Latest HHAV & VT BoS CoC News - Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness

November 8: More Than a Report Card Workshop

On November 8th from 1 to 3:30pm a free workshop will be offered for all Continuum of Care Committees in Vermont. The workshop is entitled More Than a Report Card: A Workshop to Assess, Review, and Renew Performance. At the workshop individuals will be working in small groups to address the best practices around: Moving from Transitional to …

Dreams of Home: An Evening of Community Dialogue on the subject of Homelessness

Tomorrow, Thursday, October 25, the Brattleboro Retreat is sponsoring an event with Anna Luepnitz, PhD, who will be discussing her work with the homeless population in Philadelphia as well as Philadelphia’s highly successful program for the homeless called Project HOME. This will be followed by a panel discussion which will include advocates in Windham County …

HUD Launches Affordable Care Act Resource Library Page

HUD has announced the launch of the Resource Library Page for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the OneCPD Resource Exchange. The webpage has been designed to help housing and homeless services providers, clients, and advocates easily access information about health reform as it relates to housing. The site includes: General and state-specific information on the implementation …

Warning a Vote: VCEH-AHS-VSHA Agreement

Earlier this week at VCEH’s monthly meeting the draft of the memorandum of agreement between the Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness, the Agency of Human Services, and the Vermont State Housing Authority was discussed. The only change to the original draft was approved by AHS (Angus Chaney) for inclusion under AHS duties “h” on page …

October 24: Vermont Council on Homelessness Meeting in Williston

The next Vermont Council on Homelessness meeting will take place on Thursday, October 24 in the Agency of Human Services Training Room located at 208 Hurricane Lane in Williston. The meeting will begin at 2pm and end at 4pm. If you are unable to attend in person, the conference dial-in number is 1-877-273-4202 and participate access code …

Counting Youth in the 2014 P.I.T.

Geoff Ayers, AmeriCorps VISTA at the Department of Mental Health, has sent along his notes of the Youth Count Process study from the Urban Institute. The youth counts implemented by the pilot sites in the study were not uniform in their design, which gives Vermont the opportunity to look at strategies that worked and failed. Read …