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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . FY 2016 CoC Program Competition - Deadline Reminder There are 23 days remaining until the application submission deadline for the FY 2016 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program Competition . The FY 2016 CoC Consolidated Applications, that includes the CoC Application and CoC Priority Listing with all project applications either approved and ranked or rejected, are due Wednesday, September 14, 2016 by 7:59:59 PM EDT . CoCs should allow ample time to complete the FY 2016 CoC Consolidated Applications, and not wait until the last minute to submit the CoC Consolidated Ap...

Tell us what you think! The Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity Task Force wants to hear about your experience with mental health and substance use disorder treatment services. How have parity protections affected you? What are your suggestions for improving awareness of parity protections and monitoring health plans' compliance with parity? Comment on parity The comment period is open until Wednesday, August 31, 2016 . President Obama created the Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity Task Force to ensure that Americans understand parity protections and receive the mental health and substance use disorder insurance coverage and treatment they need. After a long history of mental health and substance use disorders being treated differently by health plans—with more limited benefits—parity protections are meant to ensure fairness and that mental health and substance use di...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . CoC Competition Focus: Ending Family Homelessness In our most recent SNAPS In Focus message on ending family homelessness , we described specific steps communities can take and interventions communities can use to end family homelessness. Our FY 2016 NOFA policy priority to end family homelessness emphasizes the importance of quickly housing families using rapid re-housing. While most families can benefit from rapid re-housing, some families need additional support and a community needs to be able to assess when a family might need other types of assistance a...

Details on HUD's Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program United States Interagency Council on Homelessness HUD's Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program Funding Opportunity is Now Open! Today, the Department of Housing and Urban Development released a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA)  for the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP). Under the program, up to ten communities  (at least four rural) will be awarded a total of $33 million to design and implement a coordinated community response to ending youth homelessness.  The deadline for submission is November 30. In order to end youth homelessness, every c ommunity must build a coordinated community response,...

Also: Social Entrepreneurs Need to Know This * Earned Income Should Not Replace Public Funding * Helping Seniors Age in Place -- Having trouble viewing this email? Click here. Also: Social Entrepreneurs Need to Know This ● Earned Income Should Not Replace Public Funding ● Helping Seniors Age in Place Tuesday, August 23, 2016   Shelterforce in Print!   1 Year for $18 Subscribe Now! Events Webinar | Housing and the Election: 5 Ways You Can Take Action | Sep 7, 2016 2:30 PM EDT In this webinar , NLIHC staff will review their Summer/Fall Issues Guide , as well as their  Sample Candidate Questionnaire , and will discuss five ways to take action between now and November to make affordable housing an election issue.  ...