Advisory Board: Contra Costa Council on Homelessness
Subject: Committee Report Out: (ACTION ITEM) Homelessness Awareness Month Committee approval of Resolutions and Recognition Categories
Presenter: Nicole Green, Chair and Reentry Services
Contact: contracostacoc@cchealth.org
Information:
Every year for Homelessness Awareness Month (November), the Council on Homelessness, with support from staff, creates a number of tools and events.
Two tools are 1) a resolutions of support declaring November to be Homelessness Awareness Month and a resolution declaring December 31st to be Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day to be adopted by the Board of Supervisors and 2) formal recognition of outstanding agencies and individuals, in a numbers of categories. The resolutions and categories for recognition have been reviewed by the Homelessness Awareness Month Committee and are being recommended for approval by the Council on Homelessness
Resolutions: The Board of Supervisors will be asked to adopt the 2 resolutions as part of the COH presentation to the BOS on 11/4. The HAM resolution has been moderately edited since last year to include recognition of Youth/Young Adult homelessness awareness and work in the County. Citations will be updated with 2024 Annual Report data before submission to the BOS in November.
Recognitions: The solicitation of nominations for the recognition categories would be launched after approval by the COH. Staff and then the HAM Committee will review nominations for eligibility. Eligible nominations will then come to the COH at the October COH meeting and will be formally recognized as part of a reception to be held on 11/4, in conjunction with the COH presentation to the BOS
Referral History and Update:
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
Approve Resolutions of Suppport and Recognition Categories as presented