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Orange County HOME Consortium Response: The following are the strategies outlined in the CoC's 10 -Year Plan to End Homelessness to reduce Chronic Homelessness. The Orange County Consortium is adopting these strategies and incorporating them into its Consolidated Plan. • Strategy 1.1: Establish an assertive street outreach program that targets unsheltered homeless people at natural gathering places throughout Orange County. • Strategy 1.2: Establish an outreach system in Northern Orange County that uses the congregate feeding programs as a place to begin identifying those who are chronically homeless in the rural part of the county. • Strategy 1.3: Create an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team that targets those who are chronically homeless and integrates the team with the above outreach efforts. • Strategy 1.4: Ensure that both inpatient and outpatient substance abuse treatment is made available to those chronically homeless individuals who desire that service. If inpatient treatment is necessary, make sure that permanent housing is not lost during the inpatient stay. • Strategy 1.S: Identify strategies designed to address the needs for shelter and services for individuals with complex behaviors that result in being banned from kitchen /shelter services. • Strategy 1.6: Sheltered chronically homeless people will be able to move into permanent housing by receiving the services necessary for them to obtain and maintain permanent housing. • Strategy 1.7: 40 units will be rehabbed /rented /built to provide permanent supportive housing (including the use of Assertive Community Treatment Teams) for the chronic homeless in Orange County within the first 3 -5 years of the plan. • Strategy 1.8: Ensure that nonprofit developers have the organizational and financial capacity to create new housing units within the community for the chronically homeless. • Strategy 1.9: Identify a wide variety of sites for housing the chronically homeless throughout the county in the most fair and effective places within the county. • Strategy 1.10: Establish a rigorous evaluation mechanism that measures the cost of individuals who are chronically homeless before and after they are receiving housing and support services. 4. Homelessness Prevention —The jurisdiction must describe its planned action steps over the next year to address the individual and families with children at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Y 2013 -2014 Action Plan 43