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Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) recommending the Board approve and ratify the Chief Administrative Officer signature on the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) Program Round 4 Guidance Memo due on November 29, 2022, committing to further the CoC’s HHAP Round 3 Outcome Goals and committing to pursue Best Practices for the HHAP Round 4 County and CoC joint application.
FUNDING: State funding authorized pursuant to California Assembly Bill 140, signed into law by Governor Newsom on July 19, 2021.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND:
On June 21, 2022, the Board authorized the County of El Dorado (County) Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) to submit the local homelessness action plan application template to the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH), as required for the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) Round 3 (HHAP-3) joint application from HHSA and the El Dorado Opportunity Knocks Continuum of Care (CoC) (File ID: 22-0914). The action plan template was developed in collaboration with the CoC in alignment with the Countywide five (5) year Homeless Strategic Plan (File ID: 22 0294) which includes: a local landscape analysis of needs; demographics; funding; and the homeless prevention goals, strategies, and outcomes proposed through the five (5) year Homeless Strategic Plan.
On November 1, 2022, HHSA received a request from the Cal ICH to submit a supplemental narrative to the HHAP-3 application submitted to Cal ICH on July 22, 2022. On November 3, 2022, Governor Newsom notified local jurisdictions that the HHAP Program will be requiring applicants to strengthen their outcome goals in the spirit of further reducing unsheltered homelessness throughout the State.
Subsequently, on November 11, 2022, HHSA received a “HHAP-4 Guidance” memo from Cal ICH, requiring applicants to sign and return the memo by November 29, 2022. The memo required ...
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