COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
Creating lasting solutions to homelessness
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The Mission of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of homelessness throughout Colorado. CCH advocates for and provides a continuum of housing and a variety of services to improve the health, well-being and stability of those it serves.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Health Care
We respond to the health needs of adults and children experiencing or at-risk of homelessness through innovative health care at one of five Federally Qualified Health Centers. Stout Street Health Center, the largest and most comprehensive program located in downtown Denver, offers medical and behavioral health care, substance use treatment, dental, vision, and pharmacy services all in one building to reduce as many barriers as possible for more than 15,000 patients annually.
Healthcare can be complicated. At the Coalition, we work to ensure it is as stress-free as possible, as well uniquely meeting the needs of people experiencing homelessness. That means we offer health services regardless of a person’s ability to pay, immigration status, gender identity, ethnicity, or race.
Housing Services
Housing is the cornerstone to living a healthy, stable life. To that end, we work to match people with suitable housing at one of our housing properties or through partnerships with landlords in the community. Each year, we operate 21 high-quality permanent supportive housing and affordable housing properties managed by the Renaissance Property Management Corporation, and administer nearly 1,500 vouchers, supporting over 5,200 households with housing options in an increasingly unaffordable state.
Importantly, the Coalition offers wrap-around supportive services including counseling, life skills training, financial literacy, and employment assistance at many locations to support the residents to maintain safe and stable housing.
Following the Housing First model, people experiencing homelessness move more quickly off the streets or shelters and into housing. Housing First is a no barrier model that includes rapid access to housing, crisis intervention, and follow-up intensive case management and therapeutic support services to prevent the recurrence of homelessness. Research conducted by the independent Urban Institute has found that people served using the Housing First approach demonstrate a significantly higher level of housing stability at 12 months and longer, and that the Housing First approach costs about half of the alternative cost of law enforcement, criminal justice involvement and emergency medical services for this population.
Education Advocacy
The Coalition conducts ongoing education to build the public’s understanding of the factors that lead to homelessness and advocate for smart, compassionate solutions. Factors such as a critical shortage of affordable and supportive housing, and factors including domestic violence, mental illness, and addiction disorders exacerbate, housing insecurity.
We advocate for policies and resources that allow the most vulnerable Coloradans to achieve and maintain housing stability and access to critical health services.
Other Services
In addition to housing and comprehensive healthcare, we provide a robust array of supportive services including:
• Assistance with public benefit applications
• Childcare
• Support for families
• Employment services
• Legal referrals and advocacy
• Native American Talking Circles
• Street Outreach and street medicine
• Veterans Programs
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of first-time donors
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Related Program
Health Care
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The Coalition received a record number of donations when the pandemic struck in 2020. Since then first-time donations have fallen, but they are still at a higher level than in 2019.
Average number of dollars given by new donors
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Totals reflect all cash donations and do not reflect in-kind donations.
Number of overall donors
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Overall donations reached an all-time high in 2020 after the pandemic struck and there was a great deal of concern about how the homeless would cope. Donations are still higher than in 2019.
Number of website sessions
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Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of new website visitors
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Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
1. Expand access to quality, integrated health care for families and individuals experiencing or at-risk of homelessness.
2. Expand housing opportunities for families and individuals experiencing or at-risk of homelessness.
3. Improve public policy and community engagement towards ending homelessness.
4. Develop a highly trained, equipped, and engaged CCH workforce.
5. Improve CCH's financial sustainability.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Increase the number of healthcare related visits by addressing population needs, enhancing availability of resources, and removing barriers to access.
Increase the number of clients engaged in multiple integrated healthcare services to address the complex needs of the population we support.
Engage in formal process improvement efforts to ensure provision of care that is safe, effective, patient centered, timely, efficient, and equitable, as outlined in the Institute of Medicine six domains of healthcare quality.
Create new housing opportunities through acquisition and development with emphasis on underrepresented populations, supported by diverse funding sources for housing and essential support services.
Increase permanent housing scattered site subsidies and essential support services through diversified and flexible funding sources.
Increase housing stability through continued program and RPMC collaboration and creatively enhance service delivery to better prepare, educate, and support clients/residents in housing.
Advance public policy initiatives, advocate for social and racial equity, and influence systemic changes alongside the people we support to solve homelessness.
Build strategic relationships and create meaningful engagement opportunities throughout the state to influence policy in the areas of housing, healthcare, and homelessness.
Influence public perception and awareness about homelessness and other systemic issues to re-shape the public narratives through traditional and new media, technology, and innovation.
Build effective and evaluative workforce infrastructure to empower high performing teams.
Foster a culture of continuous learning to support staff competency and development.
Promote equitable movement with the organization by developing career pathing and mentorship opportunities to support Succession Planning to better engage our diverse workforce.
Promote judicious use of financial resources through increased workforce financial awareness, accountability, and improved budgeting practices.
Optimize program and property revenue through efficient management and delivery of services, enhanced tools and support, and increased public grant and charitable support.
Support financial decision-making through formalized processes to review, evaluate, and authorize new and updated business opportunities.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless is Colorado's leading provider of services to the homeless, with more than three decades of experience in providing health care, housing, and supportive services to some of the most vulnerable people in the state.
CCH has an extensive network of support in Colorado, including close ties to state and city governments, foundations, businesses, and individual supporters. This support gives the organization the capacity to respond to the many challenges facing the homeless in Colorado.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless opened the Stout Street Health Center in 2014, bringing a state-of-the-art medical facility to Denver that was designed to serve the homeless community. By integrating physical and mental health care, pharmacy, dental and vision services, Stout Street has established a model of care that is reaching thousands of Colorado's most vulnerable residents. The Medicaid expansion in Colorado has also allowed CCH to offer more comprehensive care to those in need.
The Coalition has already developed more than 2,000 units of housing and has set a goal of developing 500 new units of housing in the next five years.
Through the Housing First program, CCH has also created a model of care for the chronically homeless that has been proven to help them lead healthier and more productive lives.
Over thirty years, CCH has developed an integrated system of health care, housing, and supportive services that has become a national model for assisting the homeless.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
The people we serve tell us they find data collection burdensome, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection
Financials
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Operations
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COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
Board of directorsas of 09/14/2023
Joel Neckers
Wheeler, Trigg, O'Donnell, LLP
Donna Hilton
Community Development Professional
Thomas Wolf
Instakey Security Systems (retired)
Cuicatl G. Montoya
Colorado Village Collaborative
Dr. Christopher Bates
Kaiser Permanente
Darrell D. Brown
Alden Brown & Co.
Jay Brown
University of Denver, Sturm College of Law
Mychael Dave
Hoffman, Nies, Dave & Meyer
James E. Davis
Industrial Specialties Mfg., Inc.
Norman Haglund
Judge, Denver District Court (retired)
Randle Loeb
Community Organizer
T.R. Reid
Author, "A Fine Mess"
Thomas Collins Riley
Northern Trust
Andrew Romero
Regions Affordable Housing
Charles Savage
Happenstall & Savage (retired)
Jane Tidball
Attorney & Judge, Colorado 1st Judicial District Court (retired)
Leanne Wheeler
Wheeler Advisory Group, LLC
Gayle Van Loan
Vice-Chair Consumer Advisory Board
Myra Nagy
Chair of Consumer Advisory Board
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.