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Atlanta Continuum of Care

The Atlanta Continuum of Care

The Atlanta CoC is comprised of over 170 nonprofit, government business and community stakeholders dedicated to ending homelessness the City of Atlanta. 

The Continuum of Care is a HUD program that promotes community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness and provides funding for efforts by nonprofit providers and state and local governments to quickly rehouse people impacted by homelessness. The Atlanta CoC works with Partners for HOME to execute its strategies to end homelessness in the City.

The Atlanta CoC is an unincorporated association led by a Governing Council with committee and workgroup engagement for members including:

  • Purpose: To address systemic and racial barriers within the homeless response system.
  • Point-of-Contact: Brianna Flowers
  • Meetings held the third Thursday of every other month at 9:00 AM.
  • Purpose: To advise stakeholders with decision making authority in the CoC to ensure that the voices of those with lived experience and expertise are heard and included.
  • Point-of-Contact: Abby Bracewell (Abby Bracewell)
  • Meetings held monthly on the third Tuesday of each month at 12:00 PM.
  • Purpose: To develop an accessible, equitable, and effective Coordinated Entry System through ongoing evaluation and refinement.
  • Point-of-Contact: Regina Rubalcava
  • Meetings held the fourth Thursday of each month at 12:00 PM.
  • Purpose: To update the Diversion Program Model.
  • Point-of-Contact: Erin Wilson or Camille Russell
  • Workgroup currently closed. Future meetings to be determined.
  • Purpose: To plan for the launch of a new outreach team for the Downtown Rising Initiative to function as one large multiagency outreach team to reach all unsheltered individuals in Downtown Atlanta.
  • Point-of-Contact: Erin Wilson or Camille Russell
  • Meetings held time limited through March and April (bi-weekly on Fridays at 12:00 PM)
  • Purpose: To coordinate the strategic plan for the Downtown Rising Initiative in the City of Atlanta to function as one steering committee to successful implementation of the project
  • Point-of-Contact: Cathryn Vassell
  • Meetings held bi-weekly on Fridays at 11:00 AM.
  • Purpose: To represent a wider array of community stakeholders dedicated to seeing the successful implementation of Atlanta Continuum of Care Strategic Vision to Prevent, Rapidly Exit, and Divert Families from homelessness.
  • Point-of-Contact: Jasmine Cunningham
  • Monthly ad hoc meetings
  • Purpose: To coordinate outreach providers in the City of Atlanta to function as one large outreach team to reach all unsheltered individuals.
  • Point-of-Contact: Camille Russell or Erin Wilson
  • Meetings held bi-weekly on Fridays at 12:00 PM.
  • Purpose: To develop and implement a path of strategies that end homelessness for Veterans.
  • Point-of-Contact: David Mance
  • Hybrid monthly meetings held the fourth Tuesday of each month at 2:00 PM.
  • Purpose: To advocate for and lead the systematic change necessary in Atlanta to end youth homelessness.
  • Point-of-Contact: Bidemi Animashaun
  • Meetings held weekly on Thursdays at 11:00 AM.
  • Purpose: To represent a wider array of community stakeholders dedicated to seeing the successful implementation of Atlanta Coordinated Community Plan to End Youth Homelessness
  • Point-of-Contact: Jasmine Cunningham
  • Monthly meetings held the first Thursday of each month at 9:00 AM.

Atlanta CoC
Resources

Click a link to the right to learn more about the Atlanta CoC or get involved. 

Governing Council

The Atlanta Continuum of Care is governed by a distinguished group of stakeholders that represent 
nonprofit, government, business and community constituents in the City of Atlanta. 

Julio Carrillo
Hope Atlanta

Jeff Chesnut, Rank + Review Chair
Seyfarth

Jason Dozier
Atlanta City Council

VACANT
Fulton County

Erica Headlee
The Home Depot Foundation

Josh Humphries
City of Atlanta

Tracy Jones
Atlanta Housing

Leslie Marshburn, Vice Chair
Grady Health System

Marcus Mister
Atlanta Downtown Improvement District

Erika Mitchell
Atlanta Public School Board

Wali Muhammed
Client Advisory Committee

Amelia Nickerson
First Step Staffing

Marc Pollack
RangeWater Real Estate

Maxwell Ruppersburg
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities

Brad Schweers
Intown Cares

Sam Shenbaga
Atlanta Regional Commission

Rev. Sean Smith, Chair
New Horizon Baptist Church & City of Atlanta

Cathryn Vassell
Partners for HOME

Matt Westmoreland
Atlanta City Council

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