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Executive Summary . One hundred new units of permanent supportive housing are in development for adults who struggle with poverty, mental health problems and/or other chronic health conditions. Ninety of these units will be created through a partnership between the San Mateo County Health Department Mental Health Services, the Human Services Agency Center on Homelessness, and the Department of Housing, and funded through the county's allocation of State Mental Health Services Act (Proposition 63) funding. . The City of San Mateo is establishing a pilot multi-disciplinary homeless outreach team under the direction of the Police Department. The team will be a unique partnership between the City of San Mateo, San Mateo County and community nonprofits. The team will reach out to and engage with those homeless people living on the streets in downtown San Mateo who have the longest histories of homelessness - offering them services (including health, mental health, and substance abuse services) as well as access to permanent housing. Preventing and ending homelessness in San A Blueprint for Action Mateo County will not be easy or simple - but it is possible. The time has come to take action to The community stakeholders who developed this end this crisis in our community. A challenging Plan are committed to immediate action to ensure period of framing the strategic direction to end that the vision articulated becomes a reality. homelessness is behind us and the next ten years Concrete steps have been identified to ensure that of realizing it will be even more challenging. the momentum developed during this planning By working together as a community, we can process continues to build and accelerate in the overcome the obstacles and ensure that safe, months and years to come. An Interim Working accessible, affordable housing is available for Group has been formed to oversee garnering everyone in San Mateo County, including those Plan endorsements, to establish preliminary in greatest need. implementation structures recommended in the Plan, and to guide efforts related to the Plan's recommendations already in progress. Although the official launch of the Plan is scheduled for mid-2006, the transition from the planning to implementation phase has already begun. Specific actions are being put in motion to bring together individuals from all sectors of the community to begin to make progress towards meeting the goals set forth in the HOPE Plan: v