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Homeless Advisory Board

 

The Homeless Advisory Board was established by the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners on May 1, 2007. ( See resolution and amendment. )

The Board’s mission is the development of the Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness as conceived by HUD; “leading a collaborative planning process to design, execute, and evaluate programs, policies and practices to prevent and end homelessness.”

The responsibilities of the Homeless Advisory Board are to assist the County in reaching its Ten (10) Year Plan to End Homelessness goals. These responsibilities include the following:

  1. Review progress made in the County towards achieving the objectives identified in the Ten (10) Year Plan to End Homelessness and make recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners.  The primary recommendations may include systematic changes, policy changes, and funding recommendations. 

  2. Foster and promote cooperation between governmental agencies, community-based non-governmental non-profit organizations and business interests in order to ensure the efficient and timely implementation of the (10) Year Plan to End Homelessness.

  3. Provide information regarding the needs and other factors affecting the smooth implementation of the Ten (10) Year Plan to End Homelessness within Palm Beach County.

  4. Determine roadblocks affecting program implementation and recommend corrective measures to the Board of County Commissioners.

The Board is comprised of sixteen (16) Core Members and twenty (20) Community and Business Members.

2008 Conference Schedule

 

Contact

 

Georgiana Devine, Program & Contract Manager
Human Service Division
561-355-4778
e-mail


 

Meeting Schedule

 

June 18, 2008
July 16, 2008
September 17, 2008
November 19, 2008
February 18, 2009
May 20, 2009
August 19, 2009
November 18, 2009

The meetings begin at 2:00 p.m. and are located at 1440 Martin Luther King Blvd, Rivera Beach.

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