Continuum of Care News

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 Action Plan in the eCon Planning Suite and will review the process, timing, and steps required to complete amendments. The webinar will include demonstrations of amending the Consolidated Plan and Action Plan in the Integrated Disbursement and Information System (IDIS) and creating a new Action Plan by using the Copy function. 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 setting up the 2017 Annual Action Plan (AAP) How to amend Consolidated Plans and Action Plans in the eCon Planning Suite Webinar Dates Date Time R...

Hi Team, This is the regular SSVF Program update that was sent on Friday. Please review it in detail. I just wanted to note a few items. ·          Grievance Process o    Additional instructions are provided below. ·          SSVF Monitoring Toolkit-New Release! o    We discussed this on our regional call. It has now been posted. Please review it. ·          SSVF National Webinar o    Please note that our SSVF national webinar has been changed from 4/20 to 4/27 . o    The registration link is included below. ·          Mandatory Return of Funds o    Additional information ·          Recording of the Federal Criteria and Benchmarks Webinar on March 9 th o    Link to recording is included Please ...

Bowman Client Update New HUD and Federal Partners Reports Update The new HUD CoC APR Provider Report is now available in ServicePoint 5.12.38. Beginning on April 1, 2017 grantees will no longer submit APRs in e-snaps and will begin using a new system called Sage. Recipients will be required to upload CSV data from their HMIS to fulfill the APR reporting requirement in Sage and ServicePoint will support the CSV requirement for the APR report. This will be a “download" option after you've run the new Provider (canned) CoC APR report in ServicePoint. Per HUD request, the 0625 APR report will remain in the ART Gallery until 7/1/2017. If a grantee is working on an APR in e-snaps that was started prior to April 1, 2017 they will need to be complete it prior to removal of the “old” APR on 7/1/2017. To accommodate customer requests, the 0631 APR Detail will remain in the ART Gallery until 10/1/2017. Please remember the logic between the “old” and “new” APR report...

SSI Incorporated into Online Disability Application Effective April 1 No, it's not an April Fools' Day joke, SSI is going to be available as part of SSA's online disability application (iClaim) starting tomorrow , April 1 !  There are a couple of changes you will notice tomorrow with the release of iClaim enhancements:  1. Applicants who meet certain criteria will be able to apply for SSI via the iClaim. The iSSI application will be a limited deferred disability application that consists of questions that are common to both the SSDI application (SSA-16) and the SSI deferred application (SSA-8001). For this release, iSSI will only be available for claimants who meet the following criteria: Allege disability, but not blindness; Age 18 through 64; Never married;  U...

This webinar will focus on procurement requirements for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) State and Disaster Recovery (DR) programs. This webinar will cover the latest guidance under the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Uniform Guidance as provided in 2 CFR Part 200 . Participation is highly encouraged. Participants will learn: Key changes between the old and new Federal procurement requirements Recent legal opinions made by the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Office of General Counsel (OGC) Impact on the State CDBG and CDBG-DR programs Best practices to ensure compliance with the Uniform Guidance requirements Who Should Attend? This webinar is designed for all State CDBG and CDBG-DR grantees. As space permits, partners such as subrecipients may attend. Webinar Information Webinar Title Date and Time Registration Link 2017 CDBG and CDBG-DR (States only) Updates and Clarifications to Pro...

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