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CR-25 - Homeless and Other Special Needs 91.220(d, e); 91.320(d, e); 91.520(c) ' Evaluate the jurisdiction's progress in meeting its specific objectives for reducing and ending homelessness through: ' Reaching out to homeless persons (especially unsheltered persons) and assessing their individual needs The Continuum of Care (CoC) agencies worked together to design and implement a collaborative process based on referrals and complementary programs and services. The process includes emergency shelter, ' transitioning to ESG or Supportive Housing Programs (SHP) funded agency programs, as well as working within the CoC to ensure specific client needs are met appropriately. Case management services were available in 2016 to regularly assess the needs of clients. Addressing the emergency shelter and transitional housing needs of homeless persons The CoC continued to discuss and work on strategies that resulted in the following priorities: ' • Restructuring the traditional shelter system toward the Housing First model and meeting Hearth Act priorities; ' 0 Focusing on rapid re-housing activities with ESG; • Using two distinct approaches, one for circumstantially impoverished homeless and one for chronically impoverished homeless, to re-house them; • Reducing the unsheltered or precariously housed population; • Reducing the time spent in transitional housing; ' • Joining the Balance of State CoC. Helping low-income individuals and families avoid becoming homeless, especially extremely low-income individuals and families and those who are: likely to become homeless after being discharged from publicly funded institutions and systems of care (such as health care facilities, mental health facilities, foster care and other youth facilities, and corrections programs and institutions); and, receiving assistance from public or private agencies that address housing, health, social services, employment, education, or youth needs ' The chronically homeless, severely mentally ill, veterans, persons with HIV/AIDS,victims of domestic ' violence, and youth were moved into rapid re-housing options rather than the traditional shelter system whenever possible.The chronic substance abuse homeless subpopulation used a traditional shelter model with expanded services and programs. CAPER 17 OMB Control No:2506-0117(exp.07/31/2015)