ActionPlan

Pathways Home: Seattle’s Person-Centered Plan to Support People Experiencing Homelessness
2) Implement the performance standards with current providers to prepare for competitive
funding.
3) Stand up the Family Impact Team, Outreach Action Team, and the Long Term Shelter Stayers
Team.
4) Design and implement community engagement and communications plans to ensure free
flow of information across, among, and between stakeholders within the City of Seattle and
other stakeholders.
5) Engage with All Home, King County, United Way and other major funders to coordinate and
collaborate on execution of the Focus Strategies recommendations.
6) Increase HSD staff capacity, expertise, and skills to operate as effective change agents for the
new paradigm.
Seattle and King County have a tremendous foundation of public investments, quality providers,
and dedicated elected officials, staff, volunteers, and community leaders who believe in the
vision of Opening Doors 21 that “no one should experience homelessness – no one should be
without a safe, stable place to call home.” Political will and disciplined action by elected officials
and City staff will be required. If the City of Seattle acts boldly and with urgency, reductions in
unsheltered homelessness can occur quickly.”
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Opening Doors is the nation’s first comprehensive federal strategy to prevent and end homelessness. It was
presented by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness to the Office of the President and Congress on June 22,
2010, and updated and amended in 2015 to reflect what we have learned over the past five years.
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