Chair Stevens on drop-in center bypass and DHS intake process gaps

So if you go into a drop-in center, does that also consist of being able to be part of the bypass?

So the drop-in centers also be able to bypass or you have to go into...

You can also bypass with a drop-in center.

So how long do you...

So I've gone to the drop-in center, I've done the intake process, and now I should be able to bypass the intake process for DHS?

Yeah, it's the same time frame, but yes.

The same time frame.

So they would have to come back to the drop-in shelter for 20 days?

What am I missing?

Because maybe I don't understand.

Maybe I'm missing something.

There's a couple options.

Sometimes young people are in a residential program and accessing streamlined through the drop-in center, which is possible.

Another way is street homeless youth are accessing the drop-in centers and are able to do a streamlined process there.

But drop-in centers aren't considered shelters.

Right.

Because we all know that, because don't get me started on the no sleeping in there.

So how are we then bypassing it and saying that they can have access from there?

They don't have to go to the intake shelters and do the conditional placement.

They can go straight to a DHS shelter bed.

From the drop-in center.

From wherever they are.

Yeah, from wherever they are.

Not necessarily in a DYCD program.

So wherever they may be staying but not a DYCD program, they can access that through their intake at the NCSA.

So is that a policy?

Is that another one on paper?

Because I feel like that's not like it sound good.

It's the same policy.

It's the same policy.

Okay.

But like Susan said, you know,

People can be doubled up and waiting for their DHS placement and then be placed while they're waiting.

So they're in the drop-in center.

They come to the drop-in center.

And I'm sorry, I'm just trying to get a picture of all of it in my head because I'm a visual person, so I'm literally seeing.

So they go to the drop-in center, and we know that's not a place where they're going to sleep.

They're going there for services.

And so...

At this point, 30 days that they're waiting to hear.

So they'll have to figure out 30 days of like what I'm going to do.

And then they can skip the intake system.

No one sees what's wrong with that?

No, what I am gleaning from your questions that I think is an important takeaway from us is your question is about those transitions.

How long are they?

And where are young people in that?

And what are we doing to close that gap?

And so I think these are critical questions that we're going to go back.

But even with the drop-in system, we were thinking about a drop-in system.

You can't sleep there.

Right?

So for 30 days I can't sleep?

What am I doing?

Where am I going?

Like, what are we saying?

I think even that messaging is like, what?

That's why I'm like, wait, sounds right.

And I'm looking at it in my head.

I'm like, so I'm sitting in the chair for 30 days.

Like, what are we doing?

So I think this plan sounds good on paper, but in reality, it just doesn't.

It sounds a little off.

So we'll just revisit it.

We're there.

I think the policy makes sense, but some of the other things, the intricacies, we got to like really figure out.

Um,

We are going to go.