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<big>'''Welcome to the Program Design and Development Wiki'''</big>

This site is designed to provide rapid access to the information and resources needed by service providers, advocates and communities in Westchester County, New York. Clicking on any of the links below will take you to a page with meeting notices and other information and resources relevant to each collaboration.

== Collaborations ==
=== [[YJCEC|Yonkers Juvenile Crime Enforcement Coalition (YJCEC) ]] ===
This collaboration, facilitated by the Yonkers Police Department, is developing and implementing a coordinated Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan to reduce violent juvenile crime in Yonkers, New York. 

=== [[Yonkers Truancy |Yonkers Truancy Reduction Strategy Group (YTRSG)]] ===
This YJCEC workgroup is implementing an innovative strategy to reduce chronic truancy in Yonkers.

=== [[MV Truancy |Mt. Vernon Truancy Reduction Strategy Group (MVTRSG)]] ===
This workgroup is replicating the YTRSG strategy to reduce chronic truancy in Mt. Vernon.

=== [[YCOCH|Yonkers Continuum of Care for the Homeless]] ===
This group brings together all the homeless housing and service providers in Yonkers, New York funded with HUD Continuum of Care for the Homeless funding administered by the Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers. 

=== [[MVCOCH|Mount Vernon Continuum of Care for the Homeless]] ===
This group brings together all the homeless housing and service providers in Mount Vernon, New York funded with HUD Continuum of Care for the Homeless funding administered by the City of Mount Vernon.

=== [[WCCOCH|Westchester County Partnership for the Homeless]] ===
This group coordinates all of the homeless housing and services providers in Westchester County, New York. 

===[[DCMHShelterPlusCare| DCMH Shelter Plus Care]] ===
The 9 agencies which administer Shelter Plus Care units as sub-grantees under the Westchester County Department of Community Mental Health meet regularly to improve program performance.

=== [[RHNW|Recovery Housing Network of Westchester]] ===
This group works to engage and house chemically dependent homeless adults in early stages of recovery. 

=== [[HPRP-General| Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP): General]] ===
This program provides financial assistance and services to prevent individuals and families from becoming homeless and helps those who are experiencing homelessness to be quickly re-housed and stabilized.

=== [[HPRP-Yonkers| Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP): Yonkers]] ===
This program provides financial assistance and services to prevent individuals and families from becoming homeless and helps those who are experiencing homelessness to be quickly re-housed and stabilized in the City of Yonkers.

=== [[HPRP-MtVernon|Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP): Mt. Vernon]] ===
This program provides financial assistance and services to prevent individuals and families from becoming homeless in the City of Mt. Vernon.

=== [[HPRP-NewRochelle| Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP): New Rochelle]] ===
This program provides financial assistance and services to prevent individuals and families from becoming homeless in the City of New Rochelle.

=== [[HPRP-Resources| Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP): Resources]] ===
This page contains the forms and documents related to the day-to-day operations of HPRP in Yonkers, Mt. Vernon, and New Rochelle. These documents and forms were generated by both HUD and the three cities.

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== PD&D In The News ==
'''Stanley Schear Leadership Award'''
* [http://seniorcitizens.westchestergov.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2639&Itemid=4530/ Karl Bertrand to receive the Stanley Schear Leadership Award for his 27 years of homeless organizing and advocacy.] 
On 5/14/10 PD&D's founder and President Karl Bertrand received the fourth annual Stanley Schear Leadership Award for his work in providing shelters and services for homeless people in Westchester County, New York for more than 27 years. The award was made by the Senior Housing and Services Coalition of the Westchester County Department of Senior Programs and Services. His work to date has included co-founding the first shelter for the homeless in Yonkers, co-founding the Coalition for the Homeless of Westchester (the first countywide advocacy group for the homeless), developing the initial concept for the Bridge Fund eviction prevention program, co-chairing the Westchester Partnership for the Homeless, which coordinates planning and management of $10-12 million in annual Continuum of Care for the Homeless funding from HUD, and securing over $165 million in grant funding for local public and private programs benefiting the poor.

* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=xfHXTt6DOMI/ Why I am an advocate for the homeless and the poor] 
In his speech accepting the Stanley Schear Leadership award, Karl Bertrand tries to explain for the first time in public why he is an advocate for the homeless and the poor. He says writing and delivering this speech was more difficult than any other speech he's ever given, except for his mother's eulogy.

* [http://www.lohud.com/article/20100502/NEWS02/5020370/Greenburgh-man-honored-for-years-of-service-to-help-the-homeless/ Greenburgh man honored for years of service to help the homeless] 
This Journal News article summarizes Karl Bertrand leading up to the award. One minor correction: He says he never said "most richest"!

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjzNLoLn5XI/ WCDSPS Commissioner Mae Carpenter presents the Stanley Schear award] 

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWTzMXdgTlM/ Closing remarks from the Honorable Ken Jenkins, Westchester County Board of Legislators Chairman]

'''WTFCAN Unsung Heroes Award'''
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyXrG017UBc&feature=related/ Karl Bertrand's 90-second Truancy Prevention award acceptance speech]
On 4/28/10 Karl Bertrand was awarded an "Unsung Heroes" award from the Westchester County Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect. The award was given for his work organizing local communities to address chronic truancy by enforcing mandatory education laws and offering supportive services. In Yonkers, NY this program cut chronic truancy by 18.6% in the first two years, which basically means that hundreds of kids who were spiraling toward dropping out, delinquency and a lifetime of poverty, are now going back to school more often. The man handing him the award is Westchester's newly elected County Executive Robert P. Astorino, who is in the process of grappling with a projected $160 million budget deficit. In this 90-second acceptance speech, Mr. Bertrand challenges County Executive Astorino to expand this truancy prevention effort countywide.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33PUP9VO7d8&feature=related/ Karl Bertrand receiving 2010 Unsung Heroes Award from the Westchester Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect]
The award is being presented by Kathie Halas, Executive Director of the Child Care of Westchester and co-chair of the Westchester Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect.

'''Evidence-Based Targeting'''
* [http://changingthecourt.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_08.html Changing the Court: The Pyramid of Risk]
This blog discusses Karl Bertrand's presentation on Evidence-Based Targeting at the NYS DCJS 2008 statewide-conference on juvenile crime prevention.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n81JKvYIyoI&feature=related/ Karl Bertrand on Evidence-Based Targeting]
In this video developed for a regional Weed & Seed training sponsored by the City of Yonkers, NY, Karl Bertrand describes Evidence-Based Targeting, a new concept developed in Yonkers that allows communities to use objective data to target limited juvenile crime prevention resources to the specific youth who need them most, rather than allocating resources less efficiently using traditional neighborhood-based targeting that essentially relies on stereotypes of race and class to identify youth who are most at risk.

'''Yonkers Juvenile Crime Strategy and Action Plan'''
* [http://www.cityofyonkers.com/index.aspx?recordid=325&page=29 YPD Releases Juvenile Crime Prevention Plan: Comprehensive study outlines strategies to reduce juvenile crime in Yonkers]
* [[Media:YJCEC_Action_Plan_Summary-9_page.pdf|Overview of Yonkers' Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, final draft as released 4/8/08, 9 pages]]
* [[Media:Yonkers_Juvenile_Justice_Strategy_and_Action_Plan-narrative.pdf‎|Main body of Yonkers' Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, final draft as released 4/8/08, 62 pages]]
* [[Media:YJCEC_Action_Plan_Appendices_137_pages_F.pdf‎|Appendices for Yonkers' Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, final draft as released 4/8/08, 137 pages]] 

'''Homeless Advocacy: "Beds Not Chairs"'''
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmfOYPNuFMs Karl Bertrand at Beds Not Chairs rally: Part 1]
In 2007 Westchester County instituted an ill-conceived plan to make emergency overnight shelters for the homeless replace their cots with chairs, based on the wrong-headed notion that what we needed to do to help homeless people put their lives back together was to increase their suffering. The Westchester Coalition for the Hungry and the Homeless convened a rally in White Plains, NY on 10/25/07 to oppose the plan. Karl Bertrand was one of the speakers. Shortly thereafter the plan was quietly rescinded.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPu5Y756u4o Karl Bertrand at Beds Not Chairs rally: Part 2]

* [http://pfeiner.blogspot.com/2007/10/guest-commentary-karl-bertrand.html Karl Bertrand describes the need for the 2007 Beds Not Chairs rally]
Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner's blog published this guest commentary from Karl Bertrand on 10/23/07 describing the need for the upcoming Beds Not Chairs rally.

'''New Models of Homeless Services'''
* [http://fsp.uservoice.com/forums/42071-how-can-we-prevent-and-end-homelessness-for-famili/suggestions/526705-a-new-model-of-eviction-prevention-in-westchester A New Model of Eviction Prevention in Westchester]
This overview of the new model of homelessness prevention being piloted in Westchester with HPRP funds from HUD was submitted to the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness for potential inclusion in the new Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness.

* [http://www.thebridgefund.org/TBF_History.html A Brief History of the Bridge Fund]
This overview of the Bridge Fund cites Karl Bertrand's pivotal role in 1991 in helping develop the initial plan for the Bridge Fund - one of the New York metropolitan area's most innovative and effective eviction prevention programs.

* [http://www.wptimes.com/local_news.php?viewspecific=1&storyid=2789 New Directions for Homeless Assistance]
This 3/30/2010 article in the White Plains Times describes a conference convened by the Westchester Partnership for the Homeless in which Karl Bertrand described the changes in homeless services mandated by the recently passed HEARTH Act, and laid out a strategic vision for transforming homeless services in Westchester.

'''The Pre-History of PD&D'''
* [http://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/10/nyregion/a-haven-for-the-homeless-extends-its-efforts.html A Haven For The Homeless Extends Its Efforts]
This New York Times article from April 10, 1983 describes how The Sharing Community, originally begun as a winter-only overnight shelter, had decided to become a year-round program providing 24-hour shelter, meals, and advocacy.

* [http://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/12/nyregion/westchester-journal-food-for-the-hungry.html Westchester Journal: Food for the Hungry]
This New York Times article from July 12, 1987 focuses on a Coalition for the Homeless of Westchester report that over one million meals were provided during the preceding year by emergency food programs in Westchester County, NY. This represented a '''63%''' increase over the preceding year, with ten new food pantries opening and local soup kitchens doubling the number of meals annually served.

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== PD&D Presentations ==

'''This Homeless Advocate Supports Closing Two Shelters''' '''''NEW''''' 
* [[Media:KB_Budget_Testimony_2010.doc‎‎ |Testimony Supporting Westchester County's Plans To Close Two Homeless Shelters (presented at 11/17/2010 county Board of Legislators budget hearings)]] 
This Word document contains the text of the 3-minute testimony Karl Bertrand made at the Westchester County Board of Legislator's budget hearings in Yonkers on November 17, 2010. A life-long advocate for the homeless, he testified in support of the proposed closing of two homeless shelters, which are no longer needed because of Westchester County's success in reducing homelessness by 55%. "Supporting a progressive agenda for helping the homeless does not mean that we need to continue funding empty shelter beds just because we needed them 20 years ago. In fact, the progressive agenda for serving the homeless, as mandated by the HEARTH Act passed by Congress in 2008 and endorsed by HUD and all of the leading national homeless advocacy organizations is to move AWAY from shelters and end prolonged homelessness by concentrating resources on 1) preventing evictions and 2) rapidly rehousing people when they do become homeless....[Westchester County] has achieved this reduction by investing money in eviction prevention, mobile Care Coordination for the mentally ill, and rent supplements. We cannot afford to continue to make these wise and progressive investments in helping the homeless if we fritter away our resources by continuing to fund empty shelter beds that are no longer needed."

'''Overview of Housing Resources''' '''''NEW''''' 
* [[Media:KB_NAMI_PPT_F.ppt‎ |Overview of Housing Without Services (presented at 11/10/2010 NAMI/WCDCMH conference)]] 
This Powerpoint outlines the presentation Karl Bertrand made at the "A Roof over Your Head: Housing Resources & Solutions for Westchester County Residents" conference on November 10, 2010, which was co-sponsored by the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Westchester and the Westchester County Department of Community Mental Health. After several presentations had been made on specialized supportive housing resources available for the mentally ill in Westchester County, NY, Karl Bertrand was charged with providing a brief, simple and clear overview of all other major housing resources available in Westchester. Faced with describing a system that was diverse and fragmented, he boiled it down to the major programs that could help make housing affordable in one of America's most expensive housing markets, and ended by identifying the single best place to start seeking help for four major kinds of common housing-related problems.

'''Organizational Survival Strategies'''
* [[Media:SHNNY_workshop_Strategies_for_Survival_6-10-2010_F.ppt‎ |Executive Management Workshop: Strategies for Survival in the Great Recession (presented at 6/10/2010 Supportive Housing Network of New York conference)]] 
This workshop for executive directors and other senior managers offered an incisive analysis of the financial threats facing nonprofits today, and identified a host of specific approaches to maintaining cash flow, matching mission to budget and surviving the great recession. Experienced management consultant Karl Bertrand presented and discussed specific strategies to ameliorate the effects of public budget shortfalls.

'''Evidence-Based Targeting'''
* [[Media:KBertrand_EBT_ANYSYB_v5.ppt‎|"Evidence-Based Targeting: A New Approach to Juvenile Crime Prevention" (presented at 10/27/2008 ANYSYB conference.)]] 
Karl Bertrand delivered a presentation on "Evidence-Based Targeting: A New Approach to Juvenile Crime Prevention" at the 38th Annual Conference of the Association of New York State Youth Bureaus on October 27, 2008. This workshop focused on the new concept of Evidence-Based Targeting. Using 16 years of data from Yonkers, PD&D measured the impact of specific risk factors on juvenile crime. This workshop taught participants to use a “Pyramid of Risk” to identify youth at highest risk for juvenile delinquency, target limited resources, and magnify potential impact on reducing juvenile crime. Karl Bertrand has also made presentations on Evidence-Based Targeting at recent conferences sponsored by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, the New York State Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Delinquency Prevention.

'''Preventing Chronic Truancy'''
* [[Media:KB_WTFCAN_Truancy_F.ppt‎| "Tackling Truancy With Limited Resources: Replicating the Yonkers Model]] 
Karl Bertrand made this presentation at the 10/23/2009 "Tackling Truancy with Limited Resources: Concrete Actions School Districts Can Implement Now" workshop sponsored by the Westchester Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect.

'''New Models of Homeless Services'''
* [[Media:HEARTH_v1K.ppt| Overdue for Change: The Transformation of Homeless Housing and Services Needed in Westchester]] 
Karl Bertrand made this presentation describing the new models of homeless housing and services needed in Westchester County, NY at the 3/23/2010 HEARTH Act Symposium co-sponsored by the Westchester Partnership for the Homeless and Grace Church Community Center.

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== Advocacy ==
[http://www.hungeractionnys.org/ Hunger Action Network of New York State (HANNYS)] 
The Hunger Action Network of New York State is a statewide anti-hunger coalition that combines grassroots organizing at the local level with state level research, education and advocacy to address the root causes of hunger, including poverty. 

[http://www.shnny.org/ Supportive Housing Network of New York State] 
The Supportive Housing Network of New York represents over 150 nonprofit organizations that develop and operate supportive housing and is the only supportive housing membership organization in New York State. 

[http://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/ Coalition for the Homeless] 
Coalition for the Homeless is the nation's oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless men, women, and children. We are dedicated to the principle that decent shelter, sufficient food, affordable housing, and the chance to work for a living wage are fundamental rights in a civilized society. Since our inception in 1981, the Coalition has worked through litigation, public education, and direct services to ensure that these goals are realized. 

[http://www.endhomelessness.org/ National Alliance to End Homelessness] 
The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonpartisan, mission-driven organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States. We are a leading voice on the issue of homelessness. The Alliance analyzes policy and develops pragmatic, cost-effective policy solutions. We work collaboratively with the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to build state and local capacity, leading to stronger programs and policies that help communities achieve their goal of ending homelessness. We provide data and research to policymakers and elected officials in order to inform policy debates and educate the public and opinion leaders nationwide. 

[http://www.foodclothingshelter.org/ Westchester Coalition for the Hungry and Homeless] 
WCHH shares information and technical services with providers, connects volunteers to programs needing their help, promotes legislative action for systematic changes and collects data on the hungry and homeless that it provides as an information resource to government agencies. 

[http://www.housingactioncouncil.org/ Housing Action Council] 
The Housing Action Council provides technical assistance, grants, and advocacy to increase and improve housing opportunities for low - and moderate - income households and special needs populations throughout the Hudson Valley Region. 

[[media: 2011_Government_officials.doc‎ | 2011 - 2012 Federal, State and County Elected Officials Contact Information]] 
List of names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses (most hyperlinked) for maintaining contact with elected officials. 

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HPRP-Resources

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::'''HPRP FORMS''' 
[[media: NR_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form New Rochelle]] [[media: MV_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Mt. Vernon]] [[media: Ykrs_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Yonkers]] [[media: NewRochelleInitial_v2a.doc | Documenting ''Federal Eligibility'' New Rochelle]] [[media: MtVernonInitial_v2a.doc | Documenting ''Federal Eligibility'' Mt. Vernon]] [[media: YonkersInitial_v2a.doc | Documenting ''Federal Eligibility'' Yonkers]] 
[[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[media: Rentreasonablechecklist-1-.doc‎ | Rent Reasonableness Checklist]] '''''NEW''''' 

::'''HPRP DOCUMENTS''' 
'''HUD DOCUMENTS''' 
[http://www.hudhre.info/HPRP/index.cfm?do=viewHPRPIssuances] '''''Most Recent''''' 
[http://hudhre.info/HPRP Official HUD HPRP Information Site] [[media: HPRP_NoticeRedline_6_08_09.pdf | Original HUD HPRP Announcement]] [[media: HPRP_HousingStatusReqs.pdf | Housing Status Eligibility Determination‎]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDocReqs.pdf‎ | Income Eligibility Determination]] [[media: Habitability_Stndrds.doc‎ | Habitability Standards]] [[media: Habitability_Inspection.doc | Habitability Inspection Requirements]] [[media: ‎Lead-based_Paint.doc‎ | Lead-based Paint Inspection Requirements]] [[media: Def._"QualifiedAlien".doc‎ | Definition of Qualified Alien]] '''''NEW''''' [[media: Documenting_Qualified_Alien_Status.doc | Documents Establishing Qualified Alien Status]] '''''NEW''''' [[media: Documenting_Qualified_Alien_Status,_Part_2.doc‎ | Documents Establishing Qualified Alien Status, Part 2]] '''''NEW''''' 

'''LOCAL DOCUMENTS''' 
[[media: HPRP_City_Orgx3_F.xls‎ | Organization Charts for the Three Cities]] [[media: 2009_County_AMI.pdf | Westchester County Average Median Income Table]] [[media: DSS_TA_Fact_Sheet.pdf | Temporary Assistance Fact Sheet]]‎ [[media: ‎HPRP_ELIGIBILITY2F.doc‎ | Federal and Local Eligibility Criteria]] [[media: Eviction_Prevention_Pgms.doc‎ | Eviction Prevention Programs]] [[media: How_To_Stretch_Agency_Dollars.pdf | Which Housing Situations Can and Cannot Be Saved]] 

'''OTHER DOCUMENTS''' 
[[media: 2011_Government_officials.doc‎ | 2011 - 2012 Federal, State and County Elected Officials Contact Information]] 

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[[HPRP-Yonkers | HPRP-Yonkers]] 
[[HPRP-MtVernon | HPRP-MtVernon]] 
[[HPRP-NewRochelle | HPRP-NewRochelle]] 
[[HPRP-General | HPRP-General Program Information]]

HPRP-Resources

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::'''HPRP FORMS''' 
[[media: NR_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form New Rochelle]] [[media: MV_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Mt. Vernon]] [[media: Ykrs_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Yonkers]] [[media: NewRochelleInitial_v2a.doc | Documenting ''Federal Eligibility'' New Rochelle]] [[media: MtVernonInitial_v2a.doc | Documenting ''Federal Eligibility'' Mt. Vernon]] [[media: YonkersInitial_v2a.doc | Documenting ''Federal Eligibility'' Yonkers]] 
[[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[media: Rentreasonablechecklist-1-.doc‎ | Rent Reasonableness Checklist]] '''''NEW''''' 

::'''HPRP DOCUMENTS''' 
'''HUD DOCUMENTS''' 
[http://www.hudhre.info/HPRP/index.cfm?do=viewHPRPIssuances] '''''Most Recent''''' 
[http://hudhre.info/HPRP Official HUD HPRP Information Site] [[media: HPRP_NoticeRedline_6_08_09.pdf | Original HUD HPRP Announcement]] [[media: HPRP_HousingStatusReqs.pdf | Housing Status Eligibility Determination‎]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDocReqs.pdf‎ | Income Eligibility Determination]] [[media: Habitability_Stndrds.doc‎ | Habitability Standards]] [[media: Habitability_Inspection.doc | Habitability Inspection Requirements]] [[media: ‎Lead-based_Paint.doc‎ | Lead-based Paint Inspection Requirements]] [[media: Def._"QualifiedAlien".doc‎ | Definition of Qualified Alien]] '''''NEW''''' [[media: Documenting_Qualified_Alien_Status.doc | Documents Establishing Qualified Alien Status]] '''''NEW''''' [[media: Documenting_Qualified_Alien_Status,_Part_2.doc‎ | Documents Establishing Qualified Alien Status, Part 2]] '''''NEW''''' 

'''LOCAL DOCUMENTS''' 
[[media: HPRP_City_Orgx3_F.xls‎ | Organization Charts for the Three Cities]] [[media: 2009_County_AMI.pdf | Westchester County Average Median Income Table]] [[media: DSS_TA_Fact_Sheet.pdf | Temporary Assistance Fact Sheet]]‎ [[media: ‎HPRP_ELIGIBILITY2F.doc‎ | Federal and Local Eligibility Criteria]] [[media: Eviction_Prevention_Pgms.doc‎ | Eviction Prevention Programs]] [[media: How_To_Stretch_Agency_Dollars.pdf | Which Housing Situations Can and Cannot Be Saved]] 

'''OTHER DOCUMENTS''' 
[[media: 2011_Government_officials.doc‎ | 2011 - 2012 Federal and State Elected Officials Contact Information]] 

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[[HPRP-Yonkers | HPRP-Yonkers]] 
[[HPRP-MtVernon | HPRP-MtVernon]] 
[[HPRP-NewRochelle | HPRP-NewRochelle]] 
[[HPRP-General | HPRP-General Program Information]]

File:2011 Government officials.doc

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Jmuffler: uploaded a new version of "Image:2011 Government officials.doc": Current Federal and State Elected Officials

File:2011 Government officials.doc

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HPRP-Resources

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::'''HPRP FORMS''' 
[[media: NR_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form New Rochelle]] [[media: MV_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Mt. Vernon]] [[media: Ykrs_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Yonkers]] [[media: NewRochelleInitial_v2a.doc | Documenting ''Federal Eligibility'' New Rochelle]] [[media: MtVernonInitial_v2a.doc | Documenting ''Federal Eligibility'' Mt. Vernon]] [[media: YonkersInitial_v2a.doc | Documenting ''Federal Eligibility'' Yonkers]] 
[[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[media: Rentreasonablechecklist-1-.doc‎ | Rent Reasonableness Checklist]] '''''NEW''''' 

::'''HPRP DOCUMENTS''' 
'''HUD DOCUMENTS''' 
[http://www.hudhre.info/HPRP/index.cfm?do=viewHPRPIssuances] '''''Most Recent''''' 
[http://hudhre.info/HPRP Official HUD HPRP Information Site] [[media: HPRP_NoticeRedline_6_08_09.pdf | Original HUD HPRP Announcement]] [[media: HPRP_HousingStatusReqs.pdf | Housing Status Eligibility Determination‎]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDocReqs.pdf‎ | Income Eligibility Determination]] [[media: Habitability_Stndrds.doc‎ | Habitability Standards]] [[media: Habitability_Inspection.doc | Habitability Inspection Requirements]] [[media: ‎Lead-based_Paint.doc‎ | Lead-based Paint Inspection Requirements]] [[media: Def._"QualifiedAlien".doc‎ | Definition of Qualified Alien]] '''''NEW''''' [[media: Documenting_Qualified_Alien_Status.doc | Documents Establishing Qualified Alien Status]] '''''NEW''''' [[media: Documenting_Qualified_Alien_Status,_Part_2.doc‎ | Documents Establishing Qualified Alien Status, Part 2]] '''''NEW''''' 

'''LOCAL DOCUMENTS''' 
[[media: HPRP_City_Orgx3_F.xls‎ | Organization Charts for the Three Cities]] [[media: 2009_County_AMI.pdf | Westchester County Average Median Income Table]] [[media: DSS_TA_Fact_Sheet.pdf | Temporary Assistance Fact Sheet]]‎ [[media: ‎HPRP_ELIGIBILITY2F.doc‎ | Federal and Local Eligibility Criteria]] [[media: Eviction_Prevention_Pgms.doc‎ | Eviction Prevention Programs]] [[media: How_To_Stretch_Agency_Dollars.pdf | Which Housing Situations Can and Cannot Be Saved]] 

'''OTHER DOCUMENTS''' 

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[[HPRP-Yonkers | HPRP-Yonkers]] 
[[HPRP-MtVernon | HPRP-MtVernon]] 
[[HPRP-NewRochelle | HPRP-NewRochelle]] 
[[HPRP-General | HPRP-General Program Information]]

HPRP-NewRochelle

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<center>'''New Rochelle Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>
'''Overview:''' The City of New Rochelle’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $686,935 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to prevent evictions of New Rochelle tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less.

The City of New Rochelle’s HPRP contract with HUD began July 17, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 27 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of New Rochelle will serve as grant administrator;
*HOPE Community Services, Inc. will provide one-stop access to New Rochelle’s HPRP program including outreach, program enrollment, case management on issues affecting housing stability, budget counseling, distribution of rent subsidies, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements using a part-time attorney working on-site at HOPE.

'''Major goals:''' This project’s major deliverables include the following:
*'''30''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''30''' households will receive budget counseling,
*'''75''' households will receive case management, and
*'''75''' households will receive legal services.
==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>
'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for New Rochelle HPRP:''' Participants must meet ALL of the following four locally-determined criteria:
#Participants must have been residents of New Rochelle within the last 12 months,
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide documentation including their current lease, evidence of previous and current employment income, and other documents needed to establish eligibility and appropriateness for this program;
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness that were identified in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' Preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>
<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Stephaniee Bennett</center>
<center>HOPE Community Services, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 355-5234</center>
<center>sbennett@hope-cs.org</center><center>[mailto:sbennett@hope-cs.org Stephaniee Bennett]</center> 
== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''NEW ROCHELLE ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 '''''(Date Out Of Sequence Due To Observance Of Passover)''''' 
Time: 10 AM 
Location: HOPE Community Services 
Lower Level 
50 Washington Avenue 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
May 18 
June 15 
July 20 
August 17 
September 21 
October 19 
November 16 
December 21 

== LINKS ==
[[media: NR_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form New Rochelle]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: NR_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | New Rochelle HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-NewRochelle

2011-03-16T16:39:34Z

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<center>'''New Rochelle Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>
'''Overview:''' The City of New Rochelle’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $686,935 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to prevent evictions of New Rochelle tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less.

The City of New Rochelle’s HPRP contract with HUD began July 17, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 27 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of New Rochelle will serve as grant administrator;
*HOPE Community Services, Inc. will provide one-stop access to New Rochelle’s HPRP program including outreach, program enrollment, case management on issues affecting housing stability, budget counseling, distribution of rent subsidies, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements using a part-time attorney working on-site at HOPE.

'''Major goals:''' This project’s major deliverables include the following:
*'''30''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''30''' households will receive budget counseling,
*'''75''' households will receive case management, and
*'''75''' households will receive legal services.
==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>
'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for New Rochelle HPRP:''' Participants must meet ALL of the following four locally-determined criteria:
#Participants must have been residents of New Rochelle within the last 12 months,
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide documentation including their current lease, evidence of previous and current employment income, and other documents needed to establish eligibility and appropriateness for this program;
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness that were identified in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' Preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>
<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Stephaniee Bennett</center>
<center>HOPE Community Services, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 355-5234</center>
<center>sbennett@hope-cs.org</center><center>[mailto:sbennett@hope-cs.org Stephaniee Bennett]</center> 
== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''NEW ROCHELLE ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 (Date out of sequence due to observance of Passover) 
Time: 10 AM 
Location: HOPE Community Services 
Lower Level 
50 Washington Avenue 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
May 18 
June 15 
July 20 
August 17 
September 21 
October 19 
November 16 
December 21 

== LINKS ==
[[media: NR_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form New Rochelle]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: NR_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | New Rochelle HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-MtVernon

2011-03-16T16:32:48Z

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<center>'''Mount Vernon Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Mount Vernon’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $745,701 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to prevent evictions of Mount Vernon tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less.

The City of Mount Vernon’s HPRP contract with HUD began July 17, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 27 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Mount Vernon will serve as grant administrator and provide core services including program enrollment, case management on issues affecting housing stability, distribution of rent subsidies, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Mount Vernon United Tenants will provide outreach and pre-screening of potential candidates;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will provide budget counseling.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:
*'''48''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''48''' households will receive case management,
*'''48''' households will receive budget counseling, and
*'''20''' households will receive legal services.
==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>
'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Mount Vernon HPRP:''' Participants must meet ALL of the following four locally-determined criteria:
#Participants must have been residents of Mount Vernon within the last 12 months,
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide documentation including their current lease, evidence of previous and current employment income, and other documents needed to establish eligibility and appropriateness for this program;
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness that were identified in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' Preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>
<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Anne McDermott</center>
<center>Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency</center>
<center>(914) 699-7230 extension 108</center>
<center>amcdermott@ci.mount-vernon.ny.us</center><center>[mailto:amcdermott@ci.mount-vernon.ny.us/ Ann McDermott]</center> 
== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''MT. VERNON ADMINISTRATIVE MEETINGS''' '''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Friday, April 1, 2011 
Time: 11:00AM 
Location: Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
June 3 
August 5 
October 7 

'''MT. VERNON CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Friday, May 6, 2011 
Time: 11:00AM 
Location: Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 
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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
July 1 
September 2 
November 4 
 Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency 
City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 

== LINKS ==
[[media: MV_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Mt. Vernon]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: MV_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Mount Vernon HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-Yonkers

2011-03-16T16:31:04Z

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<center>'''Yonkers Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Yonkers’ Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $1,533,003 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to achieve two purposes:
#prevent evictions of Yonkers tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less, and
#help homeless people from Yonkers now living in emergency or transitional housing to move into permanent housing.

The City of Yonkers’ HPRP contract with HUD began July 30, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 20 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Yonkers will serve as grant administrator;
*CLUSTER Housing Resource Center will provide outreach, enrollment, budget counseling, case management on issues affecting housing stability, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will distribute rent subsidies arranged through our Eviction Prevention component and help identify available housing for people who need to find more suitable housing;
*Westhab will manage the Rapid Rehousing component and distribute funds for moving-related expenses arranged in coordination with our Eviction Prevention component.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:

*'''40''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''40''' households will receive budget counseling and case management,
*'''15''' households will receive financial assistance with moving-related costs in order to move to a more suitable apartment as part of their long-term housing stabilization strategy,
*'''100''' households will receive legal services, and
*'''60''' homeless households will move into permanent housing.

==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>

'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Yonkers HPRP:''' All participants must have been residents of Yonkers within the last 12 months (for Eviction Prevention) or within the last 24 months (for Rapid Rehousing).

'''Eviction Prevention recipients must also meet ALL 3 of the following criteria:'''
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide all documentation needed to establish program eligibility and appropriateness (including copy of lease, evidence of income, etc.);
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness listed in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' For Eviction Prevention only, preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>

<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Angela Alcantara</center>
<center>CLUSTER, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 963-6440 extension 232</center>
<center>aalcantara@clusterinc.org</center><center>[mailto:aalcantara@clusterinc.org/ Angela Alcantara]</center>
<center>or</center>
<center>Ms. Yanneris Quintero</center>
<center>Westchester Residential Opportunities, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 376-0063 </center>
<center>yquintero@wroinc.org</center><center>[mailto:yquintero@wroinc.org/ Yanneris Quintero]</center> 

<center>''HPRP Rapid Re-housing (for already homeless households)''</center>
<center>Ms. Reagan Fetter</center>
<center>Westhab, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 345-2800 </center>
<center>Reagan.Fetter@westhab.org</center><center>[mailto:Reagan.Fetter@westhab.org/ Reagan Fetter]</center> 

== UPCOMING EVENTS ==

'''YONKERS ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2011 '''''NEW DATE''''' 
Time: '''11:30 AM''' Administrative '''12:00 PM''' Case Management 
Location: Third Floor Conference Room Department of Planning and Development 87 Nepperhan Avenue 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

May 4 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

June 1 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

July 6 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

August 3 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

September 7 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

October 5 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

November 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

December 7 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 
 Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

== LINKS ==
'''FORMS''' 
[[media: Ykrs_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Yonkers]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: Yonkers_flyer_with_Orientation_Info_&_Doc_List_-_June_23.doc‎ | Outreach Screening Flyer]] [[media: Yonkers_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Yonkers HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-General

2011-02-28T20:53:16Z

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<center>'''GENERAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</center>
The Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program will provide financial assistance and services to prevent individuals and families from becoming homeless and help those who are experiencing homelessness to be quickly re-housed and stabilized. The funds under this program are intended to target individuals and families who would be homeless '''but for this assistance'''. The funds will provide for a variety of assistance, including: short-term or medium-term rental assistance and housing relocation and stabilization services, including such activities as mediation, credit counseling, security or utility deposits, utility payments, moving cost assistance, and case management. For more information about the national program, and other federal programs addressing homelessness, please visit HUD's HPRP Information Site. [http://hudhre.info/HPRP] 
<center>'''OVERVIEW</center>
<center>'''of the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Programs (HPRP)'''</center>
<center>''' Created by the Cities of Yonkers, Mount Vernon, and New Rochelle'''</center>

The Cities of Yonkers, Mount Vernon, and New Rochelle were each recently awarded federal stimulus money from HUD to create new local Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Programs, often called simply HPRP. HUD used a complex formula to decide how much each city would receive. Yonkers received $1,533,003, Mount Vernon $745,701, and New Rochelle $686,935. HUD requires that most of the money must be spent within 2 years and all must be spent within three years. The HPRP funds can be used for two main purposes:
#to prevent people in rental housing from becoming homeless and
#to help people who are already homeless to move more quickly into permanent housing.

