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6.3.A. - Page 12 <br />Redwood City Human Services Agency Network, a collaboration of 40 organizations come together <br />quarterly to assess the needs of the community and provide constant feedback to the Housing and <br />Human Concerns Committee, a nine member committee appointed by City Council. <br />The Human Services Network becomes an integral part of the City's needs assessment and Action <br />Planning process. The first step for the City is to identify unmet needs and community priorities as a <br />condition of setting funding criteria and determining rating factors for proposals to be submitted for <br />funding. For example, benefit reports submitted by non-profit organizations in a previous year showed <br />varying degrees of ethnic representation from organization to organization. An element of the funding <br />allocation process asked each applicant to analyze the benefit data and determine whether their benefit <br />data represented the ethnic diversity of the city as a whole; if not, applicants were to develop a strategy <br />they would use to affirmatively outreach to more minority households during the new program year. <br />This assessment requires each entity to conduct a broader outreach which will require broader <br />collaboration. The City will continue to rely on the Human Services Network to enhance coordination <br />between the service providers and public entities especially for discharge plans and other services for <br />persons who are homeless or at risk of homelessness without this coordination. <br />Consolidated Plan Public Contact Information <br />Cindy Avila <br />Housing Specialist <br />1017 Middlefield Road <br />Redwood City, CA 94063 <br />650-780-7229 <br />Consolidated Plan REDWOOD CITY 9 <br />OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 07/31/2015) <br />