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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Upcoming Webinar: Addressing the Needs of Families Impacted by Domestic Violence through Rapid Re-Housing The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Family and Youth Service Bureau’s Family Violence Prevention and Services Program invites you to learn about approaches that work to help families impacted by domestic violence by providing access to housing and trauma-informed supportive services. This webinar will feature the Oregon Volunteer of America’s Home Free Program and the Washington State Coalition’s Domestic Violence...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Reminder: CHDO Workshops - July & August 2014 This is a reminder that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is sponsoring a series of 2.5-day Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) training workshops across the nation.    CHDO Travel scholarships are still available and scholarship requests will be distributed to CHDOs that sign-up to attend. To read more about the Travel Scholarships please click on the appropriate “Register Now” link below: Registration is still open for the following ...

July 8, 2014      ISSUES   |   POLICY   |   SOLUTIONS   |   NEWS & EVENTS Forward Editor: Emanuel Cavallaro Spotlight On... Alliance to Screen Documentary 'Lost Angels' at Conference* On the second day of the Alliance's 2014 National Conference on Ending Homelessness at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel in Washington, DC, conference attendees will have a chance to attend a free screening of "Lost Angels," a documentary film about life on Skid Row. The film covers the history of the area of Los Angeles, notorious for its poverty, and chronicles the lives of its low-income and homeless residents and efforts by the city to revitalize the neighborhood. The film will screen at 4:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, July 30, in the Mt. Vernon room. DVDs of the film will be available for purchase for $10 during the conference. W...

July 8, 2014      ISSUES   |   POLICY   |   SOLUTIONS   |   NEWS & EVENTS Forward Editor: Emanuel Cavallaro Spotlight On... Alliance Publishes 'Research Agenda to End Homelessness' On the second day of the Alliance's 2014 National Conference on Ending Homelessness at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel in Washington, DC, conference attendees will have a chance to attend a free screening of "Lost Angels," a documentary film about life on Skid Row. The film covers the history of the area of Los Angeles, notorious for its poverty, and chronicles the lives of its low-income and homeless residents and efforts by the city to revitalize the neighborhood. The film will screen at 4:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, July 30, in the Mt. Vernon room. DVDs of the film will be available for purchase for $10 during the conference. Watc...

Hello Kelly, New Jersey Collaborative implemented the Bio-Metric technology to capture services such as meals, food bags, nightly shelters stays and drop in center activities. The services can be predetermined checked from a list of options. Clients scan their finger (which cannot be lost or have to be reproduced) The system allows you to scan multiple fingers for a client in case one is not scanning during a visit. The process in NJ is set to automatically update the HMIS without human intervention every 6 hours. We would recommend Biometric because of the limited hardware need and the flexibility of using finger scans and  Facial or iris recognition alone or in concert with each other. The agency’s cost for implementing Bio-Metric would be recouped 100 times over with the  savings in reduced data entry hours and improved data quality on the HMIS. Another cost savings is freeing  up worker to perform other task.   Here is the link to our online videos...