Rogue Retreat

Visited by Babette B., SHO Board member

“You're not forgotten and there is hope.”

“We know it's sometimes not easy or the right time to ask for help but when you're ready RR is here with open arms. We can provide stable shelter and food and connect you with others who can help with getting medical care, personal documents, job training, and more. We know your needs are unique to you, and we're here to lend a hand where you need it. Please get in touch as soon as you're ready so that we can get you supported as quickly as possible.”

Review housing options and choose an application by mail or in person
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Multifaceted wrap around services:

Stabilizing first.
Shelter, medical, mental health counseling, financial, food, clothing, job readiness, addiction services.
80 to 90% of staff has lived experience, most having gone through RR services.
550 per night.
1250 per year.
500 waitlist.

81 employees:

Office
Kelly House / in-house navigation center
Crossings
Hope Village
Apartments and shared housing
Havens

Locations:

Office: PR marketing, fund development, program development, case management, classes trainings, tours, property managers.
110 Kelly/navigation: up to one year
150 Crossings: Kent, low barrier, tiny house, transition to foldums, 30 days sober.
15 Hope Village: 30 day sobriety, tiny house tents
45 Redwood Inn: 45, 4 medical respite, 2 case management
50-60 Havens: (5) operated by RR, recover houses transition from inpatient program.
Restart apartment: three to five years, full rent and utilities.
Housing retreat, subsidized: owned by Housing Authority managed by RR. Participants pay 30% of their adjusted gross income.

110 Kelly: indoor, congregate, family, period up to one year, average six months, low barrier. Three family upstairs with separate living, bathroom, TV area, kitchenette. 5 per unit.

One main co-ed room.
Laundry
Kitchen, main kitchen: breakfast and dinner plus coffee and snacks.
7 showers open from 5:30 AM to 9:00 PM, 20 minutes.
Dog washing facility, fully stocked
Tote room
case management offices
14 day staff, three night time, medlock boxes, one key
Closed doors at 9:00 PM but guests allowed out for smoke, work, case by case.
Allotted 30 days to sign up and start moving forward
Break rules out for 30 to 60 days
partner with mobile services: library, mobile clinic, dog behaviorist come on community court
just added: medical respite room, 18 beds
Garden, dog walking

150 Crossings:

Six months to one year, 3.82 acres, used 1 1/2 acres thus far, in a residential neighborhood, city property.
Two areas: tents, tiny houses, foldums.
Low barrier, 30 days sobriety.
Air conditioning and heat in houses, looking at timers
Showers on demand, hot water heaters call mom bathrooms.
Meals and snacks delivered from Kelly.
Next project is a slab kitchen.
No new pets: dogs and other pets, i.e., cats, ferret, hedgehog, snake.
Large main structure for meetings, classes, recreation movie room.
Crossing achieved 165% of housing for the area as mandated by governor.
In a neighborhood 250 door to door questionnaire survey with overwhelming positive results in polling.

40 Hope Village:

Generator run tents and tiny houses in business district.
30 days of sobriety.
Loud and noisy.
Before crossings, to visit next time.

Overall notes:

Guests are met at their level and program is tailored and designed to their unique situation. They can enter at any stage. The goal is a gradual reintroduction into society. This involves relearning life skills, respect, mindfulness, and trust.
Peer specialists do outreach recon for program.
Case managers at every location.
Higher from within rising stars.
One mile perimeter for property line where the rules apply
No drugs, no trash, no loitering
Hope Street project Clean Sweep.

Funding:

65% grant based.

Income projects:

Thrift shop.
Clean sweep Kelly, culinary program, 8 weeks.
Serve safe, first graduates currently employed at Outback Steakhouse.
Catering business.
Lunch boxes.
Party platters.
Food truck.

Del Norte Mission Possible

We had an informative and enlightening trip to Crescent City on April 26, 2024 where we met with Del Norte counties advocate to the unhoused, Del Norte Mission Possible. Voted California Nonprofit of the Year in 2019! A key participant, Darlene Spoor from Humboldt County’s Arcata House played a huge part in obtaining the grant- so much so that they have her written into their grant as an advisor. They explained to us their path to attaining their awesome grant of $10 million dollars! Showing us what is possible.

Del Norte has a larger community and different circumstances than Southern Humboldt. The houses there primarily are located off the main drag, but in a large swampland. They have major issues with garbage and abandoned trailers, health and environmental hazards as obstacles to clearing the space (including 40 fires). They had removed 178 lbs of trash to clear the site. Del Norte Mission Possible credits collaboration as one of the keys to the success of their program. Theirs is a convergence of multi-agencies and nonprofit to attack the problem from all angles.