HUD gave cities little time to plan and implement their programs, so Yonkers, Mount Vernon and New Rochelle decided to coordinate their efforts. Each city is administering its own grant, selecting its own strategies and partners, and setting its own local priorities. The result is that the HPRP programs in the 3 cities are similar but have important differences.

All three cities are focusing on eviction prevention. Yonkers is the only one of the three that is also doing a Rapid Rehousing component for the already homeless.

Each city is only serving its own residents. That means that if someone is facing eviction in Yonkers, the only HPRP program they can apply to is Yonkers’. Similarly, residents of Mount Vernon and New Rochelle can only be served by the HPRP programs in their own cities.

All three cities’ HPRP programs have similar eligibility criteria. All HPRP programs must use federal HPRP eligibility criteria, which include that participants’ gross household income cannot exceed 50% of the Area Median Income (AMI). The maximum income allowed is shown below:
:Household Size 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
:Gross Income $ 36,850 42,100 47,400 52,650 56,850 61,050 65,300 69,500

The federal rules prohibit the use of HPRP funds to help pay mortgages. They also require that eviction prevention funds can only be used for households that would lose their housing if not for the assistance provided by HPRP. The 3 cities are also using similar local eligibility criteria for their eviction prevention programs.

#Each will only serve households who have lived in its city within the last 12 months.
#Each will only give eviction prevention services to households with recent housing stability, defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months.
#The cities have decided that participants in their eviction prevention program must have at least 2 of the 18 risk factors for homelessness identified by HUD for the HPRP program. These are listed below in the eligibility criteria for each city.
#Each city is giving priority to serving people who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.
#The eviction prevention assistance available is, by law, time-limited and the amount of funds available cannot meet the needs of every potentially eligible household. As a result, each city will try to achieve the greatest possible impact by selecting households for this program who represent the best balance of urgent current need coupled with strongest potential for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency without further HPRP assistance. 
HPRP also utilizes a ''Steering Committee'' to help facilitate communication, coordination, and problem solving across a wide range of decision-makers. It includes representatives of all grantees, sub-grantees, and a few other key stakeholders. The Steering Committee meets quarterly, by invitation only. 

== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''HPRP STEERING COMMITTEE MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Thursday, April 21, 2011 '''''NEW TIME - NEW LOCATION''''' 
Time: 12:30PM - 2:30PM 
Location: Projection Room Grinton Will Library, Mezzanine Level 1500 Central Park Avenue Yonkers, NY 10701 

[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&ie=UTF8&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=36.589577,75.849609&t=h&z=4&source=embed Driving Directions] 

'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

June 16 ~ New Rochelle (Location To Be Determined) 
September 15 ~ White Plains (Location To Be Determined) 
November 17 ~ Mount Vernon (Mount Vernon City Hall) 

== LINKS ==
'''HUD DOCUMENTS''' 
[http://hudhre.info/HPRP Official HUD HPRP Information Site] [[media: HPRP_NoticeRedline_6_08_09.pdf | Original HUD HPRP Announcement]] [[media: HPRP_HousingStatusReqs.pdf | Housing Status Eligibility Determination‎]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDocReqs.pdf‎ | Income Eligibility Determination]] [[media: Habitability_Stndrds.doc‎ | Habitability Standards]] [[media: Habitability_Inspection.doc | Habitability Inspection Requirements]] [[media: ‎Lead-based_Paint.doc‎ | Lead-based Paint Inspection Requirements]] 
'''LOCAL DOCUMENTS''' 
[[media: HPRP_City_Orgx3_F.xls‎ | Organization Charts for the Three Cities]] [[media: 2009_County_AMI.pdf | Westchester County Average Median Income Table]] [[media: DSS_TA_Fact_Sheet.pdf | Temporary Assistance Fact Sheet]]‎ 
[[media: ‎HPRP_ELIGIBILITY2F.doc‎ | Federal and Local Eligibility Criteria]] [[media: Eviction_Prevention_Pgms.doc‎ | Eviction Prevention Programs]] [[media: How_To_Stretch_Agency_Dollars.pdf | Which Housing Situations Can and Cannot Be Saved]] [[media: Summary.doc‎ | Steering Committee Meeting Summary June 24, 2010]] 

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[[HPRP-Resources | HPRP-Resources]]

YCOCH

2011-02-24T20:42:21Z

Jmuffler: /* UPCOMING EVENTS */

This group brings together all the homeless housing and service providers in Yonkers, NY funded with HUD Continuum of Care for the Homeless funding administered by the Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers.
===UPCOMING EVENTS===
NEXT MEETING 
Date: March 10, 2011 
Time: 11:00 am 
Location: Board Room at MHA Administration Building (1511 Central Park Avenue, Yonkers) 
[[media:Directions_To_MHA_Admin_Building.doc|Directions to the MHA Administration Building]]

===PREVIOUS MEETINGS===
* February 10, 2011 [[media:YCoCminutes_2_10_11.doc|Download February minutes]]
* January 13, 2011 [[media:YCoCminutes_1_13_11.doc|Download January minutes]]
** [[media:YMHAFund_Drawdown_1-5-11_HO.xls|Fund draw down report for Yonkers CoC projects, as of 1/5/11]]
** [[media:ShortMHAAPRTracker1-12-11.doc|APR tracker for Yonkers CoC distributed 1/13/11]]
* November 3, 2010 [[media:YCoCminutes_11_3_10.doc|Download November minutes]]
** [[media:YMHAFund_Drawdown_11-3-10_HO.xls|Fund draw down report for Yonkers CoC projects, as of 11/3/10]]
** [[media:ShortMHAAPRTracker11-2-10.doc|APR tracker for Yonkers CoC distributed 11/3/10]]
* October 7, 2010 [[media:YCoCminutes_10_7_10.doc|Download October minutes]]
** [[media:YMHAFund_Drawdown_10-1-10_HO.xls|Fund draw down report for Yonkers CoC projects, as of 10/1/10]]
** [[media:ShortMHAAPRTracker10-7-10.doc|APR tracker for Yonkers CoC distributed 10/7/10]]
* August 23, 2010
* May 24, 2010 [[media:YCoCminutes_5_24_10.doc|Download May minutes]]
** [[media:Drawdownreport05-24-10.doc‎|Fund draw down report for Yonkers CoC projects, as of 5/23/10]]
** [[media:ShortMHAAPRTracker5-24-10.doc|APR tracker for Yonkers CoC distributed 5/24/10]]
**[[media:FY09_Conditions_Yonkers_summary.doc‎|Summary table of conditions placed by HUD on FY09 renewals]]
* April 19, 2010 [[media:YCoCminutes_4_19_10.doc|Download April minutes]]
* March 22, 2010 [[media:YCoCminutes_3_22_10.doc|Download March minutes]]
* February 24, 2010 [[media:YCoCminutes_2_24_10.doc|Download February minutes]]
* January 27, 2010 [[media:YCoCminutes_1_27_10.doc|Download January minutes]]
*December 11, 2009 [[media:YCoCminutes_12_11_09.doc|Download December minutes]]
**[[media:ShortMHAAPRTracker12-11-09.doc|Download list of upcoming APRs distributed at Dec. meeting]]
*October 28, 2009 [[media:YCoCminutes_10_28_09.doc|Download October minutes]]
**[[media:ShortMHAAPRTracker10-28-09.doc|Download list of upcoming APRs distributed at Oct. meeting]]
**[[media: Drawdownreport10-28-09.doc|Download report on YCoC grant fund draw down activity distributed at Oct. meeting]]
*September 23, 2009 [[media:YCoCminutes_9_23_09.doc|Download September minutes]]
**[[media:ShortMHAAPRTracker09-23-09.doc|Download list of upcoming APRs distributed at Sept. meeting]]
**[[media: Drawdownreport09-23-09.doc|Download report on YCoC grant fund draw down activity distributed at Sept. meeting]]
*July 22, 2009 [[media:YCoCminutes_7_22_09.doc|Download July minutes]]
** [[media:HEARTH_implications_v2.doc|Implications of the HEARTH act from July meeting]]
** [[media:New_Service_Paradigm.doc|New paradigm for services for the homeless under the HEARTH act from July meeting]]

*June 11, 2009 [[media:YCoCminutes_6_11_09.doc|Download June minutes]]
*March 30, 2009 [[media: YCoCminutes_3_30_09.doc|Download March minutes]]
*February 24, 2009 [[media: YCoCminutes_2_24_09.doc|Download February minutes]]
**[[media: ShortMHAAPRTracker02-19-09.doc|Download list of upcoming APRs distributed at Jan. meeting]]
**[[media: Drawdownreport2-23-09.doc|Download report on YCoC grant fund draw down activity distributed at Feb. meeting]]

*January 21, 2009 [[media: YCoCminutes_1_21_09.doc|Download January minutes]]
**[[media: JanAPRtracker.doc|Download list of upcoming APRs distributed at Jan. meeting]]
**[[media: Drawdown report 1-21-09.doc|Download report on YCoC grant fund draw down activity distributed at Jan. meeting]]

*December 17, 2008 [[media: YCoCminutes 12_17_08.doc|Download December minutes]]
*November 19, 2008 [[media: YCoCminutes 11_19_08.doc|Download November minutes]]

===OTHER NOTICES===
* New HUD Data Elements effective June 1.
New data elements must be used for clients entering Continuum of Care projects starting June 1. [http://www.hudhre.info/documents/FinalHMISDataStandards_March2010.pdf This HUD document] details the changes. 
A mandatory new Intake Form is avaiable for download below under [[YCOCH#RESOURCES|RESOURCES]]. 
Pat Harper has transitioned the HMIS to new the data requirements. 
As of June 2011, all new APR will use these data elements. 

* You can now [https://web01.planetsmb.net/supportivehousingnetworkofnewyork_org/Home.aspx?Request=14131| REGISTER ONLINE] for the Supportive Housing Network of New York’s 9th Annual New York State Supportive Housing Conference on Tuesday, June 9th at the Hilton New York

Please join us for the Annual New York State Supportive Housing Conference, the largest supportive housing conference in the nation. The conference will be held at the New York Hilton Hotel, New York’s premiere conference center in the heart of Manhattan.

For the first time, we are featuring 90-minute workshops with the state and city agency heads most vital to the supportive housing community, including the commissioners of DOHMH, OMH, OTDA, DHCR, HRA, DHS, HPD and OASAS, and the presidents of HFA and HDC.

We will have workshops on how to develop housing during the current economic downturn, on new funding opportunities, on getting press for your organization, and best practices for management, frontline and development staff. The networking lunch and post-conference reception are times to catch up with colleagues. And a select group of exhibitors will be on hand all day with information about their products.

The New York State Supportive Housing Conference is the one time of the year when supportive housing’s leaders can catch up with each other and hear everything going on in the worlds of supportive housing and serving people with special needs. Don’t miss this annual opportunity to see, hear and share the latest innovations in the field. See you on the 9th!

If you would prefer to register via fax, visit our website at http://www.shnny.org/conf.html.

* [[Media:FY08_CoC_Applic_schedule_rev4-9-08.doc|Current Schedule of key dates and deadlines for preparing Westchester's Continuum of Care FY08 application process‎, as revised 4/9/08]]
*Information about the new electronic [http://programdesign.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=FY08_CoC_Application_Planning FY 08 Continuum of Care application process]is now available.
*[http://www.cucs.org/index.php The Center for Urban Community Services] provided a HUD Annual Progress Report Technical Assistance on February 7th. For training materials [http://programdesign.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Yonkers_Continuum_of_Care_for_the_Homeless#Manuals.2FTraining_Material click here].

===RESOURCES===
====PowerPoint presentation explaining the process for annual re-certification of clients in Westchester CoC projects====
*[[media:CoC_recertification_meeting_0710.pptx|Download the PowerPoint presentation]]
====''Mandatory new county-wide Intake and Exit Forms for Continuum of Care projects, revised according to new HUD 2010 Data Standards''====
* [[media:Westchester_CoC_2010_Intake_Form_2.pdf‎|Continuum of Care Intake Form]] revised according to new HUD 2010 Data Standards
* [[media:Westchester_CoC_2010_Exit_Form_v2.pdf‎‎|Continuum of Care Exit Form]] revised according to new HUD 2010 Data Standards
* [[media:Annual_Assessment_Form.pdf‎‎|Form for Annual Reassessment of Clients]] according to new HUD 2010 Data Standards
* [[media:Housing_Status_Definitions.doc|New Housing Status Definitions]] according to new HUD 2010 Data Standards

====[[media:2010_Government_officials-rev.doc|List of Government officials serving Westchester County residents for 2010]]====
==== ''Westchester's Continuum of Care application'' ====
===== ''Westchester's FY09 Continuum of Care application'' =====
* [[Media: FY09_Exhibit_1_export.pdf‎‎|Exhibit 1 from Westchester's FY09 Consolidated Continuum of Care Application]] 
Exhibit 1 from Westchester County's FY09 consolidated application to HUD's Continuum of Care for the Homeless program outlines Westchester's resources and strategies in a cumbersome and not very reader-friendly format mandated by HUD. Nonetheless, this document is the most comprehensive available description of Westchester's housing and services for the homeless. 

* [[Media: EHIC_2009_NY-604_v7.xls.zip‎| FY09 Westchester County eHousing Inventory]] 
Zipped version of the eHIC file included in the FY09 application Exhibit 1.

===== ''Westchester's FY08 Continuum of Care application'' =====
* [[Media: NY_604_FY_08_Exhibit_1_Final.pdf‎|Exhibit 1 from Westchester's FY08 Consolidated Continuum of Care Application]] 
Exhibit 1 from Westchester County's FY08 consolidated application to HUD's Continuum of Care for the Homeless program. 

* [[Media:Housing_Inventory_Chart_Rev_2-29-08.doc|Westchester Homeless Housing Inventory, corrected 2/29/08]]
This corrected Housing Inventory (revised 2/29/08) includes an estimate of the unmet need for permanent housing for the homeless in Westchester. This is calculated by taking the number of transitional homeless beds minus permanent housing beds currently under development to derive the number of units needed just to house the homeless people already in transitional housing in Westchester. 
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===== ''Westchester's FY07 Continuum of Care application'' =====
* [[Media:Westchester_County_FY07_CoC_Exhibit_1.pdf‎|Exhibit 1 from Westchester's Consolidated Continuum of Care Application]] 
Exhibit 1 from Westchester County's FY07 consolidated application to HUD's Continuum of Care for the Homeless program outlines Westchester's resources and strategies in a cumbersome and not very reader-friendly format mandated by HUD. Nonetheless, this document is the most comprehensive available description of Westchester's housing and services for the homeless. 

* [[Media:Housing_Inventory_Chart_Rev_2-29-08.doc|Westchester Homeless Housing Inventory, corrected 2/29/08]]
This corrected Housing Inventory (revised 2/29/08) includes an estimate of the unmet need for permanent housing for the homeless in Westchester. This is calculated by taking the number of transitional homeless beds minus permanent housing beds currently under development to derive the number of units needed just to house the homeless people already in transitional housing in Westchester. 
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==== ''HUD Forms and Notices'' ====

''APR Forms''
*[[Media:40118_HUD_APR.doc|HUD APR 40118]] Most Recent HUD APR Form
*[[Media:APR_Worksheet.xls‎|HUD APR Worksheet]] APR Worksheet 
''Documentation Forms''
*[[Media:Homeless_Status.pdf|Homeless Eligibility]] Homeless eligibility form that can be used to document a participant's homeless status.
* [http://www.hud.gov//offices/cpd/homeless/programs/shp/Rent.xls Rent Calculation Form] This form should be used for all S+C and SHP projects with leasing funds for resident rents. For more information and instructions visit [http://www.hudhre.info/index.cfm?do=viewShpDeskguideK Calculating Resident Rent for SHP] and [http://www.hudhre.info/index.cfm?do=viewSpcResourceManSec3-4 Calculating Resident Rent for S+C] on the HUD Resource Exchange site.
''Notices''
*[[Media:HUD_Notice_re_Grants.Gov_Registration.pdf| HUD Notice Re Early Grants.Gov Registration, 3/10/08]] 
This notice provides instructions to potential applicants applying for funding under HUD’s grant programs available through Grants.gov. '''This notice does not pertain to applicants who will be applying in Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 for Continuum of Care funds.''' HUD will publish a separate notice to address the receipt of Continuum of Care applications in FY2008. This notice provides information to help applicants better understand the registration and electronic submission process for HUD applications made available through Grants.gov. Grants.gov is the federal portal for applicants to electronically find and apply for over 1,000 funding opportunities made available by 26 Federal grant-making agencies. 
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==== ''Manuals/Training Material'' ====

''APR Training Materials''
*[http://www.cucs.org/hrc/train/pdf/HUDTAC.pdf Center for Urban Community Services APR Curriculum]
*[http://www.cucs.org/hrc/train/pdf/HUDTAH.pdf Center for Urban Community Services APR Tip Sheet] 

''HUD Manuals''
*[[media: SHP_Deskguide.pdf| SHP Deskguide]]
This updated guide describes the SHP grant process from grant award onward. It will take you through the life cycle of a grant, incorporating everything from very basic information to the intricacies of grant administration. The guide is not a substitute for the SHP regulations. However, it is a practical guide to issues that arise during project implementation.
*[http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/library/shp/finalshptools.PDF SHP Self-Monitoring Tools]
The purpose of the Supportive Housing Program (SHP) Self-Monitoring Tools is to provide SHP project sponsors and grantees with "user-friendly" forms to enable staff to assess their project operations against the standards set by HUD rules and regulations.
*[[Media:S+C_CoC_Manual_1.8.08.pdf‎| Shelter Plus Care Manual ]]
This manual prepared by PD&D combines three HUD online manuals([http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/library/spc/understandingspc/index.cfm Understanding S+C] , [http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/library/spc/resourcemanual/index.cfm S+C Resource Manual], and [http://www.hudhre.info/documents/EnhancingS+C.pdf Enhancing Shelter Plus Care Guide]) as well as other locally developed materials.
*[[media:Sample_Occupancy_Agreement_fromHUD.PDF‎|Sample Occupancy Agreement from HUD]]
This sample occupancy agreement was provided by HUD in OCtober, 2008.
*[[Media:AdvancedTopicsInHomelessness.pdf|From Theory to Practice: Advanced Topics in Homelessness]]
Developed by HUD, this presentation provides SHP grantees with information that allows them to effectively address advanced issues of homeless programs as well as new strategies and techniques. Specifically covered are Chronic Homelessness, Housing First & Safe Havens, Case Management and Alternative Match Sources. 

''Chronic Homeless Materials'' 
The following HUD approved materials, from [http://www.hudhre.info/index.cfm HUD Resource Exchange], explains the definition, documentation and verification of chronic homeless. These materials are highly recommended from programs targeting the chronic homeless and programs providing emergency shelter and services to the chronic homeless.

*[http://www.hudhre.info/documents/DefiningChronicHomeless.pdf Defining Chronic Homelessness: A Technical Guide for HUD Programs]
Developed by HUD, this technical guide is intended for non-profit local housing and service providers as well as local government agencies that are under contract with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide housing and related support services to the target population of chronically homeless persons. It is intended to answer frequently asked questions pertaining to the federal definition of chronic homelessness and the standards for qualifying persons for housing under this definition. It also provides suggested templates for forms and letters that may assist providers, government agencies, and their local partners in devising internal mechanisms to certify homeless persons for a program for chronically homeless persons. 

*[[Media:Guidance_for_Chronic_Homeless_Appendix_v1.doc‎|Technical Guide Templates]]
This document contains the templates referenced in the above Defining Chronic Homelessness Technical Guide. These templates are HUD approved forms used to document and verify chronic homeless status. 

*[[Media:WC_Emergency_vs_Transitional_list.pdf |Westchester County List of Emergency and Transitional Housing Facilities]]
This is the official current definition of which programs in Westchester are considered emergency housing and which are considered transitional housing. These lists come from Westchester County's FY07 Continuum of Care application. This is the list that everyone in Westchester should be using now to determine who is chronically homeless. 

*[http://www.hudhre.info/documents/SHPFinancialManagement.pdf Financial Management and HUD Compliance] 
Developed by Center for Urban Community Services, this guide part of a training series that provides best practices and guidance on supportive housing development, operation and
services.

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==== ''Funding/Project Summary''====
*[[Media:MHA_FY96-07CoCHSumm1-3-08.doc‎|Yonkers Continuum of Care Summary]]
Summary as of January 3, 2008, includes FY07 awards 

====''Process for Submitting HUD forms and information to MHA'' ====

''Submitting Financial Vouchers to MHA''

A. Vouchers should be submitted directly to: 
Ms. Patty Duffy, Chief Housing Accountant 
Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers 
P.O. Box 35 
1511 Central Park Avenue 
Yonkers, New York 10710 
(914) 793-8400 ext. 134 
B. Vouchers may be hand-delivered. 
C. Vouchers must be submitted monthly. For most rapid reimbursement, submit your vouchers by the 15th of each month. 
D. The Continuum of Care program does not provide advances. Expenses will be reimbursed after they are incurred. 
E. Documentation of all expenses must be submitted with the vouchers. Payroll records and/or time sheets should be submitted for salary costs. Photocopies of receipts should be submitted for all other expenses. 
F. Vouchers cannot be processed even one day after an annual contract expires, without additional action taken by both the Housing Authority and HUD. To avoid delay, submit the final voucher for each contract year by the 25th of the final month. You may not have all of the documentation required for a normal voucher before the month is over (i.e. payroll records), but go ahead and submit the voucher, with a note explaining that the documentation will follow within a week or two. 
H. Round all amounts in your vouchers to the nearest dollar. 
J. Keep a complete set of copies of all vouchers and backup documentation submitted. 

''Voucher Form''
*[[Media:MHA_SHP_S+C_Voucher_07_v5.doc| Yonkers Continuum of Care Voucher]] 

This voucher was revised April 4th 2008. The following sections have been updated: 
1)Shelter Plus Care type of tenants assisted 
2)Request for first time vouchers for all S+C project to submit tenant agreements and rent calculation worksheets. Please see [http://programdesign.com/wiki/YCOCH#HUD_Forms_and_Notices HUD Forms ]. 
''Shelter Plus Care Monthly Expenditure Report''
*[[media:S+C_Monthly_Statement_of_Expenditures.xls‎ | Monthly Statement of Expenditures]] 

This form is only required for S+C programs. It must be submitted every month with each voucher.

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''Submitting APR''

A. Annual Progress Reports (APRs) must be submitted to MHA within 45 days of the end of each contract year. 
B. Every contract extension, even if only for one month, requires a separate Annual Progress Report for the period of the contract extension. 
C. Digital copy of the current Annual Progress Report form is available [http://programdesign.com/wiki/YCOCH#HUD_Forms_and_Notices in HUD Forms and Notices]. 
D. Draft the APR but before submitting a signed copy, email a digital draft to Yoav Spiegel at [mailto:YSpiegel@programdesign.com YSpiegel@programdesign.com] to review. He will check for mathematical errors and inconsistencies, correct dates, project numbers, budget information, etc. Yoav will email back a list of any issues that must be addressed. 
E. Once all necessary corrections are made, email the corrected copy to Yoav once more for a final review. If the draft is correct, Yoav will send an email stating that the review is complete, with a copy to Patty Duffy and Karl Bertrand. 
F. After Yoav has confirmed that your draft is correct, mail or hand-deliver five (5) signed copies to: 
Ms. Patty Duffy, Chief Housing Accountant 
Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers 
P.O. Box 35 
1511 Central Park Avenue 
Yonkers, New York 10710 
G. Either Patty Duffy or MHA’s Executive Director will then counter-sign your annual progress report. Patty will then send 2 copies to HUD, 1 to your agency, 1 to Karl Bertrand, and keep 1 in MHA’s files. 
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'' Submitting a Budget Modification or Grant Amendment ''

A. Before submitting a budget modification or grant amendment, please read the HUD SHP desk guide section R: [http://www.hudhre.info/index.cfm?do=viewShpDeskguideR Grant Amendments]. Here is a sample [[Media: Sample_Budget_Modification.doc | budget modification letter]]. A grant amendment letter can follow the same format, but may require additional information depending on the change in SHP approved activities. For example, a change in the proposed numbers served would require a revised participant chart. See SHP desk guide referenced above. 
B. Please email a draft modification or amendment request to Karl Bertrand at [mailto:KBertrand@programdesign.com KBertrand@programdesign.com]. The draft should be address to the grantee: 
Mr. Joseph Shuldiner, Executive Director 
P.O. Box 35 
1511 Central Park Avenue 
Yonkers, New York 10710 

Karl will make sure the changes are appropriate for the program and that they do not deviate from the original program approved by HUD. 
C. Once the draft modification or amendment is approved, please mail the final copy signed by an authorized project official, i.e. executive director or grants administrator, to Mr. Shuldiner. 
D. The Municipal Housing Authority will sign a transmittal letter for the request. MHA will send the letter to HUD and copy the agency and Karl Bertrand. 
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==== ''DSS Worker Phone Lists''====
These documents give names and contact information for Westchester County Department of Social Services district office staff, as of February 2008. 
* [[Media:Yonkers_District_Office_Feb_08.pdf‎|Yonkers district office]] 
* [[Media:Mount_Vernon_District_Office_Feb_08.pdf‎|Mount Vernon district office]] 
* [[Media:White_Plains_District_Office_Feb_08.pdf‎|White Plains district office]] 
* [[Media:Peekskill_District_office_Feb_08.pdf‎|Peekskill district office]] 
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==== ''Ten-Year Plans to End Chronic Homelessness'' ====
* [http://programdesign.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Ten-Year_Plans Information on Ten-Year Plans to End Chronic Homelessness] 
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==== ''Grants.gov Registration'' ====
If your agency ever wants to get another federal grant directly from the federal government, it should have registered with grants.gov. If it hasn't already done so, please visit [http://grants.gov/applicants/organization_registration.jsp grants.gov]for registration instructions. 
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==== ''Reports and Articles''====
[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/us/29foodstamps.html The Safety Net - Food Stamp Use Soars, and Stigma Fades] New York Times 11,29,2009

Follow the links in this section to access or order cutting-edge publications addressing the galaxy of homelessness issues. 
[[media: GainingCommunityAcceptance.pdf ‎ | Gaining Community Acceptance]] 

This classic 1991 report was prepared by UCLA's Michael Dear, for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to provide a framework to assist human services professionals confronted with the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) Syndrome. The report provides a detailed examination of the factors determining community opposition, a summary of experiences of neighborhood outreach options; as well as a "blueprint" for community outreach and a guide to further resources. Click on the report title to learn how to obtain a copy. 

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RHNW

2011-02-24T20:39:12Z

Jmuffler: /* COMPLETE 2010 MEETING SCHEDULE */

The Recovery Housing Network is a group of local providers working to engage and house chemically dependent homeless adults in early stages of recovery, including the chronically homeless. The group will provide a forum to share ideas and resources, and will help forge a coherent county-wide continuum of housing services that effectively serves this high-need population.

===UPCOMING EVENTS===
NEXT MEETING 
Date: '''Tuesday, March 8, 2010'''
Time: '''10:00 a.m.''' 
Location: EAP Conference Room, 112 E. Post Road, White Plains

===PREVIOUS MEETINGS===
* January 11, 2011
* December 7, 2010 [[media:RHNMinutes12-7-10.doc| Download December meeting minutes]]
* November 16, 2010
* October 19, 2010 [[media:RHNMinutes10-19-10.doc‎| Download October meeting minutes]]
* September 21, 2010
* July 13, 2010 [[media:RHNMinutes7-13-10.doc‎| Download July meeting minutes]]
* June 7, 2010 [[media:RHNMinutes6-7-10.doc‎| Download June meeting minutes]]
** [[media:Unmet_need_numbers.doc‎‎| Download unmet need estimates presented at June RHN meeting]]
* May 11, 2010
* April 13, 2010 [[media:RHNMinutes4-13-10.doc‎| Download April meeting minutes]]
* March 9, 2010 [[media:RHNMinutes3-9-10.doc‎| Download March meeting minutes]]
* January 12, 2010 [[media:RHNMinutes1-12-10.doc‎| Download January meeting minutes]]
* December 8, 2009 [[media: RHNMinutes12-8-09.doc| Download December meeting minutes]]
* November 10, 2009 [[media: RHNMinutes11-10-09.doc| Download November meeting minutes]]
* October 13, 2009 [[media: RHNMinutes10-13-09.doc| Download October meeting minutes]]
* September 22, 2009 [[media: RHNMinutes9-22-09.doc| Download September meeting minutes]]
** Client Folder Documents
*** [[Media:0-client_file_checklist_v4a.doc| Client Folder Checklist]]
*** [[Media:PH-Current_Homeless_Status_Verification_ESr5.doc | Homeless Status Verification form from Emergency Shelter]]
*** [[Media:2b-Current_Homeless_Status_Verification_St.doc‎ | Homeless Status Verification form from Streets]]
*** [[Media:PH-Current_Homeless_Status_Verification_TSr5.doc | Homeless Status Verification form from Transitional Shelter]]
*** [[Media:2d-Current_Homeless_Status_Verification_IF.doc‎ | Homeless Status Verification form from Institutional Facility]]
*** [[Media:2e-Self_Certification.doc‎ | Homeless Status Verification self-certification form]]
*** [[Media:3-Disability_verification.doc‎ | 3 Disability Verification form]]
** Chronic Homeless Documentation
*** [[Media:HUDChronicHomelessDocs.pdf | HUD forms necessary to document Chronic Homelessness]]
*** [[Media:DefiningChronicHomeless.pdf | HUD manual containing instructions and definitions related to serving Chronic Homeless individuals]]
* August 11, 2009 [[media: RHNMinutes8-11-09.doc| Download August meeting minutes]]
** [[media:WC_settlement_press_release.pdf‎|Press release on settlement of Westchester County fair-housing lawsuit]]
* July 14, 2009 [[media: RHNMinutes7-14-09.doc| Download July meeting minutes]]
** [[media:HEARTH_implications_v2.doc|Implications of the HEARTH act from July meeting]]
** [[media:New_Service_Paradigm.doc|New paradigm for services for the homeless under the HEARTH act from July meeting]]
* April 14, 2009 [[media: RHNMinutes4-14-09.doc| Download April meeting minutes]]
* March 10, 2009 [[media: RHNMinutes3-10-09.doc| Download March meeting minutes]]
**[[media:RHN_Housing_Inventory_02-24-09.xls|Recovery Housing Inventory draft distributed at March meeting]]
**[[media:WC_FY08_awards-2b.xls|List of FY08 Westchester Continuum of Care awards]]
**[[media:SPOA_Application.pdf|SPOA application distributed by D. Connors at March meeting]]
* February 10, 2009 [[media: RHNMinutes2-10-09.doc| Download February minutes]]
**[[media:RHN_Housing_Inventory_02-10-09.xls|Current draft Recovery Housing Inventory]]
* January 13, 2009 [[media: RHNMinutes1-13-09.doc| Download January minutes]]
* December 5, 2008 [[media: RHNMinutes12-05-08.doc| Download December minutes]]

===COMPLETE 2011 MEETING SCHEDULE===
RHN meetings will be held on the '''2nd Tuesday of the month at 10am''': 

{| class="wikitable"
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! Month
! Day
|-
| January
| 11th
|- style="background:grey"
| February
| 8th
|-
| March
| 8th
|- style="background:grey"
| April
| 12th
|-
| May
| 10th
|- style="background:grey"
| June
| 14th
|-
| July
| 12th
|- style="background:grey"
| August
| 9th
|-
| September
| 13th
|- style="background:grey"
| October
| 11th EAP Conference Room
|-
| November
| 8th EAP Conference Room
|- style="background:grey"
| December
| 13th
|}

===RESOURCES===
*[[media:RHN_Housing_Inventory_02-02-09.xls|Current draft Recovery Housing Inventory]]
This is a list of the housing available to homeless substance abusers in Westchester County.

*[[Media:S+C_CoC_Manual_1.8.08.pdf‎| Shelter Plus Care Manual ]]
This manual prepared by PD&D combines three HUD online manuals([http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/library/spc/understandingspc/index.cfm Understanding S+C] , [http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/library/spc/resourcemanual/index.cfm S+C Resource Manual], and [http://www.hudhre.info/documents/EnhancingS+C.pdf Enhancing Shelter Plus Care Guide]) as well as other locally developed materials.

YJCEC

2011-02-24T20:31:29Z

Jmuffler: /* COMPLETE 2010 MEETING SCHEDULE */

This collaboration, facilitated by the Yonkers Police Department, is developing and implementing a coordinated Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan to reduce violent juvenile crime in Yonkers, New York. 
=== UPCOMING EVENTS ===
'''NEXT MEETING''' Date: '''Wednesday''', '''March 9, 2011''' Note the new meeting day for this and subsequent meetings. Time: 12:00 
Location: Yonkers Riverfront Library, (across from Yonkers train station) Notes: Lunch provided. [http://www.ypl.org/rivparkinfo.htm Directions] 

This meeting will follow meetings of the Yonkers Truancy Reduction Strategy Group (YTRSG) 
This will be joint meeting with the Yonkers Weed & Seed Steering Committee and Yonkers Drug Free Communities Coalition

'''FUTURE 2011 MEETING DATES'''
* April 13, 2011
* May 11, 2011
* June 7, 2011
* July 13, 2011
* August 10, 2011
* September 14, 2011
* October 12, 2011
* November 9, 2011
* December 14, 2011
Any changes in meeting dates will be posted on this page. 

