Delaware Continuum of Care

“The Delaware Continuum of Care is a community-based collaborative that ensures a responsive, fair, and just approach to addressing homelessness, and strives to achieve housing for all”

CoC Membership

Interested in addressing homelessness in your community? Join the DE CoC to get involved today!

Access upcoming meeting schedules, information, and previous meeting materials on the CoC Events page.

CoC Committees

CoC committees meet throughout the year to plan and implement action items related to CoC priorities. Each committee targets a specific need, service area, sub-population, or critical CoC function.

Helps advocate for and promote solutions to prevent and end homelessness among community members, local and state leaders, and elected officials.

CoC Advocacy & Policy Agenda

Access CoC Committee meeting schedules, zoom links, and materials via the CoC Events Page.

CoC Priorities

The CoC Priorities were developed to help guide and inform CoC initiatives and funding work for 2023.

The CoC will prioritize increasing the local affordable housing supply by:

Prioritizing projects for CoC funding that create new/additional permanent housing units for people experiencing homelessness
Working with PHAs to increase access to PHA vouchers/subsidies for people experiencing homelessness and to develop move-on strategies to increase the number of PSH units available for the most vulnerable people experiencing homelessness
Advocating for increased affordable housing funding, and
Engaging local leaders around zoning and land use reform to increase the affordable housing supply

The DE CoC will prioritize improving system performance by:

Prioritizing projects for CoC funding that perform well on system performance metrics, and/or would improve system performance if funded
Working to increase CMIS system coverage and continuously monitoring/improving CMIS data
quality
Providing training and learning opportunities to community members and service providers on SPMs and strategies to improve outcomes

The CoC will prioritize disability rights by:

Prioritizing CoC funding for projects that create new housing units dedicated to people with disabilities
Providing training and education for housing and shelter program staff on the rights of people with disabilities and how to make reasonable accommodations
Developing a strategy to ensure that people with disabilities are included in decision-making processes and advocacy for solutions to homelessness

The CoC will prioritize racial justice and equity by:

Working to ensure representation in places where decisions are being made
Advancing racial justice and equity work through the RJE committee of the CoC
Considering the extent to which CoC-funded projects are working to advance racial equity in CoC project evaluation
Providing education to the community on racial justice issues in housing/homelessness
Performing an analysis of outcomes by race to identify disparities at the system level, and
Regularly assessing coordinated entry to ensure equitable outcomes by racial group

The CoC will prioritize incorporating persons with lived experience of homelessness by:

Recruiting and inviting people with lived experience to participate in the CoC and on the Board
Providing training and technical assistance to service providers about how to incorporate the voices and expertise of the people they serve into their program design
Elevate the voices and perspectives of people with lived experience in our advocacy work
Consider the extent to which agencies incorporate people with lived experience into their decision-making processes when evaluating CoC projects for funding consideration

View the full document here.

Delaware's Action Plan to End Homelessness

Ending homelessness means that we have a responsive and accessible system of supports that:

Prevents homelessness

whenever possible

Provides

appropriate crisis shelter

to all people & families in need

Quickly helps people move back into housing

in the community

Provides

housing stability supports

so that no one returns to homelessness

When we end homelessness in Delaware, homelessness will be rare, brief, and non-recurring. We believe that this can be achieved by engaging each person with a strength-based approach that builds on their resilience, reduces their risks, and improves their lives from the safety and dignity of their own homes.