Advancing the Twin Cities Regional Prevention System

    1. County Competition Hurts People - Counties compete for limited homeless prevention funding which leads to inequitable distribution of resources and uneven community support.

    2. County Boundaries Limit Access - Services are often county bound, making it difficult to transfer benefits when people move, and creating inconsistent access points and processes across the metro.

    3. Lived Experience Voices Are Limited - Lived experience involvement in county decision making is often minoritized, tokenized, and constrained by funding mandate focused agendas.

    1. Regional Systems Support Community - One system serving all seven counties eliminates competition, getting more resources to people in need across all metro counties.

    2. Regional Resources Improve Accessibility - A regional prevention system can ensure access points and access processes, and access to services are consistent across the metro.

    3. Regional Governance Evolves Inclusion - New regional governance involves government, nonprofit, private, philanthropy, and LE, while allowing LE to vote for their own reps.

    1. Engage the Twin Cities community of homelessness system actors in the Twin Cities Regional Kitchen Table (TC-RKT) learning community- Click here to join the conversation!

    2. Survey the community to find points of alignment and address barriers - Click here to access the survey!

    3. Build a coalition across lived experience leaders and advocacy groups - Have you experienced homelessness in the Twin Cities and want to connect? Click here for more info!

The SHiP Collaborative, in partnership with the Twin Cities Regional Kitchen Table, are advancing the establishment of a regional prevention system across the Twin Cities seven-county metro area.

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