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Chapter 10: Plan Administration PLAN ADMINISTRATION Introduction Other chapters of this plan have described steps needed to create new housing, provide more and better services, appropriately deliver health care, and assist homeless people in obtaining jobs and other income. This chapter describes objectives and activities necessary to ensure the implementation of this plan and the creation of a strong, comprehensive county-wide system to address the needs of homeless people. The Continuum of Care Working Group, in developing this plan, has committed itself to ensure that the plan is implemented, and that it is continually being revisited and revised. Without structures in place to carry out the work envisioned in the plan, the document will not lead to concrete action and will not effect the changes envisioned. For this reason, this chapter contains recommendations to create bodies and policies that can forward the goals of the plan and increase the resources and information available to all participants in the homeless continuum of care. There are already a number of successful collaborations in Alameda County which have been connected to the process of creating this plan and which form the beginnings of the infrastructure needed to continue collaboration around the continuum of care. These include the Emergency Services Network of Alameda County, which is a community-based advocacy and coordination group county wide for emergency food and shelter providers and East Bay Housing Organizations which is a coordination and advocacy collaboration for nonprofit housing developers in the East Bay. In addition, the Technical Advisory Committee of the Alameda County HOME consortium brings together jurisdictional representatives from all of the jurisdictions in the county except Oakland and Berkeley to coordinate HOME funding and other low-income housing efforts in their jurisdictions. The local FEMA board and the Associated Community Action Programs are also multi jurisdictional entities which prepare plans and coordinate funding for low-income and/or homeless services in the county. These plus other groups and organizations are key players in the county's system of collaboration and should be called upon and integrated into structures needed for the plan to be implemented. Recommendations The recommendations in this section cover four topic areas: • Plan Governance and Implementation • Strengthening the Continuum • Long-term Financial Resource Development • Data Collection, Evaluation, and Management Information Systems Alameda County-Wide Homeless Continuum of Care Plan: April 1997 121