Our Vision: Our City, Our Homeless, Our Shared Responsibility
Our Mission: Realizing our personal and collective responsibility to our fellow man, we mobilize our community to end homelessness.
Who We Are
- Beach is a voluntary association of faith organizations, nonprofits, businesses, individuals
and governments which have joined together to end homelessness in our city.
- We focus on those activities that we can do better together, and those critical things that advance our work to end homelessness and achieve the most success.
- We work to align all our work to better and best serve our goals.
- We support those activities that are aligned with our mission and goals.
- We welcome all who share our goals to join and be a part of the decision-making process.
- We think that participative decision-making is the best way to move our entire community’s efforts forward. This means that we practice inclusiveness, openness, and transparency.
- BEACH offers members the opportunity to network with and consult with the broadest possible range of experts, providers, and stakeholders; we offer a communication network to get your word out; we offer the opportunity to coordinate with existing agencies and efforts; and for certain activities, we offer our work to mobilize the community, to allocate resources, and to conduct fund raising toward that effort.
- What we expect from members is alignment with our vision, mission and goals; and help in building an ongoing, sustainable organization. BEACH's active members represent faith, city and non-profit organizations that serve the homeless.
Our Roles in the Community: BEACH...
- is where our community studies, develops, adopts and supports great plans to end homelessness.
- focuses advocacy for our adopted plans to help them be realized. We are the “tip of the spear” in our community’s overall efforts to end homelessness.
- raises or helps raise resources that will make our plans become reality.
- brings together the many players in the community to help them coordinate, collaborate and be as effective as possible both individually and together.
- works in alignment with the housing, homelessness and overall goals of the City of Virginia Beach.
- promotes and supports coordination with our city neighbors and the entire region when appropriate to achieve shared goals.
Our Goals
- To prevent homelessness whenever and wherever possible
- To help people who become homeless obtain and maintain appropriate, permanent housing as quickly as possible
- To expand opportunities for decent, safe and affordable housing
- To improve services through better communication, coordination, enhancement, streamlined access and elimination of redundancies
- To expand the availability of resources to achieve our goals
- To help people by connecting them to services, training and resources
- To increase understanding in our community regarding homelessness
- To advocate for the expansion of quality programs and creation of new initiatives to advance our mission
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