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Homelessness Prevenrion and Re-housing 3 October 5, 2009 Program Plan MOU linking program participants to community resources and mainstream benefits, and helping them develop a plan for preventing future housing instability. Financial Assistance Financial assistance is limited to the following activities: rental assistance (short- and medium-term rental subsidies); rent arrears; security deposits; utility deposits; utility payments; moving cost assistance; and, motel and hotel vouchers. The Mid-County Housing Resource Center The Mid-County HRC is a joint collaboration among the cities of Alameda, Hayward and San Leandro and Alameda County HCD, along with key regional and local service providers. Services will be provided to residents and homeless people of Alameda, Hayward, San Leandro, and adjacent unincorporated county areas. The service partners include Building Futures with Women and Children (BFWC) as the lead agency, Abode Services, Davis Street Family Resource Center (DSFRC), and ECHO Housing. Vendors include Eden Information and Referral, which will provide 2-1-1 services and a roving housing specialist for Hayward. Mid-County HRC's housing and rapid re-housing services are partially funded for three years by the cities of Alameda and Hayward and Alameda County, all entitlement grantees. The Mid-County HRC will have approximately $1.7 million from Alameda, Hayward, and Alameda County, which are all entitlement grantees, to spend for HPRP activities. BFWC's HPRP grant funding of $1.5 million must be spent on eligible San Leandro residents. The City coordinated mid-county jurisdictional meetings to elicit input for program design and budgets. The bulk of the funding will be spent on financial assistance for mid-county residents, and the remainder will be allocated for housing stabilization services to help residents maintain or attain housing. The HRC will also be able to refer clients to or access funds from other homelessness prevention and re-housing sources, including SSA/TANF, Behavioral Health Care, FEMA and Season of Sharing. The Mid-County HRC goal is to serve over 600 HPRP clients over three years. The City of San Leandro's three-year goal under the Mid-County HRC is to serve approximately 200-300 families and 150-194 unduplicated individuals who reside in the City. The Mid-County HRC will be located at Davis Street Family Resource Center (DSFRC). DSFRC was chosen because of the variety of programs offered in their multi-service agency, their long-standing connection to communities in need, their capacity to provide HPRP- related services, and experience in serving low-income bilingual (English/Spanish) populations. The HRC will be open five days a week. The cities of Alameda and Hayward will also offer housing resource services locally to ensure such services are easily accessible to their homeless and low-income residents. Linkages to Other Resources HRCs are not designed to provide the entire breadth of services that households may require in achieving housing stability. Although the Mid-County HRC has extensive in-house services, it also has systems in place to refer clients to other services as needed. A case manager will broker such services and assist the client to access them as needed. These