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2020 Annual Report COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS 2020 ANNUAL REPORT was a challenging year. For thousands of individuals and The2020 fear and uncertainty caused by a worldwide families, 2020 was an emergency within an emergency. Those already experiencing pandemic, stay-at-home orders, business closures homelessness faced fear and uncertainty, causing income and job losses, and a nationwide struggling to get basic needs met in harsh and dangerous environments. One can’t economic downturn were big issues that affected us all. “stay at home” unless one has a home, and more than 9,600 people in Colorado on a given night had no home. on the cover: A Coalition nurse asks health questions of an arriving patient as part of the COVID-19 triage protocol. above left: Coalition Nurse Karen S. makes a daily house call to check on a patient in a Protective Action site, a hotel used for emergency housing for vulnerable clients during the pandemic. above right: Medical Assistant Rebecca H. cares for a patient at an emergency shelter clinic. COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 2 Answering the challenge The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless has been creating lasting solutions to The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless homelessness for 36 years. In 2020, our has long emphasized that having a safe, focus remained true. As we worked to fulfill stable home is the essential first step in As we worked to fulfill our mission our mission with housing, healthcare, and managing one’s health. Without housing, supportive services, we rapidly expanded with housing, healthcare, and health deteriorates. The stay-at-home our capacity to serve even more people supportive services, we rapidly expanded orders issued in communities throughout destabilized by the pandemic. Leveraging our capacity to serve even more the nation in response to the COVID-19 our strong collaborative partnerships in emergency underscored the essential people destabilized by the pandemic. the government, business, and nonprofit connection between housing and health: sectors, the Coalition provided emergency staying at home protects you from a Households already contending with housing and healthcare services to those deadly virus. housing instability were further impacted experiencing homelessness and impacted by job layoffs and losses, swelling the by COVID-19. numbers of people seeking help. Older The Coalition’s expertise, flexibility, individuals and those with underlying and capacity were critical to Denver’s health conditions living on the street community-wide COVID-19 response and risked severe illness and even death as essential in keeping our entire community COVID-19 spread. safe by addressing the critical needs of community members dealing with the impacts of homelessness. Coalition volunteers served as critical partners » in the community-wide COVID-19 response. COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 3 We believe HOME More than shelter homelessness A home—a place that feels safe, a place with HOUSING F PERMANENT HOUSING IR community—is essential for long-term well-being. S T M is solvable. O D E L Homes, health, and hope are SUPPOR TIVE COMMUNITIES the answer. A better life is possible Treating everyone with dignity and ATM H TRE ENT SE E U ADVOCACY E respect affirms their capabilities and C A N A T L S B fosters hope for the future. Providing U T S Healing the H OPE a variety of resources and services whole person H supports the individual’s efforts DENTAL & VISION CARE toward ongoing stability. E Comprehensive M P L O Y healthcare that meets M E N T S E R V I C E S people’s complex CHILD CARE physical and mental health needs is critical. MENTAL HEALTH CARE COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 4 New milestones reached in 2020 David moved from the street into his home » at Fusion Studios just before the COVID-19 HOMES emergency began. 139 individuals gained permanent, stable homes with the help 199 units of new of the Coalition. supportive housing opened We began the year celebrating the opening Many of the residents moved into their of 139 new apartment homes at Fusion new homes after years living on the Studios, our 20th residential property, streets—most struggled with mental hailed as a model of “...almost instant illness and other health conditions. housing.” The Coalition purchased a hotel, We completed construction of the then refurbished and remodeled it to Renaissance Veterans Apartments at create permanent supportive housing for Fitzsimons on Veterans Day, opening highly vulnerable adults, completing the 60 new apartments for former service renovation in only five months through members. This project was the result of a collaboration with the City and County a partnership with the Coalition, the US of Denver, the State of Colorado, and Dept. of Veterans Affairs, the Colorado private funders. Dept. of Military and Veterans Affairs, the Colorado Department of Local Affairs, the City of Aurora, and private funders, In 2020, we housed 93% creating a continuum of