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• Complete an organizational assessment on Building Futures' strengths and weaknesses, including staff skills assessment to determine training and/or recruitment needs • Perform a cost benefit analysis of housing development options and present Building Futures' Board of Directors and staff with external trends in the field • Determine if one of our current shelters could be converted into longer term housing, with particular emphasis on exploring the Safe Haven model, including an implementation plan with funding and a time line • Determine the viability and utility of becoming a Medi-Cal provider for mental heath services The primary outcome of the consultant's findings will help Building Futures to identify two to three viable supportive housing models that the agency is prepared to implement when the opportunities become available. Internal Capacity Building • Re-tool Case Management services to focus on rapid re-housing through training and technical assistance • Update and expand the agency's Human Resources polices, procedures and handbook to ensure compliance with stricter and more complicated regulations governing staff size of over 50 and to facilitate better human resources communications with staff • Upgrade and improve Building Futures' website to facilitate and expand outreach to clients, donors, Board members, community groups, in-kind donation acquisition, and to present a wider range of resource and referral information to homeless and/or domestic violence survivors or advocates in the greater Bay Area • Purchase and implement financial software system that will more effectively address increasingly complicated funding requirements of our 19-plus government grants and over 21 private grantors. Building Futures is uniquely positioned to expand upon the knowledge it has gained about permanent, supportive housing in Alameda County. The time is right for Building Futures to re-tool its organization and collaborate with new partners who can help offer more housing and increase permanent housing placement rates and reduced lengths of stay at its emergency housing programs, Consulting Services Agreement between February 20, 2008 Redevelopment Agency of San Leandro and BFWC--Exhibit A Page 3 of 3