From: SSVF

Sent: Friday, July 12, 2019 10:14 AM

To: SSVF

Subject: SSVF Program Update Friday July 12, 2019

Topics:

1.          Reminder:  Quarterly Certifications Due July 22, 2019

2.         Save the Date: Federal Partners Housing Conference

3.         Announcement: SSVF Rapid Resolution Training

4.         Save the Date: July 30, 2019 at 2:00 EST Expansion of the US Department of Labor’s    Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program (HVRP) Participant Eligibility: Connecting More Veterans to Employment

Reminder: Quarterly Certification Due July 22, 2019

The Quarterly Certifications are now available in GIFTS.  This certification will cover the third quarter period of 04/01/2019 through 6/30/2019.   The certification covers multiple SSVF program requirements, including Compliance with the Final Rule, Grant Agreement, Data Quality, Participant Satisfaction Surveys, Trainings/Webinars, and Expenditures. Submissions are due no later than July 22, 2019, via the GIFTS grants management system.

Grantees are reminded that the SSVF Program Office requests information on Veteran households that have received Rapid Resolution conversations and enrollments in SSVF Rapid Resolution services.   Grantees will report these numbers in their Quarterly Certifications under the Rapid Resolution Conversations and Enrollments section the Quarterly Certification requirement in GIFTS.

The updated SSVF Companion Guide to Quarterly Certifications is available on the SSVF Website at:

https://www.va.gov/HOMELESS/ssvf/docs/SSVF_Companion_Guide_to_Quarterly_Cert.pdf

Save the Date:  Federal Partners Housing Conference

The SSVF Program Office, with the support of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness and other federal and national partners, is pleased to announce a Save the Date for the upcoming 2019 Federal Permanent Housing Conferences. The events are targeted to SSVF Grantees, HUD-VASH representatives and CoC Partners.

While the site locations are still being confirmed, we anticipate the following schedule:

•           East Coast (Charlotte, NC): October 22-23, 2019

•           Mid-Region (Dallas, TX): November 5-6, 2019

•           West Coast (San Diego, CA): November 19-20, 2019

We will continue to provide information as registration and travel logistics come into focus. In the meantime, questions related to these events can be sent to the SSVF program’s technical assistance address at ssvf@tacinc.org.

Announcement: SSVF Rapid Resolution Training

The SSVF Program Office will soon release a document intended to help SSVF Grantees identify critical training needs for successful Rapid Resolution interventions. This will include a basic self-assessment of training needs as well as a standard form for requesting to use SSVF grant dollars to pay for local Rapid Resolution training partners. Further, the Program Office intends to provide a series of Rapid Resolution direct practice trainings in the fall and winter of 2019 to grantees who fall below certain grant size threshold and who may not otherwise have the capacity to hire or secure outside training support. Grantees are strongly encouraged to wait until this guidance is released before hiring any new training entities for your organization or community. The Program Office will also release a standard Training Request form that will be submitted through GIFTS for approval prior to spending additional SSVF grant resources on outside trainers. Grantees will be notified soon as to whether they have been selected to attend once of the VA-sponsored Rapid Resolution direct practice trainings later this year.

Save the Date:  July 30, 2019 at 2:00 EST Expansion of the US Department of Labor’s Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program (HVRP) Participant Eligibility: Connecting More Veterans to Employment

In the fall of 2018, Congress passed two (2) pieces of legislation that significantly impact HVRP by expanding the definitions for program eligibility.  The new definitions broaden the window of eligibility allowing HVRP to serve Veterans who were previously ineligible.  The purpose of this webinar is to inform partners from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) about these changes and how they can connect to HVRP to improve employment outcomes.  This webinar will discuss how the changing landscape in homeless Veteran services impacted HVRP, leading to this important change.  The new eligibility definitions will be explained in detail using individual scenarios as examples.

The webinar will be led by the U.S. Department of Labor-Veterans Employment & Training Services (DOL-VETS) and the National Veterans Technical Assistance Center (NVTAC), in partnership with the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) and the VHA Homeless Programs Office.

To register, visit https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6618758033428698124 and complete the form.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Thank you,

SSVF Program Office