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Dr. Robert Marbut's Final Report on Homelessness in Volusia County.

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Homeless Services Gaps Analysis
of
Volusia County
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Presentation of Findings and Action Plan Recommendations
to
Volusia County and the Cities within Volusia County
by
Robert G. Marbut Jr., Ph.D.
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Presentations - October 1, 2014
Prepared by Robert G. Marbut Jr., Ph.D.
www.marbutconsulting.com
Table of Contents
Title Page ........................................................................................................................................ 1
Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................... 2
Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................... 3
Study Scope .................................................................................................................................... 6
Initial Observations ........................................................................................................................ 8
Strategic Action Recommendations ............................................................................................. 11
Immediate Next Steps .................................................................................................................. 26
Exhibit 1 - Area Cities That Financially Supported this Study.................................................... 27
Exhibit 2 - Program/Agency Site Visits, Tours, Meetings and Conference Calls ...................... 28
Exhibit 3 - The Seven Guiding Principles of Homeless Transformation .................................... 36
Exhibit 4 - Robert G. Marbut Jr., Ph.D. Biography ..................................................................... 38
Exhibit 5 - Volusia Safe Harbor Estimated Operating Expenses ................................................ 39
Marbut Report - Page 2
Executive Summary
Eleven cities within Volusia County, with the City of Daytona Beach acting as the lead agency,
tasked Marbut Consulting with developing recommendations for reducing street-level
homelessness throughout Volusia County by suggesting more effective methods of helping
homeless individuals and families.
In order to develop practical recommendations, Dr. Marbut:
- studied and inventoried homeless services throughout Volusia County,
- examined Point-in-Time Count reports,
- analyzed statistics and reports from local agencies,
- interviewed individuals experiencing homelessness,
- conducted meetings with stakeholders,
- made street-level observations,
- posed as a homeless person in several of the cities within Volusia County in order to
understand what its like to be homeless in Volusia and to better understand the movement
and circulation of the homeless community.
Dr. Marbut evaluated the current homeless operations within the County using national best
practices and the Seven Guiding Principles of Homeless Transformation as the key measuring
tools. Marbut then conducted a needs assessment and gaps analysis between existing inventory
and identified needs, including the types of services (qualitative) and capacity of services
(quantitative) needed within Volusia County. Dr. Marbut started his research on April 1, 2014
and finalized his written report on September 23, 2014. He then made presentations of his
recommendations to the City of Daytona Beach Commission on October 1, 2014 and then to the
Volusia League of Cities special meeting on October 2, 2014.
As expected, Dr. Marbut observed a significant number of individuals experiencing
homelessness within the City of Daytona Beach, concentrated around the Halifax Urban
Ministries HUM Center on North Street, this was especially acute immediately before and after
the lunch feedings at the Bridge of Hope Hot Meal Program. After lunch, homeless individuals
then migrated throughout the greater Daytona Beach area and re-congregated in smaller clusters
in and around the transit station, downtown, beaches, in the woods north of International
Speedway and on the east and west sides of Ridgewood Avenue.
To the great surprise of Dr. Marbut, Dr. Marbut observed a very high number of individuals
experiencing homelessness throughout the County mostly in wooded areas. On the western side
of Volusia County, individuals experiencing homelessness are in small, highly nomadic make-
shift encampments that “ring” the city limits of the western cities. For the most part, these
individuals were camping in small groups of 5-15 individuals within the County proper just
outside the city limits.
Marbut Report - Page 3
On the eastern side of the County, individuals experiencing homelessness were observed in small
encampments within wooded areas spaced in a linear fashion adjacent to major thoroughfares.
Because of the unusually high levels of rainfall during the study period, it was difficult to get
precise counts. Overall, there appeared to be around 375-450 individuals experiencing
homelessness on the western side of the County and about 400-475 on the eastern side of the
county. These observations were corroborated by a wide variety of “street-level” agency
workers, firefighters and law enforcement officers.
It is important to note that Point-in-Time-Counts (PITCs), even by the Department of Housing
and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) own admission, are very inaccurate. Because of flawed
methodology, PITCs notoriously undercount individuals experiencing homelessness. This is why
HUD has a goal of replacing PITCs with “real-time” HMIS (Homeless Management Information
System) data reports.
It is critical to realize that it is the weather, not programming services, that initially draws
homeless individuals to Volusia County. Like other Florida communities with beaches, palm
trees and golf courses, Volusia will always attract individuals experiencing homelessness because
of the moderate climate. Once in Volusia County, if the Volusia community is enabling, then
homeless individuals are incentivized to stay on the streets and in encampments rather than going
into 24/7 recovery programs. It is therefore critical to have a holistic comprehensive system that
addresses homelessness.
Dr. Marbut recommends that the entire Volusia County community change from a “culture of
enablement” to a “culture of engagement.” Providing “street-level” services and feeding,
although well-intentioned and good-hearted, “enables” homeless individuals rather than
“engages” homelessness. Feeding programs alone do not address the route causes/triggers of
homelessness. In order to facilitate graduating from the street, programs must deal with
mental/behavioral health, substance abuse, job training/placement/retention and life skills.
Providing food in the parks, at street corners, at beaches and behind restaurants acts to exacerbate
and promote homelessness, thus actually increasing the number of individuals experiencing
homelessness. The community must channel its good-intentions into an integrated system that
engages individuals experiencing homelessness into a rigorous case management system.
Additionally, Dr. Marbut recommends the creation of a 24/7 Come-As-You-Are Service Center
(CAYA) in order to dramatically improve the effectiveness and efficiency of service delivery by
co-locating and integrating homeless services at one location. Because of critically
interconnected services and overlapping service populations, CAYA should be co-located and
connected to the Stewart-Marchman-Act facility at 1140 Red John Drive in Daytona Beach
which is formally known as Volusia County Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU), Detoxification Unit
(Detox) and Emergency Screening (Pinegrove). This will also significantly increase the capacity
to serve the chronically homeless community.
Marbut Report - Page 4
In parallel to the creation of a Come-As-You-Are service center for homeless single adults (eg
implementation of Recommendation 2), there is a simultaneous critical need and opportunity to
create additional emergency units for families with children (including unaccompanied
minors/youth). Ideally a new location would be developed for families with children.
It is critical to understand that the number of people experiencing homelessness in Volusia
County will likely increase dramatically if the service delivery model continues unchanged. To
keep this from happening the stakeholders in the community need to adopt a strategic holistic
action plan of changes, and then proactively implement this plan. To prevent increases, there
needs to be an across-the-board change in “thinking” and a change in “doing.”
