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Register for the 2017 Annual Membership Meeting
The Mississippi Balance of State Continuum of Care (MS BoS CoC) will hold its Annual Membership Meeting on Thursday, June 8, 2017 starting at 10 AM. This meeting will include presentations, reports, as well as news and notes for the continuum.
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Trump Administration’s Budget Blueprint: What it means for Homelessness
President Trump released his “skinny budget,” today. The proposed cuts to programs that help poor and low-income people are enormous, and the increases small. This budget proposal starts off the Fiscal Year 2018 budget season, and there will be lots of back and forth with Congress and opportunities for you to weigh in.
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RESCHEDULED: Southwest Regional Coalition – March 2017
The Southwest Regional Coalition meeting scheduled for Tuesday, March 21st has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 23rd.
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New Submission Portal for CoC APRs – Sage – is Opening Soon
On April 1, 2017, Continuum of Care (CoC) Program grant recipients will stop reporting their CoC Program Annual Performance Reports (APRs) in e-snaps and will begin submitting them in Sage HMIS Reporting Repository (Sage). Sage is an online repository that allows greater flexibility to recipients, CoCs, and HUD to report and search CoC Program APR…
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Dr. Ben Carson Sworn In As HUD Secretary
Dr. Ben S. Carson, Sr. was sworn in today as the 17th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath of office with Secretary Carson’s wife Candy and granddaughter Tesora holding the bible. Secretary Carson will now lead a cabinet agency with approximately 8,000 employees…
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WE MUST ALL BE PART OF THE “NO WRONG DOOR” APPROACH: LESSONS FROM THE 2017 POINT-IN-TIME COUNT
This article originally appeared on United States Interagency Council of Homelessness ‘s website (posted on 02/14/2017). As a Program Specialist supporting the National Initiatives Team at USICH, analyzing Point-in-Time (PIT) Count data has become an almost daily part of my work. So much so, that it can become easy to forget that there are actual…
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PUBLIC HEARINGS ANNOUNCEMENT: State of Mississippi 2017 Annual Action Plan
The Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) and The Mississippi Home Corporation (MHC) will conduct public hearings to obtain input from citizens for the development of the 2017 Annual Action Plan.
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Webinar Recording Posted: Equal Access and Gender Identity Rules Training
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) held a series of webinars for Continuum of Care (CoC) Collaborative Applicants and providers, Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) recipients and sub-recipients, and Housing Opportunities for Persons With Aids (HOPWA) grantees to educate participants about the requirements of the Equal Access Rule and Gender Identity Rule…
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Funding Opportunity: Department of Justice’s Specialized Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance for Service Providers
The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Victims of Crime (OVC) seeks applicants to provide intensive human trafficking training and technical assistance to service providers in one of two purpose areas…
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Update From the HUD Exchange: Homelessness Data Collection, Reporting Updates, and Deadlines
Data continues to be an important component of making progress towards the goal of ending homelessness. With this increased focus, HUD is working to provide more tools for communities to better assess the quality of their data and provide more data for both national and local data analyses. Your community will need to review the…