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Chapter 10: Plan Administration <br />Five Year Strategies <br />Topic 1 Plan Governance and Lnplementation <br />Without structures in place and people to carry out the work, the plan cannot be implemented. <br />Adoption of the plan by the participating jurisdictions will establish commitment to the plan's <br />goals and objectives, but a designated group of people with appropriate support are needed to <br />coordinate and carry out the recommendations for the plan to be a success. These <br />recommendations build on the work to date to develop this plan. <br />• Establish a Continuum of Care Council. <br />Establish acounty-wide Continuum of Care Council representing all areas of the <br />county as a focal point for county-wide interjurisdictional coordination to <br />accomplish the five-year Homeless Continuum of Care Plan. <br />Structure of the Council <br />The Council will be roughly similar to the composition of the Working Group <br />which created this plan. It will be composed of 45 total members from the <br />following interested sectors: the County, cities, nonprofit homeless service <br />providers and advocates, affordable housing developers, homeless and formerly <br />homeless people, fenders, faith community, banks, corporations, .organized labor, <br />public health care, major public hospital, public schools, universities, and <br />community colleges. To the extent possible, the interests of all homeless <br />populations should be represented, including men, women, families, youth, the <br />elderly, veterans, victims of domestic violence, and those with problems of alcohol <br />and drugs, mental illness, HIV/AIDS, other health problems, or dual diagnoses. <br />Conflict of interest provisions will be developed acceptable to all jurisdictions. <br />The Council will meet regularly and an Executive Committee will handle Council <br />business as needed between Council meetings. The Council will establish working <br />committees, open to non-Council experts and interested parties to address the work <br />areas identified in the plan. Examples of working committees which will be <br />establish include committees on standards of care, management information <br />systems, the formation of interdisciplinary health teams, a micro-enterprise group, <br />etc. <br />Alameda County-Wide Homeless Continuum of Care Plan: April 1997 <br />123 <br />