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HOPE 10-Year Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness in San Mateo County . Case management; . Planning for outcomes. All strategies, activities . Daily living skills; and interventions are designed to achieve a specific result: to end homelessness. Data . Behavioral health services (mental health systems should be in place to allow those who and substance abuse services); are planning and implementing programs and . Health services; and, activities to evaluate whether the results are being achieved. . Vocational services. (The Policy Shift is described in detail in . There are very few services designed to outreach Appendix C.) to the "hardest-to-serve" homeless people - those who have disabilities and who have been Like the rest of the country, San Mateo County homeless for extended periods of time. Many began to experience a significant homeless people who are "chronically" homeless are problem in the 1980's. Over the course of the next reluctant to connect to the social services two decades, city and county government, working system. There is a need to conduct mobile in partnership with non-profit housing and service outreach to engage chronically homeless providers, developed a system of shelter, housing individuals for participation in services and to and services to address the problem. (This housing help them secure housing. and service system is described in detail in Appendix E.) D. Policy Shift: A New Paradigm for While the homeless housing and service system Ending Homelessness in San Mateo County has been successful in ending homelessness for many individuals and Over the past decade, a significant policy shift families, the problem has not been solved. Each from a "continuum of care" approach to a "rapid time a family or individual leaves the emergency re-housing" approach has taken place nationally. shelter system, there is a new household waiting Federal and state governments and non-profit to take their place. In particular, people who have public policy and advocacy organizations are been homeless the longest and who have the most calling for a new approach to homelessness that complex challenges have had the least successful aims to end the problem rather than simply outcomes. Homelessness remains a persistent and manage it, including encouraging communities to intractable problem in the community. develop 10-year plans that take a fresh approach to ending homelessness. Among the elements of this new approach are: . Rapid Re-housing. Homeless individuals and families receive assistance to move into permanent housing as quickly as possible. . Homeless Prevention. Communities work to slow the influx of new homeless people into the homeless services and shelter system, particularly by working with those systems that are discharging people into homelessness - hospitals, jails, substance abuse treatment, and foster care. Affordable housing for very low-income families: Main Street Park Apartments) Half Moon Bay) completed in 2002 10