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homeless persons to come in so that the can discuss their case management and provide them with shelter. Hope Services Hawaii, Inc. also provides meals for the homeless and transportation to appointments. Addressing the emergency shelter and transitional housing needs of homeless persons The County has a plan to address the emergency shelter, transitional housing and permanent housing needs of homeless persons in West Hawaii. Recently, the County completed the West Hawaii Emergency Shelter in Kailua -Kona, Hawaii. The shelter has 31 rooms available for homeless persons every night and it is filled to capacity every night. In December, 2014 the County completed construction of 24 transitional housing units and 72 permanent housing units in the Na Kahua Hale 0 Ulu Wini project in Kailua -Kona, Hawaii. The County plans to acquire and install 32 micro - housing units, in West Hawaii, to provide long- term transitional housing for the chronic homeless. The County's Office of Housing and Community Development (OHCD) will be communicating with vendors who will be retrofitting and delivering 40'x 8' shipping containers that will be converted into 4 micro - housing units. In addition to providing shelter, the OHCD will be working with the various service providers and West Hawaii Chronic Homelessness Intervention and Rehabilitation Project (CHIRP) participants to provide the management of the site in addition to coordinating the needed health care services for these clients. Helping homeless persons (especially chronically homeless individuals and families, families with children, veterans and their families, and unaccompanied youth) make the transition to permanent housing and independent living, including shortening the period of time that individuals and families experience homelessness, facilitating access for homeless individuals and families to affordable housing units, and preventing individuals and families who were recently homeless from becoming homeless again The County's plan is to transition homeless persons from the West Hawaii Emergency Shelter to the Ulu Wini transitional housing and then to the permanent rental units in Ulu Wini or other permanent housing units in West Hawaii. The rental units provide Section 8 project -based vouchers which will assist with rental susidies, which is another program the Office of Housing and Community Development administers. The goal is to prevent these individuals and families from becoming homeless again by providing them with case management, counseling and employment and life skills training. This allows for personal growth, family stability and job opportunities. Helping low- income individuals and families avoid becoming homeless, especially extremely low- income individuals and families and those who are: being discharged from publicly funded institutions and systems of care (such as health care facilities, mental health facilities, foster care and other youth facilities, and corrections programs and institutions); or, receiving Annual Action Plan 2016 OMB Control No: 2506 -0117 (exp. 07/31/2015) 33