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Guest House RFP# 15-129 3. STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS <br />  <br />  <br />21 | Page  <br />  <br />  <br />Assisi House <br />Project Type: Shelter <br />Population Served: Literally homeless, single men, <br />single women, and single mothers with children <br />Project Address: 521 N. Virginia Ave, Ontario CA <br />Unit Count/Bedroom Type: 2 single family homes, <br />7 private rooms, 21 beds, with communal <br />bathrooms, kitchens and living rooms <br />Affordability Requirements: At or below 30% <br />AMI <br />Funding Sources: Ontario CDBG, program <br />revenue <br />Service Start Date: 2007 <br /> <br />National Guard Armory Emergency Shelter <br />Project Type: Emergency Shelter <br />Population Served: Homeless single men and <br />women <br />Project Address: 612 E. Warner, Santa Ana CA, <br />400 S. Brookhurst, Fullerton CA <br />Unit Count/Bedroom Type: Two large scale <br />emergency shelters, 200 beds per shelter per <br />night <br />Affordability Requirements: No income limits or <br />requirements <br />Funding Sources: Orange County funds, Santa <br />Ana ESG, Fullerton CDBG, EFSP, <br />Service Start Date: Mercy House was awarded the <br />contract to operate this program in 2008 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />INVOLVEMENT WITH THE <br />COORDINATED ENTRY SYSTEM (CES) <br />As an agency, Mercy House provides a significant <br />amount of leadership and advocacy to the Orange <br />County Continuum of Care and to the creation <br />and operation of the Coordinated Entry System. <br />Such roles and leadership activities include: <br /> Mercy House’s Executive Director, Larry <br />Haynes, was one of the chief architects of the <br />County’s Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness. <br />He currently is member of the Commission to <br />End Homelessness Board of Directors. He is <br />also Chair of the Commission’s Homeless <br />Prevention and Outreach Subcommittees. <br /> Mercy House’s Executive Leadership team <br />actively participate in numerous Commission <br />to End Homeless Subcommittees including but <br />not limited to the Coordinated Entry <br />Subcommittee. <br /> Mercy House’s Outreach teams were one of <br />the first to volunteer our services to conduct <br />VI-SPDAT assessments on homeless <br />individuals; we currently have more than 10 <br />staff members who are trained to conduct such <br />assessments. <br /> Mercy House’s own Permanent Supportive <br />Housing programs have been used to launch <br />and pilot the system here in Orange <br />County. Overall, they have dedicated over a <br />hundred hours of staffing resources to inform <br />the creation of the Coordinated Entry System. <br /> Mercy House, as lead agency for a cohort of <br />homeless service agencies, applied for and was <br />3-31