Balance of State CoC FY 2024 Notice of Funding Opportunity

FY2024 NOFO Bidder's Conference Training, March 22, 2024

Transcript of video:

today we are going to go through the annual new project process for the

notice of funding opportunity that HUD presents to the continu of Care on a

yearly basis um I will let you know that HUD is moving to a two-year process we

don't quite know what that looks like yet um but we will share information as

we receive it I'm gonna start going through the

presentation so today we have about 90 minutes to talk about the annual Continuum of Care Program and the new

competition project process for the New Hampshire balance of State continuing of care if

you have any questions throughout our time together you can use the chat feature um and I and my wonderful staff

will keep an eye on that chat

So today we're going to be talking about new project applications for the Continuum of Care notice of funding

opportunity um but these projects work in a larger context of planning and

system crisis response so I'm going to do a quick overview of some guiding

principles you should keep in mind as you think about putting a project application

together sorry there are three continuums of care

in New Hampshire we have the balance estate Continuum of Care the Manchester Continuum of Care and the greater Nash

Continuum of Care each one of these eight continuums has been formed to help

end and prevent homelessness in their geographical areas in order to do that it's really

helpful for us to have some guiding values that help our system succeed and are

strongly encouraged by Hud as core values so we really look at having a

housing Focus system coc's are all encouraged to adopt

a housing first approach which means that people can Access housing without

any prerequisites such as sobriety or income we look at addressing people's

needs once someone has been stabilized in housing rather than prior to being

housed people are most effectively engaged in Services when the services are voluntary and not

mandatory and services are continually offered and available when people are

ready one of the other guiding values of the Continuum of Care and of Huds is

centering Equity we really look at how black indigenous and people of color are

disproportionately rep presented in the population of those who experience

homelessness all of the continues of care must understand who is becoming

homeless and how they are being served by the system including looking at

analyzing exits to different destinations their length of time homeless and returns to homelessness by

race and ethnicity all of the continum of care should be doing system planning to

address dis arities by adjusting policies and

procedures in order to do this effectively our Continuum of Care must include representatives of lived

experience in our system planning and program

design the next guiding value is access access really refers to how communities

are prioritizing the most vulnerable for the available resources and how continuent

of care are working to ensure that their coordinated entry process results in Equitable access to

housing resources we're really looking at how our continu of care can help fund help

coordinate sorry how our COC can help to coordinate Community funding and

services to assist people experiencing homelessness and really looking at

developing targeted Partnerships with providers of housing employment

Health Care public benefits and other services we also have to look at the

data to improve our entire systems performance HUD expects our Continuum of

Care to understand who is experiencing homelessness in our community and how

our homeless system is meeting their needs and how we're improving our system

to use data and performance Improvement strategies really looking at

establishing project level performance targets doing community performance

metrics and conducting annual gaps analysis to guide investments into our

system next we're going to talk about the continue of Care Management and how that happens um this is the way that

processes and values are implemented through a Continuum of Care structure

and covers a specific geographical area so within the balance of State Continuum

of Care we have our Continuum of Care executive committee or board we also

have our collaborative applicant and we have our hmis lead

agency I think most of you know who are on this call today that the New Hampshire B bance estate Continuum of

Care covers 226 towns and cities um and we

Manchester covers just the city of Manchester NASA covers NASA and their surrounding towns each one of these

continuums of care have their own groups and

processes so for our balance of state continu of care we have our COC executive board

um this membership is set by our members within the Continuum of Care and they

help Guide local priorities and our decision makers for task assigned to them by the general

membership the second part of the management of the continu of care is the

collaborative applicant this is the agency that is designated by the

continuing of care to carry out all of the ACT activities of the Continuum of Care this

happens through our governance Charter and our agreement it also includes the

management of the annual notice of funding Opportunity Grant and the

recipient of the continu of care planning Grant so the Bureau of homeless Services

