Continuum of Care News

If you are having trouble viewing the email below, please click here . July 2016 The SOAR TA Center has been busy presenting at conferences and on webinars! Jen Elder, National Policy and Partnerships Coordinator, represented the SOAR TA Center at three national and state conferences, and Kristin Lupfer, Director of the SOAR TA Center, represented SOAR on a national webinar: National Coalition for Homeless Veterans (NCHV) Conference, Washington, D.C. This year's annual NCHV conference was focused on leveraging momentum from the Five-Year Plan to end Veteran homelessness to reach the goal of functional zero in cities and states across the country. We provided information to participants through a breakout session and round robin expert tables about the importance of the SOAR model and Social Security Administration (SSA) benefits. Income supports and SOAR are critical as we work to prevent...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . HUD Launches Small Contractors Initiative Curriculum The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of the DAS for Economic Development in partnership with the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, and Office of Field Policy and Management, along with BusinessUSA and the Small Business Administration announce the launch of a new curriculum. The Small Contractors Initiative curriculum focuses on materials that will assist small contractors achieve bondable status such that they can more readily pursue federal contracting opportunities as ...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Collaboration between HUD's Office of Community Planning and Development and the Office of the Inspector General Ending homelessness through the provision of affordable housing and supportive services are just some of the important activities that are supported with the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program funds administered by HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD). These programs are administered and managed by committed homeless services providers from the non-profit sector as well as units of state and local government. Unfortunately, our...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Please Read: Important Information about FY 2016 PIT Count Data Corrections Please read this important message through to the end. HUD has been made aware that some communities may be using Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) software solutions that were programmed to count chronic clients incorrectly. It is important the data on chronic homelessness is as precise as possible. For this reason, HUD is working to identify impacted communities and provide them an opportunity to correct their 2016 Point-in-Time (PIT) count data in HUD’s Homelessness Data...

A dvocacy U pdate ...