Washington ? Better coordination among the many agencies that try to help homeless people find employment and health care as well as stable places to live is a central component for reaching the Obama administration’s ambitious goal of ultimately ending homelessness.

A proposal announced Tuesday at the White House by Cabinet officers, called “Opening Doors,” suggests a major shift in the federal approach to homelessness. The effort would be driven mainly by integration of support services and applying state and local models at the federal level, according to the federal Interagency Council on Homelessness.

The effort calls for ending chronic homelessness — where people cycle through shelters and hospitals — and homelessness among military veterans in five years, and for ending homelessness among families and children by 2020. The plan aims to eventually end all types of homelessness.

Funding for the effort includes some of the $2 billion in stimulus money allocated last year to the 19 federal agencies in the council.