2. Opening Doors Federal Strategic Plan to End Homelessness GOAL Retool the homeless response system by transforming homeless services to crisis response systems that prevent homelessness and rapidly return people who experience homelessness to stable housing.

3. Crisis Response System Designing the System We need entire communities to embrace this philosophy and restructure their systems around it. If the old model was emergency shelter, transitional housing, and permanent housing, the new model is based on the three “A’s”: 1) Access; 2)Assessment; and 3) Assignment of Intervention.

4. Designing a Crisis Response System

5. Coordinated Assessment Definition: – Process for matching and prioritizing consumers for different homelessness interventions through the use of standardized assessment tools and referral procedures Assess- Risk of Becoming or Remaining Homeless; Housing Options, and Vulnerability to Homelessness Assessment Tier Prevention/Diversion (100%) Housing Barrier Assessment (75%) Vulnerability Assessment (25%)

6. Crisis Housing and Services Definition: – Temporary short term housing system to alleviate a consumer’s immediate housing crisis as a first step to being re-housed that includes emergency shelter, street outreach, and emergency health and other crisis services Best Practice Crisis Shelter- strong links to permanent housing, low barrier, accessible 24/7, linked to coordinated assessment, street outreach

7. Rapid Re-Housing Definition: – A permanent housing intervention designed to return households to permanent housing quickly through the use of temporary rental assistance, voluntary home-based case management, and connection to mainstream resources – RR-H is an intervention/tool not a program

8. Permanent Supportive Housing Definition: – Housing units (scattered-site or congregate) used in concert with housing vouchers and intensive wraparound services to successfully house a community’s most vulnerable people with the housing first approach – Targets and prioritizes chronically homeless based on local data

9. ROLE OF THE CONTINUUM OF CARE GOVERNANCE Collective Impact and Responsibilities

10. Collective Impact Collective Impact is created through: – Common Agenda – Shared Measurement Systems – Mutually Reinforcing Activities – Continuous Communications – Backbone Support Organizations

11. Governance The CoC Steering Committee is the membership approved lead decision-making body and board responsible for planning for the use of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HEARTH CoC resources and coordinating these funds with other relevant resources in the jurisdiction.

12. CoC Governance Responsibilities 1.Hold meetings at least semiannually 2.Invite members publicly 3.Adopt a written process to select a Board 4.Appoint committees, subcommittees, and workgroups 5.Adopt a governance charter 6.Establish systemic performance targets and monitor performance (and take action against poor performers) 7.Evaluate CoC and ESG projects 8.Establish and Operate a Coordinated Assessment 9.Establish written standards for providing assistance