What is the Continuum of Care (COC)?
Who We Are – the “Network”
The MA-511 Quincy/Brockton/Weymouth/Plymouth City and County Continuum of Care (CoC) is the regional planning body that develops strategies and provides a coordinated response to homelessness throughout the South Shore CoC geography. It is known locally as the South Shore Network to End Homelessness (“the Network”).
The Network is made up of a wide array of community partners and conducts CoC activity and governance under a Governance Charter annually updated and approved by the general membership. The Network has established an Executive Committee as the lead decision making entity for the Continuum of Care. It oversees the Network’s implementation of many of the Continuum of Care planning requirements outlined in the HEARTH Act.
Committees of the CoC include:
Executive Committee
General Committee
Subcommittees:
- Family Longest Stayers
- Racial Equity
- Triage to Housing
- Veteran
- Youth
- Youth Action Board
Board and Network Committee Members
Dennis Carman, President and CEO (Co-Chair)
United Way of Greater Plymouth County
Sue Chandler, Executive Director
DOVE
Rob Corley, Executive Director
NeighborWorks Housing Solutions
Sean Glennon, Community Development Director
City of Quincy, Office of Community Development
Robert Jenkins, Executive Director
Brockton Redevelopment Authority
Patricia Kelleher, President and CEO
Family and Community Resources, Inc.
Connie Melahoures, President
Plymouth Task Force to End Homelessness
Herb Newell, Executive Director
Friends of the Homeless
Katie Scott, Vice President of Grants Development and Contracts
Old Colony YMCA
Beth Ann Strollo, Chief Executive Officer
Quincy Community Action Program
John Yazwinski, President and CEO (Co-Chair)
Father Bill’s & MainSpring
CoC Network Committee Members
Horizons for Homeless Children
MA Department of Children and Families
MA Dept. of Housing & Community Development
MA Dept. of Transitional Assistance - Domestic Violence Unit
Mass Dept. of Public Health - F.O.R. Families
Mass Hire Quincy Career Center
NeighborWorks Housing Solutions
North River Collaborative/NRC Independence Academy
Old South Union Church, Weymouth
Plymouth Area Coalition for the Homeless
Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office - Children’s Advocacy Center