Delaware Continuum of Care

“The Delaware Continuum of Care is a community-based collaborative that ensures a responsive, fair, and just approach to addressing homelessness, and strives to achieve housing for all”

CoC Membership

The CoC has officially kicked off this year's Membership Drive!

Join the CoC to receive communications about CoC events, trainings, meetings, committees, and local events and resources related to homelessness and housing.

NEW Members: Please complete the CoC Membership form.

Existing Members: Please complete the CoC Membership Renewal form to renew and/or update your CoC Membership information.

All membership forms must be completed by 9/30/26 to retain membership for the next year.

The DE CoC is accepting nominations for the 2026 Homeless Services Staff Member of the Year. Highlight someone in the community who you believe deserves recognition for their hard work and dedication in supporting DE’s most vulnerable! The winner will be highlighted in the 2026 CoC Annual Report and at the 2026 Annual Meeting. Nominations can be submitted here and are due no later than 9/30/26.

Open Call for CoC Board Membership Nominations

The DE CoC is currently accepting nominations for the CoC Board. Please reach out to scastagna@housingalliancede.org for more information.

Access upcoming meeting schedules, information, and previous meeting materials on the CoC Events page.

CoC Committees

CoC committees meet throughout the year to plan and implement action items related to CoC priorities. Each committee targets a specific need, service area, sub-population, or critical CoC function.

Helps promote solutions to prevent and end homelessness among community members and local and state leaders and decision makers.

CoC Advocacy & Policy Agenda

Access CoC Committee meeting schedules, zoom links, and materials via the CoC Events Page.

CoC Priorities

The CoC Priorities were developed to help guide and inform CoC initiatives and funding work.

The CoC will prioritize increasing the local affordable housing supply by:

Prioritizing projects for CoC funding that create new/additional permanent housing units for people experiencing homelessness
Working with PHAs to increase access to PHA vouchers/subsidies for people experiencing homelessness and to develop move-on strategies to increase the number of PSH units available for the most vulnerable people experiencing homelessness
Advocating for increased affordable housing funding, and
Engaging local leaders around zoning and land use reform to increase the affordable housing supply

The DE CoC will prioritize improving system performance by:

Prioritizing projects for CoC funding that perform well on system performance metrics, and/or would improve system performance if funded
Working to increase CMIS system coverage and continuously monitoring/improving CMIS data
quality
Providing training and learning opportunities to community members and service providers on SPMs and strategies to improve outcomes

The CoC will prioritize incorporating persons with lived experience of homelessness by:

Recruiting and inviting people with lived experience to participate in the CoC and on the Board
Providing training and technical assistance to service providers about how to incorporate the voices and expertise of the people they serve into their program design
Elevate the voices and perspectives of people with lived experience in our advocacy work
Consider the extent to which agencies incorporate people with lived experience into their decision-making processes when evaluating CoC projects for funding consideration

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