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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/or to permanent housing. • Building Futures with Women and Children • Davis Street Family Resource Center The City also supports the following social services providers or programs whose services assist City residents from being displaced and becoming homeless. • ECHO Housing • Rent Review Program • Owner Occupied Housing Rehabilitation Grant Program The City of San Leandro is an active participant in Everyone Home, the community-based organization formed to coordinate the implementation of the Alameda County EveryOne Home Plan. The Everyone Home Plan is a comprehensive blueprint to end homelessness, including chronic homelessness, by the year 2020, in Alameda County. The Alameda County HOME Consortium (of whom the City of San Leandro is a member) 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 participating cities to identify and contact unsheltered persons. In FY 2016-2017, Abode's outreach team served _ persons, _% of whom were staying in places not meant for human habitation. Abode helped _ homeless persons find permanent housing. As lead agency for AC Impact, a program in Alameda County that provides direct access to permanent housing for people who are living on the streets, Abode ensured that —high need individuals were housed directly from places not meant for human habitation. In addition they assisted in making sure that those in their program retained their housing (a _% 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. San Leandro funded Building Futures with Women and Children to conduct street outreach for a third winter. In FY 2016 - CAPER 13 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 06/30/2018)