How Los Angeles is using AI to help people at risk of homelessness
Garstand darts. Okay, TY, thank you. A Los Angeles company is using artificial intelligence to identify people at risk of homelessness. and provide resources to keep them in their homes. The software tracks things like emergency department visits, mental health crises, substance abuse, disabilities, diagnoses, arrests, and enrollment in public benefits like food assistance. Currently, officials contact people who provide cash and services, and once approved, they are assigned a caseworker to work with them for four to six months. We also use AI for Good, a program that targets resources to people who might not otherwise have access to them, so people are given between $4 and $6,000 to spend on essentials. but understand what it means to have access to so much data. And how complex that space is, and finding more ways to share more data, and leveraging that data sharing to really help people and get resources to the people who need them the most. We hope we can support the programs you target. right.Now, let's start the program
How Los Angeles is using AI to help people at risk of homelessness
Los Angeles County is using artificial intelligence to identify people at risk of homelessness and provide them with housing resources. The software tracks emergency room visits, mental health crises, substance abuse disorder diagnoses, arrests, enrollment in public benefits like food assistance, and more. Officials then offer to give you cash or services. Once approved, you will be assigned a caseworker who will work with you for up to six months. You will then be given a few thousand dollars to spend on essentials. This program was launched in his 2021 year and so far he has helped over 700 people. Dana Vanderford, who leads Los Angeles County's new Healthy Housing Homelessness Prevention Unit, talks about the program in the video above. See more of California's top news stories | Download the app.
Los Angeles County is using artificial intelligence to identify people at risk of homelessness and provide them with housing resources.
The software tracks emergency room visits, mental health crises, substance abuse disorder diagnoses, arrests, enrollment in public benefits like food assistance, and more.
Officials then offer to give you cash or services. Once approved, you will be assigned a caseworker who will work with you for up to six months. You will then be given a few thousand dollars to spend on essentials.
The program launched in 2021 and has helped more than 700 people to date.
Dana Vanderford, who leads Los Angeles County's new Healthy Housing Homelessness Prevention Unit, talks about the program in the video above.
See more stories from California's top news stories. | Download the app.