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Housing Options Interagency Work Group (HOIWG)
Mission
The mission of the HOIWG is to collectively manage the operational
aspects of the Implementation Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness in the
Fairfax-Falls Church Community to achieve the goal of ending homelessness
by December 31, 2018. The Housing Options Interagency Work Group will
coordinate collaboration between partners and systems involved in
providing housing and homeless services, develop new models for service
delivery, and define and recommend policy direction to the Governing
Board. The HOIWG will be the operational oversight body of the
Fairfax-Falls Church Partnership to Prevent and End Homelessness.
Roles, Responsibilities and Functions
- Coordinate the execution of strategies and activities in the Implementation Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness in the Fairfax-Falls Church Community.
- Coordinate shared responsibility and decision-making among all partners involved in providing homelessness services and coordinate with all service providers to ensure efficient and effective responses to consumer need.
- Develop and recommend policy to the Governing Board that will further the goals and objectives of the Implementation Plan.
- Upon direction from the Governing Board, incorporate identified policies and strategies within respective HOIWG agencies, programs, and service areas to assure the successful execution of the Implementation Plan. Assure operational alignment of programs, services, and agency policies with the Implementation Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness.
- Educate and influence policy makers and advocate for system reform and necessary funding at the federal, state, local, and community levels in support of the Implementation Plan.
- Identify opportunities to coordinate countywide strategies and funding to end homelessness, especially linkages between housing and services, and collaborate on grant opportunities as appropriate.
- Encourage and sustain partnerships through incentives and targeted funding opportunities, and review grant applications and funding recommendations for consistency with the Implementation Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness.
Accountability
The HOIWG will be accountable to the Governing Board for the
operational execution of the Implementation Plan to Prevent and End
Homelessness.
Membership
The Housing Options Interagency Work Group will be comprised of agency
directors or other senior staff members from organizations providing
housing, social services, health services, mental health and substance
abuse services, emergency services, and other supportive and
prevention-related services to persons who become homeless or are at risk
of becoming homeless. In addition, agencies and organizations with a
significant stake in the outcomes of the Implementation Plan or whose
policies, practices, and resources may be critical to the success of the
Implementation Plan will serve on the HOIWG. These agencies and
institutions are vital to creating changes in current programs and moving
local institutions forward in support of the Implementation Plan. For the
most part, members of the HOIWG will be those who have authority within
their organizations to make policy, process, and budgetary decisions, as
they relate to impacting and ending homelessness, on behalf of their
organization.
The Housing Options Interagency Work Group may be chaired by any member
as selected by the total membership of the HOIWG in accordance with a
process to be set forth in bylaws of the HOIWG.
The HOIWG will meet as necessary, but no less frequently than monthly.
Staff support for the HOIWG will be provided by the Office to End
Homelessness.
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