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EXHIBIT 1 Santa Ana City Net Homeless Services —Street Outreach Annual Proposal, Revised 11/29/19 Emergency Health/Mental Health City Net will refer homeless neighbors to emergency health and/or emergency mental health services to the extent that other customary emergency health services and treatments are unavailable or inaccessible to the homeless neighbor. A referral example is outpatient treatment of urgent medical conditions by licensed medical professionals in community -based settings (e.g.; streets, parks, and campgrounds) to those eligible participants unwilling or unable to access emergency shelter or healthcare facility. Transportation Through use of privately leased vans and/or transportation services, City Net may engage in: • Transporting unsheltered people to emergency shelters, emergency health, emergency mental health, or other service facilities; • Provision of public transportation for participants; • Transportation costs (bus tickets, gas, minor car repairs, etc.) to assist homeless neighbors to relocate out of the region, provided they have permanent housing there; • Assisting program participants to use public transportation. Services for Special Populations Services for special populations are essential services that have been tailored to address the special needs of homeless youths, victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, including connections to services offered by rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters, and other organizations that serve persons who meet the HUD homeless definition and have special needs. Data Collection Policy The information City Net collects about individuals and families who access our services is confidentially stored in a local electronic database called the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS). HMIS securely records information (data) about people accessing housing and homeless services, which may include but is not limited to names and contact information, birthdates, demographic information, self - reported medical information, veteran status, disability status, etc. Under the HMIS Data -Sharing Agreement, the individual client data of those who consent to have their information stored in HMIS is only viewable by qualified staff at each participating agency. In order to participate in HMIS, leaders at each agency must sign an Agency Agreement that includes a commitment to protecting client data and maintaining confidentiality, and agency staff must pass multiple trainings that each go over the importance of client privacy. City Net is accountable to our HMIS Data -Sharing partners, to the local County, to our local Continuum of Care, and to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to maintain the privacy and security of the confidential personal information we collect about our clients and their families. Aside from these legal and funding -related obligations, we also believe we have an ethical responsibility to our clients to not share their personal data in ways to which they've not agreed. City Net is committed to excellent data collection, privacy and security, analysis and reporting practices so that we can efficiently coordinate the most effective services for our homeless neighbors, better understand homelessness in our community, assess the types of resources needed in our local area, and participate in generating aggregate