20 Mar 09 CoC 10-Year Plan, Objectives and Action Steps
We have received several calls recently with the same theme: What are the objectives of the Continuum of Care?
It seems the City of Orlando has asked Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) applicants to demonstrate how their agency’s ESG project outcomes relate to the CoC’s objectives.
In the 2008 CoC application for Supportive Housing Program (SHP) funding, HUD established five national objectives to end chronic homelessness and move families and individuals to permanent housing:
- Create new PH beds for chronically homeless persons
- Increase percentage of homeless persons staying in PH over 6 months to at least 71.5%
- Increase percentage of homeless persons moving from TH to PH to at least 63.5%
- Increase the percentage of homeless persons employed at exit to at least 19%
- Decrease the number of homeless households with children
The first objective is about each CoC creating new permanent housing beds for the chronically homeless, supporting HUD’s priority to end chronic homelessness.
The percentages listed in objectives 2, 3, and 4 are based on national averages and our CoC aims for these targets as a minimum. HUD expects all CoCs to be meeting or exceeding these standards and will continue to increase them over time. The annual increases aim to ensure that CoCs continue to serve those homeless populations that are the hardest-to-serve.
The last objective, to decrease the number of homeless households with children, was new in 2008.
For each objective, HSN established specific action steps designed to accomplish the objective. To see the action steps, download this excerpt from the 2008 CoC application.
[...] addressing the national objectives set forth by HUD (see our previous post), HSN has ongoing strategic goals which frame the action plans created for each year’s Continuum [...]