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June 24, 2014      ISSUES   |   POLICY   |   SOLUTIONS   |   NEWS & EVENTS Forward Editor: Emanuel Cavallaro Spotlight On... VA Report: Program for Homeless Veterans and Families Served More than 100,000 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has released an annual report for the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program that lauds the effectiveness of the program and details its achievements. Calling SSVF "the first and only VA program that provides services to veterans and their families," the report notes that during the program's first two years it served nearly 100,000 veterans and their family members, and 85 percent of those exiting the program had permanent housing. VA claims in the report that the SSFV program, which is based on the Housing First model, has demonstrated that "high-impact, successful interventions can help low-income Veteran families avo

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Registration Reminder: HUD and USICH Webinar - June 26, 2014 - 2 PM EDT Registration for the   HUD and USICH: Core Principles of Housing First and Rapid Re-Housing Webinar closes tomorrow at 2:00 PM EDT. For those who are unable to register or attend the live webinar, a recording of the webinar will be published on the  OneCPD Course Catalog  within one week of the broadcast.    This webinar focuses on the core principles of Housing First and Rapid Re-Housing and will be presented by Ann Oliva , the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretar