Homelessness Update: CoC NOFA Registration Open

Alliance Online News View in browser www.endhomelessness.org Wednesday, April 12, 2017 spotlight on... Registration Now Open for FY17 Coc Competition Continuums of Care (CoC) have until May 1 to register for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's FY17 CoC Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA). Stay tuned for more from the Alliance as we share resources and tips for this year's CoC Program Competition. Read the guidelines and register » alliance events There's lots to learn in april! put our webinars on your calendar. Rapid Re-Housing for Youth Learning Community Kick Off April 20, 2:30 p.m. ET Want to learn more about rapid re-housing for youth? Join our Learning Community! Sign up for the kick-off webinar, and hear from experienced youth RRH providers about how to tailor thisintervention for young people experiencing homelessness. Register » 30 Minutes On: The Future of Medicaid Expansion April 24, 1 p.m. ET If the Affordable Care Act is repealed and Medicaid expansion ends, how will this impact the people your agency serves? Join us for the second in our series of 30-minute webinars on health care reform. Register » The Role of Emergency Shelter in a Crisis Response System April 26, 2 p.m. Have you looked at your emergency shelter system lately? The Role of Emergency Shelter in a Crisis Response System is the first in a new series about the how you can change your emergency shelter system. Register » See all upcoming webinars » LA report provides insights on flexible housing subsidies Los Angeles implemented a Flexible Housing Subsidy Pool (FHSP) in 2014. Now, four years later, LA is sharing lessons for other communities in its new report. Read the report » hill update Congress hosts in-district events while on recess Members of Congress are on April Recess. When they return to Washington, they will be expected to finalize the Fiscal Year 2017 Appropriations bill. In the meantime, advocates across the U.S. will spend the next two weeks rallying their communities to end homelessness through in-district meetings and town hall attendance. Learn more » from the blog Ending Homelessness Today the official blog of the national alliance to end homelessness Last call! Congress is finalizing FY17 funding bills. How will homelessness assistance fare? by Steve Berg It looks like the Appropriations Committees have a green light to put together a final omnibus spending bill for FY2017. That means that House and Senate staffers are meeting, probably right now, to iron out differences between their bills and take the latest spending data into account. We need you to call their offices today. Read more » comments » | Georgia Emergency Shelters Take on the Shelter Challenge by Anna Blasco We spent the last few months providing technical assistance to emergency shelters all over Georgia. Our goal was to help them lower barriers in order to make it easier for people to enter shelter — especially for those with nowhere else to go — and develop housing-focused services to make it easier for people to leave shelter and return to permanent housing. We have now kicked off the #GAShelterChallenge – a 90-day push to house as many people as quickly as possible. Read more » comments » | Rapid Re-Housing for Youth: Lessons from the Learning Community by Mindy Mitchell In 2016, the Alliance conducted regular online meeting of providers, system leaders, and technical assistance specialists from around the country in an effort to better understand best practices for using RRH to end youth homelessness. Here's what we've learned. Read more » comments » | About Us The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to solving the problem of homelessness and preventing its continued growth. Join Us The Alliance is online: on Facebook, on Twitter, on our blog, and on our website! Join the Alliance's online community, and stay up-to-date with homelessness and housing information. www.endhomelessness.org Forward to a Friend Need Technical Assistance? Visit the Center for Capacity Building to learn more about the ways the Center can help your community end homelessness. Sign The Statement Sign the Never Another Homeless Veteran Statement! »