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Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department through HMIS and leadership of the EveryOne Home Performance Management Committee is supportive of the Everyone Home initiative to establish system wide outcomes and to evaluate effectiveness of programs against those outcomes. These outcomes include shortening the period of time being homeless and reducing the recidivism rates for homeless people. Consultation with Everyone Home, the Alameda Countywide Continuum of Care, on the use of Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funds, began early in 2012, when representatives from the City of Berkeley, the City of Oakland, Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department (Urban County grantee), and the Executive Director of Everyone Home worked together to implement the new ESG requirements in a way that would be consistent county- wide and would continue a collaboration which began in 2009 with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re -housing (HPRP) funds. This collaboration resulted in the creation of the Priority Home Partnership (PHP), which was a county -wide program to implement HPRP. In order to learn from the best practices established by PHP, the group agreed to meet regularly to prepare for the submission of this Substantial Amendment and to coordinate around the use of future ESG funding via regular meetings and discussions with Everyone Home. Subsequent to those calls, on March 1, 2012, Everyone Home held a community -wide meeting at which additional consultation and public input into the use of ESG funds was solicited. A series of meetings with Everyone Home and the ESG grantees continued through the year and a coordinated ESG program was established and began implementation in early 2013. This coordinated program will use this same structure for FY 2014 ESG funding. DRAFT City of San Leandro Annual Action Plan 7 2014 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 07/31/2015)P,