Continuum of Care News

It's Easy To Register for National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week! National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week ®  (NDAFW) is almost here! Register your educational event or activity and join with hundreds of communities around the country participating in this annual observance.  Register Your Event! Do you need event ideas? Here are a few easy activity ideas to consider: Share the IQ Challenge . This quiz is a fun way to test teens' drug and alcohol knowledge and helps provide the facts. Print the free "I want to SHATTER THE MYTHS because…" pledge cards and ask youth to answer the question: "Why do you want to shatter the myths about drug use?" Take a picture and share it with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) on Twitter and Facebook by including the hashtag #NDAFW with your photo. Test teens' knowledge of drugs and alcohol with the NDAFW BINGO card . Download the card and the glos...

HUD is now posting the Housing Trust Fund (HTF) Deadline Compliance Status Reports. These monthly reports assist grantees and HUD Field Offices in monitoring compliance with the 2-year commitment requirement of the HTF statute and the 5-year expenditure requirement of the HTF regulations. The current report is now posted on the HUD Exchange at the link below. You may also access it from the Housing Trust Fund Page under "HTF Program Reports." HTF Monthly Report as of 12/31/2017 Now Available: HTF Deadline Compliance Status Reports             ...

Bowman Client Update Important Product Updates To Ring In the New Year! Happy New Year, 2018! All of us here at the Housing and Community Services Division of Mediware want to wish each of you a very Happy New Year! We hope you all enjoyed the holiday season with friends and family. It is an exciting time of new beginnings as we welcome in 2018. Our chief resolution this year is to increase the frequency and quality of our communications to you. So, we wanted to start off this year with some exciting updates on the product development front. We will be releasing a major update to Qlik Sense the week of January 23, 2018 . We have spent the last three months working with members of Qlik's Technical Services team to ensure that Qlik Sense enforces ServicePoint's data visibility model. This release will allow us to let ServicePoint users with Access Levels lower than System Administrator II access Qlik Sense. Since many of you will still need to de...

We are ready for your ideas! Proposals for sessions are due February 2. The NHSDC Fall Conference Registration is Open, Hotel Reservations are Available, and the Call for Presentations is Open! Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . ...

Bowman Client Update January 2018 ART Gallery Update We would like to wish you all a Happy New Year! January 2018 ART Gallery Update: The revised "0640 - HUD Data Quality Framework Report - v6" ART Gallery report will be available in the ART Gallery on Monday, January 15th, 2018. The revised "0630 - Sheltered-Unsheltered PIT 2018 - v20" ART Gallery report which will have changes needed for the 2018 PIT submission to HUD will be available in the ART Gallery on Monday, January 15, 2018. We currently expect the revised "0628 - HIC Supplement - v8" and "0629 - Housing Inventory Count - v16" ART Gallery reports to be available in the ART Gallery mid to late February, 2018. We will also be updating the "Unsheltered PIT Workflow" document with the below 2018 change. This document will be available in the SalesForce Library by end of business on 1/5/2018. Add this question to PIT assessment - "If yes...

                                                            Your Annual Report: 5 Steps to Increase Funding and Impact Your Community Register to attend this valuable webinar for non-profit agencies  Register Free > Thursday, January 18 th at 1pm ET / 10am PT Your Annual Report offers a unique opportunity to promote your organization. You can raise new funds. Gain media attention. Increase volunteerism. And enhance public policy. Yet without the right planning, it can also be a daunting 6-month journey. Join us for this engaging webinar that l...

The CPD Funding Matrix and Dashboard Reports , as of January 1, 2018, have been posted to HUD Exchange. These reports provide funding information for each city and state that receive CPD program funds, including Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Continuum of Care (CoC), Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG), HOME, Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA), and Housing Trust Fund (HTF). Reports detail the size of each grant received over the past several years, as well as the total amount of funds currently available to be spent on affordable housing and community and economic development activities. CPD Funding Matrix Note: Based on the requirement that a grantee uses the adjusted ratio for determining its compliance with the CDBG timeliness standard of having no more than 1.5 times its annual allocation in its adjusted line of credit balance 60 days prior to the end of its current program year, HUD is in the process of updating the CDBG recapture risk colum...

Please visit this link to find 2018 MD PIT Volunteer Opportunities .