The Summit County Continuum of Care engages local organizations in a collaborative response to prevent and end homelessness for all individuals and families in Summit County.

How we lead together

Board Committees & Leadership

Leadership at SCCoC is shared. Our committees bring Board members, SCCoC members, community members, and partners together around the work of preventing and ending homelessness in Summit County.

Our committees

Explore each committee’s role below. The Youth Advisory Board and Lived Experience Committee include links to their dedicated pages.

Executive Committee

Provides organizational leadership, strategic direction, and oversight of SCCoC initiatives and decisions between full Board meetings.

Finance Committee

Oversees SCCoC’s financial health, including budgeting, expenditures, financial controls, audits, and fiscal compliance.

Fundraising & Volunteer Coordination Committee

Develops sustainable fundraising, donor engagement, sponsorship, volunteer, and community support strategies to strengthen SCCoC’s work.

Governance Committee

Strengthens Board leadership through recruitment, development, training, succession planning, and oversight of bylaws and governance practices.

Lived Experience Committee

Ensures the voices, expertise, and recommendations of people with lived experience of homelessness directly inform SCCoC policies, priorities, and strategies.

Personnel Committee

Provides oversight and guidance on staff policies, executive leadership, compensation, performance, benefits, and human resources practices.

Ranking & Review Committee

Ensures a fair, transparent, and data-informed process for evaluating, scoring, and ranking funding applications and recommendations.

Steering Committee

Brings together Board, community, and partner perspectives to support strategic planning, collaboration, system initiatives, and recommendations to the Board.

System Performance Committee

Uses system-level data, HMIS, Coordinated Entry, and performance measures to identify gaps, monitor outcomes, and recommend improvements to the homelessness response system.

Youth Advisory Board

The Youth Advisory Board (YAB) provides young people with lived experience of homelessness a meaningful voice in shaping SCCoC programs, policies, services, and priorities, helping ensure the community’s homelessness response reflects the needs, perspectives, and ideas of youth.