SSVF Program Update Friday January 27, 2023
NOTE: This weekly update is targeted
towards the SSVF Grantees and shared with valuable partners for
awareness.
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UPDATE: VA permanently housed more than 40,000 homeless Veterans in 2022,
providing them with the safe, stable homes that they deserve
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TODAY: FINAL
Office Hours 38,000 Permanent Housing Placement National Challenge: January 27,
2023, TODAY
at 3:00pm EST
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REMINDER: SSVF
NOFA for FY24 Publication CLOSES February 10,2023 4pm EST
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NEW: SSVF
Quarter 1 Certification due in UDPaaS
January 31, 2023
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REMINDER: Fiscal
Management
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REMINDER: Supplemental
NOFA Communities Monthly Report Due in UDPaaS
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REMINDER: Veteran
Satisfaction Survey Registration Process- NEW SURVEY LINKS sent out
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RESOURCE: SSVF National Webinar: VA Smartphone Initiative and SSVF Health
Care Navigation Services February 9, 2023, 2:00pm EST
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REMINDER: SSVF
HMIS Data Quality Report Updates
UPDATE: VA permanently housed more than 40,000 homeless Veterans
in 2022, providing them with the safe, stable homes that they deserve
Thank you for all of
your hard work towards ending Veteran homelessness. VA has announced that we
exceeded our goal to house 38,000 homeless Veterans in 2022. Below are our
social media posts for this announcement.
Link to
Facebook Post:
Link to
Instagram Post:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn4U6_YMGY0/
Link to
Tweet:
https://twitter.com/DeptVetAffairs/status/1618602191190740993
Link to
SECVA Tweet:
https://twitter.com/SecVetAffairs/status/1618596408453652480
TODAY: FINAL Office
Hours 38,000 Permanent Housing Placement National Challenge January 27, 2023
@3pm EST
The final 38,000 Permanent
Housing Placement (PHP) National Challenge Office Hours call will be on Friday,
January 27, 2023. This call will provide the final, End-of-Year update on the
goal, highlight exceptional achievements in community-wide permanent housing
placements, and showcase bright-spot communities who will share their strong
housing placement practices. The call will also feature remarks from special
guests Denis McDonough, Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Dr.
Shareef Elnahal,
Under Secretary for Health, and Monica Diaz, Executive Director of the VHA
Homeless Programs Office.
This call will be held
at 3:00 p.m. Eastern / 12:00 p.m. Pacific.
Recordings
of previous calls can be accessed on the VHA
Homeless Programs Hub.
Join from a PC, Mac,
iPad, iPhone, or Android device
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REMINDER: SSVF NOFA for
FY24 Publication: CLOSES February
10,2023 4 pm EST
PLAN AHEAD AND SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION NOW!
The SSVF Program Office
and VA are pleased to announce the newest Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA)
published in the Federal Register. This NOFA for supportive services
grants provides funding opportunities to new and existing applicants
nationwide. This NOFA is competitive, and applicants are urged to
closely review the NOFA and associated training available on the SSVF website
News and Events. Please share this information with interested
partners.
Applicants are required
to apply online via SSVF's grants management system, UDPaaS. VA will use the application scoring criteria as
described in 38 CFR 62.21, 62.22, and 62.24 and 62.25 for renewal
applicants. Awards are for services to begin October 1,
2023.
Applications are due no later than February 10, 2023, at 4 pm
EST. Please contact SSVF@va.gov if you have
questions. This is a hard deadline. Don’t wait until the
last minute!
NEW:
SSVF Quarter 1 Certification due in UDPaaS
January 31, 2023
The SSVF Program Office
is requiring all grantees to complete a Quarterly Certification in UDPaaS.
This process is defined in your signed Memorandum of Agreement for your grant
and is a requirement of all grantees. The Quarter 1 Certification is now
available in UDPaaS
for completion. The attached SSVF Companion Guide to Quarterly Cert FY23
provides you with details on all required elements of the report. Please
ensure accuracy of submission as the Program Office will compare all data
provided to HMIS uploads during Quarter 1 of FY23.
