It eats up a couple hours of my morning and puts me behind, and I apologize. For that, can I get a motion on the minutes, please? So moved. I got a motion. Do I have a second? Second. I got a motion and a second. Are there any comments? Are there any questions? Scrivener errors. These are on the minutes for September 25th. Seeing no comments or questions, all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Like sign. The floor is open for a reasonable opportunity to be heard on items on the agenda. Hello. My name is David Perry. Good morning. I'm Chairman Book, and good morning to the members of the Board of Trustees of the Homeless Trust. My name is David Perry. I'm the Executive Director of the Florida Coalition of Advanced Racial Equity. We're at 721 Northeast 121st Street, Miami, Florida, 33161. I'm here to speak out on item 4B on the agenda. That's the Miami Safe Streets Collaborative SAMHSA Streets Grant. Just overall, I commend the Homeless Trust for writing a successful grant to get money for these types of treatment services. I would like to express some very serious concerns with the way that this grant is written, because I believe that it sets the stage for the criminalization of homelessness, and it also fosters stigmatizing false myths about the roots of homelessness. Now, I hope that everybody has a copy of this handout that I was able to pass out, and I'll walk you through it, because these are my talking points, to point out four serious concerns that I have. Number one, this grant, at least as written, ties housing to treatment. It makes treatment a precondition to housing, and that feeds into this false, stigmatizing myth that drug abuse is the cause of homelessness. Drug abuse is not the cause of homelessness. Poverty is a cause of homelessness. High housing costs are the cause of homelessness. There are many drug abusers, drug addicts, sleeping comfortably in million-dollar condos. There are many drug abusers who have housing, but it is poverty that causes homelessness. In fact, homelessness itself causes drug abuse or exacerbates drug abuse as people self-medicate in order to relieve themselves of the intense trauma of homelessness. So if you didn't have a drug problem before you came on the streets, you are certainly going to have one once you get there. So we need to attack the root causes of homelessness without focusing on this false myth of drug abuse. Second, compulsory treatment. This appears to be compulsory treatment by another name. We know that even voluntary treatment has a very low success rate. I'm not aware that compulsory treatment ever works. Mandated treatment has such a low success rate as to be virtually meaningless. All this is is a stripping of the human and civil rights of human beings. You cannot force a person into treatment. You have to meet people where they're at using a trauma-informed approach, and you have to work and support with them. You do not mandate them into treatment. Third, and I've been corrected on the third point here, so perhaps this point is not a point of contention, but it's a major point. As I read the grant, there was no role for people with lived experience of homelessness. Now, I may be corrected here, but this is essential, that people with lived experience of homelessness be part of this grant, be part of all policies that impact them. We cannot take such a paternalistic, condescending approach as to ignore the voices of people who are impacted by these policies. David, I would simply want to stop you for one second there, and Judge Leifman is going to respond more fully. But imply in any way, shape, or form, and I said this to you before, that we don't take in people with lived experience, that when we implement programs, when we apply for grants, when we try to do what we do from a treatment perspective, or quite honestly, straight sheltering or housing, we do believe in taking in lived experience, and we've got a ton of people on this board who serve on our committees that have lived experience, and we always welcome those outside of the board to participate from a lived experience standpoint. I never want you to think we are ignorant, and I never want you to think that we see ourselves as paternalistic. It's just an unfair way to characterize this board in what the trust does. And it's not intended to scold you in any way, shape, or form. It's simply to say to you and to remind you, we have always heard you. We may not always agree on a solution, and we may or may not agree on what's right and wrong here, but I don't think we're off on how we feel and what we believe are the root causes of homelessness and how to best tackle it. And I can say one last thing of that, and I'll defer to Judge Leifman in a second. When it comes to the chronic population, if you don't have significant treatment resources on all sides of it to support those who will engage in that level of treatment, then you fail. Then you fail to help balance, if you will, and give people the opportunity in a more stable mentality. For