In 2021, Douglas County, in partnership with the City of Lawrence and fifteen (15) community housing and health agencies convened a collective impact initiative that set a goal to end chronic homelessness by 2028. The shared commitment of this group was to develop a 5-year strategic plan that was informed by supportive housing needs assessment completed by the CSH in 2022. The CSH needs assessment provided a fundamental set of data-informed findings and recommended strategies that has been foundational to the development and implementation of the strategic plan. These include but are not limited to the development of a community housing case management framework which was supported by an environmental scan performed by CSH. Most recently, Douglas County approved funding for $600,000 to support a Flexible Housing Pool, which was recommended in the 2022 needs assessment and is core to meeting our supportive housing goals for the strategic plan.