Our Mission
To coordinate and strengthen partnership efforts with FBOs effectively serving people experiencing homelessness (PEH) and share those efforts in order to inform and shape policy.
Our Commitment
With the understanding that faith-based organizations (FBOs) play a pivotal role in homeless services, the Faith Collaborative to End Homelessness (FCEH) launched in 2019 to coordinate partnership efforts with FBOs across Los Angeles County and develop a strategic plan to align FBO homeless services with Los Angeles County’s homeless service delivery system. FCEH consists of faith leaders, homelessness liaisons, and leads from various County agencies and elected offices.
Faith Community's Strengths
The faith community has a time-honored tradition of providing tangible supportive services to those in need, such as programs providing comfort, free meals, clothing, showers, on-site shelter, and hosting health clinics. Faith communities put into practice their core faith tenet to unconditionally open their doors and serve society’s hurting, marginalized, and those unwelcomed by others. They are often places of generosity, refuge, and transformation. Lastly and notably, communities of faith provide and fill the human need for kindness, deep connectedness, and relationships
Faith Community's Strengths
The faith community has a time-honored tradition of providing tangible supportive services to those in need, such as programs providing comfort, free meals, clothing, showers, on-site shelter, and hosting health clinics. Faith communities put into practice their core faith tenet to unconditionally open their doors and serve society’s hurting, marginalized, and those unwelcomed by others. They are often places of generosity, refuge, and transformation. Lastly and notably, communities of faith provide and fill the human need for kindness, deep connectedness, and relationships
FCEH’s Recent Notable Achievements
| 2021 - 2022
FCEH partnered with LA County’s Homeless Initiative, Supervisors Hilda Solis and Holly Mitchell, and Communities in Motion, to conduct a survey of Faith Based Organizations to understand how FBOs provide support and services to people experiencing homelessness or on the verge of homelessness. The survey was completed in August 2022, and a set of recommendations of how to strategically partner with FBOs were submitted to LA County’s Board of Supervisors. FCEH is now currently focused on the advocacy and implementation of those recommendations with the appropriate stakeholders.
| 2022
FCEH partnered with LA County’s Homeless Initiative and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority to organize nine regionally specific Faith Based Organization Capacity Building Workshops. The content of these workshops were designed in partnership between the Faith Based Regional Coordinators and faith leaders to meet the educational and resource needs of their regions to support strong collaboration and partnership between FBOs and government funded community based organizations.
| 2023
FCEH hosted its first county wide Faith Summit, a conveying of faith-based organizations and leaders who are providing lifesaving care to people experiencing housing instability and working to end homelessness in Los Angeles County. The collaborative is now planning for its second annual Faith Summit scheduled to take place in the fall of 2024.
| 2023 - 2024
FCEH partnered with 现金娱乐网注册 staff to design recommendations on the development of a funding scope for small agencies and FBOs providing services to people experiencing homelessness. These recommendations were approved by 现金娱乐网注册’s Commission in January of 2024 and FCEH continued to support the launch of the fund into the Spring of 2024.
| 2023-2024
FCEH partnered with LA County’s Homeless Initiative and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority to organize nine regionally specific Faith Based Organization Capacity Building Workshops. The content of these workshops were designed in partnership between the Faith Based Regional Coordinators and faith leaders to meet the educational and resource needs of their regions to support strong collaboration and partnership between FBOs and government funded community based organizations.
| 2024
Second annual summit
FCEH MEMBERS
Amara Ononiwu, Co-Chair (Pasadena CoC)
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Allyson Crosby, Co-Chair
(现金娱乐网注册)
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Pastor Lisa Williams, Member
(San Pedro UMC)
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Janice Martin, Member
(Ecumenical Liaison SPA 6)
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Rev. Daniel Tamm, Member
(All Saints Parish)
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Lee Kane, Member (SGV Consortium)
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Ben Kay, Member (Hopics)
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Rev. Kelvin Sauls, Member (CPAC)
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Steven Yu, Member (DHS)
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