===PREVIOUS MEETINGS===
* January 18, 2011
* December 8, 2010
** [[media:YJCECMinutes12-8-10a.doc|December 2010 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:Yonkers_DFC_letters.pdf|Letters sent to store owners and the editor of the Journal News by Yonkers DFC Coordinator Nychelle Walcott]]
* November 10, 2010
* October 8, 2010
* September 8, 2010
** [[media:YJCECMinutes9-8-10a.doc|September 2010 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:Year_3_Performance_Targets.doc|Performance targets for YJCEC activities funded by Year 3 of DCJS grant]]
** [[media:YJCEC_Y2_Q4_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS.doc|Year 2 Quarter 4 BBBS Implementation Progress Report]]
** [[media:YJCEC_Y2_Q4_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFP.doc|Year 2 Quarter 4 SFP Implementation Progress Report]]
* July 20, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes7-20-10.doc|July 2010 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:Year_3_Performance_Targets.doc|Performance targets for YJCEC activities funded by Year 3 of DCJS grant]]
**[[media:YJCECYear3Budgetv4a.xls|Budget for YJCEC activities funded by Year 3 of DCJS grant]]
* June 15, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes6-15-10.doc|June 2010 meeting minutes]]
* May 18, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes5-18-10.doc|May 2010 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:YJCEC_Y2_Q3_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS.doc|Year 2 Quarter 3 BBBS Implementation Progress Report]]
**[[media:YJCEC_Y2_Q3_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFP.doc‎|Year 2 Quarter 3 SFP Implementation Progress Report]]
* April 20, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes4-20-10.doc|April 2010 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:Year_2_SFP_cycles_chart.doc|Revised chart showing planned SFP cycles by agency in Year 2 of DCJS grant]]
* March 16, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes3-16-10.doc|March 2010 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:SFP_Program_NEW_Intake_Form_3a.doc‎|Intake form for data collection on all SFP clients funded by DCJS grant in Yonkers]]
**[[media:Strengthening_Families_weekly_attendance_form.doc‎|Weekly attendance form for data collection on all SFP clients funded by DCJS grant in Yonkers]]
**[[media:Year_2_SFP-calendar_v4b.xls|Yonkers SFP calendar, as of 3/15/2010]]
* February 16, 2010
**[[media:YJCEC_DATA_REPORT_FEB2010_v2.doc|Juvenile arrest data report provided by T. Saunders]]
**[[media:Year_2_SFP-calendar_v5a.xls|Yonkers SFP calendar, as of 2/15/2010]]
**[[media:DCJS_Progress_Report_October_-_December_2009.doc|Year 2 Quarter 2 BBBS Implementation Progress Report]]
**[[media:SFP_Year_2_Quarter_2_Implementation_Progress_Report.doc|Year 2 Quarter 2 SFP Implementation Progress Report]]
* January 19, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes01-19-10.doc‎|January 2010 meeting minutes]]
* November 17, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes11-17-09.doc|November 2009 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:Spanish-SES_Application-SINI-2009_Dodson.doc|School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services (SES) Application - Spanish]]
**[[media:SES_Application-SINI-Yeargeneral_registration_09.doc|School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services (SES) Application - English]]
**[[media:SES_Schools_List.doc|Yonkers Schools In Need of Improvement list 2008-9]]
**[[media:SINI_Letter_School_13_spanish.pdf|Yonkers Schools In Need of Improvement letter - Spanish]]
**[[media:SINI_Letter_School_13.pdf|Yonkers School In Need of Improvement letter - English]]
* October 20, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes10-20-09.doc|October 2009 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:2009_YJCEC_budget_F.pdf‎|DCJS grant Year 3 budget summary grid]]
* September 15, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes9-15-09.doc|September 2009 meeting minutes]]
**[[Media:YJCEC_Year_2_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS_v2a.doc | Year 2 Big Brothers Big Sisters Implementation Progress Reporting Form revised per 9/15 meeting]]
**[[Media:YJCEC_Year_2_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFPv2a.doc‎ | Year 2 Strengthening Families Implementation Progress Reporting Form revised per 9/15 meeting]]
* August 18, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes8-18-09v2.doc|August 2009 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:BBBS_End_Y1_progress_stats.doc|Big Brother Big Sister Year 1 year-end implementation statistics]]
** [[media:SFP_End_Y1_progress_stats.doc|Strengthening Families Program Year 1 year-end implementation statistics]]
** [[media:Andrus_End_Y1_progress_stats.doc|Andrus suspension intervention program Year 1 year-end implementation statistics]]
* July 20, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes7-20-09.doc|July 2009 meeting minutes]]
* June 16, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes6-16-09.doc|June 2009 meeting minutes]]
* May 19, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes5-19-09a.doc‎|May 2009 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:Progress_Report_OJJDP_Juvenile_Justice_Title_II_08-09_Q4.doc|Year 1 Fourth Quarter YJCEC progress report]]
* April 21, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes4-21-09a.doc‎|April 2009 meeting minutes]]
* March 17, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes3-17-09a.doc‎|March 2009 meeting minutes]]
* February 17, 2009 [[media:YJCEC_Minutes_2-17-09a.doc‎|February 2009 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:YJCEC Year1 Q3_Progress_Report.doc|Year 1 Third Quarter YJCEC progress report]]
* January 12, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes1-12-09b.doc|January 2009 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:ConsortiumSched_1-12-09.doc|Download the 2009 Yonkers Crime Consortium meeting schedule distributed at the Jan. meeting]]
**[[media:2009Strengthening_Families_SchedB.xls|Download the early 2009 SFP session calendar distributed at the Jan. meeting]]

* December 8, 2008 [[media:YJCECMinutes12-08-08a.doc|December 2008 meeting minutes]]
* November 10, 2008 [[Media:YJCECMinutes11-10-08b.doc|November 2008 meeting minutes]]
* October 20, 2008 [[Media:YJCECMinutes10-20-08.doc|October 2008 meeting minutes]]
* September 8, 2008 [[Media:YJCECMinutes9-8-08F2.doc|September 2008 meeting minutes]]

===COMPLETE 2011 MEETING SCHEDULE===
YJCEC meetings will be held on the '''2nd Wednesday of the month at 12 noon''': 

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Month
! Day
|-
| January
| 12th
|- style="background:grey"
| February
| 9th
|-
| March
| 9th
|- style="background:grey"
| April
| 13th
|-
| May
| 11th
|- style="background:grey"
| June
| 7th
|-
| July
| 13th
|- style="background:grey"
|August
| 10th
|- style
|September
| 14th
|- style="background:grey"
| October
| 12th
|-
| November
| 9th
|- style="background:grey"
| December
| 14th
|}

=== OTHER NOTICES ===
====Year 3 funding has been approved with a 50% funding reduction from Year 2====
Funding wil continue for Year 3 of the DCJS grant, with a 50% reduction in funding and a 50% match requirement making up the remainder of funding. See 10/20/09 meeting above for more details.
====[[media:2010_Government_officials-rev.doc|List of Government officials serving Westchester County residents for 2010]]====
====2010 Strengthening Families Program session dates====
New cycles of Strengthening Families Program for Children 6-11 and Chirldren 10-14 are starting in early 2010.
SCHEDULE HAS BEEN REVISED- Please download the new calendar.

'''[[media:2009_Year_2_SFP-calendar_v2a.xls|Download the REVISED late 2009 calendar for Strengthening Family Program sessions in Yonkers]]'''

====DCJS site visit====
DCJS Criminal Justice Program Representative Katie Nastars met with YJCEC members during a site visit on September 23rd. Ms. Nastars was able to talk with staff from FSW Big Brothers Big Sisters, Andrus Children's Center, Yonkers Police Department, and PD&D about the programs funded by DCJS in Yonkers and coordinated by the YJCEC.

====Year 2 funding has been approved with 2% funding reduction from Year 1====
Funding will continue for Year 2 of the grant, at a 2% reduction to $196,000 in NYS DCJS funds to implement our YJCEC strategy. 

Year 2 contract period begins April 1, 2009.

====2008-09 Contract has been approved====
Our application for $200,000 in NYS DCJS funding to implement our YJCEC strategy has been approved and fully funded! 

The DCJS contract was executed on October 16th for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2008.

====Implementation Progress Reporting====
Implementation Progress Reports are due from all service agencies at the end of each quarter. Data from the Progress Reports is complied for inclusion in quarterly reports required by DCJS.

<blockquote>Next due date for Progress Reports to be sent to Yoav Spiegel at [mailto:YSpiegel@programdesign.com YSpiegel@programdesign.com] is: 
'''January 12, 2010'''</blockquote>

[[media:RevisedYJCECprogressreportCALENDAR.xls|Click here to download the complete 2009 Schedule for Implementation Progrees Report collection]]

Implementation Progress Report forms are available here:

http://www.programdesign.com/wiki/YJCEC#Implementation_Reporting_Forms

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=== RESOURCES ===
National Youth Violence Prevention Week Announced
In recognition of National Youth Violence Prevention Week (March 31 to April 4, 2008), NCJRS has created a Youth Violence Special Feature. This special feature contains publications and resources concerning gun violence, violence in schools, youth gang activity, and the prevention of youth violence. Links to research and statistics related to youth violence are also included. (NCJRS) Below is the address:

[http://www.ncjrs.gov/yviolence/ http://www.ncjrs.gov/yviolence]

===== ''Yonkers Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan'' =====
* [[Media:YJCEC_Action_Plan_Summary-9_page.pdf|Overview of Yonkers' Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, final draft as released 4/8/08, 9 pages]]
* [[Media:Yonkers_Juvenile_Justice_Strategy_and_Action_Plan-narrative.pdf‎|Main body of Yonkers' Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, final draft as released 4/8/08, 62 pages]]
* [[Media:YJCEC_Action_Plan_Appendices_137_pages_F.pdf‎|Appendices for Yonkers' Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, final draft as released 4/8/08, 137 pages]] 
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===== ''Evidence-Based Targeting'' =====
This material explains "Evidence-Based Targeting," a new concept developed in Yonkers that offers communities across America the opportunity to dramatically enhance their juvenile crime prevention efforts by targeting limited prevention resources to higher-risk groups where those efforts can have an exponentially greater impact on reducing juvenile crime. 
* [[Media:EBT_Significance.doc|Significance of Evidence-Based Targeting]] 
This one-page handout outlines the significance of "evidence-based targeting" and how it can benefit communities, service providers, and funders. 
* [[Media:Evidence-Based_Targeting_Overview.pdf|Overview of Evidence-Based Targeting]] 
This 9-page handout gives a more detailed overview of "evidence-based targeting" and includes sample forms that illustrate how service providers and funders could use Yonkers data to calculate an "estimated baseline" for their delinquency prevention programs. 
* [[Media:Pyramid_of_Risk_charts.doc|Charts illustrating the Pyramid of Risk (Word format)]] 
Here are two charts (in Word format) that illustrate Evidence-Based Targeting. Unlike earlier visual representations that presented the data in tabular form, these charts now display the Pyramid as a pyramid. The first shows the % of kids in each group who get arrested within 3 years. The second shows the # of arrests over 3 years per 100 kids in each group. The second chart shows an even greater disparity as you move up the pyramid because a higher proportion of higher-risk kids get arrested and they get arrested more often. 
* [[Media:Pyramid_of_Risk_charts.ppt|Charts illustrating the Pyramid of Risk (Powerpoint format)]] 
Here are the same two charts in PowerPoint format. 
* [[Media:NYS_DCJS_Presentation_on_Evidence-Based_Targeting.ppt|DCJS conference presentation re Evidence-Based Targeting, delivered 2/6/08]] 
This PowerPoint presentation gives a brief overview of Evidence-Based Targeting and shows how it helps you concentrate your efforts where they can have the greatest potential impact by focusing on specific groups at highest risk for juvenile crime.
* [http://changingthecourt.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_08.html Center for Court Innovation article about Karl Bertrand’s presentation to NYS DCJS on Evidence-Based Targeting, 2/8/08]
The Center for Court Innovation published an weblog article on February 8, 2008 about the presentation on Evidence-Based Targeting Karl Bertrand made recently to a statewide conference sponsored by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. The article appeared in a Center for Court Innovation blog called "Changing the Court: A chronicle of how a group of planners and practitioners are attempting to change the Bronx court system's approach to low-level criminal offending." It was written by Claibourne Henry, Youth Development Coordinator. One of the article's conclusions is: "By targeting the right population, programs can conserve time, funding and avoid combing through the hundreds and thousands of other individuals who fall into a general target population, but aren’t necessarily at high risk of being arrested." 
* [[Media:Youth-Violence_Reduction_Making_the_case_for_evidence_based_strategies.ppt‎|OJJDP conference presentation re Evidence-Based Targeting, delivered 8/19/08]] 
This is the Powerpoint presentation on Evidence-Based Targeting that Karl Bertrand delivered at the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) "Charting the Course: Developing Effective Plans for the Future" conference in Nashville. 
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===== ''Chronic Truancy Prevention'' =====
* [http://programdesign.com/wiki/Yonkers_Truancy Yonkers Truancy Reduction Strategy Group ] 
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===== ''Evidence-Based Interventions'' =====
* [[Media:PreventingCrime-_WhatWorks,_What_Doesn't,_What's_Promising.doc|Preventing Crime- What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising]]
This Report to Congress, funded by the National Institute of Justice, is a comprehensive review of decades of research on the effectiveness of every major crime reduction strategy supported by the U.S. Department of Justice. This resource is invaluable for anyone trying to allocate scarce prevention resources to interventions with the strongest evidence of effectiveness.

* [[Media:Preventing_Crime--What_Works-Summary.pdf|Summary of "Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising]]
This 19-page "Research in Brief" from the National Institute of Justice summarizes the major conclusions of a comprehensive review of decades of evidence for the effectiveness of every major crime prevention strategy.

* [http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/rptfiles/04-07-3901.pdf Benefits and Costs of Prevention and Early Intervention Programs for Youth]
This study includes a table listing benefits, costs, and benefits per dollar of cost for 61 common evidence-based model programs.

* [http://www.dsgonline.com/mpg2.5/mpg_index.htm|OJJDP Model Programs Guide] 
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs Guide (MPG) is designed to assist practitioners and communities in implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention programs that can make a difference in the lives of children and communities. The MPG database of evidence-based programs covers the entire continuum of youth services from prevention through sanctions to reentry. The MPG can be used to assist juvenile justice practitioners, administrators, and researchers to enhance accountability, ensure public safety, and reduce recidivism. The MPG is an easy-to-use tool that offers a database of scientifically-proven programs that address a range of issues, including substance abuse, mental health, and education programs. 

* [http://guide.helpingamericasyouth.gov| Helping America's Youth] 
The Helping America's Youth (HAY) website provides a Community Guide to Helping America's Youth. It provides strategies and tools to help communities form effective partnerships, assess community needs, and identify evidence-based programs. You can search the database of evidence-based programs by risk factor, protective factor, or keyword. All of the programs featured in the HAY database have demonstrated results in accordance with widely accepted scientific criteria for program effectiveness. The following federal agencies worked together to identify programs for the HAY Program Tool: the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Office for National Drug Control Policy, and the Corporation for National and Community Service. 

* [http://www.strengtheningfamiliesprogram.org/index.html| Strengthening Families Program] 
This is one of the evidence-based models that will be replicated in Yonkers by the YJCEC. The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is a nationally and internationally recognized parenting and family strengthening program for high-risk families. SFP is an evidence-based family skills training program found to significantly reduce problem behaviors, delinquency, and alcohol and drug abuse in children and to improve social competencies and school performance. Child maltreatment also decreases as parents strengthen bonds with their children and learn more effective parenting skills. SFP was developed and found effective on a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) research grant in the early 1980s. More than 15 subsequent independent replications have found similar positive results with families in many different ethnic groups. Both culturally adapted versions and the core version of SFP have been found effective with African-American, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander, and First Nations families. The original SFP for high-risk families with children ages 6 to 11 years (SFP6-11) was joined in the early 1990’s by a shorter 7-session version for low-risk families with pre- and early teens (SFP10-14). SFP6-11 has now been joined by 14-session versions for high-risk families with both younger children (SFP3-5) and early teens (SFP12-16). 

'''[[media:2009Strengthening_Families_SchedA.xls|Download the early 2009 calendar for Strengthening Family Program sessions in Yonkers]]'''

* [http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/pub.asp?docid=07-06-1201| Evidence-Based Juvenile Offender Programs: Program Description, Quality Assurance, and Cost] 
Six juvenile offender programs identified by Institute as evidence-based are profiled through program descriptions, quality assurance information, and cost-benefit figures. By Elizabeth Drake, Washington State Institute for Public Policy, June 2007. 
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=====''Implementation Reporting Forms''=====
Current Year 2 forms
*[[Media:YJCEC_Year_2_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS_v2a.doc | Current Year 2 Big Brothers Big Sisters Form]]
*[[Media: YJCEC_Year_2_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFPv2a.doc‎ | Current Year 2 Strengthening Families Form]]

(Year 1 forms)
*[[Media:YJCEC_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS_F3R.doc | Year 1 Big Brothers Big Sisters Form]]
*[[Media: YJCEC_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFP_F3.doc‎ | Year 1 Strengthening Families Form]]
*[[Media:YJCEC_Implementation_Progress_Report_Andrus_F.doc | Year 1 Suspension Intervention Form]]

===== ''Disproportionate Minority Contact'' =====
* [[Media:Disproportionate Minority Contact TA manual.pdf|OJJDP Disproportionate Minority Contact Technical Assistance Manual, 2006]] 
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===== ''Other Criminal Justice Information and Resources'' =====
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/15/opinion/15blow.html Getting Smart on Crime]
Policy makers are beginning to recognize that draconian mandatory sentencing laws are illogical - sociologically and economically. Op-Ed by Charles M. Blow
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/us/10juvenile.html Mentally Ill Offenders Strain Juvenile System]
As cash-starved states slash mental health programs in communities and schools, they are increasingly relying on the juvenile corrections system to handle a generation of young offenders with psychiatric disorders. About two-thirds of the nation’s juvenile inmates — who numbered 92,854 in 2006, down from 107,000 in 1999 — have at least one mental illness, according to surveys of youth prisons, and are more in need of therapy than punishment.
*[http://www.ncmhjj.com/Blueprint/pdfs/Blueprint.pdf Blueprint for Change: A Comprehensive Model for the Identification and Treatment of Youth with Mental Health Needs in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System]
Blueprint for Change: A Comprehensive Model for the Identification and Treatment of Youth with Mental Health Needs in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System represents four years of work to develop a conceptual and practical framework for juvenile justice and mental health systems to use when developing strategies, policies, and services aimed at improving mental health services for youth involved with the juvenile justice system. The Model, which sets the highest goals for systems to work toward, summarizes what we now know about the best way to identify and treat mental disorders among youth at key stages of juvenile justice processing, and offers recommendations, guidelines, and examples for how best to do this.
**[http://www.ncmhjj.com/Blueprint/pdfs/ProgramBrief_06_06.pdf A Blueprint for Change: Improving the System Response to Youth with Mental Health Needs Involved with the Juvenile Justice System]
Research and Program Brief

*[http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/pdf_counter/process_email.php?pdf=http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/PDFfpS06.pdf Focal Point Summer 2006]
This issue of Focal Point describes the need for, and provides examples of, new strategies for meeting the mental health needs of children and adolescents involved with the juvenile justice system.

* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23392251/ 1 in 100 Americans behind bars, report finds]
NEW YORK - For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting America’s rank as the world’s No. 1 incarcerator. It urges states to curtail corrections spending by placing fewer low-risk offenders behind bars. Prison spending ballooned from $11 billion to $49 billion in 2 decades. “Getting tough on criminals has gotten tough on taxpayers,” said the project’s director, Adam Gelb. “For some groups, the incarceration numbers are especially startling,” the report said. “While one in 30 men between the ages of 20 and 34 is behind bars, for black males in that age group the figure is one in nine.” 

* [http://members.jointogether.org/jointogether/join.html Sign up for Join Together Updates]
Join Together is a project of the Boston University School of Public Health. Since 1991, Join Together has supported community-based efforts to advance effective alcohol and drug policy, prevention, and treatment. Join Together leads initiatives to help communities respond to the harms caused by excessive alcohol and drug use and provides free internet services supporting their efforts. The link above takes you to a site where you can sign up to receive any of the following free internet resources: Daily News Edition, Weekly News Roundup, the monthly Treatment Practitioner's Research Bulletin, or the Funding News Weekly. 
* [https://www.ncjrs.gov/index.html National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)]
The NCJRS site has links to a wide variety of publications, research, and grant information. Major categories include Corrections, Courts, Crime, Crime Prevention, Drugs, Justice System, Juvenile Justice, Law Enforcement, and Victims. 
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MVCOCH

2011-02-24T20:28:39Z

Jmuffler: /* UPCOMING EVENTS */

This group brings together all the homeless housing and service providers in Mount Vernon, NY funded with HUD Continuum of Care for the Homeless funding administered by the City of Mount Vernon. 
===UPCOMING EVENTS===
NEXT MEETING 
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011 
Time: 9:30 
Location: Mount Vernon City Hall, City Council Conference Room 
Directions: [http://www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp?go=1&do=nw&rmm=1&mo=ma&un=m&cl=EN&qq=8sZ2eXZGPCFt47mxOeXj%252bImocsMgo0o2ajmGAUu1rI6uZrpf8KliV15G1EbogeTUPJwTGN4yIyOeoR0QltPCE2KqApuARRk05rmiOa4cEgPmVtzm2Vk3NDKjr3fnyuo7mZj5eMOPe7NNQZ1Ysj26H7Htsi0geQJ3Dl%252ff4KD2jBU80Xa%252fZiTHZiXKZnLh%252fwl%252bqS8p16Gnn9YDeUIx%252fOvwlbAIFwHdqXTHfePcqmacwPtmAZo86vtZ8kbmIPySYA2uVA56ppuppcX9vpQJmVT8BIttnEDvyVeGz1p0lsPCk3P8Vfax71BxqnFadTHC%252fSXRyZb7aGsv44q%252btog5v8CB3m913UmKEjjUIwwFbIILNcUK%252fwJCiAexjJd4lLP4sr5ovdIiXqVQcYWrVuk95KgTyuWxctUA6CWjvCLU2pVTq%252fgsrgBisdhr7QOPmP2ArTPRvbHWXfpJk9bZ0WSCY1YdBvMOZPyc0%252fU%252fUH2UvdWu1ev74gFR%252fmTYxUQqH8V5DxYfUe8xgLAgq8RWWTZKfI4aN6%252bmR6zj2dUhxrjLk4GK3ma2dWbaSnEbT4bCGQYBAve1%252bGsmLM07e%252bkq6ykDWGoxWYRZS%252biP0ecT6EsangPguYK1eUgs3MWImDm0FUKsyIoQaCIjWiKaL%252bd1EwdK6Kt9MA%253d%253d&ct=NA&q=City+Hall&r=f&did=1203724712&rsres=1&1y=US&1ffi=&1l=&1g=&1pl=&1v=&1n=&1pn=&1a=&1c=&1s=&1z=&panelbtn=1&2y=US&2ffi=1&2l=GXHMf7czf%252b8FrwIcp6dgMw%253d%253d&2g=i0wbQ%252fPU%252fvy0dKoA5zekEA%253d%253d&2pl=914-665-2300&2v=ADDRESS&2n=&2pn=Mt+Vernon+City+Hall&2a=1+Roosevelt+Sq&2c=Mt+Vernon&2s=NY&2z=10550 Driving Directions] 

===PREVIOUS MEETINGS===
* January 20, 2011 [[media:MVCoCminutes_1_20_11.doc|Download January minutes]]
* October 14, 2010 [[media:MVCoCminutes_10_14_10.doc|Download October meeting minutes]]
* July 21, 2010 [[media:MVCoCminutes_7_21_10.doc|Download July meeting minutes]]
* June 24, 2010 [[media:MVCoCminutes_6_24_10.doc|Download June meeting minutes]]
** [[media:ShortCMV_APR_Tracker_06-23-10.doc|Download list of recent & upcoming APRs distributed at the 6/24/10 meeting]]
* May 27, 2010 [[media:MVCoCminutes_5_27_10.doc|Download May meeting minutes]]
** List of conditions placed on FY09 renewal of existing Mount Vernon CoC projects [[media:FY09_Conditions_Letters_summary.doc|Download the Conditions list]]
* April 21, 2010 [[media:MVCoCminutes_4_21_10.doc|Download April meeting minutes]]
** [[media:New_APR_implementation_timeline.doc|HUD requirements for APR submission starting 7/1/10]]
** [[media:New_Homeless_Def_comment.doc|Proposed new HUD homeless definition]] released for 60 day public comment 4/19/10
* February 18, 2010 [[media:MVCoCminutes_2_18_10.doc|Download February meeting minutes]]
*January 21, 2010 [[media:MVCoCminutes_1_21_10.doc|Download January meeting minutes]]
*December 17, 2009 [[media: MVCoCminutes_12_17_09.doc|Download December meeting minutes]]
*October 15, 2009 [[media: MVCoCminutes_10_15_09.doc|Download October meeting minutes]]
*September 10, 2009 [[media: MVCoCminutes_09_10_09.doc|Download September meeting minutes]]
*July 16, 2009 [[media: MVCoCminutes_07_16_09.doc|Download July meeting minutes]]
** [[media:HEARTH_implications_v2.doc|Implications of the HEARTH act from July meeting]]
** [[media:New_Service_Paradigm.doc|New paradigm for services for the homeless under the HEARTH act from July meeting]]
*May 21, 2009 [[media: MVCoCminutes_05_21_09.doc|Download May meeting minutes]]

*April 16, 2009 [[media: MVCoCminutes_04_16_09.doc|Download April meeting minutes]]
**[[media:ShortCMV_APR_Tracker_4-14-09.doc|Download list of recent & upcoming APRs distributed at the 4/16/09 meeting]]
**[[media: MV_2008_Award_Letter.PDF|HUD FY08 Award letter to the Mt. Vernon CoCH]]
**[[media: WC_FY08_awards-2b.xls|FY08 Awards vs. requests for entire Westchester CoCH]]
**[[media:MV_CoC_Housing_4-16-09.xls|Download current chart of all units funded under the MV CoCH distributed at the 4/16/09 meeting]]

*February 19, 2009 [[media: MVCoCminutes_02_19_09.doc|Download February meeting minutes]]
**[[media:ShortCMV_APR_Tracker_2-5-09.doc|Download list of upcoming APRs distributed at 2/19/09 meeting]]
**[[media:MV_CoC_Housing_2-19-09.xls|Download current CMV housing chart distributed at 2/19/09 meeting]]
**[[media:YMCA_Occupancy_Agreement.doc|Download the revised YMCA occupancy agreement distributed at 2/19/09 meeting]]

*January 8, 2009 [[media: MVCoCminutes_01_08_09.doc|Download January meeting minutes]]
**[[media:JanCMV_APR_Tracker.doc|Download list of upcoming APRs distributed at Jan. meeting]]
**[[media:MV_CoC_Housing_1-8-08.xls|Download current CMV housing chart distributed at Jan. meeting]]

*November 20, 2008 [[media: MVCoCminutes_11_20_08.doc|Download November meeting minutes]]

===COMPLETE 2011 MEETING SCHEDULE===
MVCoC meetings will be held on the '''3rd Thursday of the month at 9:30 am''' at Mount Vernon City Hall, in the City Council Conference Room: 

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===OTHER NOTICES===
* New HUD Data Elements effective June 1.
New data elements must be used for clients entering Continuum of Care projects starting June 1. [http://www.hudhre.info/documents/FinalHMISDataStandards_March2010.pdf This HUD document] details the changes. 
A mandatory new Intake Form is avaiable for download below under [[MVCOCH#RESOURCES|RESOURCES]]. 
Pat Harper has transitioned the HMIS to new the data requirements. 
As of June 2011, all new APR will use these data elements. 

* You can now [https://web01.planetsmb.net/supportivehousingnetworkofnewyork_org/Home.aspx?Request=14131| REGISTER ONLINE] for the Supportive Housing Network of New York’s 9th Annual New York State Supportive Housing Conference on Tuesday, June 9th at the Hilton New York

Please join us for the Annual New York State Supportive Housing Conference, the largest supportive housing conference in the nation. The conference will be held at the New York Hilton Hotel, New York’s premiere conference center in the heart of Manhattan.

For the first time, we are featuring 90-minute workshops with the state and city agency heads most vital to the supportive housing community, including the commissioners of DOHMH, OMH, OTDA, DHCR, HRA, DHS, HPD and OASAS, and the presidents of HFA and HDC.

We will have workshops on how to develop housing during the current economic downturn, on new funding opportunities, on getting press for your organization, and best practices for management, frontline and development staff. The networking lunch and post-conference reception are times to catch up with colleagues. And a select group of exhibitors will be on hand all day with information about their products.

The New York State Supportive Housing Conference is the one time of the year when supportive housing’s leaders can catch up with each other and hear everything going on in the worlds of supportive housing and serving people with special needs. Don’t miss this annual opportunity to see, hear and share the latest innovations in the field. See you on the 9th!

If you would prefer to register via fax, visit our website athttp://www.shnny.org/conf.html.

* [[Media:FY08_CoC_Applic_schedule_rev4-9-08.doc|Current Schedule of key dates and deadlines for preparing Westchester's Continuum of Care FY08 application process‎, as revised 4/9/08]]

*Information about the new electronic [http://programdesign.com/wiki/FY08_CoC_Application_Planning FY 08 Continuum of Care application process] is now available.

*[http://www.cucs.org/index.php The Center for Urban Community Services] provided a HUD Annual Progress Report Technical Assistance on February 7th. For training materials [http://programdesign.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Mount_Vernon_Continuum_of_Care_for_the_Homeless#Manuals.2FTraining_Material click here]. 

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===RESOURCES===
====PowerPoint presentation explaining the process for annual re-certification of clients in Westchester CoC projects====
*[[media:CoC_recertification_meeting_0710.pptx|Download the PowerPoint presentation]]
====''Mandatory new county-wide Intake and Exit Forms for Continuum of Care projects, revised according to new HUD 2010 Data Standards''====
* [[media:Westchester_CoC_2010_Intake_Form_2.pdf‎|Continuum of Care Intake Form]] revised according to new HUD 2010 Data Standards
* [[media:Westchester_CoC_2010_Exit_Form_v2.pdf‎‎|Continuum of Care Exit Form]] revised according to new HUD 2010 Data Standards
* [[media:Annual_Assessment_Form.pdf‎‎|Form for Annual Reassessment of Clients]] according to new HUD 2010 Data Standards
* [[media:Housing_Status_Definitions.doc|New Housing Status Definitions]] according to new HUD 2010 Data Standards

====[[media:2010_Government_officials-rev.doc|List of Government officials serving Westchester County residents for 2010]]====

==== ''Mt. Vernon FY 2008 Continuum of Care application documents'' ====

[http://www.programdesign.com/wiki/MVCOCH_FY08appdocs Go to City of Mt. Vernon FY 2008 application document page]

==== ''Westchester's Continuum of Care application'' ====
===== ''Westchester's FY09 Continuum of Care application'' =====
* [[Media: FY09_Exhibit_1_export.pdf‎‎|Exhibit 1 from Westchester's FY09 Consolidated Continuum of Care Application]] 
Exhibit 1 from Westchester County's FY09 consolidated application to HUD's Continuum of Care for the Homeless program outlines Westchester's resources and strategies in a cumbersome and not very reader-friendly format mandated by HUD. Nonetheless, this document is the most comprehensive available description of Westchester's housing and services for the homeless. 

* [[Media: EHIC_2009_NY-604_v7.xls.zip‎| FY09 Westchester County eHousing Inventory]] 
Zipped version of the eHIC file included in the FY09 application Exhibit 1.

===== ''Westchester's FY08 Continuum of Care application'' =====
* [[Media: NY_604_FY_08_Exhibit_1_Final.pdf‎|Exhibit 1 from Westchester's FY08 Consolidated Continuum of Care Application]] 
Exhibit 1 from Westchester County's FY08 consolidated application to HUD's Continuum of Care for the Homeless program. 

* [[Media:Housing_Inventory_Chart_Rev_2-29-08.doc|Westchester Homeless Housing Inventory, corrected 2/29/08]]
This corrected Housing Inventory (revised 2/29/08) includes an estimate of the unmet need for permanent housing for the homeless in Westchester. This is calculated by taking the number of transitional homeless beds minus permanent housing beds currently under development to derive the number of units needed just to house the homeless people already in transitional housing in Westchester. 
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===== ''Westchester's FY07 Continuum of Care application'' =====
* [[Media:Westchester_County_FY07_CoC_Exhibit_1.pdf‎|Exhibit 1 from Westchester's Consolidated Continuum of Care Application]] 
Exhibit 1 from Westchester County's FY07 consolidated application to HUD's Continuum of Care for the Homeless program outlines Westchester's resources and strategies in a cumbersome and not very reader-friendly format mandated by HUD. Nonetheless, this document is the most comprehensive available description of Westchester's housing and services for the homeless. 

* [[Media:Housing_Inventory_Chart_Rev_2-29-08.doc|Westchester Homeless Housing Inventory, corrected 2/29/08]]
This corrected Housing Inventory (revised 2/29/08) includes an estimate of the unmet need for permanent housing for the homeless in Westchester. This is calculated by taking the number of transitional homeless beds minus permanent housing beds currently under development to derive the number of units needed just to house the homeless people already in transitional housing in Westchester. 
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==== ''HUD Forms and Notices'' ====
''APR Forms''
*[[Media:40118_HUD_APR.doc|HUD APR 40118]] Most Recent HUD APR Form
*[[Media:APR_Worksheet.xls‎|HUD APR Worksheet]] APR Worksheet 
''Documentation Forms''
*[[Media:Homeless_Status.pdf|Homeless Eligibility]] Homeless eligibility form that can be used to document a participant's homeless status.
* [http://www.hud.gov//offices/cpd/homeless/programs/shp/Rent.xls Rent Calculation Form] This form should be used for all S+C and SHP projects with leasing funds for resident rents. For more information and instructions visit [http://www.hudhre.info/index.cfm?do=viewShpDeskguideK Calculating Resident Rent for SHP] and [http://www.hudhre.info/index.cfm?do=viewSpcResourceManSec3-4 Calculating Resident Rent for S+C] on the HUD Resource Exchange site.
''Notices''
*[[Media:HUD_Notice_re_Grants.Gov_Registration.pdf| HUD Notice Re Early Grants.Gov Registration, 3/10/08]] 
This notice provides instructions to potential applicants applying for funding under HUD’s grant programs available through Grants.gov. '''This notice does not pertain to applicants who will be applying in Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 for Continuum of Care funds.''' HUD will publish a separate notice to address the receipt of Continuum of Care applications in FY2008. This notice provides information to help applicants better understand the registration and electronic submission process for HUD applications made available through Grants.gov. Grants.gov is the federal portal for applicants to electronically find and apply for over 1,000 funding opportunities made available by 26 Federal grant-making agencies. 
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==== ''Manuals/Training Material'' ====

''APR Training Materials''
*[http://www.cucs.org/hrc/train/pdf/HUDTAC.pdf Center for Urban Community Services APR Curriculum]
*[http://www.cucs.org/hrc/train/pdf/HUDTAH.pdf Center for Urban Community Services APR Tip Sheet] 

''HUD Manuals''
*[[media: SHP_Deskguide.pdf| SHP Deskguide]]
This updated guide describes the SHP grant process from grant award onward. It will take you through the life cycle of a grant, incorporating everything from very basic information to the intricacies of grant administration. The guide is not a substitute for the SHP regulations. However, it is a practical guide to issues that arise during project implementation.
*[http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/library/shp/finalshptools.PDF SHP Self-Monitoring Tools]
The purpose of the Supportive Housing Program (SHP) Self-Monitoring Tools is to provide SHP project sponsors and grantees with "user-friendly" forms to enable staff to assess their project operations against the standards set by HUD rules and regulations.
*[[Media:S+C_CoC_Manual_1.8.08.pdf‎| Shelter Plus Care Manual ]]
This manual prepared by PD&D combines three HUD online manuals([http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/library/spc/understandingspc/index.cfm Understanding S+C] , [http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/library/spc/resourcemanual/index.cfm S+C Resource Manual], and [http://www.hudhre.info/documents/EnhancingS+C.pdf Enhancing Shelter Plus Care Guide]) as well as other locally developed materials.
*[[Media:AdvancedTopicsInHomelessness.pdf|From Theory to Practice: Advanced Topics in Homelessness]]
Developed by HUD, this presentation provides SHP grantees with information that allows them to effectively address advanced issues of homeless programs as well as new strategies and techniques. Specifically covered are Chronic Homelessness, Housing First & Safe Havens, Case Management and Alternative Match Sources. 
''Chronic Homeless Materials'' 
The following HUD approved materials, from [http://www.hudhre.info/index.cfm HUD Resource Exchange], explains the definition, documentation and verification of chronic homeless. These materials are highly recommended from programs targeting the chronic homeless and programs providing emergency shelter and services to the chronic homeless.