Marbut Report - Page 5
Study Scope
Based on work with other communities, Marbut Consulting performed the following project
phases. Some of these phases ran in sequence, while other phases overlapped. Throughout these
phases, homelessness was observed from a variety of vantage points: individuals experiencing
homelessness, homeless families with children, agency staffs, volunteers, funders, government
officials, civic community leaders, businesses, the media and the general public.
Phase 1 - Being Homeless in Volusia County:
One of the most effective ways to gain accurate information about homeless services is to
observe services from the view of person experiencing homelessness, rather than from an
agency and/or government perspective. This vantage point combined with observations from
other stakeholders help to provide a more complete picture of the existing issues. If one only
observes homelessness from a service-provider perspective, he or she will only develop
agency-centric solutions. Therefore, Dr. Marbut became homeless at the street level in
Volusia County for several days. The consultant’s first trip to Volusia County was conducted
before agencies were notified of his start date and arrival.
Phase 2 - Inventory of Services:
It was critically important for Marbut Consulting to have accurate information about all the
types and quantities of service being provided throughout the region. Therefore, the
Consultant performed an inventory of homeless services in the Volusia County regional area
and conducted site visits to homeless services providers. It is important to note that it is very
common to have agencies operate differently during nights, weekends and holidays than it
does during the “traditional work week” (Monday-Friday, 8a-5p). These “off-hour times” are
important because they represent 76% of the time many agencies operate (128 hours of a 168
hour week). It was therefore critical to visit agencies at night, during weekends and holidays.
Many agencies were visited multiple times. All of these activities were conducted by Dr.
Robert Marbut in person.
Phase 3 - Needs Assessment:
The Marbut Consulting conducted a needs assessment of the types of services (qualitative)
and capacity of services (quantitative) needed in Volusia County and what might be needed
in the future. This required street level observations and analysis of data from Point-in-Time-
Counts (PITCs), Homeless Management Information System reports (HMIS), agency reports,
interviews, etc.
Marbut Report - Page 6
Phase 4 - Gap Analysis:
Marbut Consulting then conducted a gap analysis of services between existing inventory and
identified needs. This required additional follow up with some of the agencies, often by
phone and e-mail.
Phase 5 - Strategic Framing for an Action Plan:
Marbut Consulting then strategically framed an Action Plan within the parameters of national
best practices. This required the Consultant to conduct in person meetings with government
officials, and leaders from businesses, faith-based entities and service agencies.
Phase 6 - Drafting of the Action Plan:
Based on the study findings and national best practices, Marbut Consulting then drafted a
Strategic Action Plan which was 39 pages long (note: this report was initially proposed to be
a 10-20 page document).
Phase 7 - Solicitation of Stakeholder Comments Regarding the Draft Action Plan:
Marbut Consulting then presented the concepts of a draft Strategic Action Plan to key
stakeholders for comment and discussion. During this phase the Consultant conducted in-
person meetings and phone calls. The goal during this phase was to improve the Strategic
Action Plan through stakeholder input and to help build stakeholder “buy-in.”
Phase 8 - Completion and Presentation of the Action Plan:
Marbut Consulting then finalized the Strategic Action Plan and presented it to the Daytona
Beach City Commission and at to a special meeting of the Volusia League of Cities.
Notes About Scope of Work:
- Many improvements “organically” materialized during the gap analysis and national best
practice review phases of this study. Marbut Consulting shared these improvements as they
arose with government officials, agencies and stakeholders.
- The scope of work was limited to “study and development of recommendations” only.
Marbut Report - Page 7
Initial Observations
- Dr. Marbut observed 125-175 street level individuals experiencing homelessness within the
City of Daytona Beach. Because of Federal support checks, the count is closer to 125 during
the first 10-14 days of a month and then grows throughout the remainder of the month.
NOTE: “street level” consists of individuals sleeping and living on the street, under bridges,
on the beach, near golf courses and encampments in the woods.
- Within the City of Daytona Beach individuals experiencing homelessness congregate around
the Halifax Urban Ministries HUM Center on North Street. This is especially acute
immediately before and after the lunch feedings at the Bridge of Hope Hot Meal Program.
- After lunch at HUM, homeless individuals then migrate throughout the greater Daytona
Beach area and re-congregate in smaller clusters in and around the transit station, downtown,
beaches, in the woods north of International Speedway and on the east and west sides of
Ridgewood Avenue.
- Individuals experiencing homelessness who spend time during the day in Daytona Beach then
disperse out to their small-group encampments at night.
- A very high number of individuals experiencing homelessness were observed throughout the
County mostly in wooded areas.
- On the western side of Volusia County, individuals experiencing homelessness live in small,
highly nomadic make-shift encampments that “ring” the city limits of western cities. For the
most part, these individuals are camping in small groups of 5-15 individuals within the
County proper just outside of city limits.
- On the eastern side of the County, individuals experiencing homelessness are in small
encampments within wooded areas spaced in a linear fashion adjacent and along major
thoroughfares.
- Because of the unusually high rainfall levels during the study period, it is difficult to get
precise counts of street level individuals experiencing homelessness. Overall, there appears
to be around 375-450 individuals experiencing homelessness on the western side of the
County and about 400-475 on the eastern side of the county. Because of Federal support
checks, these counts are on the lower-end during the first 10-14 days of any given month.
These estimates were corroborated by a wide variety of “street-level” agency workers,
firefighters and law enforcement officers.
Marbut Report - Page 8
- It is critical to understand that it is the weather, not programming services, that initially draws
homeless individuals to Volusia County. Like other Florida communities with beaches, palm
trees and golf courses, Volusia will always attract individuals experiencing homelessness
because of the nice climate. Once in Volusia, if the Volusia community is enabling then
homeless individuals will continue to stay on the streets and in encampments.
- Exacerbating the draw of the weather, is the fact that on the whole the Volusia “community”
enables homelessness rather than engage individuals experiencing homelessness. Street
feeding and other street service efforts (eg distribution of cash, clothing, backpacks, blankets,
tents, etc.), although well-intentioned and good-hearted, are very enabling and do not engage
homeless individuals into 24/7 service programming that are life transforming. Street feeding
and services in parks, at beaches, at street corners and under bridges when not aligned with
transformational services actually exacerbates homelessness and increases the number of
individuals experiencing homelessness on the street.
