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<br />Community Development Agency <br />www.santa-ana.org/cd <br />Item # 14 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> Staff Report <br />August 19, 2025 <br />TOPIC: Agreement between the City of Santa Ana, the Housing Authority of the City of <br />Santa Ana, and Orangewood Foundation for Services Coordination for Transitional Age <br />Youth and Former Foster Youth <br />AGENDA TITLE <br />Agreement between the City of Santa Ana, the Housing Authority of the City of Santa <br />Ana, and Orangewood Foundation for Services Coordination for Transitional Age Youth <br />and Former Foster Youth (Specification No. 25-057A) <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Approve and authorize the execution of an agreement between the City of Santa Ana, <br />the Housing Authority of the City of Santa Ana, and Orangewood Foundation to provide <br />services coordination for transitional age youth and former foster youth, aged 18 <br />through 24, who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness and who <br />have been matched with a Foster Youth to Independence voucher, in an amount not to <br />exceed $632,839, for a three-year term beginning August 19, 2025, and expiring August <br />18, 2028, with the option for a one-year extension. (Agreement No. A-2025-XXX) <br />(related to Housing Authority Agenda Item No. 3) <br />GOVERNMENT CODE §84308 APPLIES: Yes <br />DISCUSSION <br />On April 2, 2025, staff issued a Request for Proposals (RFP # 25-057A) soliciting <br />applications from qualified organizations to provide services coordination for transitional <br />age youth (TAY) and former foster youth, aged 18 through 24, who are experiencing <br />homelessness or at risk of homelessness and who have been matched with a Foster <br />Youth to Independence (FYI) voucher. Specifically, the selected provider will deliver <br />two core services: 1) housing navigation and landlord incentive services to assist the <br />FYI voucher holder to lease a rental unit in the private market; and 2) independent living <br />skill training and life skills support services to maintain stable housing and not return to <br />homelessness (Exhibit 1). The RFP required that priority be given to qualifying TAY at <br />the Santa Ana Navigation Center (‘Carnegie Homeless Shelter’). The RFP was posted <br />on the City’s online bid management and publication system, 305 vendors were notified, <br />and letters announcing the RFP were e-mailed to four (4) individual organizations. <br />Responses to the RFP were accepted from April 2, 2025 until April 30, 2025.