City continues to offer alternate shelter to people staying at Camp Resolution

The City of Sacramento today published an open letter to the people staying at 2225 Colfax St. - also known as Camp Resolution - reiterating its standing offer of alternate shelter.

You can read the letter in its entirety below. Outreach workers from the City's Department of Community Response, who have been and will continue to visit the site daily, are distributing copies of the letter at the site as they continue to offer shelter and connection to other services.

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Dear Camp Resolution guest:

As you know, Safe Ground Sacramento's lease with the City of Sacramento for the property located at 2225 Colfax St., currently known as Camp Resolution, ended on August 10, 2024. The lease agreement provides a 15-day period for Safe Ground Sacramento to clean up the site and deliver it vacant of all property and guests. This means that the site must be vacated on or before August 26, 2024, with all personal property removed from the City-issued trailers.

With that date nearing, the City hopes you and all other guests will accept our standing offer to relocate you to more stable and sustainable shelter at the City's Roseville Road campus (RRC) or the Outreach and Engagement Center (OEC). The purpose of this letter is to explain what you can expect should you decide to transition to one of those locations.

At the RRC, guests stay in either pallet homes or travel trailers. At the OEC, guests stay in a congregate-style setting. Both places offer indoor areas with climate control where guests in need of shelter can escape the summer heat and the winter cold. Guests also receive three meals a day and have access to facilities with bathrooms and showers. In addition, both limited medical care for guests and veterinarian care for accepted pets are available at these sites. Finally, there is limited storage space available for guests' personal property at both sites.

The above offer is consistent with Camp Resolution's stated objective to place all guests into permanent housing, as every guest who accepts placement at the RRC or the OEC will be assigned a case manager who will assist them in obtaining and organizing the documentation needed to transition into more permanent housing.

The first step on the path to permanent housing for all Camp Resolution guests is to engage with a homeless service provider, enroll in the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), and complete an assessment regarding personal needs and history. Our records indicate that only a few guests at Camp Resolution have completed a needs assessment. Department of Community Response (DCR) Neighborhood Resource Coordinators or staff at the OEC and/or the RRC can help you and all other guests complete the assessment of personal needs and history. The assessment takes about 20 minutes and consists of questions that are designed to help establish the type of housing and level of services needed.

In addition to the resources above, any guest with behavioral health needs may qualify for additional housing support through Sacramento County. Enrollment into Cal-AIM is another resource that may offer support and housing assistance. DCR Neighborhood Resource Coordinators or staff at the OEC and/or the RRC can help all guests to connect with any of these programs.

We also want to inform you that recently a total of 247 units of permanent supportive housing were opened in Sacramento, and approximately 2,000 affordable and permanent supportive housing units will be coming online within the next few years. Accepting the current shelter offer would enable all guests to begin the process of obtaining the documents needed to qualify for housing. Here too, DCR Neighborhood Resource Coordinators or staff at the OEC and/or the RRC can help all guests to navigate this process.

While it can take time to receive all the documentation needed to transition to more permanent housing, both the RRC and the OEC provide safe, indoor spaces where you and all guests can stay while a case manager helps to complete the housing readiness process.

If you or any other guest has additional questions about the City's standing offer of shelter, or if you would like to accept the offer, please contact the Department of Community Response by emailing [email protected], calling (916) 204-7634, or by speaking with one of the City outreach workers who visit Camp Resolution daily.

Sincerely,

Brian Pedro

Director of the Department of Community Response

City of Sacramento

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