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Annual Action Plan <br />2022 <br />7 <br />OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 09/30/2021) <br />this optimal system design that will effectively address the crisis needs of people experiencing <br />homelessness and their permanent housing needs. Community stakeholders have agreed to use the <br />racially equitable system model to guide strategic funding decisions for existing and new federal, state, <br />and local resources. <br /> <br />Describe coordination with the Continuum of Care and efforts to address the needs of <br />homeless persons (particularly chronically homeless individuals and families, families with <br />children, veterans, and unaccompanied youth) and persons at risk of homelessness. <br />Stakeholders in Alameda County have been assessing the needs of persons experiencing homelessness <br />and working to improve our response across the county since the founding of Alameda County-wide <br />Homeless Continuum of Care Council in 1997. The collaboration includes cities and Alameda County <br />government agencies representing multiple systems of care that share overlapping client populations, <br />including but not limited to homelessness services, HIV/AIDS services, behavioral health services, foster <br />care, veteran’s services, health care services, and probation/parole. Alameda Countywide Homeless and <br />Special Needs Housing Plan, now known as the EveryOne Home plan, helped to form EveryOne Home <br />into a community-based organization to implement the Plan and now serves as the County’s Continuum <br />of Care. The EveryOne Home plan is structured around three major goals: 1) preventing homelessness; <br />2) ensuring safer and more dignified conditions for those experiencing homelessness; and 3) increasing <br />permanent homes. <br /> <br />EveryOne Home coordinates local efforts to address homelessness, seeking to maintain the existing <br />service capacity, establish inter-jurisdictional cooperation, and build new partnerships that generate <br />greater resources for the continuum of housing and support services. EveryOne Home leverages <br />substantial federal, state, and local resources for homeless housing and services, standardize data <br />collection, and facilitate a year-round process of collaboration. EveryOne Home includes representation <br />from HOME Consortium jurisdictions and CDBG entitlement jurisdictions in the County, service providers <br />and advocates, homeless or formerly homeless persons, representatives of the faith community, <br />business representatives, and education and health care professionals. <br /> <br />Describe consultation with the Continuum(s) of Care that serves the jurisdiction’s area in <br />determining how to allocate ESG funds, develop performance standards for and evaluate <br />outcomes of projects and activities assisted by ESG funds, and develop funding, policies and <br />procedures for the operation and administration of HMIS <br />The EveryOne Home Results Based Accountability Committee developed system level and program level <br />performance measures in 2017, and in 2018 the RBA Committee benchmarked those outcomes and set <br />performance targets. These measures and targets now appear in county and city contracts for homeless <br />services. Performance measures include shortening the length of time homeless, increasing permanent <br />housing exits, and reducing returns to homelessness from permanent housing. These measures are <br />published quarterly through the Practitioner’s Scorecard on the Results Based Accountability page of the <br />EveryOne Home website. Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department supports