those who need it, okay? For those who need it, yes. As I've said, those who will accept it. Not just need it, but accept it. So I recognize that. Go ahead, Dave. But they are not the driver of homelessness, sir. It's poverty that's the driver of homelessness. The problem with this grant, and this goes into number four, is that this really sets the stage for criminalization. We are focusing on the supposed bad choices of the individual. The bad choices of the individual do not cause chronic homelessness. It is a systemic institutional issue. It is endemic poverty and the high housing costs that cause homelessness. And what this grant supposedly does is foster, it promulgates the stigmatizing myth that the homeless are all drug-addicted, mentally ill criminals, and if they would simply get off drugs, everything would be okay, and nothing could be further from the truth. We must solve the problems of housing. Housing first, not treatment first. I know we do, but we're not getting to the item out of order. He's on reasonable opportunity to be heard now. Esther, you can ask your question, Judge Leifman. I'm going to defer to you in a second. So let's define treatment. What is treatment? Because obviously if an individual is on the street and is homeless, it's not necessarily, to your point, that they're on drugs or they need to get off drugs, but obviously there's a psychological problem probably caused by the homelessness and probably need some type of treatment, not necessarily to get off the drugs, but treatment to help them deal with what they're going through. And what they're going through should have a connection with housing. You'll have somebody in recovery who is still poor and who can't afford housing. There's not that connection there. Okay. All right. Judge, you're recognized, please. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. David, thank you so much for your comments. I think it's just always critically important to hear several different points of view. It keeps us honest. It makes us challenge what we do. And sometimes it's easy to get into groupthink and think we're just doing everything wonderfully. And so I always appreciate sometimes your contrary opinions, but they do make us think. I don't look at this grant through the lens that you do, and I'll tell you why. This is not a fundamental shift away from Housing First. This is an addition. This doesn't even come through HUD. This is an HHS grant. So these are additional dollars that we've never had before to focus on a particular population that we've not been successful with. I've been in this space now for 25 years, and everything we do is about not criminalizing mental illness, substance use, or homelessness. But there is a subset of population that are too ill to recognize their illness. We know who they are. Over the last five years, there were 16,400 people that were arrested multiple times that spent 1.2 million days in the Dade County Jail. That's 3,900 years of jailbed days. All of them were eligible to be diverted. We did not have the capacity or resources for that population. This, for the first time, helps us with capacity. Yes, sometimes we have to leverage people into treatment when they come into jail. Leverage. They don't want treatment. They would like to go right back to the street and continue to do what they're doing. I think poverty is a major driver of homelessness, but I would say this county, unlike any county in the United States, has eliminated economic homelessness. The population that we have left on the street, yes, poverty is involved, but most of them have really horrific histories of trauma, horrible, mostly as children, which has led them to substance use and mental health issues, which has made it difficult for them to make good decisions. And so having options like this program that we will be putting together, I believe, will break the cycle and will allow us the opportunity, unlike any community in the United States, to get to functional zero. We're going to be working off of a list, starting with our top 1,000. They spent 317,000 days in the Dade County Jail. You refer to those as your high flyers, correct? I refer to them as our familiar faces. And those are the people that these dollars are targeting. This isn't shifting us away from housing first. This is focusing on a population that continuously cycles in criminalization, and we want to break criminalization. And once they – and I just want to point out something else you said. Working with people with lived experiences is critical. A third of the jail diversion staff are people with lived experiences, and half of them are graduates of the program. The Advocate Program has a grant right now for $1.5 million that includes a peer program that will be working with this grant. So just because you didn't see it in here doesn't mean it's not happening. It is in here. And so it is a significant part of what we do. I stand corrected – I had some conversations with some folks right before I came up here, and they pointed