Author: Diana Taylor

The Office of Care Coordination, and in partnership with the Health Care Agency is hosting a training on how Coordinated Entry System (CES) participants can become Mental Health Service Act (MHSA) certified.

There is no need to register. Please see the Zoom link below at attend.

Date: Thursday, April 10, 2024
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Meeting Link via Zoom:  Click here for the meeting link
Meeting ID: 647 571 4255
Join by phone: +1 669 900 9128

If you have any questions, please email CoordinatedEntry@ocgov.com

OC HMIS sharing on behalf of The Office of Care Coordination (OCC).

OCC is proud to announce the launch of the Orange County (OC) Coordinated Entry System (CES) Academy, a training platform, and the launch of the CES 101 training module. The CES 101 training module is an introductory course that will provide an overview of CES. The CES 101 training module is designed with a wide audience in mind and has something for the most experienced CES navigator or someone unfamiliar with CES. The OC CES Academy will continue to evolve over time to include training modules for Access Points and Housing Providers that will focus on specific CES processes and procedures, as the need arises for additional CES tools and resources, and when CES policies and practices change.

To view OC CES Academy, visit egovoc.com/ces-training/, where you can register to create an account or continue as a guest. Please note currently it is not possible to use a “gmail.com” email address to create an account.

The Office of Care Coordination encourages you to utilize the same email that you use to sign into the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) database to create an account. This will be helpful in the future as completion of the CES 101 module and future trainings applicable to your role will be required for CES access and this will support our tracking of the training completion. This will be a supplement to and does not replace the existing required CES and HMIS training courses provided by OC HMIS.

Please reach out to coordinatedentry@ocgov.com with any questions.

OC HMIS sharing on behalf of the Orange County Family Violence Council Domestic Violence, Homelessness, and Sexual Assault Task Force.

Please join a training where participants will understand the foundation of vicarious trauma that providers experience in their line of work and the importance of practicing self-care as a means to manage trauma in the workplace.

Friday, March 21st 2 pm – 3 pm

Location: Zoom

Presenters: Veronica Stephens Director of Education and Outreach, Laura’s House and Claudia Flores Director of Clinical Services, Radiant Futures

Email Sara Behmerwohld at sbehmerwohld@humanoptions.org with “SELF-CARE TRAINING” in subject line to receive Zoom info.

We are pleased to announce the upcoming HUD Innovations in Ending Homelessness Roundtable Series. This series is a continuation of the Rapid Rehousing Roundtable Discussion Series, which included panel discussions from system leaders, program staff, and people with lived experience of homelessness, to discuss challenges, lessons learned, and innovative new approaches to rapid rehousing. This new series will move beyond the specific focus of rapid rehousing and focus on innovative strategies and interventions that provide the most effective, equitable responses to homelessness at the individual and system levels. The first session, The State of Homelessness in 2024, is taking place on March 14, 2024. Save the date!

Objectives

• Explore practices to respond to the current challenges from the increase in homelessness
• Highlight communities implementing Housing First and decreasing barriers to housing
• Using person-centered practices to examine the threat that criminalization poses to preventing and ending homelessness
• Find innovative ways to create a system that ends homelessness with housing as the focus
• Discover services and supports needed after rehousing, the importance of partnerships outside of the homeless services system, and how to engage in broader housing affordability conversations
• Provide practical, specific steps communities can take to incorporate the values and philosophies essential to a person-centered homelessness response

Audience

This series is intended for front-line staff, program directors, system leaders, and funders.

Schedule and Joining Instructions

Participants do not need to register in advance. It is strongly recommended that you join each webinar 15 minutes prior to the start time (12:45 PM EDT).

Title	Date and Time	Joining Link
The State of Homelessness in 2024	1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT	Join the Webinar
Housing First: Still the Right Way to End Homelessness	April 4, 2024 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT	Join the Webinar
Criminalization: An Emerging Threat to Ending Homelessness	May 2, 2024 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT	Save the Date
Housing-Focused Interventions Across the Continuum	June 6, 2024 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT	Save the Date
Staying Housed	July 11, 2024 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT	Save the Date
The Person-Centered CoC	August 8, 2024 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT	Save the Date

Contact

2024 HUD Innovations in Ending Homelessness Roundtable Series Registrar | trainings@hudexchange.info

Last year, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) 2022 Foundations for Continuum of Care (CoC) and Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) Webinar Series provided detailed, foundational knowledge about implementing VAWA and survivor-centered housing practices. VAWA and Survivor Housing Community Conversations will continue in 2024 through a series of discussions about successfully implementing VAWA and survivor-centered housing at the system, project, and human levels. Each conversation will feature a diverse panel of system leaders, project staff, and people with lived experiences from both the homelessness response and victim services worlds. The first session in this series, Building System-Wide Partnerships Between Housing and Victim Service Providers (VSPs), will take place on March 21, 2024, from 1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT. Save the date!

