Mid-Willamette Valley Homeless Alliance
Serving Marion and Polk counties, Oregon
At its January meeting, the Development Council accepted a generous offer of support of $50,000 per year for three years from Jim Seymour on behalf of the Community, Business and Education Leaders’ Collaborative. The offer was made on the condition that annual contribution comprise no more than one-third of the Mid-Willamette Valley Homeless Alliance (MWVHA)’s…
Continuum of Care Program 2019 awards to Marion and Polk counties.
In the last such last meeting for 2019, area providers gathered at the Keizer Civic Center on December 5, 2019, for the final vote on whether to remain in the Rural Oregon Continuum of Care, or leave and re-form the regional CoC consisting of Marion and Polk counties. The vote was unanimous in favor. The…
Kaiser Permanente has joined forces with the Mid-Willamette Valley Homeless Alliance to implement Built for Zero in the Marion-Polk county region. Built for Zero is a national initiative of more than 70 cities and counties committed to ending chronic and veteran homelessness by using real-time data to improve performance, adopt proven best practices, and deploy…
October and November meetings of the Development Council were focused on organizational formalities like approving a governance charter, member contribution agreements, staffing contracts, separation agreements with the Rural Oregon Continuum of Care (ROCC), and identifying a collaborative applicant, all of which are needed to gain recognition by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD)…
The first meeting of the Development Council (DC) was held yesterday, September 24, at the Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Governments’ (MWVCOG) offices on High Street in Salem. (See here for the agenda and here for a roster of DC members.) At this meeting, the DC decided that the name of the new continuum of care…
Thursday morning, September 19, 2019, Independence City Manager Tom Pessemier and Monmouth City Manager Scott McClure welcomed area providers to Polk County Fire District One fire station in Independence. The group reviewed the timeline for forming a local continuum of care, asked questions about the organizational structure, and offered comments and suggestions on the draft…
The Mid-Willamette Homeless Initiative Steering Committee held their final (for now) meeting at the Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Governments (MWVCOG) offices yesterday. Most of the meeting was spent previewing the actions that they would have to take immediately upon reconvening as the Mid-Willamette Valley Continuum of Care (CoC) Development Council. Those tasks included choosing a…
The Mid-Willamette Homeless Initiative Steering Committee meets for what could be the last time on Thursday, August 29 from 3 to 5 at the offices of the Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Government offices on High Street in Salem (the steering committee did not meet in July). Then in September, the members of the steering committee…