Action Plan for Preventing and Ending Homelessness in California – for FY 2023–2024

ACTION PLAN for Preventing and Ending Homelessness in California Originally Adopted March 2021 Updated September 2023 Action Plan for FY 2020- 2021 through FY 2023- 2024 More information: bcsh.ca.gov/calich Page Intentionally Left Blank A MESSAGE FROM GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM My Administration, and the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH), remain laser focused on the importance of Housing for All – providing safe and stable homes for each and every one of us – for ourselves, for our families, for our loved ones, and for our neighbors. We continue to advance solutions and historic investments to address homelessness and housing needs through Homekey; the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program; the Encampment Resolution Funding Program; the Behavioral Health Bridge Housing program; our housing programs that are integrated into our social safety net; and other critical resources that create connections with essential mainstream supportive services and increase the availability of affordable housing. We also continue to implement profound reforms within our Medi-Cal program to better address the needs of vulnerable Californians and fully engage health programs and resources into our efforts to prevent and end homelessness. And we’re making sure that we are all accountable to driving progress and realizing the effect of these investments and reforms – our grant recipients, our partners in local government, and our state agencies and departments. The State Agencies and Departments that are members of Cal ICH are providing transparency and accountability by annually updating and refining the State’s Action Plan for Preventing and Ending Homelessness. This updated Plan, adopted by the Council in September 2023, will remain a living document. We will continue to sharpen and refine our efforts, and create greater momentum on our path forward, through collaboration across State departments and with local communities, and with a sustained commitment to racial equity and justice. California Interagency Council on Homelessness From Council Co-Chairs Secretary Lourdes M. Castro Ramírez, MA Secretary Mark Ghaly, MD, MPH California Business, Consumer Services and California Health and Human Services Housing Agency Agency As Co-Chairs for the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH), we are pleased to share with you the Fiscal Year 2023-24 annual update to the Action Plan for Preventing and Ending Homelessness in California. In February 2023, we became more established in our goals after completing one year with the Council under its new structure, which includes 20 members: four Cabinet Secretaries, 14 State Department heads, and two community leaders appointed by the State Legislature. As Co-Chairs, our role includes setting the stage for the purposeful and person-centered integration of specialized housing and homelessness programs with mainstream health and human services. The annual update to the Action Plan was unanimously adopted by the Council at its September 2023 meeting and showcases the deep partnership that we are embarking on across State government to increase shared accountability, transparency, and coordination across systems with a housing and health framework that we believe will help us to better serve Californians who are experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of homelessness. We are also stepping forward with an intentional focus on equity, cross-sector collaboration, and collective action as we work towards a future where homelessness is rare, brief, and a one-time experience. We look forward to working with our Council members and our community partners to ensure that this plan leads us to action on preventing and ending homelessness in California. California Interagency Council on Homelessness Membership Lourdes M. Castro Ramírez (Co-Chair) Dr. Mark Ghaly (Co-Chair) Secretary, California Business, Consumer Services Secretary, California Health and Human Services and Housing Agency Agency Tomás J. Aragón Tomiquia Moss State Public Health Officer and Director, California Founder & Chief Executive, All Home (appointed by Department of Public Health the Senate Rules Committee) Stephanie Clendenin Tim Rainey Director, California Department of State Hospitals Executive Director, California Workforce Development Board Jacey Cooper Nancee Robles State Medicaid Director and Chief Deputy Director Executive Director, California Tax Credit Allocation of Health Care Programs, California Department of Committee Health Care Services Susan DeMarois Rebecca Ruan-O'Shaughnessy Director, California Department of Aging Vice Chancellor of Educational Services and Support, California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office Kim Johnson Lindsey Sin Director, California Department of Social Services Secretary, California Department Veterans Affairs Tiena Johnson Hall Tony Tavares Executive Director, California Housing Finance Director, California Department of Transportation Agency Veronica Lewis Gustavo Velasquez Director, Homeless Outreach Program Integrated Director, California Department of Housing and Care System (appointed by Speaker of the Community Development Assembly) Jeff Macomber Nancy Ward Secretary, California Department of Corrections Director, California Governor’s Office of Emergency and Rehabilitation Services William McGee Joe Xavier Administrator, Integrated Student Support and Director, California Department of Rehabilitation Programs Office, California Department of Education Acknowledgments The Interagency Council extends its gratitude to all parties that shaped this Action Plan: this includes, but is not limited to, State staff, local government representatives, advocates, researchers, and individuals who provided expertise drawn from their lived experiences. This plan was also made possible by the tireless efforts of Corrin Buchanan, CalHHS Deputy Secretary for Policy and Strategic Planning, and Dhakshike Wickrema, BCSH Deputy Secretary for Homelessness. We are grateful for the work of consultant Matthew Doherty, for supporting the development, implementation, and updating of this Action Plan, to guide and direct our efforts to prevent and end homelessness across California. California Interagency Council on Homelessness Staff Acknowledgements Nykole Sakihara, Statewide Action Plan Specialist Claire Bannerman, Council Analyst Giselle Sanchez, Statewide Homelessness Policy Specialist Vevila Blossoming Bear, Cal ICH Tribal Liaison Cody Zeger, Director of Statewide Policy Sydney Bennet, Director of Research Meghan Marshall, Executive Officer Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................. 1 THE CALIFORNIA INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS .......................................................... 4 ACTION PLAN’S VISION .......................................................................................................................... 5 ACTION PLAN’S FIVE ACTION AREAS .................................................................................................... 6 Action Plan’s Objectives ........................................................................................................................................ 7 Timeframe for this Action Plan............................................................................................................................... 7 KEY PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES ......................................................................................................... 10 ADVISORY AND IMPLEMENTATION STRUCTURES TO DRIVE PROGRESS .............................................. 12 HOMELESSNESS IN CALIFORNIA ........................................................................................................... 15 DEFINING AND MEASURING PROGRESS .............................................................................................. 17 DEVELOPMENT AND UPDATING OF THIS ACTION PLAN ..................................................................... 19 OBJECTIVES, ACTIVITIES, TIMEFRAMES, AND PERFORMANCE MEASURES .......................................... 20 Action Area 1. Strengthening Our Systems to Better Prevent and End Homelessness in California .......... 22 Action Area 2. Equitably Addressing the Health, Safety, and Services Needs of Californians Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness .................................................................................................................................. 54 Action Area 3. Expanding Communities’ Capacity to Provide Safe and Effective Sheltering and Interim Housing ................................................................................................................................................................. 62 Action Area 4. Expanding and Ensuring Equitable Access to Permanent Housing in Our Communities . 72 Action Area 5. Preventing Californians from Experiencing the Crisis of Homelessness ............................... 86 Exhibit A. Organizations Represented within Stakeholder Input Conversations .......................... 101 Exhibit B. List of Acronyms and Meanings Used Within Action Plan .............................................. 102 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Vision and Intent of this Action Plan On any given night, more than 171,500 people are experiencing homelessness in California, representing more than one-quarter of all people experiencing homelessness in the United States. Making significant progress in preventing and ending homelessness across the state will require sustained and focused efforts at the Federal, State, and local levels. Through this Action Plan, the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Interagency Council) is pursuing a vision for the State’s work to prevent and end homelessness that features: • Increased leadership from the State for identifying and supporting both short-term interventions and long-term solutions: The State’s activities will continue to embrace and advance Housing First practices and approaches, as well as expand access to permanent housing opportunities, which people need to end their homelessness successfully and which can provide the platform from which they can pursue other goals, including educational advancement and employment. • Purposeful, action-oriented coordination and alignment across State agencies and programs: A primary emphasis will be placed on continuing to strengthen the alignment of housing, homelessness, and health care strategies and solutions, to ensure that all Californians, including our most vulnerable neighbors, have equitable opportunities to find home and well-being, as we all deserve. • Stronger, collaborative partnerships with public and private partners in communities: As we continue to scale the investment of State resources into local communities, we will both deliver the guidance and technical assistance that communities need to succeed and implement accountability mechanisms to ensure the effective stewardship and impact of public resources. This Action Plan orients the State’s efforts to drive purposeful, meaningful, and measurable progress toward preventing and ending homelessness in California, motivated by a vision of a future in which homelessness in California is: • Rare, because it is prevented whenever possible; • Brief, ended quickly whenever it does occur, through a focus on Housing First approaches and housing outcomes; and a • One-time experience, ended successfully the first time so that no Californians experience homelessness repeatedly. Page 1 Driving Progress Across Five Action Areas The Action Plan drives progress across five distinct, interrelated, and complementary Action Areas, inclusive of the full range of actions necessary to prevent and end homelessness. The Plan is focused on fifteen Objectives that are aligned with these Action Areas and also identifies 170 Activities that are being implemented in pursuit of those Objectives, as summarized below. Action Area 1. Strengthening Our Systems to Better Prevent and End Homelessness in California Activities focused on pursuing racial equity in response to homelessness and housing instability; engagement and partnership with people with expertise from lived experiences of homelessness; supporting interjurisdictional and regional planning; partnerships to strengthen outcomes related to education and employment; public health and disaster preparedness and response; and communications and public awareness. Action Area 2. Equitably Addressing the Health, Safety, and Services Needs of Californians Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness Activities focused on addressing health and safety needs and increasing access to State- supported services and programs for people who are experiencing unsheltered homelessness. Action Area 3. Expanding Communities’ Capacity to Provide Safe and Effective Sheltering and Interim Housing Activities focused on expanding the supply of safe, housing placement-focused sheltering and interim housing models and addressing health and services needs of people staying within such programs. Action Area 4. Expanding and Ensuring Equitable Access to Permanent Housing in Our Communities Activities focused on strengthening Housing First approaches and expanding permanent housing opportunities through development strategies, short- and long-term rental assistance, and other rehousing activities. Action Area 5. Preventing Californians from Experiencing the Crisis of Homelessness Activities focused on reducing entries into homelessness as people exit and/or receive services through State-funded programs and systems as well as enhancing communities’ capacity to provide targeted homelessness prevention and diversion services and assistance. Page 2 Implementation and Performance Measurement The Action Plan was first adopted in March 2021 and currently covers the State’s work from FY 20-21 through FY 22-23. The Plan is focused on the highest-priority strategies that will have the greatest impact, with a commitment to update Activities annually. This year’s update intends to capture the full depth of activities related to housing and homelessness being implemented in FY 23-24. The Plan requires a focus on performance measurement and analyses. Performance measures are identified for every Activity, and implementation progress will be reported to the Interagency Council on a regular basis. Cal ICH staff will use data from the State’s newly developed Homeless Data Integration System, from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and from the California Department of Education to assess the impact of Federal, State, and local efforts, to document and analyze racial inequities, and to refine this Plan’s Objectives and Activities. All Interagency Council member agencies and departments will pursue the Plan’s vision with shared accountability across State entities and with local partners, including consistent and transparent reporting of progress in the implementation of the Plan. The Action Plan Implementation Progress Report is prepared annually and is based upon reporting provided by all Interagency Council member agencies and departments. The Fiscal Year 21-22 Report was adopted by the Council in February 2023. A progress report for FY 22-23 will be available in Fall 2023. The Action Plan lays the foundation for shared state accountability that is mirrored by new mechanisms for increased local accountability. This includes a requirement for Local Homelessness Action Plans which were initiated by the state through Round 3 of the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention program. Local Homelessness Action Plans provide region- and jurisdiction-specific plans, projections, and intent for marshalling state resources towards more efficient systems, as evidenced through key metrics. The design and criteria for approval of the plan components were vetted and approved through the Interagency Council. Conclusion Driving progress on preventing and ending homelessness requires multi-pronged, multi-year strategies across sectors and systems, supported by data analyses, performance measures, and metrics to assess, refine, and revise those strategies. It also requires a focus on racial equity and an incorporation of people with lived expertise in order to address the disparities that currently exist in our systems. The updating of this Action Plan represents the State’s commitment to action-oriented, evolving, and continuously strengthened coordination across entities and programs, in pursuit of a future in which homelessness in California is a rare experience, and is brief and one-time when it does occur. How to use this Plan: It is the State’s intention that people across California will use this Action Plan document to understand the comprehensive range of strategies being implemented across State agencies and programs and to strengthen local discussions, strategies, programs, and policy decisions. Page 3 THE CALIFORNIA INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS The Homeless Coordinating and Financing member agencies and departments will be Council was established in 2017 to oversee the responsible for ensuring that the Activities implementation of Housing First regulations committed to in this Plan are implemented across State-funded programs. In January and well-coordinated. Additionally, Cal ICH 2022, HCFC was reformed as the California staff work with Council member agency and Interagency Council on Homelessness with the department staff to report to the Interagency mission to develop policies and to identify and Council on department implementation, coordinate State policies, resources, benefits, measures identified within the Action Plan, and services to prevent and end and progress toward fulfilling Cal ICH’s homelessness in California. statutory requirements. A team of over sixty Cal ICH staff oversee and implement: Current activities, and activities forecast within this Action Plan, are designed to fulfill its role to • Major grant programs, including the oversee implementation of California’s Homeless Housing, Assistance and Housing First requirements and to achieve Prevention Program (HHAP), Tribal HHAP eighteen statutory goals, including five youth- Grants Program, Family Homelessness related goals identified through SB 918 (2018). Challenge Grants (FHC), and the These statutory goals are pursued through Encampment Resolution Funding Program both the Interagency Council of state leaders (ERF); and a team of Cal ICH staff within the • The development and ongoing Business, Consumer Services and Housing management of the Homeless Data Agency. Integration System (HDIS) and implement analyses and assessment activities; The Interagency Council, co-chaired by the • Coordination of Interagency Council Secretary of the Business, Consumer Services activities across State agencies and and Housing Agency (BCSH) and the Secretary of the Health and Human Services departments to ensure alignment with Agency (CalHHS) is comprised of 18 leaders identified policy priorities and best from State agencies and departments, one practices; and community leader appointed by Speaker of • Partnerships with Continuums of Care the Assembly, and one community leader (CoCs), Federal agencies, city and county appointed by the Senate Rules Committee. governments, non-profits, housing and services providers, and other stakeholders Cal ICH staff is responsible for monitoring the to advance shared and coordinated work implementation of this Action Plan and for to improve State-funded services and working with all members to update the Plan programs. on an annual basis to tailor its Objectives and Activities. Council members are responsible Cal ICH staff also work in consultation with the for mobilizing actions and accountability Governor’s Office and with the Legislature as across their agencies and departments in subject-matter policy experts to guide and support of the Action Plan’s implementation. strengthen the State’s response to Cal ICH staff and senior staff across Council homelessness. Page 4 ACTION PLAN’S VISION In developing, implementing, and updating this Plan, the Interagency Council is pursuing a vision for its work to prevent and end In pursuing this vision, Cal ICH recognizes that homelessness that features: the response to homelessness in California must address and reduce systemic racism and • Increased leadership from the State for well-documented racial inequities in who identifying and supporting both short-term experiences housing instability and risks of interventions and long-term solutions: The homelessness, in who experiences state’s activities will continue to embrace homelessness, and in how people are served, and advance Housing First practices and and the outcomes achieved within the approaches as well as to expand access homelessness response systems. to permanent housing opportunities that people need to end their homelessness successfully, which can provide the Finally, the vision for this Action Plan is not platform from which they can pursue other simply to make changes in how State goals, including educational agencies do their work. Rather, this Action advancement and employment. Plan seeks to orient the totality of the State’s efforts to drive purposeful, meaningful, and • Purposeful, action-oriented coordination measurable progress. The development and and alignment across State agencies and implementation of this Action Plan creates programs: A primary emphasis will be commitments and structures through which placed on continuing to strengthen the the State will relentlessly pursue that vision and alignment of housing, homelessness, and will support communities to achieve this vision health care strategies and solutions, to as well. It creates shared accountability with ensure that all Californians, including our State departments and local partners as well most vulnerable neighbors, have equitable as adds a sharpened focus on data and opportunities to find home and well-being, analyses