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February 15, 2017
A public Ground Blessing event on February 15th marked the beginning of construction for Native American Connections' latest permanent supportive housing community, Camelback Pointe. As NAC breaks ground, it is the first step in the construction to help end homelessness. NAC blends Native American traditions with best practices for serving vulnerable populations including the chronically homeless.
In attendance the City of Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, Arizona Department of Housing Director Michael Trailor and Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams. NAC's CEO Diana Yazzie Devine thanked Mayor Stanton for being an advocate in the effort to end homelessness. Director Michael Trailor thanked NAC for its work in the community. One of NAC's permanent supportive housing resident, Pete at Encanto Pointe spoke and gave insight of how NAC's housing community has helped him. Pete stated, "I feel safe. I feel supported. I can wake up and hold my head high." We are very excited for this new opportunity.
Camelback Pointe is located at 1537 W. Camelback Road, Phoenix AZ and is set to open in November 2017.
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A "chronically homeless" individual is defined to mean a homeless individual with a disability who lives either in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven, or in an emergency shelter or in an institutional care facility if the individual has been living in the facility for fewer than ninety (90) days and had been living in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven or in an emergency shelter immediately before entering the institutional care facility. In order to meet the ‘‘chronically homeless’’ definition, the individual also must have been living as described above continuously for at least twelve (12) months or on at least four (4) separate occasions in the last three (3) years, where the combined occasions total a length of time of at least twelve (12) months. Each period separating the occasions must include at least seven (7) nights of living in a situation other than a place not meant for human habitation, in an emergency shelter or in a safe haven.
Federal nondiscrimination laws define a person with a disability to include any (1) individual with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; (2) individual with a record of such impairment; or (3) individual who is regarded as having such an impairment. In general, a physical or mental impairment includes, but is not limited to, examples of conditions such as orthopedic, visual, speech and hearing impairments, cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), developmental disabilities, mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism.