Deschutes County Adult Parole and Probation Housing Terminated
After deciding to find an alternative location for a property housing Adult Parole and Probation clients, Deschutes County Commissioners voted 2-1 to discontinue the program altogether.
On March 27, following executive session, Commissioner Tony DeBone moved to terminate the agreement with Free on the Outside, the organization that manages and operates the Wilson Avenue program. Commissioner Patti Adair and DeBone voted “Yes” and Commissioner Phil Chang voted “No.”
—Julianna LaFollette
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2024 Preliminary Point in Time Data Released
Unhoused Serviced Data Coordinator at NeighborImpact, Ben Scott, presented the 2024 preliminary Central Oregon Point in Time count and analysis at a Homeless Leadership Coalition meeting on April 2.
The annual PIT count is the count of sheltered and unsheltered individuals and families experiencing homelessness on a single night in January. The count lasted 10 days and attempts to show the number of individuals and families experiencing sheltered and unsheltered homelessness in Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. The count was carried out from Jan. 23 -31.
The preliminary numbers presented on April 2 show that the total count in 2024 was 1,811, up from 2023, when the total PIT count of both sheltered and unsheltered individuals was 1,647.
This year’s preliminary unsheltered count was 1,195, not a large difference from last year’s count of 1,189. The final numbers and analysis will be published on the HLC’s website later this month.
—Julianna LaFollette
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17.5 miles
– The number of trail miles proposed to be added under the Forest Service’s West Bend Trails project.
From this week’s News, “Planned Trail Upgrades in Bend”
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“Don’t subscribe, invent.”
-Ellen Waterston, from this week’s Culture interview with the poet and author, titled “Literary Legacies”
This article appears in Source Weekly April 4, 2024.
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