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Executive Summary <br />• Advocate to ensure that One-Stop Career Centers established under Alameda <br />County Welfare reform efforts and other County training/placement programs <br />provide information and referrals, job listings and resume services in a manner that <br />meets homeless peoples needs. <br />• Explore the benefit and feasibility of required homeless hiring targets or <br />preferences in awarding contracts to contractors, service providers and housing <br />operators that employ homeless and formerly homeless people. <br />Support Services Priorities <br />• Maintain and improve existing multiservice centers. Expand resources for a <br />package of basic services. <br />• Establish two new multiservice centers, in underserved parts of the County. <br />• Expand homeless people's access to government food programs. Provide training <br />and technical assistance materials to providers in all parts of the county on food <br />program eligibility criteria and how and where to apply. <br />• Provide affordable transportation to homeless people to further their service, <br />vocational, and housing goals. <br />• Provide more free or low cost quality child care in coordination with meeting the <br />housing, vocational, and service objectives of homeless families. <br />Integrated Health Care Priorities <br />• Maintain and support existing crisis management, outreach and intervention <br />programs which provide mobile health services and referrals at parks and homeless <br />service sites all over the county. <br />• Maintain and support the existing 24-hour county-wide alcohol and drug crisis <br />hotline and publicize its availability. <br />• Establish at least one new multidisciplinary health team for underserved parts of the <br />county. <br />Alameda County-Wide Homeless Continuum of Care Plan: April 1997 <br />vii <br />