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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . HUD Guidance on HMIS Data Collection for Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) Programs HUD has learned that Continuums of Care (CoCs) have implemented requirements prohibiting data entry for persons served in Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) programs without written consent. This is a barrier to integrating RHY programs into Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS). HUD is sending this guidance to strongly encourage communities to relax restrictions for agencies serving youth. HUD expects all CoCs and HMIS Lead Agencies to support the integration of RHY pro

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . HUD Publishes FY 2015 CoC Program Registration FAQs New e-snaps Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are now available on the HUD Exchange. The new FAQs provide guidance on commonly asked questions regarding Continuum of Care (CoC) Program Registration for the FY 2015 CoC Program Competition. View the FAQs on the e-snaps FAQs page. FAQ topics addressed include: Process and Requirements   Importing   Submitting Registration to HUD   CoC Review If you have a question that is not answered by the existing FAQs, please submit your question through

Utah's Strategy for the Homeless: Give Them Homes BY JACOB RASCON By the end of 2015, the chronically homeless population of Utah may be virtually gone. And the secret is quite simple: Give homes to the homeless. "We call it housing first, employment second," said Lloyd Pendleton, director of Utah's Homeless Task Force. Even Pendleton used to think trying to eradicate homelessness using such an approach was a foolish idea. "I said: 'You guys must be smoking something. This is totally unrealistic,'" Pendleton said. But the results are hard to dispute. In 2005, Utah was home to 1,932 chronically homeless. By April 2015, there were only 178 — a 91 percent drop statewide. "It's a philosophical shift in how we go about it," Pendleton said. "You put them in housing first ... and then help them begin to deal with the issues that caused them to be homeless." Chronically homeless persons — those living on