The Roles of Winston-Salem Forsyth County CoC

Regional Coordinator:

As the Regional Coordinator the City of Winston-Salem is designed to carry out the coordination activities of the CoC, including fiscal tasks. Regular admin tasks include: meeting management and the coordination and recruitment of service providers.

Collaborative Applicant:

As the Collaborative Applicant, the City of Winston-Salem completes and submits the application for collaborative funding to HUD for homeless assistance programs. The Collaborative Applicant also carries out fiscal activities, compliance monitoring, and coordination of other funding opportunities.

HMIS Administrator:

As the HMIS Administrator the City of Winston-Salem manages the Continuum of Care’s data in the Homeless Management Information System. HMIS allows our community to record, track, and report results of individual agency accomplishments, as well as measure how the community is performing in providing homeless services.

Coordinated Access System Lead:

As the Coordinated System Lead, City with Dwellings must rapidly identify, assess, prioritize, refer, and connect individuals experiencing homelessness to housing and services for which they qualify based on needs.

What is the continuum of care?

John Mack, explains why what the Continuum of Care does matters.

The Winston-Salem Forsyth County Continuum of Care (CoC) Program, which is authorized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), is designed to promote a community wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, and State and local governments to quickly rehouse homeless individuals and families while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused to homeless individuals, families, and communities by homelessness; promote access to and effect utilization of mainstream programs by homeless individuals and families; and optimize self-sufficiency among individuals and families experiencing homelessness.

The Continuum of Care includes individuals and organizations across Forsyth County who are committed to ending and preventing homelessness. The vision of the CoC is to ensure that homelessness is rare, brief and non-recurring; and that everyone has housing choices and prompt access to a variety of housing resources and supports that meets their needs.

The City of Winston-Salem serves as the Collaborative Applicant (CA). The CA is the organization designated by the CoC to submit the annual CoC application for federal funding; and apply for CoC planning funds.

Pursuant to Federal Guidelines WSFC CoC is responsible for:

Developing a coordinated assessment system

Planning and Coordination including outreach, engagement, assessment, shelter, housing and supportive services for people who experience homelessness

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Annual Point in Time (PIT) count
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Gaps Analysis
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Homeless Management Information System
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Preparing the CoC Application
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A team of staff from the Continuum of Care at the Built for Zero Learning Session. The NC-500 CoC is one of more than 100 communities that are part of the Built for Zero movement to end homelessness.