out some things they did not see in the writing of the grant. But let me just conclude with the major concern here, and this is a major concern. We cannot tie treatment to eligibility for housing. I don't think we're doing that. Okay, as long as we don't do that, because that is the major concern. I don't think we're doing that at all. And that leads down a slippery slope. And these programs – and I don't mean to cut you off through the chair, but these are both voluntary and involuntary. People can voluntarily come into these services. You do not have to come in involuntary. If you're coming through the jail, it may be involuntary, but you're under criminal attention at that point. But the services are equally available for people that want to come involuntary. And if I can ask you, it's coming through jail for sleeping in public. No. Well, that's not necessarily true. The police have gotten much better about not making those arrests. Now, these are people that have – Can't speak for what they do on Miami Beach, but that's not what's going on in 34 other communities and in Miami-Dade County. It is not. 1,400 arrests last year in Miami Beach for sleeping in public. We don't disagree with you. Mr. David, we review those statistics on an ongoing basis. I have the staff pull them on a regular basis. We share them with people, and we are talking to city managers throughout the county. And as I have expressed to you directly last meeting, the attention needs to be focused on North Miami Beach, Aventura, North Miami, Hialeah, Cutler Bay, Florida City, and Homestead, Pinecrest, South Miami, Palmetto Bay. That is where those that are being shifted to the mainland, that are being brought over to TGK 12, 14, 15 times, people are staying here, and then they're shifting to other parts of the community. Look, the pit count brings us great value when we do the August count that most communities don't do. We know what's going on. We can see it. But it requires everybody to focus on a bad set of leadership principles that are driving that issue, period. I simply want to be very clear to the board. We have had this conversation now going on two years. It was made clear that with a new administration, unlike the Ben Carson period, that HUD and other agencies were going to shift their priorities away, based on Project 25, based on the Cicero Foundation report, away from Housing First. We said, what were we going to do? What we do every time we're presented a challenge, which is we would rise to the occasion and find a way to take advantage of a reprioritization, plugging those resources in where they are needed. We have been clear. The value of our food and beverage tax allows us unrestricted dollars to place where we need to put them. So if we lose Housing First dollars somewhere, whether those are federal dollars or state dollars, we have the luxury of plugging our resources in and moving them around, and in part because we have adequate operating reserves and adequate capital reserves, because we run this with a vision knowing that there will always be needs that aren't going to be met by some other grant, that we have an obligation, an affirmative obligation as fiduciaries of the taxpayers' dollars and a fiduciary of the people on the streets, sheltered, unsheltered, that we are responsible under our charter, under the code that created us to do. And so while I deeply appreciate David's feelings, and we generally agree on everything he said, and while I think that poverty is the largest driver of unhoused individuals, I don't think anybody should go home believing that that is the only cause of chronic homelessness in this community, because we are well aware of many people, unhoused, that have resources, that have a place to go, and don't choose to. That is their right. They have a right to live homeless. I'd like you to identify those people, because I've never met them. In 15 years of advocacy, I've never met anybody. They're out there, David. She uses to be on the streets. We have. We have. We have. But anyway, thank you. We appreciate you. Thank you. Anybody else send a reasonable opportunity to be heard before the floor is closed? Yes, ma'am. Come on. It's the same way. Please remember name and address for the record. Everybody. My name is Ms. Tola. Address not accurate right now. Now, we can say I'm very grateful for the help that you have gave me all the time that I'm here. You listen and acknowledge what I say and pay attention to what we have to say, even if you guys maybe do not agree on what we're saying or believe it's true or not. But at least you acknowledge us. The second thing I wanted to say, a little update. Most of the people that have been in the street right now, they are working. So, I'm very happy that most of them that are in the street, even being homeless, they have got a job. Most of them having a job. So, I'm very proud of each one of them that have got a job because it's so hard as being homeless, trying to look to get a shower and get a job, a decent job, so people