Tarrant County Homeless Coalition

A vibrant community where every individual has a place to call home and the resources to live their best life, moving toward the goals of:

- An effective system to decrease time homeless, increase income, decrease returns to homelessness, decrease unsheltered homelessness, end youth homelessness, increase the number of housed.
- Being data driven to increase data quality, increase comparative analysis, decrease secondary data sources, increase reporting capacity.
- Focusing on housing to increase the number of units available to people exiting homelessness, increase the number of landlords accepting rental assistance, and decreasing the time it takes to develop housing.
- Creating an engaged community to inspire robust action, educate the community, create free flow of information, drive a culture ownership, increase awareness about the issue surrounding homelessness.
- Committing resources to align with program performance, increase system dollars, align resources with need, and improve performance.

These strategies will enable TCHC to focus on the key areas that will have the greatest impact on the goals listed above.

- Effective System: Identifying priority populations, targeted interventions, streamlined services, delivering best practices.
- Data Driven: understanding key data points, facilitating data sharing, ensuring data quality, continuous cross systems analysis.
- Focused on Housing: prioritizing policies, developing solutions, landlord engagement, increasing partnerships
- Engaged Community: Leader engagement, grassroots outreach, community mobilization.
- Performance Driven: Optimize services, continuous quality improvement, expand partnership opportunities.

For more than 25 years, TCHC has been working with the community to achieve our mission of leading, coordinating, and developing resources and strategies to end homelessness in Tarrant and Parker counties. We serve those who serve the homeless, which uniquely positions and qualifies TCHC to take on this significant systemic change.

2020 was a year of transformation for our community. With two redesigned and repopulated boards of directors, engaged elected officials, new TCHC leadership and two completed strategic plans, our community is more equipped and better positioned to address the issue of homelessness than ever before. Elected officials, neighborhood representatives, nonprofit service providers, educators, faith groups, and businesses are all sitting at the same table, working together to determine how we significantly move the needle on homelessness in Tarrant and Parker counties. Our community has come together and is moving forward, unified with agreed upon vision, mission and strategic goals.

With the goal of creating a Housing Crisis System of Care that can quickly respond to, and move people out of, homelessness comes the need to embark on intentional strategies to focus and scale our responses to homelessness. Our community created a community wide strategic plan that will unite municipalities, nonprofits, funders, business people, faith groups and invested citizens in their efforts to address homelessness. In addition to an overarching strategic plan, the board identified that they also wanted annual strategic goals to point our community in the right direction, ensuring we were all moving forward together.