Homelessness  Resource Center: FREE Webcast

Operating a Peer-Run Supportive Housing Program for Families: Housing Options Made Easy (HOME), Gowanda, NYMarch 25, 2010, from 12 to 1:30 p.m. EST

This webcast highlights one of the largest peer-run housing provider agencies in the country. Housing Options Made Easy (HOME) operates a highly successful, innovative supportive housing program for individuals and families with mental health issues. During this webcast, presenters will share information about best practices within the program.
Who should attend this webcast?
Direct service providers, outreach workers, case managers, peer support specialists, project directors, team leaders, consumers, and policy makers can all benefit from this webcast.
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USICH Announces Website for Stakeholder Input on Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness
USICH has launched a new interactive website called USICH Preventing and Ending Homelessness – fsp.uservoice.com.  This is one element of the transparent process of developing the Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness. The HEARTH Act called for USICH to deliver to the Plan to Congress no later than May 20.

This site is not just a repository for ideas.  Once an idea has been posted, anyone can vote and comment on the suggestions and the most popular ideas will be displayed at the top of the list.  USICH Preventing and Ending Homelessness will be reviewed by USICH staff and the ideas that receive the most votes and comments will be assessed for possible inclusion in the FSP.

USICH strongly encourages you to forward this opportunity to any interested parties so they too can submit their input via the electronic feedback process. We have icons that your organization can add to your website if interested. Users will need to provide basic information to register in order to submit their responses.

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USICH Mission

. . . to coordinate the federal response to homelessness and to create a national partnership at every level of government and with the private sector to reduce and end homelessness in the nation while maximizing the effectiveness of the Federal Government in contributing to the end of homelessness.

Under the Capital Grant, $24 million is available to fund capital projects in which applicants create 1,000 new transitional beds for homeless veterans through acquisition, renovation, or construction projects.  You may also request a van.  Vans must be directly connected to a new Capital Grant project and will be limited to one per project number.

Funding priorities for Capital grants:

1. Women veterans and women veterans with care of dependent children only (includes women whose veteran husbands have died but only if they are receiving VA medical benefits) (30 beds or less) (approximately $3 M)
2. Indian Tribal Governments or non-profit agencies that will provide transitional housing and services on Indian Tribal property (approximately $2 M)
3. All others—state and local governments, Indian Tribal governments, District of Columbia, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any territory or possession of the US, or faith-based and community-based organizations (approximately $19 M)

Under the PDO Grant, $15 million is available to fund 1,200 community-based transitional beds for homeless veterans.

Funding priorities for PDO grants:

1. Women veterans and women veterans with care of dependent children only (includes women whose veteran husbands have died but only if they are receiving VA medical benefits) (30 beds or less) (approximately 200 beds)
2. Indian Tribal Governments or non-profit agencies that will provide transitional housing and services on Indian Tribal property (approximately 100 beds)
3. All others—state and local governments, Indian Tribal governments, District of Columbia, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any territory or possession of the US, or faith-based and community-based organizations (approximately 900 beds)

Applications for both Capital and PDO Grants must be received in the Grant and Per Diem Field Office, by 4 p.m. Eastern Time on March 31, 2010.  For a copy of the application package, please see the VA’s Grant and Per Diem Program website:  http://www1.va.gov/HOMELESS/GPD.asp; or www.grants.gov.  If you have questions, please call our office at toll-free 1-877-838-8221 or the National Program Office at toll-free 1-877-332-0334. If you are interested in obtaining a critical but constructive review of your application, please submit your application to us electronically by March 17.  You may submit your application to either David Zell or Kristy Termina.