Mission: St. Louis Continuum of Care Coordinator VISTA

The goal of the Mission: St. Louis is to eradicate poverty through empowering low-income individuals to be leaders in their lives, families and neighborhoods. We focus on our efforts within the city of St. Louis, where there is a 28.8% poverty rate. Out of Mission: St. Louis comes a new initiative called Continuum of Care.

The St. Louis City Continuum of Care is a membership organization comprised of more than 100 organizations and individuals from the private and public sector who work in partnership to prevent and end homelessness in the City of St. Louis.

We Work to: Promote community-wide strategies and plans to prevent and end homelessness

Provide coordination among the numerous local organizations and initiatives that serve the homeless population

Manage the CoC¿s single, comprehensive grant application to HUD for McKinney-Vento funding which includes Continuum of Care funds and State Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funds.