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THE CITY OF 4.6 ATTACHMENT 4 LEASANTONC 2019 Monitored Legislation Assembly Bill/ Summary Guiding Principle CASA Compact Senate Bill AB 728 Existing law authorizes a county to Safe and Secure (Santiago) establish a homeless adult and Community Homeless family multidisciplinary personnel multidisciplinary team, as defined, with the goal of personnel facilitating the expedited teams identification, assessment, and linkage of homeless individuals to housing and supportive services within that county and to allow provider agencies to share confidential information for the purpose of coordinating housing and supportive services to ensure continuity of care. Existing law requires that the sharing of information permitted under these provisions be governed by protocols developed in each county, as specified, and requires each county to provide a copy of its protocols to the State Department of Social Services. This bill would expand the goals of the homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team to include facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and linkage of individuals at risk of homelessness, as defined, to housing and supportive services, and the expedited prevention of homelessness, and to allow members of the team to access and share the confidential information. The bill would make conforming changes to related provisions with regard to the prevention of homelessness. Existing law authorizes the team to include, among others, housing or homeless services provider agencies, medical personnel, and legal counsel, as specified. This bill would authorize the team to also include case managers or case coordinators responsible for referral, linkage. or coordination of care and services provided to adults or families 9