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Appendix 3: Committee Guiding Principles <br />• Stability of services and housing is key to survival for many special needs clients; thus, <br />continuity of service delivery and housing must be sustained, and careful discharge and <br />transition plans created by the discharging institution to facilitate smooth access to <br />continuum components. <br />• The delivery of housing and services to special needs groups should consciously create <br />a spirit of community among clients, providers, and the broader populace. Public <br />education, prevention of homelessness, and community acceptance of care centers are <br />linked to how services are delivered. The continuum of care plan should enable <br />clients, providers, and all to join efforts towards serving those with special needs. <br />• Housing upon discharge from special needs care shall be to an environment conducive <br />to wellness. <br />• Special needs services must be accessible, respectfully offered, designed to meet <br />multiple needs at initial intake locations, and coordinated between agencies. <br />• Special needs groups includes homeless and at risk people (and family members <br />dependent on them) with medical, mental illness, AIDS/HIV, chronic dual diagnosed, <br />severe chronic mental illness, physically disabled in a way that makes service hard to <br />access; those with multiple issues, combinations of these, or whose access to care is <br />complicated by recent incarceration. <br />Alameda County-Wide Homeless Continuum of Care Ptan: April 1997 <br />161 <br />