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The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) is holding a Question and Answer (Q&A) Webinar for all State and Entitlement grantees on best practices to successfully set-up your Integrated Disbursement and Information System (IDIS) Projects in the Annual Action Plan (AAP) section of the eCon Planning Suite. This webinar will provide an overview of how to properly set-up projects in the AAP, and effectively and efficiently align IDIS Activity accomplishment data with the goals in the Strategic and AAP. The webinar will also help participants avoid time consuming mistakes. Following the presentation, participants will be able to submit questions to HUD and technical assistance providers regarding the eCon Planning Suite and Consolidated Plan process. Participants will learn best practices for: Creating new projects in the AAP Adding existing projects previously created in IDIS Removing prio

Bowman Client Update System Performance Measures (SPM) Date Prompts The HUD System Performance Measure reports are complex reports and we’ve received a few questions about how to use the date prompts in the reports for both the current reporting period and previous reporting since HUD is allowing you to re-submit last years data. Here are the recommend date prompt values for the current FY 2016 reporting period for the 0700 series System Performance Measures: 0700 - Length of Time Persons Homeless-Metric 1 - v4 Enter Start Date: 10/1/2015 Enter End Date PLUS 1 Day: 10/1/2016 Enter Prior Year Start Date: 10/1/2014 Enter Effective Date: 10/1/2016 0700.1b - Length of Time Persons Homeless-Metric 1 - vBETA Enter Start Date: 10/1/2015 Enter End Date PLUS 1 Day: 10/1/2016 Enter Prior Year Start Date: 10/1/2014 Enter Effective Date: 10/1/2016 0701 - Exits to Permanent Housing with Return to Homelessness, Metric 2 - v3 Enter Two Year Prior Start Date (Red):

Mediware Events Get Registered! This year's lineup of sessions... Registration is open! We are still finalizing the agenda but wanted to share our lineup of sessions, focused on our enhanced products (Qlik Sense and ServicePoint 6), plus a handful of customer-led presentations  -- just like in year's past. While we are joining other divisions for the Mediware Customer Conference, we'll still offer Bowman specific tracks. Here are some of the session topics:  HUD/Federal Partners and 2017 Dictionary Updates Qlik Training ServicePoint 6 Administrator Training Coordinated Assessment Provider Admin Spero Software  Happy Case Managers, Happy HMIS Staff! Want FREE Tuition? Don't forget are still accepting abstracts for the Mediware Customer Conference through May 15 . If accepted to present, you will receive 1 free co

Join SAMHSA LIVE  To Kick Off National Prevention Week 2017 on Monday, May 15, 2017! 11 a.m. EDT / 10 a.m. CDT / 8 a.m. PDT SAMHSA invites you to join the National Prevention Week (NPW) 2017 kick-off event featuring this year's NPW theme, "Making Each Day Count." Attend in person or watch live and join the conversation on social media using the hashtag #NPW2017. Register To Watch Live Register To Attend in Person National Prevention Week is an annual public health observance in which communities, organizations, and individuals around the country come together to raise awareness about the importance of substance use prevention and mental health promotion. Learn More and Get Involved in NPW 2017

 On Wednesday, the tech giant said it would donate more than 47,000 square feet of space within its newest Seattle headquarters building as a permanent location to house homeless people. Amazon ( AMZN , Tech30 ) is partnering with local nonprofit Mary's Place to create 65 rooms, which will house more than 200 homeless people every night. Related: CNNMoney readers save man from homelessness. And he now has a job "Mary's Place does incredible, life-saving work every day for women, children, and families experiencing homelessness in the Seattle community," Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement. "We are lucky to count them as neighbors and thrilled to offer them a permanent home within our downtown Seattle headquarters." Workers continue construction on an Amazon Biosphere in Seattle. The new Mary's Place shelter will open in early 2020. It will also have a resource center like those the nonprofit offers in North Seattle and

He's learned two key truths: Just about every kid loves pizza, and an alarming number of American youngsters still can't afford a $2.35 lunch, despite the dramatic expansion of free and reduced lunch programs. When a student doesn't have enough money for lunch, cafeteria staff in many districts, including Antignolo's, take away the child's tray of hot food and hand the student a brown paper bag containing a cold cheese sandwich and a small milk. Some schools take away their lunch entirely. "It's the worst part of the job. Nobody likes it," says Antignolo, who's now director of food services at the Lamar Consolidated District outside Houston. All the other kids in the lunch line know what's going on. Getting that brown bag is the lunch line equivalent of being branded with a Scarlet Letter. It's been dubbed "school lunch shaming." It happens across the country: 76% of America's school districts