won't look at you in any kind of way. The second thing I wanted to say is that Mr. Willie and Ms. Willie and Juan, Willie and when, sorry, her name is, the guy with the wheelchair, I don't know if you guys remember, he came last month. They still have not updated his, they both have income. They have not helped him get a housing that they should qualify, but they told him they'll come back to them. He was supposed to be here. I was waiting for him outside, but he was not here today. But they should have, there's a number or something, so they can come back, have an outcome to see where he can get his housing because he and his wife have an income, and he's been there, out there for more than a year, and as a wheelchair person and handicapped right now. Thank you. And I want to thank all of you guys for your effort and the help that you guys try to help each one of us. We appreciate it. Thanks so much. Anybody else had a reasonable opportunity to be heard? Now would be the time to come forth. Yes, ma'am. This one. Hello. Good morning, everyone. My name is Giovanna Sawyer. I reside at Chapman South. I'm here just on behalf of me and my kids because one of my sons has full-blown sickle cell disease, and he caught the COVID-19 while being in Chapman South. It is like a health hazard in that facility with me being there for like a month, almost two months. A lot of the residents in my dorm, they don't like to clean up behind their self. And when I spoke to Mr. Diego, he said maybe they're tired of cleaning. I even told him about one of the little Haitian teenagers keep walking back and forth by my room door, and he told me that people is very different. I have like other concerns about Diego being like racist and stereotyping black people. I never see him with a taser, but some of the clients say Diego is walking around the facility ready to taser African Americans. And also, I'm here because my character has been trying to be assassinated by a Metro-Day police that rented me his house about four years ago in Richmond Heights. So my case is, you know, somebody need to do something because I'm being harassed by one of the staff. She says her name is Mimi. Thank you. Scott, I assume somebody will have a follow-up conversation, please. Thank you so much. Floor is closed. A reasonable opportunity to be heard. Ms. Millett, we are deferring Congresswoman Wilson's recognition again today. She called us just before the meeting and said she was unable to get here. Vicki, you're recognized on 4B. Thank you, Mr. Chair. On October 2, it was announced that the trust had received one of eight awards for the streets grant through HHS. This is $11.9 million over four years to create the Miami Safe Streets Collaborative. It will support coordinated street-based engagement, treatment, and recovery services for people who are homeless and living with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, or both. The project connects with the Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery. Sub-recipients include New Hope. All of these are in the audience, Mr. Chair. New Hope, the Advocate Program. New Hope will handle outreach. Advocate will do admission to discharge at the Recovery Center. Camilla's Health Concern will provide integrated medical and psychiatric services and behavioral science research. Dr. Ladner, who's in the audience, will provide outcomes. He will be the evaluator for outcomes. We have non-contracted partners as part of this grant and will enter into an MOU with Thriving Mind, Jackson Health Systems, West Care, City of Miami Police and Fire Departments, the Corrections Department, the 11 Judicial Circuit, Specialty Courts, Chapman Partnership, Hermanos de la Calle, Miami Recovery Project, the Key Clubhouse, and the local chapter of NAMI, the National Alliance for Mental Illness. This project will target the high-need neighborhoods of downtown Miami, Overtown, Little Havana, Allapata, and Wynwood, as well as the Edgewater Corridor. And seeking the board's ratification of our application, and I want to thank Office of Grants Management here at the county for helping us put this grant together, and seeking ratification ability to enter into agreements and sub-recipient agreements and receive and expend HHS funding. I also want to thank Manny Saria, who's taken a leadership role in the Streets Grant and managing it. Need a motion. I'll move. Got a motion. Got a second. Judge, any comments? I think it's amazing. Thank you very much. Thank you to the staff for the amazing work and how quickly you were able to get this done. This is a game changer. Really big deal. Yep. Thank you. Real big deal. 12 communities in the country. Yes, ma'am, you're recognized. Eight. Thank you. I wanted to congratulate the Homeless Trust on receiving this grant, as well. Commissioner Bastien is a mental health professional, so she was grateful to sponsor this item at the board this week, actually. And so we look forward to seeing the positive outcomes for the community. Thank you for the comments from the gentlemen. We definitely want to address the humanity of people, as the county also continues to address the affordability crisis. Okay? Thank you. Let me just say thank you to you and the commissioner for getting this on the last edition. That's why this is an after-the-fact ratification. So thank you very, very much. Commissioner continues to lead as an example. Okay. Next. All in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion is adopted. Mia Casa expansion going to be deferred. Correct? We're on to the federal legislative program. