This is to let everyone know that the Maine Continuum of Care will NOT be meeting on February 21, 2019. We will see you all at our next regularly scheduled meeting on Thursday, March 21, 2019 from 1:00 to 3:00.

This is a reminder that the Statewide Homeless Council will be meeting on Tuesday, February 12, 2019 from 9:20 to 2:00 at MaineHousing, 353 Water Street in Augusta. Please see the agenda for details, including a call-in number for those not able to attend in person. Other materials that will be discussed at the meeting are also attached, below. Notes from the January SHC Retreat are still being finalized and will be posted on this site as soon as they become available, so please check back prior to the meeting.

HUD awarded over $200 million for over 900 new homelessness programs across the U.S. and its territories. These Continuum of Care (CoC) grants will help end homelessness and provide critically needed support to local programs on the front lines of serving individuals and families experiencing homelessness. This final announcement includes FY 2018 awards for all new, CoC planning, and Unified Funding Agency (UFA) costs projects. These awards also include new projects being awarded with Domestic Violence Bonus (DV Bonus) funding. HUD has now announced all FY 2018 CoC Awards. View a list of all FY 2018 CoC Awards. Note: This announcement follows HUD’s January 26, 2019 announcement that nearly $2 billion was awarded to renew more than 5,800 local homeless housing and service programs across the U.S. and its territories. The January 26 announcement included FY 2018 awards for all renewal projects and projects that applied for transition grants. Appeals of an award determination must be submitted to HUD by 11:59 PM EDT on Monday, March 25, 2019. See Section X of the FY 2018 NOFA for more details. For questions relating to this announcement, a recipient or Collaborative Applicant should send a message through HUD’s Ask a Question (AAQ) portal. We deeply appreciate your work to end homelessness.

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What this means for MCOC:

Of the New Project Applications that MCOC submitted, we got the Planning Grant ($368,718) and two other projects:
CHOM	Penobscot County Long Term Housing	$350,000
MCEDV	DV Housing Services Coordinator	$100,000
We did not get funding for the following project proposals:
CHOM	York County Long Term Housing	$350,000
Preble Street	Huston Commons Expansion	$105,579
Hope House	PCHC Joint TH RRH PH	$119,700
Hope House	PCHC Recovery Housing TH RRH PH	$199,855
MCEDV	DV Housing Vouchers	$474,332
HUD has not yet released COC Scores or debriefing information.

The next meeting of the Resource Committee will be at Tri-County Mental Health Services in Lewiston from 1- 3pm on Thursday, February 7^th. (The meeting may not go the full 2 hours.) This meeting will be a debrief of the recent efforts in completing the unsheltered PIT count throughout the state.  Anyone who is interested in discussing what worked well or the challenges in this year’s count is encouraged to participate even if you are not a member of the Resource Committee. This information will be used in the planning of next year’s count.  Please pass this information on to anyone who might be interested.

Tri-County Mental Health Services

1155 Lisbon St.

Lewiston, ME

Call-in Number 1-515-739-1749

Pass code 916034#

All MCOC Renewal Projects were funded. New Project Awards will be announced “at a later date” – stay tuned!

HUD Announced Nearly $2 Billion for FY 2018 CoC Renewal Projects On January 26, 2019 HUD announced nearly $2 billion to renew more than 5,800 local homeless housing and service programs across the U.S. and its territories. These Continuum of Care (CoC) grants will help end homelessness and provide critically needed support to local programs on the front lines of serving individuals and families experiencing homelessness. The announcement includes FY 2018 awards for all renewal projects and projects that applied for transition grants. Awards for new projects, including projects being awarded with Domestic Violence Bonus (DV Bonus) funding, will be announced at a later date. View a list of the renewal and transition grant awards by CoC. This announcement includes awards for the following types of projects in both Tier 1 and Tier 2: One-year renewals for expiring grants, including those for CoCs designated as a Unified Funding Agency; Renewals where the applicant applied to consolidate several renewal grants; and Projects where the applicant applied for a transition grant. The announcement does not include awards for the following types of projects: New projects created through Bonus, DV Bonus, or Reallocation, including those for CoCs designated as a Unified Funding Agency; CoC Planning and Unified Funding Agency Costs projects; and New grants that expand existing projects (expansion grants). HUD will announce awards for the above noted new projects at a later date. Award letters for renewal and transition grants are being emailed to the email addresses we have on file. If an identified awardee does not receive an award letter in the next few days, please contact HUD’s Ask A Question (AAQ) portal. If you wish to appeal this decision, you will have 45 days beginning when HUD makes the final award announcement. This final award announcement will be made at a later date, and HUD will send an announcement over the listserv to indicate that a final award announcement has been made and indicating the deadline for appeals. See Section X of the FY 2018 NOFA for more details. For questions relating to this announcement, a recipient or Collaborative Applicant should send a message through HUD’s AAQ portal. We deeply appreciate your work to end homelessness. Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs

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MaineHousing has some funding available to cover the cost of sending one youth representative to the National Network for Youth Annual Summit in Washington D.C. on March 18^th and 19^th.  The expectation would be that an agency staff member would accompany the youth, although unfortunately we don’t have funding for that.  The Summit would be a great opportunity for a youth/young adult interested in advocacy work.  It culminates in visits to our congressional representatives on Capitol Hill and the youth would have the opportunity to share their perspective and experience with homelessness. 

If we have multiple youth interested in going, we will ask them to write up an explanation of why they want to go and what they would want to accomplish as a result of their participation in the Summit.  A special focus would be what they would do with the knowledge/skills gained from the Summit upon their return.

The link to the Summit information is provided below.  We would need to have youth ‘applications’ by Friday February 8^th in order to get them registered at both the Summit and the hotel.  Please contact Lauren Bustard at gro.g1550631925nisuo1550631925henia1550631925m@dra1550631925tsubl1550631925 or 626-4613 with any questions or if you know a youth who is interested in going.  

Hotel

One more thing for tomorrow’s MCoC meeting

Attached please find the approved minutes from the December 6, 2018 Resource Committee Meeting.

Norm Maze

 

Resource Committee Minutes 12.6.2018