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Save the Date: Hear from Your Peers Webinar – Successful Housing and Healthcare Integration Strategies - July 21, 1-2 pm 

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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Save the Date: Hear from Your Peers Webinar - Successful Housing and Healthcare Integration Strategies - July 21, 1-2 PM EDT Listen live to this webinar featuring two CoC grantees discussing how they have forged community-wide linkages that help assure access and continuity of housing, needed healthcare and support services, and employment opportunities for people experiencing housing instability, homelessness and chronic homelessness. Panelists include: Roula K. Sweis, M.A., Psy.D., Supervisory Program Advisor, HUD’s Office of the Assistant Secretary, Comm

SNAPS In Focus: NOFAs Past and Present

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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . SNAPS In Focus: NOFAs Past and Present Here at SNAPS, we are busy preparing to release the FY 2015 Continuum of Care (CoC) program Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) in the next several weeks. In the meantime, I wanted to provide some feedback about last year’s competition and give you a sense of our priorities moving forward. FY 2014 Funding Process In one sense, the FY 2014 funding process was much easier because there was no CoC Application; instead, we used the CoC’s score from the FY 2013 CoC Application. We saw an improvement in project applicati

Announcement: TA Opportunity Related to Implementation and Approval of Owner-Adopted Admissions Preferences for Persons Experiencing Homelessness

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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Announcement: Technical Assistance Opportunity Related to Implementation and Approval of Owner-Adopted Admissions Preferences for Persons Experiencing Homelessness On July 25, 2013, HUD issued Notice HUD 2013-21: Implementation and approval of owner-adopted admissions preferences for individuals or families experiencing homelessness . This Notice provides guidance on an optional homeless admission preference for HUD-assisted multifamily properties. Pioneering communities such as Massachusetts, Chicago, and Philadelphia have leveraged this option over the last

News from the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness

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July 14, 2015 USICH and Federal Partners Release New Guidance on SSI/SSDI Benefits for People Experiencing Homelessness     The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness and its partners at SSA, SAMHSA, and VA are pleased to release Key Strategies for Connecting People Experiencing Homelessness to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insura nce (SSDI) Benefits . Read the key strategies .      

Ribbon Cutting Event: Baltimore County Westside Men's Shelter, 7/23, 11:30am

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Alliance Online News: 2015 DC Homelessness Conference Begins Tomorrow 

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