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If you are having trouble viewing the email below, please click here . ` May 2014 Spotlight on Miami-Dade's SOAR Collaboration with the Courts: Diverting Defendants with Mental Illness Since 1949, Mental Health America has spearheaded May is Mental Health Awareness Month by reaching out to millions of people across the country via the media, local events, and screenings. The theme for 2014 is “Mind Your Health,” and one of the goals is to raise awareness about the importance of mental health as part of overall health and wellness. In recognition of this theme, we would like to share an inspiring article about SOAR that appeared in Psychiatric News , “Defendants With Mental Illness Diverted to Social Security System.” The article features Miami-Dade’s innovative SOAR collaboration with the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Criminal Mental Health Project (CMHP). Please visit: http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/newsA...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Income Calculator Updated with FY 2014 HOME Program Income Limits HUD has updated the Income Eligibility Calculator to incorporate the FY 2014 HUD Program Income Limits. These limits are effective for the HOME Program as of May 1, 2014 and can be viewed on the  OneCPD Resource Exchange . How Does This Affect the Income Calculator? All calculations that are currently in a user's dashboard in the  CPD Income Eligibility Calculator , as well as all calculations completed going forward, will use the FY 2014 income limits for th...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Federal Partners Release Final 2014 HMIS Data Standards The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are pleased to announce the release of the 2014 HMIS Data Dictionary and 2014 HMIS Data Manual . This joint release is a product of collaboration between the three agencies to update the HMIS Data Standards to allow for standardized data collection on homeless individuals and families across systems. These two documents update the 2004 HMIS Data and Technical Notice and the 2010 HMIS Data Standards. Because this is a collaborative effort between HUD, HHS, and the VA, the standards are no longer presented in a HUD Notice format. Instead the federal partners are releasing two documents; a technical data dictionary and a community data manual. Communities must collect the...

Council Focuses on Support for Local Communities May 2, 2014 Houston, Phoenix, and Growing List of other Communities are Proving that Ending Homelessness is Possible and Within Reach Last week, members of the Cabinet and leaders from 19 Federal agencies, who together make up the Interagency Council on Homelessness, met to take action on Federal efforts to support and advance progress on ending homelessness in local communities. From left: Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, and USICH Executive Director Laura Zeilinger   "One of the areas where I really want to make sure we're stepping up is to deepen our partnership with mayors around the country," said HUD Secretary and USICH Council Chair Shaun Donovan. "We have seen that where mayors and local government are engaged we're making remarkable progress." LEARN ABOUT THE MAYORS CHAL...