Continuum of Care Membership Information
The Tulsa City and County Continuum of Care (CoC), known as A Way Home for Tulsa (AWH4T), serves as the local planning body that coordinates the community’s policies, strategies, and activities toward ending homelessness.
AWH4T is a collective impact of organizations and individuals that exists to plan and implement strategies that support a system of outreach, engagement, assessment, prevention and evaluation for those experiencing homelessness, or those persons at risk of homelessness, within Tulsa City/County.
Member Responsibilities
Membership Benefits
- Meet at least two (2) times annually,
- Present items of interest to a committee, task group, or the CoC Lead Agency for discussion; such entity shall review and determine whether to present the item to the Leadership Council,
- Assist in identifying and recruiting new members, and
- Adopt and implement the AWH4T Outcome & Service Standards, to the extent possible.
- Access to training and technical assistance opportunities to further the community-wide goal of preventing and ending homelessness and empower those working toward that goal.
- Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) training and license discounts.
- Opportunities to network with partners at the local, regional, and national level.
- Access to grant funding from federal and state partners offering grants to CoC members.
- Eligibility for committee and board service.
Become a Member
Membership in A Way Home for Tulsa (AWH4T) is open to any nonprofit, for profit, individual, or governmental entity that is committed to ending homelessness or assisting people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Following the application submission, the lead agency will review the application and send the next steps accordingly.
Housing Solutions is designated to carry out the activities of the CoC, including fiscal and compliance activities. As such, they administer and manage CoC Membership in accordance with the guidelines established and approved by the Governance Committee of the OK-501 Tulsa County CoC.
Housing Solutions also serves as the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) Administrator for the CoC. HMIS allows our community to record, track, and report results of individual agency accomplishments, as well as measure how the entire community is performing. Access to HMIS is available only to active members of the CoC.
Questions about CoC Membership – contact Erin Velez at evelez@housingsolutionstulsa.org.
Member Organizations
- BeHeard Movement
- City Lights Foundation
- City of Tulsa
- Community Service Council
- Counseling & Recovery Services of Oklahoma
- Department of Veteran's Affairs (Homeless Program)
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services
- Downtown Tulsa Partnership
- Family & Children's Services
- Family Promise of Tulsa County
- Gatesway Foundation
- Housing Solutions
- Hunger Free Oklahoma
- Indian Nations Council of Governments (INCOG)
- Iron Gate
- Isaiah 58: In His Service
- Just the Beginning, Inc.
- Justice Link
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma
- Lindsey House
- Mental Health Association Oklahoma
- Morton Comprehensive Health Services
- National Resource Center for Youth Services
- Oklahoma Department of Human Services
- Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
- Pause4Paws
- Restore Hope Ministries
- Salvation Army Tulsa
- Surayya Ann Foundation
- Terence Crutcher Foundation
- The Ark of Dreams
- The Bail Project
- The Merchant
- The Spring
- Tulsa Area United Way
- Tulsa CARES
- Tulsa County Public Defenders
- Tulsa County Social Services
- Tulsa Day Center
- Tulsa Housing Authority
- Tulsa Police Department
- Volunteers of America
- Youth Services of Tulsa
- Youth Villages
- Zarrow Family Foundations
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