Erica Mulryan is the Continuum of Care Director for the Ohio Balance of State Continuum of Care, an 80-county homeless response system serving rural and suburban communities in Ohio. In this role, she is responsible for leading the overall system effort to end homelessness in the CoC. During Erica’s tenure, the Ohio BoSCoC has been selected to receive funding through the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) three times, expanding YHDP programming to more than half of the CoC; and the CoC has increased its annual CoC Program funding from $13 million to nearly $30 million, adding hundreds of new PSH units the CoC. Erica has served in this capacity for more than 15 years.

Prior to joining the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio (COHHIO) in 2006, Erica worked as a policy associate at Heartland Alliance in Chicago, and before that worked in direct services with people fleeing domestic violence and experiencing homelessness. She earned her undergraduate degree in social work from Kansas State University and her master’s degree in social work from the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago.