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HUD released a new report Effective Strategies for Implementing State ESG Programs: Lessons Learned from State HPRP Administrators aimed to assist state recipients administering Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) Program funds. The report’s authors interviewed 20 States to learn about their implementation of the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP) – the $1.5 billion grant program authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and administered by HUD. This report shares different approaches that these state administrators took to implement HPRP – from program planning and design to effective use of staff resources, monitoring, HMIS, and more – and applies it to ESG today.

Although the authors interviewed state HPRP administrators, the report offers insights for all ESG administrators, whether at the city, county, or state level. The purpose is to inform the continuing evolution of ESG program design and implementation and thereby to increase impact and effectiveness of these programs.

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HUD has released updated Program Specific Data Manuals:

HUD and its Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) Federal partners from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Administration for Children and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have updated some of the HMIS Program-Specific Data Manuals posted to the HUD Exchange including:

• Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) Program HMIS Manual
• Continuum of Care (CoC) Program HMIS Manual
• Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) Program HMIS Manual
• Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) Program HMIS Manual

These program-specific manuals are companion documents to the HMIS Data Dictionary and Data Standards Manuals. They do not change information about data collection or add any new elements to be collected; rather, they provide primary information and guidance for HMIS System Administrators on project set-up in the HMIS system and for organizations receiving funding from these Federal grant programs on the data collection requirements, definitions, and information that grant recipients must collect for program reporting purposes. In addition to posting the manuals to the HUD Exchange, Federal partners will also post them on their program websites.

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The “ESG Program Grant Life Cycle in IDIS” webinar is the third of a three-part webinar series on the topic of financial management for the Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) program. This webinar provides a high-level overview of the ESG grant life cycle and the major benchmarks along the way. The presentation clarifies how the different stages of the ESG grant life cycle are integrated across IDIS, the eCon Planning Suite, Line of Credit Control System (LOCCS), and Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) over the course of a single ESG grant. This presentation builds upon the Emergency Solutions Grants Program: Using IDIS for Financial Management webinar and Revising IDIS Vouchers for the ESG Program webinar.

If you have questions about the ESG Program or IDIS, please submit them through the HUD Exchange Ask a Question (AAQ) portal. On Step 2 of the question submission process, select “ESG” or “IDIS” in the “My question is related to” dropdown.

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