02-17-2015 Day Shelter ProposalProposed Federal Way Day Shelter
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Brief history: With the guidance of Sound Alliance St. Vincent de Paul Church in Federal Way conducted a listening
session to enable parishioners a forum to express concerns in our community. Many present were experienced in
serving the homeless. These volunteers shared of the gaps in services provided by nonprofits and volunteer churches.
As St. Vincent's networked with the community by public meetings, other organizations joined in identifying how to
address this problem. The Brookings Institution stated in the book "Confronting Suburban Poverty In America" that
suburban poverty grew by 80% from 2000 to 2011. Now St. Vincent's was collaborating with Reach Out, Federal Way
Community Caregiving Network, Catholic Community Services, Valley Cities Counseling, King County Multi- Service
Center, City Vision, Saltwater Unitarian Church, the Church of the Good Shepard, Steel Lake Presbyterian, Calvary
Lutheran, Our Savior Baptist Church, Grace Lutheran, St. Theresa's Catholic Church, and many others. The next step
taken was to formulate the problem so as to be specific and concrete. As a first phase in addressing the problem, it was
determined to pursue a day shelter for homeless men. In a year of research the teams visited other day shelters in
other cities, interviewed key players in the community who interface with the homeless, learned about zoning
regulations, teamed with CCS for expertise in costs, and met with elected officials. In a public assembly sponsored by St.
Vincent's and Sound Alliance, 275 citizens demonstrated their support for a day shelter. Mayor Jim Ferrell stated that
these citizens voted with their feet to show the request steps be taken to move forward to develop this facility. He
pledged a resounding "Yes!" to support this effort.
The problem
• Federal Way has inadequate services for homeless people especially during the day.
• No showers and laundry facilities are available on a predictable, consistent basis.
• Homeless lack post office box and access to a computer to aid in job search & applications.
• There is no source of all up -to -date listings of resources within the area for food, shelter, clothing, counseling,
etc. Each organization lists only those relating to their service.
Results of problem solutions
• Provide the social and emotional support in having the confidence towards self- sufficiency in our community.
• Meet basic human needs of cleanliness.
• An address is a step toward independence and aids in lessening the negative impact of homelessness.
• Less impact of homeless using quiet and warmth of facilities such as the library, shopping malls and hospital
emergency rooms.
Ask of City
• Aid in identification of 3,000 to 4,000 sq. ft. facility to provide elements to solution of the problems noted. At
least two possible sites have been located. One of them would require joining with Valley Cities for operation
as it is larger than we could support. The other would be acceptable as a "start-up" facility.
• Aid in locating financial support for capital costs from state, federal or county sources, as well as operational
costs from city, county and community.
o Phase 1 to serve primarily men however women and children could use facilities as needed.
o Phase 2 to add focus on needs of women and children.
We are interested in discussing what options might exist to make the human services "pie" bigger to provide an
adequate, secure source of funding to support staffing needs of this facility without reducing funds of current
needs. Possible options include a King County -wide Health and Human Services levy or different ways to
increase this funding at the local level.
Proposed operation of facility to be handled by CCS.
Preliminary operations budget proposal covers cost for a 5 day per week, 6 hour a day program. This budget
does not include lease expense (Est. $36,000/year, $180,00015 year) or start-up costs.
Expenses minus lease
Expenses minus lease
Personnel
Annual
Operating
Expenses
Personnel
5 Year
Operating
Expenses
Salaries /Wages
Benefits
Subtotal, Personnel
75,765
18,849
94,614
Operating, Supplies, and Other
Direct aid to client
Equipment /supplies
Insurance
Postage /shipping
Printing /advertising
Utilities
Repair and maintenance
Telecommunications
Travel and training
Food
Human Resources,
accounting and
administration
Subtotal, Operating /Supplies /Other
79,250
2,000
9,000
1,000
500
250
30,000
5,000
2,000
500
5,000
24,000
TOTAL EXPENSES
Personnel
Operating /Supplies /Other
TOTAL
94,614
79,250
173,864
Salaries /Wages
Benefits
Subtotal, Personnel
402,246
100,071
502,317
Operating, Supplies, and Other
Direct aid to client
Equipment /supplies
Insurance
Postage /shipping
Printing /advertising
Utilities
Repair and maintenance
Telecommunications
Travel and training
Food
Human Resources,
accounting and
administration
Subtotal, Operating /Supplies /Other
412,100
10,000
47,000
5,200
2,500
1,300
157,000
26,000
10,500
2,600
26,000
124,000
TOTAL EXPENSES
Personnel
Operating /Supplies /Other
TOTAL
502,317
412,100
914,417
OPTIMUM REST AREA REQUIREMENTS
3 Offices for case management, other service providers, scheduled health care, quiet room.
2 Bathrooms for men
2 Bathrooms for women
4 Showers (at least one ADA equipped)
Type of Entry — Monitored
Type of Kitchen — Commercial
Cupboards for cooking and eating utensils
Triple sink (for health dept. req's)
Double oven
2 large refrigerators
1 large upright freezer with ice maker
2 Microwaves (for guest use)
Dishwasher /Sanitizer
Commercial coffee maker
Healthcare — Room outside for County Medical Van to park
Laundry — 3 washing machines 1 large for 3 Toads at a time or sleeping bags and 2 for 1 load each
4 dryers (all to be leased)
Open Area —
1500 sq. ft. for possible future community meals, could be used for group meetings
with library area, 2 or 3 sofas and /or relaxing chairs, space for computers, TV
Type of Storage —
600 sq. ft. with 5 shelves, top to bottom, for dry food storage
200 sq. ft. with 5 shelves, top to bottom, for linen storage, laundry soaps, Clorox, etc.
200 sq. ft. for 20 lockers for guests to use. To be cleaned weekly.
50 sq. ft. for accumulation of donated clothing
Known Data
2013 Meals at Calvary Lutheran on Thursday Nights
(Calvary was selected because of the 3 community meals each week
it had the most in attendance. Numbers will be about the same for year 2014.)
Guests Number per cent Ave. Number at a Meal
Men 2404 70% 46
women 1013 30% 19
ages 0 -17 121 4%
18 -34 457 13%
35 -54 1611 47%
55 -74 1133 33%
75+ 59 2%
unknown 36 1°%
FW Residents 2414 71%
Additional Known Data
The one -night count in January of 2014 estimated 113 homeless in Federal
Way.
Reach Out currently shelters an average of 25 men and 14 women per
night (as of December 2014)
Estimated Number of Homeless
Based upon conversations with guests, they estimate homeless (living In woods and couch surfing) to be about an additional
30% higher than the 113.
There are more that do not come to meals. The bare minimum facility should be able to hold 65 at tables at any one time.