City file 05 / 36 · For Elk Grove organizations
Elk Grove homeless services referrals are logged as sent when a caseworker sends someone to another organization. Whether the person arrived is often never recorded. Operation Iron Gate, from Pathfinders for Hope, is built to record that part. Elk Grove organizations can watch its first pilot in the open.
Sent is not served
Picture one person in the City of Elk Grove. An outreach worker connects them to a shelter, a clinic or a benefits office somewhere in Elk Grove. This is what each record shows a week later.
Logged
Consent recorded first
Logged as sent
Sent, and still open
Not recorded
Confirmed by the receiving organization
Not recorded
Owned by a named role
“Unknown”
Only into a known outcome
Lane B is the pilot’s design, not a Elk Grove field result.
The plain terms
The rulebook
In practiceA missing ID does not end a Elk Grove handoff. The referral stays open while the ID problem is worked, with no promise of same-day eligibility, housing or a bed.
In practiceA “no” from a Elk Grove provider needs a written reason before it is recorded as a denial.
In practice“Unknown” cannot be picked as the final outcome of a Elk Grove case. Someone owns the next step until it is known.
In practice“Sent” and “arrived” are two statuses. The sender records one; the Elk Grove organization that receives the person records the other.
The failure points
Elk Grove's year-round shelter at Calvary Christian Center, funded by Measure E, serves up to 35 Elk Grove residents, and only the city's homeless services navigators or police can refer someone with a verifiable Elk Grove connection. Every county or nonprofit handoff goes through city staff first.
Your numbers
The way in
Three ways in for Elk Grove organizations. None of them asks you to change the system you use today.
Housing held at 90 days is the lead measure. Results go on The Glass with no names, good or bad, so Elk Grove can judge them.
Tell us your Elk Grove role: sending, receiving, providing or overseeing. Nothing is signed in a first conversation.
The counter above shows how many of your Elk Grove handoffs end in a question mark. It stays on your device until you share it.
The questions
No. It has not launched anywhere. The first pilot is being prepared in Vallejo, and no Elk Grove launch has been announced.
The January 2026 count for the City of Elk Grove recorded 123 people unsheltered in Elk Grove. Up 48.2 percent from 83 in 2024. Sacramento Steps Forward publishes an unsheltered figure for the city, not a sheltered figure or a total. Elk Grove held 2.9 percent of the 4,205 people counted unsheltered across Sacramento County.
The city says its temporary shelter and updated camping ordinance brought a 65 percent reduction in homeless encampments over the past year. The city's shelter has served 120 people since November 2024, including 62 guests and 4,906 bed nights in 2026.
Cohort 01 is recruiting in Vallejo. A Elk Grove organization can request a briefing now. Nothing is signed in a first Elk Grove briefing.
No. Operation Iron Gate is not a replacement for Sacramento Steps Forward, the City of Elk Grove's navigators or any provider's own records. It is built to confirm that a referral between organizations reached the person.
For food, the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services lists distribution sites across the area. Operation Iron Gate is not open for public intake yet. GATEHOUSE, our community platform, where Pathfinders for Hope does your intake, barrier review and the calls to agencies, is open now: register on GATEHOUSE to ask questions and follow the build. Joining GATEHOUSE does not put you in the North Bay Pilot, which runs only in Vallejo and Solano County.
The evidence
Where the Elk Grove figures come from.
Operation Iron Gate has not been tested in the field, and no results are claimed for Elk Grove or anywhere else. North Bay Pilot numbers will be published good or bad.
Nearby cities. Read the pages for Sacramento.
The inside track
Operation Iron Gate starts in Vallejo. Its community platform, GATEHOUSE, is open today. Elk Grove agencies, nonprofits and neighbors can join to watch the North Bay Pilot get built, ask our team anything, and help decide what the full system becomes.
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