Uniting Communities to End Homelessness
The Mid-Willamette Valley Homeless Alliance, or “Alliance,” is a collaborative organization engaging in a communitywide commitment to coordinate, leverage, and align efforts and resources to prevent and end homelessness.
Serving Marion County and Polk County, Oregon.
Our Mission
To develop an evidence-based system of services, including stable housing, designed to meet the unique and complex needs of adults, youth, children, and families in Marion and Polk counties who are at risk of or are experiencing homelessness.
Our Vision
Our vision is that the Mid-Valley becomes a community of belonging where everyone has access to housing and healthcare, has the opportunity to heal, and is treated with dignity and respect while their safety and basic needs are met.
Our Purpose
End and Prevent Homelessness.
Our Values
Collaboration
We engage organizations across many sectors and people with lived experience to find and develop solutions to our community’s most pressing housing/healthcare crises. We intentionally include voices and perspectives from underrepresented communities to ensure more comprehensive and effective solutions.
Stewardship
We are responsible for ensuring that the resources of The Alliance are used strategically and transparently in our collective pursuit to end and prevent homelessness.
Inclusion
We seek to create a community that cultivates belonging by designing a Continuum of Care that actively includes people of all walks of life.
Compassion
We want to relieve human suffering. When one person in our community is at-risk of or experiencing displacement, we are committed to meet them where they are at and offer options.
Leadership
We take bold steps forward, leading the way to community-defined and evidenced-based solutions to end and prevent homelessness.
Commitment
We are committed to this work until every person in our community’s basic needs are met.
Adaptability
We adapt our work to fit the needs in our community, we are nimble, and we are constantly adjusting our approach to match emerging trends.
Our Goals
Understand our community: Through local quantitative and qualitative data The Alliance continually seeks to understand the causes of the crises faced by our community members.
Develop and improve the coordinated system of care and services: The Alliance fosters the development of a continuum of services to (1) strengthen our region’s service providers; (2) expand service provider’s ability to offer everyone a safe place to sleep and a path to stable housing; and (3) build community capacity to prevent homelessness.
Maximize resources: The Alliance maximizes resources that support the work of the CoC and its service providers through solicitation, leverage, and strategic investments.
Increase participation in the CoC region: Because homelessness touches every corner of our community, we need vast CoC representation from across our region to solve it.