- When compared to other counties with similar populations, Volusia County has a relatively
very high number of “street feeders,” meal programs and church pantries. This is probably
because the population centers/pockets are spread-out over a large land mass within the
County with vast rural areas in between service points. In order to help individuals graduate
from the street, this “culture of enablement” needs to change to a “culture of engagement.”
- At random, a seven day period of time from August 16, 2014 to August 22, 2014 was chosen
to determine the percent of individuals experiencing homelessness of the total number of
individuals seen for “first appearance and jail arraignment.” Of the 419 individuals seen by
the court, 70 were experiencing homelessness (16.7%). “Homelessness” was determined
using the charging document and by judicial inquiry when the charging document was
inconclusive. In order to determine the likely percent of pre-trial diversion should a Come-
As-You-Are center be created, felons and “house-separations” due to court orders were
excluded from this count. Based on the experience of Pinellas Safe Harbor, almost all if not
all of this 16.7% would be diverted pre-trial if Volusia Safe Harbor would become
operational.
- There are not enough transitional opportunities for families to overcome their barriers and to
begin the process of transformation which in turn will launch and sustain these families into
permanent housing. Specifically, there is a need for increased capacity for families with
children at the transitional level. At any one time, there are generally 5 to 10 families in
search of transitional housing. Beyond families with children, there is an additional need for
10 to 20 units for unaccompanied youth/minors. Throughout the study period, Dr. Marbut
only observed one street-level homeless family (a mom with a child).
Marbut Report - Page 9
- The public discord created by inter-agency fighting and competing coordinating agencies is at
best very unproductive and distracting to the overall effort of trying to reduce homelessness
within Volusia County. At worse, it puts pass-through Federal funding at risk. It is in the
best interest of the individuals we are trying to help to reconcile the differences as soon as
possible.
Marbut Report - Page 10
Strategic Action Recommendations
1 - Move from a Culture of Enablement to a Culture of Engagement
The entire Volusia County Community needs to move from a Culture of Enablement to a Culture
of Engagement in all aspects. This includes service agencies, volunteers, staffs, donors, funders,
government agencies, programs, residents, tourists and the homeless community. In Volusia
County this is especially true for the faith-based community. Free food handouts and cash from
panhandling - although well intended by nice folks - actually perpetuates and increases
homelessness through enablement. Street handouts of food and cash should be redirected to high
performing agencies. The mission should no longer be to “serve” the homeless community,
instead, the mission should be to dramatically and consequentially increase “street graduation”
rates. A media and public awareness campaign needs to be developed to educate and encourage
the community to move from a culture of enablement to a culture of engagement.
- If the service delivery model does not change in Volusia County, then the number of street-
level chronic homeless individuals will dramatically increase and likely become more
aggressive and embolden. There needs to be an across-the-board “Change in Thinking and a
Change in Doing.” If the Volusia County community wants to realize significant
improvements, then the Volusia community must not keep doing the same activities and in
the same ways.
- The mission should no longer be to “serve” the homeless community, instead the mission
should become to “dramatically and consequentially increase street graduation rates.” A
street graduation occurs when an individual moves from living on the street or in an
encampment into a sustainable quality of life that allows the individual to be a productive
citizen of the community.
- The best way to increase street graduation rates is to engage each individual and family in a
customized plan for recovery that provides a roadmap out of homelessness and to sustained
income and housing.
- The culture needs to move from one that measures outputs of service to one that measures
outcomes and systematic change.
- The entire community needs to move from a culture of enablement to a culture that engages
individuals experiencing homelessness in all aspects of daily life. Free food, handouts and
cash from panhandling - although well intended by nice folks - actually perpetuates and
increases homelessness through enablement. Rather than street handouts of food and cash,
donations should instead be redirected to high performing agencies.
Marbut Report - Page 11
- The leadership within the civic, local government, faith-based, funder, advocate, service
provider, law enforcement and homeless communities need to embrace transformational best
practices that have worked throughout the USA.
- Homeless individuals who want help, should be provided engaging help. Individuals who
turn down help, should not be enabled.
- “Hanging-out” should be replaced by “program participation.” Every effort possible must be
made to engage individuals into programming.
- If the Volusia County community successfully shifts from a culture of enablement to a
culture of engagement, news of this shift will be passed to homeless individuals nationwide.
Individuals who want to avoid engagement will be reluctant to come to Volusia despite the
attractions of the weather and temporary/part-time jobs. Thus, the rate of in-bound homeless
individuals will decrease.
- Engagement should never be mean - instead engagement should always be kind, caring and
compassionate.
- A coordinated strategic “systems-approach” throughout Volusia County (including all the
cities within Volusia County) should be implemented. This effort should not be agency-
centric nor a series of isolated “one-off” arrangements, instead, it should be integrated. This
can be accomplished quickly and effectively through changes in funding
requirements/standards by the County, cities, United Way and other major funding
organizations. Decisions should be made based on performance and not be based on historic
funding levels. Funding should always be transparent and accountable. Service providers
need to work together as partners within a single coordinated holistic system in order to better
help people experiencing homelessness move from the streets and encampments into formal
service programs.
2 - Build and Open Volusia Safe Harbor (a Come-As-You-Are Services Center)
Build, create and open a 24/7/168/365 Come-As-You-Are (CAYA) Services Center for single
homeless men and women called Volusia Safe Harbor in order to dramatically improve the
effectiveness and efficiency of service delivery by co-locating and integrating homeless services
at one location. Because of interconnected services and overlapping service populations, CAYA
should be co-located and physically attached to the Stewart-Marchman-Act (SMA) facility at
1140 Red John Drive in Daytona Beach formally known as Volusia County Crisis Stabilization
Unit (CSU), Detoxification Unit (Detox) and Emergency Screening (Pinegrove). Of all the
agencies in Volusia County, Halifax Urban Ministries (HUM) is currently the best suited agency
to operate Safe Harbor. Service partner agencies such as Haven Recovery Center and Second
Harvest should then be recruited to co-locate all or part of their operations to Volusia Safe
Marbut Report - Page 12
Harbor. Stewart-Marchman-Act and Safe Harbor should then jointly create a common public
safety intake portal/unit for assessment, triage and referral at this Campus site. This unit should
be managed by Stewart-Marchman-Act.
A coordinating board should be established to promote integration between Stewart-Marchman-
Act, HUM, service partner agencies and the different operational units. This Campus would
become the main intake portal County-wide for adult homeless men and women. All adult
services throughout the County can then be coordinated from this main service center, using a
“hub and spoke model.” Once operational, all street feeding programs, food pantry programs and
day-time service centers for adult homeless men and women should be encouraged to relocate to
Volusia Safe Harbor. This should also be the location of the Master Case Managers for adult
homeless men and women (see Recommendation 4). This in turn would significantly increase
the functional capacity to engage the chronically homeless community.
