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Workforce Development Program designed to assist clients to become job ready to secure employment and/or increase their current wages to become more self sufficient. DSFRC also provides life skills training to teach clients how to budget and shop with limited resources and fixed incomes. This program works with families in job preparation, including workshops that focus on resume writing, interview skills, job-hunting tactics, and job placement. Many clients are referred by Alameda County Social Services, and many are in crisis due to reaching their time limits for benefits. In addition, DSFRC offers clients resources such as one-on-one consultations to ascertain their skills, define career goals, and provide access to its dress-for- success closet. With CDBG funds, Building Futures with Women and Children (BFWC) also provided pre- employment, life skills and housing assistance, as well as benefits advocacy to move clients into self sufficiency. In FY2006-07, BFWC increased the level of self sufficiency for 86%, or 63 of 73 women who stayed 30 days or more, by one level or more in the following areas: housing, employment/income, domestic violence, substance abuse, mental health, and/or physical health. Sixty (60%), or 44 of the 73 women who stayed at the shelter 30 days or more, exited to long- tem1 housing and/or employment. Through its CDBG grant, Project Literacy's services help functionally illiterate people gain literacy skills that they can apply in social, educational, employment, and community settings, thereby increasing their independence and self sufficiency. Seventy-five percent (75%) of the students (179) increased their independence and self-sufficiency as indicated by their demonstration of new applications ofliteracy skills. Ongoing preservation and monitoring of615 below-market rate rental units is also an anti- poverty strategy, because the City maintains HUD rent limits for extremely low-, very low-, low- and moderate-income people and for special populations like seniors and the disabled. The City provided Redevelopment funds this year to DSFRC to recruit new tenants for available BMR units and provide housing search assistance to prevent homelessness. The City continues to seek opportunities to work with non-profit and for-profit developers to build affordable rental and ownership housing. Presently, the City's Redevelopment Agency is working with Mercy Housing Califomia to convert a formerly blighted motel (renamed Casa Verde) into affordable permanent rental housing for very low- and extremely-low income persons. As previously mentioned, the City also worked diligently with other non-profit developers to develop affordable housing. PART III: EVALUATION OF ANNUAL PERFORMANCE The purpose of this section is to assess the City's progress in meeting the priority needs and specific objectives identified in the Action Plan FY2006-07 that will make the City's vision of the future become a reality. San Leandro completed year two of its FY2005-2009 HUD Consolidated Plan. The need to increase affordable housing, both rental and for sale, is one of the main goals of both the Final Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY2006-2007 City of San Leandro Page 24