Department of Human Services staff members serve on or provide administrative support for a number of boards and commissions within the city which address the issues, concerns, and special needs of the community.

• Commission on Aging/Long Term Care Coordination advises the department of human services on coordination and improvement of agencies which seek to provide services to the elderly. It does so by promoting cooperation between these agencies, analyzing the needs of Norfolk’s elderly, collecting information regarding resources available to the elderly and their effectiveness, becoming involved in legislation regarding the elderly, and developing a long-term plan targeting the care of the elderly.
• Norfolk Commission for Persons with Disabilities
• Norfolk Task Force on Aging (NTFA)
• The Homeless Advisory Committee acts in an advisory capacity to City Council in all matters related to homelessness. 
• Youth Services Citizens Advisory Board works with the Director of Human Services on initiatives to reduce juvenile delinquency and promote youth development. 
• Norfolk Criminal Justice Board (NCJB) monitors a community correction and pretrial services program and plans community-based initiatives for those at risk of involvement in the criminal justice system.
• Norfolk Interagency Consortium (NIC) The duties of this consortium include managing the cooperative effort of the city to better serve the needs of troubled and at-risk youth and their families. It works to improve employment, job skills, education, and achievement. It seeks to develop policies for the agencies of the city to provide for underprivileged families and children. It coordinates long-term, community-wide planning to help the development of resources and services needed by at-risk youth and families. It reports on its actions to the State, serving as the City’s liaison to the State management team.
• Comprehensive Health Investment Project (CHIP), Virginia Information Resource Center (VPIRC) and Healthy Families Advisory Board work together on one board to address a variety of issues. The CHIP works to promote health and healthy lifestyles for children and their parents; VPIRC works with Norfolk Public Schools on helping parents and their children and Healthy Families seeks to identify new mothers and help them with giving their newborns, up through age 6, a healthy start in life.  
• Southeastern Tidewater Opportunity Project (STOP) acts to review the pre-school federal policies/procedures which may impact parent and child services and the STOP Organization Head Start Advisory Board shares interagency information on new social service initiatives and opportunities for parents.
• Hampton Roads Workforce Development Board addresses all of the work force development issues for all youth in the Hampton Roads area.
• The Consortium for Infant and Child Health (CINCH) is a collaboration of social and health agencies working together to benefit the health of children in Hampton Roads.
• Hope VI: The Broad Creek Renaissance staff provides technical assistance on the Community Supportive Services Committee.
• Police Assisted Community Enforcement is a dynamic program design to encompass the entire community in a strategically planned and executed series of ongoing events and activities aimed at giving citizens control of their neighborhood.
• South Hampton Roads Earned Income Tax Coalition (SHREITC) is comprised of local and state government agencies as well as local businesses, non-profit organizations, and faith-based groups.  The coalition promotes awareness of the EITC, and provides free tax filing assistance and financial management classes to low income working families throughout the Southside region.