One great way to get involved in the San Joaquin Continuum of Care is to volunteer for one or more committees.  These committees work on specific responsibilities of the Continuum, such as collecting and reporting data about homelessness in San Joaquin County or evaluating the performance of organizations funded by the Continuum.  To learn more about the Continuum of Care including committees, download a PDF of the San Joaquin Continuum of Care Governance Charter here. Responsibilities of each committee are listed below. Additionally, some committees and workgroups are established on an ad-hoc basis to address a short-term project, such as the Nomination Committee and the PIT Count Committee.
The Executive Planning Committee is made up of the Officers of the SJCoC and the Chairs of the five additional standing committees. The Executive Planning Committee is responsible for overseeing all projects, allocations, and funding requests on behalf of the SJCoC to ensure consistency with locally adopted regional strategic and action plans. The Committee also works with the Collaborative Applicant to develop meeting agendas and to ensure that members of the public have timely and accurate information regarding the region’s response to homelessness.
  • Promote community wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness.
  • Develop agendas for the public meetings and plan out a calendar of regularly scheduled updates to ensure public transparency and accountability.
  • Provide guidance to the Collaborative Applicant in the development of funding requests and procurement opportunities to quickly rehouse homeless individuals (including unaccompanied youth) and families, while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused to homeless individuals, families, and communities by homelessness.
  • Monitor revenues and expenditures to ensure that allocations are consistent with revenue projections, responsive to needs, and distributed consistent with federal, state, and local funding priorities.
  • Promote access to and effective utilization of local programs by homeless individuals and families.
  • Discuss and align activities of the different committees.
  • Coordinate activities to ensure that the work of one committee can guide and inform the work of another.
  • Distribute information pertaining to any updates related to policies, practices, performance measures, or expectations on a timely basis.
  • Ensure that all projects strive to optimize self-sufficiency among individuals and families experiencing homelessness.
  • This may include but is not limited to developing written standards pertaining to individual and family eligibility, prioritization, and allocation of assistance of subsidies.
  • Virginia Carney, Chair. virginia.carney@cityoftracy.org
This committee is responsible for ensuring that accurate and timely information is presented to the Board of Directors, public entities, and the community at large. The committee is responsible for providing input, review, and assistance to the Collaborative Applicant in the management of information systems, including technology performance assessments, establishing data sharing protocols, ensuring data validity, and conducting long range planning for improved and integrated information systems:
  • Provide guidance to the HMIS Lead Agency on the management of the HMIS platform including policies and practices for strengthening agency/program participation, participant privacy, data security, data quality, data sharing, and HMIS governance.
  • Review data for the annual Point-in-Time Count of sheltered and unsheltered households, the Housing Inventory Count, and the CA System Performance Measures and tracks trends and patterns over time.
  • Assist the HMIS Lead Agency with ensuring HMIS participation across the Continuum of Care.
  • Ensure that data reports and analytics are reviewed for accuracy and approved for public dissemination prior to release.
  • 1:00PM on the last Tuesday of each month.
  • Jon Mendelson, Chair. jmendelson@cvlihc.org
This committee is made up of representatives from the lead agency overseeing the coordinated entry system and organizations that have received public funding to create homeless housing. This committee is responsible for reviewing the list of homeless households in the region and finding housing solutions from the inventory of available options.
  • By-Name List Case Conferencing and housing placement
  • Advise the CoC Board on strategies to help housing providers meet regional objectives
  • Review and recommend updates to the coordinated entry and assessment system as needed
  • Provide quarterly reports to the CoC on the number of individuals and households on the by-name list, new enrollments, length of time on the list, exits from the list, and returns to the list.
  • 11:00AM on the third Thursday of the month (every other month).
  • Matt Garber, Chair. mgarber@sjchcs.org
This Committee is responsible for enhancing and supporting the operations of interim housing programs serving homeless individuals and families.
  • Promote effective coordination and collaboration between the region’s shelter programs and local hospitals and law enforcement agencies seeking to discharge or divert individuals to housing programs and away from higher level systems engagement.
  • Provide guidance to local service providers on operating practices which meet SJCoC standards and regional objectives.
  • Provide guidance and training on when and how to exit clients from shelters upon engagement into an interim, rapid rehousing, or permanent housing program.
  • Recommend policies and actions to the SJCoC Board pertaining to contracting or performance monitoring.
  • Quarterly 3:00PM on the second Tuesday of each quarter.
  • Jennifer Ryhne, Co-Chair. jrhyne@lodi.gov
  • Virginia Carney, Co-Chair. Virginia.carney@cityoftracy.org
This committee is made up of youth and young people 24 years of age or younger, impacted by homelessness. This committee is responsible for providing perspectives and recommendations on program design and access considerations for youth. This committee also promotes youth advocacy in community and governmental affairs.
  • Sharing youth experiences and satisfaction with services and programs.
  • Encouraging a youth-focused assessment lens, particularly with regards to housing placement opportunities.
  • Attending public meetings and providing updates to related City, County, or educational partners on the experiences of homeless youth and suggested actions.
  • Conducting assessments, protocol reviews, evaluations, or other social research activities on youth serving programs to inform the CoC’s understanding of needs, assets, challenges, and opportunities to better understand and address the experience of youth homelessness.
  • Fanny Aviles, Chair. faviles@prevailca.org
This committee is responsible for enhancing and supporting the operations of homeless outreach and street medicine teams working to identify and transition homeless persons into supportive services and permanent housing.
    • Promote effective coordination and collaboration between street outreach teams and other partners working to reduce the number of people living unsheltered in our community, including Behavioral Health, Public Safety, and CalTrans.
    • Provide guidance to local service providers on operating practices which meet SJCoC standards and regional objectives.
    • Provide guidance and training on when and how to exit clients from street outreach upon engagement into a shelter, interim housing, or permanent housing program.
    • Recommend policies and actions to the SJCoC Board pertaining to contracting or performance monitoring.
    • Vielka Guarascio, Co-Chair. vguarascio@manteca.gov
    • Jamie Grant, Co-Chair. jgrant@sjgov.org
Visit the Outreach Committee website.

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