that will help assess progress and as we all deserve. inform adjustments to strengthen strategies. • Stronger, collaborative partnerships with public and private partners in The collaborative development of this Action communities: As we continue to scale the Plan has been driven by a vision of a future in investment of State resources into local which homelessness in California is rare, communities, we will both deliver the because it is prevented whenever possible; guidance and technical assistance that brief, ended quickly whenever it does occur, communities need to succeed and through a focus on Housing First approaches implement accountability mechanisms to and housing outcomes; and a one-time ensure the effective stewardship and experience, ended successfully the first time, impact of public resources. so that no Californians experience homelessness repeatedly. Page 5 ACTION PLAN’S FIVE ACTION AREAS The Action Plan will drive progress across five distinct but interrelated and complementary Action Areas, inclusive of the full range of actions necessary to prevent and end homelessness. Action Area 1. Strengthening Our Systems to Better Prevent and End Homelessness in California Activities focused on pursuing racial equity in response to homelessness and housing instability; engagement and partnership with people with expertise from lived experiences of homelessness; supporting interjurisdictional and regional planning; partnerships to strengthen outcomes related to education and employment; public health and disaster preparedness and response; and communications and public awareness. Action Area 2. Equitably Addressing the Health, Safety, and Services Needs of Californians Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness Activities focused on addressing health and safety needs and increasing access to State- supported services and programs for people who are experiencing unsheltered homelessness. Action Area 3. Expanding Communities’ Capacity to Provide Safe and Effective Sheltering and Interim Housing Activities focused on expanding the supply of safe, housing placement-focused sheltering and interim housing models and addressing health and services needs of people staying within such programs. Action Area 4. Expanding and Ensuring Equitable Access to Permanent Housing in Our Communities Activities focused on strengthening Housing First approaches and expanding permanent housing opportunities through development strategies, short- and long-term rental assistance, and other rehousing activities. Action Area 5. Preventing Californians from Experiencing the Crisis of Homelessness Activities focused on reducing entries into homelessness as people exit and/or receive services through State-funded programs and systems as well as enhancing communities’ capacity to provide targeted homelessness prevention and diversion services and assistance. Page 6 Photo courtesy of The Danco Group Action Plan’s Objectives Timeframe for this Action Plan The Action Plan identifies a total of fifteen Objectives to be prioritized and pursued The Action Plan was originally adopted in across the five Action Areas, as described March 2021 to cover the State’s FY 20-21 below. For each Objective, the Action Plan through FY 22-23, and an updated version was further details: adopted in September 2022. • Activities to be implemented to drive In September 2023, the Interagency Council progress toward achievement of the adopted an updated Action Plan focused on Objectives. high-priority Activities that will continue to be implemented or will be initiated during FY 23- • The Lead Department or Departments 24. responsible for implementing each Activity, which can be state agencies or The Action Plan is not intended to dictate or departments, interagency Working direct local activities or to replace local Groups, or other entities. strategic plans, but instead seeks to focus on • The Collaborating Departments deeply the highest-priority strategies and efforts at the involved in implementing each Activity. State level that will have the greatest impact. • Timeframes for each Activity. The Action Plan Implementation Progress • Performance Measurements that will be Report for Fiscal Year 21-22 was adopted by used to assess progress and impact, the Council in February 2023, and a progress including process measures, output report for FY 22-23 will be available in Fall 2023. measures, and, when possible, outcome measures. Page 7 ACTION AREA 1 ACTION AREA 2 Strengthening Our Systems to Better Prevent Equitably Addressing the Health, Safety, and and End Homelessness in California Services Needs of Californians Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness  Objective 1 Assess and strengthen racial equity-  Objective 7 focused activities of State agencies, and local Support California communities to strengthen agencies and organizations receiving outreach efforts and to address the health and State funding, and ensure those activities are safety needs of people experiencing unsheltered informed by and accountable to communities homelessness. most impacted by housing instability and homelessness.  Objective 8 Provide equitable access to essential State-  Objective 2 supported programs and services, including health Ensure that State and local planning efforts share and behavioral health care services, for people power and decision-making with people with lived experiencing unsheltered homelessness. expertise who are fully representative of communities most impacted by homelessness, including Tribal Nations. ACTION AREA 3  Objective 3 Expanding Communities’ Capacity to Provide Incentivize and support cross-sector, Safe and Effective Sheltering and Interim interjurisdictional, and regional planning, decision- Housing making, and accountability.  Objective 9  Objective 4 Partner with communities to implement innovative Improve access to education and employment approaches and expand the supply of safe, services and opportunities for people at risk of, accessible, housing-placement focused, and experiencing, and/or exiting homelessness. trauma-informed sheltering and interim housing models for Californians experiencing homelessness.  Objective 5 Support California communities to develop disaster  Objective 10 preparedness plans and public health strategies Align and integrate State resources, including more inclusive of the needs of people health and behavioral health care resources, experiencing homelessness. within temporary shelter and interim housing options, to reduce harm and to better address the  Objective 6 health and services needs among Californians Increase public awareness of the State’s experiencing homelessness. homelessness strategies, successes, challenges, and the importance of Housing First approaches, trauma-informed care, and other best practices. Page 8 ACTION AREA 4 Expanding and Ensuring Equitable Access to ACTION AREA 5 Permanent Housing in Our Communities Preventing Californians from Experiencing the Crisis of Homelessness  Objective 11 Strengthen understanding and implementation of  Objective 14 Housing First approaches and other best practices Reduce entries into homelessness as people exit in order to equitably and urgently rehouse people and/or receive services from State-funded settings from temporary settings and from unsheltered and systems, addressing racial inequities within risks homelessness. of experiencing homelessness, and including a focus on people re-entering communities from jails  Objective 12 and prisons, young adults connected to the child Support the development and creation of welfare and/or juvenile justice systems, and people affordable and supportive housing opportunities, exiting health care settings and programs. paired with appropriate health and behavioral health care resources, that are accessible and  Objective 15 culturally responsive to people exiting Enhance communities’ capacity to provide homelessness, to people at lowest income levels, targeted homelessness prevention interventions and to people from historically marginalized and to successfully divert people from entering communities. shelter or experiencing unsheltered homelessness.  Objective 13 Improve access to flexible short-term and longer- term forms of rental assistance and other subsidies to support racially equitable and successful exits from homelessness. Page 9 KEY PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES Cal ICH is committed to implementing this Action Plan in alignment with the following principles and practices. Pursuing Racial Equity and Justice The historic – and very current – causes of racial injustice that have led to racial inequities in housing stability and homelessness are clear, stark, and even deadly. Cal ICH and its member agencies are committed to understanding of these issues and taking action through the implementation of this Action Plan with a focus on racial justice and equity, particularly for Black, Brown, Pacific Islander, and Indigenous communities and Tribal Nations, as well as through the formation of an interagency Working Group focused on racial equity in housing and homelessness. Creating Solutions for the Full Diversity of People Experiencing Homelessness The Objectives and Activities are designed to support progress toward preventing and ending homelessness for all people and populations. To this end, Cal ICH recognizes that strategies, activities, and programs must be trauma-informed and tailored to address the specific needs of people with different experiences and identities. This includes youth and young adults, families with children, single adults, older adults, women, people who identify as LGBTQ+ or gender nonconforming, Veterans, people with disabilities, survivors of domestic and intimate partner violence, among other people. Seeking and Valuing the Expertise of People with Lived Experiences of Homelessness Systems, programs, and strategic decisions must be deeply informed by and guided by people who have expertise developed through their experiences of homelessness. Cal ICH will strengthen its partnerships with people with lived experience through the formation of a new Lived Experience Advisory Board, which will deeply inform the implementation of Activities throughout this Action Plan. Cal ICH will also encourage and support communities, and other Cal ICH departments and agencies, to center the voices, expertise, and leadership of people with lived experience of homelessness within their local planning, decision-making, and activities. Strengthening Housing First Approaches California has maintained a commitment to implementing homelessness and housing services using Housing First approaches in order to remove barriers and ensure people have access to the permanent housing and services necessary to support their success. In order to actualize this vision, the State must have a sustained focus on Housing First approaches within communications, guidance, technical assistance and training, and the implementation of State programs. Cal ICH members are committed to this vision and the activities in this Action Plan support the improved implementation of Housing First approaches across state programs and funding. Page 10 Balancing Crisis Response and Permanent Housing Solutions While recognizing permanent housing is the only true solution to homelessness, the thousands of Californians experiencing homelessness right now are facing urgent and dangerous crises every single day. Cal ICH and its members will balance a focus on the immediate crisis needs of people experiencing homelessness, through supportive and non-punitive approaches, with efforts to create the necessary permanent housing options at the scale needed. Advancing Trauma-Informed Care and Person-Centered Services Homelessness response systems must strengthen their capacity to implement trauma-informed care, responsive to the impacts of trauma associated with experiences of homelessness, and person-centered services that use strength-based approaches to empower people to identify their goals, make decisions regarding accessing services, and determine their pathways out of homelessness. Cal ICH staff and Interagency Council member departments will ensure that the implementation of state programs and resources will advance these and other best practices. Aligning Health, Housing, and Homelessness Strategies As the State provides historic investments into housing and homelessness programs and implements profound reforms within our Medi-Cal program, agencies and departments will strengthen the alignment of housing, homelessness, and health care strategies to ensure that all Californians, including our most vulnerable neighbors, have equitable opportunities to find home and well-being. Increasing Access to Resources for California’s Tribal Communities California is home to 109 Federally Recognized Tribes, with at least 80 petitioning for federal recognition. California Tribes have reported facing greater barriers and having fewer resources than local jurisdictions and are rarely considered in the development of local homelessness solutions. Further, Tribes experience severe disparities in homelessness and other poor outcomes, such as poverty, unemployment, substance use disorders, and mental health challenges. This is largely the impact of colonization, a failure to meaningfully include and consider Tribes, and ongoing racism. Cal ICH has learned from recent tribal engagement that state funding set asides designed for other jurisdictions are rarely accessible to Tribes, due to their unique needs and varying levels of infrastructure. To support Tribes to address homelessness in their communities, government must work to rebuild relationships with Tribes in culturally responsive ways. Tribes must be meaningfully partnered with to better understand their needs and ensure that state and local policies and programs ensure the accessibility of funding and other opportunities. Page 11 ADVISORY AND IMPLEMENTATION STRUCTURES TO DRIVE PROGRESS The execution of this Action Plan will be supported through additional advisory and implementation structures. Per AB 1220 (2021), Cal ICH has brought together an Advisory Committee that reflects racial and gender diversity, and includes the following: a survivor of gender-based violence who formerly experienced homelessness; representatives of local agencies or organizations that participate in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care Program; stakeholders with expertise in solutions to homelessness and best practices from other states; representatives of committees on African Americans, youth, and survivors of gender- based violence; a current or formerly homeless person who lives in California; and a current or formerly homeless youth who lives in California. Further, this Advisory Committee shall designate a member to participate in every quarterly Council meeting to provide a report to the Council on Advisory Committee activities. Cal ICH is forming a Lived Experience Advisory Board (LEAB), comprising a variety of individuals with lived experiences of homelessness in California. The LEAB is to inform a broad range of considerations and decisions of Cal ICH and member departments, and to help guide and assess the implementation of this Action Plan. The work towards the formation of the committee is currently underway and the establishment of the LEAB is projected for the current fiscal year. In addition, five Working Groups are to be formed, charged with implementing specific Action Plan Activities, and with developing plans for additional Activities, as described in more detail below. Each Working Group is aligned with priorities identified by stakeholders and partners during the development of this Plan, and some may be time-limited, while others may be sustained for longer terms or on an ongoing basis. Each of the five Working Groups will actively involve external stakeholders and partners alongside State staff, either in advisory roles or as official members of the Working Groups. The information provided below identifies Cal ICH member departments who are expected to be represented on the Working Groups. Representatives may also be recruited from other relevant departments who are not represented on the Council. Each Working Group will be charged with addressing racial inequities and with tailoring solutions and strategies for different populations of people experiencing homelessness, such as youth and young adults, families with children, adults, older adults, women, people who identify as LGBTQ+ or gender nonconforming, Veterans, people with disabilities, survivors of domestic and intimate partner violence, people transitioning out of corrections settings, and others. The Working Groups will develop priorities, implementation plans, and measures to guide their actions, and will assess the implementation and impacts of their efforts. Working Groups will regularly report back on their efforts and progress through the quarterly Council meetings. Page 12 The Interagency Working Groups are created by Cal ICH staff to convene state employees and community members in order to advance work and progress in the following five areas: State Youth & Racial Re -entry / Funding & Young Employment Equity Transitions Programs Adults Working Group 1 Working Group 2 Working Group 3 Working Group 4 Working Group 5 1. Maximizing Impact of State Caltrans, and other Cal ICH member departments with relevant funding programs. Funding and Programs on Homelessness Working Group State Funding and Programs Working Group 2. Racial Equity in Responses to Homelessness and Housing Comprised of State staff only, this Working Group was formed in late 2021 and is Instability Working Group charged with: Racial Equity Working Group Identifying opportunities for streamlining deployment of State funding; improving Including both State staff and external access to funding and programs for stakeholders, this Working Group was formed organizations deeply engaged with in 2022 and is charged with: historically marginalized communities, Expanding the range of strategies and including Tribal communities; documenting activities being implemented by State and projecting the cumulative impact of agencies; analyzing data and reporting State funding, programs, and initiatives on the across State programs to assess equity in creation or provision of housing opportunities access, housing interventions, services, and for people exiting homelessness; creating outcomes for Black, Indigenous, and people clearer standards for the housing and services of color; refining procurement processes to interventions to be supported by State ensure more equitable distribution of funds funding and programs; collecting and and reach into historically marginalized analyzing data on current state funding, communities, including Tribal communities; programs, and initiatives and assessing and providing guidance to support communities strengthening their equity impacts; providing to not implement inequitable policies and guidance regarding best uses of Federal, practices, including criminalization measures State, and local funding and regarding and enforcement activities; and other targeting and prioritization of people for strategies and activities to address inequities access to housing opportunities; assessing in homelessness and housing instability and addressing challenges that smaller determined by the Working Group. communities face in securing and Participating Departments implementing State funding; and other priorities determined by the Working Group. All Cal ICH Member Departments Participating Departments Cal ICH, HCD, CDSS, DHCS, CalOES, CDPH, CDCR, CCCCO, CDE, CDA, CalHFA, DSH, CalVet, Page 13 3. Tailoring Strategies for Preventing Opportunities Act regulations and programs; identifying strategies to address education and Ending Homelessness for Youth and employment goals of youth experiencing and Young Adults homelessness; increasing focus on creating employment opportunities through State Youth and Young Adults Working Group programs and funding; and other priorities Including both State staff and external determined by the Working Group of State. stakeholders, and charged with: Participating Departments Complementing youth-focused efforts across DSS, HCD, CalOES, CDCR, Caltrans, CCC, and the other Working Groups with a focus on: other State departments with relevant programs assessing the impact of State homelessness and housing programs in creating opportunities for youth and young adults; identifying and removing barriers to access to 5. Preventing Homelessness Among State-funded programs for youth-serving People Transitioning Back into organizations; providing guidance regarding Communities from Corrections assessment processes, tools, and prioritization policies that appropriately address safety and Settings Working Group other needs of youth and young adults; Transitions/Re-Entry Working Group identifying strategies for preventing homelessness among youth with connections to child welfare, juvenile justice, and other Including both State staff and external systems; and other priorities determined by stakeholders, and charged with: the Working Group. Strengthening efforts to prevent entries into homelessness for both youth and adults; Participating Departments addressing the housing navigation needs of Cal ICH, CalOES, CDSS, CCC, CDE, HCD, DHCS, people exiting corrections settings; creating CDCR clearer expectations for discharge planning to support exits to stable living arrangements; strengthening coordinated handoffs from corrections and juvenile justice settings to 4. Strengthening Employment transition services; reducing barriers to Opportunities and Outcomes for housing for people on parole/probation; People with Experiences of analyzing data drawn from HDIS and other state, federal, and local data sources to Homelessness Working Group better define barriers, inclusive or urban, Employment Working Group suburban, and rural areas of state; and other priorities determined by the Working Group of Including both State staff and external State staff and external stakeholders. stakeholders, and charged with: Participating Departments Identifying strong and promising practices, Cal ICH, CDCR, CDSS, DHCS including services, training, and social enterprise models, and opportunities for more formal evaluation activities; supporting stronger focus on employment and income within homelessness response systems; exploring opportunities to better serve vulnerable and underserved populations under the Workforce Innovation and Page 14 HOMELESSNESS IN CALIFORNIA According to the most recent estimates, on The disproportionate negative impacts of any given night, more than 171,500 people involvement in the criminal legal system, lack are experiencing homelessness in California, of quality and affordable health care, housing representing more than one-quarter of all discrimination and the continued impacts of people experiencing homelessness in the redlining policies, and a host of other socially United States, and including: determined factors have had catastrophic impacts on Black, Indigenous, and people of • Nearly 146,000 adult individuals color (BIPOC) in California. Black Californians make up about 7% of the state’s population • Nearly 26,000 people in families with yet represent nearly one-third (30%) of the children more than 171,500 people experiencing • Nearly 9,600 unaccompanied youth homelessness across the state. • More than 10,000 Veterans The persistence of these racial inequities has • Nearly 58,000 chronically homeless been perpetuated by public policies that individuals (people with disabilities with have actively worked to the disadvantage of long-term and repeated patterns of BIPOC communities and require thorough homelessness) analysis and urgent, innovative, and sustained actions to address, reduce, and eventually Among California’s homeless population, eliminate these disparities and achieve racial approximately 67% are unsheltered and 33% equity. The Council and staff at Cal ICH are are sheltered. People experiencing chronic committed to centering a focus on racial homelessness experience a higher rate of equity and justice within data analyses, within unsheltered homelessness at 76%, and are training and technical assistance efforts, and people with disabilities, one of the fastest within the implementation of State programs. growing populations experiencing homelessness. . Homelessness in California reflects stark racial inequities and the impacts of systemic racism. 