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Prioritization Exercise (Green=10+ votes, Yellow=6-7 votes) Goal 1: Promote an equitable, accountable, and transparent homeless crisis response system. • Holding regular community meetings and forums to provide updates, gather input, and build awareness. (5 votes) • Producing clear and accessible annual progress reports. (1 vote) • Developing a communications and educational toolkit, including a visual system map, messaging, and key resources, that municipalities, service providers, and Local organizations can user to share accurate, consistent information about homelessness, the local response system, and available services. (13 votes) • Strengthening the use of the Coordinated Entry system, ensuring consistent and fair access to housing and services, minimizing duplication, and maximizing efficiency. (5 votes) Goal 2: Strengthen the homeless service provider workforce. • Providing training and cross -agency learning opportunities to strengthen staff skills in trauma -informed care, client -centered approaches, boundaries, wellness and resilience, and consistent service delivery practices. (6 votes) • Exploring the creation of a dedicated funding source, through public, private, or philanthropic sources, to support workforce development, capacity building, and training needs across the homeless response system. (4 votes) • Engaging volunteers, interns, and community members to support providers by creating structured opportunities, pathways for involvement, and training to strengthen long-term workforce capacity. (3 votes) Goal 3: Prevent episodes of homelessness whenever possible. • Improve coordination of existing prevention resources across the community, with an emphasis on aligning diversion funds, strengthening data coordination, and supporting shared evaluation of outcomes. (1 vote) • Strengthen partnerships with private organizations and landlords to increase early identification of households at risk of homelessness and promote collaborative prevention efforts. (4 votes) • Expand and support diversion practices that resolve housing crises without system entry, including consistent referral pathways and cross -sector collaboration. (0 votes)