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FY 2025-2029 Five-Year Consolidated Plan City of South Bend, IN Describe consultation with the Continuum(s) of Care that serves the jurisdiction's area in determining how to allocate ESG funds, develop performance standards and evaluate outcomes, and develop funding, policies and procedures for the administration of HMIS ESG — The Center for the Homeless, the YWCA, Life Treatment Center, Youth Services Bureau, and Health Plus, each receive ESG funds from the City of South Bend. ESG funds for St. Joseph County are administered through the City of South Bend's Department of Community Investment. The South Bend Department of Community Investment issues an RFP for ESG-funded projects through the Neighborhoods Division.The process is competitive for projects that provide emergency shelter,related services,and rapid re-housing to the homeless. Develop Performance Standards and Evaluate Outcomes—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 who 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 measurement of an individual or family who resides in emergency shelter, transitional housing, or rapid re-housing. The CoC seeks to make progress on eviction prevention, the targeting of individuals and families based on risk, and the influencing developers in the area to create Permanent Supportive Housing. HMIS—Throughout different times of the year, the CoC and the HMIS Lead work together to assess data quality throughout the CoC. This includes working on the Point-In-Time (PIT) count, project reviews/ranking, and working with individuals programs while completing their Annual Performance Reports (APRs). The system ensures data quality by requiring many of the universal data elements upon enrolling a participant into a program.Additionally,the system has an alert system with exit date reminders. The work flow of data entry has been updated to improve data quality. The HMIS Lead supports users through the staffing of a Help Desk and ongoing training opportunities. Agency users are able to run self- reports to assess their program's data quality. ESG-funded applications are required to use the HMIS system.CoC-funded organizations are motivated to provide good data quality,because the CoC has moved toward a data-driven project review and ranking system. Projects with poor data quality are more likely to show poor outcomes, which can impact their funding. 2. Describe Agencies, groups, organizations and others who participated in the process and describe the jurisdictions consultations with housing, social service agencies and other entities OMB Control No:2506-0117(exp.07/31/2025) 38