An end to the housing crisis for people with serious mental illness.
Our Work in the Community Our Accomplishments
$3.2 million in housing development and
neighborhood improvement with our partners
Communities impacted
Orlando, Florida; Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; and Fairfax, Virginia
9 Scattered Site Single Family Homes
2016 Accomplishments
2 Scattered Site Single Family Homes Dave’s Housing First launched 69 residents served replaced a
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created a Volunteer Brigade
Our Mission
www.DavesHouse.org
To transform lives and give hope to people with serious mental illness (SMI) through creating stable homes that provide lasting recovery.
Our Residents Managing SMI
● 90% have remained in permanent supportive housing ● Less than 25% require psychiatric hospitalization (national average 40-60%) ● Participate daily in a productive activity
Our Homes Improve Lives
● hope, health and stability ● improved overall health, well-being and sense of hope
Dave’s House Annual Expenses Programs
$89,000
Fundraising Administration
$16,000
Permanent Housing and Support Services
$32
Temporary Shelter
$37
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$281,000
Cost of Services Per Person, Per Day $126 $600
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Insights That Inspire 2017 Seminar Series
Seminar & Breakfast with Simon T. Bailey
Releasing Leadership Brilliance – Breaking Sound Barriers! Spring 2017 Presented by and benefiting Dave’s House Dave’s House is proud to present its third Insights That Inspire Seminar with guest speaker Simon T. Bailey. Simon T. Bailey is one of America’s top 10 most-booked corporate and association speakers on the subjects of change, leadership and customer experience. He has worked with over 1,500 organizations in 45 countries worldwide. He is the top selling author of seven books. Mr. Bailey created the Shift Your Brilliance System and a percentage of the revenue benefits the U.S. Dream Academy, a non-profit that positively impacts urban youth. Table and event sponsorship opportunities available. More details coming soon!
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for People with Serious Mental Illness A note from Dave’s House Co-founder Lin Wilensky
The good that results from giving back often arises out of heartache; it is the catharsis to move from the painful past into a hopeful future. My anguish over my brother’s plight with serious mental illness (SMI) was my motivation for giving back. My brother, Dave Jeffreys, an inspiring role model to me, was diagnosed with schizophrenia during college. He struggled with his illness for 25 years – on and off his medications, in and out of the hospital. He even went missing and became homeless for a while. Finally, we found housing with the support he needed to live independently in lasting recovery and lead a productive and meaningful life. For the first time, he could manage his illness. He was able to work part time, volunteer at church, drive to and from activities and live normally in recovery. He lived without the need for hospitalization or crisis care the remaining 15 years of his life. In Dave’s memory, my husband, Ron, and I co-founded Dave’s House in 2009. Our vision was to give people like Dave stable, non-time-limited homes with support services that are lifesaving and life transforming. We wanted to ensure that other brothers, sisters, sons, daughters and friends with SMI could avoid homelessness and live their “Because I knew best lives possible, just like Dave.
you, I have been changed for good.”
What started as a personal memorial of just two homes, one in Orlando and one in Virginia, has evolved into helping our community-wide movement to end homelessness especially for people with SMI – some of our most – For Good, from the vulnerable and underserved fellow citizens. In just a few musical Wicked years, permanent supportive housing has become the proven best practice and most cost effective solution for ending homelessness for individuals with SMI. We have opened additional houses with funding from private donors, Orange County, the West Orange Healthcare District and private corporations. As Dave’s House has opened doors for others, amazing doors keep opening for us. We feel a responsibility to keep walking through those doors to opportunities at one time we thought unimaginable. With the support of our benefactors, patrons and partners, Dave’s House will continue to transform lives, end homelessness and build a better community.
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our approach
Founded in 2009, Dave’s House is a leading provider in Central Florida of affordable permanent supportive housing for individuals with serious mental illness. We have developed housing models that combine a solid foundation of stable housing and managed mental health care, provided by our behavioral health service partners. Dave’s House also coordinates with other well-being service providers to assist residents. Permanent supportive housing is a proven best practice that combines affordable housing with services that help people who face the most complex challenges to live with stability, autonomy and dignity. Key to success is ongoing mental health support services. Case managers work with residents on life skills training, medication management and other assistance areas. With a permanent home, residents can then more easily manage life obstacles, live in recovery and achieve their dreams. Many times, residents form a modern family, developing friendships that generally elude people with SMI, who often live in isolation because of their illness. They look out for one another, share housekeeping responsibilities and socialize together.