Objectives

• Learn about VAWA housing provisions that apply to CoC and ESG program recipients as outlined in the VAWA letter to CoC/ESG program recipients
• Engage practitioners and experts about best practices in survivor-focused housing
• Explore diverse range of VAWA and survivor housing implementations from communities across the country
• Discover new ways to reach compliance with VAWA requirements and improve survivor-focused housing practices

Audience

This series is intended for CoC and ESG recipients and staff, including but not limited to CoC and ESG leadership, program managers, direct staff, and people with lived experience of homelessness. This series is also intended for victim services leadership, VSPs, and survivors.

Schedule and Joining Instructions

Participants do not need to register in advance. It is strongly recommended that participants join the webinar 15 minutes prior to the start time (12:45 PM EDT).

Title	Date	Join Link
Building System-Wide Partnership Between Housing and Victim Service Providers	March 21, 2024 1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT	Join the Webinar
Building a Better Emergency Transfer Plan	April 18, 2024 1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT	Save the Date
HMIS and Data-Sharing for Victim Services Providers and Survivors	May 16, 2024 1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT	Save the Date
Coordinated Entry and Housing Problem-Solving for Survivors	June 27, 2024 1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT	Save the Date

Contact

VAWA and Survivor Housing Community Conversations Registrar | trainings@hudexchange.info

The 2023 HMIS Part 2 Recertification is now available.

Users with Read Only accounts or accounts created on or after June 1st are excluded from this requirement.

Once users have complete the training, please reach out to your HMIS Agency Administrators to submit the HMIS Part 2 Recertification Form on behalf of the users.

Users that do not complete the recertification by January 12th will have their accounts locked until the Recertification is completed.

The Permanent Supportive Housing & Other Permanent Housing Project Performance Report and the Goals and Outcomes reports for 8/1/22 – 7/31/23 have been posted!

Click here to view the reports.

Registration is now open for the tenth cohort of the HMIS Data Analytics On-Demand Course. The goal of this immersive course is to provide a conceptual and practical framework for ad hoc reporting utilizing Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) data. This self-paced course is open to anyone in your community who is interested in analyzing, interpreting, and communicating HMIS data. This is an introductory level course and might be a good fit for newer members of your HMIS team or someone looking to brush up on their data skills. Participants are not expected to have high-level technical or statistical skills; only basic knowledge of the following is needed:

• HMIS data standards
• How to pull an HMIS comma-separated value (CSV) file set, unless the participant has access to someone who can pull HMIS reports for them
• How to enter data into Excel and navigate within it

The data analytics course will equip participants with the skills to create a data brief highlighting trends to engage communities to drive insights into action. A combination of content, hands-on skill-building, and recommended resources are provided to help a basic data user build skills and knowledge necessary to be an advanced data professional while providing opportunities for ongoing professional development and learning.

Participants will have eight weeks to complete six course modules at their own pace. Course participants will also receive a certificate upon completion of all six modules.

Registration

The tenth offering of the HMIS Data Analytics On-Demand Course will be held from October 16 – December 8, 2023.

Please Note: Registration is limited to 400 individuals and will automatically close once the course is at capacity. When registering, please use the code 2023OCTHMIS.

Register for Cohort Ten

For more information, please visit the course syllabus and the HMIS Data Analytics On-Demand Course page.

Questions?

For any questions regarding the HMIS Data Analytics On-Demand Course, please contact hmisonlinecourse@cloudburstgroup.com.

The application submission deadline for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program Competition and Renewal or Replacement of Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program Grants (YHDP) is approaching. The FY 2023 CoC Consolidated Applications, that includes the CoC Application and CoC Priority Listing with all project applications either approved and ranked or rejected, are due Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 8:00 PM EDT.

