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Activities: ♦ Building Futures with Women and Children (BFWC) - San Leandro Shelter The City funded BFWC with CDBG funds to provide supportive services to homeless families at its emergency shelter, known as the San Leandro Shelter. BFWC provided emergency shelter and support services, which included 10,043 bed nights, for 230 San Leandro homeless women and children (155 women and 75 children) in crisis. Of all these 155 adult women who utilized these support services, seventy-five (75) had special needs. All 155 women also received one- on-one case management services totaling 627 sessions. Sixty (60) of the sixty-three (63) women, or 95%, who exited after staying 30 days or more, increased their level of self sufficiency in one or more of the following areas: housing, employment/income, domestic violence, substance abuse, mental health, and/or physical health. Forty-five (45) of the sixty- three (63) women, or 71% left with long-term housing/employment. In addition, the shelter offered twenty-six (26) parenting support groups, thirty-seven (37) domestic violence education groups, nine (9) life skills workshops, 127 children's therapeutic play groups, twenty-three (23) family nights, and five (5) mother and child stress reduction sessions. ♦ Davis Street Family Resource Center (DSFRC) The City also funded DSFRC with CDBG funds to provide supportive services to homeless persons. DSFRC provided an array of basic services for 202 homeless people. However, a total of 588 (unduplicated) homeless persons were served using other funding sources. Services are modified to accommodate the special needs of homeless people (e.g., providing one-on-one case management, providing food that does not need to be cooked, and access to the clothing program). Homeless persons received various services, including a week's worth of groceries, clothing and household items, PG&E utility assistance, nutrition & health education, and life skills training designed to teach the participants how to budget and shop with limited resources and fixed income. DSFRC also provided these clients with information and referral to rental assistance and shelter services, employment support services, internal linkages to counseling and childcare, free acute medical and dental care, and enrollment and referrals to affordable health care plans. In addition, DSFRC works closely with April Showers, the outreach program of the Interfaith Homelessness Network of San Leandro operated by a consortium of ten (10) churches. April Showers represents a voluntary local homeless program serving San Leandrans. In FY2007-08, April Showers provided twenty-nine (29) "showers" serving 1,679 homeless individuals, including 317 individuals who received "lunch only." This is 127 more individuals than last year. The average number of guests per "shower" also increased to fifty-eight (58) compared to last year's fifty-five (55) guests. Moreover, laundry vouchers were provided to 1,326 individuals. Priority # 6. Maintain and expand activities designed to prevent those currently housed from becoming homeless. Activities: ♦ Rental Assistance Program Through ECHO'S Rental Assistance Program funded through the City's General Fund, fifteen Final Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY2007-2008 City of San Leandro Page 9