- It is very important to understand that individuals experiencing homelessness do not
“graduate” from street-life back into general society if they are enabled to stay on the streets,
in parks or in encampments. Likewise, individuals experiencing homelessness do not
graduate from street-life by being incarcerated in a jail. A person will never experience
recovery if they are sleeping under a bridge or sleeping on a jail cell floor since they are not
in a formal 24/7 recovery program.
- The most successful and proven way to increase the rate of street graduations is for
individuals to be in formal programs that provide holistic, transformational services 24 hours
a day, seven days a week. Holistic and transformational means comprehensive services
including master case management, mental/behavioral health, substance abuse treatment, life
skills training, job training, job placement, etc.
- National best practices indicate that communities need to have at least one 24/7 “Come-As-
You-Are” services center (sometimes referred to as a low-demand-shelter). Currently,
Volusia County does not have a true come-as-you-are 24/7 facility any where in the County.
Furthermore, there is a significant gap in bed/mat capacity compared to the street population.
- Volusia Safe Harbor would be modeled after Pinellas Safe Harbor (Pinellas County Florida)
and Prospects Courtyard (San Antonio Texas), and to a lesser extent CASS (Phoenix
Arizona), Star of Hope (Houston Texas), The Bridge (Dallas Texas) and Father’s Joe Village
(San Diego California).
- As with commercial real estate, Location-Location-Location is the single most important
critical success factor for a Come-As-You-Are services center. Because of the interconnected
services and overlapping service populations, it is very important to connect Safe Harbor
with the Stewart-Marchman-Act’s Pinegrove facility on Red John Drive which provides
screening, detox and crisis stabilization. It is important to note that most practitioners posit
that 50-60% of individuals experiencing homelessness have a major mental health issue and
Marbut Report - Page 13
70-80% of individuals experiencing homelessness have a substance abuse issue, while over
90% of all homeless individuals have at least one or both of these issues. See concept
designs for attaching CAYA and SMA on Pages 15 and 16.
- Placing a Come-As-Your-Are center in the wrong strategic location can have dire unintended
consequences and would dramatically reduce the success rates.
- Having co-located operations would model the nationally acclaimed and highly successful
operations of the Restoration Center and Prospects Courtyard that are co-located on the
Haven for Hope Campus.
- Attaching and integrating Volusia Safe Harbor to SMA’s Pinegrove facility would also
significantly enhance SMA’s operational outcomes in a variety of ways.
- Street outreach efforts should be focused on bringing people to Volusia Safe Harbor in order
to engage into 24/7 transformational services.
- Historically homeless service centers struggle with finding appropriate mental/behavioral
health services, while mental health facilities struggle with sourcing housing services.
Connecting Volusia Safe Harbor with the Stewart-Marchman-Act facility at 1140 Red John
Drive in Daytona Beach will dramatically improve the operational efficiencies and
effectiveness of both Safe Harbor and Pinegrove (formally known as Volusia County Crisis
Stabilization Unit, Detoxification Unit and Emergency Screening).

- Ideally, Stewart-Marchman-Act would be the lead agency for substance abuse and
mental/behavioral health and Halifax Urban Ministries (HUM) would be the lead managing
agency of Volusia Safe Harbor. As part of the initiative HUM would relocate all of its
operations relating to single adults from the current facility on North Street to Safe Harbor
(eg the Homeless Direct Services and the Bridge of Hope Hot Meal Program).
- A coordinating board should be established to promote and catalyze integration within the
Campus and throughout the community, and specifically coordinate activity between Stewart-
Marchman-Act, Halifax Urban Ministries (HUM), service partner agencies and the different
operational units on Campus.
- This coordinating group would not take away from the internal operating autonomy of each
agency, but instead be a catalyst of integration on the Campus. This board should have
membership from SMA and HUM as well as representatives from other service providers,
partnering cities, County, court system, law enforcement, homeless community and
business/civic community.
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- Creation of a single site public safety intake portal/unit for assessment, triage and referral will
dramatically streamline operations and significantly improve services to the individuals being
helped. Additionally, this will create critically needed diversion efforts which will help
provide relief to emergency rooms, courts and the jail.
- This site is well known by all law enforcement agencies and most law enforcement officers
within Volusia County and would provide a centralized assessment and intake center. This
will also function as a pre-trial diversion program thus saving money across the entire
judicial and criminal justice systems.
- This site is centrally located within the County and has the added benefit of very good West-
East and North-South ingress and egress.
- Relative to other possible sites, this location would reduce pedestrian and bicycle traffic
passing through neighborhoods and commercial districts.
- This site has many existing natural and industrial ergonomic buffers around the proposed
facility.
- An added benefit to this location is it would have low public NIMBY’ism concerns.
- This site is by-far the best OVERALL location in Volusia County. Normally, Marbut
Consulting suggests two-three possible sites/areas for consideration. In the case of Volusia
County, because of unique conditions and opportunities, there is only one logical site to build
Volusia Safe Harbor and it is immediately adjacent to Stewart-Marchman-Act Pinegrove
facility on Red John Drive.
- Volusia Safe Harbor would act as the master community intake-portal for all adult homeless
men and women.
- Homelessness is too big a challenge for one agency to address alone in isolation. It is thus
critical to co-locate as many holistic homeless service programs and agencies as possible
within Volusia Safe Harbor. Programs like Haven Recovery Center and Second Harvest
should be strategically recruited to co-locate at Volusia Safe Harbor. As many adult service
programs as possible should be located within Volusia Safe Harbor. This includes all types
of street feeding programs, food pantry programs and day-time service centers for adult
homeless men and women. It is critical for all agencies to be part of a “strategic system” and
not be wed to specific locations. Like great sport teams, individual agencies need to adopt a
team-winning attitude in which the team is first while individual agencies are second.
- “Specialty service providers” and “referral service providers” should also be located at
Volusia Safe Harbor on a part-time basis.
Marbut Report - Page 17
- All agencies, programs and service providers within Volusia Safe Harbor should adopt the
“culture of transformation” in all aspects of their operations. The focus needs to be on the
overall mission of reducing street homelessness and graduating people from the streets to
becoming productive community members.