Please allow ample time to complete your FY 2023 CoC Consolidated Application, and do not wait until the last minute to submit via e-snaps to HUD. HUD strongly recommends that Collaborative Applicants submit their applications at least 24 – 48 hours before the deadline.

Note: The CoC Application and the CoC Priority Listing are separate submissions in e-snaps; therefore, Collaborative Applicants must ensure that both the CoC Application and the CoC Priority Listing, that includes all project applications either approved and ranked or rejected, are submitted in e-snaps prior to the application submission deadline of September 28, 2023, by 8:00 PM EDT.

Updates

The following documents have been posted on the CoC Program Competition page of the HUD.gov website:

1. CoC Application FAQs
2. Revised FY 2023 Grant Inventory Worksheets (GIWs)
   • Multiple CoCs required additional corrections after the revised GIWs were originally posted. This primarily impacted CoCs with YHDP projects renewing during the FY 2023 competition.
   • These revisions were marked with a September 1, 2023, revision date.
     • Please be advised: the GIW provides CoC stakeholders with an inventory of renewal grants and the total amount of funding each renewal grant may apply for. While the GIW is expected to be as close to accurate as possible, HUD understands that grant agreement amendments may continue to be fully executed up until the application submission deadline; therefore, renewal project applicants must ensure the BLI amounts in the renewal project application match the amounts listed in expiring grant agreement or grant agreement as amended – even if inaccuracies exist on the HUD Posted GIW.
3. FY 2023 CoC Estimated Annual Renewal Demand (ARD) Reports – updated based on revised GIWS
   • One report for all Collaborative Applicants
   • One report for Collaborative Applicants with Unified Funding Agency (UFA) designation and includes the available UFA Costs amount
4. Updated FY 2023 Geocode Report including Preliminary Pro Rata Need (PPRN) amounts
5. Rural Area Geocode Report
   • New project applications applying to serve populations located in the geographic areas identified on the Rural Area Geocode Report may request funding under the new Rural Costs budget line item (BLI). See section III.B.4.a.(4) of the FY 2023 CoC Program Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for more information.
6. FY 2023 CoC NOFO Webinar Video and Slides – will be posted imminently

Questions?

• Questions regarding the FY 2023 CoC Program Competition process must be submitted to CoCNOFO@hud.gov

Technical questions related to e-snaps functionality (e.g., password lockout, access to user’s application account, updating Applicant Profile) must be submitted to e-snaps@hud.gov

HUD is sponsoring a three-part webinar series about the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 (“VAWA 2022”) to increase the capacity and knowledge of Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) and Continuum of Care (CoC) housing and homeless services providers about housing protections for survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in homeless services systems. This series features technical assistance providers, policy experts, and community leaders to showcase both requirements and best practices around VAWA implementation.

Training Objectives

Participants will:

• Learn about VAWA housing provisions that apply to CoC and ESG grantees
• Learn about “VAWA 2022” updated definitions and provisions as outlined in the VAWA letter to CoC/ESG program recipients
• Explore requirements and best practices for developing and implementing emergency transfer plans (ETPs)
• Engage in a panel discussion between VAWA experts and community leaders regarding all aspects of VAWA implementation for CoCs and CoC/ESG recipients

Schedule

Webinar Title	Description	Date and Time
Understanding VAWA	This session will provide CoCs and ESG recipients an overview of VAWA and VAWA 2022 Reauthorization.	August 10, 2023 1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT
VAWA ETPs:CoC and ESG Requirements and Best Practices	This session will provide in-depth knowledge for CoCs and ESG recipients about developing an ETP as required by VAWA. Presenters will provide information about both requirements and best practices for ensuring ETPs are tailored to local strengths and needs.	August 17, 2023 1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT
Community Conversations: VAWA in Practice	This session will feature a panel of VAWA experts and community leaders discussing all aspects of VAWA implementation for CoCs and CoC/ESG recipients.	August 31, 2023 1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT

Joining Instructions

The first webinar in the series, Understanding VAWA, will take place on August 10, 2023 from 1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT. Participants do not need to register in advance. It is strongly recommended that participants join the webinar 15 minutes prior to the start time. To join the webinar, simply access the login page at the link below.

Join the Webinar

Training Point of Contact

“VAWA 2022” Foundations for CoC and ESG Registrar | trainings@hudexchange.info