SHARE! Accomplishments 2019
SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY
SHARE! Accomplishments 2019.pdf
Helped 363 disabled people move into permanent supportive housing throughout Los Angeles County.
28,896 people attended self-help support group meetings at SHARE! Downtown and SHARE! Culver City.
Made 2,621 referrals to self-help support groups throughout Los Angeles.
60 unemployed disabled people got paying jobs or went to college after participating in SHARE! Volunteer-to-Jobs program.
Provided technical assistance to 97 self-help support groups.
Trained 469 people in SHARE!’s innovative techniques for Peer Providers that greatly increase people’s willingness to change their anti-social behaviors.
197 people developed a foundation in recovery at the SHARE! Recovery Retreat.
Provided more than 1000 meals to hungry people at SHARE! Downtown and SHARE! Culver City.
Wrote a brochure for monolingual people recently diagnosed with mental health issues and are coordinating with SAMHSA to translate it into Korean, Chinese (classical and simplified), Farsi, Khmer, Armenian, Russian and Vietnamese.
Reached 4,056 subscribers through SHARE!’s electronic newsletter, and drew an average 3,196 visitors a month to shareselfhelp.org.
SHARE! COLLABORATIVE HOUSING
While housing 363 people and opening 11 new houses, increasing the number of available beds to 419, SHARE! doubled funding for SHARE! Collaborative Housing.
Residents had high levels of community participation: 45% employed; 52% attend self-help support groups; 18% attend school; 68% volunteer. For example, a SHARE! Collaborative Housing resident who had been living behind a bush in Venice, was recently exhibited in a Santa Monica Gallery.
SHARE! divided duties between staff who find new houses and those who support residents. The referral hours were increased from two hours daily to six hours daily. More than 167 agencies made referrals to SHARE! Collaborative Housing in 2019.
SHARE! Collaborative Housing was lauded in the Los Angeles Times and LA Streetsblog.org, “Bonin/Huizar Look to Citywide Collaborative Housing Program to End Homelessness for Thousands of Angelenos.”
TRAINING
SHARE!’s Advanced Peer Specialist Training, which was recognized as the best Peer Specialist training in Los Angeles by LACDMH, is being approved by Mental Health America as fulfilling the requirements for National Peer Certification training.
SHARE! Advanced Peer Specialist Training taught 167 people evidence-based practices in 2019, resulting in a better trained workforce for SHARE! and other organizations. SHARE! has trained 494 since 2016, from 16 counties statewide, including a class in Sacramento, drawn from a spectrum of racial/ethnic backgrounds. The training, which funded through contracts from the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), was awarded a fourth OSHPD grant October 2019.
SHARE! training expanded from one to three staff, and moved into a dedicated space for training.
SHARE! trained 199 peer workers and 39 peer supervisors in its innovative Peer Supervision training program, thanks to OSHPD funding. The trainings comprised The Value of Recovery Support for People with Mental Health Conditions; Evidence-based Peer Services; Fostering Resilience; Becoming An Ally; The Trauma-Informed Developmental Model of Supervision and Stigma… In Our Work, In Our Lives. SHARE! also completed an OSHPD grant to provide mentors and self-help support groups to the Mental Health Peer Workforce in Los Angeles.
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
SHARE! contributed to an international Leadership Exchange on Peer run Programs through the International Institute for Mental Health Leadership with Peer Run agencies across the US, New Zealand and the Netherlands to codify best practices in Peer programs.
SHARE! Program Director, Jason Robison, who is a SAMHSA Recovery Month Planning Partners, encouraged the participation of self-help support groups fellowships in the national campaign.
In order to advocate for quality peer services statewide, Jason Robison served on the board of CAMHPRO (California Association of Mental Health Peer-Run Organizations). In addition to speaking at the advocacy forum CAMHPRO held at SHARE! in November, Jason presented on innovative peer solutions at the Pool of Consumer Champions in June, Alternatives in Washington D.C. in July, and the International Association of Peer Supporters in October. He educated legislators about self-help support groups and peer services.
SHARE! coordinated with other agencies to improve access to all housing solutions–championing SHARE! Collaborative Housing and sober living –to get people off the streets on the same day, easily and affordably. SHARE! campaigned to get the County of Los Angeles, the City of Los Angeles, the United Way, and the Corporation for Supportive Housing to recognize shared housing as an essential and efficient way to reduce homelessness in Los Angeles.
Director of Training and Quality Assurance, Libby Hartigan, presented at the regional conference for the California Association of Social Rehabilitation Agencies on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019.