Introduction
Each year, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) solicits applications from communities to address the needs of those experiencing homelessness. This process, known as the Continuum of Care Program (CoC), facilitates grants designed to address the problems of homelessness in a comprehensive manner with other federal agencies.
El Paso Continuum of Care
The El Paso Continuum of Care serves as the Continuum of Care (CoC) for its geographic area of El Paso County. The Continuum of Care (CoC) was designed to address homelessness through a coordinated community-based process of identifying needs and building a system of housing and services to address those needs. The El Paso CoC seeks to prevent, reduce and end homelessness through effective coordinated community-wide efforts and services.
History of the continuum of Care (CoC)
Since 1994, the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has encouraged communities to address the problems of housing and homelessness in a coordinated, comprehensive, and strategic fashion. With input from practitioners throughout the country, HUD introduced the Continuum of Care concept to support communities in this effort. This concept is designed to help communities develop the capacity to envision, organize, and plan comprehensive and long-term solutions to addressing the problem of homelessness in their community.
COC BOARD
A successful Continuum of Care (CoC) should have a year-round planning process that is coordinated, inclusive and outcome-oriented. The El Paso CoC has a governing body and a number of sub-committees or working groups. The membership of the governing body is decided through an open and democratic process and is representative of private, nonprofit and public sectors.
The El Paso Continuum of Care is governed by a CoC Board composed of representatives from across the community.
CoC Board Members (as of August 2017) include:
- Joel Arrigucci, Retired
- Gail Gale, United Way of El Paso County
- EdRicardo Gandara, Emergence Health Network
- Monica Gamboa, UMC
- Tim Gray, University Presbyterian Church
- Melissa Lopez, DMRS
- Shelby McCue, Ortega, McGlashan, Hicks, & Perez, PPLC
- Robin Rollins, VA
- Jeanette Williams, Socorro ISD
All regularly scheduled meetings will be on the 2nd Thursday of each month, from 4:00 – 5:30 PM at the Coalition for the Homeless’ office. The address is 6044 Gateway East, Suite 211, 79905. For more information, please contact Camille Castillo at ccastillo.epch@elp.twcbc.com.
COC OPEN FORUM POLICY
Agenda Minutes
2017 2017
January 12 January 12
No Meeting in June
December 14 2017 December 14 2017
January 11 2018 January 11 2018
February 15 2018 February 15 2018
Closed Meeting on April 16 2018
NOTICE OF FUNDING AVAILABILITY – FY2018 COC PROGRAM COMPETITION
HUD has released the NOFA for the FY18 CoC Program Competition. The El Paso CoC is soliciting new and renewal project applications for inclusion in our annual submission to HUD for the Continuum of Care grant program. You can find details on eligible projects and applicant and project requirements in the NOFA (see link below).
If you are interested in applying for a new grant or interested in renewing your existing grant, please see the below materials.
- FY 2018 CoC Renewal Application
- FY 2018 NOFA Revised 7 18 2018
- FY 2017 Rating & Ranking Tool
- Appeals Process
- FY 2018 CoC Competition – What’s New