2022 Point-in-Time Counts Source: The 2022 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Page 15 People Served by State’s Homelessness Response System in 2022 Drawing from the state’s Homeless Data Integration System (HDIS), as opposed to the annual Point-in-Time Counts used above, Cal ICH estimates that over 316,940 people were served by state-, locally-, and federally-funded homelessness services and housing programs that entered data into HMIS during the 2022 calendar year through services such as emergency shelters, temporary housing, rental assistance, and permanent supportive housing. Half of the estimated people served were in jurisdictions within four Continuums of Care: Los Angeles (29%), San Diego (8%), Orange County (7%) and San Francisco (6%). The demographics of those served depict a system that is serving people with a wide variety of needs, experiences, and backgrounds. Among those served, over half were either 24 and under (30%) or over 55 (20%). Additionally, the race and ethnicity breakdown reflect the demographics in the population of people experiencing homelessness in California overall, suggesting that, collectively, programs in California are reaching those groups proportionately. People Served by the Homelessness Response System in California in 2023 316,940 Individuals* 201,311 People in families with children* 106,529 Unaccompanied youth (included within the individual and family groups) 28,889 *Subpopulation estimates (i.e., individuals and people in families with children) may not add up to total population estimates (i.e., people served by the homelessness response system) due to people served with unknown household types Demographic Race and Ethnicity Characteristics White 55% • 7% Veterans Black, African American, or 27% • 47% People with disabling African conditions Multiple Races 4% • 21% Survivors of domestic Unknown 7% violence American Indian, Alaska Native, 3% • 55% men; 42% women; or Indigenous 1% transgender, Asian or Asian American 2% questioning gender, or Native Hawaiian or Pacific 1% non-singular gender; 1.7% Islander unknown gender Not Hispanic/Latinx 60% Hispanic/Latinx 40% Additional updates and changes to HDIS will improve and expand on th e state’s ability to understand the reach of its programs and the people served. For more information see https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/calich/hdis.html. Page 16 DEFINING AND MEASURING PROGRESS This Action Plan includes a strong commitment to accountability and performance measures. Each Activity includes Process Measures, Output Measures, and/or, when possible, Outcome Measures. Cal ICH launched the State’s Homeless Data Integration System (HDIS) in Spring 2021 to securely collect, match, and de-duplicate records from local Homeless Management Information Systems. HDIS allows the State of California to access and compile standardized homelessness data collected by individual Continuums of Care (CoCs) in order to make data-driven policy decisions aimed at preventing and ending homelessness in to tailor and target strategies that can support California. Specifically, it increases the State’s increased progress. ability to identify patterns of service usage across regions, specific sub-populations, and support broader efforts to identify racial and other inequalities among people experiencing homelessness. Further, recognizing the need to continue to strengthen the comprehensiveness of data, the State is Cal ICH will use data from HDIS, from the U.S. expanding HMIS reporting and HDIS data to Department of Housing and Urban include more state funded homelessness Development, and from the California programs. Department of Education, to regularly analyze, review, report upon, and publicly share key In addition, beginning with the third round of measures regarding homelessness in the Homeless Housing, Assistance and California, in order to assess the impact of Prevention (HHAP) program, Continuums of Federal, State, and local efforts; document Care, Counties, and Cities receiving HHAP and analyze racial inequities; and refine this funding have been required to submit local Plan’s Objectives and Activities. homelessness action plans which include landscape analyses, outcome goals set See the next page for these key performance against standardized measures, and strategies measures. for achieving those goals, subject to Cal ICH review and approval. The goals set within these local homelessness action plans will enable the State to better project progress to be made across the state, to monitor performance against those projections, and Page 17 Key Performance Measures: These measures have been updated to align with the California System Performance Measures (CA SPMs), pursuant to Health and Safety Code §50220.7, that help the state and local jurisdictions, including HHAP grantees, assess their progress toward preventing and ending homelessness. The number of Californians experiencing homelessness, including Veterans, people experiencing chronic homelessness, families with children, adults, and unaccompanied youth. The number of Californians experiencing homelessness for the first time each year. The number of Californians successfully exiting homelessness into permanent housing each year. The average length of time Californians are remaining homeless while accessing services. The percent of Californians returning to homelessness after exiting homeless to permanent housing each year. The number of Californians successfully placed from street outreach into emergency shelter, transitional, or permanent housing each year. The number of children and youth experiencing homelessness at some point during the school year in California, including students in families and unaccompanied students. Comparison of California’s performance across these measures to national and regional trends as well as by race and ethnicity. Note: A summary of measures for FY 21-22 can be found in the Action Plan Implementation Progress Report for Fiscal Year 21-22. Performance against these updated measures will be included in FY 22-23 Progress Report to be issued in Fall 2023. Page 18 DEVELOPMENT AND UPDATING OF THIS ACTION PLAN Under the guidance and direction of the Interagency Council, and deeply informed by planning conversations with State staff and input discussions with external stakeholders, Cal ICH staff and consultant Matthew Doherty led the development and updating of this Action Plan. Interagency Council meetings were used as critical milestones and decision points in its development. The process of developing the original Action Plan was initiated in July 2020, including surveying conversations with Council Members and the initiation of extensive external input conversations. Over the course of five regular and special Council meetings, the Plan’s Action Areas and Objectives were developed and adopted, current and planned Activities across State agencies were identified, and priorities for additional State activities based on external stakeholder conversations were discussed, ultimately leading to the Action Plan being adopted by the Interagency Council at its March 2021 meeting. Further, an updated version of the Plan was prepared during 2022 and adopted by the Interagency Council in September 2022. This most-recent updating of the Action Plan was initiated in February 2023, followed by planning conversations with State staff and stakeholder engagement activities, including two virtual input sessions, two Tribal input sessions, and discussions with local advisory bodies of people with lived expertise. A summary of input gathered at public and Tribal sessions was provided to the Interagency Council at its May 2023 meeting. The Interagency Council discussed priorities for the updated Action Plan at its May 2023 meeting, and the updated Plan will be considered for adoption during the September 2023 Interagency Council meeting. A list of organizations that have been represented within external stakeholder input conversations is included as Exhibit A, with regrets for any accidental omissions of organizations who participated in input discussions. Page 19 OBJECTIVES, ACTIVITIES, TIMEFRAMES, AND PERFORMANCE MEASURES Driving progress on preventing and ending homelessness, and toward racial equity, requires multi-pronged, multi-year strategies across sectors and systems, supported by data analyses, performance measures, and metrics to assess, refine, and revise those strategies. The development, adoption, and updating of this Action Plan are significant steps forward for Cal ICH and for the State of California. This Plan represents a commitment to action-oriented coordination across State agencies and programs and to deeper collaboration with public and private partners in communities, in pursuit of a future in which homelessness in California is a rare experience, prevented whenever possible, and is a brief and one-time experience when it does occur. The tables on the following pages document this Action Plan’s Objectives, planned Activities, Timeframes, and Performance Measures that will be used to assess the implementation of the Activities. Further, the departments with lead responsibility for implementing the Activities, their collaborating Cal ICH member departments, and other State departments that might be engaged into the Activities are clearly identified. Page 20 Action Plan Action Area 1. Strengthening Our Systems to Better Prevent and End Homelessness in California Objectives, Action Area 2. Equitably Addressing the Health, Safety, and Services Needs of Californians Experiencing Activities, Unsheltered Homelessness Timeframes, & Action Area 3. Expanding Communities’ Capacity to Provide Safe and Effective Sheltering and Interim Housing Performance Action Area 4. Expanding and Ensuring Equitable Access Measures to Permanent Housing in Our Communities Action Area 5. Preventing Californians from Experiencing the Crisis of Homelessness Page 21  Objective 1 Assess and strengthen racial equity-focused activities of State agencies, and local agencies and organizations receiving State funding, and ensure those activities are informed by and accountable to communities most impacted by housing instability and homelessness.  Objective 2 Ensure that State and local planning efforts share power and decision- making with people with lived expertise who are fully representative of communities most impacted by homelessness, including Tribal Nations. Action Area 1. Strengthening Our Systems to Better Prevent and End Homelessness in California  Objective 3 Incentivize and support cross-sector, interjurisdictional, and regional Activities focused on pursuing racial equity in planning, decision-making, and accountability. response to homelessness and housing instability; engagement and partnership with people with  Objective 4 expertise from lived experiences of homelessness; Improve access to education and employment services and opportunities for people at risk of, experiencing, and/or exiting supporting interjurisdictional and regional planning; homelessness. partnerships to strengthen outcomes related to education and employment; public health and  Objective 5 disaster preparedness and response; and Support California communities to develop disaster preparedness plans communications and public awareness. and public health strategies more inclusive of the needs of people experiencing homelessness.  Objective 6 Increase public awareness of the State’s homelessness strategies, successes, challenges, and the importance of Housing First approaches, trauma-informed care, and other best practices. Page 22 ACTION AREA 1 STRENGTHENING OUR SYSTEMS TO BETTER PREVENT AND END HOMELESSNESS IN CALIFORNIA OBJECTIVE 1: Assess and strengthen racial equity-focused activities of State agencies, and local agencies and organizations receiving State funding, and ensure those activities are informed by and accountable to communities most impacted by housing instability and homelessness. Activities Lead Collaborating Timeframe Performance Measurement Department(s) Department(s) (Type and Measure) HIGHEST-PRIORITY ACTIVITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION 1. Provide and coordinate technical Cal ICH HCD, CDSS, TA initiated and Process Measure: Documentation of various assistance (TA) focused on racial equity and will also ongoing forms of technical assistance (TA) delivered. that strives to achieve equitable access engage with Output Measure: Number of grantees SGC and outcomes within State-funded receiving formal TA. programs, by improving coordinated Outcome Measures: Specific outcome entry systems, prioritization policies, and measures will be developed and tracked for targeting strategies in order to address each TA engagement. disparities in access to services and resources. 2. Provide pre-application and other Cal ICH, HCD, All Cal ICH Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of updated technical assistance and training CDSS Member program or tribe specific guidelines and opportunities, participate in listening or Departments NOFAs to reflect tribal access. feedback sessions, and adapt program Output Measures: Number of tribal guidelines and guidance, to enhance engagement and outreach efforts, number access to State homelessness and of tribes receiving TA, number of state staff housing programs and resources, receiving training in tribal engagement and outreach efforts, and number of Tribal including linkages to workforce applications for funding. development programs and other Page 23 services, for California Federally Outcome Measure: Increase in number of Recognized Tribes. Tribes receiving awards of State homelessness and housing program funding. 3. Incorporate a focus on racial equity data, Cal ICH, via HCD, CDSS, Ongoing Process Measure: Annual documentation of analysis, goals including “equity-related State Funding CalOES, DHCS, homelessness and housing funding programs goals”, and planned activities within and Programs CDCR that have included focus on racial equity Working Group data, analysis, and planned activities. applications for State homelessness and and Racial housing-focused funding and analyze the Process Measure: Timely analysis of data and Equity Working data and information gathered in information gathered, provided to relevant Group response. Working Groups to inform planned strategies and activities. Outcome Measure: Increase the number of State programs that are including a focus on racial equity data and strategies. 4. Utilize the Homeless Data Integration Cal ICH All Cal ICH Utilization of data Process Measure: Documentation of how System to support both Statewide and Member ongoing data regarding racial inequities are being local analyses of data, focused on Departments used to inform State planning and activities. Update public documenting and understanding racial dashboard to reflect Process Measure: Conduct research on racial inequities in experiences of homelessness data on system inequities in experiences of homelessness, and provision of services and expand the outcomes by the end provision of services, and system outcomes. data in Cal ICH’s public dashboard to of CY 2024. Output Measure: Update system to align with include additional data on system HUD 2024 data standards, including updates outcomes. to the race and ethnicity categories used in the public dashboard. Page 24 ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES PRIORITIZED FOR IMPLEMENTATION 5. Continue efforts to ensure that HCD CDLAC, CTCAC Ongoing Process Measure: Data collection and developments funded through the review of the amount and proportion of Multifamily Finance Super NOFA (MFSN) housing developments and units developed in high resource Programs and other State funding sources communities. are also being developed in high- resource communities. 6. Continue to implement set-asides to CTCAC, Implemented FY 22- Output Measure: Percent utilization of ensure tax credit and bond allocation CDLAC 23 and Ongoing BIPOC and Tribal set-asides. awards are provided to Tribal entities and to BIPOC-led developers. CDLAC to continue implementing bond allocation set aside for BIPOC projects and CTCAC to implement a tax credit set aside for tribal projects. 7. NEW: Develop a holistic policy framework HCD TCAC, CDLAC Framework Process Measure: Develop funding for implementing the state’s duty to developed by Q4 of policies that encourage housing Affirmatively Further Fair Housing, FY 23-24 developments and units that increase opportunity in historically disinvested including increasing opportunity in communities. historically disinvested communities in HCD and other State funding programs. Output Measure: Timely completion of policy framework. Outcome Measure: Framework informs changes to HCD program guidelines, including the MFSN programs. Page 25 8. NEW: Continue efforts to ensure that HCD CDLAC, CTCAC On-going Process Measure: Data collection and emerging and community-based review of the amount and proportion of developers have access to State funding housing developments and units developed by emerging developers and sources. community-based developers. Outcome Measure: MFSN guidelines and NOFAs will continue to provide priorities and opportunities for emerging and community-based developers. Page 26 ACTION AREA 1 STRENGTHENING OUR SYSTEMS TO BETTER PREVENT AND END HOMELESSNESS IN CALIFORNIA OBJECTIVE 2: Ensure that State and local planning efforts share power and decision-making with people with lived expertise who are fully representative of communities most impacted by homelessness, including Tribal Nations. Activities Lead Collaborating Timeframe Performance Measurement Department(s) Department(s) (Type and Measure) HIGHEST-PRIORITY ACTIVITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION 1. Implement a Lived Experience Advisory Cal ICH All Cal ICH LEAB being formed Process Measure: Implementation of Board (LEAB), comprised of individuals Member during FY 23-24 committee in timely manner and number of with lived experience and expertise to Departments meetings held. inform the considerations and decisions of the California Interagency Council on Homelessness and member departments. 2. NEW: Inform State program policies Cal ICH, via All Cal ICH Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of related to access and service delivery to State Funding Member technical assistance or official plans or people experiencing or at risk of and Programs Departments guidance developed by State Funding and Working Group Programs working group regarding gathering homelessness with input from and input with consideration from people considerations of the needs of people experiencing, at risk of, or exiting experiencing, at risk or, exiting homelessness for the development of state homelessness. programs and policies. Process Measure: Number of programs provided guidance on incorporating input from PLE in their decision-making processes. Page 27 3. Ensure that whenever the expertise of BCSH, CalHHS All Cal ICH Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of individuals with lived experiences of Member compensation policies and practices homelessness is sought, those individuals Departments implemented. are adequately and appropriately compensated, and also seek new and additional ways to decrease barriers and to prevent any unintentional economic hardships that might result. 4. Partner with the UCSF Benioff CalHHS Cal ICH Report issued in June Process Measure: Timely release of report and Homelessness and Housing Initiative 2023 and policy briefs policy briefs and documentation of to be released dissemination efforts. (BHHI) on the California Statewide Survey throughout FY 23-24. of Homelessness (CSSH), a new study to better understand homelessness across the state of California including the release of policy briefs utilizing data from the study. 