*[http://www.hudhre.info/documents/DefiningChronicHomeless.pdf Defining Chronic Homelessness: A Technical Guide for HUD Programs]
Developed by HUD, this technical guide is intended for non-profit local housing and service providers as well as local government agencies that are under contract with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide housing and related support services to the target population of chronically homeless persons. It is intended to answer frequently asked questions pertaining to the federal definition of chronic homelessness and the standards for qualifying persons for housing under this definition. It also provides suggested templates for forms and letters that may assist providers, government agencies, and their local partners in devising internal mechanisms to certify homeless persons for a program for chronically homeless persons. 

*[[Media:Guidance_for_Chronic_Homeless_Appendix_v1.doc‎|Technical Guide Templates]]
This document contains the templates referenced in the above Defining Chronic Homelessness Technical Guide. These templates are HUD approved forms used to document and verify chronic homeless status. 

*[[Media:WC_Emergency_vs_Transitional_list.pdf |Westchester County List of Emergency and Transitional Housing Facilities]]
This is the official current definition of which programs in Westchester are considered emergency housing and which are considered transitional housing. These lists come from Westchester County's FY07 Continuum of Care application. This is the list that everyone in Westchester should be using now to determine who is chronically homeless. 

*[http://www.hudhre.info/documents/SHPFinancialManagement.pdf Financial Management and HUD Compliance] 
Developed by Center for Urban Community Services, this guide part of a training series that provides best practices and guidance on supportive housing development, operation and
services.

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====''Other Information about MVCOC''====

''Funding Summary''
*[[Media:MVCoCSumm97-07_1-17-08.doc|Mount Vernon Continuum of Care Summary]]
Summary as of January 3, 2008, includes FY07 awards. 

''Program Contacts''
*[[media:MVCOC_project_description.doc‎|Mount Vernon Continuum of Care Contacts and program descriptions as of June 25, 2008]]

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''Submitting APR''

A. Annual Progress Reports (APRs) must be submitted to the City of Mount Vernon within 45 days of the end of each contract year. 
B. Every contract extension, even if only for one month, requires a separate Annual Progress Report for the period of the contract extension. 
C. Digital copy of the current Annual Progress Report form is available [http://programdesign.com/wiki/MVCOCH#HUD_Forms_and_Notices in HUD Forms and Notices]. 
D. Draft the APR but before submitting a signed copy, email a digital draft to Yoav Spiegel at [mailto:YSpiegel@programdesign.com YSpiegel@programdesign.com] to review. He will check for mathematical errors and inconsistencies, correct dates, project numbers, budget information, etc. Yoav will email back a list of any issues that must be addressed. 
E. Once all necessary corrections are made, email the corrected copy to Yoav once more for a final review. If the draft is correct, Yoav will send an email stating that the review is complete, with a copy to Carmen Sylvester and Karl Bertrand. 
F. After Yoav has confirmed that your draft is correct, mail or hand-deliver five (5) signed copies to: 
Carmen Sylvester, Executive Director 
City of Mount Vernon 
Mt. Vernon Dept. of Planning & Community Development/ Urban Renewal Agency 
City Hall - Roosevelt Square 
Mount Vernon, NY 10550-2060 

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==== ''DSS Worker Phone Lists''====
These documents give names and contact information for Westchester County Department of Social Services district office staff, as of February 2008. 
* [[Media:Yonkers_District_Office_Feb_08.pdf‎|Yonkers district office]] 
* [[Media:Mount_Vernon_District_Office_Feb_08.pdf‎|Mount Vernon district office]] 
* [[Media:White_Plains_District_Office_Feb_08.pdf‎|White Plains district office]] 
* [[Media:Peekskill_District_office_Feb_08.pdf‎|Peekskill district office]] 
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==== ''Ten-Year Plans to End Chronic Homelessness'' ====
* [http://programdesign.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Ten-Year_Plans Information on Ten-Year Plans to End Chronic Homelessness] 
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==== ''Affordable Housing Resources'' ====
* [[Media:HOUSING_OfficeParkHousingStudy20080313.pdf|Office Park Housing Study, Westchester County Department of Planning, March, 2008.]] 
This study demonstrates the feasibility of building housing, including affordable housing, on underutilized office park land. It used existing sites as case studies to evaluate feasibility, but the findings and tools it provides can be used anywhere. Importantly, it also provides a model zoning ordinance that can be adapted by local governments interested in redevelopment and revitalization of such properties. 
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==== ''Other Resources''====
* [[Media:LSHV-MV_flyer_2-08.pdf‎|Legal Services of the Hudson Valley]] 
Legal Services of the Hudson Valley has opened a new office in Mount Vernon. This flyer describes the services available and tells how to contact them. 
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==== ''Grants.gov Registration'' ====
If your agency ever wants to get another federal grant directly from the federal government, it should have registered with grants.gov. If it hasn't already done so, please visit [http://grants.gov/applicants/organization_registration.jsp grants.gov]for registration instructions. 

==== ''Reports and Articles''====
[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/us/29foodstamps.html The Safety Net - Food Stamp Use Soars, and Stigma Fades] New York Times 11,29,2009

Follow the links in this section to access or order cutting-edge publications addressing the galaxy of homelessness issues. 
[[media: GainingCommunityAcceptance.pdf ‎ | Gaining Community Acceptance]] 

This classic 1991 report was prepared by UCLA's Michael Dear, for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to provide a framework to assist human services professionals confronted with the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) Syndrome. The report provides a detailed examination of the factors determining community opposition, a summary of experiences of neighborhood outreach options; as well as a "blueprint" for community outreach and a guide to further resources. Click on the report title to learn how to obtain a copy. 

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MVCOCH

2011-02-24T20:27:50Z

Jmuffler: /* UPCOMING EVENTS */

This group brings together all the homeless housing and service providers in Mount Vernon, NY funded with HUD Continuum of Care for the Homeless funding administered by the City of Mount Vernon. 
===UPCOMING EVENTS===
NEXT MEETING 
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011 
Time: 9:30 
Location: Mount Vernon City Hall, City Council Conference Room 
Directions: [http://www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp?go=1&do=nw&rmm=1&mo=ma&un=m&cl=EN&qq=8sZ2eXZGPCFt47mxOeXj%252bImocsMgo0o2ajmGAUu1rI6uZrpf8KliV15G1EbogeTUPJwTGN4yIyOeoR0QltPCE2KqApuARRk05rmiOa4cEgPmVtzm2Vk3NDKjr3fnyuo7mZj5eMOPe7NNQZ1Ysj26H7Htsi0geQJ3Dl%252ff4KD2jBU80Xa%252fZiTHZiXKZnLh%252fwl%252bqS8p16Gnn9YDeUIx%252fOvwlbAIFwHdqXTHfePcqmacwPtmAZo86vtZ8kbmIPySYA2uVA56ppuppcX9vpQJmVT8BIttnEDvyVeGz1p0lsPCk3P8Vfax71BxqnFadTHC%252fSXRyZb7aGsv44q%252btog5v8CB3m913UmKEjjUIwwFbIILNcUK%252fwJCiAexjJd4lLP4sr5ovdIiXqVQcYWrVuk95KgTyuWxctUA6CWjvCLU2pVTq%252fgsrgBisdhr7QOPmP2ArTPRvbHWXfpJk9bZ0WSCY1YdBvMOZPyc0%252fU%252fUH2UvdWu1ev74gFR%252fmTYxUQqH8V5DxYfUe8xgLAgq8RWWTZKfI4aN6%252bmR6zj2dUhxrjLk4GK3ma2dWbaSnEbT4bCGQYBAve1%252bGsmLM07e%252bkq6ykDWGoxWYRZS%252biP0ecT6EsangPguYK1eUgs3MWImDm0FUKsyIoQaCIjWiKaL%252bd1EwdK6Kt9MA%253d%253d&ct=NA&q=City+Hall&r=f&did=1203724712&rsres=1&1y=US&1ffi=&1l=&1g=&1pl=&1v=&1n=&1pn=&1a=&1c=&1s=&1z=&panelbtn=1&2y=US&2ffi=1&2l=GXHMf7czf%252b8FrwIcp6dgMw%253d%253d&2g=i0wbQ%252fPU%252fvy0dKoA5zekEA%253d%253d&2pl=914-665-2300&2v=ADDRESS&2n=&2pn=Mt+Vernon+City+Hall&2a=1+Roosevelt+Sq&2c=Mt+Vernon&2s=NY&2z=10550 Driving Directions] 

'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
April 21

===PREVIOUS MEETINGS===
* January 20, 2011 [[media:MVCoCminutes_1_20_11.doc|Download January minutes]]
* October 14, 2010 [[media:MVCoCminutes_10_14_10.doc|Download October meeting minutes]]
* July 21, 2010 [[media:MVCoCminutes_7_21_10.doc|Download July meeting minutes]]
* June 24, 2010 [[media:MVCoCminutes_6_24_10.doc|Download June meeting minutes]]
** [[media:ShortCMV_APR_Tracker_06-23-10.doc|Download list of recent & upcoming APRs distributed at the 6/24/10 meeting]]
* May 27, 2010 [[media:MVCoCminutes_5_27_10.doc|Download May meeting minutes]]
** List of conditions placed on FY09 renewal of existing Mount Vernon CoC projects [[media:FY09_Conditions_Letters_summary.doc|Download the Conditions list]]
* April 21, 2010 [[media:MVCoCminutes_4_21_10.doc|Download April meeting minutes]]
** [[media:New_APR_implementation_timeline.doc|HUD requirements for APR submission starting 7/1/10]]
** [[media:New_Homeless_Def_comment.doc|Proposed new HUD homeless definition]] released for 60 day public comment 4/19/10
* February 18, 2010 [[media:MVCoCminutes_2_18_10.doc|Download February meeting minutes]]
*January 21, 2010 [[media:MVCoCminutes_1_21_10.doc|Download January meeting minutes]]
*December 17, 2009 [[media: MVCoCminutes_12_17_09.doc|Download December meeting minutes]]
*October 15, 2009 [[media: MVCoCminutes_10_15_09.doc|Download October meeting minutes]]
*September 10, 2009 [[media: MVCoCminutes_09_10_09.doc|Download September meeting minutes]]
*July 16, 2009 [[media: MVCoCminutes_07_16_09.doc|Download July meeting minutes]]
** [[media:HEARTH_implications_v2.doc|Implications of the HEARTH act from July meeting]]
** [[media:New_Service_Paradigm.doc|New paradigm for services for the homeless under the HEARTH act from July meeting]]
*May 21, 2009 [[media: MVCoCminutes_05_21_09.doc|Download May meeting minutes]]

*April 16, 2009 [[media: MVCoCminutes_04_16_09.doc|Download April meeting minutes]]
**[[media:ShortCMV_APR_Tracker_4-14-09.doc|Download list of recent & upcoming APRs distributed at the 4/16/09 meeting]]
**[[media: MV_2008_Award_Letter.PDF|HUD FY08 Award letter to the Mt. Vernon CoCH]]
**[[media: WC_FY08_awards-2b.xls|FY08 Awards vs. requests for entire Westchester CoCH]]
**[[media:MV_CoC_Housing_4-16-09.xls|Download current chart of all units funded under the MV CoCH distributed at the 4/16/09 meeting]]

*February 19, 2009 [[media: MVCoCminutes_02_19_09.doc|Download February meeting minutes]]
**[[media:ShortCMV_APR_Tracker_2-5-09.doc|Download list of upcoming APRs distributed at 2/19/09 meeting]]
**[[media:MV_CoC_Housing_2-19-09.xls|Download current CMV housing chart distributed at 2/19/09 meeting]]
**[[media:YMCA_Occupancy_Agreement.doc|Download the revised YMCA occupancy agreement distributed at 2/19/09 meeting]]

*January 8, 2009 [[media: MVCoCminutes_01_08_09.doc|Download January meeting minutes]]
**[[media:JanCMV_APR_Tracker.doc|Download list of upcoming APRs distributed at Jan. meeting]]
**[[media:MV_CoC_Housing_1-8-08.xls|Download current CMV housing chart distributed at Jan. meeting]]

*November 20, 2008 [[media: MVCoCminutes_11_20_08.doc|Download November meeting minutes]]

===COMPLETE 2011 MEETING SCHEDULE===
MVCoC meetings will be held on the '''3rd Thursday of the month at 9:30 am''' at Mount Vernon City Hall, in the City Council Conference Room: 

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| November
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===OTHER NOTICES===
* New HUD Data Elements effective June 1.
New data elements must be used for clients entering Continuum of Care projects starting June 1. [http://www.hudhre.info/documents/FinalHMISDataStandards_March2010.pdf This HUD document] details the changes. 
A mandatory new Intake Form is avaiable for download below under [[MVCOCH#RESOURCES|RESOURCES]]. 
Pat Harper has transitioned the HMIS to new the data requirements. 
As of June 2011, all new APR will use these data elements. 

* You can now [https://web01.planetsmb.net/supportivehousingnetworkofnewyork_org/Home.aspx?Request=14131| REGISTER ONLINE] for the Supportive Housing Network of New York’s 9th Annual New York State Supportive Housing Conference on Tuesday, June 9th at the Hilton New York

Please join us for the Annual New York State Supportive Housing Conference, the largest supportive housing conference in the nation. The conference will be held at the New York Hilton Hotel, New York’s premiere conference center in the heart of Manhattan.

For the first time, we are featuring 90-minute workshops with the state and city agency heads most vital to the supportive housing community, including the commissioners of DOHMH, OMH, OTDA, DHCR, HRA, DHS, HPD and OASAS, and the presidents of HFA and HDC.

We will have workshops on how to develop housing during the current economic downturn, on new funding opportunities, on getting press for your organization, and best practices for management, frontline and development staff. The networking lunch and post-conference reception are times to catch up with colleagues. And a select group of exhibitors will be on hand all day with information about their products.

The New York State Supportive Housing Conference is the one time of the year when supportive housing’s leaders can catch up with each other and hear everything going on in the worlds of supportive housing and serving people with special needs. Don’t miss this annual opportunity to see, hear and share the latest innovations in the field. See you on the 9th!

If you would prefer to register via fax, visit our website athttp://www.shnny.org/conf.html.

* [[Media:FY08_CoC_Applic_schedule_rev4-9-08.doc|Current Schedule of key dates and deadlines for preparing Westchester's Continuum of Care FY08 application process‎, as revised 4/9/08]]

*Information about the new electronic [http://programdesign.com/wiki/FY08_CoC_Application_Planning FY 08 Continuum of Care application process] is now available.

*[http://www.cucs.org/index.php The Center for Urban Community Services] provided a HUD Annual Progress Report Technical Assistance on February 7th. For training materials [http://programdesign.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Mount_Vernon_Continuum_of_Care_for_the_Homeless#Manuals.2FTraining_Material click here]. 

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===RESOURCES===
====PowerPoint presentation explaining the process for annual re-certification of clients in Westchester CoC projects====
*[[media:CoC_recertification_meeting_0710.pptx|Download the PowerPoint presentation]]
====''Mandatory new county-wide Intake and Exit Forms for Continuum of Care projects, revised according to new HUD 2010 Data Standards''====
* [[media:Westchester_CoC_2010_Intake_Form_2.pdf‎|Continuum of Care Intake Form]] revised according to new HUD 2010 Data Standards
* [[media:Westchester_CoC_2010_Exit_Form_v2.pdf‎‎|Continuum of Care Exit Form]] revised according to new HUD 2010 Data Standards
* [[media:Annual_Assessment_Form.pdf‎‎|Form for Annual Reassessment of Clients]] according to new HUD 2010 Data Standards
* [[media:Housing_Status_Definitions.doc|New Housing Status Definitions]] according to new HUD 2010 Data Standards

====[[media:2010_Government_officials-rev.doc|List of Government officials serving Westchester County residents for 2010]]====

==== ''Mt. Vernon FY 2008 Continuum of Care application documents'' ====

[http://www.programdesign.com/wiki/MVCOCH_FY08appdocs Go to City of Mt. Vernon FY 2008 application document page]

==== ''Westchester's Continuum of Care application'' ====
===== ''Westchester's FY09 Continuum of Care application'' =====
* [[Media: FY09_Exhibit_1_export.pdf‎‎|Exhibit 1 from Westchester's FY09 Consolidated Continuum of Care Application]] 
Exhibit 1 from Westchester County's FY09 consolidated application to HUD's Continuum of Care for the Homeless program outlines Westchester's resources and strategies in a cumbersome and not very reader-friendly format mandated by HUD. Nonetheless, this document is the most comprehensive available description of Westchester's housing and services for the homeless. 

* [[Media: EHIC_2009_NY-604_v7.xls.zip‎| FY09 Westchester County eHousing Inventory]] 
Zipped version of the eHIC file included in the FY09 application Exhibit 1.

===== ''Westchester's FY08 Continuum of Care application'' =====
* [[Media: NY_604_FY_08_Exhibit_1_Final.pdf‎|Exhibit 1 from Westchester's FY08 Consolidated Continuum of Care Application]] 
Exhibit 1 from Westchester County's FY08 consolidated application to HUD's Continuum of Care for the Homeless program. 

* [[Media:Housing_Inventory_Chart_Rev_2-29-08.doc|Westchester Homeless Housing Inventory, corrected 2/29/08]]
This corrected Housing Inventory (revised 2/29/08) includes an estimate of the unmet need for permanent housing for the homeless in Westchester. This is calculated by taking the number of transitional homeless beds minus permanent housing beds currently under development to derive the number of units needed just to house the homeless people already in transitional housing in Westchester. 
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===== ''Westchester's FY07 Continuum of Care application'' =====
* [[Media:Westchester_County_FY07_CoC_Exhibit_1.pdf‎|Exhibit 1 from Westchester's Consolidated Continuum of Care Application]] 
Exhibit 1 from Westchester County's FY07 consolidated application to HUD's Continuum of Care for the Homeless program outlines Westchester's resources and strategies in a cumbersome and not very reader-friendly format mandated by HUD. Nonetheless, this document is the most comprehensive available description of Westchester's housing and services for the homeless. 

* [[Media:Housing_Inventory_Chart_Rev_2-29-08.doc|Westchester Homeless Housing Inventory, corrected 2/29/08]]
This corrected Housing Inventory (revised 2/29/08) includes an estimate of the unmet need for permanent housing for the homeless in Westchester. This is calculated by taking the number of transitional homeless beds minus permanent housing beds currently under development to derive the number of units needed just to house the homeless people already in transitional housing in Westchester. 
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==== ''HUD Forms and Notices'' ====
''APR Forms''
*[[Media:40118_HUD_APR.doc|HUD APR 40118]] Most Recent HUD APR Form
*[[Media:APR_Worksheet.xls‎|HUD APR Worksheet]] APR Worksheet 
''Documentation Forms''
*[[Media:Homeless_Status.pdf|Homeless Eligibility]] Homeless eligibility form that can be used to document a participant's homeless status.
* [http://www.hud.gov//offices/cpd/homeless/programs/shp/Rent.xls Rent Calculation Form] This form should be used for all S+C and SHP projects with leasing funds for resident rents. For more information and instructions visit [http://www.hudhre.info/index.cfm?do=viewShpDeskguideK Calculating Resident Rent for SHP] and [http://www.hudhre.info/index.cfm?do=viewSpcResourceManSec3-4 Calculating Resident Rent for S+C] on the HUD Resource Exchange site.
''Notices''
*[[Media:HUD_Notice_re_Grants.Gov_Registration.pdf| HUD Notice Re Early Grants.Gov Registration, 3/10/08]] 
This notice provides instructions to potential applicants applying for funding under HUD’s grant programs available through Grants.gov. '''This notice does not pertain to applicants who will be applying in Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 for Continuum of Care funds.''' HUD will publish a separate notice to address the receipt of Continuum of Care applications in FY2008. This notice provides information to help applicants better understand the registration and electronic submission process for HUD applications made available through Grants.gov. Grants.gov is the federal portal for applicants to electronically find and apply for over 1,000 funding opportunities made available by 26 Federal grant-making agencies. 
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==== ''Manuals/Training Material'' ====

''APR Training Materials''
*[http://www.cucs.org/hrc/train/pdf/HUDTAC.pdf Center for Urban Community Services APR Curriculum]
*[http://www.cucs.org/hrc/train/pdf/HUDTAH.pdf Center for Urban Community Services APR Tip Sheet] 

''HUD Manuals''
*[[media: SHP_Deskguide.pdf| SHP Deskguide]]
This updated guide describes the SHP grant process from grant award onward. It will take you through the life cycle of a grant, incorporating everything from very basic information to the intricacies of grant administration. The guide is not a substitute for the SHP regulations. However, it is a practical guide to issues that arise during project implementation.
*[http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/library/shp/finalshptools.PDF SHP Self-Monitoring Tools]
The purpose of the Supportive Housing Program (SHP) Self-Monitoring Tools is to provide SHP project sponsors and grantees with "user-friendly" forms to enable staff to assess their project operations against the standards set by HUD rules and regulations.
*[[Media:S+C_CoC_Manual_1.8.08.pdf‎| Shelter Plus Care Manual ]]
This manual prepared by PD&D combines three HUD online manuals([http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/library/spc/understandingspc/index.cfm Understanding S+C] , [http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/library/spc/resourcemanual/index.cfm S+C Resource Manual], and [http://www.hudhre.info/documents/EnhancingS+C.pdf Enhancing Shelter Plus Care Guide]) as well as other locally developed materials.
*[[Media:AdvancedTopicsInHomelessness.pdf|From Theory to Practice: Advanced Topics in Homelessness]]
Developed by HUD, this presentation provides SHP grantees with information that allows them to effectively address advanced issues of homeless programs as well as new strategies and techniques. Specifically covered are Chronic Homelessness, Housing First & Safe Havens, Case Management and Alternative Match Sources. 
''Chronic Homeless Materials'' 
The following HUD approved materials, from [http://www.hudhre.info/index.cfm HUD Resource Exchange], explains the definition, documentation and verification of chronic homeless. These materials are highly recommended from programs targeting the chronic homeless and programs providing emergency shelter and services to the chronic homeless.

*[http://www.hudhre.info/documents/DefiningChronicHomeless.pdf Defining Chronic Homelessness: A Technical Guide for HUD Programs]
Developed by HUD, this technical guide is intended for non-profit local housing and service providers as well as local government agencies that are under contract with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide housing and related support services to the target population of chronically homeless persons. It is intended to answer frequently asked questions pertaining to the federal definition of chronic homelessness and the standards for qualifying persons for housing under this definition. It also provides suggested templates for forms and letters that may assist providers, government agencies, and their local partners in devising internal mechanisms to certify homeless persons for a program for chronically homeless persons. 

*[[Media:Guidance_for_Chronic_Homeless_Appendix_v1.doc‎|Technical Guide Templates]]
This document contains the templates referenced in the above Defining Chronic Homelessness Technical Guide. These templates are HUD approved forms used to document and verify chronic homeless status. 

*[[Media:WC_Emergency_vs_Transitional_list.pdf |Westchester County List of Emergency and Transitional Housing Facilities]]
This is the official current definition of which programs in Westchester are considered emergency housing and which are considered transitional housing. These lists come from Westchester County's FY07 Continuum of Care application. This is the list that everyone in Westchester should be using now to determine who is chronically homeless. 

*[http://www.hudhre.info/documents/SHPFinancialManagement.pdf Financial Management and HUD Compliance] 
Developed by Center for Urban Community Services, this guide part of a training series that provides best practices and guidance on supportive housing development, operation and
services.

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====''Other Information about MVCOC''====

''Funding Summary''
*[[Media:MVCoCSumm97-07_1-17-08.doc|Mount Vernon Continuum of Care Summary]]
Summary as of January 3, 2008, includes FY07 awards. 

''Program Contacts''
*[[media:MVCOC_project_description.doc‎|Mount Vernon Continuum of Care Contacts and program descriptions as of June 25, 2008]]

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''Submitting APR''

A. Annual Progress Reports (APRs) must be submitted to the City of Mount Vernon within 45 days of the end of each contract year. 
B. Every contract extension, even if only for one month, requires a separate Annual Progress Report for the period of the contract extension. 
C. Digital copy of the current Annual Progress Report form is available [http://programdesign.com/wiki/MVCOCH#HUD_Forms_and_Notices in HUD Forms and Notices]. 
D. Draft the APR but before submitting a signed copy, email a digital draft to Yoav Spiegel at [mailto:YSpiegel@programdesign.com YSpiegel@programdesign.com] to review. He will check for mathematical errors and inconsistencies, correct dates, project numbers, budget information, etc. Yoav will email back a list of any issues that must be addressed. 
E. Once all necessary corrections are made, email the corrected copy to Yoav once more for a final review. If the draft is correct, Yoav will send an email stating that the review is complete, with a copy to Carmen Sylvester and Karl Bertrand. 
F. After Yoav has confirmed that your draft is correct, mail or hand-deliver five (5) signed copies to: 
Carmen Sylvester, Executive Director 
City of Mount Vernon 
Mt. Vernon Dept. of Planning & Community Development/ Urban Renewal Agency 
City Hall - Roosevelt Square 
Mount Vernon, NY 10550-2060 

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==== ''DSS Worker Phone Lists''====
These documents give names and contact information for Westchester County Department of Social Services district office staff, as of February 2008. 
* [[Media:Yonkers_District_Office_Feb_08.pdf‎|Yonkers district office]] 
* [[Media:Mount_Vernon_District_Office_Feb_08.pdf‎|Mount Vernon district office]] 
* [[Media:White_Plains_District_Office_Feb_08.pdf‎|White Plains district office]] 
* [[Media:Peekskill_District_office_Feb_08.pdf‎|Peekskill district office]] 
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==== ''Ten-Year Plans to End Chronic Homelessness'' ====
* [http://programdesign.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=Ten-Year_Plans Information on Ten-Year Plans to End Chronic Homelessness] 
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==== ''Affordable Housing Resources'' ====
* [[Media:HOUSING_OfficeParkHousingStudy20080313.pdf|Office Park Housing Study, Westchester County Department of Planning, March, 2008.]] 
This study demonstrates the feasibility of building housing, including affordable housing, on underutilized office park land. It used existing sites as case studies to evaluate feasibility, but the findings and tools it provides can be used anywhere. Importantly, it also provides a model zoning ordinance that can be adapted by local governments interested in redevelopment and revitalization of such properties. 
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==== ''Other Resources''====
* [[Media:LSHV-MV_flyer_2-08.pdf‎|Legal Services of the Hudson Valley]] 
Legal Services of the Hudson Valley has opened a new office in Mount Vernon. This flyer describes the services available and tells how to contact them. 
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==== ''Grants.gov Registration'' ====
If your agency ever wants to get another federal grant directly from the federal government, it should have registered with grants.gov. If it hasn't already done so, please visit [http://grants.gov/applicants/organization_registration.jsp grants.gov]for registration instructions. 

==== ''Reports and Articles''====
[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/us/29foodstamps.html The Safety Net - Food Stamp Use Soars, and Stigma Fades] New York Times 11,29,2009

Follow the links in this section to access or order cutting-edge publications addressing the galaxy of homelessness issues. 
[[media: GainingCommunityAcceptance.pdf ‎ | Gaining Community Acceptance]] 

This classic 1991 report was prepared by UCLA's Michael Dear, for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to provide a framework to assist human services professionals confronted with the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) Syndrome. The report provides a detailed examination of the factors determining community opposition, a summary of experiences of neighborhood outreach options; as well as a "blueprint" for community outreach and a guide to further resources. Click on the report title to learn how to obtain a copy. 

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YJCEC

2011-02-24T20:19:55Z

Jmuffler: /* UPCOMING EVENTS */

This collaboration, facilitated by the Yonkers Police Department, is developing and implementing a coordinated Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan to reduce violent juvenile crime in Yonkers, New York. 
=== UPCOMING EVENTS ===
'''NEXT MEETING''' Date: '''Wednesday''', '''March 9, 2011''' Note the new meeting day for this and subsequent meetings. Time: 12:00 
Location: Yonkers Riverfront Library, (across from Yonkers train station) Notes: Lunch provided. [http://www.ypl.org/rivparkinfo.htm Directions] 

This meeting will follow meetings of the Yonkers Truancy Reduction Strategy Group (YTRSG) 
This will be joint meeting with the Yonkers Weed & Seed Steering Committee and Yonkers Drug Free Communities Coalition

'''FUTURE 2011 MEETING DATES'''
* April 13, 2011
* May 11, 2011
* June 7, 2011
* July 13, 2011
* August 10, 2011
* September 14, 2011
* October 12, 2011
* November 9, 2011
* December 14, 2011
Any changes in meeting dates will be posted on this page. 

===PREVIOUS MEETINGS===
* January 18, 2011
* December 8, 2010
** [[media:YJCECMinutes12-8-10a.doc|December 2010 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:Yonkers_DFC_letters.pdf|Letters sent to store owners and the editor of the Journal News by Yonkers DFC Coordinator Nychelle Walcott]]
* November 10, 2010
* October 8, 2010
* September 8, 2010
** [[media:YJCECMinutes9-8-10a.doc|September 2010 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:Year_3_Performance_Targets.doc|Performance targets for YJCEC activities funded by Year 3 of DCJS grant]]
** [[media:YJCEC_Y2_Q4_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS.doc|Year 2 Quarter 4 BBBS Implementation Progress Report]]
** [[media:YJCEC_Y2_Q4_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFP.doc|Year 2 Quarter 4 SFP Implementation Progress Report]]
* July 20, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes7-20-10.doc|July 2010 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:Year_3_Performance_Targets.doc|Performance targets for YJCEC activities funded by Year 3 of DCJS grant]]
**[[media:YJCECYear3Budgetv4a.xls|Budget for YJCEC activities funded by Year 3 of DCJS grant]]
* June 15, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes6-15-10.doc|June 2010 meeting minutes]]
* May 18, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes5-18-10.doc|May 2010 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:YJCEC_Y2_Q3_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS.doc|Year 2 Quarter 3 BBBS Implementation Progress Report]]
**[[media:YJCEC_Y2_Q3_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFP.doc‎|Year 2 Quarter 3 SFP Implementation Progress Report]]
* April 20, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes4-20-10.doc|April 2010 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:Year_2_SFP_cycles_chart.doc|Revised chart showing planned SFP cycles by agency in Year 2 of DCJS grant]]
* March 16, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes3-16-10.doc|March 2010 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:SFP_Program_NEW_Intake_Form_3a.doc‎|Intake form for data collection on all SFP clients funded by DCJS grant in Yonkers]]
**[[media:Strengthening_Families_weekly_attendance_form.doc‎|Weekly attendance form for data collection on all SFP clients funded by DCJS grant in Yonkers]]
**[[media:Year_2_SFP-calendar_v4b.xls|Yonkers SFP calendar, as of 3/15/2010]]
* February 16, 2010
**[[media:YJCEC_DATA_REPORT_FEB2010_v2.doc|Juvenile arrest data report provided by T. Saunders]]
**[[media:Year_2_SFP-calendar_v5a.xls|Yonkers SFP calendar, as of 2/15/2010]]
**[[media:DCJS_Progress_Report_October_-_December_2009.doc|Year 2 Quarter 2 BBBS Implementation Progress Report]]
**[[media:SFP_Year_2_Quarter_2_Implementation_Progress_Report.doc|Year 2 Quarter 2 SFP Implementation Progress Report]]
* January 19, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes01-19-10.doc‎|January 2010 meeting minutes]]
* November 17, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes11-17-09.doc|November 2009 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:Spanish-SES_Application-SINI-2009_Dodson.doc|School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services (SES) Application - Spanish]]
**[[media:SES_Application-SINI-Yeargeneral_registration_09.doc|School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services (SES) Application - English]]
**[[media:SES_Schools_List.doc|Yonkers Schools In Need of Improvement list 2008-9]]
**[[media:SINI_Letter_School_13_spanish.pdf|Yonkers Schools In Need of Improvement letter - Spanish]]
**[[media:SINI_Letter_School_13.pdf|Yonkers School In Need of Improvement letter - English]]
* October 20, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes10-20-09.doc|October 2009 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:2009_YJCEC_budget_F.pdf‎|DCJS grant Year 3 budget summary grid]]
* September 15, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes9-15-09.doc|September 2009 meeting minutes]]
**[[Media:YJCEC_Year_2_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS_v2a.doc | Year 2 Big Brothers Big Sisters Implementation Progress Reporting Form revised per 9/15 meeting]]
**[[Media:YJCEC_Year_2_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFPv2a.doc‎ | Year 2 Strengthening Families Implementation Progress Reporting Form revised per 9/15 meeting]]
* August 18, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes8-18-09v2.doc|August 2009 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:BBBS_End_Y1_progress_stats.doc|Big Brother Big Sister Year 1 year-end implementation statistics]]
** [[media:SFP_End_Y1_progress_stats.doc|Strengthening Families Program Year 1 year-end implementation statistics]]
** [[media:Andrus_End_Y1_progress_stats.doc|Andrus suspension intervention program Year 1 year-end implementation statistics]]
* July 20, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes7-20-09.doc|July 2009 meeting minutes]]
* June 16, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes6-16-09.doc|June 2009 meeting minutes]]
* May 19, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes5-19-09a.doc‎|May 2009 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:Progress_Report_OJJDP_Juvenile_Justice_Title_II_08-09_Q4.doc|Year 1 Fourth Quarter YJCEC progress report]]
* April 21, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes4-21-09a.doc‎|April 2009 meeting minutes]]
* March 17, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes3-17-09a.doc‎|March 2009 meeting minutes]]
* February 17, 2009 [[media:YJCEC_Minutes_2-17-09a.doc‎|February 2009 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:YJCEC Year1 Q3_Progress_Report.doc|Year 1 Third Quarter YJCEC progress report]]
* January 12, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes1-12-09b.doc|January 2009 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:ConsortiumSched_1-12-09.doc|Download the 2009 Yonkers Crime Consortium meeting schedule distributed at the Jan. meeting]]
**[[media:2009Strengthening_Families_SchedB.xls|Download the early 2009 SFP session calendar distributed at the Jan. meeting]]

* December 8, 2008 [[media:YJCECMinutes12-08-08a.doc|December 2008 meeting minutes]]
* November 10, 2008 [[Media:YJCECMinutes11-10-08b.doc|November 2008 meeting minutes]]
* October 20, 2008 [[Media:YJCECMinutes10-20-08.doc|October 2008 meeting minutes]]
* September 8, 2008 [[Media:YJCECMinutes9-8-08F2.doc|September 2008 meeting minutes]]

===COMPLETE 2010 MEETING SCHEDULE===
YJCEC meetings will be held on the '''2nd Wednesday of the month at 12 noon''': 

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| 12th
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| February
| 9th
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| March
| 9th
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| April
| 13th
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| May
| 11th
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| June
| 7th
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| July
| 13th
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|August
| 10th
|- style
|September
| 14th
|- style="background:grey"
| October
| 12th
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| November
| 9th
|- style="background:grey"
| December
| 14th
|}

=== OTHER NOTICES ===
====Year 3 funding has been approved with a 50% funding reduction from Year 2====
Funding wil continue for Year 3 of the DCJS grant, with a 50% reduction in funding and a 50% match requirement making up the remainder of funding. See 10/20/09 meeting above for more details.
====[[media:2010_Government_officials-rev.doc|List of Government officials serving Westchester County residents for 2010]]====
====2010 Strengthening Families Program session dates====
New cycles of Strengthening Families Program for Children 6-11 and Chirldren 10-14 are starting in early 2010.
SCHEDULE HAS BEEN REVISED- Please download the new calendar.

