The 2004 NYC Continuum of Care Coalition

***HUD RELEASED THE NOFA FOR CONTINUUM OF CARE FUNDING***

The NYC Continuum of Care Coalition is a COMMUNITY coalition made up of nonprofit organizations, homeless people, government officials and other stakeholders who are responsible for setting the priorities used in NYC for the distribution of funding from HUD through the McKinney Vento Act. To get involved in the Continuum of Care Process as a voting member through the NYC AIDS Housing Network, call Jennifer at (718) 802-9540.  For information about upcoming meetings, or to get added to the coalition's e-mail list, contact Juliette Posner at Hudson Planning Group.

NYCAHN organizational member, Housing Works, fought to open up membership to the coalition through a law suit after the Giuliani administration left them off of the ranking list for funding illegally.  NYCAHN co-founder, Joe Capestany was the first homeless person to be a voting member and he worked, along with Anthony Williams to fight for the coalition to include the full and equal participation of homeless individuals.

The NYC Continuum of Care Coalition is going through a process of restructuring.  NYCAHN members Louie Jones and organizational representatives, Charles King and Andrew Coamey, along with staff member Jennifer Flynn are members of the committee to create the new structure.

If you are applying to the Super NOFA, please take note of this notice from DHS: DHS has implemented a new procedure for requesting a letter of support from DHS. DHS has mailed it to all their single adult, family, and prevention providers.  If you are not on that initial list of providers or if you have not received that letter from DHS yet and would like a copy of the new procedure, please e-mail Nancy Ortiz at NORTIZ@dhs.nyc.gov to request a copy.

Below is a list of upcoming meetings:

The 2004 NYC CONTINUUM OF CARE COALITION consists of the following voting members:

Homeless Housing Provider Coalitions (1 vote each):

NYC AIDS Housing Network

Tier II Coalition

ASPHA

Supportive Housing Network of New York

Way Home Coalition

Homeless Youth and Runaway Task Force

Association for Community Living

Domestic Violence Coalition

The following homeless individuals were elected to represent homeless people living with HIV/AIDS for this year:

Louie Jones (voting member)

Paul Taraneh (alternate)

Below are notes about major decisions and the positions that NYCAHN took as a coalition from our representatives at recent meetings of the NYC Continuum of Care Coalition.

Steering Committee Meeting 5/21/04  (NYCAHN REPRESENTATIVE:  Jennifer Flynn

STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING
NYC Coalition on the Continuum of Care 2003-2004

Friday, May 21, 2004

MOTIONS ON

1. Gaps, Needs, and Priorities

A. 2004 NYC CoC Project Priorities

•  Eligible uses of CofC funds for new projects include acquisition, rehabilitation, new construction, operating, leasing, rental assistance and supportive services. No more than 30% of any project’s budget can be requested for supportive services. Of the funds available for new projects, $10 million will be allocated to Shelter + Care projects and the balance for SHP projects.

NYCAHN VOTED IN FAVOR-MOTION PASSED

•  Priority Homeless Populations: In order to be ranked, 100% of those to be served must be homeless and a member of at least one of the following priority populations. Additionally, the project must commit 25% of its HUD units to chronically homeless people as defined in the Proposal to Prioritize Chronically Homeless Persons adopted by the NYC Coalition on the Continuum of Care on 5/1/03 , except projects serving youth and the long-term formerly incarcerated.

NYCAHN VOTED IN FAVOR-MOTION PASSED

* There is a five point bonus for serving any one of these three populations.

3.   Priority Housing Models: In order to be ranked, the proposed housing model must be either: (Check box, if applicable)

Permanent Supportive Housing

OR ,

Transitional Housing serving only

Youth (up to age 25)

  People of Transgender Experience

  Undocumented

  People with histories of Incarceration

  Survivors of Domestic Violence

NYCAHN VOTED IN FAVOR:  MOTION PASSED

B. To accept the Chronically Homeless Proposal as amended through the addition of the following [to the definition of the chronically homeless]:

• A family that has used the HRA/DV or HRA/HASA emergency shelter/housing system.

GIVEN THE OVERTIME OF THE MEETING, THIS MOTION WAS TABLED.  NYCAHN INTENDS TO VOTE IN FAVOR.

2. Community Development and Outreach

•  Motion 1 – To accept New Youth Consumer Representative: Inara Terrero (NYCAHN VOTED IN FAVOR-MOTION PASSED)

•  Motion 2 – To accept New Government Member: OMH (NYCAHN VOTED IN FAVOR-MOTION PASSED)

•  Motion 3 – To adopt as a principle in the restructuring and implementation of policies and procedures of the NYC CCoC that consumers must still be involved in equal representation to other stakeholders . (NYCAHN INTENDED TO VOTE IN FAVOR, BUT THIS MOTION WAS SENT BACK TO COMMITTEE BECAUSE IT WAS "VAGUE")

•  Motion 4 – To accept the results of the consumer chairs election until next fall at which time the NYC CCoC will redefine the qualifications of Chairs.

(NYCAHN VOTED IN FAVOR-MOTION PASSED)

3. Evaluation

•  Motion 1: To accept the SHP and S+C criteria for scoring new projects which now includes: an evaluation of a project’s budget that is now reviewed for HUD approved operating and service costs, an increased emphasis on NYC linkages, an evaluation of staff plan, consumer involvement in program design, pre-applications and scoring sheets as developed and revised by the Evaluation Committee.

(NYCAHN VOTED IN FAVOR-MOTION PASSED)

3. Other

•  Motion 1: To create a data management committee composed of 7 members including: 1 consumer member, 3 providers (Lisa Radcliffe, Anthony Butler , and Aaron Levitt), and 3 government members.

(NYCAHN VOTED IN FAVOR-RESULTS UNKNOWN)