For Providers

The Continuum of Care (CoC) is designed to promote community wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, and State and local governments to quickly rehouse homeless individuals and families while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused to homeless individuals, families, and communities by homelessness; promote access to and effect utilization of mainstream programs by homeless individuals and families; and optimize self-sufficiency among individuals and families experiencing homelessness.

The Housing First Model is a national model used by communities all over the country to end homelessness. A Housing First System orientation recognizes that people experiencing homelessness like all people need the safety and stability of a home in order to best address challenges and peruse opportunity. The Housing First Approach connects people back to a home as quickly as possible, while making readily available the services that people may need to be stable and secure.