care, co-located more people in permanent with other veteran housing and services and emergency housing on the Fitzsimons campus in Aurora. than in 2019 COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 5 Coalition case manager Susan B. shares resources with a » guest in a Protective Action site, a hotel used for emergency housing for vulnerable clients during the pandemic. This collaborative effort secured funding to lease motels that had closed during Fusion Studios and Renaissance Veterans the pandemic, creating 800 rooms of Apartments at Fitzsimons increased the emergency housing. These units provided total number of supportive housing units medical respite care for 2,400 patients owned and managed by the Coalition to recovering from COVID-19, and for 1,367 more than 4,300. elderly individuals and others at high risk Even before the appearance of COVID-19, due to chronic health conditions. the Coalition was addressing a significant Between April 1 and December 31, the gap in the types of housing needed to Coalition provided COVID-19 emergency address homelessness. The Coalition Housing IS Healthcare housing to more than 3,700 individuals designed the Stout Street Recuperative The COVID-19 emergency created an and families experiencing homelessness. Care Center, a setting where people unprecedented need and opportunity to When added to permanent housing units experiencing homelessness and high implement housing and healthcare as owned and managed by the Coalition, medical needs could convalesce after part of the community-wide protection the total number of households housed hospital stays, receive daily medical care, efforts. Coalition leadership worked through Coalition efforts during the and connect with ongoing housing and with representatives of federal, state, year was 7,967, a 93% increase over the supportive services. Four upper floors of and local agencies to secure funding for previous year. this nine-story building—adjacent to our emergency housing to protect people award-winning Stout Street Health Center— recovering from COVID-19, and those comprise the 98-unit Renaissance Legacy at high risk of complications should they During the 2020 COVID-19 Lofts, a permanent supportive housing contract the virus. emergency, the Coalition community. We finalized the financing provided emergency housing and began the construction of this for an additional 3,767 individuals groundbreaking development in December. COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 6 among Denver’s unhoused neighbors and those living in crowded emergency In 2020, we administered HEALTH shelters. Telehealth encounters increased 2,669 COVID-19 tests Integrated Health Services Meeting unique health as providers needs during 2020 reached out to those in encampments and provided behavioral health to those in The Coalition is nationally recognized as housing and shelters. a leader in providing integrated health The Coalition served 15,494 patients with services to those experiencing and at risk We created integrated health clinics within physical, mental, and dental care, and of homelessness. As the emergency evolved the City’s emergency 24-hour shelters at the substance use treatment services. in Denver, the Coalition mobilized efforts National Western Stock Complex and the to provide COVID-19 testing, primary Denver Coliseum, providing COVID-19 care, housing, and specialized resources testing and primary care to more than to prevent a catastrophic contagion 1,000 shelter guests, many of them new patients to the Coalition’s health services. We provided primary care to more than 1,000 patients new to the Coalition’s Integrated Health Services. COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 7 HOPE Renaissance Veterans Apartments » resident Walter shares with staff how much Resources for brighter futures he is enjoying his new apartment home. The Coalition works to honor the inherent dignity of the people we serve, affirming their capabilities and fostering their hope that a better life is possible. Supportive Family Support Services staff served services like the Coalition’s Renaissance an unprecedented 25% increase in Children’s Center provided trauma- new families reaching out for help, informed childcare and early education most experiencing housing instability that gave kids a safe place to spend the for the first time due to the economic day when schools were closed, and provided downturn. Case managers provided a critical resource that allowed many parents critical support to residents struggling to retain their jobs as essential workers. with social isolation, substance use recovery, and mental illnesses during the stay-at-home orders. katie with corgi? An individual’s hope—and their ability In 2020, we saw an to build a better future—becomes a unprecedented 25% increase reality when the broader community in new families reaching recognizes the person as a neighbor out for help in need rather than someone to be shunned and excluded. We saw this recognition reflected in the thousands of selfless ways that the community supported the Coalition’s work.
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