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The Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Round 3 Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) is now available. YHDP is an initiative designed to address systemic responses to youth homelessness and significantly reduce the number of youth experiencing homelessness in up to 25 participating communities (8 of which will be rural). HUD strongly encourages all communities to consider applying.

View the Round 3 YHDP NOFA.

Application Information

• Submission Deadline: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 11:59:59 PM EDT
• Carefully and thoroughly read the YHDP NOFA to clearly understand the program expectations, requirements, rating and ranking factors before applying. The FY 2018 NOFA is similar to the FY 2017 NOFA, but there are important changes; please make sure to thoroughly read the new NOFA to understand the changes.
• This application is for your community’s participation in the initiative only. Project funding applications will only be submitted by communities selected to participate.
• This application must be submitted by a community’s Continuum of Care (CoC) Collaborative Applicant, but must be co-developed with a broad array of community partners, including a youth action board*, a state or local child welfare agency*, youth homelessness housing and service providers, local school districts, workforce development organizations, law enforcement, judges, corrections, and more.
• Applications will be submitted through grants.gov (and not through e-snaps).

*formal participation agreement required

Additional Resources

HUD will be holding a webinar on the NOFA on March 28, 2019 from 12:30-2:00 PM EDT. Further information and a registration link will be sent in a future message.

Visit the YHDP page on the HUD Exchange for links to the NOFA, Ask a Question (AAQ) portal, FAQs, and additional resources.

The National Health Care for the Homeless Council will be presenting a webinar on March 27, 2019 exploring the importance of safety planning and how violence affects the lives of women without homes. Learn how you can improve services for women experiencing homelessness through trauma-informed, quality care.

Women and families are the fastest-growing segments of the American homeless population. Whether on the streets, doubled-up, or temporarily sheltered, women without homes face complex challenges such as increased risk of sexual assault, lack of access to preventive and prenatal care, and all-too-prevalent trauma.

This webinar is a unique opportunity to gain valuable insight into the tools and resources needed to provide effective and trauma-informed assistance to women and families in the homeless population.

Webinar: Thursday, March 27, 2019 at 12:45 PM Eastern Register 

As discussed at the July User Meeting, to questions related to client location have been added to HMIS.  Below are the questions, and a description of each.

“What city were you in immediately prior to entry into this project?”

• The answer should be the city in which the client was “residing” (sleeping) in on the night before they entered your project.
• Answer options will be a drop-down selection with a list of all cities in Orange County, in addition to “Client Doesn’t Know,” “Client Refused,” “Data Not Collected,” “Unincorporated Orange County”, and “Outside Orange County.”

“What was the city of your last known permanent address?”

• The answer should be the city in which the client last lived in a permanent housing situation for 90 days or longer.
• Answer the question by typing in the city the client last lived in permanently

At the last CoC Board meeting, the HMIS Policies and Procedures were approved! All existing HMIS Users will need to sign the HMIS User Agreement when they next log in to Clarity, as we have added a line to the HMIS User Agreement stating that the user agrees to abide by the HMIS Policies and Procedures. This replaces the previous Policies and Procedures Acknowledgement Form, so there is no need to send anything to the HMIS Help Desk. The User Agreement will automatically appear upon login, so you can simply sign and save your HMIS User Agreement when you next log in to HMIS. This means that Agency Administrators no longer have to send any forms to the HMIS team for their new users!

211OC will host a FREE AIDS Sensitivity Training for all Orange County homeless service providers on Wednesday, November 1st.  Representatives from the AIDS Services Foundation will conduct the training which will consist of a presentation and Q&A session.

Where? CASA Training Room (Upstairs) 1505 E 17th. St Santa Ana, CA
When? Wednesday, 11/01/17, from 2PM to 4PM.

We are hoping at least one representative from each of our agencies can attend this important training.  We hope that it will help us serve this marginalized population better!

According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, HIV/AIDS and homelessness are intricately related.  The costs of health care and medications for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) are often too high for people to keep up with.  In addition, PLWHA are in danger of losing their jobs due to discrimination or as a result of frequent health-related absences.  As a result, up to 50% of PLWHA in the United States are at risk of becoming homeless.

There is no need to RSVP for this event, please just show up ready to learn!