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Mission | To transform lives and give hope to people with serious mental illness through creating stable homes that provide lasting recovery.
Vision | An end to the housing crisis for people with serious mental illness.
Dave’s House utilizes two permanent supportive housing models, dependent upon the specific needs of each resident: Scattered Site Single Family Home: This Traditional Home Model keeps individuals from the streets – creating a single family home residence for typically four individuals who are graduating from transitional care or are on the verge of homelessness and back into the cycle of instability. Dave’s Housing First: This Housing First Model takes individuals off the streets – providing apartment homes for those with SMI alongside co-occurring disabilities. These individuals require a much greater intensity of services. Support for both of these models consists of ongoing mental health case management; medication evaluation and treatment; mental health/substance abuse treatment; 24-hour/365-days-a-year crisis intervention and stabilization services; day support programming and vocational services; life skills training; and coordination with primary health care and dental services, provided with our behavioral healthcare partners.
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our work in the Community
Our Accomplishments • $3.2 million in housing development and neighborhood improvement
with our partners
and Fairfax, Virginia
• Communities impacted: Orlando, Florida; Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; • 9 Scattered Site Single family homes 2016 Accomplishments • 2 residential homes • Dave’s Housing First launched • 69 residents served Our Homes Improve Lives • Hope, health and stability • Improved overall health, well-being and sense of hope Our Residents Managing SMI • 90% have remained in permanent supportive housing • Less than 25% require psychiatric hospitalization (national average 40-60%) • Participate daily in a productive activity
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the need in the Community 30-45%
Percentage of Florida’s 105,000 homeless suffering from mental illness
$1.3 million per day
Cost of over 125,000 incarcerated Floridians living in prisons – $500 million annually
$31,065
The average annual cost of an individual living sick in homelessness – cycling in and out of incarceration, emergency rooms and inpatient hospitalizations
$10,051
The average annual cost of an individual living well in permanent supportive housing
$21,014
Annual cost savings per individual
68%
Reduction in annual community costs per individual
$3,323,955
The average annual cost of 107 homeless individuals with SMI
$33,239,553
The 10-year total cost of 107 homeless individuals with SMI
$149,220,414
Taxpayer savings from providing permanent supportive housing to just 50% of the current chronic homeless population in Central Florida over a 10 year period, with a 10% recidivism rate Statistics Source: The Central Florida Commission on Homelessness, The Cost of Long-term Homelessness in Central Florida, 2014 14 • DAVE’S HOUSE
“If I could say anything to myself two years ago, it would be, ‘Just wait to see the opportunities that are going to be available to you. Don’t give up.’”
“When you have a place you can call your own and you’re comfortable, then you are able to do almost anything you want to do in your life. Dave’s House has given me hope.” – Dave’s House Resident, Scott
– Dave’s House Resident,Tim
At Dave’s House, we envision a world in which individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) have permanent supportive housing – and hope. Our residents are breaking the cycle of homelessness, incarceration and hospitalization, so that they may focus on improving themselves, contributing to their communities and realizing their dreams. We see them experiencing happier days free of stigma, despair and isolation. We see them believing more in themselves, their abilities and their communities. We see them, in their ongoing battle, victorious. The people we serve are at-risk, chronically homeless or in sub-standard housing, veterans and adults with aging family left with nowhere to live. Dave’s House is committed to helping these individuals one by one, until they all have a home to call their own.
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ways to help Your support of Dave’s House makes a difference in the lives of some extraordinary people who need our help – future residents of Dave’s House homes. These are people in our community who, because of serious mental illness, find themselves barely surviving. A stable home is the catalyst many of them need to get on, and stay on, the road to mental wellness. Dave’s House is creating these nurturing environments where people can experience their best lives possible. Together, we can end the housing crisis for people with serious mental illness.
“We are so thankful to our community benefactors and partners. Their support allows us to locate and fund homes that meet our high standards, perform major repairs and renovations, furnish and supply each home, and provide the bridge, rainy day and emergency funding to meet the needs of each individual.” – Ron Wilensky, co-founder
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annual events
The Dave’s House Happy Days Soiree honors the creation of permanent supportive housing for people with serious mental illness (SMI). During this autumn event, community leaders gather to celebrate the transformation and happy days that permanent supportive housing brings to our residents. It’s an evening applauding the power of the human spirit, community unity and individual perseverance.
