Community Resources Department

  • The Community Resources department works to provide general administration to three formal committees: Human and Community Resources, Public Safety, and Homelessness.
  • The department's primary focus is to work with local government on programs and/or projects with regional impacts and coordinate efforts with public agencies and community based organizations.
  • The Department also manages federal, state and locally funded regional air quality projects in coordination with federal and state agencies.

Community Resources

One Region, Many Communities

The Community Resources Department provides general administration of three formal committees: Human and Community Resources, Public Safety, and Homelessness. This includes development and dissemination of agendas, minutes and meeting schedules. This also includes facilitating and coordinating subcommittees and/or task forces as directed by the formal committees and development and dissemination of agendas, minutes and meeting schedules for these subgroups of the larger and formal committee's.

Regional projects originating from the formal committee's involve local community based organizations. Keeping informed of new community based agencies and maintaining good relationships with community partners is key to the project's success. Community partners also see the value of coordination with the regional agency representing local government.

The Department also manages the local air quality plan (Coachella Valley State Implementation Plan or CVSIP) under the umbrella of the South coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) which includes management and oversight of federal and state funded air quality projects.

Human and Community Resources Committee

  • Support for the Coachella Valley Health Collaborative (CVHC)
  • Support for those services that provide food for families year round
  • Support for Riverside County's 211 Social Services Hotline
  • Monitor and make available any countywide assessments of services for women and children that can be made available to the member jurisdictions
  • Support for efforts to expand available child care spaces
  • Update and make available Affordable Housing Locator
  • Facilitate efforts to establish formal Workforce Housing regional structure to address workforce housing shortage, coordinate annual valley wide Workforce Housing Summit and other related goals through Workforce Housing Steering Subcommittee
  • Provide support for the Health Assessment Resources Center (HARC)

Public Safety Committee

  • Property Crime Prevention Education Programs to Decrease Auto Theft and Reduce Property Crimes
  • Traffic Safety as it relates to: Speed enforcement Programs, Collision Reduction and enforcement of Hazardous Driving, Teenage Drivers, Seatbelt Enforcement
  • Gang Intervention Programs and Task Force Support
  • Disaster Preparedness Program that includes: Locate and Develop Disaster Equipment Caches, Identify Out of Area Contact Points for Public Safety Personnel, Prioritize Primary and Secondary Roads, Unified Command Training for Public Safety Personnel (ICS 3000 & 400 level)
  • Communications Upgrade and Support Radio Interoperability

Homelessness Committee

  • Work, in partnership, with County agencies, including Board of Supervisors, to assist the County in meeting its Continuum of Care strategies
  • Begin implementation strategies for the valleywide strategic Homelessness Plan to address homelessness. This will include a new multi-service center site in Western Coachella Valley and a homeless court in Eastern Coachella Valley
  • Review current homeless services in Eastern Coachella Valley to determine gaps in services and housing.
  • Assist County Department of Public Social Services Homeless Division with oversight of Region D subcommittee of Continuum of Care
  • Coordinate with County relative to their Homeless Management Information System data collection and use of the data with the Coachella Valley Regional Work Plan
  • Work on funding resources, coordinate use of Community Development Block Grant funds for homeless services
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