Excerpt from the August 2005 “Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness for the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County.”

Homelessness is a problem that the City of St. Louis has addressed in a variety of ways for many years. Since 1991, St. Louis County has had its own “continuum of care” for homeless services. More recently, St. Louis City and St. Louis County have become partners in efforts to address chronic homelessness. In March of 2004, City of St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay and St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley formally announced a partnership between the City and the County in a Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness.

This Plan is the result of collaboration between the City and County Departments of Human Services and the City and County Homeless Services Networks. Beginning with information gleaned from the Mayor’s Summit on Ending Homelessness and other sources, St. Louis City and County staff combined forces and crafted a set of action oriented objectives with the goal of ending chronic homelessness by 2015. In November 2004, a focus group of key stakeholders representing a wide range of interests, experience and expertise from the homeless services networks was convened to translate these goals into an action plan. Facilitated by representatives of Urban Strategies, Inc., the group reached consensus and ratified the set of goals and tasks presented in this Plan. The development of this Plan was a collaborative effort among a wide range of stakeholders, and the implementation of the Plan will be collaborative as well.

View the entire plan here:

http://stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/human-services/homeless-services/documents/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=50340