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NEW! Shelter+Care Utilization - February 2010: This report shows how many and where vouchers for the Shelter+Care program are being utilized by town and county. In the future we will include the sponsor agency as well.; Added/revised: Feb 26 2010 09:12:58 AM

NEW! New Annual Progress Reports: Exceprt: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TRANSITION TO NEW APR "The current Annual Progress Report (APR, HUD‐40118) will expire in 2010 and a new annual report, the Annual Performance Report (APR) will be required in its place. The new APR includes different questions and will be submitted electronically, via e‐snaps. The new APR will be rolled out over the next several months, allowing time for projects to implement appropriate changes. Some basic information on the transition to the new APR is provided below. More information and resources will be provided in the first quarter of 2010. These resources will be posted at www.HUDHRE.info. e‐snaps What is e‐snaps? e‐snaps (www.hud.gov/esnaps) is the application and grants management system for HUD's Homeless Programs. It is already being used for the CoC application process and HPRP quarterly reporting. When will e‐snaps be ready for data submission? HUD expects that the new APR on e‐snaps will “go live” in March or April 2010..."; Added/revised: Feb 26 2010 09:10:36 AM

Regional Continuum of Care Contact List: Attached is a list of local continuum of care contact persons that coordinate housing and homelessness issues in their areas, including the Point in Time Count.; Added/revised: Jan 06 2010 10:37:03 AM

2010 Point in Time Count Form: The 2010 PIT form for the count on Wednesday, January 27th has not changed from last year. The document is large and needs ledger paper to print. Hard copies will be sent to the local continuums of care to disseminate in their communities. The form and instructions are also available at the www.helpingtohouse.org website under Informational Resources. To find out the contact person in your local CoC there is a contact list of all regions in Vermont provided on the www.helpingtohouse.org website under Informational Resources.; Added/revised: Jan 06 2010 10:31:09 AM

2010 Point in Time Instructions: The 2010 PIT count instructions are the same as last year. Hard copies will be sent to the local continuums of care to disseminate in their communities. To find out the contact person in your local CoC there is a contact list of all regions in Vermont provided on the www.helpingtohouse.org website under Informational Resources.; Added/revised: Jan 06 2010 10:18:20 AM

2010 Point in Time PowerPoint: This is an instructional tool to assist in performing this year's 2010 PIT count on Wednesday, January 27th. While no changes have been made to the form please review the powerpoint and instructions before conducting the count. Hard copies of forms will be sent to the local continuums of care to disseminate in their communities. To find out the contact person in your local CoC there is a contact list of all regions in Vermont provided on the www.helpingtohouse.org website under Informational Resources.; Added/revised: Jan 06 2010 10:09:47 AM

HUD 2009 McKinney-Vento Grant Awards: 2009 CONTINUUM OF CARE COMPETITION AWARDS $1.4 BILLION IN HOMELESS GRANTS FOR RENEWAL PROJECTS The Obama Administration today announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is renewing grant funding needed to keep thousands of local homeless assistance programs operating. HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said a total of nearly $1.4 billion will help an unprecedented 6,400 programs to continue offering critically needed housing and services to homeless persons and families. The grants announced today are being awarded through HUD’s Continuum of Care programs. For the first time ever, HUD is quickly providing renewal grants to local programs to prevent any interruption in federal assistance and will announce funding to new projects in early 2010. For a local summary of the grants announced today, visit HUD’s website at: http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/budget/2009/index.cfm; Added/revised: Dec 28 2009 08:42:51 AM

Burlington Homelessness Services List: Attached is a contact list provided by COTS for homelessness services in the Burlington area.; Added/revised: Dec 09 2009 12:18:44 PM

VT Homeless Veterans Services List: Attached is a contact list for Veteran homelessness service provided in Vermont found on the State of Vermont website.; Added/revised: Dec 09 2009 11:48:26 AM

VT Homeless Education Liaisons List: Attached is a list of Homeless Education liaisons in Vermont schools.; Added/revised: Dec 09 2009 11:20:25 AM

VT Homeless Children & Youth Bureau Contacts: Attached is a list of contacts for the Vermont Homeless Children & Youth Bureau provider network that is also funded by the HUD McKinney-Vento Homelessness Act.; Added/revised: Dec 09 2009 11:12:53 AM

VT Community Action Agencies Contact List: Attached is a contact list for Community Action Agencies in Vermont that receive funding through ESG, HPRP, State grants and other sources.; Added/revised: Dec 09 2009 10:40:23 AM

HPRP VT SubGrantee Contact List: Attached is a contact list of subgrantee agencies receiving HUD Homelessness Prevention & Rapid Re-Housing Program grant funding.; Added/revised: Dec 09 2009 10:27:01 AM