'''[[media:2009_Year_2_SFP-calendar_v2a.xls|Download the REVISED late 2009 calendar for Strengthening Family Program sessions in Yonkers]]'''

====DCJS site visit====
DCJS Criminal Justice Program Representative Katie Nastars met with YJCEC members during a site visit on September 23rd. Ms. Nastars was able to talk with staff from FSW Big Brothers Big Sisters, Andrus Children's Center, Yonkers Police Department, and PD&D about the programs funded by DCJS in Yonkers and coordinated by the YJCEC.

====Year 2 funding has been approved with 2% funding reduction from Year 1====
Funding will continue for Year 2 of the grant, at a 2% reduction to $196,000 in NYS DCJS funds to implement our YJCEC strategy. 

Year 2 contract period begins April 1, 2009.

====2008-09 Contract has been approved====
Our application for $200,000 in NYS DCJS funding to implement our YJCEC strategy has been approved and fully funded! 

The DCJS contract was executed on October 16th for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2008.

====Implementation Progress Reporting====
Implementation Progress Reports are due from all service agencies at the end of each quarter. Data from the Progress Reports is complied for inclusion in quarterly reports required by DCJS.

<blockquote>Next due date for Progress Reports to be sent to Yoav Spiegel at [mailto:YSpiegel@programdesign.com YSpiegel@programdesign.com] is: 
'''January 12, 2010'''</blockquote>

[[media:RevisedYJCECprogressreportCALENDAR.xls|Click here to download the complete 2009 Schedule for Implementation Progrees Report collection]]

Implementation Progress Report forms are available here:

http://www.programdesign.com/wiki/YJCEC#Implementation_Reporting_Forms

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=== RESOURCES ===
National Youth Violence Prevention Week Announced
In recognition of National Youth Violence Prevention Week (March 31 to April 4, 2008), NCJRS has created a Youth Violence Special Feature. This special feature contains publications and resources concerning gun violence, violence in schools, youth gang activity, and the prevention of youth violence. Links to research and statistics related to youth violence are also included. (NCJRS) Below is the address:

[http://www.ncjrs.gov/yviolence/ http://www.ncjrs.gov/yviolence]

===== ''Yonkers Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan'' =====
* [[Media:YJCEC_Action_Plan_Summary-9_page.pdf|Overview of Yonkers' Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, final draft as released 4/8/08, 9 pages]]
* [[Media:Yonkers_Juvenile_Justice_Strategy_and_Action_Plan-narrative.pdf‎|Main body of Yonkers' Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, final draft as released 4/8/08, 62 pages]]
* [[Media:YJCEC_Action_Plan_Appendices_137_pages_F.pdf‎|Appendices for Yonkers' Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, final draft as released 4/8/08, 137 pages]] 
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===== ''Evidence-Based Targeting'' =====
This material explains "Evidence-Based Targeting," a new concept developed in Yonkers that offers communities across America the opportunity to dramatically enhance their juvenile crime prevention efforts by targeting limited prevention resources to higher-risk groups where those efforts can have an exponentially greater impact on reducing juvenile crime. 
* [[Media:EBT_Significance.doc|Significance of Evidence-Based Targeting]] 
This one-page handout outlines the significance of "evidence-based targeting" and how it can benefit communities, service providers, and funders. 
* [[Media:Evidence-Based_Targeting_Overview.pdf|Overview of Evidence-Based Targeting]] 
This 9-page handout gives a more detailed overview of "evidence-based targeting" and includes sample forms that illustrate how service providers and funders could use Yonkers data to calculate an "estimated baseline" for their delinquency prevention programs. 
* [[Media:Pyramid_of_Risk_charts.doc|Charts illustrating the Pyramid of Risk (Word format)]] 
Here are two charts (in Word format) that illustrate Evidence-Based Targeting. Unlike earlier visual representations that presented the data in tabular form, these charts now display the Pyramid as a pyramid. The first shows the % of kids in each group who get arrested within 3 years. The second shows the # of arrests over 3 years per 100 kids in each group. The second chart shows an even greater disparity as you move up the pyramid because a higher proportion of higher-risk kids get arrested and they get arrested more often. 
* [[Media:Pyramid_of_Risk_charts.ppt|Charts illustrating the Pyramid of Risk (Powerpoint format)]] 
Here are the same two charts in PowerPoint format. 
* [[Media:NYS_DCJS_Presentation_on_Evidence-Based_Targeting.ppt|DCJS conference presentation re Evidence-Based Targeting, delivered 2/6/08]] 
This PowerPoint presentation gives a brief overview of Evidence-Based Targeting and shows how it helps you concentrate your efforts where they can have the greatest potential impact by focusing on specific groups at highest risk for juvenile crime.
* [http://changingthecourt.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_08.html Center for Court Innovation article about Karl Bertrand’s presentation to NYS DCJS on Evidence-Based Targeting, 2/8/08]
The Center for Court Innovation published an weblog article on February 8, 2008 about the presentation on Evidence-Based Targeting Karl Bertrand made recently to a statewide conference sponsored by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. The article appeared in a Center for Court Innovation blog called "Changing the Court: A chronicle of how a group of planners and practitioners are attempting to change the Bronx court system's approach to low-level criminal offending." It was written by Claibourne Henry, Youth Development Coordinator. One of the article's conclusions is: "By targeting the right population, programs can conserve time, funding and avoid combing through the hundreds and thousands of other individuals who fall into a general target population, but aren’t necessarily at high risk of being arrested." 
* [[Media:Youth-Violence_Reduction_Making_the_case_for_evidence_based_strategies.ppt‎|OJJDP conference presentation re Evidence-Based Targeting, delivered 8/19/08]] 
This is the Powerpoint presentation on Evidence-Based Targeting that Karl Bertrand delivered at the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) "Charting the Course: Developing Effective Plans for the Future" conference in Nashville. 
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===== ''Chronic Truancy Prevention'' =====
* [http://programdesign.com/wiki/Yonkers_Truancy Yonkers Truancy Reduction Strategy Group ] 
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===== ''Evidence-Based Interventions'' =====
* [[Media:PreventingCrime-_WhatWorks,_What_Doesn't,_What's_Promising.doc|Preventing Crime- What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising]]
This Report to Congress, funded by the National Institute of Justice, is a comprehensive review of decades of research on the effectiveness of every major crime reduction strategy supported by the U.S. Department of Justice. This resource is invaluable for anyone trying to allocate scarce prevention resources to interventions with the strongest evidence of effectiveness.

* [[Media:Preventing_Crime--What_Works-Summary.pdf|Summary of "Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising]]
This 19-page "Research in Brief" from the National Institute of Justice summarizes the major conclusions of a comprehensive review of decades of evidence for the effectiveness of every major crime prevention strategy.

* [http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/rptfiles/04-07-3901.pdf Benefits and Costs of Prevention and Early Intervention Programs for Youth]
This study includes a table listing benefits, costs, and benefits per dollar of cost for 61 common evidence-based model programs.

* [http://www.dsgonline.com/mpg2.5/mpg_index.htm|OJJDP Model Programs Guide] 
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs Guide (MPG) is designed to assist practitioners and communities in implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention programs that can make a difference in the lives of children and communities. The MPG database of evidence-based programs covers the entire continuum of youth services from prevention through sanctions to reentry. The MPG can be used to assist juvenile justice practitioners, administrators, and researchers to enhance accountability, ensure public safety, and reduce recidivism. The MPG is an easy-to-use tool that offers a database of scientifically-proven programs that address a range of issues, including substance abuse, mental health, and education programs. 

* [http://guide.helpingamericasyouth.gov| Helping America's Youth] 
The Helping America's Youth (HAY) website provides a Community Guide to Helping America's Youth. It provides strategies and tools to help communities form effective partnerships, assess community needs, and identify evidence-based programs. You can search the database of evidence-based programs by risk factor, protective factor, or keyword. All of the programs featured in the HAY database have demonstrated results in accordance with widely accepted scientific criteria for program effectiveness. The following federal agencies worked together to identify programs for the HAY Program Tool: the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Office for National Drug Control Policy, and the Corporation for National and Community Service. 

* [http://www.strengtheningfamiliesprogram.org/index.html| Strengthening Families Program] 
This is one of the evidence-based models that will be replicated in Yonkers by the YJCEC. The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is a nationally and internationally recognized parenting and family strengthening program for high-risk families. SFP is an evidence-based family skills training program found to significantly reduce problem behaviors, delinquency, and alcohol and drug abuse in children and to improve social competencies and school performance. Child maltreatment also decreases as parents strengthen bonds with their children and learn more effective parenting skills. SFP was developed and found effective on a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) research grant in the early 1980s. More than 15 subsequent independent replications have found similar positive results with families in many different ethnic groups. Both culturally adapted versions and the core version of SFP have been found effective with African-American, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander, and First Nations families. The original SFP for high-risk families with children ages 6 to 11 years (SFP6-11) was joined in the early 1990’s by a shorter 7-session version for low-risk families with pre- and early teens (SFP10-14). SFP6-11 has now been joined by 14-session versions for high-risk families with both younger children (SFP3-5) and early teens (SFP12-16). 

'''[[media:2009Strengthening_Families_SchedA.xls|Download the early 2009 calendar for Strengthening Family Program sessions in Yonkers]]'''

* [http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/pub.asp?docid=07-06-1201| Evidence-Based Juvenile Offender Programs: Program Description, Quality Assurance, and Cost] 
Six juvenile offender programs identified by Institute as evidence-based are profiled through program descriptions, quality assurance information, and cost-benefit figures. By Elizabeth Drake, Washington State Institute for Public Policy, June 2007. 
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=====''Implementation Reporting Forms''=====
Current Year 2 forms
*[[Media:YJCEC_Year_2_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS_v2a.doc | Current Year 2 Big Brothers Big Sisters Form]]
*[[Media: YJCEC_Year_2_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFPv2a.doc‎ | Current Year 2 Strengthening Families Form]]

(Year 1 forms)
*[[Media:YJCEC_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS_F3R.doc | Year 1 Big Brothers Big Sisters Form]]
*[[Media: YJCEC_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFP_F3.doc‎ | Year 1 Strengthening Families Form]]
*[[Media:YJCEC_Implementation_Progress_Report_Andrus_F.doc | Year 1 Suspension Intervention Form]]

===== ''Disproportionate Minority Contact'' =====
* [[Media:Disproportionate Minority Contact TA manual.pdf|OJJDP Disproportionate Minority Contact Technical Assistance Manual, 2006]] 
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===== ''Other Criminal Justice Information and Resources'' =====
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/15/opinion/15blow.html Getting Smart on Crime]
Policy makers are beginning to recognize that draconian mandatory sentencing laws are illogical - sociologically and economically. Op-Ed by Charles M. Blow
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/us/10juvenile.html Mentally Ill Offenders Strain Juvenile System]
As cash-starved states slash mental health programs in communities and schools, they are increasingly relying on the juvenile corrections system to handle a generation of young offenders with psychiatric disorders. About two-thirds of the nation’s juvenile inmates — who numbered 92,854 in 2006, down from 107,000 in 1999 — have at least one mental illness, according to surveys of youth prisons, and are more in need of therapy than punishment.
*[http://www.ncmhjj.com/Blueprint/pdfs/Blueprint.pdf Blueprint for Change: A Comprehensive Model for the Identification and Treatment of Youth with Mental Health Needs in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System]
Blueprint for Change: A Comprehensive Model for the Identification and Treatment of Youth with Mental Health Needs in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System represents four years of work to develop a conceptual and practical framework for juvenile justice and mental health systems to use when developing strategies, policies, and services aimed at improving mental health services for youth involved with the juvenile justice system. The Model, which sets the highest goals for systems to work toward, summarizes what we now know about the best way to identify and treat mental disorders among youth at key stages of juvenile justice processing, and offers recommendations, guidelines, and examples for how best to do this.
**[http://www.ncmhjj.com/Blueprint/pdfs/ProgramBrief_06_06.pdf A Blueprint for Change: Improving the System Response to Youth with Mental Health Needs Involved with the Juvenile Justice System]
Research and Program Brief

*[http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/pdf_counter/process_email.php?pdf=http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/PDFfpS06.pdf Focal Point Summer 2006]
This issue of Focal Point describes the need for, and provides examples of, new strategies for meeting the mental health needs of children and adolescents involved with the juvenile justice system.

* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23392251/ 1 in 100 Americans behind bars, report finds]
NEW YORK - For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting America’s rank as the world’s No. 1 incarcerator. It urges states to curtail corrections spending by placing fewer low-risk offenders behind bars. Prison spending ballooned from $11 billion to $49 billion in 2 decades. “Getting tough on criminals has gotten tough on taxpayers,” said the project’s director, Adam Gelb. “For some groups, the incarceration numbers are especially startling,” the report said. “While one in 30 men between the ages of 20 and 34 is behind bars, for black males in that age group the figure is one in nine.” 

* [http://members.jointogether.org/jointogether/join.html Sign up for Join Together Updates]
Join Together is a project of the Boston University School of Public Health. Since 1991, Join Together has supported community-based efforts to advance effective alcohol and drug policy, prevention, and treatment. Join Together leads initiatives to help communities respond to the harms caused by excessive alcohol and drug use and provides free internet services supporting their efforts. The link above takes you to a site where you can sign up to receive any of the following free internet resources: Daily News Edition, Weekly News Roundup, the monthly Treatment Practitioner's Research Bulletin, or the Funding News Weekly. 
* [https://www.ncjrs.gov/index.html National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)]
The NCJRS site has links to a wide variety of publications, research, and grant information. Major categories include Corrections, Courts, Crime, Crime Prevention, Drugs, Justice System, Juvenile Justice, Law Enforcement, and Victims. 
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YJCEC

2011-02-24T20:18:48Z

Jmuffler: /* UPCOMING EVENTS */

This collaboration, facilitated by the Yonkers Police Department, is developing and implementing a coordinated Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan to reduce violent juvenile crime in Yonkers, New York. 
=== UPCOMING EVENTS ===
'''NEXT MEETING''' Date: '''Wednesday''', '''March 9, 2011''' Note the new meeting day for this and subsequent meetings. Time: 12:00 
Location: Yonkers Riverfront Library, (across from Yonkers train station) Notes: Lunch provided. [http://www.ypl.org/rivparkinfo.htm Directions] 

This meeting will follow meetings of the Yonkers Truancy Reduction Strategy Group (YTRSG) 
This will be joint meeting with the Yonkers Weed & Seed Steering Committee and Yonkers Drug Free Communities Coalition

'''FUTURE 2011 MEETING DATES'''
* March 9, 2011
* April 13, 2011
* May 11, 2011
* June 7, 2011
* July 13, 2011
* August 10, 2011
* September 14, 2011
* October 12, 2011
* November 9, 2011
* December 14, 2011
Any changes in meeting dates will be posted on this page. 

===PREVIOUS MEETINGS===
* January 18, 2011
* December 8, 2010
** [[media:YJCECMinutes12-8-10a.doc|December 2010 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:Yonkers_DFC_letters.pdf|Letters sent to store owners and the editor of the Journal News by Yonkers DFC Coordinator Nychelle Walcott]]
* November 10, 2010
* October 8, 2010
* September 8, 2010
** [[media:YJCECMinutes9-8-10a.doc|September 2010 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:Year_3_Performance_Targets.doc|Performance targets for YJCEC activities funded by Year 3 of DCJS grant]]
** [[media:YJCEC_Y2_Q4_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS.doc|Year 2 Quarter 4 BBBS Implementation Progress Report]]
** [[media:YJCEC_Y2_Q4_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFP.doc|Year 2 Quarter 4 SFP Implementation Progress Report]]
* July 20, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes7-20-10.doc|July 2010 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:Year_3_Performance_Targets.doc|Performance targets for YJCEC activities funded by Year 3 of DCJS grant]]
**[[media:YJCECYear3Budgetv4a.xls|Budget for YJCEC activities funded by Year 3 of DCJS grant]]
* June 15, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes6-15-10.doc|June 2010 meeting minutes]]
* May 18, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes5-18-10.doc|May 2010 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:YJCEC_Y2_Q3_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS.doc|Year 2 Quarter 3 BBBS Implementation Progress Report]]
**[[media:YJCEC_Y2_Q3_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFP.doc‎|Year 2 Quarter 3 SFP Implementation Progress Report]]
* April 20, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes4-20-10.doc|April 2010 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:Year_2_SFP_cycles_chart.doc|Revised chart showing planned SFP cycles by agency in Year 2 of DCJS grant]]
* March 16, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes3-16-10.doc|March 2010 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:SFP_Program_NEW_Intake_Form_3a.doc‎|Intake form for data collection on all SFP clients funded by DCJS grant in Yonkers]]
**[[media:Strengthening_Families_weekly_attendance_form.doc‎|Weekly attendance form for data collection on all SFP clients funded by DCJS grant in Yonkers]]
**[[media:Year_2_SFP-calendar_v4b.xls|Yonkers SFP calendar, as of 3/15/2010]]
* February 16, 2010
**[[media:YJCEC_DATA_REPORT_FEB2010_v2.doc|Juvenile arrest data report provided by T. Saunders]]
**[[media:Year_2_SFP-calendar_v5a.xls|Yonkers SFP calendar, as of 2/15/2010]]
**[[media:DCJS_Progress_Report_October_-_December_2009.doc|Year 2 Quarter 2 BBBS Implementation Progress Report]]
**[[media:SFP_Year_2_Quarter_2_Implementation_Progress_Report.doc|Year 2 Quarter 2 SFP Implementation Progress Report]]
* January 19, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes01-19-10.doc‎|January 2010 meeting minutes]]
* November 17, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes11-17-09.doc|November 2009 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:Spanish-SES_Application-SINI-2009_Dodson.doc|School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services (SES) Application - Spanish]]
**[[media:SES_Application-SINI-Yeargeneral_registration_09.doc|School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services (SES) Application - English]]
**[[media:SES_Schools_List.doc|Yonkers Schools In Need of Improvement list 2008-9]]
**[[media:SINI_Letter_School_13_spanish.pdf|Yonkers Schools In Need of Improvement letter - Spanish]]
**[[media:SINI_Letter_School_13.pdf|Yonkers School In Need of Improvement letter - English]]
* October 20, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes10-20-09.doc|October 2009 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:2009_YJCEC_budget_F.pdf‎|DCJS grant Year 3 budget summary grid]]
* September 15, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes9-15-09.doc|September 2009 meeting minutes]]
**[[Media:YJCEC_Year_2_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS_v2a.doc | Year 2 Big Brothers Big Sisters Implementation Progress Reporting Form revised per 9/15 meeting]]
**[[Media:YJCEC_Year_2_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFPv2a.doc‎ | Year 2 Strengthening Families Implementation Progress Reporting Form revised per 9/15 meeting]]
* August 18, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes8-18-09v2.doc|August 2009 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:BBBS_End_Y1_progress_stats.doc|Big Brother Big Sister Year 1 year-end implementation statistics]]
** [[media:SFP_End_Y1_progress_stats.doc|Strengthening Families Program Year 1 year-end implementation statistics]]
** [[media:Andrus_End_Y1_progress_stats.doc|Andrus suspension intervention program Year 1 year-end implementation statistics]]
* July 20, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes7-20-09.doc|July 2009 meeting minutes]]
* June 16, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes6-16-09.doc|June 2009 meeting minutes]]
* May 19, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes5-19-09a.doc‎|May 2009 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:Progress_Report_OJJDP_Juvenile_Justice_Title_II_08-09_Q4.doc|Year 1 Fourth Quarter YJCEC progress report]]
* April 21, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes4-21-09a.doc‎|April 2009 meeting minutes]]
* March 17, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes3-17-09a.doc‎|March 2009 meeting minutes]]
* February 17, 2009 [[media:YJCEC_Minutes_2-17-09a.doc‎|February 2009 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:YJCEC Year1 Q3_Progress_Report.doc|Year 1 Third Quarter YJCEC progress report]]
* January 12, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes1-12-09b.doc|January 2009 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:ConsortiumSched_1-12-09.doc|Download the 2009 Yonkers Crime Consortium meeting schedule distributed at the Jan. meeting]]
**[[media:2009Strengthening_Families_SchedB.xls|Download the early 2009 SFP session calendar distributed at the Jan. meeting]]

* December 8, 2008 [[media:YJCECMinutes12-08-08a.doc|December 2008 meeting minutes]]
* November 10, 2008 [[Media:YJCECMinutes11-10-08b.doc|November 2008 meeting minutes]]
* October 20, 2008 [[Media:YJCECMinutes10-20-08.doc|October 2008 meeting minutes]]
* September 8, 2008 [[Media:YJCECMinutes9-8-08F2.doc|September 2008 meeting minutes]]

===COMPLETE 2010 MEETING SCHEDULE===
YJCEC meetings will be held on the '''2nd Wednesday of the month at 12 noon''': 

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Month
! Day
|-
| January
| 12th
|- style="background:grey"
| February
| 9th
|-
| March
| 9th
|- style="background:grey"
| April
| 13th
|-
| May
| 11th
|- style="background:grey"
| June
| 7th
|-
| July
| 13th
|- style="background:grey"
|August
| 10th
|- style
|September
| 14th
|- style="background:grey"
| October
| 12th
|-
| November
| 9th
|- style="background:grey"
| December
| 14th
|}

=== OTHER NOTICES ===
====Year 3 funding has been approved with a 50% funding reduction from Year 2====
Funding wil continue for Year 3 of the DCJS grant, with a 50% reduction in funding and a 50% match requirement making up the remainder of funding. See 10/20/09 meeting above for more details.
====[[media:2010_Government_officials-rev.doc|List of Government officials serving Westchester County residents for 2010]]====
====2010 Strengthening Families Program session dates====
New cycles of Strengthening Families Program for Children 6-11 and Chirldren 10-14 are starting in early 2010.
SCHEDULE HAS BEEN REVISED- Please download the new calendar.

'''[[media:2009_Year_2_SFP-calendar_v2a.xls|Download the REVISED late 2009 calendar for Strengthening Family Program sessions in Yonkers]]'''

====DCJS site visit====
DCJS Criminal Justice Program Representative Katie Nastars met with YJCEC members during a site visit on September 23rd. Ms. Nastars was able to talk with staff from FSW Big Brothers Big Sisters, Andrus Children's Center, Yonkers Police Department, and PD&D about the programs funded by DCJS in Yonkers and coordinated by the YJCEC.

====Year 2 funding has been approved with 2% funding reduction from Year 1====
Funding will continue for Year 2 of the grant, at a 2% reduction to $196,000 in NYS DCJS funds to implement our YJCEC strategy. 

Year 2 contract period begins April 1, 2009.

====2008-09 Contract has been approved====
Our application for $200,000 in NYS DCJS funding to implement our YJCEC strategy has been approved and fully funded! 

The DCJS contract was executed on October 16th for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2008.

====Implementation Progress Reporting====
Implementation Progress Reports are due from all service agencies at the end of each quarter. Data from the Progress Reports is complied for inclusion in quarterly reports required by DCJS.

<blockquote>Next due date for Progress Reports to be sent to Yoav Spiegel at [mailto:YSpiegel@programdesign.com YSpiegel@programdesign.com] is: 
'''January 12, 2010'''</blockquote>

[[media:RevisedYJCECprogressreportCALENDAR.xls|Click here to download the complete 2009 Schedule for Implementation Progrees Report collection]]

Implementation Progress Report forms are available here:

http://www.programdesign.com/wiki/YJCEC#Implementation_Reporting_Forms

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=== RESOURCES ===
National Youth Violence Prevention Week Announced
In recognition of National Youth Violence Prevention Week (March 31 to April 4, 2008), NCJRS has created a Youth Violence Special Feature. This special feature contains publications and resources concerning gun violence, violence in schools, youth gang activity, and the prevention of youth violence. Links to research and statistics related to youth violence are also included. (NCJRS) Below is the address:

[http://www.ncjrs.gov/yviolence/ http://www.ncjrs.gov/yviolence]

===== ''Yonkers Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan'' =====
* [[Media:YJCEC_Action_Plan_Summary-9_page.pdf|Overview of Yonkers' Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, final draft as released 4/8/08, 9 pages]]
* [[Media:Yonkers_Juvenile_Justice_Strategy_and_Action_Plan-narrative.pdf‎|Main body of Yonkers' Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, final draft as released 4/8/08, 62 pages]]
* [[Media:YJCEC_Action_Plan_Appendices_137_pages_F.pdf‎|Appendices for Yonkers' Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, final draft as released 4/8/08, 137 pages]] 
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===== ''Evidence-Based Targeting'' =====
This material explains "Evidence-Based Targeting," a new concept developed in Yonkers that offers communities across America the opportunity to dramatically enhance their juvenile crime prevention efforts by targeting limited prevention resources to higher-risk groups where those efforts can have an exponentially greater impact on reducing juvenile crime. 
* [[Media:EBT_Significance.doc|Significance of Evidence-Based Targeting]] 
This one-page handout outlines the significance of "evidence-based targeting" and how it can benefit communities, service providers, and funders. 
* [[Media:Evidence-Based_Targeting_Overview.pdf|Overview of Evidence-Based Targeting]] 
This 9-page handout gives a more detailed overview of "evidence-based targeting" and includes sample forms that illustrate how service providers and funders could use Yonkers data to calculate an "estimated baseline" for their delinquency prevention programs. 
* [[Media:Pyramid_of_Risk_charts.doc|Charts illustrating the Pyramid of Risk (Word format)]] 
Here are two charts (in Word format) that illustrate Evidence-Based Targeting. Unlike earlier visual representations that presented the data in tabular form, these charts now display the Pyramid as a pyramid. The first shows the % of kids in each group who get arrested within 3 years. The second shows the # of arrests over 3 years per 100 kids in each group. The second chart shows an even greater disparity as you move up the pyramid because a higher proportion of higher-risk kids get arrested and they get arrested more often. 
* [[Media:Pyramid_of_Risk_charts.ppt|Charts illustrating the Pyramid of Risk (Powerpoint format)]] 
Here are the same two charts in PowerPoint format. 
* [[Media:NYS_DCJS_Presentation_on_Evidence-Based_Targeting.ppt|DCJS conference presentation re Evidence-Based Targeting, delivered 2/6/08]] 
This PowerPoint presentation gives a brief overview of Evidence-Based Targeting and shows how it helps you concentrate your efforts where they can have the greatest potential impact by focusing on specific groups at highest risk for juvenile crime.
* [http://changingthecourt.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_08.html Center for Court Innovation article about Karl Bertrand’s presentation to NYS DCJS on Evidence-Based Targeting, 2/8/08]
The Center for Court Innovation published an weblog article on February 8, 2008 about the presentation on Evidence-Based Targeting Karl Bertrand made recently to a statewide conference sponsored by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. The article appeared in a Center for Court Innovation blog called "Changing the Court: A chronicle of how a group of planners and practitioners are attempting to change the Bronx court system's approach to low-level criminal offending." It was written by Claibourne Henry, Youth Development Coordinator. One of the article's conclusions is: "By targeting the right population, programs can conserve time, funding and avoid combing through the hundreds and thousands of other individuals who fall into a general target population, but aren’t necessarily at high risk of being arrested." 
* [[Media:Youth-Violence_Reduction_Making_the_case_for_evidence_based_strategies.ppt‎|OJJDP conference presentation re Evidence-Based Targeting, delivered 8/19/08]] 
This is the Powerpoint presentation on Evidence-Based Targeting that Karl Bertrand delivered at the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) "Charting the Course: Developing Effective Plans for the Future" conference in Nashville. 
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===== ''Chronic Truancy Prevention'' =====
* [http://programdesign.com/wiki/Yonkers_Truancy Yonkers Truancy Reduction Strategy Group ] 
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===== ''Evidence-Based Interventions'' =====
* [[Media:PreventingCrime-_WhatWorks,_What_Doesn't,_What's_Promising.doc|Preventing Crime- What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising]]
This Report to Congress, funded by the National Institute of Justice, is a comprehensive review of decades of research on the effectiveness of every major crime reduction strategy supported by the U.S. Department of Justice. This resource is invaluable for anyone trying to allocate scarce prevention resources to interventions with the strongest evidence of effectiveness.

* [[Media:Preventing_Crime--What_Works-Summary.pdf|Summary of "Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising]]
This 19-page "Research in Brief" from the National Institute of Justice summarizes the major conclusions of a comprehensive review of decades of evidence for the effectiveness of every major crime prevention strategy.

* [http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/rptfiles/04-07-3901.pdf Benefits and Costs of Prevention and Early Intervention Programs for Youth]
This study includes a table listing benefits, costs, and benefits per dollar of cost for 61 common evidence-based model programs.

* [http://www.dsgonline.com/mpg2.5/mpg_index.htm|OJJDP Model Programs Guide] 
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs Guide (MPG) is designed to assist practitioners and communities in implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention programs that can make a difference in the lives of children and communities. The MPG database of evidence-based programs covers the entire continuum of youth services from prevention through sanctions to reentry. The MPG can be used to assist juvenile justice practitioners, administrators, and researchers to enhance accountability, ensure public safety, and reduce recidivism. The MPG is an easy-to-use tool that offers a database of scientifically-proven programs that address a range of issues, including substance abuse, mental health, and education programs. 

* [http://guide.helpingamericasyouth.gov| Helping America's Youth] 
The Helping America's Youth (HAY) website provides a Community Guide to Helping America's Youth. It provides strategies and tools to help communities form effective partnerships, assess community needs, and identify evidence-based programs. You can search the database of evidence-based programs by risk factor, protective factor, or keyword. All of the programs featured in the HAY database have demonstrated results in accordance with widely accepted scientific criteria for program effectiveness. The following federal agencies worked together to identify programs for the HAY Program Tool: the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Office for National Drug Control Policy, and the Corporation for National and Community Service. 

* [http://www.strengtheningfamiliesprogram.org/index.html| Strengthening Families Program] 
This is one of the evidence-based models that will be replicated in Yonkers by the YJCEC. The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is a nationally and internationally recognized parenting and family strengthening program for high-risk families. SFP is an evidence-based family skills training program found to significantly reduce problem behaviors, delinquency, and alcohol and drug abuse in children and to improve social competencies and school performance. Child maltreatment also decreases as parents strengthen bonds with their children and learn more effective parenting skills. SFP was developed and found effective on a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) research grant in the early 1980s. More than 15 subsequent independent replications have found similar positive results with families in many different ethnic groups. Both culturally adapted versions and the core version of SFP have been found effective with African-American, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander, and First Nations families. The original SFP for high-risk families with children ages 6 to 11 years (SFP6-11) was joined in the early 1990’s by a shorter 7-session version for low-risk families with pre- and early teens (SFP10-14). SFP6-11 has now been joined by 14-session versions for high-risk families with both younger children (SFP3-5) and early teens (SFP12-16). 

