Interagency Council on Homelessness
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Members
Secretary
Dr. James Peake

Department of Veterans Affairs
Chairperson
Secretary Ed Schafer
Department of Agriculture
Secretary Carlos Gutierrez
Department of Commerce
Secretary Robert Gates
Department of Defense
Secretary Margaret Spellings
Department of Education
Secretary Samuel Bodman
Department of Energy
Secretary
Michael O. Leavitt

Department of Health and Human Services
Secretary Michael Chertoff
Department of Homeland Security
Secretary
Steve Preston

Department of Housing and Urban Development
Secretary
Dirk Kempthorne

Department of Interior
Attorney General
Michael Mukasey

Department of Justice
Secretary Elaine Chao
Department of Labor
Commissioner Michael J. Astrue
Social Security Administration
Secretary Mary E. Peters
Department of Transportation
Chief Executive Officer David Eisner
Corporation for National and Community Service

Acting Administrator
James A. Williams
General Services Administration

Director Jim Nussle
Office of Management and Budget
Postmaster General John E. Potter
United States Postal Service
Director Henry C. Lozano*
USA Freedom Corps
Acting Director
Jedd Medefind*

White House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives
Philip F. Mangano
Executive Director
* Denotes Affiliate Members

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Federal Interagency Policy Academies for States


The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, hosts an information site for the federal interagency Policy Academy process. To date, nine Policy Academies have been held through which states are offered expertise and peer-to-peer learning opportunities on how to maximize the availability and accessibility of mainstream resources for homeless persons.

  • "Mainstream resources" is a term used to describe a variety of government assistance programs for which people may be eligible because of their economic or disability status. Examples of "mainstream resource" programs are listed below. A 1999 US General Accounting Office report revealed that while funding for programs specifically targeted to homeless persons under the McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act amounted to $1.2 billion a year, more than $200 billion in assistance was available in the mainstream programs.

Several federal agencies partnered to sponsor these Policy Academies-the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Veterans Affairs, Labor and Education. A National Learning Meeting was held in October 2004 to showcase innovative approaches the states have implemented, to provide additional opportunity for peer to peer technical assistance and to determine what further assistance would be helpful to states in implementing their state plans. The Department of Education has announced that it will be joining the collaboration this year.

 
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