is the collaborative applicant and the hmis lead we specifically contract and

throughout the entire State um with IC to be the hmis

administrator BHS as the lead agency in all three of the continuums is the entity designated by the COC to operate

the homeless management information system hmis and then

ICA oversees the day-to-day operations of hmis that all continu of care

projects must use unless they are a victim service

provider next we're going to talk about the key functions and responsibilities of continuums of

care each Continuum of Care has some specific functions and

responsibilities so when we're looking at a new project application the priorities are taken into

account I'm not going to read all these to you but the one thing that drives new

pro project application priorities is the implementation of a response

system our Continuum of Care Works to coordinate the implementation of a housing and service system which

responds to the need of all people experiencing homelessness so we really look at how is

our entire system responding to the needs of those experiencing homelessness

whether it's through emergency Mercy shelters domestic violence shelters permanent housing including Tim limited

rental subsidies um tenant or project or sponsor based permanent housing

subsidies as well we also look at how our system is responding in regards to

homeless prevention and

diversion um next we're really going to dig into the Continuum of Care competition basics and we're going to

walk through each one of these five steps just gonna pause for a second to

see if there's any questions don't see any okay Christy

poke me if there

are um so we're going to review the competition Basics this is an

overview of values roles and responsibilities now we're going to look at how the competition actually happens

and we're going to focus on the project application process so step one step one starts with

setting funding priorities HUD does this every single year when they release the notice of

funding opportunity application generally speaking HUD has

similar priorities each year but they do tend to modify and clarify them when

they open the competition each year our COC membership reviews HUD

priorities and determines what we will need locally in order to match the type of

projects to prioritize for each Year's fundings sometimes there are points for

certain types of projects or subpopulations like servicing people experiencing chronic homelessness

there's also in the past and has been continuing for a couple of years we have

a specific funding source for projects to help people who are fleeing or

attempting to flee domestic violence and who are also at risk of or experiencing

homelessness step two the actual competition

opens in past years HUD has attempted to

set a schedule of when the competition will happen um typically as we've seen

in the last couple of years they issue it around the week of

Fourth of July and typically we have to submit everything to them for the

competition by the end of

September our entire membership is allowed to review the noo and then we

publish requests for projects along with scoring tools and

policies step three is Project applications new and renewals so the

Bureau of homeless Services is the collaborative applicant and also the recipient of the funding for all of the

Continuum of Care projects within the balance of State um we work in contract with local

agencies to design and sub MIT new projects for reviewing and

scoring we look for new projects to be based on the funds that are available so

if there is a funding available for specific domestic violence projects we

look for project applications that are designed to meet that need the Bureau of

homeless Services puts together timelines for submission of those new

project applications the membership reviews the scoring tools that are used by the

ranking and scoring team um and we publish those as

well um anyone who is part of the project review and ranking group does

not have any financial interest in any of the projects um because we want to

ensure there's no conflict of interest when these projects are being ranked and scored to be put forth to HUD to be

funded we trying to make this the a very transparent process for all

of you again we issue that we sent out the calendar so you will see flurries of

emails from me and Melissa about deadlines and due dates so that we make

sure that if anyone's interested in applying for a new project application they know when everything is what they

need to fill out what the parameters are and what the scoring tool is being

used step four is the community application this is completed by the

Bureau of homeless Services um this is a very large project application that

HUD asks us for responses to numerous different questions we compile all of

that information with help from a to pull the data that we need from hmis

because they look at our numbers um including our pin pit count numbers um

our system performance measures all of those things we also have to respond to

numerous questions with narratives and we reach out to the entire Continuum of Care membership to get responses to

those questions so that we ensure that we are putting forth to HUD the actual

information of what we are doing within our continu of care to prevent and end

homelessness the second part of the community application is the priority project

listing this listing is done once we Rank and score all of the renewal and

new project applications um HUD expects us to score

every single project application except for a few and we have to publish that

information out to the communities to show this is how they

ranked and scored this is our scoring tool and here's what we are putting

forth to HUD for funding for the next year and then finally we put all of this

information into a system called esnaps which is step five um Melissa and I and

a couple other of the bureau staff put all this information into the system um

and we submit it to Hut and then we wait to hear back from

them so next we're going to talk about project

development for those of you who are interested in submitting new project applications for this

