Homelessness Update

Alliance Online News View in browser www.endhomelessness.org 07/13/16 spotlight on... Alliance releases score estimating tool for COC NOFA Download our NOFA Score Estimating tool to help visualize and think strategically about the scoring criteria for the 2016 Continuum of Care NOFA. Have you met with your governance committee yet? Download our checklist and make sure you're covering all the criteria for your application. Download the score estimating tool » New brief examines adolescents 20 months after they stayed in shelter The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released Adolescent Well-Being After Experiencing Family Homelessness. The brief examines how adolescents who stayed in shelter with their families are doing 20 months later. Among the finding included that most of the adolescents continued to face housing instability or living in overcrowded situations. Read the brief >> news alert Seeking applications for National Youth Forum on Homelessness The National Alliance to End Homelessness and the True Colors Fund are pleased to announce the development of the National Youth Forum on Homelessness. We are currently accepting nominations for young people who are between the ages of 21 and 27 and who experienced homelessness as an unaccompanied youth or young adult (when they were between the ages of 13 and 25) to join the Forum. Find out more about the forum here. Submit an application » USICH releases brief on impacts of family homelessness on children The health and education of children in families who experience homelessness is negatively impacted by their housing instability. Read a new brief by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homlessness detailing the short and long-term impacts of family homelessness along with the solutions that work. Read the brief >> alliance events Upcoming webinars from our partners Veteran Homelessness 101 Thursday, July 14 at 2 pm ET This webinar will provide participants with a foundation of knowledge about the movement to end veteran homelessness. The webinar is presented by The National Veterans Technical Assistance Center. Register >>   HUD FY 2016 Continuum of Care Program Competition: Strategies for Success Thursday, July 21 at 1:00 pm ET The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness will host a webinar for communities on strategies for success in responding to HUD’s Notice of Funding Availability for the FY 2016 Continuum of Care Program Competition. Register >> from the blog Ending Homelessness Today the official blog of the national alliance to end homelessness SOAR works to increase access to benefits by Guest blogger, Kristin Lupfer, Policy Research Associates, Inc. A new evaluation of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI)/Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) model has found that SOAR is effective for increasing approval of disability applications. SOAR is a national program designed to increase access to the disability income benefit programs administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA) for eligible adults who are experiencing or at-risk of homelessness and have a mental illness, medical impairment, and/or a co-occurring substance use disorder. Read more » comments » | Last chance: Sign your organization to this letter to Congress for increased funding by Steve Berg This year is the best opportunity in a long time to significantly improve our capacity to get homeless people into housing, and any organization can help by signing on to this nationwide letter of support. Yes, it's the same letter we've been talking about for the last few weeks. If you haven't signed you have until Wednesday and that's it! Read more » comments » | Money is on the table for more housing. Will we seize the opportunity? by Steve Berg There is a genuine opportunity this year, starting right now, to get substantial new money from Congress for housing people who are homeless. Here's how. 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! »