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Appendix 1: Acknowledgments ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PLANNING PARTICIPANTS The Continuum of Care planning process and the resulting plan are the result of the hard work of many people. Hundreds of community members contributed to the plan through their participation in the working group, topic or special committees, public forum, participation in the homeless survey and attendance at community and commission meetings. The creation of the work plan, facilitation of the planning process and development of the draft plan was done by HomeBase, a public law firm on homelessness. HomeBase has been at the forefront of homeless planning in the Bay Area and nationally for many years and HomeBase's extensive experience with homeless planning greatly benefitted the process. Staff at HomeBase who worked directly on this plan include Martha Fleetwood, Executive Director: Tony Gardner, Staff Attorney; Lynn Nesselbush, Assistant Director; Kathleen Jorgensen, Law Fellow; Cindy Okada, Aaron Passel, Erika Brown, Maxine Tift, Nasha Vida, Shannon Lucas, and Jeff Edwards. The analysis of homeless funding was done by Bay Area Economics, a consulting firm specializing in fiscal analysis. Staff from BAE that worked directly on this plan include Janet Smith-Heimer, senior analyst, and Joanna Davis. Much of the work in the overview of the homeless population and current service capacity comes from work previously done by Dr. Marjorie Robertson, Alcohol and Drug researcher, and Dede Leydorf, an intern with Alameda County Housing and Community Development during the summer of 1995, and from information collected by the Emergency Services Network. Many plans and many collaborations have laid the groundwork for this effort. The number of people who have contributed to earlier efforts to address homelessness in this county are too numerous to mention, but failure to acknowledge their spirit in our work would be an oversight. Finally, this plan is dedicated to the tens of thousands of homeless people and their families who have struggled and continue to struggle in a system that is not always able to meet their needs and that is always woefully inadequate to end homelessness. Alameda County-Wide Homeless Continuum of Care Plan: April 1997 133