Greater Wheeling Coalition for the Homeless

Working with a broad range of partners and agencies, Coalition staff work to address these major issues and enrich the entire community:

* provide full-scale supportive services and focusing on building our clients' human capacity at 3 important stages - emergency shelter, transitional housing and permanent housing.
* supporting community emergency shelters by offering payments for shelter beds via WV Dept of Health and Human Resources.
* Identifying and implementing long-term curative measures to homelessness, while also educating the community on the issue.
* Developing and supporting a seamless system of services in the greater Wheeling area.
* Establishing appropriate and assisted housing opportunities for the homeless.
* Promoting community planning by identifying systematic gaps and gathering data to substantiate the need.
* Serving as the lead agency in the Northern Panhandle Continuum of Care.