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Chair, as you know, each year this body approves federal legislative priorities, which are passed on to the administration. For the record, the chair owns the deferral on Mia Casa. I was not ready to move that forward today. All right. And we pass those federal priorities over to the administration. Um, you've seen these before, many of them, uh, advocate in support for our homeless programs, um, or homeless assistance grants. This includes the continuum of care program, for which we get $63 million, and the emergency solutions grant program. Those dollars go to entitlement jurisdictions in the community, including housing and community development. But the activities are explicitly for homelessness. The second is support for continuum of care lead agencies. There was a prior budget that discussed possibly eliminating continuum of care lead agencies. They are not always agencies of government. Sometimes COC lead agencies are nonprofits in the community. We would just say that, you know, we have the data. We, uh, work with nonprofits in the community to provide the interventions and the project types. And we are the, the expertise, if you will, on issues involving homelessness in Miami-Dade County. So we want to support continuum of care lead agencies at whole and the homeless trust specifically. Uh, funding for special purpose vouchers. Um, many of our PHAs are in shortfall right now, our housing agencies. And we have successfully in the past used special purpose vouchers for a number of different populations for the benefit of people experiencing homelessness. Just some examples, HUD-VASH, homeless veterans, mainstream vouchers, non-elderly disabled persons, family unification program vouchers for families who are at risk, as well as youth aging out of foster care, foster youth to independence vouchers for youth aging out of foster care, stability vouchers. When we won our unsheltered NOFO, we got a number of stability vouchers, people experiencing homelessness, both individuals and families. So, um, we have a priority to fund additional special, special purpose vouchers. And lastly, funding for the supportive housing for elderly program. There are a number of projects which we don't directly fund or, uh, manage. There's called Section 202 Housing for Seniors. And as you all know, one out of every four people entering the continuum of care is a senior 55 plus. When we did our homeless count, both sheltered and unsheltered in January, we had close to 1,300 seniors and over 600 of them were 65 and over. So we had a senior homelessness issue. Got a motion in the second floor is open for discussion or questions. Seeing none, all in favor, signify by saying aye. Opposed. Motion is adopted. Vicki on the fiscal agent, uh, transition update, please. Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is self-explanatory. Roll into your report from there, please. Thank you, Mr. Chair. As you know that, um, we have moved to a fiscal agent. This, this fiscal agent is called MDG. They handle all of our rental assistance portfolio and we're transitioning projects to them to make sure landlords are paid timely. They conduct the inspections. They do the rent reasonableness, um, they calculate the rent and utility allowances and they handle the annual certifications that are required by HUD. Uh, we have morphed most of the rental assistance and former legacy plus care programs. These are the permanent housing programs to MDG. We're now moving some of the rapid rehousing rental assistance programs and transitional housing, rapid rehousing, joint component projects to the fiscal agent. We should be done with the full transition in December, but we're on time and things are progressing well. Um, this is an informational only item. And then my two items, which I suspect will be mentioned, um, later are, are homeless awareness day event. If you don't have a bed or haven't managed to, uh, uh, learn about it through the pushing we've done through our meetings, please attend either the student rally that happens in the morning or the homeless awareness day bed race. And I'm sure Lisa Muslim will have more to say about this. We'd really like to get a hundred percent board participation this year. Please come to one or both of the events. I think you will feel enriched and, and, and, and feel a sense of accomplishment when you see the things we're doing out in the community and the level of community engagement. So please try to attend. And then lastly, Mr. Chair, the ending homelessness fund with the Miami foundation give Miami day is coming up. It's November 19th. You can also give early the 14th through the 18th. So please consider the homeless trust and our ending homelessness fund, um, when give Miami day comes around. