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Chapter 10: Plan Administration First Year Goals • Establish a Continuum of Care Council. Establish acounty-wide Continuum of Care - Council as a focal point for county-wide interjurisdictional coordination to accomplish the five-year Homeless Continuum of Care Plan. The County should provide staffing to the Council during the first year of plan implementation, during which time - alternative means of funding and staffing should be explored. • Coordinate and streamline the funding process. Streamline the funding process to achieve savings and efficiencies for the continuum of care. Currently agencies must spend significant amounts of time preparing funding applications for different sources in order to apply on the required forms and applications. Most of the applications are - ask for primarily the same information, but in different formats. • Begin to establish minnnum standards of care. Begin the process to establish community-developed, county-wide minimum standards of care applicable to all Continuum of Care providers. Standards are needed to enhance the value for homeless _ people of services, shelter, and housing provided. All standards will be developed through acommunity-wide, consensus-building process with strong participation by homeless people, and build upon existing minimum standards in use in the county. If _ the committee determines that it is not feasible to draft standards of care for the entire continuum in the first year, a high priority is to establish minimum standards of care for all shelter providers regarding such topics as grievances, mutual rights and responsibilities, client participation and empowerment, privacy, and health and safety. • Encourage new partnerships and collaborations among providers. Explore jointly - the benefits of consolidating certain common functions of related agencies, including bulk purchasing of supplies and food and shared bookkeeping and other administrative activities. _ • Develop an integrated management information system. Develop acounty-wide, integrated management information system (MIS) to improve service delivery by enhancing communication between Continuum of Care agencies, jurisdictions, and homeless people. The MIS should build on existing systems in the county and feed into _ the Bay Area regional MIS being developed under the Regional Innovative Homelessness Initiative. In the first year, review and improve existing data collection instruments, develop minimum MIS standards applicable to all Continuum of Care _ agencies, develop minimum standards for protection of the privacy and confidentiality of clients, and conduct an inventory of all providers current capacity to meet all minimum standards and system requirements to identify any training or resources needed to fill the gaps. Alameda County-Wide Homeless Continuum of Care Plan: April 1997 122