PURPOSE

The purpose of the Partnership is to:

• Promote community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness;
• Utilize CoC funding for efforts by nonprofit providers and local governments to re-house homeless individuals and families rapidly while minimizing the trauma and dislocation cause to homeless individuals, families and communities as a consequence of homelessness;
• Ensure strategic utilization of all available resources;
• Establish community-wide systems’ approach with interagency coordination to alleviate poverty;
• Transform mission, vision and values into strategy;
• Promote access to and effective use of mainstream programs by homeless individuals and families; and
• Promote self-sufficiency among individuals and families by providing access to a wide range of culturally relevant housing and necessary services.