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individuals and families experience homelessness, facilitating access for homeless individuals <br />and families to affordable housing units, and preventing individuals and families who were <br />recently homeless from becoming homeless again. <br />The City supports a number of programs to assist low-income individuals and families to avoid becoming <br />homeless, including Section 8 Housing Choice vouchers. Other support services, such as job and training <br />assistance, food assistance, and counseling are also available to help individuals recover from <br />homelessness and to avoid becoming homeless. The City works closely with the Continuum of Care who <br />provides oversight for the Vulnerability Index - Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool (VI-SPDAT) <br />to prioritize the most vulnerable chronically homeless individuals. Case management services are offered <br />in all programs to help prevent individuals from falling back into homelessness. In addition, the Housing <br />Authority of the City of Santa Ana has recently been awarded VASH project -based vouchers for permanent <br />supportive housing for Veterans experiencing homelessness. These 100 vouchers are in addition to the <br />current Vouchers with two projects already in the pipeline. An RFP will be released shortly for these <br />additional vouchers. <br />Help low-income individuals and families avoid becoming homeless, especially extremely low- <br />income individuals and families who are likelyto become homeless after being discharged from <br />a publicly funded institution or system of care, or who are receiving assistance from public and <br />private agencies that address housing, health, social services, employment, education or youth <br />needs <br />The goals listed above will help these individuals and families to avoid becoming homelessness. The ESG <br />program will fund homelessness prevention programs including utility and security deposit assistance as <br />well as rental assistance. The HEART program, funded by ESG provides bus tickets for individuals <br />interested in returning to their home; often following a release from a correctional facility. Additionally, <br />the County of Orange is equipped to serve people discharged from publicly funded institutions or systems <br />of care such as health care facilities or correction programs <br />Consolidated Plan SANTA ANA 136 <br />OMB Control No: 2506-0117(exp. 06/30/2018) 75A-144 <br />