VT Domestic & Sexual Violence Shelter Contact List: Attached is a contact list for domestic & sexual violence shelters and resources in Vermont.; Added/revised: Dec 09 2009 09:09:47 AM

VT DOC Transitional Housing Contact List: Attached is a contact list for Transitional Housing Programs administered by the State of Vermont's Department of Corrections.; Added/revised: Dec 09 2009 09:00:46 AM

VT Emergency Shelters Contact List: Attached is a list of emergency shelters in Vermont that receive HUD McKinney-Vento ESG (Emergency Solutions Grants) or other federal funding, State of Vermont funds and/or private funding.; Added/revised: Dec 09 2009 08:25:03 AM

HUD McKinney-Vento/VT BoS CoC Sponsor-Partner List: Attached is a contact list for HUD McKinney-Vento program sponsors (as well as partners) that are administered through the Vermont Balance of State Continuum of Care (VT BoS CoC), also known as the Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness. The VT BoS CoC encompasses all of Vermont, except Chittenden County which is a separate Continuum of Care and a crucial partner toward ending homelessness in Vermont.; Added/revised: Dec 09 2009 07:41:24 AM

2009 Notice of Funding Application: The 2009 HUD McKinney-Vento Notice of Funding Application is now available for viewing on the helpingtohouse.org website under "informational resources."; Added/revised: Oct 05 2009 12:19:32 PM

Oct. 15-16 Ntl Human Services Data Conference: The National Human Services Data Consortium (NHSDC) invites you to save the date for the October 15-16, 2009 Fall Conference in Providence, Rhode Island. We are excited to announce that in the absence of a national HUD HMIS training this year, the NHSDC fall conference has expanded to two full days! NHSDC is a national organization of individuals and communities interested in the development, implementation, and operation of collaborative human services Management Information Systems. Theme: The theme of the fall conference is “Transforming the human service landscape through community data.”; Added/revised: Sep 17 2009 08:54:02 AM

Professional Development Trainings/Meetings: Several meetings and trainings throughout Vermont offered for professional development.; Added/revised: Sep 17 2009 07:32:39 AM

Oct. 16th - Collaboration Conference: Professional development opportunity for service providers from varied backgrounds.; Added/revised: Sep 17 2009 07:31:13 AM

VT BoS CoC Data Quality Standards: Draft for Comments- Vermont Balance of State CoC Data Quality Standards. Comments due to daniel@vsha.org by August 31st.; Added/revised: Aug 25 2009 05:24:38 AM

Guidance Document for Bed Bug Eradication Proposals: VT DoH: Guidance Document for Bed Bug Eradication Proposals; Added/revised: Aug 20 2009 06:14:59 AM

VT DoH: Bed Bug Protection Tips: Added/revised: Aug 20 2009 06:13:43 AM

Bed Bugs Guidelines for Shelters & Group Facilities: Guidelines for Prevention and Management of Bed Bugs in Shelters and Group Living Facilities J.L. Gangloff-Kaufmann and C. Pichler, New York State IPM Program, Cornell University 2008; Added/revised: Aug 20 2009 06:12:04 AM

HPRP RFP Cover Letter: Added/revised: Jul 09 2009 05:39:16 AM

RFP for Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program: Added/revised: Jul 09 2009 05:04:44 AM

HMIS Data Quality Management Council: Mission Statement; Added/revised: Jun 04 2009 07:25:02 AM

Substantial Amendment For HPRP Funds: Added/revised: May 19 2009 12:33:19 PM

2009 Point In Time Report Press Release: For immediate release, the 2009 Point In Time report is available.; Added/revised: May 01 2009 04:22:55 AM

US Interagency Council on Homelessness - Save the Date: the fourth annual National Summit for Jurisdictional leaders ending homelessness is scheduled for July 27-28, 2009 in Washington, DC. Details will be posted when available.; Added/revised: Apr 23 2009 06:14:45 AM

2009 Point In Time Report: Added/revised: Apr 22 2009 05:17:44 AM

2008 SuperNOFA CoC Debriefing Summary: This information indicates the maximum amount of points available for each scoring category and the actual score a CoC received.; Added/revised: Apr 20 2009 04:41:40 AM

2008 SuperNOFA Rapid Re-Housing Debriefing Summary: This chart indicates the maximum amount of Rapid Re-Housing (RRH) project points available for each scoring caterogry and the actual RRH score received.; Added/revised: Apr 20 2009 04:40:33 AM

Data Report Request Form: This form is used to request reports from the Point In Time data sets.; Added/revised: Apr 14 2009 04:26:04 AM

Vermont's Housing Inventory: This is a listing of the permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, and emergency shelters. This document will be reviewed and approved by the membership.; Added/revised: Apr 13 2009 10:24:54 AM

