From: SSVF
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 1:07 PM
To: SSVF
Subject: SSVF Program Update Friday, June 12th, 2020
Topics:
1. REGISTER NOW:
SSVF Office Hours From Hotel to Housing June 19th @ 12:00 pm EST
2.
ATTENTION: SSVF Grantee COVID-19 Resource Toolkit
3. RESOURCE:
Nationwide Eviction Resource Page
4. AVAILABLE
NOW: Recorded Webinar, Great SSVF Staffing Strategies and Samples
5. UPCOMING
WEBINAR: Elicit-Provide-Elicit: A Motivational Interviewing Technique to
Enhance Homeless Program Staff's Services to Veterans Wednesday, June 17th @
1pm EST
REGISTER NOW: SSVF
Office Hours From Hotel to Housing June 19th @ 12:00 EST
Over the last
three months, SSVF grantees have had to adapt to unprecedented
challenges. Amidst these ever-changing times, SSVF grantees have brought
a high volume of Veteran households to safety by placing them in Emergency
Housing. During this same effort, SSVF grantees have continued to work
with Veteran households and local partners to ensure that permanent housing
searches and placements are still being pursued. Please join us on Friday,
June 19th, from 12:00 pm 1:00 pm EST to hear from four SSVF grantees on how
they were able to accept Emergency Housing referrals while still carrying on
with permanent housing search and placements. You will find that their
strategies and promising practices, while created for their specific
communities, can be applied around the country. Grantees may register
using the link below:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/3469520343026026509
ATTENTION: SSVF
Grantee COVID-19 Resource Toolkit
As the SSVF
Program Office continues to support grantees serving Veterans during COVID-19,
we want to ensure we are sharing the newest and best information
possible. With our TA providers efforts, the SSVF Program Office will
continue to share information learned from grantees in a collection of
documents intended to create a Grantee Resource Toolkit to support service
provisions during this time. TA has developed three documents to date,
for grantees to review.
SSVF and
Homeless Prevention Considerations During COVID-19
SSVF Staffing
Considerations During COVID-19
SSVF Income Use
Considerations During COVID-19
While our TA
providers will continue to develop information for grantees to review and
utilize, these documents can be found on the SSVF website, under SSVF Response
to COVID 19 Guidance section, or at the link below:
https://www.va.gov/homeless/ssvf/index.asp
RESOURCE:
Nationwide Eviction Resource Page
The SSVF Program
Office would like to share a link to nationwide resources related to eviction
protections, moratoriums, and legal aid resources. The primary website is
called, Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, and is a collection of links with information
grantees might find useful and informative. By sharing information and
resources that have been suggested to the Program Office, the intention is that
grantees can access information that might be helpful to efficiently and
effectively serve our homeless Veteran population. Please feel free to
explore this resource further at the link below:
https://www.dontgetkickedout.com/
AVAILABLE
NOW: Recorded Webinar, Great SSVF Staffing Strategies and Samples
The SSVF Program
Office, with the support of Technical Assistance, recorded a webinar to
highlight SSVF grantee staffing strategies and samples from the field.
The webinar, which featured guest speakers from four SSVF grantee agencies,
provided insight on how they were able to mobilize their teams quickly to
support Veteran households being placed in Emergency Housing, while also
balancing the staffs workload capacity and morale.
This link takes
you directly to the recorded webinar:
Link is also
available on the SSVF website at:
https://www.va.gov/HOMELESS/ssvf/?page=/official_guide/supportive_services
under Official
Guide to the SSVF Program, Supportive Services, Connection to Mainstream
Resources.
UPCOMING WEBINAR:
Elicit-Provide-Elicit: A Motivational Interviewing Technique to Enhance
Homeless Program Staff's Services to Veterans Wednesday, June 17th, 2020 @ 1 pm
EST
VACO, Homeless
Programs Office, and VA's National Center on Homelessness among Veterans, in
collaboration with the VHA Employee Education system, is presenting a webinar
for VA and non-VA multi-disciplinary staff serving homeless Veterans.
This webinar will focus on the use of Motivational Interviewing techniques to
foster and strengthen a productive working alliance and reduce potential
client-provider discord. Grantees may register for the webinar ahead of
the start time at the link below.
https://www.train.org/vha/course/1091173/live_event?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
Thank you,
SSVF Program
Office