1. All Home Stakeholder Meeting
August 17, 2016

2. Agenda
Welcome!
Federal Priorities and National Alliance to End Homelessness
Continuum of Care Application process
CEA Updates

3. All Home Coordinating Board and Staff
2016 National Alliance to End Homelessness Conference and Hill Visits
All Home Coordinating Board and Staff

4. U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness: Federal Priorities
1. Finishing the job of ending chronic homelessness 2. Leveraging community resources to end family homelessness 3. Strengthening community capacity to end youth homelessness

5. U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness: Federal Priorities
4. Achieving and sustaining an end to Veteran homelessness 5. Setting a path to end all types of homelessness

6. Calling attention to youth homelessness
A Way Home America
Voices of Youth Count (provider surveys!)
National initiative to prevent and end youth homelessness.

7. Continuum of Care (CoC) Application Process
Kate Speltz, King County Department of Community and Human Services
Eileen Denham, City of Seattle Human Services Department

8. McKinney Continuum of Care (CoC) Program
Funds targeted to ending homelessness
Awarded through annual national competition
Highly competitive and changes each year in response to HUD’s strategic goals and priorities, best practice and new research.
$1.9B available nationally in competition
Seattle King County eligible for approx.$36M
DRAFT - DO NOT CITE WITHOUT PERMISSION

9. 2016 NOFA Key Highlights
CoC Performance: Stronger focus on individual project as well as system-wide performance
HUD Goals/Priorities:
Housing First (no / low barrier to program entry);
Housing performance and rapid placement and stabilization in permanent housing;
Serving those who are literally homeless (coming from streets/shelter or fleeing DV)
CoC Project Priority Listing: review and rank criteria tightly linked to HUD priorities and local CoC Values

10. 2016 Local Values for CoC Competition
Maintain as much McKinney funding in our CoC as possible
Promote our goal to make homelessness brief and one time and address issues of disproportionality.
Prioritize projects that:
Actively participate in the Continuum of Care/All Home and help advance collective goals
Have movement to permanent housing and subsequent stability as the primary focus
Leverage and do not replace mainstream/other resources
Focus on those who are literally homeless (streets, shelter);
Participate in HMIS with complete, high quality data;
Demonstrate low barriers to program entry;
Perform well against HUD Continuum of Care goals and positively impact system performance;
Consistently meet and exceed operational standards for spending, match, occupancy, and reporting.

11. Timeline and Key Deadlines
June 28
NOFA Released
June 29
Local Process Underway
August 30
Local funding decisions must be announced
September 14
Consolidated Application due to HUD

12. CEA updates Coordinated Entry for All Regional Access Points
How to get an assessment
Referrals
For more information:
CEA website:
CEA ounty.gov  
CEA Phone Number:

13. Questions? Closing announcements