In 2015, we honored Mayor Teresa Jacobs and retired Chief Judge Perry, two exceptional community leaders whose significant contributions have greatly improved the quality of life for people with SMI. In 2016, we paid tribute to City of Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and community leader Linda Landman Gonzalez, Orlando Magic vice president of philanthropy and multicultural insights and president, Orlando Magic Youth Foundation, for their contributions to the fight against homelessness for our most vulnerable citizens. The evening’s program is designed in the spirit and character of Dave’s House namesake Dave Jeffreys. His fight to manage his SMI inspires us every day. His success story compels us to help others like him so they too can live their best lives possible. The event is made possible through the generous support of our Benefactors. Please join us as a 2017 Happy Days Soiree Benefactor, and support our efforts to help people in our community who desperately need our assistance. Together, we celebrate our community and our efforts. Together, we can end the housing crisis for people with SMI.
Insights That Inspire
Leadership Training Seminars
At our two previous seminars, we have been inspired to be better Seminar Series leaders by Disney veterans Lee Cockerell and Dennis Snow. In 2017, we will carry on the Dave’s House tradition with Simon T. Bailey, author of Release Your Brilliance: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the World. He is a best-selling author, a Hall of Fame Speaker, and the CEO of Simon T. Bailey International, a company specializing in creating learning and development for individuals and organizations. In 2017, enjoy another lively and entertaining breakfast seminar, with this worldreknown speaker who will give you the power of time-tested leadership principles that influence significant change in your organization, your team and yourself. Each year our guests walk away with strategies and tactics for delivering world-class customer service through values-based leadership. Sign up for emails at DavesHouseEvents.org for Dave’s House news about this seminar and other events. 20 • DAVE’S HOUSE
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2015 soiree heroes
Mayor Teresa Jacobs
Teresa Jacobs has served as Orange County Mayor since 2010. Known as a champion of ethics reform and a strong advocate for public participation in the governmental process, Mayor Jacobs has established core values to guide county employees in their daily duties: professionalism, integrity, strong work ethic, innovation, fairness and accountability. She is focused upon maintaining Orange County’s reputation as the world’s top tourism destination while also publicizing the region’s workforce and business sector capabilities in high tech, digital media and medical research, as well as our world class quality of life, including sports, recreational and performing arts venues. Mayor Jacobs is a staunch advocate for citizen involvement, broadening our innovationdriven economy by partnering with UCF and other institutions of higher learning, and leading far-reaching sustainability efforts to ensure that Orange County’s future will be healthy and prosperous. She is leading efforts aimed at reducing family homelessness by expanding affordable housing inventories and boosting opportunities for success. She has chaired or appointed regional commissions focused on domestic violence, child abuse and youth mental health. Mayor Jacobs is a cum laude graduate of Florida State University. She and her husband Bruce are the proud parents of four young adults.
Belvin Perry, Jr.
