Continuum of Care News

August 11, 2017 Subscribe SAMHSA Headlines—Your one-stop source for the latest from SAMHSA. Funding    |    Data    |    Events    |    SAMHSA News Funding SAMHSA Announces $6 Million in Grants To Support the International President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Addiction Technology Transfer Centers SAMHSA has awarded up to $6 million in funding over the next 5 years to support the International President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Addiction Technology Transfer Centers (INT PEPFAR-ATTC) programs operating in Vietnam, South Africa, and Ukraine. The purpose of this program is to establish INT PEPFAR-ATTC programs that increase the capacity, skills, and abilities of HIV/AIDS programs. Governmental agencies and

Join us for our August SOARing Over Lunch Call! Reminder: SOARing Over Lunch Call! Tuesday, August 15, 2017 1:00 p.m. ET Our next SOARing Over Lunch call is scheduled for Tuesday, August 15, at 1:00 p.m. ET. Please join us for this informal call aimed at peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and facilitated open discussion. Call-in/log-in information: http://prainc.adobeconnect.com/mattc1/ Conference Phone: 1-866-805-9853 Conference Code:  7712924792 Please note that all phone lines will be muted; attendees will hear the presenters speaking and can submit questions via Adobe Connect chat.  If you are planning on calling into the conference by phone only, you can ask questions throughout the call by emailing Matt Canuteson at mcanuteson@prainc.com . While there

Has Homelessness Increased Nationwide During the Past Two Years? Five States will Reveal Half of the Story A brief prepared by Joe Colletti, PhD Hub for Urban Initiatives August 2017   When the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) publishes the results of the 2017 country-wide homeless count, we will find out if homelessness has increased or decreased collectively across the country during the past couple of years, and five states will reveal half of the story. Table 1 below shows that more than half (51%) of the country's homeless population counted in 2015 lived on the streets or in temporary shelter in five states---California, Florida, New York, Texas, and Massachusetts. NOTE : HUD requires all the Continuums of Care (CoC) within a state to conduct a sheltered and unsheltered homeless count