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, Cal Martinez, a longtime homeless services professional and volunteer. (She is also the only, literal, rocket scientist we have on staff. Seriously.)
Cal (second from the right), with the Assistance Center staff, promoting the 2019 Homeless Count
Through the present day, Cal and her predecessor, D’Arcy, 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. For a while now, though, we have realized that, to quote Chief Brody in Jaws, we’re “gonna need a bigger boat,” in Collin County.
We are excited to announce that our good friends at Baylor Scott & White Health have awarded us a $25,000 grant, to allow Cal to spend all five days of the week working to end homelessness in Collin County. Thank you, guys; you rock!
