Message from Carrie

2023 has been both a rewarding and challenging year for the Family Solutions Collaborative and our members. As we work toward our shared vision of preventing and ending family homelessness by ensuring a fair and equitable way in which families can be connected to and receive services, the ongoing pandemic and lack of affordable housing in Orange County, have heightened the need for additional support and services. Through it all, our Member Agencies, Family Shelters and Access Points have responded, every step of the way.

The Family Solutions Collaborative is dedicated to ensuring families are represented and supported at every level of their housing crisis – working to ensure family homelessness is rare, brief, and nonrecurring, using best-practice, non-discriminatory, low-barrier, and trauma-informed, system-wide practices.

We don’t do this alone. Our FSC Members, Access Points, Family Shelters, community partners and Stakeholders are the fabrics that weave together the leadership, support, programs and services, that are in alignment with the goals and values of the Family Solutions Collaborative. We are building a system where collaboration over competition is supported and celebrated.

We are committed to this work because we know that no child should be homeless, and housing is a human right. We are grateful to the dedicated and hard-working staff at the FSC, the Executive Committee who work to support the mission and vision and to our Members, Partners and Stakeholders for their dedication and work to end family homelessness in Orange County. Thank you for being part of the solution!

For the families,

Carrie Buck
Executive Director