year so if you're thinking about submitting a new project application it's really essential that you

familiarize yourself with the requirements and understand the responsibility and expectations that

come with accepted COC project funds um first and foremost all of these

projects are governed by a federal rule which is 24 CFR part

578 um it is hyperlink in the slide so I will send that out to all

you but if you're thinking about submitting a new project application really go through that interm rule and

look at the requirements of a new project what is eligible what can be funded

through these projects in addition to the federal

requirement there's always additional restrictions and requirements that are

issued by Hud and the annual notice of fun opportunity typically the noo Narrows

the focus of funding on specific housing types and

subpopulations all projects have three minimum requirements they must use hmis

our homeless management information system chosen by the continue of care or

if they are a victim service provider they must purchase and use a database that is fully compliant with Hud's hmis

standards secondly all new project applications must use the Continuum of car's coordinated entry system for all

referrals for their project projects cannot have their own independent process for filling beds

they have to take referrals through the coordinate entry system and then lastly and probably the

most important the project must document that they are serving eligible

populations that matches up with the eligibility requirements in the Continuum of Care rule in their project

application and the Continuum of Care

prioritization so not going to go over this in detail but this is an excerpt

from the federal rule that governs all continum of care projects and shows kind

of a brief overview of allow expenses under the Continuum of Care processes

this is really just for your reference to see where to find out some of the basics about the

requirements we want you all to remember that noo and our local process May narrow down the project

Focus the rule that we're looking at 24 CFR May is all

the possibilities that can happen for our project but the project application is really what you're

promising to do to your Continuum of Care and it may be narrowed down

depending on the priorities that HUD sets every single year through the

noo next we're going to talk about eligible populations for any new Continuum of Care

Project um hun has four definitions of

homelessness we have category one which is literally homeless this is an individual youth or family who lacks a

fixed regular and adequate nighttime residence category two is eminent risk

of homelessness it's an individual or family who lose their primary nighttime

residents within 14 days

currently the balance of State New Hampshire does not have approval for category 2 um we

serve only category 1 and four um we really look at category 1

which is literally homeless so those people living in an emergency shelter or

a hotel paid for with emergency funds or who are living unsheltered or category 4

for those who are fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence including those who are fleeing human

trafficking um I know that we are one of the rural States where we have people sleeping doubled up such as living in

someone's apartment sleeping on a couch or a spare room unfortunately this is

not one of the categories that are eligible for the Continuum of Care

projects at this time because they would fall under category 2 we have so many people currently

living in literal homelessness that category 2 is not currently prioritized

so what can the Continuum of Care fund we can fund permanent support of housing

rapid rehousing transitional housing SL rpid rehousing projects Supportive Services

only coordinated entry projects um hmis projects which all help people who are

experiencing chronic homelessness people who are living in shelters or unsheltered situations or

people who are fleeing domestic violence situations um in 2023 had allowed all

the project types in the green box on your screen we're really going to focus on

the first three which serve people experiencing homelessness um and really looking at

what these projects can do so permanent Supportive Housing

focuses on people who are literally experiencing chronic homelessness um one member of the

household has to have a disability permanent Supportive Housing provides assistance for people without a

limited time frame and also provide Supportive Services for people to

maintain their permanent housing option for an unlimited period of

time rapid rehousing which we call rrh focuses on people experiencing literal

homelessness but can also serve people who qualify Under The Chronic homelessness

definition and people who may have a disability rapid rehousing provides

tenant based rental assistance for up to 24 months and can provide Case Management

