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<br /> Consolidated Plan REDWOOD CITY 138 <br />OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 06/30/2018) <br />AP-65 Homeless and Other Special Needs Activities – 91.220(i) <br />Introduction <br />The City will fund several programs and activities to address homeless and other special needs, more <br />specifically detailed in the AP-35 Projects section of this Plan. <br />Reaching out to homeless persons (especially unsheltered persons) and assessing their individual <br />needs <br />The City funds LifeMoves and they provide shelter and supportive services. In addition they provide <br />outreach to unsheltered persons to assist them in obtaining shelter or other services to help them end <br />homelessness. <br />Addressing the emergency shelter and transitional housing needs of homeless persons <br />The City will fund several shelters that also provide support services for homeless individuals, families, <br />youth, victims of domestic violence and those with special needs (mental illness). Support services <br />include employment assistance, counseling, health care, and housing referrals. <br />Helping homeless persons (especially chronically homeless individuals and families, families with <br />children, veterans and their families, and unaccompanied youth) make the transition to permanent <br />housing and independent living, including shortening the period of time that individuals and families <br />experience homelessness, facilitating access for homeless individuals and families to affordable <br />housing units, and preventing individuals and families who were recently homeless from becoming <br />homeless again <br />The City's core service center at the Fair Oaks Community Center is the primary intake and referral <br />location for all types of human services and homeless needs. Service providers at the center provide <br />basic safety net services. <br />Helping low-income individuals and families avoid becoming homeless, especially extremely low- <br />income individuals and families and those who are: being discharged from publicly funded institutions <br />and systems of care (such as health care facilities, mental health facilities, foster care and other youth <br />facilities, and corrections programs and institutions); or, receiving assistance from public or private <br />agencies that address housing, health, social services, employment, education, or youth needs <br />In addition to the basic safety net services provided at the Fair Oaks Community Center the City funds <br />programs that provide housing referrals/matching, rape trauma services for children and Ombudsman <br />services for frail elderly and disabled persons in community care facilities. <br /> <br /> <br />6.3.F. - Page 150