- A master case management system needs to be created. Master Case Managers (MCMs)
should conduct the initial intakes into the HMIS system, do initial and ongoing assessments,
develop the individual recovery-action-plans and be proactive “navigators” of the recovery-
action-plans. Master Case Managers would develop and customize all aspects of the
recovery-action-plans for each homeless individual receiving services. Master Case
Managers would then proactively monitor and manage each recovery-action-plan. The
MCMs would also provide light-touch supportive case management when clients graduate to
permanent housing. This is critical to help reduce homeless recidivism.
- To assure operational success and to help control expenses, a commercial grade kitchen
should be built at Volusia Safe Harbor.
- In order not to waste taxpayers’ dollars, the facility needs to be “right sized.” We do not
want to over-build a facility that has wasted space nor do we want to under-build a facility in
such a way that hinders program and operational functionality.
- Based on national best practices, local demographics and Pinellas Safe Harbor (the homeless
demographic mix in Pinellas County is very similar to that of Volusia County), Marbut
Consulting recommends that the mat and bunk housing capacity be around 250 for individual
men and women inside of Safe Harbor, plus room for about 50 in an outdoor courtyard. The
male:female ratio would be about 3:1.
- The following services should be included within the Volusia Safe Harbor (full-time and/or
part-time):
+ Engagement Into the Volusia Safe Harbor:
* Outreach - interface with Homeless Outreach Teams (HOTs)
* Intake, registration and assessment
* Master Case Management
+ Medical:
* Medical (on-campus and off-campus referrals)
* Dental (off-campus referrals)
* Vision (mostly off-campus referrals)
* Pharmacy services (on-campus)
* Mental health (on-campus and off-campus referrals)
* Addictive disorders and substance abuse services (on-campus and off-campus
referrals)
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+ Job Placement Services:
* Legal services and ID recovery
* Life skills training
* Job skills training (includes interview and resume training)
* Job placement, coaching and enlisting business community support for jobs
+ Hygiene Services:
* 24/7 bathrooms
* Showers
* Hygiene skills training and services
* Hair cut services (to be presentable for job interviews)
+ Overnight Sleeping:
* Low demand sheltering
* Transitional living
+ Feeding:
* Establishment of a commercial kitchen
* Food and meals
* Coordination of meals (delivery and prep from non-profits and churches)
+ Other Support Services:
* Clothing closet
* Housing out-placement
* Veteran services
* Daytime activities
* Property storage
* Donation center
+ Administration:
* Administrative services for the Volusia Safe Harbor
* Security
* Storage
* Volunteer coordination
* Community service work crews and Volusia Safe Harbor work crews
- Volusia Safe Harbor must be a “Good Neighbor.”
- A robust “buffer” around the Volusia Safe Harbor needs to be developed. A physical fencing
barrier needs to line Volusia Safe Harbor. Foliage or other screening should be integrated
within the fencing system to create a visually aesthetic barrier. Additionally, the structures
within Volusia Safe Harbor need to be laid out in such away as to create positive ergonomic
flow and defensible space.
Marbut Report - Page 19
- For safety reasons, the queuing for intake must occur inside of Volusia Safe Harbor and not
on the street.
- Safety, health and hygiene are all negatively impacted by dirty, soiled and cluttered
environments. Therefore, Volusia Safe Harbor needs to embrace national best practices of
“Look, Feel and Smell” standards:
+ all areas need to be organized neatly and uncluttered (look)
+ all areas need to be warm and nurturing (feel)
+ all areas need to smell like a nice home - should not smell dirty and soiled, nor should
it smell like cleaning solutions (smell)
- Having high standards dignifies the folks being helped while fostering higher standards for
staff and volunteers. Individuals respond to their surroundings. Neat, clean and warm
feeling environments lead to more positive outcomes than dirty, soiled and cluttered
environments. Embracing a high environmental quality also helps in being a good neighbor.
- How a facility is operated is as equally important to where a facility is sited. The goal is to
reduce the hanging-out and minimize the “crumb-trail” between service agencies by
encouraging individuals to come into programming.
- High quality environments also increase resources to agencies in the following four ways:
+ increases volunteers
+ increases funding
+ increases staff member and volunteer productivity
+ extends the useful life of the physical plant and infrastructure
- Around the USA, operational funding for Come-As-You-Are centers and emergency shelters
comes almost entirely from local governments. Of recent, federal funding is no longer
available for emergency operations since most federal funding is being redirected to long
term housing options. Additionally, in most cases, private sector philanthropic funding for
homelessness goes mostly to families with children. Therefore, whether it is right or wrong,
local governments need to understand that the reality of addressing individual and chronic
level homelessness rests almost solely on local governments.
- Based on experienced early analysis of similar buildings, preliminary research, concept
design and pricing conducted pro-bono by local architect Bill Chapin in consultation with a
local contractor, the initial price estimation for Volusia Safe Harbor would be around $3.9 -
4.2 million.
- It is the understanding of Marbut Consulting that the capital construction budget has been
pledged by the County of Volusia.
- An estimated operating budget is included in this report [See Exhibit 5 on Page 39].
Marbut Report - Page 20
- In order to have a sustainable operating model, funding for operating expenses should be
committed on a long term basis. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that operational
funding by local governments be committed through formal inter-local agreements for at least
five years.
- If operational funding was based solely on general population it would unfairly burden the
higher populated cities. Likewise, if it was based solely on homeless counts, it would
unfairly burden the County and Daytona Beach because most of the homeless population
sleeps in unincorporated rural areas and in Daytona Beach. Therefore, Marbut Consulting
proposes a 50:50 formula of the general population with the homeless population. For the
general population, it is recommended to use official census data. For the homeless number
count, because point-in-times-counts have been proven so inaccurate around the nation, the
federal poverty rate by city and unincorporated area could be used as an ideal proxy
measurement/indicator.
Average the percent total general population (using census data within the County) with
percent of total homeless population (using poverty rates within the County) then multiply
the total operating budget for Volusia Safe Harbor.
(% general population + % homeless population)/2 * Volusia Safe Harbor operating budget
= pro rata fair share.
- It is very important that the County and all the cities realize this a problem of the “whole” and
affects the entire Volusia County Community. If one city decides to go-it-alone and starts to
proactively engage the homeless community without coordinating with other local
governments, then it is highly likely that the homeless population would shift and relocate to
other areas within the County.
3- Relocate the HUM Family Center and Increase the Number of Emergency Family Units
In parallel to the creation of a Come-As-You-Are service center for homeless single adults (eg
Recommendation 2) there is a simultaneous critical need and opportunity to create additional
emergency units for families with children (including unaccompanied minors/youth). Ideally a
new location would be developed for families with children.
