Community Priorities and Funding Strategies

The CoC's overall priority is to make homelessness brief, rare and non-recurring. We seek to ensure adequate funding for programs that are effective in functionally ending homelessness and providing everyone with the opportunity for safe, decent, and affordable housing options. We work to leverage community resources with State and Federal funding and ensure a region-wide approach to service delivery.

The CoC is a collaborative of community partners working to create cost-effective interventions that enhance system-wide performance. Activities include stabilizing families to reduce the length of time families/individuals experience homelessness, fostering increases to household income, obtaining needed benefits, increasing successful housing placements, and supporting housing retention.

All CoC members must adhere to the written policies and by-laws approved by the CoC Board of Directors, including the CoC's Code of Conduct and PII policies. The CoC members funded through CoC collaborative application efforts must implement "Housing First" as the model to housing provision and service delivery. Funded partners must actively work to reduce barriers to services and housing. We prioritize services to those who are the most vulnerable and least likely to access services. The homeless populations we serve have varied needs and increased barriers to housing and include veterans, chronically homeless, unaccompanied youth, families, LGBTQIA, victims of domestic violence, and criminal histories.