Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH)/Continuum of Care (COC)

An Expansion of the Chatham County Continuum of Care (CoC) to the Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH)

For the last two years, leaders in the business community and our non-profit partners worked collaboratively to develop strategies to meet the needs of citizens experiencing homelessness effectively, equitably, and efficiently. The Chatham-Savannah Continuum of Care (CoC) now reconstituted as the Chatham-Savannah Interagency Council on Homelessness is the county-wide initiative addressing homelessness. This critical partnership represents key stakeholder organizations and individuals’ collaborative work to create and implement an effective and sustainable system responding to the challenges and complexities around the experience of homelessness in our community.

The ICH/CoC serves as the umbrella organization required by HUD to work with applicants and service providers through the Housing and Urban Development Notice of Funding Opportunity annually to ensure funds are granted and distributed to qualifying organizations supporting our homeless community members. The HUD and ICH/CoC are tasked with selecting the local agency responsible for coordinating all service providers’ applications for federal, state, and local funds. The collaborative applicant or Lead Agency for our local ICH/CoC is the Chatham Savannah Authority for the Homeless (CSAH).

On Thursday, May 5, 2022 the CoC unanimously voted to expand the CoC, add government partners and other strategic stakeholders, and change its name to the Interagency Council on Homelessness.