2017 ANNUAL REPORT 15 >> PARTNER PROFILE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AND HUMAN SERVICES, KING COUNTY KCHA closely coordinates with King County’s behavioral health care and homeless systems’ efforts to prevent homelessness and provide housing solutions with the goal of making homelessness rare, brief, and one-time. By aligning resources and strategies, we can design local solutions to local problems, coordinate funding, and collectively assess the impact of new approaches. This partnership has led to the development of innovative programming to address chronic homelessness. “Together DCHS and KCHA have developed a successful ‘Moving On’ strategy that transitions stable households from permanent supportive housing into the Housing Choice Voucher program, freeing up valuable service resources for higher-need households,” Ellerbrook says. In 2017, KCHA provided subsidies to 80 households in order to help them reintegrate into the community under this new initiative. “ Our partnership with KCHA has contributed greatly to new housing resources for the homeless. Their investment has changed lives — enabling homeless households to obtain housing, case management, and the housing support services needed to achieve and maintain housing stability.” ” Mark Ellerbrook Regional Housing and Community Development Manager