Chronic Homelessness

This committee works to create strategies and outcomes geared toward ending chronic homelessness in Butte County. To educate the community about persons experiencing chronic homelessness and to advocate with and for them. To focus on coordinating resources in order to connect persons experiencing chronic homelessness to all available support with the goal of ending chronic homelessness in our community.
Chair: Shelly Storkan
Vice Chair: Erin Murray

HMIS/CES​

An action-based committee that assists and coordinates with the HMIS Lead Agency to ensure HMIS and CES participation across the Continuum of Care, to maximize the capacity of the HMIS and CES support system and ensure the structure, data security/privacy, data quality, data sharing and documentation meet federal and state HMIS and CES guidelines and regulations.
The committee works to develop, monitor, review and oversee policies concerning HMIS and CES data, its usage and conducts on-going evaluations of HMIS and CES systems to improve user experience and client access to services.
Chair: Elisa Rawlinson
Vice Chair: Sarah Frohock

LGBTQ+ and POC

The LGBTQ+ and POC committee is an action-focused group aimed at providing support for those LGBTQ+ people and People of Color working within Butte County Continuum of Care, and at dismantling the barriers and bias LGBTQ+ people and People of Color experience when attempting to access services from the Butte County COC.
Chair: Marin Hambley
Vice Chair: Pahua Thao

Youth Homelessness

​The BCRHYTF exists to find both temporary and permanent solutions to the problem of youth homelessness in Butte County. We hope that by expanding collaboration with local agencies, governments, service providers, schools and other organizations, we can provide a framework and network for finding and implementing those solutions. While advocating for homeless youth, we also hope to provide those youth with a voice and platform to advocate for themselves. BCRHYTF strives to be inclusive and respectful of the diverse range of ideas and experience of all those who make up our community. 
Chair: Josh Indar
Vice Chair: Emily Pereira

Households with Children

To collaborate across agencies, leverage funding, and act in an advisory role to the Butte Countywide Continuum of Care on behalf of families and children experiencing homelessness in Butte County.
Chair: Meagan Meloy
Vice Chair: Tim Hawkins

Veterans

​The Butte Countywide Homeless Continuum of Care Veteran Committee is a partnership of City, County, State, Federal, and Non-Profit agencies that work together and pool their resources to help reduce veteran homelessness as well as help veterans who are at risk of becoming homeless. Through cooperative partnerships, we as an advocacy body, can help mitigate many risk factors that lead as well as contribute to homelessness. We do this, because as a body dedicated to reducing homelessness, improving our local communities begins with giving a hand to the individuals that served their nation. Serving those that has selflessly served us is our mission.
Chair: John Zepeda
Vice Chair: Kayla Davis