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Spotlight On...
Emerging Framework for Ending Youth Homelessness and Upcoming Webinar
The Alliance has released a brief detailing an emerging framework for ending youth homelessness. The brief provides an examination of data on homeless youth, estimates of the number of homeless youth across a typology, and gives a summary of promising strategies to more effectively end homelessness for unaccompanied youth. The Alliance will host a webinar further discussing this framework on Thursday, March 22 at 2 p.m. ET. The webinar will feature Paul Toro, Wayne State University, and Samantha Batko and Andre Wade, Program and Policy Analysts at the Alliance.
Read the Brief
Register for the Webinar
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Hill Update
Congress Holds Hearing on FY 2013 HHS Budget
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), Education and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) is holding a hearing on the President's FY 2013 Budget Proposal for HHS today, March 6 at 2 p.m.. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will be sole witness at the hearing. The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor-HHS will hold a similar hearing with Secretary Sebelius on Wednesday, March 7 at 10 a.m. The Secretary will discuss the funding levels proposed by the President and provide justification for those proposed funding levels.
House Financial Services Views & Estimates Letter
Today, the House Financial Services Committee is marking up its Views & Estimates letter, which will go to the Budget Committee when completed. Views & Estimates letters are sent by every authorizing committee and contain an assessment of the programs that committee oversees and any funding needs for the upcoming fiscal year. The Financial Services Committee's letter includes an assessment of the President's proposed funding levels for HUD. This year's letter is critical of the President's Budget Proposal, but notes that the HEARTH Act has streamlined and consolidated the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants.
Ten Metro Areas with the Highest Rates of Homelessness
USICH and HUD Webinar on Coordinated Entry
On Tuesday, March 20 at 3 p.m ET, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) and HUD will hold a webinar on coordinated and centralized intake. The webinar will discuss the benefits of coordinated and centralized intake, the different models or adaptations that can help meet the needs of different communities, as well as practical solutions for overcoming challenges related to implementation.
Webinar on Housing for Survivors of Domestic Violence
On Thursday, March 15 at 3 p.m. ET, the Alliance and Home Free, a program of Volunteers of America (VOA) in Oregon, will co-sponsor a webinar detailing a recent study on the role stable housing plays in the lives of survivors of domestic violence. The webinar will also highlight the success the Home Free program in Portland, Oregon has had in providing stable housing through a rapid re-housing model to homeless survivors. This webinar, the first in a series on preventing and ending homelessness for survivors of domestic violence, will feature Chiquita Rollins, Domestic Violence and SHARE (Safe Housing Assistance with Rent Evaluation) Study Co-Principal Investigator, and Kris Billhardt, Director of the VOA Home Free program.
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