As you know, it is our role to lead the development of the homeless response system that will make homelessness, in Dallas and Collin Counties, rare, brief and nonrecurring. To that end we have a not-so-secret weapon in Collin County, our Coordinated Assessment System (CAS) Coordinator, Tricia Garcia!
Tricia Garcia
Tricia is the third person to serve in this important role, following Cal Martinez, who is now our Housing Navigator, and D’arcy Drescher, who relocated to the Midwest.
Cal Martinez
D’Arcy and Cal would spend three days of every week in Collin County, and on the remaining two days help the rest of the CAS team in Dallas. It didn’t take long, though, for us to realize that, to quote Chief Brody in Jaws, we were “gonna need a bigger boat,” in Collin County.
Last August, our good friends at Baylor Scott & White Health stepped up to the plate and awarded us a $25,000 grant, to allow Cal (and then Tricia) to spend all five days of the week working to end homelessness in Collin County. Today, Baylor Scott & White Health told us that they are renewing the $25,000 grant for another year. Thank you, guys; you rock!
