Current Coalition Partners & Direct Service Leads
(Participating Agencies And Partners)
Notice: We are currently verifying the 2026 participation of our local nonprofit, faith-based, and governmental partners to ensure unified coordination. A full directory of our verified Strategic Partners will be live shortly.
Some listed will have brief overview of their work with the coalition.
[This section will be updated over time to add more of who is an active member partner of this coalition]
• Nonprofits and Partners: To update your impact data or be included in this list if you’re not already listed, contact the Strategic Alliance Lead here.
• Red Conrad is a Strategic Alliance Lead and Community Solutions Catalyst focused on strengthening cross-sector collaboration to address homelessness. Their work centers on aligning nonprofits, independent advocates, and public partners around shared data, clear communication, and practical policy pathways.
Actively involved in legislative discussions and community data efforts such as the Point-in-Time (PIT) count, Red emphasizes solutions that balance immediate needs — such as a shelter — with long-term stability. Known for convening diverse stakeholders and sustaining engagement, they play a key role in keeping coalition efforts focused, coordinated, and grounded in real-world conditions.
Their approach prioritizes transparency, shared ownership, and respect for both lived experience and institutional constraints, helping ensure homelessness responses remain effective, humane, and durable.
His passion stems from his own experience being homeless and seeing firsthand how lacking the county is in resources and the ease to locate those resources that do exist. He aims to end the stereotypes, show the data-driven truth of homelessness, and help those experiencing homelessness get back on their feet.
Contact Red via email at RedConrad84@gmail.com
• Palatka Christian Service Center / Heart of Putnam is a co-founding partner organization and dedicated partner of this alliance to ensure all residents get the services and programs needed. They are leading the R.I.S.E. Program initiative.
To learn more about, and contact, Palatka Christian Service Center visit HeartOfPutnam.com
• Passionate Putnam Partners
Helping Putnam County organizations secure funding and build capacity through grant assistance, workshops, facilitation, event coordination, and marketing services.
• Operation Lifeline / Lifeline Construction is a co-founding partner organization that helps veterans with employment and housing. Learn more at OpLifeline.org
• Veteran Building Solutions Inc is a co-founding partner organization that is helping homeless and disabled veterans get into housing. May be contacted via VeteranBuildingSolutionsinc@gmail.com and website VeteranBuildingSolutionsinc.org
• Meridian Healthcare: Helping those who face mental health and substance use challenges. And are also assisting those experiencing homelessness. Info at their website: https://mbhci.org/
• Putnam County Caring Coalition is a co-founding partner organization actively providing the homeless with day services in Palatka.
• Spiritual Messiah Ministries: A co-founding partner providing direct emergency assistance through the Emergency Assistance Fund—offering immediate support for food, and essential supplies. As a grassroots faith-based organization rooted in Matthew 25 principles, SMM connects individuals to longer-term resources, helps administer the coalition’s Putnam County FL Homeless Support Facebook group, and supports coalition advocacy for the Gloria Johnson Act and R.I.S.E. program. Visit the Spiritual Messiah Ministries website for more details.
• The Arc of Putnam County empower individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to achieve their fullest potential and live meaningful lives within our community. We strive to provide comprehensive, community-based support systems that promote independence, inclusion, and personal growth for people of all abilities. https://arcputnam.org/
• Goodwill is removing barriers to employment through training, education, and career opportunities for the communities they serve. https://goodwillnorthfl.org/
• South Putnam Church
https://www.southputnam.church/
• Lee Conlee House
• St. John’s River State College
• Community Coalition Alliance serves as a collective voice by providing data-driven strategies to advise, advocate, and strive for health and wellness across diverse communities for all Floridians.
• Putnam County Sheriff’s Office
https://www.putnamsherifffl.com/
• Lutheran Services Florida is deeply committed to supporting our neighbors in need, ensuring that families right here in our Florida communities have access to the resources they need to thrive.
• SMA Healthcare provides mental health and addiction recovery services
• Epic Cure
• Easter Seals Every day, since 1948 Easterseals Florida has provided exceptional services, ensuring that people of all ages and disabilities can reach their full potential.
https://florida.easterseals.com/
• Palatka Housing Authority
• Florida Dept of Environmental Protection
• Habitat for Humanity
• Putnam Land Conservancy
https://putnamlandconservancy.org/
• BAYS Kids Inspiring youth to change, grow, and succeed is our business and it starts with helping them reflect on the past and embrace the future.
• The Ride Solution
• Center For Independent Living Of North Central Florida
• Children’s Home Society of Florida
• Cornerstone Connections
Helping individuals and families in need with programs, services, resources, and support that will enable them to obtain a solid and sustainable quality of life. When lives are improved, hope is restored, healing begins and communities are able to grow stronger.
https://www.cornerstoneconnections.org/
• Operation New Hope
• Peniel Baptist Academy
https://www.penielwarriors.org/
• Recovery Point
https://www.recoverypointpalatka.com
Putnam County Homelessness Solutions Coalition 