Continuum of Care News

November 21, 2013 Printable Version   Need Viewer Software? WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced that a new national report shows a 24 percent reduction in homelessness among Veterans since 2010. The report also showed an 8 percent reduction between January 2012 and January 2013. The decline keeps the Obama administration on track to meet the goal of ending Veterans’ homelessness in 2015.  “We are on the right track in the fight to end homelessness among Veterans.  While this trend is encouraging news, we know that there is more work to do,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. “As President Obama said, we’re not going to rest until every Veteran who has fought for America has a home in America.  The results in the latest report are a credit to the effort given by our dedicated staff, and our federal, state, and community partners who are committed to ending V...

November 12, 2013 Printable Version   Need Viewer Software? WASHINGTON—The Department of Veterans Affairs has approved $8.8 million in grants to fund 164 projects in 37 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to rehabilitate currently operational transitional housing projects and acquire vans to facilitate the transportation needs of homeless Veterans.  “President Obama has made eliminating Veterans’ homelessness a national priority,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki.  “We want every Veteran who faces homelessness to know that VA is here to help.  The Grant and Per Diem Program provides significant assistance to those who need it.” The grants awarded through the Grant and Per Diem (GPD) Program are for currently operational grantees, who will use this funding to rehabilitate their current project locations to enhance safety, security and privacy for the homeless Veterans they serve.  Additionally, funding for these org...

November 12, 2013 Printable Version   Need Viewer Software? WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs announced today that 25 projects in 11 different states will share approximately $4.9 million in grants to provide enhanced services for homeless Veterans this year.  This is in addition to the approximately $300 million in preventive grants  awarded earlier this year  through the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program. “Our local partners have played a vital role in our effort to find, engage, and rescue every homeless Veteran,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki.  “Until no Veteran has to sleep on our Nation’s streets, we still have work to do.” As a key component of VA’s plan to eliminate homelessness among Veterans, VA’s Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program funds  community agencies that provide services to homeless Veterans.  The program promotes the development and provision of suppor...

Thank you all for your continued support, participation, and patience with HMIS!  Please note the following HMIS news and updates below.   HMIS Support Requests   ALL support requests, inquiries, meeting/training requests, etc., must be made through our new HMIS Support Portal (see link below) so that we may maintain HUD compliance. hmisadmin.com Due to limited HMIS staffing, support responses will be completed based on priority. Reporting Requirements Each agency must provide accurate and timely data entry, as per their grant agreement. For those agencies required to submit HUD CoC APR's, one user per agency should be trained in ART so that they may monitor APR progress throughout the year. YWCA and SSVF are excluded We will revisit the monthly HMIS Scorecard shortly, and post each agency's score online. If reports training is needed, please request a time on our HMIS Support Portal (see link below). hmisadmin.com    Train...

August 21, 2013 HUD-VASH vouchers to build on 17 percent decline in veteran homelessness since 2009 WASHINGTON – The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Veterans Affairs today announced the second round of HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) funding to local public housing agencies across the U.S. and Puerto Rico.  The $7.8 million will provide housing and clinical services for 1,120 currently homeless veterans.  In May of this year, the two agencies announced $60 million in HUD-VASH vouchers.   See state/local distribution of the assistance announced today. The supportive housing assistance announced today is provided through the  HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) Program  which combines rental assistance from HUD with case management and clinical services provided by VA. Since 2008, a total of 58,140 vouchers have been awarded and 43,371formerly homeless veterans are current...

July 13, 2013 Printable Version   Need Viewer Software? Initiative Targets 120,000 Homeless and At-Risk Vets and Families WASHINGTON – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced today the award of nearly $300 million in grants that will help approximately 120,000 homeless and at-risk Veterans and their families.  The grants have been awarded to 319 community agencies in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. “With these grants, we are strengthening our partnership with community non-profits across the country to provide Veterans and their families with hope, a home, and a future,” said Shinseki.  “The work of Supportive Services for Veteran Families program grantees has already helped us prevent and end homelessness among tens of thousands of homeless Veterans and their families, but as long as a single Veteran lives on our streets, we have work to do.” Under the Supportive Services for Veteran Families ...

May 31, 2013   in  Latest News  by  admin At our recent Spring Conference in Seattle, NHSDC renewed its commitment to being a forum for exploring and building consensus among community based management information systems administrators.  Of particular relevance at this conference was the release of draft regulation from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development Special Needs Assistance Program Office on the new definition of chronic homelessness and the Data Standards for Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS).  NHSDC has, and continues to be one of the few places that system owners and operators can gather to speak directly with each other.  We make a special effort to include a variety of stakeholders, from software providers, to service recipients; from federal officials to local elected representatives. A broad cross-section of those groups and others were present during two excellent sessions at the NHSDC Spring 2013 Confer...