5. Proactively engage local boards and Cal ICH N/A Input discussions held Process Measure: Documentation of input committees of people with lived during Q2 and Q3 of sessions held. experience and expertise to provide FY 20-21 Process Measure: Documentation of feedback input on the development and the delivered to the Council and Advisory updating of the Cal ICH Action Plan. Committee and any follow up decisions from those discussions. 6. Convene quarterly meetings of housing CDA On-going Process Measure: Document any relevant work group of Disability and Aging recommendations and identify best Community Living Advisory Committee practices, models and benchmarks that may inform statewide initiatives. Output Measure: Dissemination of Page 28 and document any relevant recommendations to subcommittee recommendations or ideas generated. members and disseminated to the public as part of the full DACLAC meeting publications. 7. Support community partners to recruit CDPH Cal ICH Support provided in FY Process Measure: Documentation of support and hire people with current or recent 23-24 provided to community partners for peer experience of homelessness to serve as health ambassador program. peer health ambassadors to increase connection to health and social services as well as access to testing, vaccinations, and treatment for COVID‐19. 8. NEW: Recruit, select, and compensate CDPH Cal ICH LEAB will be formed in Process Measure: Document consultations people with current or recent experience Q1 of FY 23-24, then with LEAB related to CDPH’s housing and of homelessness to serve on a CDPH ongoing homelessness focused activities. Lived Experience Advisory Board (LEAB). Process Measure: Timely implementation of CDPH will consult with the LEAB on LEAB. policies and issues related to homelessness, housing, COVID-19, and health. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES PRIORITIZED FOR IMPLEMENTATION 9. Provide proactive guidance to grantees Cal ICH CDSS, HCD, Ongoing Process Measure: Timely convening of regarding the eligible uses of State funds CalOES, DHCS, Working Group with focus on this Activity. and resources for costs associated with others TBD Process Measure: Documentation of engaging people with lived experience guidance and trainings/support provided to and expertise into planning and local grantees. decision-making processes, and also encourage local grantees to hire people Page 29 with lived expertise into regular staff positions. 10. Incorporate questions regarding the Cal ICH, via CDSS, HCD, Ongoing Output Measure: Annual documentation of involvement of people with lived State Funding CalOES, DHCS, homelessness and housing funding programs experience and expertise into local and Programs others TBD that have included focus on involvement of Working Group people with lived experience and expertise planning and decision-making processes into local planning and decision-making within applications for State processes. homelessness and housing-focused funding and analyze the information gathered in response. 11. Implement recruitment efforts to support DOR Cal ICH Recruitment process Process Measure: Document recruitment representation of people with lived completed by 4th activities implemented and representation of expertise on DOR advisory board and quarter of FY 23-24 people with lived expertise achieved. committees. 12. Coordinate with local CBO systems to DOR Cal ICH Identification of any Process Measure: Document any relevant elevate local housing issues and identify relevant policy goals policy goals identified and communicate any policy goals focused on issues of completed by 3rd policy goals to relevant state agencies and quarter of FY 23-24 departments. housing instability and/or homelessness and identify opportunities for advancing such policy recommendations. Page 30 ACTION AREA 1 STRENGTHENING OUR SYSTEMS TO BETTER PREVENT AND END HOMELESSNESS IN CALIFORNIA OBJECTIVE 3: Incentivize and support cross-sector, interjurisdictional, and regional planning, decision-making, and accountability. Activities Lead Collaborating Timeframe Performance Measurement Department(s) Department(s) (Type and Measure) HIGHEST-PRIORITY ACTIVITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION 1. Develop interagency practices and BCSH, CalHHS Cal ICH Develop Process Measure: Document practices and recommendations for sharing and, where interagency governance policies implemented as well as feasible, integrating, data from health practices and data steps taken to share data. Provide governance policies recommendations on next steps in and human services, housing, and by 2023. homelessness data integration and utilization. homelessness programs, in service of data-informed and equity-anchored policy and program implementation. 2. In administering Homeless Housing, Cal ICH All Council Ongoing Process Measure: Timeline development and Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) member implementation of processes and criteria for programs funds, implement mandatory departments local homelessness action plans and outcome goals. processes that support local jurisdictions in the update, review, and / or approval Process Measure: Regular reporting to Cal of their local homelessness action plans ICH Council regarding implementation, that include key measures of the analyses, and findings. performance of their local homelessness response systems. 3. Based upon local homelessness action Cal ICH All Council Ongoing Process Measure: Timeline development of plans, HHAP outcome goals and equity- member initial statewide projections. related goals submitted by local departments Outcome Measure: Findings from monitoring Page 31 jurisdictions, develop statewide and assessment of performance. projections for key performance measures and monitor and assess performance against those projections. 4. In compliance with AB 977, add specified Cal ICH HCD, CCCCO, Ongoing Process Measure: Timely integration of State programs into Homeless Data CDSS, and other programs’ data into HDIS. Provide technical Integration System (HDIS), by supporting identified Council assistance to Process Measure: Documentation of Member communities to incorporate such additional state- technical assistance provided to state departments programs within their local Homeless funded homelessness departments and their grantees. Management Information Systems (HMIS) programs in FY 23-24 Outcome Measure: Data quality measures to provide State access to data across will be developed to ensure accurate HMIS State-funded programs and generate data entry. relevant reporting. 5. Facilitate CARE Act working group to CalHHS Facilitate quarterly Process Measure: Documentation of Working support implementation efforts for new CARE Act working Group activities. group. process to deliver mental health and substance use disorder services to the most severely impaired Californians, including people experiencing homelessness. 6. Support greater collaboration and CDPH Cal ICH, HCD Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of efforts coordination between Local Health to identify and share contact information Jurisdictions (LHJs) with local Continuum across housing/homelessness points of contact at LHJs and CoCs and/or other State of Care (CoC) organizations and with funded homelessness programs. State-funded homelessness programs. Outcome measure: Number of CoCs and/or other State funded homelessness programs and LHJs report improved relationships and Page 32 improved willingness and ability to collaborate with one another. 7. Provide technical assistance and Cal ICH CDSS, HCD Cal ICH TA ongoing Process Measure: Initiation of TA in timely guidance to grantees and partners in manner. support of cross-sector, interjurisdictional, Output Measure: Number of communities regional planning and strengthening of receiving TA. regional approaches to preventing and Outcome Measures: Specific outcome ending homelessness, considering the measures will be developed and tracked for roles of partners, including Tribes. each TA engagement. 8. Leverage HCD’s role in reviewing, HCD Cal ICH, CDSS, Planning and research Process Measure: Documentation of staff regulating, and enforcing Housing CalVet, DHCS, initiated in FY 23-24, training and development, including Elements, with Cal ICH’s interagency CDCR, CalOES on-going through documentation of research on homelessness beginning of 7th response programs and services, housing scope, to deliver a new level of technical housing element cycle element review process, and housing and assistance on homelessness to cities and homelessness accountability practices. counties, including through the Homelessness Housing Assistance and Output Measure: Development of written guidance on evidence-based best practices Prevention Program and, in collaboration in homelessness response programs and with other State departments, develop an services for housing element and regional interagency guide on actions city homelessness action plan reviewers. governments can take to address homelessness. Output Measure: Increase frequency or number of sessions of technical assistance on homelessness response programs and services to housing element stakeholders, including jurisdictions submitting housing elements and regional homelessness action plans for review. Page 33 9. Act upon the recommendation of the CDA Cal ICH, HCD, FY 22-23 and FY 23-24 Process Measure: Document actions taken in Implementing the Master Plan for Aging in CalHHS response to recommendation. California Together (IMPACT) Stakeholder Committee to prioritize a focus on ending older adult homelessness within the implementation of the state’s Master Plan on Aging. 10. NEW: Ensure an appropriate focus on CDA DOR, DHCS On-going Process Measure: Document efforts to people experiencing homelessness and integrate focus on people experiencing people transitioning from institutional homelessness through Area Agency on Aging and people transitioning from settings in the Area Agency on Aging institutional and other care settings to network and the Aging and Disability community settings. Resource Connection (ADRC) system. 11. Support data analysis leveraging public CDPH Cal ICH, Cal HHS Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of data health data (and other social analyses performed and relevance for determinants of health data) with HDIS to predicting and targeting interventions and services for individuals and communities at better inform broad policy risk of homelessness and those currently recommendations and program delivery. experiencing homelessness. 12. NEW: Implement the Home and CDA Cal ICH, HCD, FY 23-24 Process Measure: Conduct key informant Community Based Services (HCBS) Gap CalHHS interviews to inform the HCBS non-Medi-Cal Analysis to include gathering information program inventory. on affordable and accessible housing Output Measure: Establish HCBS program programs for seniors and people with inventory (including housing) for non-Medi- disabilities within the Health and Human Cal programs. Service Agency departments. Page 34 13. NEW: In compliance with SB 914 and SB Cal ICH Establish initial goals by Process Measure: Conduct stakeholder 918, improve coordination between the January 1, 2025 engagement to support the goal setting homelessness response system, youth process. service providers and victims service Process Measure: Define outcome providers by setting goals and measuring measures and gather the data related to progress towards preventing and ending the goals. homelessness for domestic violence survivors and their children and of unaccompanied women. 14. NEW: Coordinate with local and regional Caltrans Cal-ICH 2023-24 Process Measure: Documentation of transit agencies to share best practices guidance and best practices for transit and lessons learned on how to effectively professionals. respond to the needs of people Output Measure: Number of transit agencies experiencing homelessness on and in attendance at meeting. around transit and transportation property and on how to partner with local and regional governments and Continuums of Care and coordinate with Caltrans. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES PRIORITIZED FOR IMPLEMENTATION 15. NEW: Monitor implementation of key HCD Develop monitoring Process Measure: Develop tracking system program commitments from compliant program FY 23-24 and business process to target key program housing elements to ensure that commitments that seek to rezone sites and remove constraints to development when jurisdictions are implementing the implementing policies to increase permanent appropriate land use and development housing solutions. Verify compliance with AB policies to address homelessness. 2339 (2022) and SB 2 (2007) requirements. Output Measure: Review programs for 50% of Page 35 the jurisdictions in FY 23-24, increasing to 100% by FY 25-26. 16. Enhance the availability of data CDPH Cal ICH On-going Process Measure: Documentation of regarding mortality among people activities to enhance data availability. experiencing homelessness through increased data sharing, technical assistance and training, and the evaluation and dissemination of findings to inform and strengthen public health interventions to reduce such mortality. 17. Support and strengthen expectation of Cal ICH HCD, CDSS, Ongoing Cal ICH Process Measure: Documentation of joint CoC-county-city-Tribal planning and DHCS, Caltrans, review of HHAP coordination criteria developed for HHAP-3 coordination in awards and others TBD implementation and HHAP-4 submissions. implementation of State homelessness Process Measure: Documentation of funding. guidance and support provided to local communities, including Tribes. 18. Provide grants and incentives that HCD Cal ICH Ongoing throughout Output Measure: Additional planning support local and regional planning and FY23-24 grants and incentives awarded to initiatives through SB 2 Planning Grants, eligible applicants in FY 23-24. Local Early Action Planning Grants, Outcome Measure: Jurisdictions’ planning for Regional Early Action Planning Grants, a variety of housing types, including housing Prohousing Designation, Prohousing for extremely low-income individuals and Incentive Pilot Program, and the families at-risk of homelessness, and people experiencing homelessness is improved. Homelessness Housing Assistance and Prevention Program. Page 36 19. Map affordable and accessible housing CDA BCSH, DOR, CDSS FY 2024-2025 Output Measure: Map of affordable and for seniors and people with disabilities. accessible housing options for seniors and people with disabilities in each county. 20. Identify and implement appropriate CDPH HCD, CDSS, Meetings held FY 23-24 Process Measure: Documentation of efforts opportunities to include Local Health CalVet, Caltrans, to assess appropriateness and implement Jurisdictions (LHJs) as eligible applicants Cal ICH, DHCS inclusion of LHJs as potential grantees for funding streams. within state funding programs. 21. Continue implementation of CalAIM DHCS January 1, 2022, Process Measure: Ongoing funding of Providing Access and Transforming through December approved former Whole Person Care Health (PATH) Initiatives to support the 2026 activities through December 2024. statewide implementation of Enhanced Process Measure: Ongoing review and Care Management (ECM) and approval rounds of applications for CITED, TA Community Supports through various Marketplace, and Collaborative Planning initiative activities, including: (1) regional and Implementation groups. collaborative planning and Outcome Measure: Increased access to, and implementation efforts to promote utilization of, ECM and/or Community readiness among managed care plans, Supports, as a result of capacity and providers, CBOs, county agencies, public infrastructure development efforts. hospitals, tribal partners, and others to promote readiness; (2) direct funding to local entities noted above to support the delivery of Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports services through Capacity and Infrastructure Transition, Expansion, and Development (CITED); (3) virtual “marketplace” that Page 37 offers hands-on technical support and off-the-shelf resources to establish implementation infrastructure needed; and (4) funding services provided by former Whole Person Care Pilot Lead Entities until the services transition to managed care coverage under CalAIM. 22. Implement the Housing and DHCS Cal ICH Earned incentive Outcome Measure: MCP’s ability to share Homelessness Incentive Program (HHIP) payments have been and receive data with local HMIS. through which Medi-Cal managed care issued to all MCPs as of Outcome Measure: Number of successfully May 31, 2023. plans (MCPs) are incentivized to develop housed members who were experiencing the necessary capacity and partnerships Additionally, HHIP is homelessness. to connect their members to needed currently in reporting housing services and to take an active period Submission 2 (S2). S2 are due on role in reducing and preventing December 29, 2023. homelessness. Implementation includes requirement that participating MCPs and In January 2024, the local partners submit a Local final submission Homelessness Plan for each county, reviews will be conducted, and the including mapping the continuum of final earned MCP services with focus on homelessness incentive funding are prevention, interim housing, rapid re- scheduled to be housing, and permanent supportive issued by March 31, housing. 2024. 23. Collaborate with the U.S. Department of CalVet Cal ICH Ongoing Outcome Measure: Tracking various veteran Veterans Affairs to strengthen the homelessness recovery and recidivism cohesion among California’s Veterans metrics. Page 38 Affairs Healthcare Systems’ homeless Process Measure: Develop regional programs and State and local processes and procedures for locating all homelessness systems. veterans experiencing homelessness and connecting them to safe housing and wealth building opportunities. Page 39 ACTION AREA 1 STRENGTHENING OUR SYSTEMS TO BETTER PREVENT AND END HOMELESSNESS IN CALIFORNIA OBJECTIVE 4: Improve access to education and employment services and opportunities for people at risk of, experiencing, and/or exiting homelessness. Activities Lead Collaborating Timeframe Performance Measurement Department(s) Department(s) (Type and Measure) HIGHEST-PRIORITY ACTIVITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION 1. Continue implementation of the High CWDB CCCCO, EDD, ETP, Funds available Process Measure: Implementation and Road Training Partnerships Resilient DAS through end of FY 25- eventual establishing specific measures in Workforce Fund Program with a focus on: 26 future, more data becomes available. industry as an organizing principle; Outcome Measure: Track and report CWDB’s building partnerships that develop skills standard performance measures, including employers need in ways that secure enrollment targets for disadvantaged stronger economic opportunities for low- populations (including people experiencing homelessness), enrollment in training, income workers; and advancing a field provision of supportive services, credential of practice that addresses urgent attainment, employment placement and questions of income inequality, wage gains. economic competitiveness, and climate change through regional skills strategies. Outcome Measure: Pilot new wellbeing performance measures, including stabilized housing. 2. Continue implementation of High Road CWDB CCCCO, EDD, ETP, Spring 2024 Outcome Measure: Enrollment targets for Construction Careers (HRCC) initiative DAS disadvantaged populations (including which supports pre-apprenticeship people experiencing homelessness), enrollment in training, provision of supportive training partnerships (including local services, credential attainment, employment Building Trades Councils, Community Page 40 Based Organizations, and Workforce placement, and wage gains. Development Boards, among others) Outcome Measure: Pilot new wellbeing covering every county in the state, performance measures, including stabilized around the state connecting underserved housing. communities with apprenticeship programs in the building and construction trades and providing supportive services and pre- apprenticeship training that enable participants to succeed in careers that provide family-supporting wages, employer-supported benefits, and career advancement opportunities. 3. Implement Homeless Innovative CDE Grant terms of July 1, Process Measures: Documentation of Programs grants to identify innovative 2022, to September implementation of grant programs and of practices to improve the educational 30, 2024 development and dissemination of tools and resources to support implementation of stability, access, support, and academic innovative practices. achievement of children and youth experiencing homelessness, and engage Outcome Measure: Increased, statewide grantees into statewide professional and shared knowledge of MIPs via the CDE website. resource development activities such as communication, outreach, training, and scaling up the model of innovative practice (MIP) for dissemination and replication. 4. Address the employment needs of CDCR CWDB and DOR Ongoing, beginning Outcome Measures: Report the following people transitioning from State Prison, in FY 23-24 metrics on a data dashboard: types of training and employment secured post- Page 41 including those who receive housing release; training participation during under the Returning Home Well initiative, incarceration; and employment duration and by connecting them to local retention measures. employment resources, such as leveraging the workforce partnership and Prison to Employment initiative, and linking them to Department of Rehabilitation programs, including the provision of Workforce Development Board stipends (if applicable.) 