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FREE Conference Registration Drawing
The Alliance would like to remind interested organizations and individuals to submit a local story to the Alliance's Story Bank about an experience of how homelessness was prevented or ended for you or someone in your community. Service providers, advocates, and people who have experienced homelessness are participating in the Story Bank to help us better inform policymakers, reporters, and the public about solutions to homelessness. Please prioritize stories that track successful interventions of the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP). The first 30 people to submit a story by December 1 will be entered in a drawing for a free registration at an upcoming Alliance Conference of their choice. The Alliance has additional information on its website about how the story bank will be utilized and directions for submitting a story.
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Conference Scholarship Application Deadline Approaching
The Alliance's sixth annual National Conference on Ending Family Homelessness will be held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, CA on February 11-12, 2010. The deadline to submit scholarship applications is quickly approaching. All scholarship applications must by submitted by Wednesday, December 9, 2009. To learn more about the conference scholarship program and download an application,
click here. Also, the early registration rate ends on Monday, December 7, so individuals and organizations interested in attending the conference are encouraged to register by then for substantial savings. Please visit the conference website frequently for updates.
Additionally, the HPRP section of HUDHRE was redesigned to make it easier to navigate.
Hill Update: Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Veterans Homelessness
Last Tuesday, November 10, the Housing, Transportation, and Community Development Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing on ending veterans' homelessness. Panelists discussed the number of homeless veterans, strategies for ending homelessness among veterans, and the needed federal response to meet the commitment by the Department of Veterans Affairs to end homelessness among veterans within five years. Witnesses included Mercedes Márquez from the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Pete Dougherty from the Department of Veterans Affairs; Steve Berg from the Alliance; Melanie Lilliston from the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans; Jack Fanous from the G.I. Go Fund; Lila Guy, Iraq War Veteran; and William Wise, Vietnam War Veteran.
Click here to read a copy of Steve Berg's written testimony to the Committee.
"Pandemic Influenza Guidance for Homeless Shelters and Homeless Service Providers." This guide provides information about influenza symptoms, the transmission of seasonal and H1N1 influenza, deceasing the risk of transmission of influenza viruses, caring for people with influenza and influenza-like illness in a shelter setting, vaccination, and participation in planning efforts. It also includes numerous other resources. This guide has been added to NHCHC's extensive resource library on communicable diseases in general and the current H1N1 flu outbreak in particular. The materials focus on how to deal with an outbreak within a shelter system or the homeless population.
2009 Food and Shelter Campaign, the Alliance is asking our friends and partners to be the first to write reviews of the Alliance If you have attended an Alliance conference, been a scholarship recipient or volunteer, received technical assistance from the Alliance, or found our materials and staff to be helpful, we would love to hear from you. Please take a few moments to share your experiences.
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Take a five minute break from whatever you are doing to read our interview with this month's featured expert, Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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