Working with homeless populations in Garfield, Eagle and Pitkin counties.
Recently Health Solutions West’s Glenwood Springs office received a grant for a position that supports our Homeless Street Outreach worker. This is a Peer-based position, focusing on community outreach, connecting with people that are struggling with homelessness and needing support, resources and connection. Mind Springs’ Glenwood Office takes the Built for Zero approach to these efforts to make sure that homelessness is a rare and brief situation for the Roaring Fork area population.
Additionally, the Glenwood office has a new Homeless Street Outreach Coordinator position, primarily focusing on our Immigrant unhoused population. This new, grant funded position coordinates community efforts to support, provide resources, and create a path to sustained independence for the area’s Immigrant, unhoused population in Garfield, Eagle, and Pitkin counties. Our bilingual, bicultural Peer Specialist helps coordinate and align efforts with the larger collaborative to ensure that we are connecting our Immigrant unhoused population to legal, housing, behavioral health, and other basic needs, as well as coordinating the work of the Homeless Street Outreach providers.
Hans Lutgring, Regional Outreach Director, currently co-chairs the Valley Alliance to End Homelessness, a multi-county, multi-agency collaborative advisory group that focuses on efforts to end homelessness in the region. All partners are committed to ensuring that homelessness is a rare, brief and one time experience and that services are accessible, effective and efficient. Current partner agencies include Pitkin County Human Services, Garfield County Human Services, Eagle County Housing, West Mountain Regional Health Alliance, Health Solutions West, Catholic Charities, Salvation Army Glenwood Springs, and Recovery Resources.
Hans Lutgring at the National Built For Zero Fall 2024 Learning Conference