'''[[media:2009Strengthening_Families_SchedA.xls|Download the early 2009 calendar for Strengthening Family Program sessions in Yonkers]]'''

* [http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/pub.asp?docid=07-06-1201| Evidence-Based Juvenile Offender Programs: Program Description, Quality Assurance, and Cost] 
Six juvenile offender programs identified by Institute as evidence-based are profiled through program descriptions, quality assurance information, and cost-benefit figures. By Elizabeth Drake, Washington State Institute for Public Policy, June 2007. 
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=====''Implementation Reporting Forms''=====
Current Year 2 forms
*[[Media:YJCEC_Year_2_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS_v2a.doc | Current Year 2 Big Brothers Big Sisters Form]]
*[[Media: YJCEC_Year_2_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFPv2a.doc‎ | Current Year 2 Strengthening Families Form]]

(Year 1 forms)
*[[Media:YJCEC_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS_F3R.doc | Year 1 Big Brothers Big Sisters Form]]
*[[Media: YJCEC_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFP_F3.doc‎ | Year 1 Strengthening Families Form]]
*[[Media:YJCEC_Implementation_Progress_Report_Andrus_F.doc | Year 1 Suspension Intervention Form]]

===== ''Disproportionate Minority Contact'' =====
* [[Media:Disproportionate Minority Contact TA manual.pdf|OJJDP Disproportionate Minority Contact Technical Assistance Manual, 2006]] 
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===== ''Other Criminal Justice Information and Resources'' =====
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/15/opinion/15blow.html Getting Smart on Crime]
Policy makers are beginning to recognize that draconian mandatory sentencing laws are illogical - sociologically and economically. Op-Ed by Charles M. Blow
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/us/10juvenile.html Mentally Ill Offenders Strain Juvenile System]
As cash-starved states slash mental health programs in communities and schools, they are increasingly relying on the juvenile corrections system to handle a generation of young offenders with psychiatric disorders. About two-thirds of the nation’s juvenile inmates — who numbered 92,854 in 2006, down from 107,000 in 1999 — have at least one mental illness, according to surveys of youth prisons, and are more in need of therapy than punishment.
*[http://www.ncmhjj.com/Blueprint/pdfs/Blueprint.pdf Blueprint for Change: A Comprehensive Model for the Identification and Treatment of Youth with Mental Health Needs in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System]
Blueprint for Change: A Comprehensive Model for the Identification and Treatment of Youth with Mental Health Needs in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System represents four years of work to develop a conceptual and practical framework for juvenile justice and mental health systems to use when developing strategies, policies, and services aimed at improving mental health services for youth involved with the juvenile justice system. The Model, which sets the highest goals for systems to work toward, summarizes what we now know about the best way to identify and treat mental disorders among youth at key stages of juvenile justice processing, and offers recommendations, guidelines, and examples for how best to do this.
**[http://www.ncmhjj.com/Blueprint/pdfs/ProgramBrief_06_06.pdf A Blueprint for Change: Improving the System Response to Youth with Mental Health Needs Involved with the Juvenile Justice System]
Research and Program Brief

*[http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/pdf_counter/process_email.php?pdf=http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/PDFfpS06.pdf Focal Point Summer 2006]
This issue of Focal Point describes the need for, and provides examples of, new strategies for meeting the mental health needs of children and adolescents involved with the juvenile justice system.

* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23392251/ 1 in 100 Americans behind bars, report finds]
NEW YORK - For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting America’s rank as the world’s No. 1 incarcerator. It urges states to curtail corrections spending by placing fewer low-risk offenders behind bars. Prison spending ballooned from $11 billion to $49 billion in 2 decades. “Getting tough on criminals has gotten tough on taxpayers,” said the project’s director, Adam Gelb. “For some groups, the incarceration numbers are especially startling,” the report said. “While one in 30 men between the ages of 20 and 34 is behind bars, for black males in that age group the figure is one in nine.” 

* [http://members.jointogether.org/jointogether/join.html Sign up for Join Together Updates]
Join Together is a project of the Boston University School of Public Health. Since 1991, Join Together has supported community-based efforts to advance effective alcohol and drug policy, prevention, and treatment. Join Together leads initiatives to help communities respond to the harms caused by excessive alcohol and drug use and provides free internet services supporting their efforts. The link above takes you to a site where you can sign up to receive any of the following free internet resources: Daily News Edition, Weekly News Roundup, the monthly Treatment Practitioner's Research Bulletin, or the Funding News Weekly. 
* [https://www.ncjrs.gov/index.html National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)]
The NCJRS site has links to a wide variety of publications, research, and grant information. Major categories include Corrections, Courts, Crime, Crime Prevention, Drugs, Justice System, Juvenile Justice, Law Enforcement, and Victims. 
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YJCEC

2011-02-24T20:15:14Z

Jmuffler: /* UPCOMING EVENTS */

This collaboration, facilitated by the Yonkers Police Department, is developing and implementing a coordinated Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan to reduce violent juvenile crime in Yonkers, New York. 
=== UPCOMING EVENTS ===
'''NEXT MEETING''' Date: '''Wednesday''', '''March 9, 2011''' Note the new meeting day for this and subsequent meetings. Time: 12:00 
Location: Yonkers Riverfront Library, (across from Yonkers train station) Notes: Lunch provided. [http://www.ypl.org/rivparkinfo.htm Directions] 

This meeting will follow meetings of the Yonkers Truancy Reduction Strategy Group (YTRSG) 
This will be joint meeting with the Yonkers Weed & Seed Steering Committee and Yonkers Drug Free Communities Coalition

'''FUTURE 2011 MEETING DATES'''
* March 9, 2011
* April 13, 2011
* May 11, 2011
* June 7, 2011
* July 13, 2011
* August 10, 2011
* September 14, 2011
* October 12, 2011
* November 14, 2011
* December 14, 2011
Any changes in meeting dates will be posted on this page. 

===PREVIOUS MEETINGS===
* January 18, 2011
* December 8, 2010
** [[media:YJCECMinutes12-8-10a.doc|December 2010 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:Yonkers_DFC_letters.pdf|Letters sent to store owners and the editor of the Journal News by Yonkers DFC Coordinator Nychelle Walcott]]
* November 10, 2010
* October 8, 2010
* September 8, 2010
** [[media:YJCECMinutes9-8-10a.doc|September 2010 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:Year_3_Performance_Targets.doc|Performance targets for YJCEC activities funded by Year 3 of DCJS grant]]
** [[media:YJCEC_Y2_Q4_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS.doc|Year 2 Quarter 4 BBBS Implementation Progress Report]]
** [[media:YJCEC_Y2_Q4_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFP.doc|Year 2 Quarter 4 SFP Implementation Progress Report]]
* July 20, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes7-20-10.doc|July 2010 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:Year_3_Performance_Targets.doc|Performance targets for YJCEC activities funded by Year 3 of DCJS grant]]
**[[media:YJCECYear3Budgetv4a.xls|Budget for YJCEC activities funded by Year 3 of DCJS grant]]
* June 15, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes6-15-10.doc|June 2010 meeting minutes]]
* May 18, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes5-18-10.doc|May 2010 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:YJCEC_Y2_Q3_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS.doc|Year 2 Quarter 3 BBBS Implementation Progress Report]]
**[[media:YJCEC_Y2_Q3_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFP.doc‎|Year 2 Quarter 3 SFP Implementation Progress Report]]
* April 20, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes4-20-10.doc|April 2010 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:Year_2_SFP_cycles_chart.doc|Revised chart showing planned SFP cycles by agency in Year 2 of DCJS grant]]
* March 16, 2010
**[[media:YJCECMinutes3-16-10.doc|March 2010 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:SFP_Program_NEW_Intake_Form_3a.doc‎|Intake form for data collection on all SFP clients funded by DCJS grant in Yonkers]]
**[[media:Strengthening_Families_weekly_attendance_form.doc‎|Weekly attendance form for data collection on all SFP clients funded by DCJS grant in Yonkers]]
**[[media:Year_2_SFP-calendar_v4b.xls|Yonkers SFP calendar, as of 3/15/2010]]
* February 16, 2010
**[[media:YJCEC_DATA_REPORT_FEB2010_v2.doc|Juvenile arrest data report provided by T. Saunders]]
**[[media:Year_2_SFP-calendar_v5a.xls|Yonkers SFP calendar, as of 2/15/2010]]
**[[media:DCJS_Progress_Report_October_-_December_2009.doc|Year 2 Quarter 2 BBBS Implementation Progress Report]]
**[[media:SFP_Year_2_Quarter_2_Implementation_Progress_Report.doc|Year 2 Quarter 2 SFP Implementation Progress Report]]
* January 19, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes01-19-10.doc‎|January 2010 meeting minutes]]
* November 17, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes11-17-09.doc|November 2009 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:Spanish-SES_Application-SINI-2009_Dodson.doc|School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services (SES) Application - Spanish]]
**[[media:SES_Application-SINI-Yeargeneral_registration_09.doc|School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services (SES) Application - English]]
**[[media:SES_Schools_List.doc|Yonkers Schools In Need of Improvement list 2008-9]]
**[[media:SINI_Letter_School_13_spanish.pdf|Yonkers Schools In Need of Improvement letter - Spanish]]
**[[media:SINI_Letter_School_13.pdf|Yonkers School In Need of Improvement letter - English]]
* October 20, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes10-20-09.doc|October 2009 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:2009_YJCEC_budget_F.pdf‎|DCJS grant Year 3 budget summary grid]]
* September 15, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes9-15-09.doc|September 2009 meeting minutes]]
**[[Media:YJCEC_Year_2_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS_v2a.doc | Year 2 Big Brothers Big Sisters Implementation Progress Reporting Form revised per 9/15 meeting]]
**[[Media:YJCEC_Year_2_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFPv2a.doc‎ | Year 2 Strengthening Families Implementation Progress Reporting Form revised per 9/15 meeting]]
* August 18, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes8-18-09v2.doc|August 2009 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:BBBS_End_Y1_progress_stats.doc|Big Brother Big Sister Year 1 year-end implementation statistics]]
** [[media:SFP_End_Y1_progress_stats.doc|Strengthening Families Program Year 1 year-end implementation statistics]]
** [[media:Andrus_End_Y1_progress_stats.doc|Andrus suspension intervention program Year 1 year-end implementation statistics]]
* July 20, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes7-20-09.doc|July 2009 meeting minutes]]
* June 16, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes6-16-09.doc|June 2009 meeting minutes]]
* May 19, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes5-19-09a.doc‎|May 2009 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:Progress_Report_OJJDP_Juvenile_Justice_Title_II_08-09_Q4.doc|Year 1 Fourth Quarter YJCEC progress report]]
* April 21, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes4-21-09a.doc‎|April 2009 meeting minutes]]
* March 17, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes3-17-09a.doc‎|March 2009 meeting minutes]]
* February 17, 2009 [[media:YJCEC_Minutes_2-17-09a.doc‎|February 2009 meeting minutes]]
** [[media:YJCEC Year1 Q3_Progress_Report.doc|Year 1 Third Quarter YJCEC progress report]]
* January 12, 2009 [[media:YJCECMinutes1-12-09b.doc|January 2009 meeting minutes]]
**[[media:ConsortiumSched_1-12-09.doc|Download the 2009 Yonkers Crime Consortium meeting schedule distributed at the Jan. meeting]]
**[[media:2009Strengthening_Families_SchedB.xls|Download the early 2009 SFP session calendar distributed at the Jan. meeting]]

* December 8, 2008 [[media:YJCECMinutes12-08-08a.doc|December 2008 meeting minutes]]
* November 10, 2008 [[Media:YJCECMinutes11-10-08b.doc|November 2008 meeting minutes]]
* October 20, 2008 [[Media:YJCECMinutes10-20-08.doc|October 2008 meeting minutes]]
* September 8, 2008 [[Media:YJCECMinutes9-8-08F2.doc|September 2008 meeting minutes]]

===COMPLETE 2010 MEETING SCHEDULE===
YJCEC meetings will be held on the '''2nd Wednesday of the month at 12 noon''': 

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Month
! Day
|-
| January
| 12th
|- style="background:grey"
| February
| 9th
|-
| March
| 9th
|- style="background:grey"
| April
| 13th
|-
| May
| 11th
|- style="background:grey"
| June
| 7th
|-
| July
| 13th
|- style="background:grey"
|August
| 10th
|- style
|September
| 14th
|- style="background:grey"
| October
| 12th
|-
| November
| 9th
|- style="background:grey"
| December
| 14th
|}

=== OTHER NOTICES ===
====Year 3 funding has been approved with a 50% funding reduction from Year 2====
Funding wil continue for Year 3 of the DCJS grant, with a 50% reduction in funding and a 50% match requirement making up the remainder of funding. See 10/20/09 meeting above for more details.
====[[media:2010_Government_officials-rev.doc|List of Government officials serving Westchester County residents for 2010]]====
====2010 Strengthening Families Program session dates====
New cycles of Strengthening Families Program for Children 6-11 and Chirldren 10-14 are starting in early 2010.
SCHEDULE HAS BEEN REVISED- Please download the new calendar.

'''[[media:2009_Year_2_SFP-calendar_v2a.xls|Download the REVISED late 2009 calendar for Strengthening Family Program sessions in Yonkers]]'''

====DCJS site visit====
DCJS Criminal Justice Program Representative Katie Nastars met with YJCEC members during a site visit on September 23rd. Ms. Nastars was able to talk with staff from FSW Big Brothers Big Sisters, Andrus Children's Center, Yonkers Police Department, and PD&D about the programs funded by DCJS in Yonkers and coordinated by the YJCEC.

====Year 2 funding has been approved with 2% funding reduction from Year 1====
Funding will continue for Year 2 of the grant, at a 2% reduction to $196,000 in NYS DCJS funds to implement our YJCEC strategy. 

Year 2 contract period begins April 1, 2009.

====2008-09 Contract has been approved====
Our application for $200,000 in NYS DCJS funding to implement our YJCEC strategy has been approved and fully funded! 

The DCJS contract was executed on October 16th for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2008.

====Implementation Progress Reporting====
Implementation Progress Reports are due from all service agencies at the end of each quarter. Data from the Progress Reports is complied for inclusion in quarterly reports required by DCJS.

<blockquote>Next due date for Progress Reports to be sent to Yoav Spiegel at [mailto:YSpiegel@programdesign.com YSpiegel@programdesign.com] is: 
'''January 12, 2010'''</blockquote>

[[media:RevisedYJCECprogressreportCALENDAR.xls|Click here to download the complete 2009 Schedule for Implementation Progrees Report collection]]

Implementation Progress Report forms are available here:

http://www.programdesign.com/wiki/YJCEC#Implementation_Reporting_Forms

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=== RESOURCES ===
National Youth Violence Prevention Week Announced
In recognition of National Youth Violence Prevention Week (March 31 to April 4, 2008), NCJRS has created a Youth Violence Special Feature. This special feature contains publications and resources concerning gun violence, violence in schools, youth gang activity, and the prevention of youth violence. Links to research and statistics related to youth violence are also included. (NCJRS) Below is the address:

[http://www.ncjrs.gov/yviolence/ http://www.ncjrs.gov/yviolence]

===== ''Yonkers Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan'' =====
* [[Media:YJCEC_Action_Plan_Summary-9_page.pdf|Overview of Yonkers' Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, final draft as released 4/8/08, 9 pages]]
* [[Media:Yonkers_Juvenile_Justice_Strategy_and_Action_Plan-narrative.pdf‎|Main body of Yonkers' Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, final draft as released 4/8/08, 62 pages]]
* [[Media:YJCEC_Action_Plan_Appendices_137_pages_F.pdf‎|Appendices for Yonkers' Juvenile Justice Strategy and Action Plan, final draft as released 4/8/08, 137 pages]] 
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===== ''Evidence-Based Targeting'' =====
This material explains "Evidence-Based Targeting," a new concept developed in Yonkers that offers communities across America the opportunity to dramatically enhance their juvenile crime prevention efforts by targeting limited prevention resources to higher-risk groups where those efforts can have an exponentially greater impact on reducing juvenile crime. 
* [[Media:EBT_Significance.doc|Significance of Evidence-Based Targeting]] 
This one-page handout outlines the significance of "evidence-based targeting" and how it can benefit communities, service providers, and funders. 
* [[Media:Evidence-Based_Targeting_Overview.pdf|Overview of Evidence-Based Targeting]] 
This 9-page handout gives a more detailed overview of "evidence-based targeting" and includes sample forms that illustrate how service providers and funders could use Yonkers data to calculate an "estimated baseline" for their delinquency prevention programs. 
* [[Media:Pyramid_of_Risk_charts.doc|Charts illustrating the Pyramid of Risk (Word format)]] 
Here are two charts (in Word format) that illustrate Evidence-Based Targeting. Unlike earlier visual representations that presented the data in tabular form, these charts now display the Pyramid as a pyramid. The first shows the % of kids in each group who get arrested within 3 years. The second shows the # of arrests over 3 years per 100 kids in each group. The second chart shows an even greater disparity as you move up the pyramid because a higher proportion of higher-risk kids get arrested and they get arrested more often. 
* [[Media:Pyramid_of_Risk_charts.ppt|Charts illustrating the Pyramid of Risk (Powerpoint format)]] 
Here are the same two charts in PowerPoint format. 
* [[Media:NYS_DCJS_Presentation_on_Evidence-Based_Targeting.ppt|DCJS conference presentation re Evidence-Based Targeting, delivered 2/6/08]] 
This PowerPoint presentation gives a brief overview of Evidence-Based Targeting and shows how it helps you concentrate your efforts where they can have the greatest potential impact by focusing on specific groups at highest risk for juvenile crime.
* [http://changingthecourt.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_08.html Center for Court Innovation article about Karl Bertrand’s presentation to NYS DCJS on Evidence-Based Targeting, 2/8/08]
The Center for Court Innovation published an weblog article on February 8, 2008 about the presentation on Evidence-Based Targeting Karl Bertrand made recently to a statewide conference sponsored by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. The article appeared in a Center for Court Innovation blog called "Changing the Court: A chronicle of how a group of planners and practitioners are attempting to change the Bronx court system's approach to low-level criminal offending." It was written by Claibourne Henry, Youth Development Coordinator. One of the article's conclusions is: "By targeting the right population, programs can conserve time, funding and avoid combing through the hundreds and thousands of other individuals who fall into a general target population, but aren’t necessarily at high risk of being arrested." 
* [[Media:Youth-Violence_Reduction_Making_the_case_for_evidence_based_strategies.ppt‎|OJJDP conference presentation re Evidence-Based Targeting, delivered 8/19/08]] 
This is the Powerpoint presentation on Evidence-Based Targeting that Karl Bertrand delivered at the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) "Charting the Course: Developing Effective Plans for the Future" conference in Nashville. 
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===== ''Chronic Truancy Prevention'' =====
* [http://programdesign.com/wiki/Yonkers_Truancy Yonkers Truancy Reduction Strategy Group ] 
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===== ''Evidence-Based Interventions'' =====
* [[Media:PreventingCrime-_WhatWorks,_What_Doesn't,_What's_Promising.doc|Preventing Crime- What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising]]
This Report to Congress, funded by the National Institute of Justice, is a comprehensive review of decades of research on the effectiveness of every major crime reduction strategy supported by the U.S. Department of Justice. This resource is invaluable for anyone trying to allocate scarce prevention resources to interventions with the strongest evidence of effectiveness.

* [[Media:Preventing_Crime--What_Works-Summary.pdf|Summary of "Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising]]
This 19-page "Research in Brief" from the National Institute of Justice summarizes the major conclusions of a comprehensive review of decades of evidence for the effectiveness of every major crime prevention strategy.

* [http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/rptfiles/04-07-3901.pdf Benefits and Costs of Prevention and Early Intervention Programs for Youth]
This study includes a table listing benefits, costs, and benefits per dollar of cost for 61 common evidence-based model programs.

* [http://www.dsgonline.com/mpg2.5/mpg_index.htm|OJJDP Model Programs Guide] 
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs Guide (MPG) is designed to assist practitioners and communities in implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention programs that can make a difference in the lives of children and communities. The MPG database of evidence-based programs covers the entire continuum of youth services from prevention through sanctions to reentry. The MPG can be used to assist juvenile justice practitioners, administrators, and researchers to enhance accountability, ensure public safety, and reduce recidivism. The MPG is an easy-to-use tool that offers a database of scientifically-proven programs that address a range of issues, including substance abuse, mental health, and education programs. 

* [http://guide.helpingamericasyouth.gov| Helping America's Youth] 
The Helping America's Youth (HAY) website provides a Community Guide to Helping America's Youth. It provides strategies and tools to help communities form effective partnerships, assess community needs, and identify evidence-based programs. You can search the database of evidence-based programs by risk factor, protective factor, or keyword. All of the programs featured in the HAY database have demonstrated results in accordance with widely accepted scientific criteria for program effectiveness. The following federal agencies worked together to identify programs for the HAY Program Tool: the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Office for National Drug Control Policy, and the Corporation for National and Community Service. 

* [http://www.strengtheningfamiliesprogram.org/index.html| Strengthening Families Program] 
This is one of the evidence-based models that will be replicated in Yonkers by the YJCEC. The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is a nationally and internationally recognized parenting and family strengthening program for high-risk families. SFP is an evidence-based family skills training program found to significantly reduce problem behaviors, delinquency, and alcohol and drug abuse in children and to improve social competencies and school performance. Child maltreatment also decreases as parents strengthen bonds with their children and learn more effective parenting skills. SFP was developed and found effective on a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) research grant in the early 1980s. More than 15 subsequent independent replications have found similar positive results with families in many different ethnic groups. Both culturally adapted versions and the core version of SFP have been found effective with African-American, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander, and First Nations families. The original SFP for high-risk families with children ages 6 to 11 years (SFP6-11) was joined in the early 1990’s by a shorter 7-session version for low-risk families with pre- and early teens (SFP10-14). SFP6-11 has now been joined by 14-session versions for high-risk families with both younger children (SFP3-5) and early teens (SFP12-16). 

'''[[media:2009Strengthening_Families_SchedA.xls|Download the early 2009 calendar for Strengthening Family Program sessions in Yonkers]]'''

* [http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/pub.asp?docid=07-06-1201| Evidence-Based Juvenile Offender Programs: Program Description, Quality Assurance, and Cost] 
Six juvenile offender programs identified by Institute as evidence-based are profiled through program descriptions, quality assurance information, and cost-benefit figures. By Elizabeth Drake, Washington State Institute for Public Policy, June 2007. 
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=====''Implementation Reporting Forms''=====
Current Year 2 forms
*[[Media:YJCEC_Year_2_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS_v2a.doc | Current Year 2 Big Brothers Big Sisters Form]]
*[[Media: YJCEC_Year_2_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFPv2a.doc‎ | Current Year 2 Strengthening Families Form]]

(Year 1 forms)
*[[Media:YJCEC_Implementation_Progress_Report_BBBS_F3R.doc | Year 1 Big Brothers Big Sisters Form]]
*[[Media: YJCEC_Implementation_Progress_Report_SFP_F3.doc‎ | Year 1 Strengthening Families Form]]
*[[Media:YJCEC_Implementation_Progress_Report_Andrus_F.doc | Year 1 Suspension Intervention Form]]

===== ''Disproportionate Minority Contact'' =====
* [[Media:Disproportionate Minority Contact TA manual.pdf|OJJDP Disproportionate Minority Contact Technical Assistance Manual, 2006]] 
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===== ''Other Criminal Justice Information and Resources'' =====
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/15/opinion/15blow.html Getting Smart on Crime]
Policy makers are beginning to recognize that draconian mandatory sentencing laws are illogical - sociologically and economically. Op-Ed by Charles M. Blow
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/us/10juvenile.html Mentally Ill Offenders Strain Juvenile System]
As cash-starved states slash mental health programs in communities and schools, they are increasingly relying on the juvenile corrections system to handle a generation of young offenders with psychiatric disorders. About two-thirds of the nation’s juvenile inmates — who numbered 92,854 in 2006, down from 107,000 in 1999 — have at least one mental illness, according to surveys of youth prisons, and are more in need of therapy than punishment.
*[http://www.ncmhjj.com/Blueprint/pdfs/Blueprint.pdf Blueprint for Change: A Comprehensive Model for the Identification and Treatment of Youth with Mental Health Needs in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System]
Blueprint for Change: A Comprehensive Model for the Identification and Treatment of Youth with Mental Health Needs in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System represents four years of work to develop a conceptual and practical framework for juvenile justice and mental health systems to use when developing strategies, policies, and services aimed at improving mental health services for youth involved with the juvenile justice system. The Model, which sets the highest goals for systems to work toward, summarizes what we now know about the best way to identify and treat mental disorders among youth at key stages of juvenile justice processing, and offers recommendations, guidelines, and examples for how best to do this.
**[http://www.ncmhjj.com/Blueprint/pdfs/ProgramBrief_06_06.pdf A Blueprint for Change: Improving the System Response to Youth with Mental Health Needs Involved with the Juvenile Justice System]
Research and Program Brief

*[http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/pdf_counter/process_email.php?pdf=http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/PDFfpS06.pdf Focal Point Summer 2006]
This issue of Focal Point describes the need for, and provides examples of, new strategies for meeting the mental health needs of children and adolescents involved with the juvenile justice system.

* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23392251/ 1 in 100 Americans behind bars, report finds]
NEW YORK - For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting America’s rank as the world’s No. 1 incarcerator. It urges states to curtail corrections spending by placing fewer low-risk offenders behind bars. Prison spending ballooned from $11 billion to $49 billion in 2 decades. “Getting tough on criminals has gotten tough on taxpayers,” said the project’s director, Adam Gelb. “For some groups, the incarceration numbers are especially startling,” the report said. “While one in 30 men between the ages of 20 and 34 is behind bars, for black males in that age group the figure is one in nine.” 

* [http://members.jointogether.org/jointogether/join.html Sign up for Join Together Updates]
Join Together is a project of the Boston University School of Public Health. Since 1991, Join Together has supported community-based efforts to advance effective alcohol and drug policy, prevention, and treatment. Join Together leads initiatives to help communities respond to the harms caused by excessive alcohol and drug use and provides free internet services supporting their efforts. The link above takes you to a site where you can sign up to receive any of the following free internet resources: Daily News Edition, Weekly News Roundup, the monthly Treatment Practitioner's Research Bulletin, or the Funding News Weekly. 
* [https://www.ncjrs.gov/index.html National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)]
The NCJRS site has links to a wide variety of publications, research, and grant information. Major categories include Corrections, Courts, Crime, Crime Prevention, Drugs, Justice System, Juvenile Justice, Law Enforcement, and Victims. 
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HPRP-NewRochelle

2011-02-24T19:42:11Z

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<center>'''New Rochelle Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>
'''Overview:''' The City of New Rochelle’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $686,935 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to prevent evictions of New Rochelle tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less.

The City of New Rochelle’s HPRP contract with HUD began July 17, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 27 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of New Rochelle will serve as grant administrator;
*HOPE Community Services, Inc. will provide one-stop access to New Rochelle’s HPRP program including outreach, program enrollment, case management on issues affecting housing stability, budget counseling, distribution of rent subsidies, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements using a part-time attorney working on-site at HOPE.

'''Major goals:''' This project’s major deliverables include the following:
*'''30''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''30''' households will receive budget counseling,
*'''75''' households will receive case management, and
*'''75''' households will receive legal services.
==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>
'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for New Rochelle HPRP:''' Participants must meet ALL of the following four locally-determined criteria:
#Participants must have been residents of New Rochelle within the last 12 months,
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide documentation including their current lease, evidence of previous and current employment income, and other documents needed to establish eligibility and appropriateness for this program;
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness that were identified in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' Preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>
<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Stephaniee Bennett</center>
<center>HOPE Community Services, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 355-5234</center>
<center>sbennett@hope-cs.org</center><center>[mailto:sbennett@hope-cs.org Stephaniee Bennett]</center> 
== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''NEW ROCHELLE ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 
Time: 10 AM 
Location: HOPE Community Services 
Lower Level 
50 Washington Avenue 

[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&ie=UTF8&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=36.589577,75.849609&t=h&z=4&source=embed Driving Directions] 

'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

April 27 (Date out of sequence due to observance of Passover) 
May 18 
June 15 
July 20 
August 17 
September 21 
October 19 
November 16 
December 21 

== LINKS ==
[[media: NR_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form New Rochelle]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: NR_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | New Rochelle HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-NewRochelle

2011-02-11T19:43:16Z

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<center>'''New Rochelle Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>
'''Overview:''' The City of New Rochelle’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $686,935 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to prevent evictions of New Rochelle tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less.

The City of New Rochelle’s HPRP contract with HUD began July 17, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 27 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of New Rochelle will serve as grant administrator;
*HOPE Community Services, Inc. will provide one-stop access to New Rochelle’s HPRP program including outreach, program enrollment, case management on issues affecting housing stability, budget counseling, distribution of rent subsidies, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements using a part-time attorney working on-site at HOPE.

'''Major goals:''' This project’s major deliverables include the following:
*'''30''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''30''' households will receive budget counseling,
*'''75''' households will receive case management, and
*'''75''' households will receive legal services.
==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>
'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for New Rochelle HPRP:''' Participants must meet ALL of the following four locally-determined criteria:
#Participants must have been residents of New Rochelle within the last 12 months,
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide documentation including their current lease, evidence of previous and current employment income, and other documents needed to establish eligibility and appropriateness for this program;
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness that were identified in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' Preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>
<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Stephaniee Bennett</center>
<center>HOPE Community Services, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 355-5234</center>
<center>sbennett@hope-cs.org</center><center>[mailto:sbennett@hope-cs.org Stephaniee Bennett]</center> 
== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''NEW ROCHELLE ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 
Time: 10 AM 
Location: HOPE Community Services 
Lower Level 
50 Washington Avenue 

[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&ie=UTF8&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=36.589577,75.849609&t=h&z=4&source=embed Driving Directions] 

'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

March 16 
April 27 (Date out of sequence due to observance of Passover) 
May 18 
June 15 
July 20 
August 17 
September 21 
October 19 
November 16 
December 21 

== LINKS ==
[[media: NR_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form New Rochelle]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: NR_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | New Rochelle HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-MtVernon

2011-02-07T19:20:36Z

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<center>'''Mount Vernon Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Mount Vernon’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $745,701 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to prevent evictions of Mount Vernon tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less.

The City of Mount Vernon’s HPRP contract with HUD began July 17, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 27 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Mount Vernon will serve as grant administrator and provide core services including program enrollment, case management on issues affecting housing stability, distribution of rent subsidies, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Mount Vernon United Tenants will provide outreach and pre-screening of potential candidates;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will provide budget counseling.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:
*'''48''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''48''' households will receive case management,
*'''48''' households will receive budget counseling, and
*'''20''' households will receive legal services.
==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>
'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Mount Vernon HPRP:''' Participants must meet ALL of the following four locally-determined criteria:
#Participants must have been residents of Mount Vernon within the last 12 months,
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide documentation including their current lease, evidence of previous and current employment income, and other documents needed to establish eligibility and appropriateness for this program;
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness that were identified in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' Preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>
<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Anne McDermott</center>
<center>Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency</center>
<center>(914) 699-7230 extension 108</center>
<center>amcdermott@ci.mount-vernon.ny.us</center><center>[mailto:amcdermott@ci.mount-vernon.ny.us/ Ann McDermott]</center> 
== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''MT. VERNON ADMINISTRATIVE MEETINGS''' '''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Friday, April 1, 2011 
Time: 11:00AM 
Location: Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
June 3 
August 5 
October 7 

'''MT. VERNON CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Friday, March 4, 2011 
Time: 11:00AM 
Location: Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 
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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
May 6 
July 1 
September 2 
November 4 
 Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency 
City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 

== LINKS ==
[[media: MV_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Mt. Vernon]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: MV_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Mount Vernon HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-Yonkers

2011-02-07T19:17:50Z

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<center>'''Yonkers Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Yonkers’ Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $1,533,003 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to achieve two purposes:
#prevent evictions of Yonkers tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less, and
#help homeless people from Yonkers now living in emergency or transitional housing to move into permanent housing.

The City of Yonkers’ HPRP contract with HUD began July 30, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 20 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Yonkers will serve as grant administrator;
*CLUSTER Housing Resource Center will provide outreach, enrollment, budget counseling, case management on issues affecting housing stability, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will distribute rent subsidies arranged through our Eviction Prevention component and help identify available housing for people who need to find more suitable housing;
*Westhab will manage the Rapid Rehousing component and distribute funds for moving-related expenses arranged in coordination with our Eviction Prevention component.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:

*'''40''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''40''' households will receive budget counseling and case management,
*'''15''' households will receive financial assistance with moving-related costs in order to move to a more suitable apartment as part of their long-term housing stabilization strategy,
*'''100''' households will receive legal services, and
*'''60''' homeless households will move into permanent housing.

==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>

'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Yonkers HPRP:''' All participants must have been residents of Yonkers within the last 12 months (for Eviction Prevention) or within the last 24 months (for Rapid Rehousing).

'''Eviction Prevention recipients must also meet ALL 3 of the following criteria:'''
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide all documentation needed to establish program eligibility and appropriateness (including copy of lease, evidence of income, etc.);
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness listed in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' For Eviction Prevention only, preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>

<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Angela Alcantara</center>
<center>CLUSTER, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 963-6440 extension 232</center>
<center>aalcantara@clusterinc.org</center><center>[mailto:aalcantara@clusterinc.org/ Angela Alcantara]</center>
<center>or</center>
<center>Ms. Yanneris Quintero</center>
<center>Westchester Residential Opportunities, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 376-0063 </center>
<center>yquintero@wroinc.org</center><center>[mailto:yquintero@wroinc.org/ Yanneris Quintero]</center> 

<center>''HPRP Rapid Re-housing (for already homeless households)''</center>
<center>Ms. Reagan Fetter</center>
<center>Westhab, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 345-2800 </center>
<center>Reagan.Fetter@westhab.org</center><center>[mailto:Reagan.Fetter@westhab.org/ Reagan Fetter]</center> 

== UPCOMING EVENTS ==

'''YONKERS ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2011 
Time: '''11:30 AM''' Administrative '''12:00 PM''' Case Management 
Location: Third Floor Conference Room Department of Planning and Development 87 Nepperhan Avenue 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

April 6 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

May 4 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

June 1 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

July 6 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

August 3 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

September 7 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

October 5 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

November 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

December 7 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 
 Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

== LINKS ==
'''FORMS''' 
[[media: Ykrs_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Yonkers]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: Yonkers_flyer_with_Orientation_Info_&_Doc_List_-_June_23.doc‎ | Outreach Screening Flyer]] [[media: Yonkers_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Yonkers HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-NewRochelle

2011-01-31T16:47:38Z

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<center>'''New Rochelle Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>
'''Overview:''' The City of New Rochelle’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $686,935 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to prevent evictions of New Rochelle tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less.

