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faith and business leaders, advocates, and consumers. Everyone Home has seven (7) active committees with a total membership of over 100 people representing dozens of government and non-profit agencies. Everyone Home receives administrative funding through Alameda County's General Fund as well as contributions from Alameda County's jurisdictions, individuals, and foundations. As of June 30, 2010, the Plan has been adopted by the County and fourteen (14) cities. Piedmont will consider adoption this September. In addition, sixty-five (65) community-based organizations have also endorsed the Everyone Home Plan and are participating in implementation strategies along with the cities and county governme County -wide activities during this fiscal year included: • The biggest project of Everyone Home in this fiscal year as been coordinating the implementation of the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re -housing funds made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Six (6) jurisdictions in Alameda County received direct allocations totaling $7.5 million, and three (3) cities and one (1) non- profit received state grant awards totaling $2.9 million. In addition, Alameda County Social Services Agency allocated $1 million to the program. Partners agree to create a single countywide program called Priority Home Partnership (PHP). Individuals and families with a housing crisis call 211 and will get referred to one (1) of seven (7) Housing Resources located throughout the County—one (1) each in Berkeley, Fremont, Livermore and San Leandro, and three (3) in Oakland. PHP began serving clients in November 2009. Since then, 3,605 households have been screened at the central entry point, the 211 Line, for either homeless assistance or prevention services. 2,183 persons have been enrolled for prevention services. Assistance can include a one-time payment for back rent, utilities, ongoing rental, or help relocating to more stable housing without becoming homeless first. Of those 2,183 people assisted, assisted, over half (1,293) have exited the program; 93% (1,197) have exited with permanent housing. Whether they stayed in the housing they had or moved to something safer, more affordable or more stable, all these households who were at risk of homelessness were able to avoid it with the assistance of PHP. The homeless assistance component of the program served 584 persons, 222 of whom have exited, 67% or 149 with permanent housing. • Measuring success and reporting outcomes is a key objective of the Everyone Home plan and essential to implementing the new HEARTH Act coming our way. This federal legislation makes numerous changes to HUD funded homeless assistance programs focusing on performance measurement. As Everyone Home has been an advocate of these types of outcome driven approaches, we have spent the first half of 2010 leading a community process to identify the outcome measures to which providers will be held accountable and established numerical benchmarks tailored to different types of programs (Emergency Housing, Transitional Housing, Perm Housing/Supportive Housing, Prevention/Re-Housing, Services Only, Drop -ins, Outreach, or Food Programs). The performance measures and benchmarks along with the implementation strategy were unveiled at a community -wide meeting on May 25, 2010 and now we are moving forward with implementation. This project will begin in fiscal year 2010-2011 when funders will require all providers to track DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2009-2010 City of San Leandro Page 11