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you. M network. Ms. Moslem, you recognize Ms. Bedrace. We're going to change your name. Good morning, everyone. I'm going to add some color to what Ms. Millett just shared with you all. Um, as you can see from my report, it is heavily focused on homeless awareness day, November 6th. So two Fridays from now, the Friday after Halloween. Um, and we're on track to have a really tremendous day. A homeless awareness day for those who don't know. It's a day we've celebrated for 16 years. We've been doing this. And we really pull out all the stops to make sure our community is educated on this topic. So for the last couple of meetings, I have talked about the bed race. So today I thought I would refocus, um, on another aspect that Ms. Millett just mentioned. And that is the student leadership event that we are doing at St. Thomas University, um, I wanted to sort of set the stage for what our students see and experience on that day. Again, November 6th, around 10 o'clock in the morning, we turn out the lights of the basketball gymnasium at St. Thomas University, and we transport our kids into the world of homelessness, hopefully a world many of them don't know about. So for 90 minutes, they learn about the homeless trust. They learn to recognize the nonprofits, many of whom are sitting at the board today, to recognize their logo, to understand their name, to know that there are organizations that are doing work in this community, and understanding what the continuum of care is and why it matters. So in the course of those 90 minutes, our students watch a series of three videos that we produced several years ago, and they tackle each of these topics in very real ways. I thought today that you might enjoy seeing part of one of those videos the kids will see. It's seven minutes long, so I'm only going to show you about two minutes, two and a half minutes, but take a look. I'm Ali Fiaio. Um, I used to be a homeless guy out there. I'm a recovering addict. Hi, I'm Taylor Barshney. Um, I stay at Chapman. I'm currently homeless at the moment. Cleveland Bell, president and CEO of Riverside House and a board member of the Homeless Trust. My homelessness was a result of the fact that growing up as a young kid, I just had difficulties adjusting to society. I had difficulties within the landscape in which I lived. I grew up a very creative kind of kid. I grew up in a town, in a place that was not very creative oriented. And so as a result, the things that I saw as creative came across as problems to others. But I always pretended I was happy. I always had my smile. Taylor's always smiling. And I was popular because of that. I always smiled. But I felt like I owned the world. Like nothing could destroy me. I was indestructible. I felt like I had the whole world at my hands. And I owned it. And then I don't know what happened. I was, you know, I had dreams as a kid. You know, all these big dreams. I was going to be successful and all that. And I remember smoking weed. Weed was my first drug of choice. I smoked some weed. Oh, my God. I'm the king. This is great. I feel good. Back then, weeds gave you the munchies. It's not as strong as it is now. And I was like, oh, my God. And for me, smoking that weed started a whole thing. Right over. I could do this little bit of drugs. Or I could do this. And I could do that. And then I didn't really care about my homework that much no more. Because it wasn't that important. At first, I tried to maintain a lifestyle of control. And, of course, I didn't have the ability to be a functioning alcoholic or addict. For me, I was one of those kind of guys that if you were going to get high, it should be a full-time occupation. Why go in and hide fast? You know what I mean? Just go all the way. Of course, that turned out to be not a very good idea. A lot of the teenagers, they think they know what the streets are. And then when they really become involved in it, it's a whole other world. It's scary. There's, you know, those drugs, everyone's on drugs. They're on this thing called Molly down in Florida City. It's bad. It's taking people's lives. It ruined my life, and I wasn't even on it. My son's father. So we'll stop there. You can watch the rest of the video if you come November 6th. But as this video unfolds, our students get to know real people and their stories, and they're very powerful, and how our continuum of care stepped in to help them change the trajectory of their life. So that's just one of three videos. And what we do at the end of each one, if anyone has kids in school, you'll know the name Kahoot. We do a Kahoot test or quiz with 900 kids. All their names pop up on the screen. We ask them questions. They