FINAL 2018 Housing & Community Development Action Plan

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• Provide the ability of the applicant entity to carry out the proposed activities within the 2017 program year. • Demonstrate effectiveness in serving the homeless, including the ability to establish, maintain, ' and/or improve the self-suffiency of homeless individuals. • Timeliness of reimbursement request/draw requests will be considered for currently or previously ' funded entities. • It is a HUD policy that, within the framework of constitutional church-state guidelines, faith-based organizations should be able to compete on an equal footing with other organizations for federal funding. Accordingly, organizations that are faith-based are eligible, on the same basis as any other organization, to participate in HUD programs and activities, and therefore the City of South Bend's ' HUD-funded programs and activites. 4. If the jurisdiction is unable to meet the homeless participation requirement in 24 CFR ' 576.405(a), the jurisdiction must specify its plan for reaching out to and consulting with homeless or formerly homeless individuals in considering policies and funding decisions ' regarding facilities and services funded under ESG. The City, along with the Continuum of Care, has as their combined agenda, the development of a long term plan to include homeless participation on the Continuum. All sub-grantees are required to ' involve program participants in the operation of their ESG funded program. This involvement can be in the form of a program participants' employment or volunteering in program activities such as construction, renovation, maintenance, general operation of facilities, and provision of services. For example, a shelter might involve participants in ongoing maintenance tasks or other operations of the facility such as staffing the reception desk. This involvement can include paid and/or volunteer work. ' 5. Describe performance standards for evaluating ESG. ' The City, like HUD, recognizes that performance standards will evolve over the next few years as ESG sub-grantees improve their program outcomes through evaluation of HMIS data and through the ' integration of ESG services into the Continuum of Care. Implementation of the Emergency Solutions Grant will allow the City to gain baseline data about specific performance measures and performance standards. Information from FY 2012 through FY 2016 is used to further refine ' measures and standards for the FY 2017 ESG funds. When developing the performance standards, the City will also consider which data elements were required to be collected in HMIS for ESG, and additional data elements included in the March 2010 HMIS Data Standards. Discussion to date has ' included standards of housing stability; maintaining income/employment; access to other resources assistance; and the ability of a client to not fall back into a homeless situation. The CoC will continue to be a consulting partner as the ESG performance standards are finalized. ' Performance Measures for Homelessness Prevention: A reduction in the number of homeless households involving families with children (a priority need for homeless assistance within the local Continuum of Care community) ' Expected Outcome: At least 35% of participants assisted will remain in permanent housing six (6) months after the last assistance provided under ESG. Annual Action Plan 58 ' 2018 OMB Control No:2506-0117(exp.06/30/2018) '