5. Expand and continue to implement and CCC Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of data evaluate the Homeless and Housing collection regarding student homelessness Colleges submit HHIP Insecurity Pilot (HHIP) Program, which and housing insecurity. reports to provides housing services and support to Chancellor’s Office Process Measure: Submission of an annual homeless and housing insecure students. at least annually and legislative report about the HHIP Program, HHIP colleges are including scalability recommendations. required to submit Achieve AB977 compliance. AB977 data to local Output Measure: Number of homeless or county HMIS systems. housing insecure students that received services and supports. Outcome Measures: Decrease barriers to academic success. Increase program completion rates, transfer rates, and retention. 6. NEW: Implement and evaluate the Rapid CSU Began in 2020 and Process Measure: Documentation of data Rehousing Program which provides rental ongoing collection regarding student homelessness assistance and services to students who and housing insecurity. Page 42 are housing insecure or experiencing Process Measure: Submission of an annual homelessness. legislative report on CSU Rapid Rehousing Program. Output Measure: Number of homeless or housing insecure students that received services and supports. 7. NEW: Provide emergency housing CSU Began 2021 and Process Measure: Documentation of data assistance to students experiencing ongoing collection regarding students seeking temporary housing insecurity or emergency housing assistance. homelessness. Process Measure: Submission of an annual legislative report on CSU Baseline Basic Needs Funding. Output Measure: Number of students supported with temporary housing assistance. 8. NEW: Provide emergency housing UC Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of housing assistance to students experiencing insecure/homeless students served by basic homelessness or at imminent risk of needs. homelessness. Process Measure: Submission of annual combined legislative report on Basic Needs, Mental Health and Rapid Rehousing. Output Measure: Number of homeless/housing insecure students served by Basic Needs/Rapid Rehousing programs. Output Measure: Number of homeless/housing insecure students able to secure permanent housing after receiving supports from housing programs. Page 43 9. Educate Continuum of Care (CoC) DOR Cal ICH On-going Process Measure: Document relevant organizations across California to educational activities focused on Continuum connect individuals with disabilities to of Care organizations and provide technical assistance to connect DOR office to local CoCs. DOR employment services that can be provided to people with disabilities who are being served within the homelessness response systems’ housing and services programs. 10. Provide technical assistance to enhance CDE Implemented FY 20- Process Measure: Increased technical capacity of local educational agencies 21 and ongoing assistance offerings provided. (LEAs) to provide services and supports throughout FY 23-24 Output Measure: Increase identification, and for students experiencing homelessness student outcomes regarding academic and housing instability to foster access and success. educational achievement and Outcome Measure: Increased number of LEAs progression. receiving technical assistance. 11. Implement surveys and analyses to Caltrans Cal ICH, CalVet, Ongoing Process Measure: Document processes document the extent to which people and in implemented to recruit and hire people experiencing homelessness are being coordination with experiencing homelessness into positions. CalHR hired into Caltrans’ Service Assistance Output Measure: Document estimated Maintenance positions and have access number of people experiencing to promotional opportunities and career homelessness hired into positions; through ladders and develop strategies through surveys to increase the number of people experiencing homelessness hired into partnership with the Butte County Office positions and increase the average length of of Education (BCOE) to offer employment employee retainment for these employee and services to some of the most positions. marginalized communities in California including veterans, people experiencing Page 44 homelessness, and individuals re- entering society following incarceration. 12. Explore opportunities to coordinate CWDB EDD, DOR, Local Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of service delivery at the local and regional Workforce exploratory activities, opportunities identified, levels focused on homelessness by Development and any resulting materials, trainings, and/or Boards peer-to-peer connections implemented. identifying best practices, training opportunities, and peer-to-peer connections between the Local Workforce Development Boards during regional exchanges. 13. Track and report data regarding CWDB EDD, ETP, DAS Ongoing Process Measure: Regular tracking and participation in California Workforce reporting of data. Development Board programs by people experiencing homelessness, including data regarding participants served, career and training services provided, credentials received, and employment placements. 14. Strengthen the tracking and reporting of Cal ICH, via Cal ICH, CDSS, Employment Working Process Measure: Timely convening and employment outcomes across State- Employment DOR, CWDB Group to be formed reporting of Working Group with focus on this funded homelessness and housing Working Group by 4th Quarter of FY Activity. 23-24 programs. Outcome Measure: To be determined by Working Group. 15. NEW: Provide technical assistance to CDE Ongoing throughout Process Measure: Increased technical enhance capacity of local educational 23-24 assistance and professional development agencies (LEAs) to provide services and opportunities. Page 45 supports for students experiencing Output Measure: Increase in the number of homelessness and housing instability to LEAs participating in technical assistance and foster educational achievement and professional development opportunities regarding the differences, collaboration progression. strategies, and accessibility in various ways. Outcome Measure: Increased number of LEAs receiving technical assistance. 16. NEW: Increase awareness and DOR Provide resources Process Measure: Develop resources for DOR knowledge of DOR employment staff and training to staff and provide training to coordinate about Cal ICH and DSS homelessness support individualized services for individuals who are homeless and employment plan seeking employment. services and support for cross- activities by end of FY coordination of services for individuals 23-24 experiencing homelessness. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES PRIORITIZED FOR IMPLEMENTATION 17. Monitor LEAs’ implementation of the CDE Implemented on an Process Measure: Monitoring of all LEAs via McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance annual basis, ongoing Consolidated Application and Reporting Act through annually updated federal System and documentation of other monitoring processes with prioritized LEAs program monitoring. using a CDE developed risk assessment through the FPM process. Process Measure: Analysis of schools who might be under-identifying students experiencing homelessness in order to increase attendance, participation, graduation rates to ensure academic access and success. Page 46 18. Communicate and disseminate CDE Cal ICH Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of guidance to county offices of education guidance materials created/provided. (COEs), LEAs, and partnering agencies to strengthen support for students experiencing homelessness. 19. Participate in California Higher Education CCC, CSU, UC Cal ICH Ongoing in alignment Process Measure: Documentation of Basic Needs Alliance intersegmental with the legislative engagement with stakeholders in planning of workgroup with CSU and UC systems, cycle summit. whose goals include identifying, Output Measure: Summit sessions focused on developing and promoting student addressing college student housing insecurity centered policies and practices to and homelessness. increase the academic and personal success of students experiencing basic needs insecurities. 20. Host second biennial CHEBNA CCC, CSU, UC Summit Summer 2024 Output Measure: Summit attendance by intersegmental event targeting basic higher education and community-based needs practitioners from across all three organizations. segments of California higher education. 21. Provide guidance and support to CWDB DOR, CDE, CDSS, Ongoing Process Measure: Document efforts to ensure encourage the coordination and CCCCO application of WIOA measures of alignment of service delivery, including performance across core programs, including as applied to co-enrolled participants. strategic co-enrollment and creation of referral processes, across multiple partner programs to effectively leverage resources for maximum benefit to shared participants. Page 47 ACTION AREA 1 STRENGTHENING OUR SYSTEMS TO BETTER PREVENT AND END HOMELESSNESS IN CALIFORNIA OBJECTIVE 5: Support California communities to develop disaster preparedness plans and public health strategies more inclusive of the needs of people experiencing homelessness. Activities Lead Collaborating Timeframe Performance Measurement Department(s) Department(s) (Type and Measure) HIGHEST-PRIORITY ACTIVITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION 1. NEW: Coordinate strategies to identify Cal OES CDSS, Cal HHS, Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of timely and address the unmet needs of people BCSH, CDPH convening of this Task Force. experiencing homelessness in Output Measure: Development of guidance emergency response and recovery and materials to include people efforts. Organize and convene the Priority experiencing homelessness in disaster Populations Task Force, an interagency planning and response. task force that ensures marginalized populations are included in disaster planning and response. Develop disaster and emergency response informational resources with the goal of supporting people experiencing homelessness or housing instability in a range of disaster and emergency scenarios. 2. NEW: Coordinate with state departments Cal ICH CDSS, CDPH, Ongoing Process Measure: Distribution of guidance to share best practices and resources Cal OES materials, resources and best practices with grantees, local leadership, and through various modalities including newsletters, memos, toolkits, and webinars. organizations across California to support the needs of people experiencing Process Measure: Continued engagement Page 48 homelessness (PEH) in preparation of, with representative department staff to and during, times of emergency or develop shared resources and information. natural disaster in support of cross-sector planning and coordination. Create, streamline, and disseminate information, guidance, and resources to support local system leaders in advance of and during disaster to support people experiencing homelessness during disasters and emergencies. 3. Produce and disseminate the Listos CalOES BCSH, Cal ICH, Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of California Disaster Guide for People CDSS dissemination strategies, including posting Experiencing Homelessness and the guide to the CalOES website. disseminate to subrecipients, local CBOs and Tribal entities through technical assistance and training opportunities. 4. Support California communities in BCSH, CalOES Cal ICH, HCD, Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of developing disaster preparedness plans CDSS, CalHHS strategies implemented. that incorporate extreme heat and other and DPH climate risks to be more inclusive of the needs of people experiencing homelessness, including: distribution of best-practice models and toolkits; incorporating additional climate adaptation strategies into homelessness- focused Technical Assistance; assessing and documenting strong local, state, and Page 49 tribal examples to develop stronger guidance and expectations; support the inclusion of Continuums of Care into local planning efforts; and incorporating people experiencing homelessness into planning documents relating to extreme heat events and other climate risks. 5. Work with tribal and local governments, Environmental CDSS, DPH, In alignment with Process Measure: Implementation progress of and community-based organizations to Protection CalHHS implementation of the Extreme Heat Action Plan will be tracked bolster protections for unhoused Agency, Protecting through the California Climate Adaptation CalOES Californians From Strategy’s annual reporting process. populations during extreme heat and Extreme Heat: A State weather events, including: coordinating Outcome Measure: Number of Tribes and Action Plan to Build with tribal and local governments on tribal communities receiving assistance. Community Climate Action and Adaptation Plans to Resilience, adopted Outcome Measure: Number of Tribes and incorporate strategies on how to aid in April 2022 tribal communities connected to local CoCs unhoused populations during extreme and CBOs. heat and weather events; supporting training for first responders to help them anticipate the variety of illnesses associated with extreme weather, including mental health and cognitive impacts; working with local governments and local Continuums of Care to support local plans containing provisions for people who are medically vulnerable, including access to resilience centers and/or cooling centers. Page 50 6. NEW: Through coordination with the Caltrans Cal OES via Ongoing Output Measure: Number of agencies Priority Populations Task Force, ensure Priority reached during an emergency event. that people sheltering in encampments Populations Task Force on Caltrans-owned property have improved access to services and assistance during natural disasters and other disasters and emergencies. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES PRIORITIZED FOR IMPLEMENTATION 7. Explore models and promising practices HCD Cal ICH, CalOES, Recommendations Process Measure: Implement a collaborative focused on post-disaster housing needs CDSS prepared by Q4 of FY process with other State departments and of people experiencing homelessness 23-24 develop recommendations for best practices. (i.e., "Regional Centers" model.) 8. Collaborate with LEAs, state level CDE Cal ICH, CalOES Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of educational partners including divisions activities implemented, and tools and across the CDE to identify needs of guidance provided. students experiencing homelessness as the result of natural disasters and/or other emergencies, and develop strategies, resources, and tools to address those needs. Page 51 ACTION AREA 1 STRENGTHENING OUR SYSTEMS TO BETTER PREVENT AND END HOMELESSNESS IN CALIFORNIA OBJECTIVE 6: Increase public awareness of the State’s homelessness strategies, successes, challenges, and the importance of Housing First approaches, trauma-informed care, and other best practices. Activities Lead Collaborating Timeframe Performance Measurement Department(s) Department(s) (Type and Measure) HIGHEST-PRIORITY ACTIVITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION 1. Launch and regularly update a page at Cal ICH DGS, BCSH, Web page launched Process Measure: Timely launch and regular Cal ICH website that provides access to CalHHS and ongoing updating of web page and data. key data and resources regarding homelessness in California, including demographics and scale of populations, causes of housing instability and homelessness, and solutions being deployed. 2. Continue strategic communications to BCSH Cal ICH, HCD, Ongoing throughout Process Measure: Documentation of educate the public regarding the DFEH FY 23-24 homelessness-focused messaging and causes of homelessness, effective efforts. solutions, the state’s approach and programs. 3. Provide homelessness-focused Cal ICH All Cal ICH Ongoing Output Measure: Annual compilation of communications to local partners, Member communications activities focused on these including development and/or Departments topics. collection and dissemination of webinars, videos, tools, guidance, Page 52 articles, and other resources and materials, focused on Housing First implementation, strategic use of funding sources, and effective programs and practices. 4. Prepare public-facing materials and Cal ICH HCD, CDSS Utilize ongoing reports Output Measure: Annual compilation of articles based upon data and and dashboards public-facing materials developed focused information drawn from the Homeless on these topics. Data Integration System warehouse, to educate the public and Council support structures on challenges, activities, and implementation of programs and resources. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES PRIORITIZED FOR IMPLEMENTATION 5. Proactively analyze and develop Cal ICH HCD, CDSS, DHCS Ongoing Process Measure: Development of materials educational materials that interpret and and dissemination plan; incorporate communicate key findings of data and information into analysis and guidance. research focused on homelessness in Output Measure: Annual compilation of California, such as HUD’s Point-in-Time educational materials developed focused count or HDIS data on these topics. Page 53           Action Area 2. Equitably Addressing the Health,  Objective 7 Safety, and Services Needs of Californians Support California communities to strengthen outreach efforts and to address the health and safety needs of people experiencing Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness unsheltered homelessness. Activities focused on addressing health and safety  Objective 8 needs and increasing access to State -supported Provide equitable access to essential State-supported programs services and programs for people who are and services, including health and behavioral health care experiencing unsheltered homelessness. services, for people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. Page 54 ACTION AREA 2 EQUITABLY ADDRESSING THE HEALTH, SAFETY, AND SERVICES NEEDS OF CALIFORNIANS EXPERIENCING UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS OBJECTIVE 7: Support California communities to strengthen outreach efforts and to address the health and safety needs of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. Activities Lead Collaborating Timeframe Performance Measurement Department(s) Department(s) (Type and Measure) HIGHEST-PRIORITY ACTIVITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION 1. Implement and evaluate impact of new Cal ICH Caltrans Implementation began Process Measure: Timely implementation of Encampment Resolution Funding (ERF) FY 21-22 and ongoing rounds of funding and initiation of program to support local jurisdictions to evaluation activities. ensure the wellness and safety of people Output Measure: Documentation of experiencing homelessness in funding provided to Encampment encampments by providing services and Resolution Funding Program grantees and supports that address their immediate of activities supported. physical and mental wellness and that result in meaningful paths to safe and stable housing, and document effective policies, procedures, and practices for the purpose of publishing scalable, replicable best practices. 2. Create recommendations and guidelines CDPH Cal ICH, CalHHS, Recommendations Process Measure: Document the to support the provision of Water, Caltrans released by end of Q4 compilation of evidence-based Sanitation, and Hygiene (WaSH) services of FY 23-24 recommendations and guidelines. for unsheltered Californians. Process Measure: Recommendations and guidelines on encampment sanitation and Page 55 safety released. 3. Continue to provide and update CDPH Cal ICH, DHCS, Ongoing Outcome Measure: Number of requests for guidance and resources to connect Behavioral Health naloxone by homelessness service providers providers serving people experiencing Services, HCD, CDSS through DHCS Naloxone Distribution program will increase following technical unsheltered homelessness with free assistance activities around overdose overdose reversal training and supplies, reversal and prevention. as well as information to share with participants on where to access safer Output Measure: Guidance and resources regarding harm reduction measures drug use supplies and, for those who wish included in future Cal ICH guidance. to reduce or stop their use, referrals to a variety of treatment options statewide, including Contingency Management (CM) and Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD). 4. Enhance internal understanding and Caltrans Cal ICH On-going Process Measure: Documentation of capacity of staff, including implementing informational materials created and a Statewide encampment training internal training and education provided to Caltrans employees. academy, to implement Caltrans’ Encampment Coordinators Reference Guide and Maintenance Policy Directive 1001R and to strengthen partnerships and community engagement within responses to the health and safety risks created by, and the housing and services needs of, people staying in encampments on Caltrans-owned land. Page 56 5. Deploy Encampment Coordinators Caltrans On-going Process Measure: Ensure each Caltrans throughout each of Caltrans’ 12 district district jurisdiction is consistently staffed with jurisdictions to help coordinate Encampment Coordinators. community partnerships and to strengthen responses to people experiencing homelessness on the state Right of Way, including using and refining a toolkit with information about the grants and the application process for Encampment Resolution Funding (ERF) grants that address the state Right of Way. 6. NEW: Conduct annual statewide Caltrans Planned approaches Process Measure: Documentation of encampment counts and analyze data to to be determined planned approaches and any data assess effectiveness of strategies used to during FY 23-24. analyses performed. address encampments on Caltrans- Process Measure: Documentation of owned property. annual statewide encampment count conducted. Outcome Measure: Assess the safety implications of presence of encampments on Caltrans-owned property. 