Who We Are
OUR MISSION
The Path Home seeks to collaboratively lead and coordinate efforts that prevent homelessness, increase housing stabilization, and make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring in Denton County through advocacy, resource mobilization, and community engagement.
WHAT WE DO
The Path Home’s services and programming largely support local nonprofits and community members through mobilization, advocacy, and collaborative efforts.
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Point in Time Count - annual census of all people experiencing homelessness in a given to provide insight into need and barriers locally and support federal and local funding requests to enhance programming and supports.
Denton County Barriers Fund - Local fund of last resort to help people gain or maintain housing in Denton Count by helping overcome barriers no other funding source can.
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Local and federal advocacy on impacts to the housing crisis response system and changes that will support safe and stable housing
Future education opportunities for nonprofit staff to build a stronger system to support current and future households
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Local Homeless Coalition (Denton County Homeless Coalition) meeting and events that bring together community members, agencies, and stakeholders in the work coordinate together, information share, and strategize to improve our system
Our History
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2001
Denton County Homeless Coalition was formed as a grass roots collaborative to support the local homelessness Continuum of Care.
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2005
Planned and hosted the first Point in Time Count in Denton County to understand better what homelessness looked like locally and begin data driven decision making and funding requests to support our neighbors.
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2012
Strategically joined the Texas Balance of State Continuum of Care to increase regional collaboration and funding opportunities for Denton County.
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2015
City of Denton lead a homelessness task force to understand what local gaps were to strategize for stronger system supports.
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2016
The Denton County Homelessness Leadership Team (DCHLT) was formed to enact system level change to make homelessness rare, brief, and nonrecurring in Denton County
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2018
Denton County Barriers Fund created with support from City of Denton, City of Lewisville, and local community supporters to help households overcome barriers and gain or maintain housing with a maximum of $1,000 per household. United Way of Denton County acted as the fiscal agent of this fund as DCHC was not a formalized nonprofit.
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2019
Denton County Homeless Coalition shifted to be a workgroup under DCHLT to support formalized strategies.
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2024
Denton County Homeless Coalition members began discussing the interest in the Coalition becoming an independent nonprofit to support current needs and prepare for the future of homelessness services.
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2025
Exploration Committee was created with members within the Coalition to explore needs and gaps locally to understand what the future of a formalized nonprofit would be. Board formation and federal filing completed.
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2026
The launch of The Path Home! Supporting the Local Homeless Coalition is its grounding community service, while diving into education and advocacy needs and the continual support of the PIT Count and Barriers Fund.
What is the local homeless coalition?
The coalition is composed of representatives from non-profit agencies, Denton County cities, school districts and other engaged stakeholders. Our commitment guides us to connect community resources and encourage innovations for continuous improvement. The coalition works with the lead entity for the Continuum of Care (CoC) planning process, the Texas Homeless Network (THN) in a collaboration known as the CoC Balance of State. The Coalition meets on the last Wednesday of each month at 9 AM in alternating Denton and Lewisville locations. Join us anytime!