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The Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness seeks to ensure that people living in Vermont have a safe, stable, affordable home, and — if homelessness does occur — it is brief, rare, and non-recurring and those experiencing homelessness are treated with dignity and respect.

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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