Services for six months after that we also have the transitional

housing rap rehousing project which we call th RR this is a

relatively new project design that has shown up in the last couple years from HUD that allows for flexibility to serve

people in transitional housing or in Rapid rehousing for a combined 24mth

cap this project type is really designed to be more fluid and flexible so that if

someone is in Rapid rehousing and they really need a transitional housing model that they can flow back into

transitional housing and then when they're ready to be in Rapid rehousing they can move on to that project

again so just as important what does The continu CARE program not fund the

Continuum Care Program does not fund Emergency Shelters within the balance estate

Continuum of Care it does not fund transitional housing only

it does not provide assistance for people who are currently housed or

including those people who are currently doubled up or couch surfing it does not

fund any new Street Outreach projects

either next we're going to look at eligible cost by project

type for the regular competition funding these are the eligible types of projects

and eligible cost by project type I'm not gonna go over this in full

detail um as that's a full training in itself um but this really provides a

visual about the cost each project type could have and what is allowed through a

regulatory lens so your job as a potential new

project applicant is understand what the HUD rules are and propose a compliant

project application to the Continuum of Care for

consideration if any of you need any help understanding what is allowable we can take some of those questions today

and you can always follow up with me for assistance as you think about any of your new projects that you might be

interested in implementing within our Continuum of Care

so one of the big things when you're submitting a new project application is really looking at your project

budget um and really understanding what your budget can and cannot allow so for

permanent support of housing projects they are not allowed to have

rental assistance and operating costs in one project so you either have to pick we're

going to help with rental assistance we're going to help with operating funds to operate a building where people are

going to live or we're going to look at leasing Apartments again permanent support of

housing is not Tim limited rapid rehousing projects again

it's up to 24 months of tenant-based rental assistance and again that six

months of case management can be afforded to participants after the 24

months of rental assistance they also do get Supportive Services throughout that first initial 24

months and then finally the transitional housing rapid rehousing projects also

can offer up to 24 months of rental assistance through either train

transitional housing or rapt housing or a combination of both um and this project type can also

have operation funds so you might have a building where you're offering transitional

housing and then the rapid rehousing is out in the community where you get have tenant based rental

assistance next we're going to talk a little bit about project roles within the project design and

application in your project design when you're submitting an application you'll need to determine what tasks you will

keep at your agency and when you will bring in other partners it's very important not to

overpromise services in your project application if you cannot provide

them HUD will hold both the Bureau of homeless services and your agency

responsible for the project design and what is put in the project application even if it's not their

requirement the project application really needs to reflect the reality of what you will Implement for this project

project so first we're going to look at the first role which is the recipient

agency within the balance estate continue of care the Bureau of homelesses homeless Services is the

recipient who has direct contact with HUD so the Bureau of homeless Services

submits any new project application for the subrecipient agency and all of them

work with us and contract with us to implement these new

projects secondly we have the SE seing agency which is the agency that has

contracted with the Bureau of homeless services to implement all or part of the pro

project partner really think of this category as agencies that are working

directly on this project with you where you may have formal contracts or will

have formal contracts if awarded the project specifically for this project

and a specific service need for people in the housing so you may be partnering

with an agency such as head start to provide child care for

the households within this project or you may have a partnership agreement

with your local Community Mental Health Center um where they're going to provide services to participants in this

project and then finally we have a non-partner project role most projects

have nonp partner assistance in providing Supportive Services um this is primarily who you're

referring your the people you're working with out to so it might be we made a

referral to our local Mental Health Center substance abuse disorder

provider um Community Action For assistance with

food um whoever you're referring those families to to get the assistance they

need to maintain housing the next two slides are going to be two examples of how the service grid

might look for a permanent support of a rapid rehousing

project so briefly this is a chart that is in the new project application that

every single agency has to fill out um these are all of the eligible Supportive

Services for permanent Supportive Housing projects and Rapid rehousing

projects as you design your project you need to consider three things so if we look at column

one what services does your target population need so really looking at if

we're designing a project to serve families do they need need assistance with child care or Educational

