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from HOME Consortium jurisdictions and CDBG entitlement jurisdictions in the County, service providers <br /> and advocates, homeless or formerly homeless persons, representatives of the faith community, <br /> business representatives, and education and health care professionals. EveryOne Home receives <br /> administrative funding through Alameda County's General Fund as well as contributions from each of <br /> Alameda County's jurisdictions. <br /> The EveryOne Home plan is structured around three major goals: 1) preventing homelessness; 2) <br /> ensuring safer and more dignified conditions for those experiencing homelessness; and 3) increasing <br /> permanent homes. <br /> In 2018, EveryOne Home updated that Plan now known as the Strategic Plan Update: Ending <br /> Homelessness in Alameda County.This Update recommends strategies and actions to reduce <br /> homelessness so that in five years no person without a permanent home would need to sleep outside. <br /> The Update focuses on 1) preventing homelessness; 2) ensuring safer and more dignified conditions for <br /> those experiencing homelessness;and 3) increasing permanent homes. The EveryOne Home <br /> Governance Charter memorializes how stakeholders govern the collective impact initiative to end <br /> homelessness and meet the federally-defined responsibilities of operating a HUD Continuum of Care as <br /> found in the Continuum of Care Program Rule at§578 and its related HUD rules, regulations and notices, <br /> direct the work of the backbone organization, and promote partnership and accountability among the <br /> various leadership bodies. EveryOne Home convenes stakeholders, develops policies for the housing <br /> crisis response system,and tracks outcomes through the following committees: EveryOne Home <br /> Membership, Leadership Board, Results Based Accountability, HUD CoC Committee, HMIS Oversight <br /> Committee, System Coordination Committee, and Youth Action Board. Stakeholders include people <br /> with lived experience, community advocates,service providers,County agencies, and City departments <br /> from the fields of housing, homelessness,social services, healthcare,criminal justice and others. <br /> In 2019, EveryOne Home with the support of HUD technical assistance from Abt Associates is facilitating <br /> a community process for housing crisis response system modeling which will lead to a model of the <br /> optimal housing crisis response system in Alameda County with specific crisis and housing inventory <br /> recommendations. Leadership across the continuum are coordinating closely to design and implement <br /> an optimal system that will both address the crisis needs of people experiencing homelessness as well as <br /> their permanent housing needs.Community stakeholders have agreed to use the optimal model <br /> developed through the system planning process to guide strategic funding decisions for existing and <br /> new federal,state, and local resources. <br /> Describe consultation with the Continuum(s) of Care that serves the jurisdiction's area in <br /> determining how to allocate ESG funds, develop performance standards and evaluate <br /> outcomes,and develop funding, policies and procedures for the administration of HMIS <br /> Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department through HMIS and leadership of <br /> the EveryOne Home Performance Management Committee supports the EveryOne Home initiative to <br /> establish system wide outcomes and to evaluate effectiveness of programs against those <br /> Consolidated Plan PLEASANTON-DRAFT 8 <br /> OMB Control No:2506-0117(exp.06/30/2018) <br />