Homeless multidisciplinary personnel teams.

Existing law authorizes a county to establish a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team, as defined, with the goal of facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and linkage of homeless individuals to housing and supportive services within that county and to allow provider agencies to share confidential information for the purpose of coordinating housing and supportive services to ensure continuity of care. Existing law requires this sharing of information to be governed by protocols developed in each county describing how and what information may be shared by the homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team to ensure that confidential information gathered by the team is not disclosed in violation of state or federal law, and requires a copy of the protocols to be distributed to each participating agency and persons and the State Department of Social Services. This bill would authorize a county that has established a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team to enter into an agreement with surrounding counties that have also established a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team to share confidential information for the purpose of coordinating housing and supportive services to ensure continuity of care across county lines. The bill would similarly require the participating counties to jointly develop protocols and to distribute the protocols as described above.