Specifications include, but are not limited to: FACs funded under this opportunity will provide shelter and case management services for homeless families with minor children living in Hawaii. The following recommendations are being considered for improvements to the shelter program: • FAC shall serve as access points into the local Coordinated Entry System and provide the following: o Standardized Homeless Verification Letters, o Vulnerability Index – Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool, known as VI-SPDAT, which is a survey administered to individuals and families to determine risk and prioritization, and o Assistance to become document ready. Documents may include birth certificates, social security, identification cards, and verifying disabling conditions and chronicity for chronic homeless households. • FAC Program service shall be provided in a manner that is consistent with Housing First (HF) approach. • FAC operation staff funded under this opportunity shall only include positions that align with the HF approach. • FAC shall use a low barrier approach to admissions and shall not have pre-conditions for entry such as program fees, sobriety or completion of a treatment program and shall not solely deny entry into its program based on any previous discharge. • FAC shall request approval from HPO to ban any Participant from entering shelter premises, and/or from receiving continued services. • FAC staff shall be trained and use assertive engagement, harm reduction, and trauma informed care. • FAC will provide vacancies to HPO daily. • FAC must remain open for participants to access 24 hours a day, seven (7) days a week. • FAC will use the Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool, known as SPDAT, as the standardized assessment and on-going assessment to identify and address participant’s needs. • FAC shall develop housing plans using a standardized template based on information obtained from the SPDAT.
