Continuum of Care News

The 2018 Point-in-Time (PIT) count is just around the corner. There are several resources available on HUD's PIT and HIC Guides, Tools, and Webinars page, including the Notice for the 2018 HIC and PIT count . This year HUD updated the 2018 Housing Inventory Count (HIC) and PIT count to include "those who are currently experiencing homelessness because they are fleeing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking" — as opposed to reporting on survivors who have ever experienced those circumstances. HUD updated its model surveys to help communities know what questions to ask to fulfill HUD's required data points. With this change, HUD is striving to more accurately capture whether a survivor's primary cause of current homelessness is due to fleeing , or attempting to flee domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. This change in guidance is intended to improve accuracy in the count of i...

Today HUD announced over $2 billion to more than 7,300 local homeless housing and service programs across the U.S. and Guam . These Continuum of Care (CoC) grants will help end homelessness and provide critically needed support to local programs on the front lines of serving individuals and families experiencing homelessness. View a complete list of all the state and local homeless projects awarded funding . The FY 2017 NOFA included several new concepts that will give recipients more flexibility when designing their projects. First HUD allowed a new project type – Joint Transitional Housing – Permanent Housing-Rapid Rehousing (Joint TH & PH-RRH) to better serve individuals and families. Numerous project applicants took advantage of this new opportunity – 83 new projects were awarded as Joint TH & PH-RRH. Another unique feature of this year’s NOFA was project applicant’s ability to expand existing eligible renewal projects that will increase the number of units in the pro...

January 16, 2018 SAMHSA Headlines—Your one-stop source for the latest from SAMHSA. Funding Applications Available for Up to $76 Million in Drug Court Funding SAMHSA is accepting applications for up to $76 million through its SAMHSA Treatment Drug Courts grant program. The money will be used to help drug courts break the cycle of criminal behavior and incarceration related to drug and alcohol use. Applications Available for Up to $39.8 Million for the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Program SAMHSA is accepting applications for the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment program totaling up to $39.8 million over the next five years. The purpose of this program is to implement screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment services for adolescents and adults in primary care and community health settings for substance misuse and substance use disorde...

Join us for our January SOARing Over Lunch Call! Reminder: SOARing Over Lunch Call! Tuesday, January 23, 2018 1:00 p.m. ET Our next SOARing Over Lunch call is scheduled for Tuesday, January 23, at 1:00 p.m. ET. Please join us for this informal call aimed at peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and facilitated open discussion. While there is no agenda set in advance for these calls, we do want your ideas! Please e-mail Matt Canuteson at mcanuteson@prainc.com to submit any questions and/or topics that you would like discussed on this call. Call-in/log-in information: http://prainc.adobeconnect.com/mattc1/ Conference Phone: 1-866-805-9853 Conference Code:  7712924792 Please note that all phone lines will be muted; attendees will hear the presenters speaking and ca...

Bowman Client Update SP 5.12.56 Is Now Available ServicePoint 5.12.56 is now available. This version contains several important fixes and improvements, including important changes to how visibility of answer details in the question history works. Release notes can be found in the Libraries area of the Mediware Customer Community. Please contact your Customer Care Analyst if you have any questions.  Mediware Information Systems, Inc. 11711 W. 79th St. | Lenexa, KS 66214 | (888) MEDIWARE mediware.com | info@mediware.com 

HHS Partnership Center Webinar: Opening Your Doors: Congregational Readiness and Recovery Support Wednesday, January 17, 2018 | 12 noon – 1 p.m. Eastern Time Join the HHS Partnership Center for a webinar to  learn about the practical concept of "congregational readiness" and the necessary elements for starting a prevention or recovery support ministry or service in your community. Presenters will discuss the various models of community-based recovery support and other opportunities that may be right for those you serve. Guest presenters include Drew Brooks, Executive Director of Faith Partners, and Dale Ryan, co-founder of the National Association for Christian Recovery . Register for the Webinar

State Solutions in Workforce: Workforce Retention With New York and Columbia University Wednesday, January 17, 2018 | 2–3 p.m. Eastern Time Participate in the next quarterly webinar that will highlight current innovations in developing the nation's addiction and mental health workforce. The sixth webinar in this series will highlight the work of The Center for Practice Innovations (CPI). Funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health, CPI aims to promote the widespread availability of evidence-based practices and core competencies to the behavioral health workforce through training and implementation support. Building practitioner competency—efficiently, conveniently, and at no cost—is one key strategy addressing workforce retention. Presenters will discuss other facets of CPI's work in offering online training resources, leading learning collaboratives, developing digital service tools, and offering continuing education cr...

Blog Update Finding Hope for People Suffering From Mental Illness and Addiction 01/12/2018 02:02 PM EST I often found that my psychiatric practice's patients diagnosed with depression, bipolar disorder or another mental illness also were living with untreated drug or alcohol problems. The presence of both substance abuse and mental illness is known as a co-occurring disorder.  Left untreated, this condition poses a serious threat to an individual's quality of life, […]