Housing and Community Development First (5th) Year Action Plan (2019)

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1 match the Emergency Solutions Grant funds and demonstrates the ability to leverage financing from other sources. (Expenditures should be explained); • Describe the nature and extent of the (documented) unmet homeless need within the applicant's ' jurisdiction and detailed extent to which the proposed activities address the need; • Provide the ability of the applicant entity to carry out the proposed activities within the 2019 program year; • Demonstrate effectiveness in serving the homeless, including the ability to establish, maintain, and/or improve the self-sufficiency of homeless individuals; • Timeliness of reimbursement request/draw requests will be considered for currently or previously funded entities; and, • 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 Regional Planning Council, 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 programs.This I 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. One formerly homeless individual serves on the St.Joseph County Regional Planning Council. 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 Regional Planning Council. 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 Annual Action Plan 64 2019 OMB Control No:2506-0117(exp.06/30/2018)