Systems Improvement Committee

Engagement across systems

The Systems Improvement Committee advises and makes recommendations to the Austin/Travis County Homelessness Response System Leadership Council. Meetings are open to the public, and all are encouraged to attend to share subject matter and/or lived expertise. The committee’s voting members include people with lived experience of homelessness, equity advocates, direct service provider staff, and other advocates working to end homelessness in our community.

This committee meets monthly on the third Friday.

Purpose & Responsibilities

Purpose

The Homelessness Response System (HRS) understands that ending homelessness requires robust support services and true collaboration between complex systems. This committee will work to evaluate the effect that other systems (e.g., education, child welfare, healthcare, mental health, criminal justice, transportation, environmental, etc.) have on the HRS and develop strategies to actively engage those systems in ending homelessness in our community.

Specific priorities are updated yearly in the Leadership Council Roadmap.

2023-24 Leadership Council Roadmap (PDF)

Click here

Workgroups
Workgroups will be created by committees as necessary to achieve the committee’s Roadmap priorities. They will be tasked to discuss and provide recommendations to the committees for decisions.

Current System Improvement Committee Workgroups
- Harm Reduction Workgroup
- Peer Support Workgroup

How to Join
All committee and workgroup meetings are open to the public. You can join using the links in the calendar at the top of the page.

To apply for a voting seat on the Crisis Response Committee, please fill out the Voting Seat Interest Form below.
- Voting Seat Interest Form
  (links to Google Form)
  
  Name *
  Email *
  Phone Number
  Please select the committee(s) you'd like to apply to join as a voting member: *
  Crisis Response
  Permanent Housing
  Equity
  Performance Monitoring
  System Improvement
  Comment

Year	Month	Agenda	Minutes	Additional Materials
2024	November	Agenda (PDF)	Minutes (PDF)
2024	October	Agenda (PDF)	Minutes (PDF)
2024	September	Agenda (PDF)	Minutes (PDF)
2024	August	Agenda (PDF)	Minutes (PDF)
	July	Agenda (PDF)	Minutes (PDF)
	June	Agenda (PDF)	Minutes (PDF)
	May	Agenda (PDF)	Minutes (PDF)
	April
	March	Agenda (PDF)	Minutes (PDF)
	February	Agenda (PDF)	Minutes (PDF)
	January	Agenda (PDF)
2023	December
2023	November	Agenda (PDF)
2023	October	Agenda (PDF)	Minutes (PDF)	2023-2024 Annual Work Plan (PDF) SOAR Written Standards
2023	September	Agenda (PDF)	Minutes (PDF)