About the Spokane Regional Continuum of Care

In the City of Spokane, people experiencing homelessness are provided services that target their barriers and needs to achieving housing stability. This is done through what is called a "Continuum of Care", or CoC. Spokane's CoC provides a suite of services for people experiencing homelessness that is supported through multiple local, state, and federal funding sources.

Broadly, the program is designed to promote community-wide planning and strategic use of resources to:

  • Address homelessness;
  • Improve coordination and integration with mainstream resources and other programs targeted to people experiencing homelessness;
  • Improve data collection and performance measurement; and
  • Allow each community to tailor its program to the particular strengths and challenges within that community.

Each year, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awards CoC Program funding competitively to nonprofit organizations, states, units of local governments, and/or instrumentalities of state or local government, who can subgrant with other organizations to carry out the grant's day-to-day program operations. Spokane is fortunate to have a strong group of partners and stakeholders to support this work.

The WA 502 Spokane City/Count Continuum of Care received a total award of $4,359,643 for the 2023-2024 program year.

Project Component Amount Awarded Project Name
Coordinated Entry $77,345 WA0330 SNAP Singles Homeless Coordinated Assessment (SHCA)
Coordinated Entry $249,018 WA0373 Catholic Charities, Homeless Families Coordinated Assessment (HFCA)
CoC Planning Grant $123,386 CoC Planning City of Spokane
HMIS $197,468 WA0329 City of Spokane HMIS Project FY 2021
Permanent Supportive Housing $316,746 WA0111 Volunteers of America, Scattered Site Permanent Support Housing
Permanent Supportive Housing $756,463 WA0130 Volunteers of America, Samaritan, Fixed Site Permanent Supportive Housing
Permanent Supportive Housing $219,869 WA0374 Catholic Charities Fixed Site Permanent Supportive Housing at Donna Hansen Haven for chronically homeless single adults.
Permanent Supportive Housing $226,746 WA0418 Catholic Charities Fixed Site Permanent Supportive Housing at Jacklin Family Haven for chronically homeless single adults.
Permanent Supportive Housing $183,156 WA0457 Volunteers of America, Fixed Site Permanent Supportive Housing at Hope House for chronically homeless single adults.
Permanent Supportive Housing $206,648 WA0511 Volunteers of America Scattered Site Permanent Supportive Housing for chronically homeless single adults.
Permanent Supportive Housing $204,154 WA0512 Catholic Charities Permanent Supportive Housing for chronically homeless households with children.
Rapid Re-housing $479,759 WA0288 Catholic Charities Rapid Rehousing for Families
Rapid Re-housing $187,576 WA0331 SNAP Rapid Rehousing for households without Children
Rapid Re-housing $330,899 WA0353 YWCA Rapid Rehousing for DV survivors in households with Children
Rapid Re-housing $333,068 WA0420 YWCA Rapid Rehousing for Survivors of DV
Transitional Housing $67,755 WA0109 Catholic Charities St. Margaret’s Shelter
Transitional Housing $76,201 WA0126 Volunteers of America Alexandria’s House
Unified Funding Agency $123,386 UFA Costs City of Spokane

Previous year’s awards and reports can be found on the HUD Exchange website under WA-502 – Spokane City and County CoC.

The CoC is governed by a board made up of local government, service providers, stakeholders, and people who have experienced homelessness. The board is guided by HUD and the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) national goals in ending homelessness amongst those who are chronically homeless, veterans, unaccompanied youth, and households with and without children to tailor our community's crisis response system to the needs of our community members facing a vulnerable place in their lives. The CoC board is designed to promote community-wide planning, strategic use of resources for addressing homelessness, and to improve coordination and integration with mainstream resources and other programs targeted to people experiencing homelessness. The Board also provides community leadership to further our goals around improving data collection and performance measurement and, ultimately, tailoring our suite of services to address the challenges the community faces by utilizing our strengths and leveraging partnerships and community support.