Collaboration in Addressing Homelessness

Every week in Corvallis a group of service providers, police and others sit down together to talk about the people in their community who are in crisis. Together, the group decides on a plan of action and works to help a few individuals with whatever they need, like housing, mental health services or health care. They call these meetings "the Situation Table," and it’s modelled on a system in use in Canada. Joel Goodwin, captain of the Corvallis Police Force, Dan Easdale, program director at Corvallis Housing First, and Ty Pos, director of contracts and outreach for Community Outreach Inc, join us to explain what the Situation Table is and how it works.