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Chapter 5: 1997 Plan Priorities <br />• Establish new multiservice centers. Establish at least two new multiservice <br />centers outside of Oakland and Berkeley. Each new center should provide daytime <br />shelter, be open at least 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, and to <br />the extent possible, provide the minimum package of services listed above. <br />Establishment of these Multiservice Centers should be coordinated as appropriate <br />with the Self-Sufficiency Centers, PIC One-Stop Centers, Family Resources <br />Centers and other programs which provide multiple services to low-income people. <br />Ideally, these centers should be housed at the same locations and should share <br />administration and services whenever possible. <br />• Expand homeless people's access to government food programs. Expand <br />homeless people's access to existing government subsidized food programs, <br />including Food Stamps, WIC, School Breakfast and Lunch, Summer Food, Child <br />Care Food, Senior Congregate and Home Delivered Meals, and free commodities <br />programs. Encourage all providers to refer homeless people to all food programs <br />at their first point of contact with the homeless service delivery system. Provide <br />training and technical assistance materials to providers in all parts of the county on <br />food program eligibility criteria and how and where to apply. <br />• Expand availability of subsidized child care. Provide more free or low cost <br />quality child care in coordination with the housing, vocational, and service <br />objectives of homeless caregivers. The goal is to provide all homeless families who <br />need it with child care, especially those enrolled in case management. <br />• Maintain and expand access to affordable transportation. Support existing <br />agency programs that provide transit passes or tokens to clients in support of <br />service plan objectives. Provide education and informational materials to homeless <br />people and services providers regarding eligibility for discount passes, bus tickets <br />and paratransit services to ensure they are utilized by those eligible. Explore <br />establishing acounty-wide program to provide free or reduced cost transit passes to <br />homeless people. <br />Alameda County-Wide Homeless Continuum of Care Plan: April 1997 <br />71 <br />