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34 <br /> Goa12—Provide Housing and Services for Populations with Special Needs <br /> � ,�.. , �.:. � <br /> Prior�ty 2_1-5ervice enr�rhed trans�tronal hotrs�ng;forhomeless",persr��is`with special nEeds = <br /> Strategies: - Promote and make public service funds available to homeless agencies that operate <br /> emergency shelters <br /> - Partner with other funding agencies to encourage the development of transitional <br /> housing(SRO's,group homes)that is service-enriched <br /> - Continue to strengthen partnership with the local Continuum of Care <br /> - Provide property acquisition funding to eligible non-profits and for-profits to develop <br /> transitional housing <br /> Output - Provide financial assistance to support the construction of a residential center for <br /> Indicators: homeless men(Orange County/Chapel Hill) <br /> . ,. ,,- <br /> P�i4rity Z.�-Reduce Chroratc Home7essness ? <br /> Strategies: - Establish an assertive street outreach program that targets unsheltered homeless people <br /> at natural gathering places throughout Orange County. <br /> - Establish an outreach system in Northern Orange County that uses the congregate <br /> feeding programs as a place to begin identifying those who are chronically homeless in <br /> the rural part of the county. <br /> - Create an Assertive Community Treatment(ACT)Team that targets those who are <br /> chronically homeless and integrates the team with the above outreach efforts. <br /> - Ensure that both inpatient and outpatient substance abuse treatment is made available <br /> to those chronically homeless individuals who desire that service.If inpatient treatment is <br /> necessary,make sure that permanent housing is not lost during the inpatient stay. <br /> - Identify strategies designed to address the needs for shelter and services for individuals <br /> with complex behavior that result in being banned from kitchen/shelter services. <br /> - Sheltered chronically homeless people will be able to move into permanent housing by <br /> receiving the services necessary for them to obtain and maintain permanent housing. <br /> - Ensure that non-profit developers have the organizational and financial capacity to create <br /> new housing units within the community for the chronically homeless. <br /> - Identify a wide variety of sites for housing the chronically homeless throughout the <br /> County in the most fair and effective places within the County. <br /> - Establish a rigorous evaluation mechanism that measures the cost of individuals who are <br /> chronically homeless before and after they are receiving housing and support services. <br /> Output - 15 units will be rehabbed/rented/built to provide permanent supportive housing <br /> Indicators: (including the use of Assertive Community Treatment Teams)for the chronic homeless in <br /> Orange County within the first 3-5 years of the plan. <br /> Priority�.3�,incre�rse Er»playment';. .. <br /> Strategies: - Current supportive employers will increase the number of homeless people they hire. <br /> - Potential employers will increase their understanding of those who are homeless and hire <br /> Attachment page F of 1 <br /> Do not submit this page <br />