Continuum of Care News

Hello All, At the BCCH annual meeting we mentioned one of our volunteers, Jennifer Cox who works with the children in a few of the homeless shelters, was nominated for CNN Hometown Heroes. Her organization is Empower4life and below are two clips from her CNN debut.   The children are from Eastside Family Shelter. I will follow-up on how to vote when time.   The winner of this will receive a cash prize to go towards their very important work.  https://www.facebook.com/ CNNHeroes/videos/ 10155126189237489/ CNN Heroes www.facebook.com More than 100,000 kids in the U.S. live in homeless shelters. CNN Hero Jennifer Cox is there to help. Meet Jennifer and learn about her Empower4Life & #CNNHeroes at CNNHeroes.com http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/15/ health/cnn-hero-jennifer-cox- empower4life/index.html CNN Hero Jennifer Cox www.cnn.com CNN Hero Jennifer Cox started Empower4Life to provide health education, fitness activitie

DOL-VETS Announces $43.3 Million in HVRP Grant Awards Grants to help more than 21,000 veterans overcome homelessness, obtain employment WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Labor announced the award of $43.3 million in Homeless Veterans' Reintegration Program grants. The grants will help an estimated 21,000 veterans successfully reintegrate into the competitive workforce. The grants will fund a variety of services to assist homeless veterans in their return to the labor force including occupational, classroom, and on-the-job training, as well as job search and placement assistance.  To view a full list of 2017 award recipients, click here .   Grants were awarded on a competitive basis to state and local workforce investment boards, local public agencies and nonprofit organizations, tribal governments, and faith-based and community organizat

HUD has published a Coordinated Entry Guidebook , focusing on the four core elements of Access , Assessment , Prioritization , and Referral . The Guidebook covers basic requirements and advanced considerations for each core element. This Guidebook is intended to be a comprehensive tool for CoCs that are designing and implementing coordinated entry. The Guidebook also is intended for CoCs that have already made significant progress in planning coordinated entry, as well as those that have already implemented it. CoCs should use the Guidebook as a reference to ensure their coordinated entry process complies with all of HUD’s requirements. For more resources related to Coordinated Entry, view the CoC Responsibilities and Duties toolkit .             Visit the HUD Exchange at https://www.hudexch

HUD’s Office of Environment and Energy recommends that Responsible Entity staff involved in environmental reviews attend regular training on HUD environmental reviews that is provided by HUD's field environmental officers or sponsored by HUD. Environmental review training is offered by HUD in all regions annually free of charge . HUD has not provided approved training content on environmental reviews to technical assistance providers apart from training sponsored by HUD’s Office of Native American Programs. Therefore, the quality or accuracy of the training provided by privately operating entities cannot be guaranteed. To find out when environmental training is available in each region, contact the local HUD field environmental officer . For those who cannot attend training, the Web-Based Instructional System for Environmental Review (WISER) teaches grantees how to understand and address all aspects of the environmental review process required for all HUD-ass

The CPD Funding Matrix and Dashboard Reports , as of June 12, 2017, have been posted to HUD Exchange. These reports provide funding information for each city and state that receive CPD program funds, including Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Continuum of Care (CoC), Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG), HOME, Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA), and Housing Trust Fund (HTF). Reports detail the size of each grant received over the past several years, as well as the total amount of funds currently available to be spent on affordable housing and community and economic development activities. CPD Funding Matrix Note: Based on the requirement that a grantee uses the adjusted ratio for determining its compliance with the CDBG timeliness standard of having no more than 1.5 times its annual allocation in its adjusted line of credit balance 60 days prior to the end of its current program year, HUD is in the process of updating the CDBG recapture risk colum