ABOUT THHI
Our purpose is to lead the Tampa/Hillsborough County Continuum of Care (CoC) in collaboration with agencies in order to develop and provide innovative solutions to make homelessness rare, brief and non-recurring in Hillsborough County.
This collaboration with a wide range of partners (homeless service providers, government officials, advocates, business and community leaders, and people who are homeless) engages and mobilizes systems of care on a local, regional and national level to develop effective prevention and intervention services for people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
THHI performs several important functions to coordinate homeless services in the CoC which include:
Leading and coordinating the CoC through system-wide planning and collaborations.
Developing, coordinating and monitoring new and existing housing and service programs to meet the needs of the homeless and/or at-risk population.
Administering federal, state and local funding through contracts with social service agencies to deliver these services.
Ensuring through monitoring that funds are efficiently and effectively utilized based on community performance data standards.
Coordinating the annual homeless count in Hillsborough County.
Through these and other efforts, the Tampa Hillsborough Homeless Initiative works to:
Strengthen the homeless crisis response system.
Implement community wide, proven models of intervention.
Utilize data and metrics to evaluate and improve program performance.
Promote community engagement.
Federal Funding Partners
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
State Funding Partners
Florida Department of Children and Families