Homelessness Strategic Plan Services

The Vendor is required to provide to create a strategic plan in collaboration with the youth and family services division homelessness team.
- Key issues to address in the city’s homelessness plan include, but are not limited to:
• Developing and implementing the homelessness plan;
• The mission, goals, objectives, and specific strategies/action steps of the plan and how progress on the goals and objectives will be measured;
• Using multiple data sources, develop analysis of needs, use of current resources and gaps in current resources to address homelessness in target populations, including diversion, prevention, shelter, supportive housing, affordable housing;
• Centering lived experience of homelessness;
• Centering racial equity and using racial equity analyses to address systemic and programmatic disparities;
• Recommendations for how existing resources can be maximized, streamlined, and targeted, as well as identify any additional resources necessary and how resources from sectors beyond homeless services can be leveraged;
• Documenting practical and implementable strategies to improve the city's management of homelessness.
- Strategic goals setting
1. Design and lead an inclusive planning process:
• Incorporate outcomes from the June 29th homelessness summit into strategic plan outcomes.
• Review and consider utility of previous incomplete planning efforts in this strategic plan design.
• Incorporate stakeholder and lived experience input into all aspects of the plan.  
2. Recommending strategic goals:
• Based on data analysis, identify concrete goals and implementation steps for effective homeless management in city
• Recommend a project management structure for ensuring that the strategic plan is fully implemented; and the methods for accountability to the community.
• Outline performance metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for the next three years, and additionally suggested designs for how to measure, collect and track KPIs for partner organizations. 
3. Preparing and developing the homelessness plan:
• Articulate system-level and funding priorities and best practices.
• Outline clear and measurable goals that encompass: prevention and diversion, encampment management and outreach, emergency shelter, transitional housing, permanent supporting housing to affordable housing, cross-system supports and intersections, street outreach and progressive engagement, cross-systems collaboration and coordination, other strategies as identified
• Establish metrics that can be used to track progress and measure the impact of programming and provide a framework for ongoing performance measurement
• Identify funding and other resources that can be leveraged to promote progress toward goals, especially those in the housing, homelessness, health care, and private sectors.