CCEH participates in the Homeless Service Provider Network

Concord Area Provider Network

The Concord Area Homeless Service Provider Network is a group of homeless service agencies, public services, and faith communities who meet on a regular basis to share information and collaborate on assisting people who are experiencing homelessness in Concord.

The Provider Network generally meets monthly on the second Wednesday of the month, 1:00PM to 2:00PM via Zoom.

To be included on e-mail notifications about monthly meetings and to receive the Zoom login information, please subscribe to our Provider Network e-mail list. You may also receive general notices about CCEH by subscribing to our General Interest e-mail list at the same link.

CCEH is working with our community service providers to enhance street outreach efforts. Over the course of 2023, CCEH has shifted the focus of outreach from purely delivering goods and services to folks in encampments, to providing well-rounded services with representation from the majority of the homeless service providers in the community.

This means that when outreach is conducted, individuals from veteran services, the Community Action Program of Belknap-Merrimack County, youth services, mental health, harm reduction, and physicians from Concord Hospital participate to provide the best care out in the field.

The collaborative efforts and focused goals of outreach means that CCEH and our partner providers can make referrals quickly, can educate individuals about the resources available to them, and can help individuals in encampments, living out of their cars, at the hospitals, or in the jail or prison to exit homelessness faster and more efficiently than before.

A by-name list is a real-time, comprehensive list of every person in a community experiencing homelessness. The list includes a person’s name, housing history, health, and housing needs. By maintaining an accurate by-name list, communities are able to not only track the size and composition of their homeless population, but they know current and detailed information on every homeless person in a given subpopulation, such as veterans, chronic homeless, youth, or families.

By getting to know each person in the community who is experiencing homelessness by name, we create ownership and understanding in our community that these are members of our community that we’re trying to help.

The by-name list data can also be used in graphs to understand the impact of different ideas designed to reduce homelessness and see how effectively those ideas work.

Once a community has established quality, system-wide date that they can trust on the homeless population, they’re better able to match housing solutions with individuals, prioritize community resources, and track the state of homelessness in the community at large.

CCEH has worked hard over the past three years to create and maintain an accurate by-name list for Merrimack County. Working with our homeless service community partners, we are improving our data collection, recording, and analysis to better understand the scope of our community’s homeless situation as well as the resources available.