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Chapter 5: 1997 Plan Priorities <br />• Advocate to ensure that Self-Sufficiency Centers established under Alameda <br />County Welfare reform effort, PIC One-Stop Care Centers and other County <br />traininglplacement programs provide information and referrals, job listings _ <br />and resume services in a manner that meets homeless peoples needs. <br />• Advocate for lengthened training time for those on GA and TANF so that they - <br />can realistically achieve work readiness and employment goals. <br />• Explore the benefit and feasibility of required homeless hiring targets or - <br />preferences in awarding contracts to contractors, service providers and <br />housing operators that employ homeless and formerly homeless people. <br />Support Services Goals <br />• Main tain and improve existing multiservice centers. Expand resources fora _ <br />package of basic services. Ideally, all of the following services would be available <br />to homeless people in, near, or through each multiservice center: _ <br />- Showers and restrooms <br />- Mail and messages <br />- Phone, individual voicemail, and other telecommunications -- <br />- Haircuts <br />- Clothing <br />- Furniture & other housewares - <br />- Client education <br />- Legal assistance <br />- Storage of personal items - <br />- Links to health care <br />- Personal assistant services for disabled people <br />- Crisis counseling - <br />- Recovery and mental illness counseling services <br />- Information and referral <br />- Access to respite services <br />- Reading material <br />Alameda County-Wide Homeless Continuum of Care Plan: April 1997 _ <br />70 <br />