Leadership Team (LT)
Chair: Ellen Kisinger-Rothi
- Research and assess affordable housing resources and gaps
- Prioritize and coordinate countywide housing issues and strategies
- Raise and expand awareness about issues related to homelessness and housing gaps and services in the community
- Facilitate collaborations among providers and community stakeholders
- Foster community engagement in affordable housing solutions
- Initiate projects to promote affordable housing options and production
- Set indicator targets for achieving outcomes and track progress
- Serve as a catalyst and advocate for positive policy change in affordable housing and homelessness arenas
Oversight Committee (OC)
Co-chairs: Laura Lam and Amy Slancik
- Monitor outcomes of Continuum of Care grants
- Recommend focus areas for improvement
- Review all publications and reports and identify emerging needs.
Community Services Team (CST)
Co-chairs: Peggy Gagen and Paul Ecklund
- To assure access to mainstream and other needed support services.
- View wraparound services from a systems perspective.
- Determine community need for support services.
- Research best practices and monitor delivery and quality of supportive services.
- Provide training and other technical assistance for housing and support services providers.
Data Coordination Team (DCT)
Co-chairs: Molly Petersen & Kerry Williams
- To collect and monitor homeless and housing data through the HMIS and other systems.
- Serve as a forum for HMIS users
- Provide data and reports to the LT and other sub-teams.
- Serve as receptacle for new data.
Resource and Housing Development Team (RAHD)
Co-chairs: Cindy Graham and David Artley
- To work collaboratively to identify and seek resource streams, both monetary and in-kind, in order to maintain and grow the work and impact of the plan and its initiatives.
- To research and inventory housing needs and assets in Kalamazoo County.
- To work collaboratively with the for-profit and non-profit sectors to develop new and rehabilitate existing housing units to assure affordable housing is available for persons who are homeless, of low/moderate income, and for those with special needs.
Project Connect Team (PCT)
Chair: Jeff Brown
- To work collaboratively to organize a yearly Project Connect event, a day of free services for the materially poor in Kalamazoo County.
- Identify and engage non-profit service agencies, government, and the broader community in the planning and execution of the Project Connect event.
Length of Homelessness Team (LHT)
Co-chairs: Tobi Hanna-Davies and Pastor Milton Wells
- To reduce the mean length of time that families and individuals experience homelessness in the Kalamazoo County community.
Housing Stability Team (HST)
Chair: David Anderson
- To increase housing stability for families and individuals in the Kalamazoo County community.
- Identifying commonalities among various housing models and the similarities in the needs of the residents in achieving stable housing in the long term.
If you are interested in participating on a team, please contact Michelle at mschneider@lisc.org. | 
