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Chapter 6: Housing and Shelter Establish community-developed transitional housing standards of care specific to each service population, on program structure and rules, including grievances, mutual rights and responsibilities, client participation and empowerment, _ privacy, and health and safety. Develop training and technical assistance materials to strengthen the programmatic, administrative, and financial capacity of transitional housing to better serve homeless people and to meet minimum standards. Create additional mobile multi-disciplinary teams to provide increased service levels at site-based transitional housing programs and to provide services where concentrations of non-site based transitional housing clients are located. (These could build off of or be separate from existing mobile teams or new mobile teams called for in the health chapter of this Plan.) - • Expand the supply of transitional housing according to geographic and target population needs while taking advantage of time-limited opportunities. As a system, new opportunities should focus on providing transitional services and transitional rental subsidies in permanent housing to avoid the problem of there being no permanent affordable housing to move into from transitional housing sites. This could be partially accomplished through the creation and strengthening/expansion of _ mobile, multi-disciplinary teams for services. This team could also serve as a homeless prevention mechanism by providing a minimal level of services permanently available so that people are already connected to services to help them weather crises and remain __ housed. The teams are also seen as a way of strengthening the service package of existing site-based transitional housing providers. More site-based transitional housing opportunities are also needed. Action Stens Create additional portable, transitional rental assistance and accompanying case management and support service programs. Create more site-based transitional housing for underserved sub-populations and - where needed geographically for particular sub-populations that can especially benefit from intensive services and community building, such as survivors of domestic violence, those with substantial mental health or drug/alcohol abuse - problems, dually diagnosed people, and parolees. An emphasis on site-based programs also may be necessary in those areas of the county where market rents make rental assistance programs less effective. Take advantage of time-limited opportunities afforded by military base closures and other surplus properties to develop transitional housing. Alameda County-Wide Homeless Continuum of Care Plan: April 1997 82