answer them. It's a way to engage them, make sure that they're learning. And it's always a popular moment in the day. This year, we have 20 public schools coming, three parochial schools, a Hebrew academy, and the 5,000 role model students who will watch the rest of that video. So they'll also hear from our new superintendent of schools, Bo Hall, Ron Book, Mrs. Millett, along with another student who is doing some amazing work supporting the Project Upstart program in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. So we invite you to come to that. Meanwhile, also on Homeless Awareness Day, we are not sleeping on the bed race. Okay. There's a flyer. If you want some more information, and for those in the audience, there's more information. I'm happy to answer questions. We have another week if you want to register your bed or if you have questions about how to make a bed, come see me. We would love to see all of you out there a couple of blocks from here at Miami-Dade College on the K Plaza. We start at 3 o'clock. And we do have this breaking news that Cleve Bell is going to be our pre-race parade grand marshal. This year, for the first year, we're going to have a parade. So he's not here today, but that will be exciting. On page 5 and 6, you'll see some of the collateral we've created for Homeless Awareness Day. And then a couple of quick notes, the press release on the streets campaign has received quite a bit of coverage. I have a list of some of the outlets there. We will see it in Florida Trend in the next two months, as well as Axios, Key Biscayne Independent, The Herald, and more. And our social media is strong. We added another 180 followers in September. And that's my report. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Your work on Homeless Awareness Day, you know how deeply appreciative we all are, because you guys really go overboard. So thank you. You make it what it is. Chapman, the queen has arrived. Just kidding. Good morning. Scott, we love you, buddy. But simply saying. Thank you. Good morning, Mr. Chair. Good morning. And guests. Today, I am pleased to report. Is this the? I'm pleased to report Chapman Partnerships 2025-2026 outcomes, highlighting our system performance measures, our housing placements, family-coordinated entry outcomes, our workforce and development outcomes, and an amazing community partnership. All right. So I'll jump right into our system performance measures for the last fiscal year. We were successful in maintaining our housing inventory count and making sure that we remain at 100% full occupancy. We have over 824 emergency shelter beds. We are at 100% compliance with HMIS participation. The average length of stay was 117 days. Our employment placements for the last fiscal year was 635 employment placements. The average hourly wage landed at $16.31. The positive placement rate was 56%, and we were successful placing 1,627 individuals into positive housing placements. Over what period of time? From 2025 to 2026. That was our last fiscal year. For everybody to hear the number, big number. Go ahead. Keep going. So for those of you who are unaware, we are also leading the family-coordinated entry process through our community case managers, through the Homeless Trust Family Day 1 funding to help support families. So throughout the last fiscal year, because now we're in the new fiscal year, we completed 750 family assessments, and that is major because that tells us that more families are needing help. There are more families who are really struggling right now. But out of those 700, those are just the assessments, calls to the hotline, and we do assessments. Twenty-three of those families were housed and or diverted directly from the hotline or their assessment. A hundred and twenty-five of those families were placed into the hotel-motel scatter sites. Seventy-six families were placed into emergency shelter, and 42 of those families were placed at Lotus House. Additionally, we're also managing the day-one families' rapid rehousing dollars, and we were successful in placing 137 families in permanent placements. So I think, I mean, these outcomes are amazing. I'm excited to be reporting them out to you all today. We could not do this without the support of the board and also funding to help us create this impact that we've created. All right, so I'm going to go to the next slide, which is our CP Works project. This is focused around economic stability. And, of course, economic stability remains the central point for helping our clients maintain housing and also self-sufficiency. CP Works has strengthened throughout the last fiscal year. They've been connecting, making sure that we have educational employment and career advancement opportunities. Our priorities for this fiscal year include expanding our employer partnerships in health care, hospitality, and technology. We're also wanting to integrate digital literacy and life skills into workforce preparation for all of the participants that are in our CP Works program. And we're