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4. Describe consultation with the Continuum(s) of Care that serves the jurisdiction's area in determining how to allocate ESG funds, develop performance standards and evaluate outcomes, and develop funding, policies and procedures for the administration of HMIS Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department through HMIS and leadership of the EveryOne Home Performance Management Committee supports the Everyone Home initiative to establish system wide outcomes and to evaluate effectiveness of programs against those outcomes. These outcomes include shortening the period of time homeless and reducing the recidivism rates for homeless people. Consultation with Everyone Home, the Alameda Countywide Continuum of Care, on the use of Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funds, began in early 2012, when representatives from the City of Berkeley, the City of Oakland, Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department (Urban County grantee), and EveryOne Home worked together to implement the new ESG requirements in a way that would be consistent county -wide and would continue a collaboration which began in 2009 with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re- housing (HPRP) funds. This collaboration resulted in the creation of Priority Home Partnership (PHP), which was a single county -wide program to implement HPRP. EveryOne Home held a community -wide meeting at which additional consultation and public input into the use of ESG funds was solicited. A series of meetings with EveryOne Home and the ESG grantees continues through the year and a coordinated ESG program was established and began implementation in early 2013. This coordinated program will use this same structure for FY16 ESG funding. Annual Action Plan 2016 OMB Control No: 2506 -0117 (exp. 07/31/2015) 10