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North East Texas Homeless Consortium is an opportunity for agencies of all kinds to share their unique resources and/or services for people experiencing homelessness with fellow community members. It also provides you with the space to learn about what other organizations have to offer and how you can work together to best serve people. Participate in this community-wide effort to end homelessness with us!

Mayor’s Task Force on Homelessness In March of 2017, Longview Mayor Andy Mack put together a team of local service organizations called the Mayor’s Task Force on Homelessness. In general, the team members consisted of groups and individuals that have assisted in serving the homeless populations over the years in many ways. The Mayor wanted a centralized group to come together and share their experiences and needs in serving this vulnerable population and to gather information about what more is needed to serve the homeless. Mayor Mack felt that it was a moral obligation to offer additional support and explore ways to collectively address the areas homeless. The members of the task force placed initial efforts in four areas of focus: situational homelessness, sheltered homelessness, unsheltered homelessness, and chronic unsheltered homelessness.

Initial outcomes determined by the task force included service fairs – a way to offer centralized services and information and also explore options for additional personnel which initiated a plan to explore securing a Volunteer in Service to American (VISTA) through the office of Texas Homeless Network. This led to the ongoing partnership with the Northeast Texas Homeless Network and the City of Longview which will offer sustainability to the mission.