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Chapter 8: Support Services <br />Recommendations <br />Support Services recommendations are grouped under the following topics: -- <br />• Minimal Needs <br />• Transportation <br />• Food and Nutrition <br />• Child and Dependent Care <br />• Counseling and Life Skills Support Activities ~" <br />First Year Goals <br />• Maintain and improve existing multiservice centers. Expand resources for a package <br />of basic services. <br />• Establish new multiservice centers. Establish at least two new multiservice centers <br />outside of Oakland and Berkeley. Each new center should provide daytime shelter, be <br />open at least 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, and to the extent <br />possible, provide the minimum package of services listed below. Establishment of <br />these Multiservice Centers should be coordinated as appropriate with the Self- - <br />Sufficiency Centers, PIC One-Stop Centers, Family Resources Centers and other <br />programs which provide multiple services to low-income people. Ideally, these centers <br />should be housed at the same locations and should share administration and services -- <br />whenever possible. <br />• Expand homeless people's access to government food programs. Expand homeless <br />people's access to existing government subsidized food programs, including Food <br />Stamps, WIC, School Breakfast and Lunch, Summer Food, Child Care Food, Senior <br />Congregate and Home Delivered Meals, and free commodities programs. Encourage _ <br />all providers to refer homeless people to all food programs at their first point of contact <br />with the homeless service delivery system. Provide training and technical assistance <br />materials to providers in all parts of the county on food program eligibility criteria and <br />how and where to apply. <br />• Expand availability of subsidized child care. Provide more free or low cost quality <br />child care in coordination with meeting the housing, vocational, and service objectives <br />of homeless families. The goal is to provide all homeless families who need it with __ <br />child care, especially those enrolled in case management. <br />Alameda County-Wide Homeless Continuum of Care Plan: April 1997 _ <br />102 <br />