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Chapter 5: 1997 Plan Priorities • Coordinate and streamline the funding process. Streamline the funding process to achieve savings and efficiencies for the Continuum of Care. Currently agencies must spend significant amounts of time preparing funding applications for different sources in order to apply on the required forms and applications. Coordinate funding streams: Coordinate fenders and providers around Continuum of Care objectives. Create a rationale distribution of resources: identify relationships between providers and fenders (including jurisdictions) that are rational and complementary and broker these relationships if they do not already exist. Coordinate application forms: Explore creating a single "core" application form, requesting uniform information. Fenders could add to this "core" as needed. The core application would ease the administrative burden on agencies and facilitate uniform data reporting. Coordinate McKinney applications: Build on current efforts between the jurisdictions to coordinate federal McKinney homeless funding applications. Ensure that Continuum of Care priorities are reflected in these applications each year. Use this common process for other federal funding applications. Explore creation of a single county Consortium for McKinney funding. • Begin to establish minimum standards of care applicable to all Continuum of Care providers. Standards are needed to enhance the value for homeless people of services, shelter, and housing provided. All standards will be developed through a community-wide, consensus-building process with strong participation by homeless people, and build upon existing minimum standards in use in the county. If it is not feasible to draft standards of care for the entire continuum in the first year, a high priority is to establish minimum standards of care for all shelter providers regarding such topics as grievances, mutual rights and responsibilities, client participation and empowerment, privacy, and health and safety. • Encourage new partnerships and collaborations among providers. Explore jointly the benefits of consolidating certain common functions of related agencies, including bulk purchasing of supplies and food and shared bookkeeping and other administrative activities Alameda County-Wide Homeless Continuum of Care Plan: April 1997 73