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3. Deliver flexible services to support stability and independence. Culturally competent, accessible, and coordinated support services must accompany housing. Such services will help people increase their independence, improve their quality of life, and retain their housing even through crises. Over time, these services create a significant reduction in the use of costly emergency medical and social services. 4. Measure success and report outcomes. Evaluating outcomes will ensure accountability to the broader community and allow participating agencies and government entities to measure success and target resources toward best practices. S. Develop long-term leadership and build political will. Success will be achieved by establishing a leadership structure and community engagement to support creative solutions to homelessness and sustain systems change activities. Progress on last year's objectives and work that will continue into FY 2010-2011 • Secured 265 additional housing vouchers or operating subsidies. • 117 Everyone Home units came on line last year, and 262 new units are in development. • Placed 664 households into permanent housing and ensured 178 maintained their housing with new countywide Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP). • Developed measuring tools for tracking the length of time persons spend homeless within the system and will work on decreasing that time by 15% in the coming fiscal year. • Implemented a Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP), a coordinated and comprehensive county-wide program to provide homeless prevention and re-housing of homeless families and individuals. • Efforts to implement the strategy to convert 1,200 General Assistance recipients to Supplemental Social Security Income are on-going and still in the design phase. • Work continues with the City of Oakland to convert one or more Oakland hotels into permanent supportive housing. The evolution of the emergency care system has taken the shape of developing common outcomes for local funding streams within various county and city agencies. The fenders and providers are collaborating on developing contract level outcomes that support emergency shelter and service providers to evolve into housing first organizations -solving homelessness rather than managing it. For more detailed information please refer to Alameda County Everyone Home at www. everyonehome. org. Local Support of Everyone Home Plan The City of San Leandro was the first jurisdiction in the HOME Technical Advisory Consortium (HOMETAC) to adopt Alameda County's Everyone Home Plan. The Human Services Commission (HSC) approved the Everyone Home Plan on July 26, 2006. The City Council adopted the Everyone Home Plan on November 20, 2006. The City continues to work with a local expert on homelessness, Building Futures with Women and Children, to draft its own Homeless Plan to align with the major goals of the County's Everyone Home Plan, although objectives will vary according to the City's needs. The City is Action Plan - FY2010-2011 City ojSan Leandro Page 13