Services column two is who will be the primary provider of that

service so as you can see in column two where it says provider the suban agency

is going to provide case management for these households in order to maintain their

permanent housing they're working with a non-partner educa for Educational Service

um they're also working with nonp partner Agency for mental health and outpatient Health Services um and then

column three really looks at the frequency of how often these services are going to be provided to the

households that are being served by this

project so this is another sample project role but this one is for rapid rehousing and really looking

at what is being provided for this rapid rehousing project design um with rapid

rehousing case management has to be provided on a monthly basis so you can

see right here oh of course I messed it

under the case management line the sub recipient is providing case management monthly which is a requirement of Rapid

rehousing projects

so who's eligible to apply um anyone who is a nonprofit organization state or

local government or public housing authority is eligible to apply for a new

continu of Care Project

um all right so just quickly going to do a pop

quiz and see so the first question is you put the answers in the chat how long can someone

stay in permanent Supportive Housing

so you are all correct they can see permanent support of housing as long as they

need the second question is what type of new project does the Continuum of Care

Program funding support does it support permanent

Supportive Housing rapid rehousing transitional housing transitional rapid

rehousing housing or emergency shelter

you are all correct I love the not yes Continuum of Care cannot support

emergency shelter we have our lovely sgia funds to support emergency sh

shelter within the state of New Hampshire um but it can support all of the other project

types then one war which project can serve people who

are experiencing home homelessness who are at imminent risk or

doubled up

so Mandy Rob and Karen you win um continu care

funding cannot support people who are at risk of or are eminently going to be

experiencing homelessness we have other funding streams that can help support those specific

populations um the Continuum of Care funding is really focused on serving

those who are the most vulnerable and getting them into those permanent housing

opportunities pass so a couple of things we're going to talk about things to know before you apply for new

project um the biggest one is really

match and I know this is like the evil word that I talk about with all my renewal projects with h expects us to

match all of our program budgets their expectation is that we match

25% the balance of State Continuum of Care expects that you commit to 30% at

the beginning um there is a reason for this um because what we have seen over the

last couple of years is that once a project is awarded that budgets often

increase due to the Hut Awards so we don't have to redo our match letters so you initially will commit for 30% of the

budget at the end of the day though you only have to submit 25% of whatever was

expended on the project I know that's slightly

confusing but really we just looking for that 30% commitment up front and then at

the end of the day it's that 25% of whatever was expended on the grant eligible matching funds costs are

things that HUD would pay for if they were supported through the project we look for match to be

documented at the time of application and then potentially again once the project is

awarded um all of our projects have annual reporting and monitoring

requirements new agencies who've never implemented a COC Project funding are welcome to apply and please carefully

review your agency systems to make sure you have capacity to fulfill the federal

obligations um the Bureau of homeless Services works with each of the agencies

as the recipient agency to meet all of the reporting deadlines we have to submit an annual

report to HUD which we work with all of you on every single

year um we really want your agencies to think about things like how strong are your internal Financial systems in order

to be able to track staff time and produce detailed invoices um and really looking at what

training and support will you need to implement this

project and what is the capacity of your agency to stand up a new

project so what can you do now before noo because it's only May probably have

till July um the good news is that the competition isn't technically open yet

so you have some time to read up on Continuum of Care Program funds and

determine if you want to propose a new project some of the things I would

recommend is reviewing the new project

requests um and looking at last year's application form also talking with your local

Partners to determine what type of project is most needed in your area do

you really need are we looking for Rapid rehousing because people are able to connect with

other resources and be self- sustaining after 2 years are we really looking at a population

that is Aging in place and has significant medical needs so they really need a permanent Supportive Housing

project in this area so really talking to your local Partners to see what is

the need in your area um you can also reach out to a peer

who already has a Continuum of Care Program funds about tips and tricks and

how to get prepared for applying for new project um and then of course the big

one is thinking about where you could secure matching funds or services for

your new

project so next we're going to talk about scoring which I touched briefly on

earlier um again as I had said HUD requires the Continuum of Care to rank

and score every single new project application and every single renewal

project application and we have to post that information publicly um all of the projects are

