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FIVE YEAR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING PLAN <br /> FINAL REPORT <br /> o Unknown/Other <br /> • History of chronic homelessness (0-2 years, 2-4 years, or 4-plus years) <br /> • Criminal History (Felony or Misdemeanor; and type of crime: Arson, Sex Crime, <br /> Other Violent Crime, Drug Offense, or Other) <br /> • Sleeping Place: <br /> o Family/Friends (living temporarily with relatives or acquaintances) <br /> o Shelter/Transitional Housing (living in an emergency shelter or transitional <br /> housing unit) <br /> o Streets/Abandoned Building (sleeping on the streets, in public buildings or � <br /> all-night businesses, under bridges, in encampments, abandoned <br /> structures or other places not intended for habitation) <br /> o Place to Place (usuatly sleeping in friends' and relatives' homes, but in <br /> different locations from night to night) <br /> o Unknown <br /> Data Collection. The project relied on collection ofi data by Heritage Behavioral Health <br /> Center. Heritage has two programs that reach the chronically homeless: <br /> • Oasis Day Center— located at 243 W. Cerro Gordo St., Oasis is a drop-in center <br /> for homeless people and others. It attracts 150-200 persons per day and about <br /> 500 different individuals each month. While many of its guests are not chronically <br /> homeless, many of the chronically homeless population visit Oasis regularly and <br /> are known to the Oasis staff. <br /> • MISA Team — Heritage is sponsoring a special three-year program to engage <br /> chronically homeless persons with co-occurring mental illness and substance <br /> abuse disorders under a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health <br /> Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. <br /> Because these finro programs know of and have regular contact with virtually every <br /> chronically homeless person in the city, the project elected to have Heritage staff <br /> PAGE 8 <br />