7. Promote strong practices for identifying Cal ICH and Cal Cal ICH, CalOES, Ongoing Process Measure: Timely convening and and engaging unsheltered young people HHS, via Youth CDSS, HCD, CCC, reporting of Working Group with focus on into available services and supports. and Young CDE this Activity. Adults Working Group Page 57 8. Work with community partners to Cal ICH and Cal Cal ICH, CalOES, Youth and Young Process Measure: Timely convening and document and assess the unique risks HHS, via Youth CDSS, HCD, CCC, Adults Working Group reporting of Working Group with focus on and vulnerabilities of unsheltered young and Young CDE, CDCR to be formed by 3rd this Activity. Adults Working Quarter of FY 23-24 adults and provide guidance to improve Group outcomes for youth experiencing homelessness including understanding implications for assessments and coordinated entry systems. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES PRIORITIZED FOR IMPLEMENTATION 9. Promote and encourage applications Cal ICH BCSH, CalHHS Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of from California communities to federal promotion efforts and guidance provided. funding opportunities and provide Output Measure: Number of California guidance regarding state funding that COCs submitting applications and being can be leveraged in support of efforts to awarded funding HUD’s Special Notice of respond to needs of people who are Funding Opportunity to Address unsheltered. Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness. Page 58 ACTION AREA 2 EQUITABLY ADDRESSING THE HEALTH, SAFETY, AND SERVICES NEEDS OF CALIFORNIANS EXPERIENCING UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS OBJECTIVE 8: Provide equitable access to essential State-supported programs and services, including health and behavioral health care services, for people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. Activities Lead Collaborating Timeframe Performance Measurement Department(s) Department(s) (Type and Measure) HIGHEST-PRIORITY ACTIVITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION 1. Implement CalAIM proposals seeking to DHCS Implementation of Outcome Measure: MCPs transitioning extend statewide the service options ECM began on successfully from WPC/HHP January 1, 2022. available under WPC and Health Homes January 1, 2022, in Statewide implementation of ECM in all counties which had counties by January 1, 2024. Program (HHP) through the Enhanced already been Care Management (ECM) program and Outcome Measure: ECM available for all providing WPC and Community Supports (formerly In Lieu of target populations by January 1, 2024. HHP. Services), including incentive funding, to Outcome Measure: Document integration ECM will be available better address the health and behavioral of Community Supports (type, scope, in all counties, and for health care needs of people who are provider types) and measures to track all ECM target unsheltered. members’ progression. populations, by January 1, 2024. Process Measure: Documentation of Technical Assistance provided to support Implementation of enhanced delivery of services through Community Supports webinars, regularly scheduled calls with all began on January 1, MCPs, ongoing monitoring, and oversight 2022, with additional activities. implementations allowed every six (6) months (January, July). Page 59 2. NEW: Explore avenues through the All BCSH, CalHHS, DMV, CalVet Ongoing through FY Process Measure: Documentation of INside Federal/State partnership to CalOES 23-24 and 24-25 government benefits and services that expand mobile government services, present barriers in access for people experiencing homelessness, and reduce bureaucracy to make more documentation of steps taken to people “document-ready” for permanent reduce or remove those access affordable housing and expedite housing barriers. connections for people experiencing homelessness. 3. Uplift lessons learned from the State’s BCSH Ongoing Process Measure: Timely Mobile Homeless Connect pilot efforts that documentation of lessons learned from provided field-based services to connect Mobile Homeless Connect. people experiencing homelessness to Output Measure: Number of people government benefits and documentation receiving assistance through State services in order to expedite placement Mobile Homeless Connect efforts. into permanent affordable housing. 4. Continued enrollment of individuals CDSS Ongoing Output Measure: Number of individuals experiencing homelessness in the experiencing homelessness utilizing the CalFresh Program and increase access to CalFresh program. food including hot and prepared meals Output Measure: Per fiscal year, pending through the CalFresh Restaurant Meals available data, an estimated total lump Program (RMP). sum of RMP redemption CalFresh dollars spent accompanied with estimate of RMP redemption CalFresh dollars spent by individuals experiencing homelessness. Page 60 5. Continue operation and enrollment of DHCS CalVet Ongoing through FY Process Measure: Continue to review and Community Services and Supports 24-25. analyze County Full Service Partnership program housing services through county- (FSP) data to determine the number of individuals, including veterans, enrolled in level plans through Mental Health Services an FSP, that are housed. Act resources. Output Measure: Number of individuals enrolled in an FSP that are housed. 6. Partner with academic institutions on Cal ICH To be initiated during Process Measure: Timely implementation of assessment of impacts of youth set-aside FY 23-24 assessment. within HHAP program, including impacts Outcome Measures: Document findings of addressing the services needs of from assessment activities. unsheltered youth and young adults. Page 61           Action Area 3. Expanding Communities’ Capacity to  Objective 9 Provide Safe and Effective Sheltering and Interim Partner with communities to implement innovative approaches and expand the supply of safe, accessible, housing-placement Housing focused, and trauma-informed sheltering and interim housing models for Californians experiencing homelessness. Activities focused on expanding the supply of safe, housing placement -focused sheltering and interim  Objective 10 housing models and addressing health and services Align and integrate State resources, including health and needs of people staying within such programs. behavioral health care resources, within temporary shelter and interim housing options, to reduce harm and to better address the health and services needs among Californians experiencing homelessness. Page 62 ACTION AREA 3 EXPANDING COMMUNITIES’ CAPACITY TO PROVIDE SAFE AND EFFECTIVE SHELTERING AND INTERIM HOUSING OBJECTIVE 9: Partner with communities to implement innovative approaches and expand the supply of safe, accessible, housing-placement focused, and trauma-informed sheltering and interim housing models for Californians experiencing homelessness. Activities Lead Collaborating Timeframe Performance Measurement Department(s) Department(s) (Type and Measure) HIGHEST-PRIORITY ACTIVITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION 1. Rapidly mobilize Homekey resources to HCD Cal ICH Acquisitions using Outcome Measure: Expand capacity of local support acquisition of sites by local California Comeback communities to end homelessness through partners, including sites planned for use Plan funding the creation of 3,500 additional interim completed by Q1 of housing beds. as interim housing on a temporary or FY 23-24 ongoing basis. Other timeframes TBD by Department 2. Continue the implementation of the DHCS CDSS Stakeholder, county, Process Measure: Continue to award BHBH Behavioral Health Bridge Housing Program and tribal entity grant funding to eligible entities for the to address the immediate housing and engagement activities implementation of bridge housing settings. continue to be treatment needs of people experiencing Outcome Measure: Number of individuals ongoing unsheltered homelessness with serious receiving housing through BHBH. behavioral health conditions by providing time-limited operational supports in various bridge housing settings, including Page 63 tiny homes and existing assisted living settings. 3. Create standards for cleanliness and care CDPH Cal ICH, HCD, Standards for Process Measure: Document the compilation protocols at congregate and non- CDSS Cleanliness and of evidence-based recommendations and congregate sites providing shelter and Care Protocols to guidelines. be released by end interim housing opportunities for people of Q4 of FY 24-25 Process Measure: Guidance on experiencing homelessness. Cleanliness and Care Protocols for shelter and interim housing programs released. 4. Partner with counties and local housing DSH Initiate expansion in FY Output Measures: Number of counties and providers to expand the availability 22-23 and implement local providers participating; number of residential treatment and interim housing over 4-year period dedicated beds. by approximately 5,000 beds statewide to support ongoing sustainable diversion and community-based restoration programs for individuals with serious mental illness who have been found incompetent to stand trial (IST). 5. Implement a wide array of State and HCD, Cal ICH, Caltrans Ongoing Process Measure: State Funding and Federal funding that support the provision CDSS, CalOES, Programs Working Group to determine timing Timing determined for of safe, effective housing-placement depending on for development of targets. each funding program funding source focused sheltering and interim housing Process Measures: Identify targets and goals State Funding and models for people experiencing for various target populations including but Programs Working homelessness, with identification of clear not limited to youth, older adults, individuals Group to determine with disabilities etc. goals and targets for the number of shelter timing for Page 64 or interim housing opportunities to be development of Outcome Measures: In future, measure supported through each program. targets performance against targets. 6. Provide technical assistance to ensure the CDSS Cal ICH, DHCS, Through end of FY 23- Process Measure: Documentation of effective rehousing of people staying in DPH 24 or sunset of PRK technical assistance efforts related to Project Roomkey non-congregate rehousing out of Project Roomkey. sheltering sites and the effective winding Outcome Measure: Number and percent of down of operations of some Project participants exiting to permanent housing Roomkey sites, therefore returning or destinations. transitioning sites to other uses while avoiding exiting people into unsheltered homelessness. 7. Provide and promote guidance, technical HCD Cal ICH Ongoing throughout Process Measure: Documentation of assistance, and enforcement of state laws FY23-24 guidance, technical assistance, and regarding land use, zoning, and other enforcement activities. requirements for emergency shelters, low- Process Measure: Send accountability letters barrier navigation centers, and related to addressing homelessness, permanent supportive housing programs. particularly permanent supportive housing and low barrier navigation centers. Outcome Measure: Approximately 68% of jurisdictions have commitments in their housing elements to amend zoning for emergency shelter parking requirements, low barrier navigation centers, and by right permanent supportive housing. 8. Implement the DSH Diversion program in DSH CDCR via CCJBH DSH Diversion Pilot Output Measure: Number of counties collaboration with local partners and through FY 25-26 with participating; number of participant slots informed by individuals with lived transition to ongoing supported. Page 65 experience to expand the number of permanent programs Output Measure: Number of counties residential treatment options to support transitioning into ongoing permanent jail diversion for individuals who have diversion programs. been deemed Incompetent to Stand Trial (IST) or likely to be found IST. Provide interim housing or facility placement with wrap around treatment and supports for up to two years, including planning for long term housing and treatment needs post-diversion participation to interrupt the cycle of criminalization of individuals with serious mental illness. 9. Implement the Community Based DSH Ongoing Output Measures: Number of counties Restoration (CBR) program in participating; number of dedicated beds; collaboration with local partners to and number of participants on an annual basis. expand the number of residential treatment options to support community placement for individuals who have been deemed Incompetent to Stand Trial (IST) on felony charges. Provide interim housing or facility placement with wrap around treatment and supports for up to two years, including planning for long term housing and treatment needs post- CBR participation. Page 66 10. Proactively promote and educate local Caltrans Cal ICH Sustain list of Process Measure: Document Caltrans’ work jurisdictions and community partners appropriate state- to promote and educate community partners regarding opportunities available through owned lands on an regarding opportunities. ongoing basis the inventory of appropriate state-owned Output Measure: Number of property leases land for property leases for the provision Promote and educate executed to be tracked and reported. of emergency sheltering or interim community partners housing opportunities. on an on-going basis 11. Implement the Returning Home Well CDCR Existing RHW funding Outcome Measure: Increased community initiative to expand interim housing available from FY 22- capacity to provide treatment and interim options for people transitioning from 23 through 24-25 housing options to target population. corrections settings up to one year of Output Measures: Demographics and other release. information regarding population served; duration between release and housing placement; duration of housing placement. Additional measures, as identified. 12. Provide technical assistance and Cal ICH All Cal ICH Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of guidance to State and local partners that Member guidance materials, training activities, and will support the continued application of Departments initiation of TA in timely manner. Housing First practices, including lowered Output Measure: Number of communities and barriers and housing-focused services State partners receiving formal TA. and supports, within sheltering and interim Outcome Measures: Specific outcome housing programs. measures will be developed and tracked for each formal TA engagement. Page 67 ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES PRIORITIZED FOR IMPLEMENTATION 13. Provide training and technical assistance DSH CDCR via CCJBH Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of training opportunities to local partners to address and technical assistance provided. the housing needs of people in pre-trial mental health diversion or CBR programs. 14. Provide guidance and coordination for CalVet Ongoing; collected Process Measure: Mapping statewide VA Grant and Per Diem grantees to 2022 GPD award list, network of intervention options for veterans enable synergy among veteran survey to be sent to experiencing homelessness. awardees in late 2023, transitional housing and permanent Output Measure: One-page information analysis of survey supportive or affordable housing. sheets for Continuums of Care identifying results by early 2024 GPD resources in coverage area. 15. Explore potential opportunities for CDCR CDCR CDSS, DHCS, Ongoing Outcome Measure: TBD (based on available and their contracted providers to directly other entities as and applicable housing programs.) refer individuals releasing from State identified Prison who are at risk of homelessness and who are on parole and become homeless to existing, applicable programs to address housing needs. Specific emphasis will be made to explore connections to housing resources for the American Indian / Alaska Native population. Page 68 ACTION AREA 3 EXPANDING COMMUNITIES’ CAPACITY TO PROVIDE SAFE AND EFFECTIVE SHELTERING AND INTERIM HOUSING OBJECTIVE 10: Align and integrate State resources, including health and behavioral health care resources, within temporary shelter and interim housing options, to reduce harm and to better address the health and services needs among Californians experiencing homelessness. Activities Lead Collaborating Timeframe Performance Measurement Department(s) Department(s) (Type and Measure) HIGHEST-PRIORITY ACTIVITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION 1. Strengthen connections between DOR DOR Cal ICH On-going Process Measure: Stakeholder meetings to employment services programming and strengthen connections with emergency emergency shelter and interim housing shelter and interim housing programs. programs to help support people experiencing homelessness to secure employment and increase incomes as they transition to permanent housing opportunities. 2. Continue to provide and update CDPH Cal ICH, HCD, Ongoing Outcome Measure: Number of requests for guidance and resources to connect staff CDSS, DHCS naloxone by homelessness service providers of interim shelters, transitional housing through DHCS Naloxone Distribution program will increase following technical assistance programs and permanent supportive activities around overdose reversal and housing with free overdose reversal prevention. training and supplies, information to share with residents on where to access safer Output Measure: Guidance and resources regarding harm reduction measures included drug use supplies and, for those who wish Page 69 to reduce or stop their substance use, in future Cal ICH guidance. referrals to a variety of treatment options statewide, including Contingency Management (CM) and Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD). 3. Strengthen connections between DOR Cal ICH On-going Process Measure: Stakeholder meetings to Independent Living Centers, Traumatic strengthen these connections with Brain Injury, Older Individuals Who Are emergency shelter and interim housing programs. Blind, and Assistive Technology programs and services and emergency shelter and interim housing programs to help support people experiencing homelessness to secure disability support to increase independent living skills as they transition to permanent housing opportunities. 4. Develop and advance CalAIM proposals DHCS Implementation of Process Measure: ECM available for all target seeking to extend statewide the service ECM begins on populations January 1, 2024. options available under WPC and Health January 1, 2022, in Outcome Measures: MCPs transitioning counties currently Homes Program (HHP) through the successfully from WPC/HHP January 1, 2022. providing WPC and Enhanced Care Management (ECM) Statewide implementation of ECM in all HHP program and Community Support care counties by July 1, 2024. Document coordination and housing services, ECM will be available integration of ILOS (type, scope, provider in all counties, and for types) and measures to track members’ including incentive funding, to better all ECM target progression. address the health care needs of people populations by who are staying in shelter and interim Process Measure: Documentation of ongoing January 1, 2024 housing sites. Technical Assistance with the following Implementation of objectives: Page 70 Community Supports Supporting enhanced delivery of services begins on January 1, through monthly webinars, regularly 2022, with additional scheduled calls with all MCPs, and ongoing implementations monitoring and oversight activities. allowed every six (6) Engaging stakeholders and market months (January, July) participants to reflect on program success and market penetration, incorporating best practices and lessons learned into future policy revisions focused on standardizing services as appropriate to better assist people access and stabilize their housing. Stratification of service provision by demographics, including race/ethnicity and geography. Developing measure sets for MCP performance which include evaluating the ECM enrollment of members who are Black/African American and other racial and ethnic groups who are disproportionately experiencing homelessness. Page 71           Action Area 4. Expanding and Ensuring Equitable  Objective 11 Access to Permanent Housing in Our Communities Strengthen understanding and implementation of Housing First approaches and other best practices in order to equitably and urgently rehouse people from temporary settings and from Activities focused on strengthening Housing First unsheltered homelessness. approaches and expanding permanent housing opportunities through development strategies, short -  Objective 12 and long -term rental assistance, and other rehousing Support the development and operation of affordable and activities. supportive housing opportunities, paired with appropriate health and behavioral health care resources, that are accessible and culturally responsive to people exiting homelessness, to people at lowest income levels, and to people from historically marginalized communities.  Objective 13 Improve access to flexible short-term and longer-term forms of rental assistance and other subsidies to support racially equitable and successful exits from homelessness. Page 72 ACTION AREA 4 EXPANDING AND ENSURING EQUITABLE ACCESS TO PERMANENT HOUSING IN OUR COMMUNITIES OBJECTIVE 11: Strengthen understanding and implementation of Housing First approaches and other best practices in order to equitably and urgently rehouse people from temporary settings and from unsheltered homelessness. Activities Lead Collaborating Timeframe Performance Measurement Department(s) Department(s) (Type and Measure) HIGHEST-PRIORITY ACTIVITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION 1. Regularly deploy the Housing First Cal ICH All Cal ICH Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of Housing Assessment for State agencies to confirm Member First assessment and supporting documents ongoing alignment with Housing First Departments provided to Cal ICH member agencies and departments. requirements of relevant State programs, and provide guidance, training, and Outcome Measure: Document State support to State departments who need to departments/programs improving alignment modify programs and policies to achieve with Housing First expectations. alignment. 