DUPAGE PLAN TO END HOMELESSNESS
OBJECTIVES BY YEAR
| # | OBJECTIVE | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
| 1. Needs Assessment Data - Needs Assessment Committee | ||||||||
| 1.1 | Establish universal criteria for needs assessment data entry. | X | ||||||
| 1.2 | All HUD funded agencies will be fully entering data into all required fields to the CMIS system. | X | ||||||
| 1.3 | All other relevant providers that support homeless populations will be invited to participate in CMIS. | X | ||||||
| 1.4 | Audit and analyze data in the system to ensure integrity and usage. | X | ||||||
| 1.5 | Using the CMIS system, complete an annual "gaps analysis" for homeless services. | X | ||||||
| 1.6 | Conduct a technology audit for all CMIS users. | X | ||||||
| 2. Emergency Prevention - Grants Funding Committee | ||||||||
| 2.1 | Coordinate between homeless prevention providers and community partners re: resources available and requirements for accessing them. A signed agreement will document intent to coordinate. | X | ||||||
| 2.2 | Expand legal assistance and housing resources available for a one-time, short term and transitional financial assistance that could be used to avert eviction. Measure - 10% increase in legal services and in number of those who receive homeless prevention services. | X | ||||||
| 2.3 | Ensure adequate funding for case management services to process applications. Measure - 10% increase in case management money for three years. | X | ||||||
| 2.4 | Develop two new homeless prevention programs to address early intervention and influencing factors in homelessness. | X | ||||||
| 2.5 | Ensure that there is an adequate amount available annually for direct financial assistance to all persons who need it. | X | ||||||
| 3. Systems Prevention - Community Outreach Committee | ||||||||
| 3.1 | Increase the linkage to permanent supportive housing and services for persons leaving institutions by developing coordinated discharge policies with oversight and agreement to use the policy. | X | ||||||
| 3.2 | Continue to develop and implement strategies between housing first and mainstream service systems to ensure receipt of mainstream benefits by eligible persons. | X | ||||||
| 4. Outreach to the Unsheltered - Community Outreach Committee | ||||||||
| 4.1 | Establish a system of coordinated street outreach for persons who are homeless. | X | ||||||
| 4.2 | Develop engagement housing (such as safe havens or harm reduction programs) for those who need permanent housing but are resistant to traditional service models. | X | ||||||
| 5. Shorten Homelessness - Needs Assessment Committee | ||||||||
| 5.1 | Develop standards for interim housing (shelters and transitional housing) that promote housing placement in the most suitable setting as soon as possible. | X | ||||||
| 5.2 | Develop an affordable housing clearinghouse that will be used to link households in interim housing with appropriate market housing. | X | ||||||
| 6. Timely Re-housing - Needs Assessment Committee | ||||||||
| 6.1 | Identify an agency that is interested in becoming a community housing development organization. | X | ||||||
| 6.2 | Current transitional housing providers will make two of their units per year available for clients to take over the lease and remain in that unit permanently. | X | ||||||
| 6.3 | Identify best practices for reducing the time it takes for individuals to get re-housed. | X | ||||||
| 6.4 | Annually, for-profit housing providers will make a minimum of ten units available to homeless individuals. | X | ||||||
| 7. Support Services - Grants Funding Committee | ||||||||
| 7.1 | Identify available missing insufficient/inadequate support services. | X | ||||||
| 7.2 | Develop needed support services. | X | ||||||
| 8. Increasing Income - Community Outreach Committee | ||||||||
| 8.1 | Increase usage of present mainstream benefits to 50% of eligible clients. | X | ||||||
| 8.2 | Develop strategies to increase income through employment and support services, in order to obtain and maintain employment. | X | ||||||
| 8.3 | Link with on-going efforts to change eligibility requirement and to increase benefit levels. | X | ||||||
| 9. Creating Permanent Housing - Grants Funding Committee | ||||||||
| 9.1 | Develop and formalize our partnership with DuPage Housing Action Coalition to advocate for the needs of chronically homeless. | X | ||||||
| 9.2 | Create twenty permanent supportive housing units for the chronically homeless with twenty more units in the pipeline. | X | ||||||
| 9.3 | Create a countywide rental subsidy program to supplement housing choice vouchers. | X |