reviewed and ranked by a project scoring committee we in the balance of State

typically rank all of the renewal projects above new

projects and the reason for this is because we want to ensure that people

who are in current housing projects are able to stay in those housing projects we don't want to cause homelessness by

not funding a renewal project um who is performing well and is helping people

stay in their permanent housing options I can tell you that last year in

our competition we were awarded all six of the new project applications that we

applied for um so we are very very excited about that

again HUD provides guidance every year about how much funding is available for

our Continuum of Care to apply for how much funding is and I say this in air

quotes guaranteed um I've talked about the ranking and scoring process HUD actually

makes us break that up into two tiers when we submit the information to

them tier one is is usually a percentage of our annual renewal demand and

typically those are considered kind of automatically guaranteed we're going to get that funding so most of our

renewal projects are in that top tier tier two is typically our new projects

that we're looking for new funding for um and again as I said last year we

got all of our projects funded so it's really exciting it's never happened before um we also issue information

about how much funding is available in which categories again as I said there's

regular Continuum of Care projects and there's also we've had in the past

couple of years a specific pot of funding for domestic violence

projects um and we use different tools to review

all of the new and pro new and renewal project applications um we have a scoring tool

for for all new project applications we have a separate one for Renewal project

applications we also review per performance data for all of the renewal

projects we look at hmis data and the application content that is included

with all of the project applications we will not have the local

scoring tools until HUD actually releases the noo and the membership

approves it for the balance

state next we're going to look at project characteristics each year there are

Baseline components that each project must meet to be scored and considered to

be submitted um there are five threshold

questions that typically we ask of each new project application and renewal if

any of the answers to those threshold questions is a no that project is not

scored um we are looking to ensure that you're applying to serve an eligible

population so really looking to serve either category one or category four of

the homeless definition um because again we cannot serve those who are at eminent

risk of homelessness we're looking to ensure that you're applying for eligible costs

in your project application that you're an eligible entity applying for these

funds that your match is greater than or equal to

30% each of the projects must agree to participate in the coordinated entry

system they have to agree to use hmis or a comparable

database and also each project must be housing first and low

barrier um last year noo really placed a great emphasis

on getting new applicants that can help improve racial Equity including the

voices of people with lived experience they also really looked HUD was looking

for leveraging funding for housing outside of Continuum of Care funding and

also looking for agencies to partner a project with a healthc Care Organization

to respond to and prevent infectious diseases among people experiencing

homelessness T is really looking for all the continues of care to maximize their

use of mainstream resources when serving people experiencing

homelessness and they really want us partnering with public and private Health Care

organizations in order to ensure that our program participants receive Primary Care

housing related Services obtain medical insurance um they're really looking at

us to develop relationships with public health agencies to analyze data and

design approaches that reduce homelessness and improve the health of people experiencing

homelessness they are also really looking for us to partner with public housing authorities um in state and local

housing organizations to really utilize our coordin entry system develop more

housing units and provide housing subsidies to people experiencing

homelessness they also highlighted last year partnering with the local for Workforce Development Center to improve

employment opportunities this is also one of the things that HUD measures on a yearly

basis is looking at program participants connections to employment

and making sure that when we can we are connecting people to employment

resources has in the last couple of years really looked at any new project application that is leveraging housing

resources so we had one project who applied who is able to use some arpa

funding to fund two out of the seven units um through the arpa funding

instead of through Continuum of Care funding so kind of those Partnerships so if you're able to partner with your

local public housing authority where they are willing to do the rental assistance

side and then your agency would do the Supportive Services side they're really looking for those Partnerships to be

developed um and then again the health care really looking at leveraging health care which I know almost all of you

already work with all of these Healthcare organizations um and we also have the

1915i Medicaid benefit coming online as well um but really looking at how we're

partnering with those Healthcare organizations within our communities to provide services to program

