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DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2012-2013 City of San Leandro Page 12 improving the rate at which people who entered services with no income exited with some. The full report is available for downloading at http://www.everyonehome.org/measuring-success.html. 2. Technical Assistance for Providers: EveryOne Home has not only worked to create outcomes and reporting on them, but also to create a forum for organizations to receive technical assistance. The EveryOne Housed Academy offered service providers throughout Alameda County an opportunity to participate in a two-day technical assistance retreat to learn more about best practices including Housing First, Harm Reduction, Trauma-Informed Services, and Strengths-Based Support, and translate those best practices into the operations and policies of their programs. The Academy's intent was to provide new strategies and tools for moving people from homelessness to permanent housing as efficiently and effectively as possible. The content of the Academy was developed in early 2012 by a Design Team consisting of service providers, a funder, a consumer, and EveryOne Home staff. Two (2) EveryOne Housed Academies have been held, the first in June 2012 and the second in March 2013. Eleven (11) agencies have completed the Academy with a direct impact reflected in the 2012 Measuring Success- Achieving Outcomes Report. The Academy has helped emergency shelters, drop-in centers, and transitional housing programs improve their exits to permanent housing. One (1) provider saw its permanent housing rates nearly double from both its men’s and women’s shelters. EveryOne Home was asked to present the EveryOne Housed Academy concept and implementation at the 2012 National Alliance to End Homelessness conference and has also received many inquiries from other counties with regard to conducting an Academy in their community. 3. Conducting the 2013 Sheltered and Unsheltered Homeless Person’s Count: On January 29, 2013, the federally mandated Point-In-Time Count was conducted in Alameda County. EveryOne Home coordinated a majority of the complex tasks associated with the count including: updating the master list of potential sites to be selected; securing participation from 32 selected sites; recruitment, training, and placement of 200 volunteers; securing and purchasing of respondent thank you gifts; and the organization of fieldwork logistics. EveryOne Home contracted with Focus Strategies for the technical support on the statistical and research portion of the Count. EveryOne HOME ensured the accurate submission of required data to HUD by the April 30, 2013 deadline. Overall, on the night of the 2013 Count, 4,264 people were homeless, a non-statistically significant change from the 4,178 persons counted in 2011. This number, as well as the full data set, will need to be considered in the context of a prolonged recession, increased poverty in Alameda County, an increase in the overall County population, and trends over a ten year time period. The report will include 2011 comparisons as well as 2003 to 2013 comparisons and is scheduled for public release by September 30, 2013. 4. Facilitating the Continuum of Care HUD NOFA submission: EveryOne Home worked in partnership with HCD to submit the proposal to HUD for $25 million in homeless assistance funding. This year HUD required local communities to rate and rank every project in the funding package. EveryOne Home developed and facilitated the local review and ranking process for both renewal and new projects. It was also responsible for substantial portions of the Continuum of Care exhibit on which the proposal package is scored. HCD staff facilitated the on-line submissions of each project