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<br />Section III Contextfor Planning <br />Housing Gaps . Outreach and Engagement Services (i.e., <br />Based on the numbers of homeless people and services designed to connect with people who <br /> are homeless who are not linked to the social <br />people at-risk of homelessness and the existing services system) <br />inventory of housing and shelter beds, there is a <br />lack of needed resources throughout the system: . Case Management (i.e., one-on-one <br />from emergency shelter through transitional individualized development of a goal plan and <br />housing to permanent supportive and affordable help with accessing and coordinating services) <br />housing. However, the greatest gap, relative to the . Health and Behavioral Health Services (i.e., <br />need, is for permanent supportive housing and mental health, alcohol and drug services, <br />affordable housing that is affordable for people primary health care) <br />with extremely low incomes. <br /> . Family Services (e.g., child care, parenting <br />The lack of capacity in the supportive and classes, etc.) <br />affordable housing system places additional strain . Education and Employment Services <br />on the emergency shelter and transitional housing <br />system. One of the main reasons that homeless . Benefits Advocacy (i.e., help with accessing <br />families and individuals are not able to exit the public benefits such as Supplemental Security <br />shelter/transitional housing system is because Income) <br />there is an insufficient supply of affordable and . Community Integration (i.e., help with building <br />supportive housing, which creates a bottleneck in a social support network) <br />the emergency shelter and transitional housing <br />system that will only be remedied by creating . Transportation Assistance <br />more housing. <br />(Section V of this Plan outlines this Service Gaps and Needs <br />recommendation in greater detail. Appendix G In general, the service system is not adequate to <br />provides the methodology that was used to make meet the needs of homeless people and people <br />the projections on numbers of units needed.) at-risk of homelessness in San Mateo County. The <br /> major gaps are: <br />Types of Services . Most support service programs in the county are <br />There is a wide array of services available to oversubscribed. Many programs have waiting <br />homeless people and people who are at-risk lists. Some have had to narrow their eligibility <br />of homelessness in San Mateo County to help requirements due to a lack of resources and a <br />them access housing and sustain their housing. need to prioritize those in greatest need. Some <br />Services may be provided by government agencies programs, such as short-term rental assistance, <br />(often county departments), non-profit and faith- limit the number of times a family or individual <br />based organizations, congregations, and civic may access funds in a one-year period or in a <br />organizations. Some services are available on-site lifetime. Greater service capacity and flexibility <br />and linked to housing, most of them are not. The is needed throughout the system. <br />following are the main types of services available . Many services that homeless people and people <br />in San Mateo County. (A more detailed inventory at-risk of homelessness need to secure and <br />of services may be found in Appendix E, Chart E5.) maintain stable housing are not linked to their <br />. Homeless Prevention Services (e.g., short-term housing. Non-responsive services or the need <br /> to travel off-site to access services presents a <br />rent and security deposit assistance) barrier for many homeless people. There is a <br /> need for flexible, coordinated services that are <br /> linked to housing. Particularly: <br />9 <br />