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Chapter 5: 1997 Plan Priorities Integrated Health Care Priorities • Maintain and support existing crisis management, outreach and intervention -' which provide mobile health services and referrals at parks and homeless service sites all over the county and pays health providers to treat homeless people they refer. • Maintain and Support the existing 24 hour, county-wide Alcohol and Drug crisis hotline and Publicize its availability county-wide. • Establish at least one new multidisciplinary health team for underserved areas __ of the county. Specific locations will be determined in the planning process. Each team will include a mental health technician, AOD specialist, health coordinator and peer (homeless or formerly homeless) outreach worker, providing care to homeless people in an integrated "whole person" way. Ties with off-site non-profit providers will be established to provide a broader range of support services to clients than the teams themselves provide. The teams will move from site to site on - a rotating basis, although specific teams may be based at particular sites. • Expand the number of AOD pre treatment, detox, outpatient, short-term - residential, and long-term residential treatment slots. Special priority should be given to increasing beds for dually diagnosed homeless people and programs that _ accommodate single parents with children. Access to beds should be flexible without regard to geography. Plan Administration Priorities • Establish a Continuum of Care Council. Establish acounty-wide Continuum of Care Council as a focal point for county-wide interjurisdictional coordination to accomplish the five-year Homeless Continuum of Care Plan. The County should provide staffing to the Council during the first year of Plan Implementation, during -- which alternative means of funding and staffing should be explored. Alameda County-Wide Homeless Continuum of Care Plan: April 1997 - 72