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HOPE lO-Year Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness in San Mateo County Stakeholder Committee, working in four topic- In addition to those with extreme and urgent focused Task Forces, met monthly from April housing needs, San Mateo County also has a through December 2005 to identify needs, barriers significant number of additional people who and challenges and to develop strategies and struggle to afford the high cost of housing in recommendations to meet the identified goal of the community and who simply need affordable preventing and ending homelessness. The Task housing. These broader housing needs are Forces and their areas of focus were: addressed in other planning processes and documents, such as the Consolidated Plan that . Community Connections: strategies to engage is developed by the San Mateo County Housing the community, build political will and and Community Development Consortium, the generate commitments to take action to solve Consolidated Plans developed by the four largest homelessness. cities in the county, and the Housing Elements that . Prevention Networks: Homeless Prevention are developed by the county strategies, including strategies relating and by each of the twenty to outreach to homeless people, Homeless cities in the county. The The HOPE Plan is focused Prevention interventions, and re-entry of HOPE Plan to prevent and on the housing needs persons to the community from institutional end homelessness is just one of people who have the care (e.g., hospitals, jails, treatment, foster care, component of an overarching most extreme and urgent etc.) . county-wide effort to address housing needs. all housing needs in the . Housing Solutions: strategies to provide a community. range of affordable housing options, including the services necessary for people to maintain (Further details about the HOPE planning process their housing and achieve greater levels of self and structure may be found in Appendix C, sufficiency, overall wellness, and connection to Chart C2.) the community. 1:'.: _~~~r' . . . Quality Outcomes: strategies for developing the data and other systems needed to ensure , - the quality and effectiveness of housing and .. p ~' . .'- ..-: . services for homeless people and people ~~~f. fi'" at-risk of homelessness, and to report to the f '. ~.--. .". community on progress in achieving the results . .'. -~~ :;~~,~ , . . ..~r'i'1:'" sought from the HOPE Plan. ;~'~ .~t::. ',...... The Leadership Committee met quarterly from ft, April 2005 through January 2006 to provide guidance and review the work of the Task Forces, outline the framework for endorsing and implementing the Plan, and finalize the Plan's findings and recommendations. In addition, Leadership Committee members made presentations to their constituencies to begin to "My home is very special, that sometimes raise awareness about the HOPE Plan. I wish I could share it with people who don't have one." By Tiffany, third grade 4