The Guilford County Continuum of Care (CoC) is the planning body in Guilford County, North Carolina that coordinates the community’s policies, strategies, and activities toward ending homelessness.

Its work includes gathering and analyzing information to determine the local needs of people experiencing homelessness, implementing strategic responses, educating the community on homeless issues, providing advice and input on the operations of homeless services, and measuring CoC performance to ensure the orderly, transparent operations of the CoC governance structure.

The purpose of the Guilford County CoC is to:

• Promote 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, families, persons fleeing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and youth while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused by homelessness.
• Promote access to and effective utilization of mainstream programs by homeless individuals and families.
• Optimize self-sufficiency among individuals and families experiencing homelessness.

Board of Directors

The Guilford County CoC Board of Directors includes representatives of organizations and other nonprofit service providers; victim service providers; faith based organizations; governments; businesses; advocates; public housing agencies; school districts; social service providers; mental health agencies, hospitals, universities, affordable housing developers, law enforcement; foundations and funders; community minded businesses and individuals; organizations that serve homeless and formerly homeless veterans; and homeless and formerly homeless persons to the extent these groups are represented within Guilford County. The Guilford CoC Board shall consist of no fewer than thirteen (13) and no more than twenty-five (25) members.

No more than one-third of CoC Board members will be current recipients of funding from coordinated funding processes (currently CoC, ESG, and City Greensboro funds). Other Board members will represent constituent groups and individuals supporting the systems-level coordination of federal, state, and other funds and resources targeted to ending homelessness. Staff members of agencies nominated for the Board should have a letter of support from their Executive Director (or similar level of supervisor) before they are considered for this role. If an individual elected to fulfill a required position on the Board subsequently leaves that agency, the Board shall determine how best to ensure compliance with the regulations.

At least one of the Board members shall be currently experiencing homelessness or have experienced homelessness in the past.

Continuum of Care Board Members