Continuum of Care News

Join the Recovery LIVE! Virtual Event: Recovery and Reentry—The First 30 Days Thursday, August 24, 2–3 p.m. Eastern Time Join SAMHSA's Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy for a Recovery LIVE! Virtual Event. This event will convene national leaders working to support justice-involved individuals returning to their communities following incarceration. Presenters will discuss essential recovery services for the first 30 days of reentry, share examples of challenges experienced, and offer strategies for supporting successful reintegration during this critical period. Participants can engage directly with presenters and other participants through live chat, polls, and other interactive features. Register for the Event

Your Input is Needed! ....To Address Housing Instability Among Women Veterans with Children Help today by providing input based on what works in your community It is clear that we need better data and insight on the needs of vulnerable and high-risk veteran families, especially with female heads of household. NCHV relies on our Members and Partners in the field, and your expertise will improve our ability to design creative solutions to end homelessness among some of the veteran families the nation struggles most to serve. The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans and Synchrony Financial have teamed up to assess the contributing factors to housing instability among women and women veterans with children and the barriers that contribute to their housing instability or homelessness. The information you provide us will be extremely valuable and will be us...

TONIGHT: Watch SAMHSA's 2017 Voice Awards Honoring Military and Veteran Communities Tonight, SAMHSA will recognize community leaders, screenwriters, and producers for their efforts to educate the public about mental illness and addiction at the 2017 Voice Awards! Watch the live webcast starting at 9:15 p.m. Eastern Time . Watch the Voice Awards This year's Voice Awards program, hosted by Chef Robert Irvine, will spotlight efforts that provide hope and support to service members, veterans, and their families who have faced behavioral health challenges. About the Voice Awards For the past 12 years, SAMHSA's Voice Awards program has helped improve the nation's views and knowledge about mental illnesses and addictions. It does this by recognizing exemplary television and film productions that raise public awareness, as well as consumer/peer leaders w...

By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS Amelia Watts, of New York City’s Human Resources Administration, talking to parents outside of a Brooklyn school as part of a program aimed at preventing families from becoming homeless.   Sam Hodgson for The New York Times There were 100,000 homeless students in New York City public schools during the 2015-16 school year, a number equal to the population of Albany. The daunting challenges that creates, both for individual children struggling to learn and for schools trying to improve performance, are laid out in a report to be released on Wednesday by the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness. If current trends continue, the report’s authors say, one in every seven New York City public school students will be homeless at some point during elementary school. “In every school classroom, that’s two or three kids,” said Anna Shaw-Amoah, principal policy analyst at the institute. “And the challenges are not just about whe...

In This Issue: Taking Back the Front Porch ● Could Public Art Stifle Community Conversation? ● How to Build a Case for Community Development and Affordable Housing ● Will Limited-Equity Co-ops Come Back? ● Also: Resources ● You Said It! ● In Case You Missed It ● Jobs ● More Tuesday, August 15, 2017 In This Issue: Taking Back the Front Porch ● Could Public Art Stifle Community Conversation? ● How to Build a Case for Community Development and Affordable Housing ● Will Limited-Equity Co-ops Come Back? ● Also : Resources ● You Said It! ● In Case You Missed It ● Jobs ● More Taking Back the Front Porch Joyce Fernandes, artist, writer, and cultural wo...