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2 Homeless Services <br />The City provides a wide -range of services and resources for homeless persons through <br />shelter, outreach, permanent supportive housing, project -based vouchers, and affordable <br />housing opportunities. <br />In 2022, the City continued working <br />diligently with its partners through the <br />Orange County Continuum of Care to <br />end homelessness in Orange <br />County, beginning with Santa Ana. <br /># To that end, the Santa Ana <br />Navigation Center located at 1815 <br />East Carnegie Avenue opened in <br />June 2022 as a 24-hour shelter with <br />200 beds that serves Santa Ana <br />f ^ residents. The site includes a <br />»Above: Mural within Navigation center. commercial kitchen, men's, women's <br />and family dorms, offices for case management and medical services and an outdoor <br />area for participants and their pets. Guests are offered a robust package of supportive <br />services to transition to permanent housing and to cope with underlying issues causing <br />them to cycle through the system. Illumination Foundation, the selected operator of the <br />shelter, partners with Clarke Lew Medical Corp to provide medical and mental healthcare <br />services, exclusive of substance use counseling for clients onsite at the shelter. <br />For the year, nearly 10,000 individuals were contacted through the homeless services <br />outreach teams, 2,397 individuals were in engaged in case management services, 579 <br />were referred to by the Carnegie Navigation Center in 2022, another 861 were referred <br />to other temporary shelters, and 1,127 individuals were exited off the streets. <br />City Council 12 8 — 19 3/21/2023 <br />