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CAPER 13 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 09/30/2021) partnership works to coordinate the foster care and McKinney funded housing resources to ensure youth do not fall out of housing. Alameda County is a “housing first” COC. All funded programs prioritize finding clients permanent housing as quickly as possible without any clinical pre-conditions, such as sobriety, medication compliance or utilizing a shelter or transitional housing program first. Alameda County continues to expand Rapid Rehousing and Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) throughout the County. County-wide PSH went from 2,753 in 2020 to 3710 in 2021. Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) vouchers increased from 325 in 2020 to 364 in 2021. Alameda County Measure A1 funding has been committed to 46 projects and 1003 units targeted to homeless households within those projects. Helping homeless persons (especially chronically homeless individuals and families, families with children, veterans and their families, and unaccompanied youth) make the transition to permanent housing and independent living, including shortening the period of time that individuals and families experience homelessness, facilitating access for homeless individuals and families to affordable housing units, and preventing individuals and families who were recently homeless from becoming homeless again The Office of Homeless Care and Coordination is building a Housing Crisis Response System in Alameda County that prevents homelessness whenever possible, provides dignified homeless safety net services, and maintains people in permanent homes with ongoing subsidies and services. Coordinated Entry is the front door and central organizing feature of the Housing Crisis Response System. The purpose of Coordinated Entry is to quickly assess the needs of people in crisis, connect them to available support, and track the outcomes and performance of the system. Coordinated Entry provides a standard and transparent way for the Housing Crisis Response System to effectively identify people in Alameda County who are experiencing a housing crisis and assess their needs, then prioritize and match them to the most supportive services and housing programs for which they are eligible. To do this, the County’s Home Together initiative manages a Countywide By-Name-List, which is maintained in HMIS and governed by all applicable privacy and security policies.