(a) The Governor shall create an Interagency Council on Homelessness. (b) The council shall have all of the following goals: (1) To oversee implementation of this chapter. (2) To identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California. (3) To create partnerships among state agencies and departments, local government agencies, participants in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Developmentâs Continuum of Care Program, federal agencies, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, nonprofit entities working to end homelessness, homeless services providers, and the private sector, for the purpose of arriving at specific strategies to end homelessness. (4) To promote systems integration to increase efficiency and effectiveness while focusing on designing systems to address the needs of people experiencing homelessness, including unaccompanied youth under 25 years of age. (5) To coordinate existing funding and applications for funding. Any action taken pursuant to this paragraph shall not restructure or change any existing allocations or allocation formulas. (A) To ensure eligible applicants are informed of opportunities to apply for funding, council staff shall develop and regularly maintain a strategic funding guide and a calendar of new or existing funding opportunities. (B) Agencies and departments administering state programs shall provide the council updated information on new or existing funding opportunities on a quarterly basis. (6) To make policy and procedural recommendations to legislators and other governmental entities. (7) To identify and seek funding opportunities for state entities that have programs to end homelessness, including, but not limited to, federal and philanthropic funding opportunities, and to facilitate and coordinate those state entitiesâ efforts to obtain that funding. (8) To broker agreements between state agencies and departments and between state agencies and departments and local jurisdictions to align and coordinate resources, reduce administrative burdens of accessing existing resources, and foster common applications for services, operating, and capital funding. (9) To serve as a statewide facilitator, coordinator, and policy development resource on ending homelessness in California. (10) To report to the Governor, federal Cabinet members, and the Legislature on homelessness and work to reduce homelessness. (11) To ensure accountability and results in meeting the strategies and goals of the council. (12) To identify and implement strategies to fight homelessness in small communities and rural areas. (13) To create a statewide data system or warehouse, which shall be known as the Homeless Data Integration System, that collects local data through Homeless Management Information Systems, with the ultimate goal of matching data on homelessness to programs impacting homeless recipients of state programs, such as the Medi-Cal program (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9) and CalWORKs (Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3 of Division 9). Upon creation of the Homeless Data Integration System, all continuums of care, as defined in Section 578.3 of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations, that are operating in California shall provide collected data elements, including, but not limited to, health information, in a manner consistent with federal law, to the Homeless Data Integration System. (A) Council staff shall specify the form and substance of the required data elements. (B) Council staff may, as required by operational necessity, and in accordance with paragraph (8) of subdivision (d) of Section 8256, amend or modify data elements, disclosure formats, or disclosure frequency. (C) (i) To further the efforts to improve the public health, safety, and welfare of people experiencing homelessness in the state, council staff may collect data from the continuums of c
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