Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute the Homeless Services Network of Central Florida Community Services Funding Agreement FY2021-2022 in the amount of $44,000 for the continuation of advocacy services for the homeless population in Central Florida. Countywide (Carrie Longsworth, Division Manager)

The funding awarded to Homeless Services Network of Central Florida (HSN), will further the production of good data, best practices and funding trends, critical to the development and implementation of action strategies for Seminole County and the central Florida region to help those who are homeless.  HSN will:

·    Serve as the primary advocate organization for the needs of the homeless in Central Florida and forcefully advance plausible solutions to ending homelessness in the region

·    Increase Collective Impact work to encompass youth homelessness around the region

·    Work with jurisdictions to make system wide changes and improvements based on recommendations from governance report

·    Contribute to the crafting of revised and specific regional plans for engaging the homeless problem and create the funding and infrastructure necessary to implement those plans and sustain the results they produce

·    Devise and direct fundraising efforts necessary to fulfill and create systems of fiscal management and accountability that will assure public confidence

·    Create new strategies for resource development to complement existing resources to do housing first model