Mid-Willamette Valley Homeless Alliance
Serving Marion and Polk counties, Oregon
This week the Alliance issued a Request for Proposals for local projects aimed at ending youth homelessness in the Marion-Polk region. Organizations can compete for approximately $3.4 million in HUD funding for programs designed to identify homeless youth, provide support services and establish or expand access to transitional housing and rapid re-housing so that the…
Marion and Polk counties are on a mission to prevent and end youth homelessness. The community is committed to making youth homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring. Six months after learning that the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a $3.7 million dollar Youth Homeless Demonstration Program (YHDP) grant to the Marion-Polk region,…
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.
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)…
Twenty Salem-area homeless housing and services providers attended a second informational meeting about forming a regional CoC, sponsored by the Mid-Willamette Homeless Initiative Steering Committee. Seven had not attended the initial meeting in April 2019 (listed in bold below). The meeting was held at The Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center. Also…
Monday night, by unanimous consent, the Salem City Council adopted Resolution 2019-17, supporting the formation of a regional CoC. From the staff summary: Analysis of the Rural Oregon Continuum of Care (ROCC) structure has concluded that a Regional Continuum of Care (CoC) structure consisting of Marion, Polk, and possibly Yamhill counties, offers the potential for…
The Rural Oregon Continuum of Care (aka “Balance of State” CoC) held its annual meeting in Salem this week, and the first item on the agenda was a session with HUD to discuss the process required to form a regional CoC, and how such a move would affect ROCC in 2020. Leading the session were…
The initiative to form a regional Continuum of Care has been assigned technical assistance through HUD. Nora Lally with HomeBase, The Center for Common Concern. Lally is based in the greater Chicago area. HomeBase is a non-profit, public policy law firm that works with communities to develop effective and humane responses to homelessness. Lally will…