2. Provide technical assistance, guidance, Cal ICH CDSS, HCD Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of guidance and training opportunities to State and materials, training activities. local partners to strengthen the Output Measure: Number of communities and implementation of Housing First and other State partners receiving formal technical best practices and the achievement of assistance. rehousing outcomes in the Outcome Measures: Specific outcome implementation of State and Federal measures will be developed and tracked for resources. each formal TA engagement. Page 73 3. NEW: Increase expertise, understanding, Cal ICH BCSH, CalHHS Ongoing, Outcome Measure: Coordinated assessment of and knowledge of state-level workforce beginning FY 23-24 current resources and trainings for state staff on on Housing First approaches and best best practices and continued gaps in ongoing learning/expertise development in areas under practices, racial equity and inclusion, this activity. cultural humility, best practices for engaging people with lived experience in Process Measure: Documentation of training program design and improvements and efforts related to Housing First approaches and best practices, racial equity and inclusion, other related trainings that will enhance cultural humility, best practices for engaging state-level staff awareness of populations people with lived experience in program served including those most disparately design and program/policy improvements. impacted by housing instability and homelessness. Outcome Measure: Library of consistent, accessible, and evolving resources and trainings for state staff expertise in aforementioned areas in order to have consistent and accurate application of concepts in state-level policies and programs. 4. Develop and advance CalAIM proposals DHCS Implementation of Process Measure: ECM available for all target seeking to expand CalAIM’s ability to ECM began on populations January 1, 2024. support housing-related services through January 1, 2022, in Outcome Measures: MCPs transitioning counties which had the Enhanced Care Management (ECM) successfully from WPC/HHP January 1, 2022. already been program and Community Supports Statewide implementation of ECM in all providing WPC and (formerly In Lieu of Services) care counties by July 1, 2024. Document integration HHP. management and housing services, of ILOS (type, scope, provider types) and ECM will be measures to track members’ progression. including incentive funding, to assist available in all people to access and stabilize in housing. Process Measure: Documentation of ongoing counties, and for all Technical Assistance with the following ECM target objectives: populations, by Page 74 January 1, 2024. Supporting enhanced delivery of services through monthly webinars, regularly scheduled Implementation of calls with all MCPs, and ongoing monitoring Community and oversight activities. Supports began on Engaging stakeholders and market participants January 1, 2022, to reflect on program success and market with additional penetration, incorporating best practices and implementations lessons learned into future policy revisions allowed every six focused on standardizing services as (6) months appropriate to better assist people access and (January, July) stabilize their housing. Stratification of service provision by demographics, including race/ethnicity and geography. Developing measure sets for MCP performance which include evaluating the ECM enrollment of members who are Black/African American and other racial and ethnic groups who are disproportionately experiencing homelessness. 5. Implement and evaluate Challenge Grant Cal ICH Ongoing Process Measure: Timely implementation of models of funding to support innovative challenge grant funding programs. approaches to serving subpopulations, Outcome Measure: Document findings from with a focus on strengthening rehousing evaluation activities. outcomes, including for Tribal communities, for responding to the needs of people staying in encampments, and for families with children, and document innovative and effective activities supported. Page 75 6. Provide guidance and Technical CDSS Cal ICH, HCD, Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of guidance Assistance to Counties and tribal grantees DHCS and technical assistance efforts focused on implementing and scaling up an array of scaling programs and rehousing best practices. CDSS-funded programs, including Process Measure: Document implementation planning, design, strategy and status of county and tribal grantee programs; implementation, as well as peer-to-peer Document number of grantees maximizing support and training, to ensure focus on direct financial assistance. rehousing activities within the implementation of programs. 7. Monitor CDCR contractor’s adherence to CDCR Cal ICH Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of CDCR’s contractual requirements related to contractual monitoring results for Housing First Housing First in order to provide requirements. participants with meaningful choice and seek to minimize exits to homelessness. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES PRIORITIZED FOR IMPLEMENTATION 8. Provide training, technical assistance DSH CDCR via CCJBH, Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of training opportunities to support local partners’ Cal ICH and technical assistance provided. planning for transitioning diversion or Community Based Restoration (CBR) clients to longer term/permanent housing and treatment. 9. Enhance technical assistance for HCD Cal ICH, CalHFA, Interagency Process Measure: Implementation of jurisdictions on fair housing choice, CTCAC, and other technical guide collaborative processes with other State including expanding educational efforts departments, and produced by Q3 of departments and development of in consultation FY 23-24 recommendations. regarding non-discrimination based on Page 76 source of income (SB 329), disability, with DFEH criminal history, or other factors addressed by fair housing requirements. Page 77 ACTION AREA 4 EXPANDING AND ENSURING EQUITABLE ACCESS TO PERMANENT HOUSING IN OUR COMMUNITIES OBJECTIVE 12: Support the development and operation of affordable and supportive housing opportunities, paired with appropriate health and behavioral health care resources, that are accessible and culturally responsive to people exiting homelessness, to people at lowest income levels, and to people from historically marginalized communities. Activities Lead Collaborating Timeframe Performance Measurement Department(s) Department(s) (Type and Measure) HIGHEST-PRIORITY ACTIVITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION 1. Implement Homekey program to support HCD Cal ICH, CDSS Acquisitions using Outcome Measure: Expand capacity of local rapid financing and development of California communities to end homelessness through the permanent housing units. Comeback Plan creation of 6,500 additional permanent funding completed supportive housing beds. by Q1 of FY 23-24 Other timeframes TBD by Department 2. Implement Community Care Expansion CDSS DHCS, HCD Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of guidance program to expand and preserve and technical assistance materials and residential care settings for seniors and training activities provided to CCE grantees. adults with disabilities including Output Measures: Number of applications permanent supportive housing and received and funded; number of requests for licensed adult and senior care beds. technical assistance or consultation on development of projects. Outcome Measures: Number of new beds/units created; number of beds preserved. Page 78 3. Implement a wide array of other State HCD, CTCAC, Caltrans, CalVet Ongoing Process Measure: State Funding and Programs and Federal funding programs that Cal ICH, CDSS, Working Group to determine timing for Timing determined support expansion of affordable and CalOES, development of targets. for each funding depending on supportive housing opportunities, with program Process Measure: Identify targets and goals for funding source identification of clear unit production various target populations including but not State Funding and goals and targets for the implementation limited to youth, older adults, individuals with Programs Working of each program. disabilities etc. Group to determine timing for Outcome Measures: In future, measure development of performance against targets. targets 4. NEW: Implement advocacy and BCSH HCD, CalHFA, Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of federal partnerships to inform the federal CalSTA policies and program modifications that are administration’s efforts to decrease directly aligned with State’s advocacy efforts and priorities. unsheltered homelessness and expand housing supply, including through the All INside initiative and the White House Housing Supply Action Plan. Use these efforts to pursue modifications to current federal programs, to reduce barriers to documentation and expedite access to housing, improve the process to use federal public lands for affordable housing development, provide better financial products for expedited housing development, and support jurisdictions to make changes to zoning and other processes to expedite development in Page 79 order to create opportunities for people to exit homelessness to stable housing. 5. NEW: Implement an advocacy plan for CalHFA, CDLAC, HCD, BCSH Ongoing Outcome Measure: Decrease of the 50% test the Joint State Legislative Resolution of the TCAC for federal housing programs. federal Affordable Housing Tax Credit Process Measure: Engage and gather Improvement Act of 2023, highlight the support from State and Federal Legislators impact of federal housing programs and to pass the resolution to increase the urging Congress to lower the 50% test to production of multifamily units by 25%. leveraging available bond financing to increase the housing supply of the state. 6. NEW: Continue exploration with partners Caltrans Cal ICH, HCD, 2023-25 Process Measure: Caltrans continue to work regarding how to use Caltrans’ property DGS, BCSH, internally and with partners to explore housing for temporary housing and longer-term, CalSTA, CTC and homelessness solutions with Caltrans property. affordable housing. 7. NEW: Implement the National Housing HCD Combined FY 22+23 Process Measure: Report summarizing Trust Fund (NHTF) program for rental NHTF NOFA will be program data submitted to legislature by housing serving households at or below released September January 2025. 30, 2023 30% of area median income, providing Output Measure: Number of people who are funding to projects that serve people Implementation of homeless and are served by the program. experiencing homelessness to the funding awards FY Outcome Measure: Increased access to greatest extent feasible and incentivizing 2024 and ongoing stable affordable housing and supportive PSH projects by allocating additional Program data services and reduced risks of homelessness. points to applications that include PSH for collection and those experiencing homelessness. analysis ongoing through FY 24 – 29 8. Design and implement the Veterans CalVet $20 million in grant Process Measure: Timely design and Support to Self-Reliance Pilot to support funding awarded in implementation of Pilot activities. Page 80 and pilot approaches to providing higher January 2023, Process Measure: Timely reporting of grantee levels of on-site supportive services for Services to begin in data to CalVet quarterly. Funds encumbered veterans aged 55 and over who reside in June 2023 or expended by June 30, 2024. Report to legislature by Feb. 1, 2025 to include: permanent supportive housing, to Grants project descriptions demonstrate impact of enhanced Research findings. supportive services on ability of aging Recommendations to improve quality of life veterans to age in place and improve for veterans. quality of life outcomes. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES PRIORITIZED FOR IMPLEMENTATION 9. Update inventory of State-Owned Excess HCD In coordination Implemented in FY Output Measure: Publish new map on DGS Sites and publish map. with DGS 23-24 website of suitable affordable housing development sites. 10. Identify, implement and assess efforts to BCSH CalHFA, HCD, Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of key better align policies, practices and CTCAC, and policy and practice improvements and funding across State housing agencies CDLAC changes. and programs, while retaining significant focus on extremely low-income households and housing for people exiting and at risk of homelessness. 11. Provide technical assistance to affordable HCD In coordination Implemented in FY Process Measure: Initiate coordination with housing developers and local agencies to with CalHFA, 22-23 and ongoing CalHFA, CTCAC, and CDLAC to analyze and support affordable housing development CTCAC, CDLAC improve data collection and discuss streamlined approach to TA for developer on locally owned surplus land. financing; provide TA to location jurisdictions to identify affordable housing development opportunities on local surplus land and create development pipelines. Page 81 Output Measure: During FY 23-24 provide TA to any local agency. Outcome Measure: By FY 23-24, 5 affordable housing development projects that received HCD TA execute agreements to develop on local surplus lands. 12. NEW: Enhance supportive housing HCD Ongoing Process measure: HCD staff will increase services and management plan throughout FY 23-24 capacity to evaluate supportive service and evaluations to ensure services and property management plans submitted with funding applications for compliance with supports follow best practices and supportive housing best practices and Housing Housing First core principles. First core components. Output measure: HCD will review supportive service plans for awarded supportive housing projects from programs including Homekey, No Place Like Home, and Multifamily Housing Program. Process measure: HCD, in collaboration with the Corporation for Supportive Housing, will develop a supportive services guidebook for providers. 13. NEW: Provide technical assistance and HCD Ongoing through Process Measure: HCD, in collaboration with program guidance informed by people Q2 of FY 23-24 the Corporation for Supportive Housing, with lived experience of homelessness to provides technical assistance on quality supportive housing. enhance program planning and increase housing stability and permanent housing Output Measure: Training and coaching outcomes. provided to supportive housing providers that have increased their portfolio of supportive housing units. Development of a supportive Page 82 services guidebook for use by providers. Outcome Measure: Providers receive guidance on evidence-based best practices for supportive housing. Page 83 ACTION AREA 4 EXPANDING AND ENSURING EQUITABLE ACCESS TO PERMANENT HOUSING IN OUR COMMUNITIES OBJECTIVE 13: Improve access to flexible short-term and longer-term forms of rental assistance and other subsidies to support racially equitable and successful exits from homelessness. Activities Lead Collaborating Timeframe Performance Measurement Department(s) Department(s) (Type and Measure) HIGHEST-PRIORITY ACTIVITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION 1. Implement a wide array of State and HCD, CalHFA, Cal Ongoing Process Measure: State Funding and Federal funding programs that ICH, CalOES, CDSS, Programs Working Group determines timing Timing determined for support provision of various forms of depending on for development of targets. each funding program funding source rental assistance, with identification of Process Measure: Identify targets and goals State Funding and clear goals and targets for the for various target populations including but Programs Working number of households to receive not limited to youth, older adults, individuals Group to determine rental assistance through each with disabilities etc. timing for development program. of targets Outcome Measures: In future, measure performance against targets. 2. Implement transition and diversion DOR SILC, CDA, DHCS On-going Output Measure: Document the number of funds, including rental assistance people receiving such assistance and resources, for people with disabilities outcomes achieved. who are discharged from an institutional setting and at-risk of homelessness and for individuals who are homeless and at-risk of institutionalization. Page 84 ACTION AREA 4 EXPANDING AND ENSURING EQUITABLE ACCESS TO PERMANENT HOUSING IN OUR COMMUNITIES OBJECTIVE 13: Improve access to flexible short-term and longer-term forms of rental assistance and other subsidies to support racially equitable and successful exits from homelessness. 3. NEW: Implement HUD Section 811 CalHFA, HCD, DDS, 3rd Quarter of 2023 Process Measures: Documentation of Project Rental Assistance Program in TCAC (FY23-24 and FY 24-25) creation of program(s) to address the needs anticipation of the release of the of vulnerable population, with additional consideration of the social needs in relation Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) to housing. for Round IV to expand the supply of supportive housing that promotes community integration for low- income people with disabilities by leveraging mainstream affordable housing, and community based supportive service resources. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES PRIORITIZED FOR IMPLEMENTATION 4. Prioritize increased access to rental BCSH CalHFA, HCD, Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of new assistance resources within State’s CDSS federal rental assistance resources and federal advocacy. expanded program access that are directly aligned with State’s advocacy efforts and priorities. Page 85           Action Area 5. Preventing Californians from  Objective 14 Experiencing the Crisis of Homelessness Reduce entries into homelessness as people exit and/or receive services from State-funded settings and systems, addressing racial inequities within risks of experiencing homelessness, and including Activities focused on reducing entries into a focus on people re-entering communities from jails and prisons, homelessness as people exit and/or receive services young adults connected to the child welfare and/or juvenile through State -funded programs and systems as well justice systems, and people exiting health care settings and as enhancing communities’ capacity to provide programs. targeted homelessness prevention and diversion services and assistance.  Objective 15 Enhance communities’ capacity to provide targeted homelessness prevention interventions and to successfully divert people from entering shelter or experiencing unsheltered homelessness. Page 86 ACTION AREA 5 PREVENTING CALIFORNIANS FROM EXPERIENCING THE CRISIS OF HOMELESSNESS OBJECTIVE 14: Reduce entries into homelessness as people exit and/or receive services from State-funded settings and systems, addressing racial inequities within risks of experiencing homelessness, and including a focus on people re- entering communities from jails and prisons, young adults connected to the child welfare and/or juvenile justice systems, and people exiting health care settings and programs. Activities Lead Collaborating Timeframe Performance Measurement Department(s) Department(s) (Type and Measure) HIGHEST-PRIORITY ACTIVITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION 1. Implement CalAIM proposals seeking to DHCS CDCR Implemented January Process Measure: Publication of All County address needs of people exiting 1, 2023 Welfare Directors Letter which provides corrections settings through expedited guidance to the Counties on policies and Ongoing monitoring procedures for implementing the Mandated enrollment in Medi-Cal. County Inmate Pre-Release Application Process. Process Measure: Publication of Information Notice to provide guidance to Counties on facilitated referral and linkage from incarceration; publication of All Plan Letter to provide guidance to Managed Care Plans on facilitated referral and linkage to behavioral health. Outcome Measure: Increase the Medi-Cal enrollment of individuals exiting the County Jail setting. Page 87 2. Implement CalAIM to provide care DHCS CDCR, in Implementation of Process Measure: Integration of target coordination and housing services to coordination with Community Supports population by all Managed Care people exiting corrections settings CCHCS began on January 1, Organizations (MCOs) into Population Health 2022, with additional Management Plans by January 1, 2024. through Enhanced Care Management implementations (ECM) and Community Supports. Output Measure: ECM enrollment of Medi-Cal allowed every six (6) members that meet Target Population criteria months (January, July) for Individuals Transitioning from Incarceration to receive ECM services. Outcome Measure: Measure metrics of Community Supports utilization for housing services across counties for Members also enrolled in ECM target population for Individuals Transitioning from Incarceration. Reporting timelines are quarterly. MCPs submit a supplemental Quarterly Implementation Monitoring Report four (4) times per year with utilization data, provider information, and other supplemental information related to the provision of ECM and Community Supports. 3. Implement CalAIM to provide medically DHCS CDSS Community Supports Process Measure: Documentation of necessary recuperative care placements Recuperative Care informational and guidance materials and for unhoused people who are exiting implementations training (supportive of Housing First principles) began on January 1, delivered to Managed Care Organizations acute inpatient facilities and/or were 2022 and may (MCOs). recently hospitalized. continue on a six (6) Outcome Measure: Measure metrics of month interim basis, Community Supports utilization across with new counties. Updated Community Supports implementations Elections Chart provided by DHCS and effective every updated twice per year, in June and January and July December, to reflect any forthcoming Page 88 changes or adjustments. 