Belvin Perry, Jr. was born to Belvin Perry, Sr. and Jessie M. Perry of Orlando, Florida. He graduated from Jones High School in Orlando. He was raised to value public service; his mother worked as a public school teacher and his father served in law enforcement as one of the first two AfricanAmerican police officers to be hired by the Orlando Police Department. While serving as a judge for nearly 25 years, he has served as Administrative Judge in Osceola County and served nine terms as Chief Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit. He is involved with 100 Black Men of Orlando, Inc., and formerly served as Chair of the Orange County Central Receiving Center, which was renamed “Belvin Perry, Jr. Central Receiving Center” in 2014. In 2001, 2004, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, he was recognized by Orlando Magazine as one of the 50 most powerful people in Orlando. In 2011, he was recognized by Ebony as one of their Power 100. In 2011-13 he was recognized by Orlando Sentinel Columnist Scott Maxwell as one of the 25 most powerful people in Central Florida. He currently is an attorney with Morgan & Morgan, P.A., practicing personal-injury law. 22 • DAVE’S HOUSE
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2016 soiree honoree
Buddy Dyer
Mayor Buddy Dyer is the dean of Florida’s “big-city” mayors, having served Orlando’s residents since 2003. Under Orlando’s strongmayor form of government, Mayor Dyer serves as the City’s chief executive and also helps govern and oversee the operations and growth of its city-owned utility and the Orlando International and Executive Airports. During his time in office, Mayor Dyer has worked relentlessly to advance the community’s shared vision for Orlando as America’s 21st century city. In 2011, he was selected as American City and County Magazine’s National Municipal Leader of the Year. The award highlights his work to diversify Central Florida’s economy, secure Central Florida’s first rail mass transit system, strengthen neighborhood safety and deliver more efficient, effective government to the residents of Orlando. Mayor Dyer’s commitment to bolstering police protection helped bring about the most dramatic reduction in crime in Orlando history. He is leading the effort to diversify Central Florida’s economy and create high-tech, high-wage careers for residents in cutting edge industries including digital media, life sciences and biotechnology, modeling, simulation and training, and aviation and aerospace. He is a fierce advocate for the expansion of public mass-transit and for creating more walkable, livable communities. Mayor Dyer also engineered one of the most remarkable downtown resurgences anywhere in the country, anchored by the creation of world-class sports, arts and entertainment venues for the City’s residents and visitors. He has fought to increase cooperation and partnership between Central Florida’s many governments, its business and civic communities and its residents. The result of this effort is a new era of collaboration that has paved the way for a string of remarkable, “game changing” accomplishments for greater Orlando in a very short period of time and has set the City on course for a more prosperous future. Mayor Dyer earned his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Brown University and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Florida College of Law. He was born in Orlando and raised in Kissimmee. He and his wife Karen, an attorney, have two sons, Trey and Drew.
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Linda Landman Gonzalez With the Orlando Magic since 2007, Vice President of Philanthropy and Multicultural Insights Linda Landman Gonzalez oversees philanthropy, corporate giving and multicultural insights and serves as the president of the Orlando Magic Youth Foundation. She is involved in several volunteer and leadership activities, including The Florida Humanities Council, The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, The Florida State Fair Authority, Florida Hospital for Children Foundation, See Art Orlando, the Women’s Executive Council of United Way, and is a Trustee of the City of Orlando’s Children’s Trust Committee. Landman Gonzalez currently serves as the chairman of the board of the Central Florida Commission on Homelessness. She is the immediate past chair of United Arts of Central Florida, Business Force and Valencia College Foundation. Additionally, she serves on the Board of Visitors for FAMU Law School, AvMed, Fifth Third Bank, and the State of Florida Hispanic Business Initiative Fund (HBIF) Board of Trustees. She was named 2015 Downtowner of the Year by the Downtown Orlando Partnership. The group’s Golden Brick Awards recognizes community and development projects that positively affect downtown Orlando. She was named 2012 Business Woman of the Year by the Orlando Business Journal and received the 2014 Athena Leadership Award. In January 2013, Landman Gonzalez was appointed by Governor Rick Scott to serve on the board of Volunteer Florida and to serve as Chairman of the Board of the Early Learning Coalition of Orange County in July 2013. She spent nine years as director of diversity and community relations for Darden Restaurants, Orlando’s only Fortune 500 Corporation. While at Darden, she managed community partnerships, employee volunteer opportunities and community leadership development in 10 top markets nationwide, including Orlando. Landman Gonzalez also managed corporate giving, while developing a second language translation initiative for the corporation. Prior to joining Darden, Inc., Landman Gonzalez served as vice president of Hispanic Sales and Marketing for Barnett Bank of Central Florida. Landman Gonzalez earned a bachelor’s degree in education from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico and resides in Orlando with her husband, Roberto.
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board of directors
Ron Wilensky, Chairman and Co-Founder, Navigator Executive Advisors Lin Wilensky, Co-Founder, Marriott International (Retired) John Moskos, Vice Chair, Wells Fargo Martha Harriman, Treasurer, Jewett Orthopaedic Clinic (Retired) Edward Hofma, Secretary, WithumSmith + Brown Teri Benson, Pando Partner Wealth Management, Raymond James Jim DeMark, Community Based Care of Central Florida Adam Eckelbarger, Mader Southeast John Hussey, RealTrend, Inc. Steve McIntosh, Concrete Solutions for a Clean Environment Joel McNair, Pathway Homes of Florida, Inc. Joe Mendoza, AmeriLife & Health Services of Central Florida, LLC Matthew Palma, Broad and Cassel Attorneys at Law Lori Trainer, Southern Affordable Strategies
Provider Partners Aspire Health Partners Henderson Behavioral Health HOPE South Florida Homeless Services Network Pathway Homes of Florida, Inc. Pathway Homes, Inc.
