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FY 2025-2029 Five-Year Consolidated Plan City of South Bend, IN Of the homeless households in 2024, 0 were unsheltered, but 83 persons were in emergency shelters. The number of individuals in emergency shelter among all homeless populations was 369,which is over half of the 547 homeless persons counted in 2024.There were 134 total persons in transitional housing.Households without children most frequently utilized emergency shelter over transitional housing. The Center for the Homeless assists in coordinating homeless individuals and families,including Veterans, to services for adult self-sufficiency, children's support, developmental services, and mental health care. The Center for the Homeless has a Veteran's Annex to assist this population.Life Treatment Centers assists in accommodating homeless Veterans. Health Plus Indiana has programs for education, which includes awareness and prevention of HIV/AIDS, testing, and the distribution of the PrEP pill to reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS in at-risk individuals. All programs are available to homeless individuals, and AMAA receives funding for housing for homeless individuals or individuals at-risk of homelessness. Youth Service Bureau provides a variety of housing and outreach programs for area youth that are homeless or at-risk of homeless.These programs include street outreach,a drop-in center for intake,a young mothers' program,and youth development services. Oaklawn Psychiatric Center provides services for adults and children with mental health needs. Oaklawn conducts outreach for its targeted clients.All listed agencies participated in the development of Coordinated Entry for St. Joseph County. Helping homeless persons (especially chronically homeless individuals and families,families with children,veterans and their families,and unaccompanied youth) make the transition to permanent housing and independent living, including shortening the period of time that individuals and families experience homelessness,facilitating access for homeless individuals and families to affordable housing units, and preventing individuals and families who were recently homeless from becoming homeless again. The Indiana Balance of State CoC's written standards focus on a Housing First Model and follow the best practices of that model. The written standards utilize several strategies to increase the number of people that exit Emergency Shelter, Transitional Housing, and Rapid Re-housing to Permanent Housing destinations. Evaluations of these standards will be based on the length-of-time homeless of an individual or family in Emergency Shelter, Transitional Housing, or Rapid Re-Housing. The CoC will seek to make progress on the turnover rate of individuals and families,the targeting of individuals and families based on risk,and the number of positive exits into Permanent Housing. The Mayor of the City of South Bend established a Working Group on Chronic Homelessness in 2017.The Working Group released a report in the same year that analyzed the gaps in care for homeless individuals and families and proposed policies to address the gaps. The report recommended data sharing among homeless service providers,"Community ID Cards"for those utilizing homeless care,an intake center,and the construction of Permanent Supportive Housing. OMB Control No:2506-0117(exp.07/31/2025) 163