Mid-Willamette Valley Homeless Alliance
Serving Marion and Polk counties, Oregon
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…