The City of New Rochelle’s HPRP contract with HUD began July 17, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 27 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of New Rochelle will serve as grant administrator;
*HOPE Community Services, Inc. will provide one-stop access to New Rochelle’s HPRP program including outreach, program enrollment, case management on issues affecting housing stability, budget counseling, distribution of rent subsidies, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements using a part-time attorney working on-site at HOPE.

'''Major goals:''' This project’s major deliverables include the following:
*'''30''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''30''' households will receive budget counseling,
*'''75''' households will receive case management, and
*'''75''' households will receive legal services.
==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>
'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for New Rochelle HPRP:''' Participants must meet ALL of the following four locally-determined criteria:
#Participants must have been residents of New Rochelle within the last 12 months,
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide documentation including their current lease, evidence of previous and current employment income, and other documents needed to establish eligibility and appropriateness for this program;
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness that were identified in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' Preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>
<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Stephaniee Bennett</center>
<center>HOPE Community Services, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 355-5234</center>
<center>sbennett@hope-cs.org</center><center>[mailto:sbennett@hope-cs.org Stephaniee Bennett]</center> 
== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''NEW ROCHELLE ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 
Time: 11 AM 
Location: HOPE Community Services 
Lower Level 
50 Washington Avenue 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

March 16 
April 27 (Date out of sequence due to observance of Passover) 
May 18 
June 15 
July 20 
August 17 
September 21 
October 19 
November 16 
December 21 

== LINKS ==
[[media: NR_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form New Rochelle]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: NR_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | New Rochelle HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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[[HPRP-MtVernon | HPRP-MtVernon]]

HPRP-MtVernon

2011-01-31T16:44:37Z

Jmuffler: /* UPCOMING EVENTS */

<center>'''Mount Vernon Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Mount Vernon’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $745,701 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to prevent evictions of Mount Vernon tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less.

The City of Mount Vernon’s HPRP contract with HUD began July 17, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 27 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Mount Vernon will serve as grant administrator and provide core services including program enrollment, case management on issues affecting housing stability, distribution of rent subsidies, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Mount Vernon United Tenants will provide outreach and pre-screening of potential candidates;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will provide budget counseling.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:
*'''48''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''48''' households will receive case management,
*'''48''' households will receive budget counseling, and
*'''20''' households will receive legal services.
==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>
'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Mount Vernon HPRP:''' Participants must meet ALL of the following four locally-determined criteria:
#Participants must have been residents of Mount Vernon within the last 12 months,
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide documentation including their current lease, evidence of previous and current employment income, and other documents needed to establish eligibility and appropriateness for this program;
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness that were identified in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' Preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>
<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Anne McDermott</center>
<center>Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency</center>
<center>(914) 699-7230 extension 108</center>
<center>amcdermott@ci.mount-vernon.ny.us</center><center>[mailto:amcdermott@ci.mount-vernon.ny.us/ Ann McDermott]</center> 
== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''MT. VERNON ADMINISTRATIVE MEETINGS''' '''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Friday, February 4, 2011 
Time: 11:00AM '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
April 1 
June 3 
August 5 
October 7 

'''MT. VERNON CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Friday, March 4, 2011 
Time: 11:00AM 
Location: Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 
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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
May 6 
July 1 
September 2 
November 4 
 Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency 
City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 

== LINKS ==
[[media: MV_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Mt. Vernon]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: MV_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Mount Vernon HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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[[HPRP-Yonkers | HPRP-Yonkers]] 
[[HPRP-NewRochelle | HPRP-NewRochelle]]

HPRP-Yonkers

2011-01-31T16:41:36Z

Jmuffler: /* UPCOMING EVENTS */

<center>'''Yonkers Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Yonkers’ Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $1,533,003 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to achieve two purposes:
#prevent evictions of Yonkers tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less, and
#help homeless people from Yonkers now living in emergency or transitional housing to move into permanent housing.

The City of Yonkers’ HPRP contract with HUD began July 30, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 20 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Yonkers will serve as grant administrator;
*CLUSTER Housing Resource Center will provide outreach, enrollment, budget counseling, case management on issues affecting housing stability, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will distribute rent subsidies arranged through our Eviction Prevention component and help identify available housing for people who need to find more suitable housing;
*Westhab will manage the Rapid Rehousing component and distribute funds for moving-related expenses arranged in coordination with our Eviction Prevention component.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:

*'''40''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''40''' households will receive budget counseling and case management,
*'''15''' households will receive financial assistance with moving-related costs in order to move to a more suitable apartment as part of their long-term housing stabilization strategy,
*'''100''' households will receive legal services, and
*'''60''' homeless households will move into permanent housing.

==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>

'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Yonkers HPRP:''' All participants must have been residents of Yonkers within the last 12 months (for Eviction Prevention) or within the last 24 months (for Rapid Rehousing).

'''Eviction Prevention recipients must also meet ALL 3 of the following criteria:'''
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide all documentation needed to establish program eligibility and appropriateness (including copy of lease, evidence of income, etc.);
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness listed in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' For Eviction Prevention only, preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>

<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Angela Alcantara</center>
<center>CLUSTER, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 963-6440 extension 232</center>
<center>aalcantara@clusterinc.org</center><center>[mailto:aalcantara@clusterinc.org/ Angela Alcantara]</center>
<center>or</center>
<center>Ms. Yanneris Quintero</center>
<center>Westchester Residential Opportunities, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 376-0063 </center>
<center>yquintero@wroinc.org</center><center>[mailto:yquintero@wroinc.org/ Yanneris Quintero]</center> 

<center>''HPRP Rapid Re-housing (for already homeless households)''</center>
<center>Ms. Reagan Fetter</center>
<center>Westhab, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 345-2800 </center>
<center>Reagan.Fetter@westhab.org</center><center>[mailto:Reagan.Fetter@westhab.org/ Reagan Fetter]</center> 

== UPCOMING EVENTS ==

'''YONKERS ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011 '''''NEW DATE and NEW TIME''''' 
Time: '''2:00 PM''' Administrative '''2:30 PM''' Case Management 
Location: Third Floor Conference Room Department of Planning and Development 87 Nepperhan Avenue 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

March 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

April 6 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

May 4 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

June 1 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

July 6 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

August 3 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

September 7 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

October 5 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

November 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

December 7 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 
 Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

== LINKS ==
'''FORMS''' 
[[media: Ykrs_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Yonkers]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: Yonkers_flyer_with_Orientation_Info_&_Doc_List_-_June_23.doc‎ | Outreach Screening Flyer]] [[media: Yonkers_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Yonkers HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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[[HPRP-NewRochelle | HPRP-NewRochelle]]

HPRP-NewRochelle

2011-01-19T21:47:09Z

Jmuffler: /* UPCOMING EVENTS */

<center>'''New Rochelle Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>
'''Overview:''' The City of New Rochelle’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $686,935 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to prevent evictions of New Rochelle tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less.

The City of New Rochelle’s HPRP contract with HUD began July 17, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 27 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of New Rochelle will serve as grant administrator;
*HOPE Community Services, Inc. will provide one-stop access to New Rochelle’s HPRP program including outreach, program enrollment, case management on issues affecting housing stability, budget counseling, distribution of rent subsidies, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements using a part-time attorney working on-site at HOPE.

'''Major goals:''' This project’s major deliverables include the following:
*'''30''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''30''' households will receive budget counseling,
*'''75''' households will receive case management, and
*'''75''' households will receive legal services.
==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>
'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for New Rochelle HPRP:''' Participants must meet ALL of the following four locally-determined criteria:
#Participants must have been residents of New Rochelle within the last 12 months,
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide documentation including their current lease, evidence of previous and current employment income, and other documents needed to establish eligibility and appropriateness for this program;
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness that were identified in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' Preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>
<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Stephaniee Bennett</center>
<center>HOPE Community Services, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 355-5234</center>
<center>sbennett@hope-cs.org</center><center>[mailto:sbennett@hope-cs.org Stephaniee Bennett]</center> 
== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''NEW ROCHELLE ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' Date: Thursday, January 27, 2011 '''''NEW DATE and NEW TIME''''' 
Time: 11 AM 
Location: HOPE Community Services 
Lower Level 
50 Washington Avenue 

[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&ie=UTF8&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=36.589577,75.849609&t=h&z=4&source=embed Driving Directions] 

'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

February 16 
March 16 
April 27 (Date out of sequence due to observance of Passover) 
May 18 
June 15 
July 20 
August 17 
September 21 
October 19 
November 16 
December 21 

== LINKS ==
[[media: NR_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form New Rochelle]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: NR_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | New Rochelle HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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[[HPRP-MtVernon | HPRP-MtVernon]]

HPRP-Yonkers

2011-01-03T18:55:35Z

Jmuffler:

<center>'''Yonkers Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Yonkers’ Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $1,533,003 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to achieve two purposes:
#prevent evictions of Yonkers tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less, and
#help homeless people from Yonkers now living in emergency or transitional housing to move into permanent housing.

The City of Yonkers’ HPRP contract with HUD began July 30, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 20 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Yonkers will serve as grant administrator;
*CLUSTER Housing Resource Center will provide outreach, enrollment, budget counseling, case management on issues affecting housing stability, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will distribute rent subsidies arranged through our Eviction Prevention component and help identify available housing for people who need to find more suitable housing;
*Westhab will manage the Rapid Rehousing component and distribute funds for moving-related expenses arranged in coordination with our Eviction Prevention component.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:

*'''40''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''40''' households will receive budget counseling and case management,
*'''15''' households will receive financial assistance with moving-related costs in order to move to a more suitable apartment as part of their long-term housing stabilization strategy,
*'''100''' households will receive legal services, and
*'''60''' homeless households will move into permanent housing.

==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>

'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Yonkers HPRP:''' All participants must have been residents of Yonkers within the last 12 months (for Eviction Prevention) or within the last 24 months (for Rapid Rehousing).

'''Eviction Prevention recipients must also meet ALL 3 of the following criteria:'''
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide all documentation needed to establish program eligibility and appropriateness (including copy of lease, evidence of income, etc.);
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness listed in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' For Eviction Prevention only, preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>

<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Angela Alcantara</center>
<center>CLUSTER, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 963-6440 extension 232</center>
<center>aalcantara@clusterinc.org</center><center>[mailto:aalcantara@clusterinc.org/ Angela Alcantara]</center>
<center>or</center>
<center>Ms. Yanneris Quintero</center>
<center>Westchester Residential Opportunities, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 376-0063 </center>
<center>yquintero@wroinc.org</center><center>[mailto:yquintero@wroinc.org/ Yanneris Quintero]</center> 

<center>''HPRP Rapid Re-housing (for already homeless households)''</center>
<center>Ms. Reagan Fetter</center>
<center>Westhab, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 345-2800 </center>
<center>Reagan.Fetter@westhab.org</center><center>[mailto:Reagan.Fetter@westhab.org/ Reagan Fetter]</center> 

== UPCOMING EVENTS ==

'''YONKERS ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 '''''NEW DATE''''' 
Time: '''11:30 AM''' Administrative '''12N''' Case Management 
Location: Third Floor Conference Room Department of Planning and Development 87 Nepperhan Avenue 

[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&ie=UTF8&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=36.589577,75.849609&t=h&z=4&source=embed Driving Directions] 

'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
February 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

March 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

April 6 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

May 4 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

June 1 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

July 6 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

August 3 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

September 7 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

October 5 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

November 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

December 7 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 
 Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

== LINKS ==
'''FORMS''' 
[[media: Ykrs_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Yonkers]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: Yonkers_flyer_with_Orientation_Info_&_Doc_List_-_June_23.doc‎ | Outreach Screening Flyer]] [[media: Yonkers_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Yonkers HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

'''JUMP TO PAGE :''' 
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HPRP-Yonkers

2011-01-03T18:36:54Z

Jmuffler:

<center>'''Yonkers Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Yonkers’ Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $1,533,003 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to achieve two purposes:
#prevent evictions of Yonkers tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less, and
#help homeless people from Yonkers now living in emergency or transitional housing to move into permanent housing.

The City of Yonkers’ HPRP contract with HUD began July 30, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 20 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Yonkers will serve as grant administrator;
*CLUSTER Housing Resource Center will provide outreach, enrollment, budget counseling, case management on issues affecting housing stability, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will distribute rent subsidies arranged through our Eviction Prevention component and help identify available housing for people who need to find more suitable housing;
*Westhab will manage the Rapid Rehousing component and distribute funds for moving-related expenses arranged in coordination with our Eviction Prevention component.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:

*'''40''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''40''' households will receive budget counseling and case management,
*'''15''' households will receive financial assistance with moving-related costs in order to move to a more suitable apartment as part of their long-term housing stabilization strategy,
*'''100''' households will receive legal services, and
*'''60''' homeless households will move into permanent housing.

==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>

'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Yonkers HPRP:''' All participants must have been residents of Yonkers within the last 12 months (for Eviction Prevention) or within the last 24 months (for Rapid Rehousing).

'''Eviction Prevention recipients must also meet ALL 3 of the following criteria:'''
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide all documentation needed to establish program eligibility and appropriateness (including copy of lease, evidence of income, etc.);
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness listed in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' For Eviction Prevention only, preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>

<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Angela Alcantara</center>
<center>CLUSTER, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 963-6440 extension 232</center>
<center>aalcantara@clusterinc.org</center><center>[mailto:aalcantara@clusterinc.org/ Angela Alcantara]</center>
<center>or</center>
<center>Ms. Yanneris Quintero</center>
<center>Westchester Residential Opportunities, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 376-0063 extension </center>
<center>yquintero@wroinc.org</center><center>[mailto:yquintero@wroinc.org/ Yanneris Quintero]</center> 

<center>''HPRP Rapid Re-housing (for already homeless households)''</center>
<center>Ms. Reagan Fetter</center>
<center>Westhab, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 345-2800 extension </center>
<center>Reagan.Fetter@westhab.org</center><center>[mailto:Reagan.Fetter@westhab.org/ Reagan Fetter]</center> 

== UPCOMING EVENTS ==

'''YONKERS ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 '''''NEW DATE''''' 
Time: '''11:30 AM''' Administrative '''12N''' Case Management 
Location: Third Floor Conference Room Department of Planning and Development 87 Nepperhan Avenue 

[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&ie=UTF8&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=36.589577,75.849609&t=h&z=4&source=embed Driving Directions] 

'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
February 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

March 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

April 6 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

May 4 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

June 1 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

July 6 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

August 3 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

September 7 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

October 5 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

November 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

December 7 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 
 Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

== LINKS ==
'''FORMS''' 
[[media: Ykrs_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Yonkers]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: Yonkers_flyer_with_Orientation_Info_&_Doc_List_-_June_23.doc‎ | Outreach Screening Flyer]] [[media: Yonkers_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Yonkers HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-Yonkers

2011-01-03T18:25:11Z

Jmuffler:

<center>'''Yonkers Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Yonkers’ Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $1,533,003 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to achieve two purposes:
#prevent evictions of Yonkers tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less, and
#help homeless people from Yonkers now living in emergency or transitional housing to move into permanent housing.

The City of Yonkers’ HPRP contract with HUD began July 30, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 20 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Yonkers will serve as grant administrator;
*CLUSTER Housing Resource Center will provide outreach, enrollment, budget counseling, case management on issues affecting housing stability, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will distribute rent subsidies arranged through our Eviction Prevention component and help identify available housing for people who need to find more suitable housing;
*Westhab will manage the Rapid Rehousing component and distribute funds for moving-related expenses arranged in coordination with our Eviction Prevention component.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:

*'''40''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''40''' households will receive budget counseling and case management,
*'''15''' households will receive financial assistance with moving-related costs in order to move to a more suitable apartment as part of their long-term housing stabilization strategy,
*'''100''' households will receive legal services, and
*'''60''' homeless households will move into permanent housing.

==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>

'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Yonkers HPRP:''' All participants must have been residents of Yonkers within the last 12 months (for Eviction Prevention) or within the last 24 months (for Rapid Rehousing).

'''Eviction Prevention recipients must also meet ALL 3 of the following criteria:'''
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide all documentation needed to establish program eligibility and appropriateness (including copy of lease, evidence of income, etc.);
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness listed in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' For Eviction Prevention only, preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>

<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Angela Alcantara</center>
<center>CLUSTER, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 963-6440 extension 232</center>
<center>aalcantara@clusterinc.org</center><center>[mailto:aalcantara@clusterinc.org/ Angela Alcantara]</center>
<center>or</center>
<center>Ms. Yanneris Quintero</center>
<center>Westchester Residential Opportunities, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 376-0063 extension </center>
<center>yquintero@wroinc.org</center><center>[mailto:yquintero@wroinc.org/ Yanneris Quintero]</center> 

<center>''HPRP Rapid Re-housing (for already homeless households)''</center>
<center>Ms. Reagan Fetter</center>
<center>Westhab, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 968-7627 extension 110</center>
<center>Reagan.Fetter@westhab.org</center><center>[mailto:Reagan.Fetter@westhab.org/ Reagan Fetter]</center> 

== UPCOMING EVENTS ==

'''YONKERS ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 '''''NEW DATE''''' 
Time: '''11:30 AM''' Administrative '''12N''' Case Management 
Location: Third Floor Conference Room Department of Planning and Development 87 Nepperhan Avenue 

[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&ie=UTF8&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=36.589577,75.849609&t=h&z=4&source=embed Driving Directions] 

'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
February 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

March 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

April 6 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

May 4 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

June 1 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

July 6 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

August 3 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

September 7 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

October 5 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

November 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

December 7 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 
 Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

== LINKS ==
'''FORMS''' 
[[media: Ykrs_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Yonkers]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: Yonkers_flyer_with_Orientation_Info_&_Doc_List_-_June_23.doc‎ | Outreach Screening Flyer]] [[media: Yonkers_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Yonkers HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-Yonkers

2011-01-03T16:24:47Z

Jmuffler: /* UPCOMING EVENTS */

<center>'''Yonkers Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Yonkers’ Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $1,533,003 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to achieve two purposes:
#prevent evictions of Yonkers tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less, and
#help homeless people from Yonkers now living in emergency or transitional housing to move into permanent housing.

The City of Yonkers’ HPRP contract with HUD began July 30, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 20 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Yonkers will serve as grant administrator;
*CLUSTER Housing Resource Center will provide outreach, enrollment, budget counseling, case management on issues affecting housing stability, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will distribute rent subsidies arranged through our Eviction Prevention component and help identify available housing for people who need to find more suitable housing;
*Westhab will manage the Rapid Rehousing component and distribute funds for moving-related expenses arranged in coordination with our Eviction Prevention component.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:

*'''40''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''40''' households will receive budget counseling and case management,
*'''15''' households will receive financial assistance with moving-related costs in order to move to a more suitable apartment as part of their long-term housing stabilization strategy,
*'''100''' households will receive legal services, and
*'''60''' homeless households will move into permanent housing.

==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>

'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Yonkers HPRP:''' All participants must have been residents of Yonkers within the last 12 months (for Eviction Prevention) or within the last 24 months (for Rapid Rehousing).

'''Eviction Prevention recipients must also meet ALL 3 of the following criteria:'''
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide all documentation needed to establish program eligibility and appropriateness (including copy of lease, evidence of income, etc.);
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness listed in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' For Eviction Prevention only, preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>

<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Daphne Aponte</center>
<center>CLUSTER, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 963-6440 extension 232</center>
<center>daponte@clusterinc.org</center><center>[mailto:daponte@clusterinc.org/ Daphne Aponte]</center> 

<center>''HPRP Rapid Re-housing (for already homeless households)''</center>
<center>Ms. Tilcia Davis</center>
<center>Westhab, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 968-7627 extension 110</center>
<center>Tilcia.Davis@westhab.org</center><center>[mailto:Tilcia.Davis@westhab.org/ Tilcia Davis]</center> 

== UPCOMING EVENTS ==

'''YONKERS ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 '''''NEW DATE''''' 
Time: '''11:30 AM''' Administrative '''12N''' Case Management 
Location: Third Floor Conference Room Department of Planning and Development 87 Nepperhan Avenue 

[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&ie=UTF8&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=36.589577,75.849609&t=h&z=4&source=embed Driving Directions] 

'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
February 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

March 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

April 6 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

May 4 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

June 1 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

July 6 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

August 3 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

September 7 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

October 5 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

November 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

December 7 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 
 Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

== LINKS ==
'''FORMS''' 
[[media: Ykrs_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Yonkers]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: Yonkers_flyer_with_Orientation_Info_&_Doc_List_-_June_23.doc‎ | Outreach Screening Flyer]] [[media: Yonkers_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Yonkers HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-NewRochelle

2010-12-23T18:23:41Z

Jmuffler: /* UPCOMING EVENTS */

<center>'''New Rochelle Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>
'''Overview:''' The City of New Rochelle’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $686,935 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to prevent evictions of New Rochelle tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less.

The City of New Rochelle’s HPRP contract with HUD began July 17, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 27 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of New Rochelle will serve as grant administrator;
*HOPE Community Services, Inc. will provide one-stop access to New Rochelle’s HPRP program including outreach, program enrollment, case management on issues affecting housing stability, budget counseling, distribution of rent subsidies, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements using a part-time attorney working on-site at HOPE.

'''Major goals:''' This project’s major deliverables include the following:
*'''30''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''30''' households will receive budget counseling,
*'''75''' households will receive case management, and
*'''75''' households will receive legal services.
==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>
'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for New Rochelle HPRP:''' Participants must meet ALL of the following four locally-determined criteria:
#Participants must have been residents of New Rochelle within the last 12 months,
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide documentation including their current lease, evidence of previous and current employment income, and other documents needed to establish eligibility and appropriateness for this program;
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness that were identified in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' Preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>
<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Stephaniee Bennett</center>
<center>HOPE Community Services, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 355-5234</center>
<center>sbennett@hope-cs.org</center><center>[mailto:sbennett@hope-cs.org Stephaniee Bennett]</center> 
== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''NEW ROCHELLE ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 
Time: 10 AM '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: HOPE Community Services 
Lower Level 
50 Washington Avenue 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

February 16 
March 16 
April 27 (Date out of sequence due to observance of Passover) 
May 18 
June 15 
July 20 
August 17 
September 21 
October 19 
November 16 
December 21 

== LINKS ==
[[media: NR_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form New Rochelle]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: NR_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | New Rochelle HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-General

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<center>'''GENERAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</center>
The Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program will provide financial assistance and services to prevent individuals and families from becoming homeless and help those who are experiencing homelessness to be quickly re-housed and stabilized. The funds under this program are intended to target individuals and families who would be homeless '''but for this assistance'''. The funds will provide for a variety of assistance, including: short-term or medium-term rental assistance and housing relocation and stabilization services, including such activities as mediation, credit counseling, security or utility deposits, utility payments, moving cost assistance, and case management. For more information about the national program, and other federal programs addressing homelessness, please visit HUD's HPRP Information Site. [http://hudhre.info/HPRP] 
<center>'''OVERVIEW</center>
<center>'''of the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Programs (HPRP)'''</center>
<center>''' Created by the Cities of Yonkers, Mount Vernon, and New Rochelle'''</center>

The Cities of Yonkers, Mount Vernon, and New Rochelle were each recently awarded federal stimulus money from HUD to create new local Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Programs, often called simply HPRP. HUD used a complex formula to decide how much each city would receive. Yonkers received $1,533,003, Mount Vernon $745,701, and New Rochelle $686,935. HUD requires that most of the money must be spent within 2 years and all must be spent within three years. The HPRP funds can be used for two main purposes:
#to prevent people in rental housing from becoming homeless and
#to help people who are already homeless to move more quickly into permanent housing.

HUD gave cities little time to plan and implement their programs, so Yonkers, Mount Vernon and New Rochelle decided to coordinate their efforts. Each city is administering its own grant, selecting its own strategies and partners, and setting its own local priorities. The result is that the HPRP programs in the 3 cities are similar but have important differences.

All three cities are focusing on eviction prevention. Yonkers is the only one of the three that is also doing a Rapid Rehousing component for the already homeless.

Each city is only serving its own residents. That means that if someone is facing eviction in Yonkers, the only HPRP program they can apply to is Yonkers’. Similarly, residents of Mount Vernon and New Rochelle can only be served by the HPRP programs in their own cities.

All three cities’ HPRP programs have similar eligibility criteria. All HPRP programs must use federal HPRP eligibility criteria, which include that participants’ gross household income cannot exceed 50% of the Area Median Income (AMI). The maximum income allowed is shown below:
:Household Size 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
:Gross Income $ 36,850 42,100 47,400 52,650 56,850 61,050 65,300 69,500

The federal rules prohibit the use of HPRP funds to help pay mortgages. They also require that eviction prevention funds can only be used for households that would lose their housing if not for the assistance provided by HPRP. The 3 cities are also using similar local eligibility criteria for their eviction prevention programs.

#Each will only serve households who have lived in its city within the last 12 months.
#Each will only give eviction prevention services to households with recent housing stability, defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months.
#The cities have decided that participants in their eviction prevention program must have at least 2 of the 18 risk factors for homelessness identified by HUD for the HPRP program. These are listed below in the eligibility criteria for each city.
#Each city is giving priority to serving people who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.
#The eviction prevention assistance available is, by law, time-limited and the amount of funds available cannot meet the needs of every potentially eligible household. As a result, each city will try to achieve the greatest possible impact by selecting households for this program who represent the best balance of urgent current need coupled with strongest potential for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency without further HPRP assistance. 
HPRP also utilizes a ''Steering Committee'' to help facilitate communication, coordination, and problem solving across a wide range of decision-makers. It includes representatives of all grantees, sub-grantees, and a few other key stakeholders. The Steering Committee meets quarterly, by invitation only. 

== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''HPRP STEERING COMMITTEE MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011 '''''NEW DATE - NEW LOCATION''''' 
Time: 1:00PM - 3:00PM 
Location: Second Floor Conference Room Mount Vernon Department of Planning and Community Development Urban Renewal Agency Mount Vernon City Hall Roosevelt Square, Mount Vernon 10550 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

April 21 ~ Yonkers (Location To Be Determined) 
June 16 ~ New Rochelle (Location To Be Determined) 
September 15 ~ White Plains (Location To Be Determined) 
November 17 ~ Mount Vernon (Mount Vernon City Hall) 

== LINKS ==
'''HUD DOCUMENTS''' 
[http://hudhre.info/HPRP Official HUD HPRP Information Site] [[media: HPRP_NoticeRedline_6_08_09.pdf | Original HUD HPRP Announcement]] [[media: HPRP_HousingStatusReqs.pdf | Housing Status Eligibility Determination‎]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDocReqs.pdf‎ | Income Eligibility Determination]] [[media: Habitability_Stndrds.doc‎ | Habitability Standards]] [[media: Habitability_Inspection.doc | Habitability Inspection Requirements]] [[media: ‎Lead-based_Paint.doc‎ | Lead-based Paint Inspection Requirements]] 
'''LOCAL DOCUMENTS''' 
[[media: HPRP_City_Orgx3_F.xls‎ | Organization Charts for the Three Cities]] [[media: 2009_County_AMI.pdf | Westchester County Average Median Income Table]] [[media: DSS_TA_Fact_Sheet.pdf | Temporary Assistance Fact Sheet]]‎ 
[[media: ‎HPRP_ELIGIBILITY2F.doc‎ | Federal and Local Eligibility Criteria]] [[media: Eviction_Prevention_Pgms.doc‎ | Eviction Prevention Programs]] [[media: How_To_Stretch_Agency_Dollars.pdf | Which Housing Situations Can and Cannot Be Saved]] [[media: Summary.doc‎ | Steering Committee Meeting Summary June 24, 2010]] 

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HPRP-NewRochelle

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<center>'''New Rochelle Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>
'''Overview:''' The City of New Rochelle’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $686,935 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to prevent evictions of New Rochelle tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less.

The City of New Rochelle’s HPRP contract with HUD began July 17, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 27 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of New Rochelle will serve as grant administrator;
*HOPE Community Services, Inc. will provide one-stop access to New Rochelle’s HPRP program including outreach, program enrollment, case management on issues affecting housing stability, budget counseling, distribution of rent subsidies, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements using a part-time attorney working on-site at HOPE.

'''Major goals:''' This project’s major deliverables include the following:
*'''30''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''30''' households will receive budget counseling,
*'''75''' households will receive case management, and
*'''75''' households will receive legal services.
==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>
'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for New Rochelle HPRP:''' Participants must meet ALL of the following four locally-determined criteria:
#Participants must have been residents of New Rochelle within the last 12 months,
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide documentation including their current lease, evidence of previous and current employment income, and other documents needed to establish eligibility and appropriateness for this program;
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness that were identified in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' Preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>
<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Stephaniee Bennett</center>
<center>HOPE Community Services, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 355-5234</center>
<center>sbennett@hope-cs.org</center><center>[mailto:sbennett@hope-cs.org Stephaniee Bennett]</center> 
== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''NEW ROCHELLE ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 
Time: 10 AM '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: HOPE Community Services 
Lower Level 
50 Washington Avenue 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

== LINKS ==
[[media: NR_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form New Rochelle]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: NR_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | New Rochelle HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-Yonkers

2010-12-22T21:48:52Z

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<center>'''Yonkers Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Yonkers’ Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $1,533,003 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to achieve two purposes:
#prevent evictions of Yonkers tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less, and
#help homeless people from Yonkers now living in emergency or transitional housing to move into permanent housing.

The City of Yonkers’ HPRP contract with HUD began July 30, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 20 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Yonkers will serve as grant administrator;
*CLUSTER Housing Resource Center will provide outreach, enrollment, budget counseling, case management on issues affecting housing stability, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will distribute rent subsidies arranged through our Eviction Prevention component and help identify available housing for people who need to find more suitable housing;
*Westhab will manage the Rapid Rehousing component and distribute funds for moving-related expenses arranged in coordination with our Eviction Prevention component.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:

*'''40''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''40''' households will receive budget counseling and case management,
*'''15''' households will receive financial assistance with moving-related costs in order to move to a more suitable apartment as part of their long-term housing stabilization strategy,
*'''100''' households will receive legal services, and
*'''60''' homeless households will move into permanent housing.

==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>

'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Yonkers HPRP:''' All participants must have been residents of Yonkers within the last 12 months (for Eviction Prevention) or within the last 24 months (for Rapid Rehousing).

'''Eviction Prevention recipients must also meet ALL 3 of the following criteria:'''
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide all documentation needed to establish program eligibility and appropriateness (including copy of lease, evidence of income, etc.);
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness listed in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' For Eviction Prevention only, preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>

<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Daphne Aponte</center>
<center>CLUSTER, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 963-6440 extension 232</center>
<center>daponte@clusterinc.org</center><center>[mailto:daponte@clusterinc.org/ Daphne Aponte]</center> 

<center>''HPRP Rapid Re-housing (for already homeless households)''</center>
<center>Ms. Tilcia Davis</center>
<center>Westhab, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 968-7627 extension 110</center>
<center>Tilcia.Davis@westhab.org</center><center>[mailto:Tilcia.Davis@westhab.org/ Tilcia Davis]</center> 

== UPCOMING EVENTS ==

'''YONKERS ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Wednesday, January 5, 2011 
Time: '''11:30 AM''' Administrative '''12N''' Case Management '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: Third Floor Conference Room Department of Planning and Development 87 Nepperhan Avenue 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
February 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

March 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

April 6 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

May 4 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

June 1 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

July 6 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

August 3 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

September 7 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

October 5 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

November 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

December 7 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 
 Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

== LINKS ==
'''FORMS''' 
[[media: Ykrs_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Yonkers]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: Yonkers_flyer_with_Orientation_Info_&_Doc_List_-_June_23.doc‎ | Outreach Screening Flyer]] [[media: Yonkers_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Yonkers HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-MtVernon

2010-12-22T21:45:57Z

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<center>'''Mount Vernon Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Mount Vernon’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $745,701 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to prevent evictions of Mount Vernon tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less.

The City of Mount Vernon’s HPRP contract with HUD began July 17, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 27 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Mount Vernon will serve as grant administrator and provide core services including program enrollment, case management on issues affecting housing stability, distribution of rent subsidies, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Mount Vernon United Tenants will provide outreach and pre-screening of potential candidates;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will provide budget counseling.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:
*'''48''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''48''' households will receive case management,
*'''48''' households will receive budget counseling, and
*'''20''' households will receive legal services.
==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>
'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Mount Vernon HPRP:''' Participants must meet ALL of the following four locally-determined criteria:
#Participants must have been residents of Mount Vernon within the last 12 months,
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide documentation including their current lease, evidence of previous and current employment income, and other documents needed to establish eligibility and appropriateness for this program;
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness that were identified in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' Preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>
<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Anne McDermott</center>
<center>Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency</center>
<center>(914) 699-7230 extension 108</center>
<center>amcdermott@ci.mount-vernon.ny.us</center><center>[mailto:amcdermott@ci.mount-vernon.ny.us/ Ann McDermott]</center> 
== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''MT. VERNON ADMINISTRATIVE MEETINGS''' '''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Friday, February 4, 2011 
Time: 11:00AM '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
April 1 
June 3 
August 5 
October 7 

'''MT. VERNON CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Friday, January 7, 2010 
Time: 11:00AM '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 
[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&ie=UTF8&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=36.589577,75.849609&t=h&z=4&source=embed Driving Directions] 

'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
March 4 
May 6 
July 1 
September 2 
November 4 
 Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency 
City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 

== LINKS ==
[[media: MV_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Mt. Vernon]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: MV_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Mount Vernon HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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[[HPRP-Yonkers | HPRP-Yonkers]] 
[[HPRP-NewRochelle | HPRP-NewRochelle]]

HPRP-Yonkers

2010-12-22T21:37:01Z

Jmuffler: /* UPCOMING EVENTS */

<center>'''Yonkers Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Yonkers’ Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $1,533,003 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to achieve two purposes:
#prevent evictions of Yonkers tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less, and
#help homeless people from Yonkers now living in emergency or transitional housing to move into permanent housing.

The City of Yonkers’ HPRP contract with HUD began July 30, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 20 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Yonkers will serve as grant administrator;
*CLUSTER Housing Resource Center will provide outreach, enrollment, budget counseling, case management on issues affecting housing stability, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will distribute rent subsidies arranged through our Eviction Prevention component and help identify available housing for people who need to find more suitable housing;
*Westhab will manage the Rapid Rehousing component and distribute funds for moving-related expenses arranged in coordination with our Eviction Prevention component.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:

*'''40''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''40''' households will receive budget counseling and case management,
*'''15''' households will receive financial assistance with moving-related costs in order to move to a more suitable apartment as part of their long-term housing stabilization strategy,
*'''100''' households will receive legal services, and
*'''60''' homeless households will move into permanent housing.

