Each year, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) releases a highly competitive Continuum of Care (CoC) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to fund programs that support quickly rehousing people experiencing homelessness. Each year, the CoC Program funding brings nearly $2.7 million into El Paso County to address homelessness through funding permanent housing, transitional housing, data system infrastructure, coordinated entry, and CoC program planning. Community Health Partnership, as the Collaborative Applicant of the Pikes Peak Continuum of Care (PPCoC), leads PPCoC’s consolidated application to the CoC Program NOFO.

During the CoC NOFO competition, the PPCoC must coordinate a local competition to review, rate and rank individual project applications. Ranked project applications are submitted to HUD alongside a Consolidated Application the CoC prepares that details the region’s efforts to collectively address homelessness. The Pikes Peak CoCs Consolidated Application, previously submitted data reports, and the individual project applications are evaluated alongside other CoCs across the county to determine the level of renewal and new funding available.