Mid-Willamette Valley Homeless Alliance
Serving Marion and Polk counties, Oregon
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…
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 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…
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…
About two dozen representatives from Salem-area housing and social services agencies met at the Kroc Center last week to hear about the movement initiated by the Mid Willamette Homeless Initiative Steering Committee to pull out of the 28-county Rural Oregon Continuum of Care and form a local CoC. Invitations to the two-hour meeting came from…