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8.A. - Page 12 of 64 <br />The Fair Oaks Community Center is one of San Mateo County's 7 Core Referral Agencies for the delivery of Human Services and programs and <br />services meeting basic human needs, including referrals to shelter, food, transportation and housing intervention. Under the direction of the <br />Human Services Manager, the Redwood City Human Services Agency Network, a collaboration of 40 organizations come together quarterly to <br />assess the needs of the community and provide constant feedback to the Housing and Human Concerns Committee, a nine member committee <br />appointed by City Council. <br />The Human Services Network becomes an integral part of the City's needs assessment and Action Planning process. The first step for the City is <br />to identify unmet needs and community priorities as a condition of setting funding criteria and determining rating factors for proposals to be <br />submitted for funding. For example, benefit reports submitted by non-profit organizations in a previous year showed varying degrees of ethnic <br />representation from organization to organization. An element of the funding allocation process asked each applicant to analyze the benefit data <br />and determine whether their benefit data represented the ethnic diversity of the city as a whole; if not, applicants were to develop a strategy <br />they would use to affirmatively outreach to more minority households during the new program year. <br />This assessment requires each entity to conduct a broader outreach which will require broader collaboration. The City will continue to rely on <br />the Human Services Network to enhance coordination between the service providers and public entities especially for discharge plans and other <br />services for persons who are homeless or at risk of homelessness without this coordination. <br />Consolidated Plan Public Contact Information <br />Cindy Avila <br />Housing and Grants Specialist <br />1017 Middlefield Road <br />Redwood City, CA 94063 <br />650-780-7229 <br />Annual Action Plan <br />2019 <br />OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 06/30/2018) <br />140 <br />