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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date:May 12, 2015 Action Agenda Item No.1 SUBJECT: Presentation on Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness 2015 Plan to End Homelessness DEPARTMENT:PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) ManagerNo ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Jamie Rohe,919-245-2496 Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness2015 Plan to End Homelessness 2015 Calculation of Unmet Need for Housing for People Experiencing Homelessness PURPOSE: To receive information about the Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness (OCPEH) 2015 Plan to End Homelessness and the 2015 Calculation of Unmet Need for Housingfor People Experiencing Homelessness. BACKGROUND: The OCPEHis a coalition of housing and service providers, local government and community members working together to endand prevent homelessness in Orange County. The Partnership’sPlan to End Homelessness is continually evolving to reflect evidence-based practices and changes in homelessness in thecommunity. The OCPEH 2015 Plan to End Homelessness incorporates the overarching goals ofthe Department of Housing and Urban Development’s “Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness”: 1.Set a path to ending all types of homelessness; 2.Finish the job of ending chronic homelessness by 2017; 3.Prevent and end homelessness among veterans by 2016; 4.Prevent and end homelessness for families, youth and children by 2020. All agencies that receive federal funding for homelessness programs arerequired to enterdata into thenational“Homeless Management Information System”(HMIS)database. North Carolina switched to a new HMIS administrator thisyear and staffanticipatesthatdata quality and completeness will greatly improve.This willenable all involvednot only to be able to understand the scale and nature ofhomelessness in thecommunity, but also to use data to evaluate program performance and to inform funding decisions.