Cal. HSC § 50240 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 31 / Part 1 / Chapter 6.5 / Article 2 / Section 50240
Section 50240
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(a) To be eligible for a round 6 base program allocation, a jurisdiction that is not a tribe must apply as part of a region and must be signatory to a round 6 regionally coordinated homelessness action plan that has been approved by the department. An update to the round 5 plan may constitute a round 6 regionally coordinated homelessness action plan.

(b) The department shall approve a round 6 regionally coordinated homelessness action plan when the department determines that the plan meets all of the requirements of this section.

(c) The round 6 regionally coordinated homelessness action plan shall include all of the following components:

(1) Identification and analysis of the specific roles and responsibilities of each participating jurisdiction in the region regarding outreach and site coordination, siting and use of available land, the development of shelter, interim, and permanent housing options, and the coordination and connection to the delivery of services to individuals experiencing homelessness, or at risk of experiencing homelessness, including specifying roles and coordination plans in relation to Mental Health Services Act or Behavioral Health Services Act, within the region. The plan may also include roles and responsibilities of small jurisdictions in the region that elect to engage and collaborate on the plan.

(2) Most recent system performance measures for the region, which shall include all of the following, as well as age, racial, and ethnic disparities for all of the following:

(A) The number of people experiencing homelessness.

(B) The average length of time people experience homelessness.

(C) The percentage of people exiting homelessness into permanent housing.

(D) The number of people who return to homelessness after exiting homelessness into permanent housing.

(E) The number of people exiting homelessness into permanent housing.

(F) The number of people falling into homelessness for the first time.

(G) The number of people who return to homelessness after exiting institutional settings, including, but not limited to, jails, prisons, and hospitals.

(3) A system performance and improvement plan, which shall include a description of key actions the region intends to take to improve the system performance measures described in paragraph (2). The system performance and improvement plan may also include key actions of small jurisdictions in the region that elect to engage and collaborate in the regionally coordinated homelessness action plan. In naming key actions in the system performance and improvement plan, a region will identify all of the following:

(A) The lead entity on the key action and collaborating entities partnering to achieve the key action.

(B) A timeframe for steps and completion of each key action.

(C) The methods of measuring the success of each key action and related system performance measures that will demonstrate success of the key action.

(D) An explanation of how each participating jurisdiction is utilizing local, state, and federal funding programs as key actions to improve the system performance measures, including, but not limited to, all of the following:

(i) The Homekey program, as described in Section 50675.1.1.

(ii) The No Place Like Home Program (Part 3.9 (commencing with Section 5849.1) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code).

(iii) The Multifamily Housing Program (Chapter 6.7 (commencing with Section 50675) of Part 2).

(iv) The Housing for a Healthy California Program (Part 14.2 (commencing with Section 53590)).

(v) The Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 50216)). All items currently being funded through rounds 1 through 4, inclusive, pursuant to the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 50216)) and round 5 pursuant to the Round 5 of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program (Article 1 (commencing with Section 50232)), and those items proposed to be funded by round 6 pursuant to this article must be included as key actions. If an item proposed to be funded under the rounds will not lead to improvement of the system performance measures described in paragraph (2), it is not an eligible use of funding pursuant to those rounds.

(vi) Funding distributed to local jurisdictions pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 50470.

(vii) The California Emergency Solutions Grants Program (Chapter 19 (commencing with Section 50899.1) of Part 2).

(viii) The National Housing Trust Fund established pursuant to the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-289), and implementing federal regulations.

(ix) HOME Investment Partnerships Act (Chapter 16 (commencing with Section 50896)).

(x) Parolee or probation programs that are intended to prevent homelessness upon release.

(xi) CalWORKs (Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code).

(xii) CalFresh (Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 18900) of Part 6 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code).

(xiii) Supplemental Security Income/State Supplemental Program (SSI/SSP) (Subchapter 16 (commencing with Section 1381) of Chapter 7 of Title 42 of the United States Code and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code) and the Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI) pursuant to Chapter 10.3 (commencing with Section 18937) of Chapter 10.3 of Part 6 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

(xiv) In-home supportive services.

(xv) Adult protective services.

(xvi) Child welfare.

(xvii) Child care and development.

(xviii) Disability benefits advocacy.

(xix) Medi-Cal program (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code).

(xx) Mental Health Services Act and Behavioral Health Services Act.

(E) A description of how the key actions will ensure racial and gender equity in service delivery, housing placements, and housing retention and changes to procurement or other means of affirming racial and ethnic groups that are overrepresented among residents experiencing homelessness have equitable access to housing and services.

(d) Participating jurisdictions shall collaborate to complete the regionally coordinated homelessness action plan and shall engage in a public stakeholder process that includes at least three public meetings before completing the plan.

(e) The participating jurisdictions shall invite and encourage all of the following to engage in the public stakeholder process:

(1) People with lived experience of homelessness.

(2) Youth with lived experience of homelessness.

(3) Local department leaders and staff of qualifying small jurisdictions, including child welfare, health care, behavioral health, justice, and education system leaders.

(4) Homeless service and housing providers, including non-profit developers of permanent supportive housing, working in that region.

(5) Each Medi-Cal Managed Care Plan contracted with the State Department of Health Care Services in the region.

(6) Street medicine providers and other providers directly serving people experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness.

(7) Federally recognized tribal governments pursuant to Section 4103 of Title 25 of the United States Code that are within the region.

(f) The regionally coordinated homelessness action plan shall be reflected in a memorandum of understanding committing each signatory to participation in, and to comply with, the regionally coordinated homelessness action plan.

(g) Smaller jurisdictions in the region may also sign the memorandum of understanding and commit to participation in, and compliance with, the regionally coordinated homelessness action plan. Counties are encouraged to allocate resources from program funding to smaller jurisdictions that participate in and commit to complying with the regionally coordinated homelessness action plan.

(h) Upon receipt of a proposed regionally coordinated homelessness action plan, the department shall review it in coordination with the council, the State Department of Health Care Services, and the State Department of Social Services.

(i) A qualifying jurisdiction participating in a regionally coordinated homelessness action plan shall post on its internet website the proposed, approved, and amended regionally coordinated homelessness action plan.

(j) The department may consult with any local government, public agency, group, or person, and shall receive and consider any written comments from any public agency, group, or person, regarding the action by a participating jurisdiction in determining whether the regional coordinated homeless action plan substantially complies with this article.