Santa Cruz County officials scramble to address gap in daytime homeless services amid nonprofit turmoil, federal cuts

Santa Cruz County officials scramble to address gap in daytime homeless services amid nonprofit turmoil, federal cuts

SANTA CRUZ — With an ongoing and planned curtailment of daytime services for people experiencing homelessness in Santa Cruz County, local policymakers discussed at a recent meeting how they might help lessen the severity of impacts that they know are coming. The fallout has continued at the Mental Health Client Action Network, a peer-run homelessness and mental health service provider out of Santa Cruz, after it closed abruptly in late August du…