Community Impact Team

Community Outreach Officer

The Community Outreach Officer is the primary contact for homelessness systems/providers, governmental and private, wishing to address system or individual homelessness-related concerns. The Community Outreach Officer works directly with other Oshkosh Police staff to make our services as efficient and effective as possible. The Community Outreach Officer conducts foot patrol frequently of the downtown Business Improvement District (BID), downtown parks, and any other location those experiencing homelessness may gather. The Community Outreach Officer partners with downtown business owners and residents on homelessness and other related issues, partners with the Community Outreach Co-Responder to help identify persons in need of services in our unhoused population, addresses unlawful ordinance and criminal behavior by all persons, and partners with other City departments to address matters, such as encampments located on City property, abandoned property, and other homelessness-related issues that may arise.

Community Outreach Officer Tyler Vanden Hoogen
920-379-3536
tvandenhoogen@oshkoshwi.gov

COO Co-Responder Emily Grace
920-420-7763
egrace@winnebagocountywi.gov