In collaboration with a 27-member Board of Trustees, Victoria L. Mallette is responsible for directing and implementing Miami-Dade County’s Community Homeless Plan: Priority Home, the local Continuum of Care’s framework for preventing and ending homelessness. The Homeless Trust administers and leverages a first-in-the-nation dedicated source of funding for people experiencing homelessness, a Food & Beverage Penny Program.  Through the CoC’s work, unsheltered homelessness has been reduced in Miami-Dade by nearly 90-percent.

Mallette’s public service career has included serving as Communications Director for the Office of the Mayor of Miami-Dade County, Acting Director of Development, Advocacy & Communications for Miami-Dade Parks and External Affairs/Governmental Coordinator for the Office of Emergency Management. Mallette began her career in broadcast journalism and served as a Senior Political Producer and Investigative Producer.

To learn more about the Homeless Trust, visit www.homelesstrust.org.