4. Implement CalAIM Providing Access and DHCS CDCR Implementation from Process Measure: Development of new Transforming Health (PATH) Funding for May 2022 - December processes to increase Medi-Cal enrollment Justice-Involved Initiatives, including 2026 and access to care for justice-involved youth and adults. support for implementation of: pre- PATH funding for 90- release Medi-Cal enrollment and day prerelease Medi- Output Measure: Number of entities jointly suspension processes; delivery of Medi- Cal services participating in new process development Cal services in the 90 days prior to application process is and implementation for increased Medi-Cal open through July enrollment and access to care for justice- release; and supporting correctional 2023. Prerelease involved youth and adults by filing PATH agencies, county social services services begin funding applications. departments, county behavioral health implementation April agencies, managed care plans, and to 2024 jointly design, modify, and launch new processes aimed at increasing enrollment in Medi-Cal and continuous access to care for justice-involved youths and adults. 5. NEW: Pilot efforts to create permanent HCD CDCR Initiated in FY 23-24 Process Measure: Development of targeted housing opportunities exclusively for and ongoing outcomes and documentation of individuals exiting correctional settings, consultation with the Lived Experience Advisory Board. in partnership with California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, local Outcome Measures: In future, measure partners, and individuals with lived performance against targets. experience ensuring a wide range of services and supports are available to achieve long-term success. Page 89 6. Track CDCR pre-release and community CDCR FY 23-24 and on-going Output Measures: Number of people referrals that are facilitated by CDCR’s identified as homeless; number of referrals to Specialized Treatment for Optimized housing; number of individuals placed in housing; type of housing placements; Programming contractors, who employ duration of housing placements. and leverage individuals with lived experience to address the housing needs of individuals identified as being at risk of homelessness before leaving prison or who become homeless after transitioning to their communities. 7. Analyze existing data, which could CDCR Cal ICH Ongoing Process Measure: Document findings from include interdepartmental data matches, any analyses performed and present to the to better understand the scale of risks for Interagency Council. homelessness among people preparing to exit prison settings. 8. NEW: Explore opportunities to establish CDCR Cal ICH FY 2023-24 Process Measure: Documentation of referral pathways from CDCR to local consultation efforts and of modifications to Continuums of Care for people exiting policies and practices being implemented in response to findings. CDCR who are identified as being at risk of homelessness upon transition to their communities and for people who are on parole who become unhoused. Page 90 9. NEW: Explore opportunities to support CDCR Cal ICH FY 2023-24 Process Measure: Documentation of CoCs in using CDCR data to initiate consultation efforts and of modifications to policies and practices being implemented in planning efforts to address the housing response to findings. and housing services needs of the pre- release and parolee populations. 10. Monitor funding awarded the Housing for HCD DHCS Ongoing Process Measure: Bi-annual reporting on Healthy California (HHC) program for implementation and projects provided to HCD on January 31 and individuals who are recipients of or monitoring July 31 of each year during monitoring period. eligible for health care provided through Output Measure: A legislative report on the Medi-Cal program, providing tenant- program data will be published in January based rental assistance with supportive 2024. services or capitalized operating reserve Outcome Measure: Monitoring and reporting to existing rental projects. activities increase available data on program outputs, including expenditures, timelines, and program participant demographics. 11. Develop a tool to incorporate a focus on CDA Cal ICH Ongoing Process Measure: Timely development and housing status, housing instability, and dissemination of measurement tool. housing needs for assessing the needs of Process Measure: Document and report data clients that seek services from the Aging from assessments of housing status, housing and Disability Resource Centers’ instability, and housing needs. (ADRCs’) and Area Agencies on Aging. 12. Implement the180-bed Forensic Assertive DSH Ongoing Output Measures: Number of beds supported; Community Treatment (FACT) level of number of individuals receiving services on an care within the DSH Conditional Release annual basis. Program (CONREP) to support the transition of individuals from the state Page 91 hospital to community treatment, including provision of housing and residential treatment opportunities. 13. Implement the Early Access to Treatment DSH Initiated Output Measures: Number of individuals Services for the Incompetent to Stand implementation in FY receiving services within 28 days from IST Trial (IST) population, including providing 22-23 with 75% of commitment and number and proportion of county programs counties that have activated a program. treatment and medication supports at activated through FY the earliest point possible for individuals 23-24 in jail who are deemed IST to facilitate stabilization and increase opportunities for diversion. 14. Improve IST discharge planning and DSH Initiated planning with Process Measure: Documentation of new coordination with counties to enable county partners in FY discharge coordination process, training, counties to better plan for continuity of 22-23; and initiate and/or technical assistance provided to implementation in FY counties. treatment when individuals deemed IST 23-24 are released from jail. Output Measure: Number of people supported through enhanced discharge planning efforts. 15. Continue to monitor and implement CCCCO DHCS, CDSS, HCD FY 23-24 Process Measure: Documentation of data Basic Needs Centers providing range of collection regarding student accessing basic services and supports to students who need services. may be at-risk of homelessness, as well Output Measure: Number of California as the expansion of programming community colleges establishing basic need centers. targeting students involved with the justice system and/or the foster care Output Measure: Number of basic need insecure students that receive services and system. supports. Page 92 Output Measure: Number of current and former foster youth that receive services and supports. Outcome Measures: Decrease barriers to academic success. 16. Implement Guaranteed Income (GI) Pilot CDSS Beginning 3rd Quarter Process Measure: Number of grantees serving for youth aging out of Foster Care. of FY 22-23 and former foster youth who were awarded funds ongoing for GI Pilot program. Outcome Measure: Beginning in 2027, changes in housing stability for recipients of GI funds, as measured by difference in baseline and exit survey outcomes. 17. Continue to offer Transition Housing CDSS HCD Ongoing Output Measure: Number of youth receiving Placements (THP-NMD) for 18–21-year- THP-NP and THP-Plus services and supportive old Youth transitioning from the Foster services. Care system and continue to support THP-Plus for 18–24-year-old former Youth to assist in providing the supports necessary to obtain more permanent housing. 18. Implement the Prison to Employment CWDB CDCR FY 23-25 Outcome Measures: Evaluation of program (P2E) Initiative to integrate workforce and performance through the following five reentry services in all of California’s labor research topics: regions and to promote equity and ▪ Do participants have better labor market create economic opportunity for formerly outcomes? incarcerated and justice-involved ▪ Do participants have lower recidivism individuals. rates? ▪ Does P2E promote increased equity for Page 93 historically marginalized populations? ▪ How well did P2E coordinate pre-release reentry services and pose-release workforce services? ▪ Employment rates, wages, credentials and recidivism after exit. 19. Assess pilot efforts to address the housing DOR CDCR On-going Process Measure: Annual reporting of data and employment services needs of regarding number of individuals served. people with disabilities within state prison facilities, supporting people to access employment prior to re-entering communities or for individuals who are ex-offenders. 20. Implement the Justice Involved Veterans CalVet CDCR Ongoing Process Measure: Coverage of CDCR facilities Initiative to ensure that incarcerated through monthly visitation by CalVet staff. Veterans obtain their earned benefits Process Measure: Documentation of monthly and receive support upon their release referrals for recently released veterans to their and reentry into post-incarceration life, county veterans service office and Local to reduce risks for re-incarceration rand Interagency Network Coordinator. homelessness. Outcome Measure: Number of veterans that receive their earned benefits and receive support. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES PRIORITIZED FOR IMPLEMENTATION 21. Continue to develop a long-term plan DHCS, via Foster CDSS Implementation from Process Measure: Documentation of policies and strategy for improving health Care Model of 2023-2029 implemented as described in the DHCS Foster outcomes and the delivery of fully Care Care Strategies summary and the California Workgroup Community-Based Organized Networks of Page 94 integrated health care services for youth Equitable Care and Treatment (BH- in foster care. CONNECT) Demonstration. 22. Distribute funding and gather outcomes HCD CDSS Allocations to be Process Measure: Timely submittal of the of the Housing Navigators Program and released in Q1 of FY executed standard agreements, and Transitional Housing Program for County 23-24, continuously completion of technical assistance appropriated webinars with Transition Age Youth (TAY) Child Welfare Agencies. program stakeholders. Output Measures: Number of webinars, events, or trainings held for funding recipients. Number of grantees that received targeted technical assistance to improve the coordination of services and linkages to critical resources across the community including those within the child welfare system and the local Continuum of Care. Increase outreach engagements to target or serve those with the most complex needs. Number of youth served, including those in foster care or probation system, and services provided. 23. Through the Community Living Fund, DOR Through end of 24-25 Output Measure: Document the number of support people with disabilities to people receiving such assistance and successfully transition from nursing outcomes achieved. homes and other institutional settings to Page 95 community living opportunities and prevent people from going into institutional settings and losing stable housing. 24. Enhance capacity of Aging and CDA DOR On-going Process Measure: Updating ADRC Disability Resource Connection (ADRC) designation criteria, including guidance on systems to support transitions from transition services. nursing facilities back into community Process Measure: Document efforts to living options, minimizing risk that such continue encouraging ADRCs to identify transitions result in homelessness. additional resources that would support transition services at the local level. 25. Implement the Breaking Barriers to CWDB Local Workforce FY 23-24 Process Measures: Evaluate how well the Employment Initiative to supplement Development initiative recruited individuals with significant existing workforce and education Boards barriers to employment, including people at- risk of or experiencing homelessness, how well programs by providing services to ensure the initiative helped individuals transition into the success of individuals either the broader workforce and education preparing to enter or already enrolled in systems, and how well the initiative promoted workforce and education programs. sustainable partnerships between Local Workforce Development Boards and community-based organizations. 26. NEW: Pilot efforts to improve continuum of DOR Cal HHS via OYCR Through end of 2023- Output Measure: Number of youth services services for youth with disabilities to 2025 and outcomes. decrease justice involvement and to transition to independent living, education, and employment. Page 96 27. NEW: Implement the HIRE Initiative to CWDB CDCR FY 23-24 Outcome Measure: Enrollment targets for further integrate workforce and reentry disadvantaged populations (homelessness is services and to promote equity and a major component), enrollment in training, provision of supportive services, credential create economic opportunity for formerly attainment, employment placement, and incarcerated and justice-involved wage gains. individuals through partnerships with Community-based organizations (CBOs) Outcome Measure: Pilot new wellbeing performance measures, including stabilized with demonstrated success in serving the housing. reentry population. Page 97 ACTION AREA 5 PREVENTING CALIFORNIANS FROM EXPERIENCING THE CRISIS OF HOMELESSNESS OBJECTIVE 15: Enhance communities’ capacity to provide targeted homelessness prevention interventions and to successfully divert people from entering shelter or experiencing unsheltered homelessness. Activities Lead Collaborating Timeframe Performance Measurement Department(s) Department(s) (Type and Measure) HIGHEST-PRIORITY ACTIVITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION 1. Implement a wide array of State and HCD, CTCAC, Ongoing Process Measure: State Funding and Federal funding programs and technical Cal ICH, Programs Working Group to determine timing Timing determined for assistance to support provision of various CalHFA, for development of targets. each funding CalOES, CDSS, forms of diversion and prevention program Process Measure: Identify targets and goals depending on services, with identification of clear goals for various target populations including but funding State Funding and and targets for the number of households not limited to youth, older adults, individuals program Programs Working to receive diversion and prevention with disabilities etc. Group to determine services through each program. timing for Outcome Measures: In future, measure development of performance against targets. targets 2. Provide guidance to support schools to CDE Cal ICH Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of develop community collaborations and guidance provided. stronger referral systems with public, private, faith-based partners, and CoCs that can help address housing instability and homelessness, and other service needs, among students and their families. Page 98 3. NEW: Funding expansion of additional Cal HFA Ongoing through May Output Measures: Number of counseling $50M to continue the National Mortgage 31, 2025 services provided and available counselors Settlement (NMS) Counseling Services who can provide the services needed. Program until May of 2025. Process Measure: Continuous monitoring of the program and outreach to disadvantaged communities. 4. NEW: Implement Legal Service Program CDA Ongoing Output Measure: Number of individuals through the Area Agencies on Aging for served. older adults and adults with disabilities, providing services that include support for elder justice, fraud prevention, rental disputes and estate planning. 5. Implement the Healthier at Home grant- CDA FY23-24 Process Measure: Timely release of RFA, based pilot program through which launch of pilot, and performance of grantees will hire registered nurses and evaluation. community health workers working Output Measure: Number of older adults across the pilot sites to provide health enrolled in the program and connected with system navigation, post-acute care community services and supports to avoid transition support, medical education, placement in higher levels of care and maintain housing stability. wellness coaching. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES PRIORITIZED FOR IMPLEMENTATION 6. Identify and implement strategies to CDSS Cal ICH, HCD, Ongoing Process Measure: Documentation of serve older adults and people with DHCS, CalVet, technical assistance provided for CCE, disabilities at risk of experiencing CDA Home Safe, HDAP, and PRK implementation. homelessness, including meeting the Outcome Measures: Number of adult and residential care facilities receiving CCE Page 99 need for in home supports and access to funding. Documentation of advancement licensed adult and senior care facilities. toward housing goals outlined in the Master Plan on Aging. Page 100 Exhibit A. Organizations Represented within Stakeholder Input Conversations To date, representatives from the following organizations have had the opportunity to participate in at least one input conversation to inform the development and/or updating of this Action Plan, with regrets for any accidental omissions of organizations: Abt Associates CityTeam Alameda County Council on Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health Alameda County Emerging Leaders and Youth Corporation for Supportive Housing About Action Destination: Home All Home Empower Tehama Bakersfield/Kern Lived Experience Advisory Board Family Violence Law Center California Behavioral Health Planning Council Health Care for the Homeless Program California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Homebase Agency Homeless Youth Forum of Los Angeles California Coalition for Youth Housing California California Community Colleges ICF International California Department of Aging John Burton Advocates for Youth California Department of Corrections and Kings/Tulare Homeless Alliance Rehabilitation Larkin Street Youth Services California Department of Education Lewis Advocacy California Department of Health Care Services Los Angeles County Supervisor's Office California Department of Housing and Community Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Development Los Angeles Lived Experience Advisory Board California Department of Public Health Marjaree Mason Center California Department of Rehabilitation Monterey/San Benito Counties’ Youth For Action California Department of Social Services National Alliance to End Homelessness California Department of State Hospitals National Harm Reduction Coalition California Department of Transportation Northern California CoCs that Serve Rural Areas California Department of Veterans Affairs Peer-to-Peer Group California Governor's Office Office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi California Governor's Office of Emergency Services PATH Ventures California Health and Human Services Agency San Diego Regional Task Force on the Homeless California Health Care Foundation San Diego Youth Advisory Board California Housing Finance Agency San Diego Homeless-Experienced Advocacy and California Partnership to End Domestic Violence Leadership Network California State Legislature San Jose/Santa Clara Lived Experience Advisory California Tax Credit Allocation Committee Board California Workforce Development Board Sonoma County Lived Experience Advisory and City of Berkeley Planning Board City of Fairfield Police Department Southern California & Neighboring CoCs Alliance City of Los Angeles Technical Assistance Collaborative City of Oakland Turning Point of Central California City of Oxnard U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness City of Riverside UC Berkeley & UC Berkeley Youth Policy Group City of Sacramento Ventura County Executive Office City of San Francisco Wayfinders Consulting Page 101 Exhibit B. List of Acronyms and Meanings Used Within Action Plan AB Assembly Bill CSU California State University System AMI Area Median Income CTCAC California Tax Credit Allocation Committee ADRC Aging and Disability Resource Center CWDB California Workforce Development Board BCSH California Business, Consumer Services DFEH California Department of Fair and Housing Agency Employment and Housing BIPOC Black, Indigenous, and people of color DGS California Department of General Services CalAIM California Advancing and Innovating DHCS California Department of Health Care Medi-Cal Services CalHFA California Housing Finance Agency DOR California Department of Rehabilitation CalHHS California Health and Human Services DSH California Department of State Agency Hospitals CalHR California Department of Human ECM Enhanced Care Management Resources Cal ICH California Interagency Council on ESG-CV Emergency Solutions Grants Program– Homelessness Coronavirus CalOES California Governor's Office of FY Fiscal Year Emergency Services CalSTA California State Transportation Agency HCD California Department of Housing and Community Development Caltrans California Department of Transportation HDIS Homeless Data Integration System CalVet California Department of Veterans HHAP Homeless Housing, Assistance and Affairs Prevention Program CARE Community Assistance, Recovery and HHP Health Homes Program Court Empowerment Court CBO Community Based Organization HSP Housing Support Program CBR Community Based Restoration HUD U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development CCC California Community Colleges ILOS In Lieu of Services CCE Community Care Expansion IST Incompetent to Stand Trial CCHCS California Correctional Health Care LEAs Local educational agencies Services CDA California Department of Aging MCP Medi-Cal Managed Care Plan CDCR California Department of Corrections Medi- California’s Medicaid healthcare and Rehabilitation Cal program CDE California Department of Education NOFA Notice of Funding Availability CDLAC California Debt Limit Allocation SB Senate Bill Committee CDPH California Department of Public Health SGC California Strategic Growth Council CDSS California Department of Social TA Technical Assistance Services CHEBNA California Higher Education Basic UC University of California System Needs Alliance CoC Continuum of Care VA U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Page 102