The Carbon County Homelessness Task Force has listed the following goals:

• Create a culture of information sharing, partnership and collaboration.

• Obtain the necessary data available on homelessness specific to Carbon County and comparative data from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and on a national level.

• Assess the current strengths, areas of improvement needed, and gaps in service delivery to effectively respond to homeless individuals and families.

• Learn from individuals who are currently homeless or were previously homeless.

• Access traditional funding and explore innovative, nontraditional funding opportunities to support community needs which address homelessness.

• Obtain buy-in from local media that homelessness is an important community issue worthy of journalistic reporting.

• Obtain buy-in from local governments and officials to support by all possible means community-based assistance for homeless adults, children and families and to promote community engagement as well as the efforts of public-sector organizations addressing the crisis of homelessness, including but not limited to adoption of humane local policies and dissemination of educational information.

• Communicate Task Force activities to the community-at-large.