- There is a critical need for a new 30 unit emergency center/shelter for families with children
(this is 5 units above the 25 units HUM currently operates). These units should vary in size
(eg number of beds and cribs) and should have flexible layouts in order to fit a variety of
family sizes and makeups (eg boys:girls ratio).
- In addition to family units, there is a need for 10 to 20 emergency units for unaccompanied
minors/youth. These units could be bunked and grouped.
Marbut Report - Page 21
- The unaccompanied minor/youth operation could be located adjacent to the family units in
order to create operational efficiencies.
- From a social service perspective, North Street is a very unsuitable location for a families
with children center/shelter. The North Street area is at best non-nurturing for children and at
worse dangerous. Therefore, it would be ideal to develop a new location for families with
children.
- National best practices clearly posit that the services between families with children need to
clearly and physically separated from the services for individuals.
- Nationally, families with children facilities generally receive most of their capital
construction funding from the private sector (eg not local government) and only receive a
limited amount of local government funding for operations.
4 - Develop a Master Case Management System
A Master Case Management “system” needs to be developed for homeless individuals and
families. The Master Case Management system for individuals should be embedded within
Volusia Saffe Harbor (eg the Come-As-You-Are center). “Master Case Management” and
“agency level case management” are often wrongly presented as the same functionality. There is
a major difference between master case management and agency level case management - the
first is holistic case management across the entire system of all agencies while the second is only
within an individual agency.
- The Volusia County area lacks a true homeless master case management system.
- Each homeless individual and family needs their own Master Case Manager who creates a
customized action plan to recovery. Master Case Managers then need to proactively monitor
and manage each recovery-action-plan across service providers. These Master Case
Managers need to have the full authority to place and move individuals and families
throughout the integrated-system, and to adjust recovery-action-plans as needed.
- Master Case Managers need to provide “follow-on” support services to individuals and
families as they successfully transition into the community.
- “Master case management” and “agency level case management” are often wrongly presented
as the same functionality. There is a major difference between master case management and
agency level case management - the first is holistic case management across the entire system
of all agencies while the second is mostly within an individual agency.
Marbut Report - Page 22
- This Master Case Management system needs to utilize the Homeless Management
Information System (HMIS) as its primary coordinating and case management tool.
5 - Transform HMIS from a “Score Keeper” to a “Proactive Case Management Tool”
The Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) needs to be transformed from a “Score
Keeping Model” to a “Proactive Case Management Model.” Additionally, in order to promote
universal agency participation, funding to service agencies by foundations, government agencies,
United Way and the Continuum of Care should all become contingent on being proactive
participants in HMIS.
- HMIS provides a helpful “score-keeper” function, however, HMIS needs to move from being
a passive score-keeper to being a proactive case management tool within a truly integrated
Master Case Management System.
- Using HMIS as a pro-active case management tool includes using it for the following
activities: tracking recovery action plans, making referrals to providers, tracking bed
availability in real-time and using dashboard data to make tactical and strategic decisions
about operations.
- Data entry needs to be “real-time” and universal across all agencies working with homeless
individuals and families.

- An “universal release” should be developed and utilized by ALL homeless agencies who
receive funding from the Continuum of Care Federal Agencies, Volusia County, cities and
United Way. Funding should be contingent on pro-active HMIS participation and real-time
data entry.
6 - Align “Street Feeding” Efforts with Holistic Service Programs
Redirect “Street Feeding and Street Services” to be aligned with holistic service programs. Street
feeding and street services, although well-intentioned and good-hearted, actually “enables”
individuals experiencing homelessness rather than “engages” homeless individuals into 24/7
holistic program services. Providing camping supplies and/or feeding in the parks, at street
corners, at beaches and behind restaurants exacerbates and promotes homelessness, thus
increasing the number of homeless individuals. Organizations providing street services need to
be encouraged to relocate all their adult homeless services to Volusia Safe Harbor.
- Street feeding, although well-intentioned and good-hearted, “enables” individuals
experiencing homelessness rather than engaging homeless individuals in life transformation
efforts. Feeding in the parks, at street corners, at beaches and behind restaurants/bars and
Marbut Report - Page 23
buildings exacerbates and promotes homelessness, thus actually increasing the number of
homeless individuals.
- Feeding programs alone do not address the route causes/triggers of homelessness. In order to
facilitate graduating from the street, programs must deal with mental/behavioral health,
substance abuse, job training/placement/retention and life skills.
- Individuals and groups feeding homeless individuals need to move from enabling behaviors
to engaging efforts by holistically aligning feeding efforts with engaging services that lead to
street graduation. Street feeding organizations need to be encouraged to relocate and redirect
their services to Volusia Safe Harbor (if it is created) in order to align with holistic service
programs. It is very important to understand the working poor and individuals experiencing
homelessness have very different needs in terms of prevention and recovery, therefore formal
assessment and case management using HMIS is critical. Feeding efforts that work solely
with the working poor should continue.
- Food provides an opportunity to positively incentivize engagement into the transformational
process. If one really wants to reduce homelessness, then feeding programs need to be
coordinated in a manner that encourages changes.
- Wholesale food suppliers, caterers, grocery stores, restaurants and hotels need to be
encouraged to assist strategic initiatives rather than efforts that enable homelessness.
- A media and public awareness campaign needs to be developed to encourage the community
to move from a culture of enablement to a culture of engagement.
- The negative repercussions of street feeding are also true for cash handouts and panhandling.
7 - Harmonize and Standardize Ordinances Throughout the County
Ordinances should be harmonized and standardized throughout the County between the County
proper and all cities within Volusia County. These ordinances should be drafted in such away as
to promote engagement into holistic programs, and not “criminalize” the condition of
homelessness. It is very important to note that due to a series of court rulings (often referred to
as “Pottinger vs. City of Miami” or simply “Pottinger”), Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) and
Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) will not be able to enforce most ordinances until Volusia Safe
Harbor is fully operational on a 24/7/168/365 basis.
- Having uniformed ordinances across the County will allow LEAs, LEOs, individuals
experiencing homelessness and the general public to all understand the same set of rules
throughout the County and thus help to reduce geographic “shopping” and shifting.
Marbut Report - Page 24
- In order to streamline and clarify the use of ordinances, it would be ideal for the County to
adopt a base-set of ordinances and then have all the cities adopt the County’s ordinances.
- Ordinances should not be used to “criminalize homelessness,” but instead be used as a tool to
engage individuals experiencing homelessness into programs such as Volusia Safe Harbor.
