The Atlanta Continuum of Care
The Atlanta CoC is comprised of over 150 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:
The Adult PLE workgroup provides input and guidance on policies, funding and strategy. Individuals must have lived experience with homelessness to join.
The Coordinated Entry workgroup improves access to CoC services by clients, drafts and approves Coordinated Entry policies and procedures, and utilizes system outcomes to strengthen decision-making.
The Performance Committee analyzes system and programmatic data for performance, compliance and quality. Data is utilized to strengthen decision-making on systems improvement.
The Atlanta Racial Equity Alliance (AREA) provides trainings and opportunities for stakeholders in the local homeless ecosystem to achieve the structural change objectives created through the CoC’s quantitative and qualitative research evaluating racial disparities among people experiencing homelessness in the City.
The Rank and Review Committee reviews new and renewing CoC applications for funding to determine eligibility, rank and scoring in accordance with application standards.
The Youth PLE workgroup serves as the voice of youth homelessness in the City of Atlanta and includes youth with lived experience and between the ages of 18-24.
The Youth Services workgroup consists of providers of services to youth experiencing homelessness whose goal is to end youth homelessness in the City of Atlanta.
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.
Laura W. Beggs
Division of Family & Child Services
Ann Brown
Department of Veterans Affairs
Kellie Bryson
Youth Advisory Board
Julio Carrillo
Hope Atlanta
Jason Dozier
Atlanta City Council
Natalie Hall
Fulton County
Tracie Harps
Client Advisory Committee
Robert E. Herrera, Rank + Review Chair
Points of Light
Erica Headlee
The Home Depot Foundation
Tracy Jones
Atlanta Housing
Deborah Lonon
City of Atlanta
Leslie Marshburn
Grady Health System
Erika Mitchell
Atlanta Public School Board
Amelia Nickerson
First Step Staffing
Marc Pollack
RangeWater Real Estate
Debra Robinson
Amerigroup
Maxwell Ruppersburg
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities
Brad Schweers
Intown Cares
Meaghan Shannon-Vlkovic, Chair
Enterprise Community Partners
Sam Shenbaga
Atlanta Regional Commission
Sean Smith
New Horizon Baptist Church
Cathryn Vassell
Partners for HOME
Matt Westmoreland
Atlanta City Council