Abstract
· These tools can be applied using a five-step implementation process. Introduction In the summer of 2006, a group of local foundations supported the leaders of Calhoun County, Michigan (population 100,000), to develop a 10year plan to end homelessness (Stroh & Goodment officials at the municipal, state, and federal levels — along with business leaders, service providers, and homeless people themselves — came after years of leadership inertia and conflict among service providers regarding what needed to be done to solve the problem instead of just cope with it. Moreover, the plan signaled a paradigmatic shift in how the community viewed the role of temporary shelters and other emergency response services. Rather than be seen as part of the solution to homelessness, these programs came to be viewed as one of the key obstacles to ending it.
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