- It is important to note that because of Pottinger vs. City of Miami, many County and
municipal ordinances will not be able to be enforced until Volusia Safe Harbor opens.
Marbut Report - Page 25
Immediate Next Steps
- Get started and do not get bogged down in politics. Simply just start!!
- Volusia County and the cities within Volusia County vote to “accept in-concept” or amend or
reject the 7 Strategic Recommendations contained in this report.
- Start implementing the 7 Strategic Action Recommendations as approved or amended.
- Hire consultants as needed (eg architects, contractors, SME, etc.).
- Formally site, design, fund and start construction of Volusia Safe Harbor (including Phase I
Environmental Site Assessment Reports and detailed budget estimates).
- Create and sign MOUs (memorandums of understanding) between Volusia County, the cities,
SMA, HUM and other partner agencies for the operation of Volusia Safe Harbor.
- Site, design, fund and start construction of an emergency center/shelter for families with
children who are experiencing homelessness. This center/shelter would include
unaccompanied minors/youth.
- Finalize a Master Case Management and HMIS structure, then hire and train Master Case
Managers.
- Train LEAs and LEOs.
- Create policies and procedures for Volusia Safe Harbor then start “venuization” and
operations at Volusia Safe Harbor.
- Institute governance and operational system improvements as well as other approved
recommendations.
- Start public awareness campaign (enablement culture –> engagement culture).
Marbut Report - Page 26
Exhibit 1 -
Area Cities That Financially Supported this Study
City of Daytona Beach
City of Daytona Beach Shores
City of Debary
City of DeLand
City of Edgewater
City of Holly Hill
City of New Smyrna Beach
City of Orange City
City of Ormond Beach
City of South Daytona
Town of Ponce Inlet
Marbut Report - Page 27
Exhibit 2 -
Program/Agency Site Visits, Tours, Meetings and Conference Calls (partial listing)
Dominick Amendolare
Volusia County Sheriff’s Office
Sergeant
Michael E. Arth
Resident De Land
Homeless Advocate
W. Chester Bell
Stewart-Marchman-Act
Chief Executive Officer
Mark Besen, Ph.D.
Haven Recovery Center
Executive Director
Ann Brandon
United Methodist Church in DeLand
Interfaith Kitchen Coordinator
Dona DeMarsh Butler
Volusia County
Community Assistance Division Director
Joan Campanaro
F.A.I.T.H. Volusia
Homeless Committee Chair
Wayne Carter
Main Street in DeLand
Executive Director
Marbut Report - Page 28
William “Brad” Carter
Volusia County Resident
Homeless Advocate
Joni Casillas
The Salvation Army
Director of Development
William Chapin
Daytona Beach Resident
Architect
James Chisholm
The City of Daytona Beach
City Manager
Michael Chitwood
City of Daytona Beach Police Department
Chief of Police
Susan Clark
The Neighborhood Center of West Volusia
Executive Director
Mike Coffin
Volusia County Sheriff’s Office
Chief Deputy
Ivan Cosimi
Stewart-Marchman-Act
CFO
Barry Davis
Daytona Beach Resident
Homeless Advocate
Marbut Report - Page 29
Bob Decker
Mental Health America
Director
Jim Dinneen
Volusia County
County Manager
Fr. Phil Egitto
Our Lady of the Lurdes Catholic Church / F.A.I.T.H. Volusia
Pastor / Co-Chair of F.A.I.T.H. Volusia
Nancy Epps
Ponce Inlet
Former Mayor
Salvatore Gintoli, MA
Stewart-Marchman-Act
Facility Administrator Pinegrove
Pastor Roxanne Grant
New Beginnings Cold Water Ministries
Director
Donna M. Gray-Banks
Community Redevelopment Agency - City of New Smyrna Beach
Community Resource Coordinator
Rick Hall
City of DeLand
Director Parks and Recreation Department
Lisa A. Hamilton
Volusia-Flagler County Coalition for the Homeless
Executive Director
Marbut Report - Page 30
Bret Harford
Salvation Army - Sally House
Housing Monitor
Rhonda Harvey
Stewart-Marchman-Act
Vice President for Residential Services
Hon. Derrick L. Henry
The City of Daytona Beach
Mayor
Hon. Patrick Henry
The City of Daytona Beach
City Commissioner Zone 5
Big John
Big Goliath Radio
Host
Hon. Ben F. Johnson
Volusia County Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff
Michael Allan Kahler
Vets 4 Vets
Founder/CEO
Anita Lapidus
Lawyer
Homeless Advocate
Hon. Carl W. Lentz, IV
The City of Daytona Beach
City Commissioner, Zone 1
Marbut Report - Page 31
Scott A. Lesnett
Mid Atlantic Financial / New Smyrna Beach
President / Civic Leader
Mark Lynn
Catholic Charities of Central Florida
Section Leader
Capt. Chico Mandizha
Volusia County Sheriff’s Office
Executive Officer
Paul McKitrick
The City of Daytona Beach
Deputy City Manager/Administrative and Development Services
Shannon McLeish
Air Occupy
Activist
Linda Miller
Goodwill Industries of Central Florida
Employment Specialist
Luke Miller
F.A.I.T.H. Volusia
Co-Chair of F.A.I.T.H. Volusia’s Homeless Committee
Liz Myers
Lawyer
Homeless Advocate
Michael “Pastor Mike” Pastore
New Promises Ministries
Messenger/Director
Marbut Report - Page 32
Michael Pleus, ICMA-CM
City of DeLand
City Manager
Carol Podschelne
Catholic Charities of Central Florida
Case Management
Julia A. Rademacher
The City of Daytona Beach
Executive Assistant
Troy Ray
Halifax Urban Ministries (HUM)
Executive Director
Alan Rettig
Catholic Charities of Central Florida
Eastern Regional Director
Connie Ritchey
Stewart-Marchman-Act
Vice-Chairperson man of
Jessica Robillard
F.A.I.T.H. Volusia
Lead Organizer
James L. Rose
Chamber of Commerce / Rice & Rose
Chair / Attorney
Ray Salazar
United Way Volusia-Flagler Counties
President
Marbut Report - Page 33
Lt. Jason Sampsell
Orange City Police Department
Lieutenant
Hon. Belle B. Schumann
State of Florida Seventh Judicial Circuit
County Court Judge
Rosa I. Serrato
Daytona Beach
Citizen
Mary J. Swiderski
Volusia County of Governments
Executive Director
Bonnie Trammell
Goodwill
Job Site Coordinator Connection Center
Rosaria C. Upchurch, Ph.D.