Staff Pam Gould CEO & President 407.968.3508 pam@daveshouse.org Marilin Gutierrez Development & Program Coordinator 407.300.7081 marilin@daveshouse.org Kitson Rogers Bookkeeper kitson@daveshouse.org
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founders’ circle Community Visionaries $100,000+
Anonymous Christian Foundation Aspire Health Partners Board of Orange County Commissioners West Orange Healthcare District Ron and Lin Wilensky
Founders’ Capstone $25,000
Anonymous Broad and Cassel Attorneys at Law Central Florida Women’s League Foundation ClearChannel Universal Foundation
Founders’ Keystone $10,000+
Bank of America The Bob Allen Family Foundation Bond Foundation Dan and Linda Carricato Clear Channel Outdoor Fox 35 WOFL Harriett Lake Lifestyles Magazine Hilton Grand Vacations Jim and Kay Huemme Allan and Marge Nagle Observer Media Orange Appeal Orange County Public Schools Tech Centers Orange County Sheriff’s Office Orlando Health – Health Central Hospital Dennis and Debbie Snow Wells Fargo Foundation
Founders’ Associates $5,000+
Duke Energy GrayRobinson, P.A. JP Morgan Chase June Engineering LaPoint Realty Team Rent Path Tupperware Corporation Windermere Union Church WithumSmith and Brown
Cornerstone $2,500+
Members of the Founders’ Circle are recognized for their generous lifetime donations to Dave’s House.
Cornerstone $2,500+ (con’t)
Ray and Shannon Dorman David Collins and Stephanie Garber Del and Martha Harriman Shannon and Corey Hoagland Edward and Elizabeth Hofma Steve and Mary Holloway Margaret Krass Steve and Melody McIntosh Morgan and Morgan John and Michele Moskos Navigator Executive Advisors Raymond James and Associates, Inc. The Sisaundra Lewis Foundation Donna and John Slyster Starwood Vacation Ownership Valencia College West Orange Women Wyndham Grand Orlando Resort Bonnet Creek
Architect $1,000+
James and Christine Burris Catholic Lawyers Guild of Central Florida Chet and Lynn Evans Randy and Sue Fields Fifth Third Bank John and Elise Gowan Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church Peter and Claudia Laurence Michael and Merie Mann National Alliance on Mental Illness of Greater Orlando (NAMI) Mark and Robin Ogier Pressure Cleaning Orlando Matthew Palma Warren and Inez Shaw UCF College of Medicine UCF College of Public Affairs and Health VNA Foundation Eric Welch Fred and Barbara Welensky West Orange Chamber of Commerce C101 The Women’s Club of Casselberry Don and Bridget Wood Scott and Joan Ziegler
C.J. and Alice Ball Teri and Mark Benson Roger and Rhonda Busch Century Link City of Orlando James and Diane DeMark
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in hand and full ry Rhode ready for the Thousands of curiou new school year. backpacks, Kinon Basof the 2016-17 schoo s minds throughout West Orang e returned to the l year. In Ocoee, classrooms Aug. one charter schoo 15 for the start l opened its doors for the first time. See page
Winter Garden com mis $400K break for dow sion approves ntown project Developer Trema ine Boyd LLC increa to $177,000 sed its offer
for the property The sale was postpon at 109 S. Boyd St. ed twice out of concern for the amount JENNIFER NESSLA of taxpayer money R being waived. STAFF WRITER maine Boyd LLC. Because of the city’s belief that Tremaine Boyd the apartments will benefit the WINTER GARDEN develop the propertLLC plans to city of Winter y into a threeGarden, the city ing the vote two After postpon- story develop will waive $174,17 7 in transporsioners approve times, commis- floor as officement, with the first tation d the sale of city impact space fees and $235,48 and the secproperty at 109 in other fees. 4 S. Boyd St. to Tre- ond and third floors 22 high-en apartments. d SEE APART
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