Item 20 - Street Outreach and Engagement Agreement with City Net

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V City Net Exhibit A: Scope of Work 2022-2023 Santa Ana Multidisciplinary Response Team (SMaRT) 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. To ensure City Net's commitment to excellent data collection, privacy and security, analysis and reporting practices, City Net does not authorize external agencies to complete these functions on our behalf except in very limited Circumstances and only with prior written approval and with City Net's full participation in all data reporting and analysis. This is so that City Net can responsibly provide context and analysis for the data City Net collects within collaborative efforts to 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 statistical reports to HUD, which help to improve policy and bring adequate funding of services for the most vulnerable populations in our community, and so City Net can assure its ethical and legal responsibilities to homeless neighbors to not share their data in ways to which they have not agreed. Outreach Contacts reflect the number of interactions fort he specific purpose of reaching out to unsheltered homeless neighbors in a process of building trust and offering support toward the long-term goal ofconnecting them with emergency shelter, housing, or critical services; and providing urgent, non -facility -based care. These activities are intended to help homeless neighbors to obtain appropriate supportive services, including assistance in obtaining permanent housing, medical health treatment, mental health treatment, counseling, supervision, and other services essential for achieving independent living; housing stability case management; and other Federal, State, local, or private assistance available to assist the program participant in obtaining housing stability. This number can be duplicated in any given reporting period. 11COVID-19 Engagements reflect the number of interactions by City Net's street outreach and engagement staff to ensure that unsheltered homeless neighbors have access to services and updated information about COVID-19, by working to: • Provide information to educate people about COVID-19: where they can get tested, how it spreads, health Impacts, common symptoms, and other features of the disease. • Use health messages and materials developed by credible public health sources, such as local and state public health departments or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). • Provide educational materials about COVID-19 for non-English speakers, those with low literacy or intellectual disabilities, and people who are hearing or vision impaired. • Ensure communication with clients about changes in homeless services policies and/or changes in physical location of services such as food, water, hygiene facilities, regular healthcare, and behavioral health resources. • Provide health and hygiene interventions: o Recommend that all clients wear masks any time they are around other people, noting exceptions such as young children under age 2, anyone who has trouble breathing, or is unconscious, incapacitated, or otherwise unable to remove the mask without assistance. City Net-511 W. Civic Center Drive, Suite 400, Santa Ana, CA 92705