Impact Bond: Entrenched Rough Sleepers Social Impact Bond- Street Impact Brighton
Stage of development: Complete
Policy sector: Homelessness
Intervention: Wrap around support offering a Housing First style fidelity model will aim to reduce rough sleeping activity and ensuring access to local services – health (street triage), mental health (street based assessments). Collaboration will include increased flexibility around emergency or temporary accommodation through Housing Options plus access to hostel beds, and will align with the current commissioning of assessment centres and ‘safe places’ short term emergency beds. The ethos of the service delivery will be based on PIE (led by Brighton and Hove) and MEAM (Adur and Worthing) delivering innovation in strengths based work.
Start of service provision: 2018-03
Anticipated end of service provision: 2021-03
Total investment commitment currency: GBP
Total investment commitment: 160000
Total investment commitment (USD): 213466.6674
Maximum potential outcome payment: 905060 GBP
Maximum potential outcome payment (USD): 1207500.887
Target population: A history of rough sleeping (seen rough sleeping at least 6 times over the last 2 years) or have spent at least 3 years interacting with homelessness services (including hostels) and have at least two other complex needs (including, but not necessarily limited to Substance misuse or addiction problems (including New Psychoactive Substances), a history of offending (5+ offences in the last five years or 1 offence in the last year) or street based anti-social behaviour, mental health problems (including self-reported), long-term health conditions) and are currently not being adequately or effectively supported through existing services.
Targeted number of service users or beneficiaries: 100
Actual number of service users or beneficiaries engaged: 100
Notes: Referral Route: The referral criteria will be refined for this project but is based on the existing Housing First criteria used in Brighton and Hove. In each local authority area, partners will identify people who met the criteria using; ECINS, OPAL, Pathways, Mental Health and Substance Misuse Services, MARAC, Safeguarding Boards and High Impact Casework Forums. The lead officer will work with Fulfilling Lives Service User Groups and other services in each area to develop a robust criteria and referral form for this programme to be used all the agencies making referrals, ensuring a comprehensive list. The Panels will build on pre-existing multi-agency relationships and working arrangements.