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110 <br />Describe mainstream services, such as health, mental health, and employment <br />services to the extent those services are used to complement services targeted <br />to homeless persons <br />In California, the primary programs for assisting families in poverty are CalWORKS, <br />CalFresh, and Medi-Cal. These programs provide clients with employment assistance, <br />discounted food, medical care, childcare, and cash payments to meet basic needs, such as <br />housing and transportation. <br />The California Work Opportunities for Kids (CalWORKs) program provides financial <br />assistance and Welfare-to-Work services to California families with little to no cash. <br />Through this program these families may be eligible to receive immediate short-term help <br />with housing, food, utilities, clothing, or medical care. Childcare is also available through <br />this program. <br />CalFresh, formerly the Food Stamp Program, is a nutritional assistance program that <br />provides Electronic Benefit Transfer Cards to people receiving public assistance to <br />purchase food and other essential items. <br />The Medi-Cal program provides health coverage for people with low-income and limited <br />ability to pay for health coverage, including seniors, those with disabilities, young adults <br />and children, pregnant women, persons in a skilled nursing or intermediate care home, and <br />persons in the Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Program (BCCTP). People receiving <br />federally-funded cash assistance programs, such as CalWORKs (a state implementation of <br />the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program), the State <br />Supplementation Program (SSP) (a state supplement to the federal Supplemental Security <br />Income (SSI) program), foster care, adoption assistance, certain refugee assistance <br />programs, or In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS), are also eligible. <br />CDBG, HOME, and ESG Funded Activities <br />Congress designed the CDBG programs to serve low-income people, some of which may <br />meet the federal poverty definition. The City of Santa Ana received funding to run CDBG, <br />HOME, and ESG programs. At least 70 percent of all CDBG funds must be used for activities <br />that are considered under program rules to benefit low- and moderate-income persons. <br />Additionally, every CDBG activity must meet one of three national objectives: benefit low- <br />and moderate-income persons (at least 51 percent of the beneficiaries must be low- and <br />moderate-income); address slums or blight; or meet a particularly urgent community <br />development need. CDBG programs assist the homeless and those at-risk-of homelessness <br />directly and indirectly. <br />Under the HOME program, households must earn no more than 80 percent of the AMI, <br />adjusted for household size, to be eligible for assistance. Furthermore, 90 percent of the <br />EXHIBIT 1