The Continuum of Care (CoC) Program is designed to:

• Promote community-wide planning and strategic use of resource to address homelessness
• Improve coordination and integration with mainstream resources and other programs targeted to people experiencing homelessness
• Improve data collection and performance measurement
• Allow each community to tailor its program to the particular strengths and challenges within the community 

NOTIFICATION OF INTERNAL COMPETITION FOR HUD CONTINUUM OF CARE FUNDS

The Amarillo TX-611 Continuum of Care announces the competition for HUD Continuum of Care Funding. This opportunity is available to CoC TX-611 agencies that are members of the CoC.

This competition is to award funding made available through the HUD Continuum of Care Notification of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) issued on July 31, 2024. The FY 2024 and FY 2025 CoC Funding Notice, as authorized by Title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act.

For more details, please scroll to the "CoC Funding/Competition information " section located lower on this page. 

Continuum of Care — CoC Governance

The Charter identifies the CoC’s governance structure, including CoC Lead/Collaborative Applicant and HMIS Lead Agency designations and purposes. The Charter also describes the purposes of the CoC Board and other committees.

The name of the affiliation is the TX-611 Amarillo Continuum of Care. 

TX-611 Amarillo CoC Area

The geographic area of the TX-611 CoC includes the boundaries of the City of Amarillo located within Potter and Randall Counties. Within the city limits, Amarillo CoC conducts local CoC planning, housing and service development and delivery, and evaluation, as well as CoC-wide activities through the general membership, CoC Board, and committees. 

The TX-611 Amarillo Continuum of Care is comprised of: 

• City of Amarillo CoC General Members 
• City of Amarillo CoC Board of Directors
• City of Amarillo CoC Lead
• City of Amarillo CoC HMIS Lead
• City of Amarillo CoC Standing Committees
• City of Amarillo CoC Ad Hoc Committees

Continuum of Care FAQs

CoC Funding/Competition Information

(with link to Public Notices) 

The Continuum of Care Program Competition occurs annually. Each Fiscal Year (FY) Competition process begins with Registration of CoCs by designated Collaborative Applicants, followed by the CoC’s review of Grant Inventory Worksheets (GIW) and the release of the CoC Program NOFO. The FY Competition ends when the final funding announcement is released by HUD. 

Click here to view the 2024 CoC Program Competition NOFO CoC Estimated Annual Renewal Demand Report (hud.gov)

FY 2024 CoC Estimated ARD Report (hud.gov)

Point-in-Time Count

The Point-in-Time (PIT) count is a count of sheltered and unsheltered people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January. The Amarillo Continuum of Care (CoC) is required to conduct a PIT count of people experiencing homelessness at least every other year. 

Amarillo PIT Count by Year

2019: 647

2020: 600

2021: 495

2022: 547

2023: 692

2024: 525

Point-in-Time Count FAQs

Homeless Management Information System — HMIS — Information for Providers

The HEARTH Act, enacted into law on May 20, 2009 requires that all communities have an HMIS with the capacity to collect unduplicated counts of individuals and families experiencing homelessness. Through HMIS, our community can collect information from projects serving individuals and families experiencing homelessness to use as part of their needs analyses and to establish funding priorities. The Act also codified into law certain data collection requirements integral to HMIS. With enactment of the HEARTH Act, HMIS participation became a statutory requirement for recipients and sub-recipients of the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program. 

Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) is a local information technology system used to collect client-level data and data on the provision of housing and services to individuals and families at risk or and experiencing homelessness. 

For questions or guidance on the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) email COCTX611@amarillo.gov.

Homeless Management Information System FAQs