also formalizing career pathways that allow clients to build credentials and advance over time. So we don't want them just to be a part of our CP Works component on a temporary basis. We want to provide them with permanent employment opportunities. We want them to advance. And so I'm happy to report that this fiscal year we achieved 73 placements. We had 73 participants in our program. And moving forward in this fiscal year, our goal is to serve over 100-plus new participants in our CP Works project. So we are excited about this workforce development project that we have. And we are really connecting not only with our clients, with the clients in the continuum as well. And this will be my last update. I want to highlight the amazing opportunity to collaborate with different organizations and just having partnerships to do the work that we do. It is so important. I have been to conferences. I have spoken to people all over the U.S. And I think one of the great things about Miami-Dade County is we are extremely collaborative. And that's how we can get the work done. That's why we create such great impact. So I'm proud to be a part of this continuum. But this is one of our partners, One Sight Foundation and Sunglass Hut. For the fourth year, they have come down to Miami-Dade County to provide a vision clinic. And this year, they provided a five-day vision clinic at Chapman North. Together, they provided free vision care to over 660 individuals and children. Services included comprehensive eye exams, vision screening, and prescription eyeglasses. This amazing resource was expanded. We opened it up to the Homeless Trust, your providers, Lotus House, Miami Rescue Mission, and Miya Casa. So many providers brought their clients to take advantage of the service. And it was truly, truly amazing. So we want to continue on this path. What about Hideaway Bay? Hideaway Bay? I'm not sure. We did have a couple of outreach people. We did have some folks come out. But I did send the message out to everyone. So I need to follow up. Oh, Stephen. I thought Stephen was sitting there. But, yeah, I'd send the message out to the Homeless Trust and all of the providers. I'm getting a no on Hideaway Bay, by the way, in the peanut gallery. Well, let's try to be expansive. Yes, okay. Please and thank you. So, for sure. Sorry to be a pain in the ass. And they're coming back next year. And I will, again, send the offer out to our entire continuum. Any providers that want to collaborate, you are more than welcome to. But I just want to say thank you to the Homeless Trust, our partners, the board, our stakeholders, our brother and sister partners, for their dedication and compassion. I'm just happy to report our outcomes for 2025, 2026. And we are looking forward to this new fiscal year and making a larger impact in our community. And thank you, Mr. Chair. That concludes my report. Thank you. And to my friend, the Chief, the truth shall always set you free. Always know who and what you are. Thank you. Do we have anything to add to the Economic Indicator Report? Or did you? Because I don't think I heard you hit it on your report. I did not, Mr. Chair. Please. With your permission. So, food and beverage for the month of September was $3.7 million. Total funding for the Homeless Trust for fiscal year 2025-26 was $49.6 million. 49.6. Our cut, 49.6 in the aggregate. Correct. Correct. Which one? Us. Us. Okay. So, which means that in total, we raise 54.5, give or take a penny? Yes. Okay. I think that's a meaningful number, just so everybody's aware. Unemployment at the national level. And that was up by what percentage over year, over year? Mr. Chair, I'm sorry. I don't have that in front of you. All right. Will you please, next meeting? I will. Just a footnote. Thank you. Go ahead. Keep going. Unemployment nationally, 4.1. At the state level, 4.5. Locally, 2.7. Department of Labor reports 38,000-plus persons out of work in Dade. Helpline took 12,700 calls in July and August combined. Number one call, 6,000 facing eviction. What's our checks and balances on our call line, please? We're in the midst of a shift because of right at home. So the calls are going through an initial assessment with the city of Miami together with Armanos. I can report on our call line for next meeting, if you would, please. Just a report. Nothing to do. I want to just inform our members what we're doing to make sure. Yes, Mr. Chair. You know what I'm talking about. I think there may also be a report in the folder related to the calls. Maybe, but I didn't see it. Call it to my attention. I'll be corrected. Yes, Mr. Chair. Attachment 3. Thank you. And that is it. Thank you. Thank you. Any other visits to come before the board? I again urge everyone to please do your best to participate in Homeless Awareness Day. I know you'll come back here not only feeling enriched, but feeling more rewarded than what you already feel when we do our work. So thank you. We are adjourned. Thank you. Thank you all. Am I ever going to get that top floor? Thank you.