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Call for Video Entries SSVF University Survey (June 27 Deadline) Save the Date for the July 17 Webinar: Legal Services 101 Call for Video Entries We are starting an exciting new media project and are hoping you all will take part in it!  Regional Coordinators have noticed that many grantees have innovative practices and creative approaches that enhance your program's impact out in the field.  We want to capture examples of this kind of unique innovation.  The program office is issuing a Call for Video Entries on Field Practice Innovations for grantees to create five minute, simple videos that illustrate one of your favorite innovations.  Examples might be: (1) a video about a special recognition technique for landlord champions, or (2) a video about a social media campaign that has worked for rural outreach, or (3) other innovative practices that you are implementing.  The video flyer, which includes submission instructions and the deadline, ...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Register Today: HUD and USICH: Core Principles of Housing First and Rapid Re-Housing Webinar - June 26, 2014 - 2 PM EDT This webinar focuses on the core principles of Housing First and Rapid Re-Housing and will be presented by Ann Oliva, the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs Director at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Laura Zeilinger, the Executive Director for the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH). Participants will learn: About the Housing First approach About...

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Having trouble viewing this email? Click here http://hpcdelaware.org   Preventing and Ending Homelessness in Delaware   Search for an Executive Director Begins    Beginning today, the Board of Directors has begun the search process for a new Executive Director.  The Board is looking for someone who can provide strategic leadership, vision, and passion for preventing and ending homelessness in Delaware.  After the release of a new strategic plan in April, the HPC is in a major growth mode and needs a leader to help guide the growth and the team to new heights.  The job description for the Executive Director position has been posted to the HPC's website and can be found by clicking here .  The announcement has also been placed on idealist.org as well as other regional listservs.  If yo...

June 17, 2014      ISSUES   |   POLICY   |   SOLUTIONS   |   NEWS & EVENTS Forward Editor: Emanuel Cavallaro Spotlight On... 100,000 Homes Reaches Goal of Housing 100,000 People At a press conference on Wednesday, June 11, the 100,000 Homes campaign announced that the movement had housed its 100,000th highly vulnerable homeless person. A national movement coordinated by New York-based nonprofit, Community Solutions, the campaign set the goal in 2010 of housing 100,000 people and reached it in less than four years' time. According to the campaign's press release, 60 of the communities working with 100,000 Homes are on track to end chronic homelessness in the next three years. "By reaching this milestone, the 100,000 Homes Campaign and communities across the country are providing further proof that ending homelessne...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Register Today: CHDO Workshops - August 2014 The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is pleased to announce a series of 2.5-day Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) training workshops that will be held during the spring and summer of 2014. Register Now, for the following July and August Trainings: Denver, CO July 22-24, 2014 Register Now Charlotte, NC August 5-7, 2014 Register Now Phoenix, AZ August 12-14, 2014 Register No...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . PY12 CDBG Reports Available on OneCPD Resource Exchange The PY12 CDBG reports are available on the OneCPD Resource Exchange. To access the PY12 reports click on a link below: PY12 CDBG Accomplishment Reports PY12 CDBG Expenditure Reports PY12 CDBG Performance Profiles To access previous PY reports, please visit the HUD website. In the coming weeks these reports will be moved to the OneCPD Resource Exchange. PY02-PY11 CDBG Accomplishment Reports PY02-PY11 CDBG Expenditure Reports PY05-PY11 CDBG Performance Profiles All CD...

If you are having trouble viewing the email below, please click here . ` June 2014 Hot off the Press! New Issue Brief: Effective SOAR Representation for Social Security Appeals Despite your best efforts as a SOAR practitioner, applications you submit for SSI/SSDI may be denied. Or, perhaps you are involved with an applicant whose appeal is already pending with the SSA. SOAR practitioners are often well positioned to assist with Social Security appeals given their relationships with applicants and knowledge of their impairments and related functional limitations. Pam Heine, the SOAR TA Center’s subject matter expert on appeals, has developed an informative issue brief on the topic. This issue brief covers information that providers need to know in order to understand the SSA appeals process, gain insight to why claims are denied and what to do when the deadline to file an appeal is missed. This issue brief also descr...