Making homelessness rare, brief, and nonrecurring in Denton County
The Denton County Housing & Homelessness Leadership Team implements a coordinated prevention and intervention system to make homelessness rare, brief and nonrecurring.
DENTON COUNTY HOUSING & HOMELESSNESS LEADERSHIP TEAM INITIATIVES
DENTON COUNTY HOMELESSNESS DATA
The Denton County Homelessness Dashboard obtains data from a county-wide Homelessness Management Information System that assists emergency shelters, housing and supportive service providers to collect and store client data. Point in Time Count is a annual survey counts Denton County’s unsheltered and sheltered homeless on one night to better understand the nature of homelessness.
DENTON COUNTY HOMELESSNESS BARRIERS FUND
The Denton County Homelessness Barriers Fund promotes housing stability through self-sufficiency for families facing housing crises in Denton County.
LANDLORD ENGAGEMENT
We centralize communication between landlords and housing service agencies to increase access to safe and affordable housing for Denton County households in crisis.
DENTON COUNTY HOUSING & HOMELESSNESS LEADERSHIP TEAM ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
DCHHLT MISSION
The Denton County Housing & Homelessness Leadership Team fosters an effective and coordinated system of homelessness prevention and intervention, resulting in homelessness that is rare, brief, and nonrecurring through:
- Community awareness and connection
- Data-driven, evidenced-based, fiscally responsible recommendations
- Innovative solutions around affordable housing, access to primary and behavioral health care services, adequate incomes and coordinated services
- Mobilizing, advocating, and empowering public-private community-wide collaboration
DCHHLT VISION
Every person in Denton County has a place to call home that is safe, affordable, accessible, and supported by community resources.
DCHHLT METHOD
Collective Impact
noun
A community coming together around a backbone organization as a team of equals to collaborate on solutions that no one organization can implement on their own.
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Dani Shaw, Chair
Terry Widmer, Co-Chair
The Denton County Housing & Homelessness Leadership Team updated its Strategic Plan to make homelessness rare, brief and non-recurring in April of 2024. The plan includes goals to scale horsing and supports that meet demand, improve effectiveness of the Housing Crisis Response System, expand diversion and prevention efforts, and more. Read the full plan with the link below.
DCHHLT Workgroups
Volunteers are welcome to serve on one of these workgroups:
Healthcare
Data
Denton County Homeless Coalition
Diversion
Housing
The Standards of Excellence are a set of performance goals and quality standards for homelessness prevention and intervention programming in Denton County. These Standards are meant to push our community to set real goals towards ending homelessness, especially Veteran and chronic homelessness, and to create more effective programs.
Recognizing that homelessness is a significant barrier to success for many in Denton County, the City of Denton and United Way of Denton County are collaborating through a public-private partnership to lead collective impact initiatives addressing homelessness across our community.
The Mayor's Housing the Homeless Task Force issued a report in December 2015 to the Denton City Council with several recommendations focused on producing a plan for coordinated, community-wide efforts to address homelessness. Acting on this recommendation, the City of Denton and United Way of Denton County have jointly underwritten this collective impact initiative that launched in 2016.
As the backbone organization to the Denton County Homelessness Leadership Team, United Way of Denton County enhances the outcomes of all partners by facilitating a shared vision, shared measurements, mutually reinforcing activities and continuous communication.
Agendas, minutes and meeting materials are maintained for each meeting of the Denton County Housing and Homelessness Leadership Team, encouraging the utmost in transparency, openness and participation. United Way of Denton County staff will update this webpage with new documents on a regular basis in our role of backbone support to this collective impact initiative.
