Item 31 - Approve a Street Outreach and Engagement Agreement with City Net

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Exhibit A: Scope of Work 2024 Santa Ana Multidisciplinary Response Team (SMART) City Net – 901 W. Civic Center Drive, Suite 155, Santa Ana, CA 92705 6 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. i Outreach Contacts reflect the number of interactions for the specific purpose of reaching out to unsheltered homeless neighbors in a process of building trust and offering support toward the long-term goal of connecting 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. iii Reflects the current number of homeless neighbors who are voluntarily engaged in a formal, written case management relationship with City Net. Clients sign permission to allow City Net case managers to work with them to achieve progress on a mutually agreed upon plan to attain housing and supportive services. Case managers follow-up with housed clients for 6 months after housing to ensure a successful placement. Active cases are engaged once a week on average and are considered inactive after 90 days of no contact. This is an unduplicated number that changes over time as former clients exit case management and new clients enroll. iv Street Exits are defined by HUD and enumerated in the HUD systems performance report, and City Net uses these designations for all street exits achieved through the efforts of two or more agencies working together within the context of the homeless collaborative in the city. HUD designates some of these street exits as “temporary” and some as “permanent”, and City Net exercises discretion to count as exited those homeless neighbors who have a reasonable plan in place to move from temporary shelter to permanent housing. Street exits may also reflect duplicated numbers as individuals may enter, then exit, then reenter shelter/housing multiple times during the reporting period, and HUD guidelines require that City Net count these as multiple street exits even when referring to a single individual. EXHIBIT 1