They referred us to the Rogue River Retreat as their mentor and a template/example of what has worked very well for a congregate shelter in Medford Oregon. The county of Del Norte has given Mission Possible a property with ample land and space to build a 60-person shelter, family rooms, recuperative care for the sick, personal belonging locker system, a certified kitchen and meal facility, as well as a micro village of tiny houses. They will have programs and classes to help people gain employment and skills needed as well as programs for AA and NA on site. They also offer solar chargers for cellphones (helps with the clients access to phone and flashlights), gas cards, storing items for clients (a big stress for many of the unhoused to have personal belongings kept safe) and an innovative program called “Cash for Keys” which offers the client money for their abandoned vehicles in exchange for cash and matches the dollar amount in a savings account to build up a financial nest egg for a transition into permanent housing! Additionally, they are working with several training programs including culinary arts training.

Mission Possible will meet people where they are at in the encampments and assess the individualized needs. Providing medical, mental health services, helping secure clients personal items, as well as pet services from spay and neuter, shots and training dogs to be able to fit in to the tiny village’s rules according to safety protocols that are in place.

Mission possible will incorporate CAL-AIM and Path Cited Programs which are available to people in need who have Medical CAL. This partnership will in turn, fund the salaries of social workers needed to assess and help people with enhanced case management on an individualized level.

We toured their small but mighty Navigation center, Open Door. They had two staff members available on site to assist with resources. A lovely couple who had moved up from Southern California. There, clients can also access shower facilities and receive a change of clothes. Also, the Navigation center offers canned foods, is stocked with emergency supplies and Narcan. The Navigation center offers various flyers and pamphlets and help folks to get their immediate needs met while they “navigate” into a future that has options and possibilities.

We all left inspired, with some new resources, ideas, and new compadres in our quest to face this very serious problem of homelessness in our own community.

November 17, 2023

Dear CommUnity,

SoHum Housing Opportunities would like to thank our Donors / Sponsors of our recent fundraiser:

Josh Sweet; Benbow Historical Inn; Chautauqua; The Mateel Community Center; Boot Leg; Signature Coffee; Humboldt Herbals; Feather Rose; Shop Smart; KMUD; Dustin Silva/ Humboldt Tree Nug Farms ; Mike Egan / Mycality Mushrooms; Kyle from North Bay Shellfish; Redway True Value; Feather and Leaf CBD/ Michelle Kaufman; Andrea Rodriguez; Nicole Divine; Redwood Raindrop Harmonics / Michelle Welty; Vino Devino and Yashi Hoffman for your generous contributions to our event.

Along with our awesome Donors / Sponsors where would any organization be without our Volunteers?

Our beautiful fundraiser for SHO on Friday, November 17 happened because of the following community members giving time to help us reach our goals of offering a place for us to gather (thank you, Josh Sweet for the venue) and share our gratitude for Peg Anderson, co founder of SHO and information on what SHO is doing to help our unhoused community.

Music: Emily Totten

Wine pouring / appetizer serving: Gina Payne and Margrete van Adrichem

Silent Auction table: Maggie Bowles

Slide show set up : Galen Latsko / Emerald Technologies

Food Prep: Bunny Wilder ; Marilyn Foote; Tom Pie; Chefs Steve Ruscitti. and Shante Davidson.

Babette Bach (Board member) heading up food services.

Tami Moore (Board member) kept things going smoothly and did a beautiful video of our event.

Caryn Surber (Board member) money matters.

A special thankyou to Nicole Divine for creating Peg’s altar and Cathy Miller for all her help and a beautiful tribute to Peg.

A huge thank you to our community that came out to support us. All said and done we made $2,500. after expenses. Very good for an event that was put together on rather short notice. These funds will help us get closer to our mission of providing a safe place for our community’s unhoused to live other than the camps and streets.

In Gratitude,

Patte Rae, President / SHO

SHO Board of Directors

SoHumHousing.org

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

SHO 1st Annual Fundraiser

On August 16, 2023 SHO Pres. and Vice Pres. Patte and Tami had an inspirational trip to Betty Kwan Chinn’s foundation and Arcata House Partnership safe parking program and a congregate living house that have been created to help homeless go towards permanent housing. The pictures / slideshow speak a thousand words.

SHO sees the possibility of a local safe camp community, beginning with an emergency transitional shelter. We have been working towards these goals for over 4 years, building trust with our homeless, and educating the community on the benefits of creating a place that can get folks off the streets and out of the woods.

By once more stepping up to the plate, recognizing how this benefits us all, we will succeed in creating a safe, clean and prosperous Southern Humboldt community by working together.