A new online command center that will coordinate homelessness efforts across the City and County of Honolulu is up and running. This coincides with last week’s opening of the new headquarters for the city’s Department of Community Services in Kalihi (in the former Central Pacific Bank Operations Center on 222 N. School Street).
The Kōkua Command Center, run by DCS, is centralizing services to strengthen collaboration, improve response time, and boost resource availability for those experiencing homelessness.
Anton Krucky, DCS’s director, said despite there being data on the houseless population across the county, there was not one space where it could all be accessed, analyzed, and acted upon by multiple organizations and agencies…