Letter to VICH regarding HMIS: Added/revised: Mar 24 2009 08:28:41 AM

Information Collection and Analysis Standing Committee Report: This report is inteded to serve as a synopsis of the work product of the Information Collection and Analysis Standing Committee of the Vermont Intergancy Council on Homelessness for calendar year 2008.; Added/revised: Mar 19 2009 07:02:07 AM

2008 VICH Report to the Governor: Added/revised: Mar 12 2009 06:57:18 AM

Regional CoC Form: Added/revised: Mar 03 2009 07:10:36 AM

McKinney-Vento Grant Awards: Added/revised: Mar 03 2009 05:23:16 AM

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009: This is the portion of the ARRA that refers to HUD programs.; Added/revised: Mar 03 2009 05:22:01 AM

HMIS Data Quality Management Council: Meeting Minutes for January 20, 2009.; Added/revised: Jan 29 2009 11:45:48 AM

Homelessness Counts, Changes in Homelessness from 2005 to 2007: The National Alliance to End Homelessness released this report that takes a closer look at the homelessness numbers, with a focus on decreases and increases at the state and local levels.; Added/revised: Jan 14 2009 05:15:32 AM

2009 Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition Legislative Priorities: Draft Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition Legislative Priorities that will be voted on at the CoC meeting being held January 20, 2009.; Added/revised: Jan 09 2009 11:47:46 AM

2009 Draft Community Plan: This is a draft Community Plan that will be discussed at the January 20th meeting.; Added/revised: Jan 09 2009 11:45:57 AM

Proposal to Increase Supportive Housing: A proposal by VT Housing Finance Agency (VHFA) to increase the supply of permanent supportive housing units in Vermont by dedicating housing and service resources to the most vulnerable Vermonters.; Added/revised: Mar 20 2008 12:30:45 PM

211 Shelter Inventory Tool Instructions: All homeless shelters in the state are strongly encouraged to participate in this online vacancy tool to communicate to each other (and to United Way's 211 workers) where vacant beds may be in the state. Attached are the instructions.; Added/revised: Jan 28 2008 11:26:10 AM

HUD CoC and HMIS Data Requirements: Slideshow presentation from Abt Associates to the VCEH in November about the Continuum's HMIS responsibilities.; Added/revised: Dec 13 2007 12:34:25 PM

New England-wide Look at Homelessness: Here is the New England Region HMIS report of all the point in time counts of people who were homeless done January 2007.; Added/revised: Nov 12 2007 07:51:59 AM

Client Eligibility Memo from HUD: This is a memo that Richard Hatin is sending out to all the SHP and S+C grantees regarding documentation of client eligibility. It’s become an issue during monitoring of grantees and sponsors. To ensure that any agency receiving HUD SHP or S+C funds is made aware of their responsibility to properly document client eligibility, please review the memo from HUD Manchester.; Added/revised: Jul 03 2007 01:10:43 PM

2007 HUD McKinney/Vento Homeless Assistance Application: This application was submitted on behalf of the statewide Vermont Continuum of Care (aka VCEH) for annual federal homeless funding. Approval of this request is expected Winter 2007-2008.; Added/revised: Jun 26 2007 07:00:08 AM

Health Care Youth Memo from AHS Secretary and Bulletin: This is a memo from AHS Secretary LaWare as well as a Health Care Youth Bulletin.; Added/revised: Apr 24 2007 06:43:01 AM

United Way's 211 Homeless Summary for 2006: Attached is data collected by the United Way's 211 information referral service on people who requested information on homelessness, specifically, in 2006.; Added/revised: Mar 01 2007 05:27:49 AM

Background on 2007 Point In Time Count: This should answer the who, what, when, where, and whys of the Point In Time Count. All questions should be directed to Kim Woolaver at kim@vsha.org.; Added/revised: Jan 11 2007 12:20:14 PM

2006 Guide to VT Food and Nutrition Resources: The Economic Services Division (ESD) of the Department for Children and Families prepared this Guide to introduce Vermonters to several available public and private food-related services.; Added/revised: Dec 18 2006 07:25:32 AM

2006 Free Food Guidelines: The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) is a federal program managed and distributed by the Vermont Foodbank. This program offers free monthly nutritious food to income-eligible children, senior citizens and women who are pregnant or post-partum for less than a year. This file includes the income guidelines for this program.; Added/revised: Dec 14 2006 06:08:55 AM

Matrix of Mainstream Resources in VT: This helpful PDF file is a list of all "mainstream" resources available in VT for people who are homeless and/or low-income. It gives the administrating agency, eligibility, info needed at application, and additional information.; Added/revised: Jun 01 2006 06:20:06 AM

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