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Chapter 2: Vision/Mission & Guiding Principles <br />2. Integrated and Coordinated System <br />Services and housing to reduce, prevent and eliminate homelessness will be delivered - <br />through an integrated multijurisdictional services and supportive housing collaborative, <br />which recognizes the importance of homeless specific services while incorporating <br />mainstream services to avoid the unnecessary further expansion of a system exclusively <br />for homeless people. <br />3. Long-Term Solutions _ <br />While emergency shelter is often a necessary first step in assisting homeless people, _ <br />emphasis will be on strategies with the best long-term solutions such as, but not limited <br />to, housing, jobs and employment-related services and treatment services. <br />4. Prevention <br />Prevention is key to addressing homelessness. Strategies that maintain and encourage __. <br />residential stability, link housing and support services, and strengthen services in <br />neighborhoods will be encouraged. <br />5. Mutual Rights and Responsibilities <br />Respect for the mutual rights and responsibilities of participants, providers and fenders <br />of homeless services, and the public at large, is essential to the success of the <br />continuum of care. <br />6. Human and Civil Rights <br />Consideration for human and civil rights and liberties will be adhered to throughout all <br />aspects of the continuum of care, including gathering information on programs and <br />participants. <br />7, Participation of Consumers <br />Homeless and formerly homeless people, and those at risk of homelessness, will _ <br />participate in the planning, development, delivery, governance and evaluation of <br />programs, services and housing. <br />Alameda County-Wide Homeless Continuum of Care Plan: April 1997 - <br />8 <br />