REMINDER: Fiscal
Management
The target end date for
all grantees completion of FY22 funding is March 31, 2023. Please continue to
make frequent drawdowns to support SSVF Program Office’s ability to accurately
track and evaluate grantee spending. SSVF Program Managers and grantee fiscal
staff need to continue close coordination regarding spending projections.
Please communicate with your Regional Coordinator about voluntary returns or
need for increased FY22 funding in order to end March 31,
2023, and avoid sweeps.
REMINDER: Supplemental
NOFA Communities Monthly Report Due in UDPaaS
All grantee recipients
of the FY22 Supplemental NOFA funds are required to complete a monthly report
activity in UDPaaS.
The December data report is due January 31, 2023, and should include any data
from December 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022. Reach out to your Regional
Coordinator if you have any questions.
REMINDER: Veteran
Satisfaction Survey Registration Process: NEW SURVEY LINKS SENT
The SSVF Veteran
Satisfaction Survey is transitioning to an updated registration link for all
SSVF Grantees. On Monday January 23, 2023, each SSVF Grantee POC
received an email with a new registration link for the Veteran Satisfaction
Survey. Previously used registration links will no longer be
active. As a part of the registration process each grantee will select
the grant ID when registering a Veteran for the survey. Distribute the
newly assigned registration links to all staff and subcontractors involved in
the satisfaction survey process. Contact vassvf@forsmarshgroup.com if the SSVF Grant POC did not receive the registration
link via email on January 23, 2023.
RESOURCE: SSVF National Webinar: VA Smartphone Initiative and SSVF
Health Care Navigation Services February 9, 2023, 2:00pm EST
This webinar
will cover two topics. First, The Acting Director of Business Operations for
the VA Homeless Programs Office, Jennifer Nemeth, will provide an update about
the VA smartphones initiative. The Homeless Program Office had procured
smartphones for homeless Veterans in response to the COVID- 19 public health
emergency. These phones have been prioritized for Veterans engaged in VA
Homeless Programs and/or engaged in other homeless services. The second part of
the webinar will review SSVF’s Health Care Navigation services, including the
basic roles and functions of SSVF Health Care Navigators and grantee insights
on how to effectively deliver these critical SSVF supports.
Register in
advance for this webinar:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0EdVdUL2TpinHccGTtCVQA
After
registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about
joining the webinar.
REMINDER: SSVF HMIS
Data Quality Report Updates
The SSVF Program Office
and our HMIS TA providers would like to remind grantees of the monthly data
quality report changes taking place, starting in February. These updates
are specific to AMI and TFA checks. Should you have any questions or
concerns about this information please contact ssvfhmis@abtassoc.com. More detail and technical requirements can be found
in this document posted to the SSVF website Data
Quality Summary Documentation.
1.
AMI DQ checks (#8 on the
DQ Summary report after a successful upload) have been removed
2.
TFA DQ checks (#57-60
on the DQ Summary report after a successful upload) have been revised as
follows:
1.
All households are
counted in uploaded file (i.e.: sum of count of distinct householdID
from Enrollment.csv)
2.
All TFA Amounts in the
file are summed (i.e.: sum of TFAAmounts
with TypeProvided=152
from Services.csv)
3.
Divide the TFAAmount
Sum by the HHID Count for an average TFA per HH
4.
If that average TFA per
HH (by project type) is lower or higher than the amounts below there will be
flags on the report
a.
HP TFA Low -$1,100
b.
HP TFA High - $12,000
c.
RRH TFA Low - $700
d.
RRH TFA High - $11,000
5.
DQ Scores will be calculated
based on total Households with any TFA TypeProvided
= ‘152’ divided by all households in program
e.
This means that if you
are flagged as High or Low, all HH will need to be reviewed to figure out which
HH is contributing to the high or low average
f.
We can generally assume
that a “LOW” flag means there are a lot of HH in the file without any TFA
recorded, or that the amounts that are recorded are unusually low for financial
assistance
g.
We can generally assume
that a “HIGH” flag means there is an unusually high amount on average of TFA
provided, and that is often caused by data entry errors (i.e.: typing in
“20,000” when you meant “2,000”)