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- Tips for Continuum of Care Application
- Hampton Roads Community Foundation Recognized for Homelessness Efforts
- Where We've Been in September 2012
- Updates on Our Rapid Re-Housing Initiatives
- Updates on Our 1,000 Homes for 1,000 Virginians Initiative
- VCEH Supports Medicaid Expansion
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Spotlight: Tips for Your Continuum of Care Application
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Suzanne Wagner, expert Continuum of Care consultant with Housing Innovations, LLC, joined VCEH in Roanoke in May 2012 and provided tips and strategies for improving your Continuum of Care application for those communities who have been unable to secure new funding in recent years. Attached is her presentation. Good luck with your CoC application! VCEH provides technical assistance to communities to help increase competitiveness of the CoC application. If you would like to explore opportunities for assistance, email Samantha Lewis at samantha@vceh.org
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Hampton Roads Community Foundation Recognized for Homelessness Efforts
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION! |
 Congratulations to the Hampton Roads Community Foundation for receiving the Secretary's Community Foundation Award on September 10, 2012. The award honors community foundations for their creative public-philanthropic collaborations addressing housing and community development challenges. Click here for more details. |
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VCEH gets around the state to visit with our partners, attend events, facilitate or host meetings, and more. Here's what we were up to in September!
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 Front Royal: To meet with the Northern Shenandoah Valley Continuum of Care to discuss the opportunity to merge with another Continuum of Care. Virginia Beach: For a summit on employment for people experiencing homelessness. Research from the Working to End Homelessness Project was presented by national experts from the National Transitional Jobs Network at the Heartland Alliance in Chicago, IL. Charlottesville: For a meeting of the Continuum of Care. On the Phone: For a webinar with the National Alliance to End Homelessness on changes to the Continuum of Care program due to federal legislation - the HEARTH Act. On the Phone: For a webinar, co-sponsored by VCEH, the National Alliance to End Homelessness, and Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, to review strategies to shift transitional housing to rapid re-housing approaches. Richmond: To present at the Virginia Veterans Summit sponsored by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Richmond: To review progress made on implementation of the state plan to reduce homelessness by 15 percent, a meeting of the Virginia Coordinating Council on Homelessness. |
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Updates on Our 1,000 Homes for 1,000 Virginians Initiative
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Click here for data on homelessness and medical vulnerability. 8 local campaigns have conducted local Registry Weeks where volunteers are mobilized to administer the Vulnerability Index - a national tool that determines vulnerability to premature death based on chronic health conditions and other factors. Thus far we have identified over 600 individuals who are vulnerable and at risk of premature death. We thank our partners in this initiative who are dedicated to housing these vulnerable individuals immediately.
Click here for more information on the 1,000 Homes for 1,000 Virginians initiative.
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Updates On Our Rapid Re-Housing Initiatives
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VCEH SPONSORS EMPLOYMENT SUMMIT
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 150 people from agencies throughout Virginia gathered on September 13th in Virginia Beach for a Summit on Employment for People Experiencing Homelessness. The summit, sponsored by VCEH, the South Hampton Roads Regional Task Force to End Homelessness, the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, and the National Alliance to End Homelessness,featured experts from the Working to End Homelessness Project at the National Transitional Jobs Network at the Heartland Alliance in Chicago, IL. Chris Warland and Amy Rynell presented on recent research on best practices that have been shown to be successful at employing people experiencing homelessness at agencies throughout the United States.  
Resources from the Summit: The Working to End Homelessness project has compiled a wonderful series of resources on the best practices to employ people experiencing homelessness that were discussed at the summit. |
TRANSITIONING YOUR TRANSITIONAL HOUSING TO RAPID RE-HOUSING |
VCEH, in collaboration with the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development and the National Alliance to End Homelessness, sponsored a webinar on "Transitioning Your Transitional Housing to Rapid Re-Housing."
Click here for the presentation which featured Kay Moshier McDivitt with the National Alliance to End Homelessness sharing why and how you can transition your transitional housing programs and Ross Altenbaugh with Hilliard House in Richmond who provided a provider perspective on the process of transitioning your programs.
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 The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Virginia, Mental Health America of Virginia, Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness, the Virginia Organization of Consumers Asserting Leadership and the Substance Abuse and Addiction Recovery Alliance wrote a letter to Governor McDonnell supporting Medicaid expansion as stated in the Affordable Health Care Act. Medicaid expansion has great potential to help Virginia's uninsured population and their families, and communities. People with mental illness and/or addiction disorders who are poor or near poor and do not qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance, are part of this uninsured population. Read the letter here.
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Have you received your annual membership renewal letter? If so, please renew! If you are unsure whether your membership is due, email vceh@vceh.org.
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The Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness is the statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing and ending homelessness in the Commonwealth of Virginia through community collaboration, capacity building, education and advocacy.
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Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness
vceh@vceh.org
PO Box 14649
Richmond, Virginia 23221
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