Therapist
Licenced Marriage & Family
David Van Dyke
Catholic Charities of Central Florida
Family Emergency Assistance Program
Rev. Gabriel Vargas
Ridgewood Avenue Baptist Church
Pastor
Hon. Kelly White
The City of Daytona Beach / Jack White Land Company - White Star
City Commissioner Zone 3 / Owner
Marbut Report - Page 34
Anthony E. Woods
The Housing Authority of the City of Daytona Beach
Executive Director/CEO
Hon. Pam Woods
Volusia County Schools / The City of Daytona Beach
District Homeless Education Liaison / City Commissioner Zone 2
Ronald R. Wright
City of South Daytona Police Department
Chief of Police
Joseph W. Yarbrough
City of South Daytona
City Manager
Attendees at the Volusia League of Cites Monthly Dinner Meeting
Attendees at the Volusia Manager’s Association Monthly Meeting
Members of Stewart-Marchman-Act the Board of Directors and Executive Committee
Numerous individuals experiencing homelessness
Several Different Faith-based Meetings
Several Volunteers of the First Assembly of God Food Pantry in DeLand
Volunteers and staff at Interfaith Kitchen in DeLand
Many others, some of whom requested anonymity
Marbut Report - Page 35
Exhibit 3 -
The Seven Guiding Principles of Homeless Transformation
The Measuring Stick
Moving from Enablement to Engagement
After visiting 237 homeless service providers in 12 states and Washington, DC, Dr. Robert
Marbut established the following the Seven Guiding Principles of Homeless Transformation
which he commonly found to be the best practices within communities across the USA. These
Seven Guiding Principles of Homeless Transformation were used as key measuring sticks when
reviewing homeless service providers in Volusia as well as the overall service network within
Volusia County.
1. Move to a Culture of Transformation (versus the Old Culture of Warehousing):
Homeless individuals must be engaged and no longer enabled. Everybody within the service
delivery system (eg general public, media, elected politicians, appointed officials, boards,
staffs and volunteers of service agencies and most importantly the homeless themselves)
must embrace a culture of transformation. A culture, that through the help of others,
homeless individuals can transform and integrate themselves back into society. For moral
and fiscal reasons, homelessness must become an unacceptable condition that is not tolerated
in the USA.
2. Co-location and Virtual E-integration of as Many Services as Possible:
In order to increase success, all services within a service area must be e-integrated. Virtual e-
integration improves coordination of services, enhances performance, reduces “gaming” of
the system, engages individuals on the margin of society and increases cost efficiencies
within and between agencies. Furthermore, whenever financially possible, services should be
co-located. Co-location goes beyond virtual e-integration by increasing access and
availability into a shorter period of time through the reduction of wasted time in transit and
minimization of mishandled referrals. Co-location also increases the supportive “human
touch.”
3. Must Have a Master Case Management System That is Customized:
Because there are so many different service agencies helping homeless individuals (eg
government at multi-levels, non-profits and faith-based), it is critical that ONE person
coordinates the services an individual receives and to do so in a customized fashion. The
types of service provided is critical, but what is more important is the sequencing and
frequency of customized person-centered services.
Marbut Report - Page 36
4. Reward Positive Behavior:
Positive behavior of individuals should be rewarded with increased responsibilities and
additional privileges. Privileges such as higher quality sleeping arrangements, more privacy
and elective learning opportunities should be used as rewards. It is important that these
rewards be used as “tools” to approximate the “real world” in order to increase sustainable
reintegration into society. Every aspect of service delivery should be rooted in preparing the
individual or family to have sustained success in permanent housing.
5. Consequences for Negative Behavior:
Too often there are no consequences for negative behavior of individuals. Unfortunately, this
sends a message that bad behavior is acceptable. Within the transformational process, it is
critical to have swift and proportionate consequences.
6. External Activities Must be Redirected or Stopped:
External activities such as “street feeding” must be redirected to support the transformation
process. In most cases, these activities are well-intended efforts by good folks; however,
these activities are very enabling and often do little to engage homeless individuals.
7. Panhandling Enables the Homeless and Must Be Stopped:
Unearned cash is very enabling and does not engage homeless individuals in job and skills
training which is needed to end homelessness. Additionally, more often than not, cash is not
used for food and housing but is instead used to buy drugs and alcohol which further
perpetuates the homeless cycle. Homeless individuals who are panhandling should be
engaged into the transformational process. Furthermore, most panhandlers are not truly
homeless but are preying on the good nature of citizens to get tax-free dollars.
Marbut Report - Page 37
Exhibit 4 -
Robert G. Marbut Jr., Ph.D. Biography
First as a volunteer, then later as a San Antonio City Councilperson and a homeless service
agency President/CEO, Dr. Robert Marbut has worked on homeless issues for over three decades.
In 2007, frustrated by the lack of real improvement, and as part of the concept development for
the Haven for Hope Campus, Dr. Marbut conducted a nationwide best practices study of
homeless services. After personally visiting 237 homeless service facilities, in 12 states and the
District of Columbia, he developed The Seven Guiding Principles of Homeless Transformation.
Since then, Dr. Marbut has visited a total of 677 operations in 21 states plus Washington, DC and
Mexico City, DF.
These Seven Guiding Principles of Transformation are used in all aspects of his work to create
holistic, transformative environments in order to reduce homelessness.

Dr. Marbut was a White House Fellow to President George H.W. Bush and a former Chief of
Staff to San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros.
He earned a Ph. D. from The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas in International
Relations (with an emphasis in international terrorism and Wahhabism), Political Behavior and
American Political Institutions/Processes from the Department of Government.
He also has two Master of Arts degrees, one in Government from The University of Texas at
Austin and one in Criminal Justice from the Claremont Graduate School. His Bachelor of Arts is
a Full Triple Major in Economics, Political Science and Psychology (Honors Graduate) from
Claremont McKenna (Men's) College.
Dr. Marbut also has completed three post-graduate fellowships, one as a White House Fellow
(USA's most prestigious program for leadership and public service), one as a CORO Fellow of
Public and Urban Affairs and one as a TEACH Fellow in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the State
of Qatar (1 of 13 USA educators selected).
Contact Information:
Robert G. Marbut Jr., Ph.D.
6726 Wagner Way
San Antonio, TX 78256
www.MarbutConsulting.com
[email protected]
210-260-9696
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Exhibit 5 -
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