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�1� <br />Goal 2 — Provide Housing and Services for Populations with Special Needs <br />Priority .1- ervice- enriched transiticaal housing for homele5.s persons with .special needs <br />Strategies: <br />- 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 <br />- Provide financial assistance to support the construction of a residential center for <br />Indicators: <br />homeless men (Orange County /Chapel Hill) <br />Priority, 2.2,- Reduce, Chronic Homelessness <br />Strategies: <br />- 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 <br />- 15 units will be rehabbed /rented /built to provide permanent supportive housing <br />Indicators: <br />(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' - Increase Employmeh' t, <br />Strategies: <br />- 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 J <br />Do not submit this page <br />