Alliance Online News: New Toolkit on Re-Housing for Survivors of Domestic Violence

Newsletters | March 13, 2012

March 13, 2012

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Toolkit on Rapid Re-Housing for Survivors, Upcoming Webinar

The Alliance has released a toolkit designed to help communities effectively rapidly re-house survivors of domestic violence. The toolkit includes a detailed presentation on the basics of rapid re-housing and adaptations to the model that are necessary to provide survivors with the safety and stability they need. This toolkit was developed with Catalyst Consulting and Training, Clackamas Women's Services, the District Alliance for Safe Housing (DASH), Home Free (a Volunteers of America - Oregon program), and the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WSCADV).

Rapid Re-housing for Survivors Toolkit

Two webinars will be held in conjunction with the release of this toolkit. Newly announced is a webinar the Alliance is co-sponsoring with DASH and WSCADV on Thursday, March 29 at 3:00 pm ET, "Homelessness Prevention for Survivors of Domestic Violence." The second in a series of webinars on preventing and ending homelessness for survivors, it will feature Peg Hacskaylo, Executive Director of DASH, and Linda Olsen, Housing Program Coordinator at WSCADV. The first webinar of the series, "Housing for Survivors of Domestic Violence" will take place this Thursday, March 15 at 3:00 pm ET.

Prevention for Survivors Webinar

Housing for Survivors Webinar

Hill Update

Senate Holds Hearing on Homelessness Among Veterans
This Wednesday, March 14, the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs will hold a hearing entitled "Ending Veterans' Homelessness." The hearing will focus on the Department of Veteran Affairs' Five Year Plan to end homelessness among veterans. For more information on the hearing, please click here.

VA's work to end homelessness among veterans is also expected to be discussed during the March 15 hearing by the Senate Military Construction - Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee about VA's fiscal year (FY) 2013 budget proposal. Secretary Shinseki and other VA officials will be witnesses and will speak to the funding levels requested by the President for VA programs.

House in Recess
The House of Representatives is in recess this week, they will return next Monday, March 19.

Upcoming Webinar: An Emerging Framework for Ending Youth Homelessness

The Alliance is co-hosting a webinar with the National Network for Youth (NN4Y) on Thursday, March 22 at 2:00 p.m. ET. The webinar will examine available data on youth homelessness, estimate the number of youth across a typology, and give a summary of promising strategies to more effectively end homelessness for unaccompanied youth. The webinar will feature Deborah Shore, Executive Director and Founder of Sasha Bruce Youthwork and chair of the National Network for Youth; Paul Toro, Wayne State University; and Samantha Batko and Andre Wade, Program and Policy Analysts at the Alliance. This webinar will provide an opportunity for registrants to participate in a dialogue about a recently released brief on this framework.

San Jose 2011 Count of Homeless Youth

The City of San Jose in Santa Clara County, California, in partnership with nonprofit homeless research specialist Applied Survey Research (ASR), has adopted specialized strategies to include youth in its biennial Point-In-Time (PIT) count. This new strategy is outlined in the 2011 City of San Jose Homeless Census and Survey Jurisdictional report. This effort began after local homeless youth and youth advocates argued that traditional PIT count strategies were failing to identify young people, leading to a consistent undercount of homeless youth in the community. Using new approaches, San Jose completed its most recent count in 2011, identifying 601 unaccompanied homeless youth age 24 and under, which is well over the 373 youth counted in 2009. Unaccompanied youth represented 15 percent of the city's total homeless population. The Alliance recently published a brief which discusses the methodology, volunteer recruitment and training, and lessons learned.

Read the Brief

VA Announces New GPD Funding

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced the availability of funds for applications for assistance under the Per Diem Only component of VA's Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program (GPD). This Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) includes funding priorities for those applicants who will serve specific populations of veterans experiencing homelessness that are identified in this NOFA, or implement a new "transition in place" housing model to facilitate housing stabilization. This Notice contains information concerning the program, funding priorities, application process, and amount of funding available. The Alliance recently released a short video discussing the proposed changes to the GPD funding.

Read the full NOFA

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NEW RESOURCES
	An Emerging Framework for Ending Unaccompanied Youth Homelessness Nan Roman: Keynote Remarks From The National Conference On Ending Family And Youth Homelessness

Alliance Online News: New Toolkit on Re-Housing for Survivors of Domestic Violence

Newsletters | March 13, 2012

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