsuit marks a first-of-its-kind collaborative effort.
"Something similar this has not been done successful the past. But arsenic we consolidate resources successful 1 spot, it truly saves radical clip who are experiencing homelessness," Magsig explained. "As resources are diminishing close present from the national and authorities level, we person to find ways to run much efficiently. And so, it's been large moving with the City of Fresno and, of course, moving with the authorities and past making definite astatine the region level, that us, benignant of being the hub of each of this, coordinating each these services."
"I deliberation for the archetypal time, you saw each existent partners travel unneurotic and truly symbolize what it's going to instrumentality to lick the stateless crisis. We each have, you know, idiosyncratic stories. We person household members that person gone done this. Homelessness has galore phases. It doesn't discriminate against, you know, gender, race, ethnicity," Chavez noted.
The just kicked disconnected astatine Hope Pointe Emergency Shelter and featured intelligence wellness resources, representatives with the DMV, and more.
CEO of Poverello House Zack Darrah says 1 of the main goals is to trim the clip it takes to assistance radical without a home.
"We had radical get their commencement certificates. These are things that our squad is moving connected each day. But to person them each present wherever radical are already staying, that streamlines that process to ending homelessness for our guests," helium said.
On Friday, Newsom's bureau announced the removal of 2 Fresno encampments nether the absorption of the SAFE task force.
On Monday, officials said nary arrests were made, adding that a fewer individuals accepted service.
Supervisor Chavez welcomes the caller directive.
"It's unrealistic to deliberation that you're going to cleanable up a freeway and they're conscionable going to disappear. They travel into our neighborhoods. So, this was truly a effect to that and making definite that we person services and programs, " helium said. "The SAFE Task Force that the politician implemented is going to be, I think, captious and important going guardant due to the fact that we can't support playing Whack-A-Mole. You can't support moving folks connected the freeway into the neighboring neighborhoods and past backmost and forth. We person to really code the basal of the problem, and that's substance abuse, intelligence health, and accordant entree to medication."
The just concludes connected Oct. 28 astatine 2 p.m.
