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committees
General Meeting
The Coalition has its general meeting the third Thursday of every month
9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
E. Cherry YWCA
2820 E. Cherry
General email
Steering committee
- Develop a general meeting annual schedule
- Develop budget
- Oversee SKCCH action agenda / monitor issues & liaisons
- Take a lead role in the Committee to End Homelessness in King County
- Work to sustain and advocate for new human services funding revenues
MEETING INFORMATION
The Steering Committee meets the first Thursday of every month
10:00 am - noon
Dorothy Day House, 106 Bell Street, Seattle
(between Bell & First)
General email
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Funding Resources Committee
The Funding Resources Committee makes funding recommendations for King County FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Act) and ESAP & EHAP state funds (Emergency Shelter Assistance Program) for shelter and prevention services. Committee recommendations are presented at a general Seattle/King County Coalition for the Homeless meeting for approval and final allocation decisions are made by the local FEMA Board and by the CTED (State of Washington Community, Trade and Economic Development department).
ACTION AGENDA
- Decide how and if supplemental application data will be used.
- Continue working on redistribution of Families with Children fund.
- Conduct ESAP, Families with Children, and FEMA fund process.
- Recruit new leadership for the committee.
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Advocacy and Public Awareness Committee
The Advocacy/Public Awareness Committee works to actively research issues that are pertinent
to low-income and homeless populations, and to educate and organize Coalition
members to advocate at local, state and federal levels. The committee aims to bring relevant, accurate information relating to homelessness and housing issues to elected officials, policy-makers, funding bodies, public service employees, and members of the general community who wish to benefit from a deeper understanding of the issues surrounding poverty and housing. The committee’s activities include: The committee’s activities include:
- Providing training to the full Coalition in advocacy and action
- Reviewing of budget and policy initiatives
- Making it easy for members to take action by providing timely alerts with clear messages
- Developing and maintaining relationships with elected officials and their staff, in conjunction with the Steering Committee
- Encouraging SKCCH participation in HOusing Advocacy Day and providing information to members regarding Youth Advocacy Day
- REcommending positions on issues impacting homelessness for City of Seattle, and King County level issues. This includes issues beyond housing such as human services, cash benefits, domestic violence, etc.
ACTION AGENDA
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Increase effectiveness of state level advocacy by developing a list of SKCCH programs by legislative district.
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Create a calendar of upcoming advocacy opportunities - keep updated and distribute at general meetings and via the website.
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Offer membership training in understanding government budgets and the process to develop them.
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Help establish relationships between SKCCH and key officials in other cities within King County, amoung members of the KIng County Council, and with key state legislators and members of congress.
- Increase participation of homeless and formerly homeless people in SKCCH advocacy.
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Work with the Steering Committee to host a candidates' forum.
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Create and disseminate fact sheets about the Coalition and about homelessness in King County to the public, elected officials, the media, and SKCCH membership.
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Monitor and recommend responses to media coverage relating to homelessness in kIng County including letter to the editor campaigns and timely guest editorials. Create and maintain relationships with members of the local media.
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Membership Committee
The Membership and Outreach Committee organizes and implements the annual membership
drive including outreach, follow-up and application processing.
Please visit our membership page to find out how
you can become a member and to see a list of our current members.
ACTION AGENDA
- Develop an outreach plan to include and invite participation from more organizations providing services to people of color or otherwise promoting social justice for communities of color.
- Develop outreach plan to recruit more county agencies and smaller providers that serve homeless families
- Articulate SKCCH anti-racism agenda and efforts
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POPULATION COMMITTEES
Families Committee
The Families Committee provides a forum for homeless family providers to collaborate,
provide input into planning processes, organize and advocate.