participants so next so typically gone over this um once the

actual noo is released the Bureau of homeless services will release a

calendar and a timeline for any new and renewal project

applications we will also release a new project application template um it's a

Word document um that needs to be completed and submitted with all of the other required documentation in order

for your project to be considered to be put forth to HUD for potential

funding what we're really looking for in that new project application is for your agency to state things clearly you need

to write the application as if we do not know your agency

whatsoever um really saying this is what our project is going to do this is who we're going

to serve um using HUD Language by always say participant

instead of client um because that's the HUD word that I was trained to use um

really honing in on explaining what your Project's going to do how it's designed

who it's going to serve um and talking about your agency

as if the people reviewing it don't know your agency

whatsoever we also want you to make sure you're using upto-date terms um what type of project are you

looking for permanent Supportive Housing rapid rehousing um and really making sure

you're talking about your project design in your

narratives in regards to your budgets um again we've talked about this

briefly oh hold on sorry my other phone was ringing um permanent support of housing projects must have a head of

household with a disability to meet the chronic definition so you H this these

projects have to serve somebody with a disability um rapid rehousing projects

can only provide tenant-based rental assistance you cannot provide operating or leasing costs with these

projects you can also apply for project administrative funding this is Project

funding it's always a request of 10% of your overall budget um the of homeless Services takes

half of the administrative costs and as the recipient agency to do all of the

reporting and invoicing and other tasks that we do throughout the year including

monitoring um you can also apply for hmis funding um to request what you need to complete data

entry so some common mistakes that we've seen in the past couple years is that

people have subed project applications for an ineligible project type so they may have submitted an

application with a subpopulation that's not consistent with the project type or

your budget doesn't match the project type so you may ask for a budget of

$100,000 to serve two people that would not work and then lastly is also making sure

that your match is at that 30% initially when you submit the project

application we really want you to review the project application and make sure

that all of your numbers for the people you are serving within your application

match up um if you say in your narrative about the project we're going to serve

10 households that number should be consistent throughout your application because it's asked for several times and

really looking at making sure you're filling out the information in the chart that it's consistent and you're serving

the same number of people and then really making sure

budget is reasonable um if you're looking to only serve two people you

most likely don't need a full-time case manager for this

project and then with every new project application we ask for match letters um

and we do send out templates for those to be submitted with the application

I have included some program resources they are hyperlink so when I send the slids out you will all be able to see

them then anyone has any questions I know

this is a lot yeah hey Christie not so much a

question just a statement so like you know even though COC doesn't fund uh prevention exercises we do have other

tools in our kit so if people need help reach

out and I would say if you are interested in applying for a new project

whether it's rapid rehousing permanent support of housing reach out to me now um there's

limited things that I am able to say or talk to you about when the actual competition opens um I will share last

year's project application with everyone um along with these slides

you can see what it looks like it does change year to year but I do highly encourage you if you have questions

about applying for a new project reach out to me sooner rather than later because once the competition opens I can

I can't say much it's kind of like when we do our rfps through the state

does anyone else have any other questions it's hard to shrink the no for

process into time frame hi chrisy this is very very

helpful um I want to make sure that I'm not confusing two things because that would be a pretty usual um occurrence

for me would uh change of project be completely separate from a new project

or do you use those terms ter do you use those interchangeably so it depends on

the change of the project um because we can through each Year's noo we can

expand a project so for all of you on here who already have

contracts um you can expand your projects and make grow them whether it's

through Supportive Services more housing beds um we call those expansion projects

if you're looking to change the type of a project we typically do that through a grant Amendment Beth okay got it got it

totally different okay thank you said

no so we're really hoping um we did really really well last year in our noo

and got all six of the projects we applied for um we're hoping to get some

more new applicants this year in some more projects but really take a look at

what is in your region what do we need um because there are some gaps in our

system and we're really trying to hopefully fill some of those gaps so that we have more projects and more beds

and more Avail availability for people experiencing

homelessness thank you all I will send all this information out to you

shortly thanks CH bye thank you