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Chapter 10: Plan Administration Build on current efforts between the jurisdictions to coordinate federal _ McKinney homeless funding applications. Ensure that Continuum of Care Plan priorities are reflected in these applications each year. Use this - common process for other federal funding applications. Explore creation of a single county consortium for McKinney funding. Topic 4 Data Collection, Evaluation and Management Information Systems For the Continuum of Care to provide coordinated responses to the needs of the community, it - is critical that serious attention be paid to data collection, outcomes measurement, and communication systems--all areas usually dealt with by management information systems (MIS). In addition, homeless people and case managers have a strong need for regularly - updated, accurate, easy-to-access information about services and housing available. While some MIS capacity already exists in the county--especially in the area of information about _ services and housing--we still have few means to compare agencies' performance and to evaluate overall trends and needs affecting the system. Current efforts under the HUD Regional Initiative can provide a starting place for Alameda County to move forward with _ developing improved data collection and information systems. An MIS development process under the Council will allow the necessary focused attention on these important issues. The outcome will be the creation of tools that can help us better target our resources on successful _. strategies for preventing, reducing, and eventually ending homelessness. • Improve service delivery and evaluation through an integrated management - information system. Develop acounty-wide, integrated management information system to improve - service delivery by enhancing communication between agencies, jurisdictions, and homeless people and making evaluation of system outcomes consistent and easier. 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. Data on all areas of the continuum--housing, incomes and employment, support services, and health care--will collected and analyzed. Major goals for the -~ system include: - Improved information about available services and housing. _ - Greater understanding of individual agency outcomes and performance for use in reporting to fenders and restructuring programs. - Enhanced knowledge of system-wide trends, needs, and outcomes, for use _ in directing overall resources. For example, ability to determine whether population groups that are overrepresented among the homeless population, such as veterans, Afr#car--Arrtericans and Native Americans, are served _ relative to their needs. Alameda County-Wide Homeless Continuum of Care Plan: April 1997 130