The committee’s activities include:
- Advocacy and planning related to service barriers for refugee and large families
- Education, collaboration, and advocacy around homeless family issues
- Organize efforts to increase funding and services for homeless families
- Support collaboration between service providers and local faith-based communities
ACTION AGENDA
- Continue to follow progress and give input to the Committee to End Homelessness on issues facing families in King County
- Continue to follow changes with DSHS/Public Assistance that affects the families and children we work with and get regular updates from our DSHS liaison
- Continue to advocate to maintain Section 8 funding both locally and at a federal level
- Continue to collaborate and provide input to Safe Harbors, the Committee to End Homelessness, The Sound Families Initiative, DSHS and other efforts affecting families in transition
- Continue to host presentations at our meetings from a variety of providers and topics related to serving families who are homeless such as WROC, SHA, CPS, mental health services, etc.
- Continue to focus and educate ourselves on the specific needs of older youth living with their families in shelter, DV or transitional housing
- Provide more outreach and more opportunities for providers outside of the city of Seattle to participate in our committee
- Develop listing of KC transitional housing programs that will include basic eligibility criteria and information regarding referral & application process
- Offer presentation on regional childcare opportunities for families who are homeless and feature other aspects of our committee's work at a general coalition meeting
- Continue efforts to identify difficult barriers some families face in finding stable housing and to advocate for those families.(ie. very large families, families below 30% of medium income, immigrant & refuge families, families with older teens, families with ongoing mental health/ health conditions, families with huge debt, current evictions, criminal histories and families who have been homeless for long extended periods of time.)
- Continue to monitor Washington Families Fund, DSHS, Family and Education Levy, Sec 8 in areas that affect families who are homeless or at risk of being homeless
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Single Adult Committee
The Single Adult/Winter Response Committee is comprised of service providers,
people who are homeless, and funders that work together for the benefit of homeless
adults.
The committee’s activities include:
- Providing a forum for collaborating single adult homeless services
- Providing input into city and county planning efforts for emergency shelter
- Advocating for winter response shelters
ACTION AGENDA
- Maintain capacity for existing shelters including continuing or conversations around the referral and access process to keep all shelter full. Work to support low/no barrier shelter access. Advocate around budget issues at the city, county, state and federal levels.
- Continue to advocate for GAU, including covered mental health care access.
- Participate in/provide input about the upcoming shelter RFP process.
- Advocate for safe, decent, affordable, appropriate transitional and permanent housing.
- Provide continued opportunities to network with homeless people, service providers, advocates, interested citizens re issues concerning homeless "single adults".
- Encourage participation from a diverse community providers and participants.
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Youth and Young Adult Committee
The Youth and Young Adult Committee strives to ensure that the needs of youth
are being met by working together as a whole, not just as individual agencies.
The committee’s activities include:
- Holding regular trainings on topics of interest (i.e.: confidentiality and
ethics, prostitution, harm-reduction models)
- Researching ways to improve service provision to homeless youth
ACTION AGENDA
- Attend and participate in Youth Advocacy Day
- Increase membership and participation of people who are homeless
- Support HUD pro-youth continuation
- Advocate for hygiene services in the University District
- Continue to support runaway youth homeless money
- Hold regular trainings on topics that effect homeless youth.
- Ensure that the needs for advocacy are being met by: fostering the collaboration of separate agencies; mobilizing people who can respond to upcoming needs for advocacy as well as entities who can access funds for homeless youth programs
- Help educate State Congress members on homeless youth and young adult issues
- Create a welcome packet that informs individuals/agencies about Y&YA Committee
- Increasing Youth Participation at Y&YA Committee Meetings and membership throughoutKing County
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Project Cool
More information about Project Cool
ACTION AGENDA
- Ensure that homeless children, youth and teens have back-to-school supplies
each fall:
Conduct or coordinate a supply drive
- Help purchase supplies
- Assist in fundraising activities
- Volunteer recruitment to sort supplies and assemble backpacks
- Attend media-related/fundraising events
- Collect stories from Project Cool recipients for use in brochures, grants,
etc.
- Gather information about other back-to-school projects occurring in the county
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