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CR -25 - Homeless and Other Special Needs 91.220(d, e); 91.320(d, e); 91.520(c) Evaluate the jurisdiction's progress in meeting its specific objectives for reducing and ending homelessness through: Reaching out to homeless persons (especially unsheltered persons) and assessing their individual needs The City uses CDBG funds and City General Funds to provide support services to homeless persons. The City relies and funds the following social services agencies to provide emergency shelter and/or supportive services to homeless persons so that they are able to move into transitional/interim housing, .and better yet to permanent housing. • Building Futures with Women and Children • Davis Street Family Resource Center The City also supports the following social services providers whose services assist City residents fro displaced and becoming homeless. • Neighborhood Solutions • ECHO Housing Furthermore, the City continues to be a reliable partner with Everyone Home, the community-based organization formed to coordinate the implementation of the EveryOne Home,Plan. The Everyone Home Plan is a comprehensive blueprint to end homelessness, including chronic homelessness, by the year 2020. HOME Consortium jurisdictions continued their outreach to unsheltered persons over the last year. Abode's mobile outreach team covers all of South and East County and works closely with the human services and law enforcement departments of the cities to identify and contact unsheltered persons. In the last program year, Abode's outreach team reached 539 persons, 88% of whom were staying in places not meant for human habitation. Abode helped 43 homeless persons find permanent housing. As lead agency for AC Impact, a direct access to permanent housing from the streets program, Abode ensured that 50 high need individuals housed directly from places not meant for human habitation retained their housing, a 96% success rate. Street outreach worked with law enforcement in Fremont, Livermore, Hayward and Oakland to focus on chronically homeless persons whom law enforcement had identified as highly vulnerable and having particularly problematic street behavior. The City of Albany continued to fund the Berkeley Food and Housing Project to conduct outreach in its jurisdiction. Having undergone a push to house 27 people out of its largest encampment in the prior year, Albany saw less than half of caseload it did in 2014. San Leandro funded Building Futures with Women and Children to conduct street outreach for a second winter, helping 18 finding temporary housing. The City of Hayward funded the Community Action Network to provide street outreach to 38 individuals living outdoors in its jurisdiction. In 2016 Alameda County anticipates using Medicaid Waiver funds to double street outreach capacity across the County, including the HOME Consortium jurisdictions. Addressing the emergency shelter and transitional housing needs of homeless persons Obiective: Create Suitable Living Environment Priority: Mai ntain`and improve the current capacity of the housing and shelter system, expanding transitional and permanent supportive housing, and providing services to homeless individuals and families, including integrated health care system, employment services, and other supportive services. City of San Leandro FY 2014-2015 CAPER 11 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 07/31/2015)