==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>

'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Yonkers HPRP:''' All participants must have been residents of Yonkers within the last 12 months (for Eviction Prevention) or within the last 24 months (for Rapid Rehousing).

'''Eviction Prevention recipients must also meet ALL 3 of the following criteria:'''
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide all documentation needed to establish program eligibility and appropriateness (including copy of lease, evidence of income, etc.);
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness listed in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' For Eviction Prevention only, preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>

<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Daphne Aponte</center>
<center>CLUSTER, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 963-6440 extension 232</center>
<center>daponte@clusterinc.org</center><center>[mailto:daponte@clusterinc.org/ Daphne Aponte]</center> 

<center>''HPRP Rapid Re-housing (for already homeless households)''</center>
<center>Ms. Tilcia Davis</center>
<center>Westhab, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 968-7627 extension 110</center>
<center>Tilcia.Davis@westhab.org</center><center>[mailto:Tilcia.Davis@westhab.org/ Tilcia Davis]</center> 

== UPCOMING EVENTS ==

'''YONKERS ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Wednesday, January 5, 2011 
Time: '''11:30 AM''' Administrative '''12N''' Case Management '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: Third Floor Conference Room Department of Planning and Development 87 Nepperhan Avenue 

[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&ie=UTF8&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=36.589577,75.849609&t=h&z=4&source=embed Driving Directions] 

'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
February 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 
March 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 
April 6 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 
May 4 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 
June 1 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 
July 6 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 
August 3 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 
September 7 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 
October 5 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 
November 2 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 
December 7 - 11:30 AM Administrative ~ 12N Case Management 

 Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

== LINKS ==
'''FORMS''' 
[[media: Ykrs_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Yonkers]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: Yonkers_flyer_with_Orientation_Info_&_Doc_List_-_June_23.doc‎ | Outreach Screening Flyer]] [[media: Yonkers_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Yonkers HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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[[HPRP-MtVernon | HPRP-MtVernon]] 
[[HPRP-NewRochelle | HPRP-NewRochelle]]

HPRP-Yonkers

2010-12-22T21:26:21Z

Jmuffler: /* UPCOMING EVENTS */

<center>'''Yonkers Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Yonkers’ Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $1,533,003 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to achieve two purposes:
#prevent evictions of Yonkers tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less, and
#help homeless people from Yonkers now living in emergency or transitional housing to move into permanent housing.

The City of Yonkers’ HPRP contract with HUD began July 30, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 20 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Yonkers will serve as grant administrator;
*CLUSTER Housing Resource Center will provide outreach, enrollment, budget counseling, case management on issues affecting housing stability, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will distribute rent subsidies arranged through our Eviction Prevention component and help identify available housing for people who need to find more suitable housing;
*Westhab will manage the Rapid Rehousing component and distribute funds for moving-related expenses arranged in coordination with our Eviction Prevention component.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:

*'''40''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''40''' households will receive budget counseling and case management,
*'''15''' households will receive financial assistance with moving-related costs in order to move to a more suitable apartment as part of their long-term housing stabilization strategy,
*'''100''' households will receive legal services, and
*'''60''' homeless households will move into permanent housing.

==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>

'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Yonkers HPRP:''' All participants must have been residents of Yonkers within the last 12 months (for Eviction Prevention) or within the last 24 months (for Rapid Rehousing).

'''Eviction Prevention recipients must also meet ALL 3 of the following criteria:'''
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide all documentation needed to establish program eligibility and appropriateness (including copy of lease, evidence of income, etc.);
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness listed in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' For Eviction Prevention only, preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>

<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Daphne Aponte</center>
<center>CLUSTER, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 963-6440 extension 232</center>
<center>daponte@clusterinc.org</center><center>[mailto:daponte@clusterinc.org/ Daphne Aponte]</center> 

<center>''HPRP Rapid Re-housing (for already homeless households)''</center>
<center>Ms. Tilcia Davis</center>
<center>Westhab, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 968-7627 extension 110</center>
<center>Tilcia.Davis@westhab.org</center><center>[mailto:Tilcia.Davis@westhab.org/ Tilcia Davis]</center> 

== UPCOMING EVENTS ==

'''YONKERS ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Wednesday, January 5, 2011 
Time: '''11:30 AM''' Administrative '''12N''' Case Management '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: Third Floor Conference Room Department of Planning and Development 87 Nepperhan Avenue 

[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&ie=UTF8&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=36.589577,75.849609&t=h&z=4&source=embed Driving Directions] 

'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
February 2: 11:30 AM Administrative 12N Case Management 
March 2: 11:30 AM Administrative 12N Case Management 
April 6: 11:30 AM Administrative 12N Case Management 
May 4: 11:30 AM Administrative 12N Case Management 
June 1: 11:30 AM Administrative 12N Case Management 
July 6: 11:30 AM Administrative 12N Case Management 
August 3: 11:30 AM Administrative 12N Case Management 
September 7: 11:30 AM Administrative 12N Case Management 
October 5: 11:30 AM Administrative 12N Case Management 
November 2: 11:30 AM Administrative 12N Case Management 
December 7: 11:30 AM Administrative 12N Case Management 

 Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

== LINKS ==
'''FORMS''' 
[[media: Ykrs_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Yonkers]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: Yonkers_flyer_with_Orientation_Info_&_Doc_List_-_June_23.doc‎ | Outreach Screening Flyer]] [[media: Yonkers_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Yonkers HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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[[HPRP-MtVernon | HPRP-MtVernon]] 
[[HPRP-NewRochelle | HPRP-NewRochelle]]

HPRP-Resources

2010-11-30T17:24:31Z

Jmuffler:

::'''HPRP FORMS''' 
[[media: NR_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form New Rochelle]] [[media: MV_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Mt. Vernon]] [[media: Ykrs_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Yonkers]] [[media: NewRochelleInitial_v2a.doc | Documenting ''Federal Eligibility'' New Rochelle]] [[media: MtVernonInitial_v2a.doc | Documenting ''Federal Eligibility'' Mt. Vernon]] [[media: YonkersInitial_v2a.doc | Documenting ''Federal Eligibility'' Yonkers]] 
[[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[media: Rentreasonablechecklist-1-.doc‎ | Rent Reasonableness Checklist]] '''''NEW''''' 

::'''HPRP DOCUMENTS''' 
'''HUD DOCUMENTS''' 
[http://www.hudhre.info/HPRP/index.cfm?do=viewHPRPIssuances] '''''Most Recent''''' 
[http://hudhre.info/HPRP Official HUD HPRP Information Site] [[media: HPRP_NoticeRedline_6_08_09.pdf | Original HUD HPRP Announcement]] [[media: HPRP_HousingStatusReqs.pdf | Housing Status Eligibility Determination‎]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDocReqs.pdf‎ | Income Eligibility Determination]] [[media: Habitability_Stndrds.doc‎ | Habitability Standards]] [[media: Habitability_Inspection.doc | Habitability Inspection Requirements]] [[media: ‎Lead-based_Paint.doc‎ | Lead-based Paint Inspection Requirements]] [[media: Def._"QualifiedAlien".doc‎ | Definition of Qualified Alien]] '''''NEW''''' [[media: Documenting_Qualified_Alien_Status.doc | Documents Establishing Qualified Alien Status]] '''''NEW''''' [[media: Documenting_Qualified_Alien_Status,_Part_2.doc‎ | Documents Establishing Qualified Alien Status, Part 2]] '''''NEW''''' 

'''LOCAL DOCUMENTS''' 
[[media: HPRP_City_Orgx3_F.xls‎ | Organization Charts for the Three Cities]] [[media: 2009_County_AMI.pdf | Westchester County Average Median Income Table]] [[media: DSS_TA_Fact_Sheet.pdf | Temporary Assistance Fact Sheet]]‎ [[media: ‎HPRP_ELIGIBILITY2F.doc‎ | Federal and Local Eligibility Criteria]] [[media: Eviction_Prevention_Pgms.doc‎ | Eviction Prevention Programs]] [[media: How_To_Stretch_Agency_Dollars.pdf | Which Housing Situations Can and Cannot Be Saved]] 

'''OTHER DOCUMENTS''' 

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[[HPRP-Yonkers | HPRP-Yonkers]] 
[[HPRP-MtVernon | HPRP-MtVernon]] 
[[HPRP-NewRochelle | HPRP-NewRochelle]] 
[[HPRP-General | HPRP-General Program Information]]

File:Rentreasonablechecklist-1-.doc

2010-11-30T17:17:44Z

Jmuffler: Form to used, signed and filed by case manager in determining HPRP eligibility for rental assistance.

Form to used, signed and filed by case manager in determining HPRP eligibility for rental assistance.

HPRP-Yonkers

2010-11-05T19:23:27Z

Jmuffler: /* UPCOMING EVENTS */

<center>'''Yonkers Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Yonkers’ Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $1,533,003 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to achieve two purposes:
#prevent evictions of Yonkers tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less, and
#help homeless people from Yonkers now living in emergency or transitional housing to move into permanent housing.

The City of Yonkers’ HPRP contract with HUD began July 30, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 20 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Yonkers will serve as grant administrator;
*CLUSTER Housing Resource Center will provide outreach, enrollment, budget counseling, case management on issues affecting housing stability, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will distribute rent subsidies arranged through our Eviction Prevention component and help identify available housing for people who need to find more suitable housing;
*Westhab will manage the Rapid Rehousing component and distribute funds for moving-related expenses arranged in coordination with our Eviction Prevention component.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:

*'''40''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''40''' households will receive budget counseling and case management,
*'''15''' households will receive financial assistance with moving-related costs in order to move to a more suitable apartment as part of their long-term housing stabilization strategy,
*'''100''' households will receive legal services, and
*'''60''' homeless households will move into permanent housing.

==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>

'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Yonkers HPRP:''' All participants must have been residents of Yonkers within the last 12 months (for Eviction Prevention) or within the last 24 months (for Rapid Rehousing).

'''Eviction Prevention recipients must also meet ALL 3 of the following criteria:'''
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide all documentation needed to establish program eligibility and appropriateness (including copy of lease, evidence of income, etc.);
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness listed in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' For Eviction Prevention only, preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>

<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Daphne Aponte</center>
<center>CLUSTER, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 963-6440 extension 232</center>
<center>daponte@clusterinc.org</center><center>[mailto:daponte@clusterinc.org/ Daphne Aponte]</center> 

<center>''HPRP Rapid Re-housing (for already homeless households)''</center>
<center>Ms. Tilcia Davis</center>
<center>Westhab, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 968-7627 extension 110</center>
<center>Tilcia.Davis@westhab.org</center><center>[mailto:Tilcia.Davis@westhab.org/ Tilcia Davis]</center> 

== UPCOMING EVENTS ==

'''YONKERS ADMINISTRATIVE MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 
Time: 1:00PM '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: Third Floor Conference Room Department of Planning and Development 87 Nepperhan Avenue 

[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&ie=UTF8&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=36.589577,75.849609&t=h&z=4&source=embed Driving Directions] 

'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

 Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

'''YONKERS CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2010 '''''NEW DATE''''' 
Time: 11:30AM 
Location: Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&ie=UTF8&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=36.589577,75.849609&t=h&z=4&source=embed Driving Directions] 

'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

 Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

== LINKS ==
'''FORMS''' 
[[media: Ykrs_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Yonkers]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: Yonkers_flyer_with_Orientation_Info_&_Doc_List_-_June_23.doc‎ | Outreach Screening Flyer]] [[media: Yonkers_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Yonkers HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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[[HPRP-MtVernon | HPRP-MtVernon]] 
[[HPRP-NewRochelle | HPRP-NewRochelle]]

HPRP-Yonkers

2010-11-05T18:56:30Z

Jmuffler: /* UPCOMING EVENTS */

<center>'''Yonkers Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Yonkers’ Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $1,533,003 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to achieve two purposes:
#prevent evictions of Yonkers tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less, and
#help homeless people from Yonkers now living in emergency or transitional housing to move into permanent housing.

The City of Yonkers’ HPRP contract with HUD began July 30, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 20 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Yonkers will serve as grant administrator;
*CLUSTER Housing Resource Center will provide outreach, enrollment, budget counseling, case management on issues affecting housing stability, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will distribute rent subsidies arranged through our Eviction Prevention component and help identify available housing for people who need to find more suitable housing;
*Westhab will manage the Rapid Rehousing component and distribute funds for moving-related expenses arranged in coordination with our Eviction Prevention component.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:

*'''40''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''40''' households will receive budget counseling and case management,
*'''15''' households will receive financial assistance with moving-related costs in order to move to a more suitable apartment as part of their long-term housing stabilization strategy,
*'''100''' households will receive legal services, and
*'''60''' homeless households will move into permanent housing.

==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>

'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Yonkers HPRP:''' All participants must have been residents of Yonkers within the last 12 months (for Eviction Prevention) or within the last 24 months (for Rapid Rehousing).

'''Eviction Prevention recipients must also meet ALL 3 of the following criteria:'''
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide all documentation needed to establish program eligibility and appropriateness (including copy of lease, evidence of income, etc.);
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness listed in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' For Eviction Prevention only, preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>

<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Daphne Aponte</center>
<center>CLUSTER, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 963-6440 extension 232</center>
<center>daponte@clusterinc.org</center><center>[mailto:daponte@clusterinc.org/ Daphne Aponte]</center> 

<center>''HPRP Rapid Re-housing (for already homeless households)''</center>
<center>Ms. Tilcia Davis</center>
<center>Westhab, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 968-7627 extension 110</center>
<center>Tilcia.Davis@westhab.org</center><center>[mailto:Tilcia.Davis@westhab.org/ Tilcia Davis]</center> 

== UPCOMING EVENTS ==

'''YONKERS ADMINISTRATIVE MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 
Time: 1:00PM '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: Third Floor Conference Room Department of Planning and Development 87 Nepperhan Avenue 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

 Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

'''YONKERS CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2010 '''''NEW DATE''''' 
Time: 11:30AM 
Location: Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

 Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

== LINKS ==
'''FORMS''' 
[[media: Ykrs_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Yonkers]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: Yonkers_flyer_with_Orientation_Info_&_Doc_List_-_June_23.doc‎ | Outreach Screening Flyer]] [[media: Yonkers_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Yonkers HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-MtVernon

2010-11-02T16:33:43Z

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<center>'''Mount Vernon Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Mount Vernon’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $745,701 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to prevent evictions of Mount Vernon tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less.

The City of Mount Vernon’s HPRP contract with HUD began July 17, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 27 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Mount Vernon will serve as grant administrator and provide core services including program enrollment, case management on issues affecting housing stability, distribution of rent subsidies, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Mount Vernon United Tenants will provide outreach and pre-screening of potential candidates;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will provide budget counseling.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:
*'''48''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''48''' households will receive case management,
*'''48''' households will receive budget counseling, and
*'''20''' households will receive legal services.
==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>
'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Mount Vernon HPRP:''' Participants must meet ALL of the following four locally-determined criteria:
#Participants must have been residents of Mount Vernon within the last 12 months,
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide documentation including their current lease, evidence of previous and current employment income, and other documents needed to establish eligibility and appropriateness for this program;
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness that were identified in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' Preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>
<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Anne McDermott</center>
<center>Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency</center>
<center>(914) 699-7230 extension 108</center>
<center>amcdermott@ci.mount-vernon.ny.us</center><center>[mailto:amcdermott@ci.mount-vernon.ny.us/ Ann McDermott]</center> 
== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''MT. VERNON ADMINISTRATIVE MEETINGS''' '''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Friday, December 3, 2010 
Time: 11:00AM '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

'''MT. VERNON CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Friday, November 5, 2010 
Time: 11:00AM '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 
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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
 Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency 
City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 

== LINKS ==
[[media: MV_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Mt. Vernon]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: MV_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Mount Vernon HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-General

2010-10-27T15:24:44Z

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<center>'''GENERAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</center>
The Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program will provide financial assistance and services to prevent individuals and families from becoming homeless and help those who are experiencing homelessness to be quickly re-housed and stabilized. The funds under this program are intended to target individuals and families who would be homeless '''but for this assistance'''. The funds will provide for a variety of assistance, including: short-term or medium-term rental assistance and housing relocation and stabilization services, including such activities as mediation, credit counseling, security or utility deposits, utility payments, moving cost assistance, and case management. For more information about the national program, and other federal programs addressing homelessness, please visit HUD's HPRP Information Site. [http://hudhre.info/HPRP] 
<center>'''OVERVIEW</center>
<center>'''of the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Programs (HPRP)'''</center>
<center>''' Created by the Cities of Yonkers, Mount Vernon, and New Rochelle'''</center>

The Cities of Yonkers, Mount Vernon, and New Rochelle were each recently awarded federal stimulus money from HUD to create new local Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Programs, often called simply HPRP. HUD used a complex formula to decide how much each city would receive. Yonkers received $1,533,003, Mount Vernon $745,701, and New Rochelle $686,935. HUD requires that most of the money must be spent within 2 years and all must be spent within three years. The HPRP funds can be used for two main purposes:
#to prevent people in rental housing from becoming homeless and
#to help people who are already homeless to move more quickly into permanent housing.

HUD gave cities little time to plan and implement their programs, so Yonkers, Mount Vernon and New Rochelle decided to coordinate their efforts. Each city is administering its own grant, selecting its own strategies and partners, and setting its own local priorities. The result is that the HPRP programs in the 3 cities are similar but have important differences.

All three cities are focusing on eviction prevention. Yonkers is the only one of the three that is also doing a Rapid Rehousing component for the already homeless.

Each city is only serving its own residents. That means that if someone is facing eviction in Yonkers, the only HPRP program they can apply to is Yonkers’. Similarly, residents of Mount Vernon and New Rochelle can only be served by the HPRP programs in their own cities.

All three cities’ HPRP programs have similar eligibility criteria. All HPRP programs must use federal HPRP eligibility criteria, which include that participants’ gross household income cannot exceed 50% of the Area Median Income (AMI). The maximum income allowed is shown below:
:Household Size 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
:Gross Income $ 36,850 42,100 47,400 52,650 56,850 61,050 65,300 69,500

The federal rules prohibit the use of HPRP funds to help pay mortgages. They also require that eviction prevention funds can only be used for households that would lose their housing if not for the assistance provided by HPRP. The 3 cities are also using similar local eligibility criteria for their eviction prevention programs.

#Each will only serve households who have lived in its city within the last 12 months.
#Each will only give eviction prevention services to households with recent housing stability, defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months.
#The cities have decided that participants in their eviction prevention program must have at least 2 of the 18 risk factors for homelessness identified by HUD for the HPRP program. These are listed below in the eligibility criteria for each city.
#Each city is giving priority to serving people who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.
#The eviction prevention assistance available is, by law, time-limited and the amount of funds available cannot meet the needs of every potentially eligible household. As a result, each city will try to achieve the greatest possible impact by selecting households for this program who represent the best balance of urgent current need coupled with strongest potential for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency without further HPRP assistance. 
HPRP also utilizes a ''Steering Committee'' to help facilitate communication, coordination, and problem solving across a wide range of decision-makers. It includes representatives of all grantees, sub-grantees, and a few other key stakeholders. The Steering Committee meets quarterly, by invitation only. 

== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''HPRP STEERING COMMITTEE MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Thursday, December 16, 2010 '''''NEW DATE - NEW LOCATION''''' 
Time: 1:00PM - 3:00PM 
Location: Second Floor Conference Room Mount Vernon Department of Planning and Community Development Urban Renewal Agency Mount Vernon City Hall Roosevelt Square, Mount Vernon 10550 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

TBA

== LINKS ==
'''HUD DOCUMENTS''' 
[http://hudhre.info/HPRP Official HUD HPRP Information Site] [[media: HPRP_NoticeRedline_6_08_09.pdf | Original HUD HPRP Announcement]] [[media: HPRP_HousingStatusReqs.pdf | Housing Status Eligibility Determination‎]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDocReqs.pdf‎ | Income Eligibility Determination]] [[media: Habitability_Stndrds.doc‎ | Habitability Standards]] [[media: Habitability_Inspection.doc | Habitability Inspection Requirements]] [[media: ‎Lead-based_Paint.doc‎ | Lead-based Paint Inspection Requirements]] 
'''LOCAL DOCUMENTS''' 
[[media: HPRP_City_Orgx3_F.xls‎ | Organization Charts for the Three Cities]] [[media: 2009_County_AMI.pdf | Westchester County Average Median Income Table]] [[media: DSS_TA_Fact_Sheet.pdf | Temporary Assistance Fact Sheet]]‎ 
[[media: ‎HPRP_ELIGIBILITY2F.doc‎ | Federal and Local Eligibility Criteria]] [[media: Eviction_Prevention_Pgms.doc‎ | Eviction Prevention Programs]] [[media: How_To_Stretch_Agency_Dollars.pdf | Which Housing Situations Can and Cannot Be Saved]] [[media: Summary.doc‎ | Steering Committee Meeting Summary June 24, 2010]] 

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HPRP-MtVernon

2010-10-05T20:09:40Z

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<center>'''Mount Vernon Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Mount Vernon’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $745,701 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to prevent evictions of Mount Vernon tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less.

The City of Mount Vernon’s HPRP contract with HUD began July 17, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 27 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Mount Vernon will serve as grant administrator and provide core services including program enrollment, case management on issues affecting housing stability, distribution of rent subsidies, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Mount Vernon United Tenants will provide outreach and pre-screening of potential candidates;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will provide budget counseling.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:
*'''48''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''48''' households will receive case management,
*'''48''' households will receive budget counseling, and
*'''20''' households will receive legal services.
==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>
'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Mount Vernon HPRP:''' Participants must meet ALL of the following four locally-determined criteria:
#Participants must have been residents of Mount Vernon within the last 12 months,
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide documentation including their current lease, evidence of previous and current employment income, and other documents needed to establish eligibility and appropriateness for this program;
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness that were identified in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' Preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>
<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Anne McDermott</center>
<center>Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency</center>
<center>(914) 699-7230 extension 108</center>
<center>amcdermott@ci.mount-vernon.ny.us</center><center>[mailto:amcdermott@ci.mount-vernon.ny.us/ Ann McDermott]</center> 
== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''MT. VERNON ADMINISTRATIVE MEETINGS''' '''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Friday, October 15, 2010 '''''NEW DATE''''' 
Time: 10:00AM '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 
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'''2010 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
December 3, 10AM '''''NEW TIME''''' Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency 
City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 

'''MT. VERNON CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Friday, November 5, 2010 
Time: 10:00AM '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 
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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
 Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency 
City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 

== LINKS ==
[[media: MV_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Mt. Vernon]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: MV_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Mount Vernon HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-Yonkers

2010-10-05T20:07:53Z

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<center>'''Yonkers Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Yonkers’ Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $1,533,003 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to achieve two purposes:
#prevent evictions of Yonkers tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less, and
#help homeless people from Yonkers now living in emergency or transitional housing to move into permanent housing.

The City of Yonkers’ HPRP contract with HUD began July 30, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 20 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Yonkers will serve as grant administrator;
*CLUSTER Housing Resource Center will provide outreach, enrollment, budget counseling, case management on issues affecting housing stability, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will distribute rent subsidies arranged through our Eviction Prevention component and help identify available housing for people who need to find more suitable housing;
*Westhab will manage the Rapid Rehousing component and distribute funds for moving-related expenses arranged in coordination with our Eviction Prevention component.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:

*'''40''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''40''' households will receive budget counseling and case management,
*'''15''' households will receive financial assistance with moving-related costs in order to move to a more suitable apartment as part of their long-term housing stabilization strategy,
*'''100''' households will receive legal services, and
*'''60''' homeless households will move into permanent housing.

==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>

'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Yonkers HPRP:''' All participants must have been residents of Yonkers within the last 12 months (for Eviction Prevention) or within the last 24 months (for Rapid Rehousing).

'''Eviction Prevention recipients must also meet ALL 3 of the following criteria:'''
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide all documentation needed to establish program eligibility and appropriateness (including copy of lease, evidence of income, etc.);
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness listed in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' For Eviction Prevention only, preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>

<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Daphne Aponte</center>
<center>CLUSTER, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 963-6440 extension 232</center>
<center>daponte@clusterinc.org</center><center>[mailto:daponte@clusterinc.org/ Daphne Aponte]</center> 

<center>''HPRP Rapid Re-housing (for already homeless households)''</center>
<center>Ms. Tilcia Davis</center>
<center>Westhab, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 968-7627 extension 110</center>
<center>Tilcia.Davis@westhab.org</center><center>[mailto:Tilcia.Davis@westhab.org/ Tilcia Davis]</center> 

== UPCOMING EVENTS ==

'''YONKERS ADMINISTRATIVE MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 
Time: 1:00PM '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: Third Floor Conference Room Department of Planning and Development 87 Nepperhan Avenue 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

 Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

'''YONKERS CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 
Time: 11:30AM 
Location: Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

 Third Floor Conference Room 
Department of Planning and Development 
87 Nepperhan Avenue 

== LINKS ==
'''FORMS''' 
[[media: Ykrs_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Yonkers]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: Yonkers_flyer_with_Orientation_Info_&_Doc_List_-_June_23.doc‎ | Outreach Screening Flyer]] [[media: Yonkers_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Yonkers HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-NewRochelle

2010-10-05T14:49:11Z

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<center>'''New Rochelle Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>
'''Overview:''' The City of New Rochelle’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $686,935 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to prevent evictions of New Rochelle tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less.

The City of New Rochelle’s HPRP contract with HUD began July 17, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 27 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of New Rochelle will serve as grant administrator;
*HOPE Community Services, Inc. will provide one-stop access to New Rochelle’s HPRP program including outreach, program enrollment, case management on issues affecting housing stability, budget counseling, distribution of rent subsidies, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements using a part-time attorney working on-site at HOPE.

'''Major goals:''' This project’s major deliverables include the following:
*'''30''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''30''' households will receive budget counseling,
*'''75''' households will receive case management, and
*'''75''' households will receive legal services.
==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>
'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for New Rochelle HPRP:''' Participants must meet ALL of the following four locally-determined criteria:
#Participants must have been residents of New Rochelle within the last 12 months,
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide documentation including their current lease, evidence of previous and current employment income, and other documents needed to establish eligibility and appropriateness for this program;
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness that were identified in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' Preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>
<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Stephaniee Bennett</center>
<center>HOPE Community Services, Inc.</center>
<center>(914) 355-5234</center>
<center>sbennett@hope-cs.org</center><center>[mailto:sbennett@hope-cs.org Stephaniee Bennett]</center> 
== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''NEW ROCHELLE ADMINISTRATIVE and CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 
Time: 9:30 AM '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: HOPE Community Services 
Lower Level 
50 Washington Avenue 

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'''2010 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 

November 17, 10 AM Lower Level 
HOPE Community Services 
50 Washington Avenue 

December 15, 1 PM '''''NEW TIME''''' Lower Level 
HOPE Community Services 
50 Washington Avenue 

== LINKS ==
[[media: NR_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form New Rochelle]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: NR_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | New Rochelle HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-MtVernon

2010-10-04T14:17:43Z

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<center>'''Mount Vernon Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Mount Vernon’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $745,701 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to prevent evictions of Mount Vernon tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less.

The City of Mount Vernon’s HPRP contract with HUD began July 17, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 27 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Mount Vernon will serve as grant administrator and provide core services including program enrollment, case management on issues affecting housing stability, distribution of rent subsidies, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Mount Vernon United Tenants will provide outreach and pre-screening of potential candidates;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will provide budget counseling.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:
*'''48''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''48''' households will receive case management,
*'''48''' households will receive budget counseling, and
*'''20''' households will receive legal services.
==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>
'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Mount Vernon HPRP:''' Participants must meet ALL of the following four locally-determined criteria:
#Participants must have been residents of Mount Vernon within the last 12 months,
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide documentation including their current lease, evidence of previous and current employment income, and other documents needed to establish eligibility and appropriateness for this program;
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness that were identified in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' Preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>
<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Anne McDermott</center>
<center>Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency</center>
<center>(914) 699-7230 extension 108</center>
<center>amcdermott@ci.mount-vernon.ny.us</center><center>[mailto:amcdermott@ci.mount-vernon.ny.us/ Ann McDermott]</center> 
== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''MT. VERNON ADMINISTRATIVE MEETINGS''' '''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Friday, October 8, 2010 
Time: 10:00AM '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 
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'''2010 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
December 3, 10AM '''''NEW TIME''''' Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency 
City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 

'''MT. VERNON CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Friday, November 5, 2010 
Time: 10:00AM '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 
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'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
 Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency 
City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 

== LINKS ==
[[media: MV_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Mt. Vernon]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: MV_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Mount Vernon HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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HPRP-MtVernon

2010-10-04T14:14:18Z

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<center>'''Mount Vernon Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program'''</center>

The City of Mount Vernon’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) received $745,701 in federal HPRP funding and is designed to prevent evictions of Mount Vernon tenants who have recently lost employment income but have a recent history of housing stability and the potential to become self-sufficient within 18 months or less.

The City of Mount Vernon’s HPRP contract with HUD began July 17, 2009 and is expected to be completed within 27 months. Major partners in this project include:

*the City of Mount Vernon will serve as grant administrator and provide core services including program enrollment, case management on issues affecting housing stability, distribution of rent subsidies, quarterly financial reassessments for all households receiving financial assistance, and follow-up;
*Mount Vernon United Tenants will provide outreach and pre-screening of potential candidates;
*Legal Services of the Hudson Valley will provide legal services including representation in housing court and advocacy regarding housing and entitlements;
*Westchester Residential Opportunities will provide budget counseling.

This project’s major deliverables include the following:
*'''48''' households will receive financial assistance to help prevent their eviction,
*'''48''' households will receive case management,
*'''48''' households will receive budget counseling, and
*'''20''' households will receive legal services.
==<center>ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA</center>
'''Locally-Determined Eligibility Criteria for Mount Vernon HPRP:''' Participants must meet ALL of the following four locally-determined criteria:
#Participants must have been residents of Mount Vernon within the last 12 months,
#Participants must have a history of recent housing stability (defined as at least 12 consecutive months of independent living at the same address within the last 36 months);
#Participants must provide documentation including their current lease, evidence of previous and current employment income, and other documents needed to establish eligibility and appropriateness for this program;
#Participants must have '''at least 2''' of the following risk factors for homelessness that were identified in HUD’s "Notice of Allocations, Application Procedures, and Requirements for Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Grantees", dated 6/8/09;
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Eviction within 2 weeks from a private dwelling (including housing provided by family or friends);
::*Discharge within 2 weeks from an institution in which the person has been a resident for more than 180 days (including prisons, mental health institutions, hospitals);
::*Residency in housing that has been condemned by housing officials and is no longer meant for human habitation;
::*Sudden and significant loss of income;
::*Sudden and significant increase in utility costs;
::*Mental health or substance abuse issues;
::*Physical disabilities or other chronic health issues, including HIV/AIDS;
::*Severe housing cost burden (greater than 50% of income for housing costs);
::*Homeless in last 12 months;
::*Young head of household (under 25 with children or pregnant);
::*Current or past involvement with child welfare, including foster care;
::*Pending foreclosure of rental housing;
::*Extremely low income (less than 30% of Area Median Income);
::*High overcrowding (the number of persons exceeds health and/or safety standards for the housing unit size);
::*Past institutional care (prison, treatment facility, hospital);
::*Recent traumatic life event, such as death of a spouse or primary care provider, or recent health crisis that prevented the household from meeting its financial responsibilities;
::*Credit problems that preclude obtaining of housing; or
::*Significant amount of medical debt.

'''Locally-Determined Preference:''' Preference will be given to participants who have lost a job or had their employment income reduced by at least 10% over the last 12 months.

'''Note:''' Only a limited number of households can receive assistance through this program. Final decisions on which households to enroll will be based on subjective assessments balancing each household’s relative severity of need vs. their prospects for rapidly achieving self-sufficiency.

<center>FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO MAKE A REFERRAL, OR TO REQUEST AN INTAKE ELIGIBILITY SCREENING APPOINTMENT, CONTACT:</center>
<center>''HPRP Homelessness Prevention (for households facing eviction)''</center>
<center>Ms. Anne McDermott</center>
<center>Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency</center>
<center>(914) 699-7230 extension 108</center>
<center>amcdermott@ci.mount-vernon.ny.us</center><center>[mailto:amcdermott@ci.mount-vernon.ny.us/ Ann McDermott]</center> 
== UPCOMING EVENTS ==
'''MT. VERNON ADMINISTRATIVE MEETINGS''' '''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Friday, October 8, 2010 
Time: 10:00AM '''''NEW TIME''''' 
Location: Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 
[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&ie=UTF8&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=36.589577,75.849609&t=h&z=4&source=embed Driving Directions] 

'''2010 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
December 3, 11AM Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency 
City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 

'''MT. VERNON CASE MANAGEMENT MEETINGS''' 
'''NEXT MEETING''' 
Date: Friday, November 5, 2010 
Time: 11:00AM 
Location: Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 
[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&ie=UTF8&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=36.589577,75.849609&t=h&z=4&source=embed Driving Directions] 

'''2011 MEETING SCHEDULE''' 
 Second Floor Conference Room 
Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency 
City Hall - Roosevelt Square, 2nd Floor 

== LINKS ==
[[media: MV_Triage_v2_.doc‎ | Preliminary Screening Form Mt. Vernon]] [[media: HPRP_Client_Intake_v01_006.pdf‎ | Client Intake Form]] 
[[media: HPRP_Staff_Affidavit_Final.doc‎ | Staff Affidavit]] [[media: HPRP_HomelessCertifi-1FC1BE.doc‎ ‎ |Client Certification of Homelessness]] [[media: Hprp_HousingStatusTemplate.doc | Client Housing Status Certification]] [[media: Hprp_IncomeDeclarati-1FC1EB.doc | Client Declaration of Income]] [[media: HPRP_IncomeVerificat-1FC1A9.doc‎ ‎ |Client Income Verification]] [[HPRP-General | Steering Committee Meetings]] [http://hudhre.info/HPRP/ HUD HPRP Information] [[HPRP-Resources | Helpful Documents]] [[media: MV_HPRP_Employee_Time_Sheet_7-6-10.xls‎ | Mount Vernon HPRP Employee Time Sheet]] 

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