""This is a new chapter for our work in the forefront Santa Clara County has led for many years," Duong said Tuesday. "[Supervisor Susan] Ellenberg, I hate to put you on the spot, [but] I'm turning to you as the lead driving force behind our behavioral health board - I'd be honored to have your second on this motion.""
""Being able to integrate city shelters into the county coordinated system is really going to allow for greater efficiencies, less duplication of effort, and hopefully more successful stories of people exiting homelessness and achieving long term stability," she said Tuesday."
Santa Clara County supervisors voted unanimously to include San Jose in the county housing and health services system, aiming to bridge aid gaps for hundreds of homeless residents in the city's shelter system. Direct medical and behavioral health services to city-funded interim housing sites will expand under a newly brokered partnership. The agreement increases inpatient and residential behavioral health capacity across the county and seeks to boost housing referral capacity and supportive-housing placements by bringing most of San Jose's temporary housing sites into the County Coordinated Entry System. Integration of city shelters into the county system is expected to create greater efficiencies, reduce duplication, and improve exits from homelessness and long-term stability.
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