Basic Center and Street Outreach Program Funding Available

The Family and Youth Services Bureau is now accepting applications for the Basic Center Program and the Street Outreach Program.  The Basic Center Program funds community-based programs that address the immediate needs of runaway and homeless youth and their families. Basic center projects aim to increase young people's safety, well-being, and self-sufficiency, and to help them build … Continue reading Basic Center and Street Outreach Program Funding Available

Request for Proposals: Project Based Vouchers

MaineHousing's Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Department has issued a request for proposals from qualified applicants in response to a national competition to award up to 1000 VASH vouchers to selected public housing authorities.  The purpose of this allocation is to enable homeless veterans to access affordable housing with an array of supportive services.  The RFP … Continue reading Request for Proposals: Project Based Vouchers

MCOC Minutes from 2-20-14, Tandberg Sites, and Ad Hoc info

Please click on the link, below, to review the minutes from the 2-20-14 MCOC Meeting (Thank you Paula!). There are also links to two lists of Tandberg Teleconferencing sites; one for Library locations, and one for School locations, to facilitate discussion of adding more connections for MCOC meetings.  (The Tandberg system does not have a … Continue reading MCOC Minutes from 2-20-14, Tandberg Sites, and Ad Hoc info

Maine Continuum of Care Meeting February 20, 2014

This is a reminder that the Maine Continuum of Care will be meeting on Thursday, 2-20-14, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM via the Tandberg Teleconferencing System at 5 locations: Portland, Augusta, Farmington, Bangor and Presque Isle. Please click on the link below to the Agenda for more details. There are also links to the minutes … Continue reading Maine Continuum of Care Meeting February 20, 2014

MCoC NOFA Application has been submitted to HUD

The Maine Continuum of Care Application has been officially submitted to HUD through e-snaps today. The NOFA states that HUD intends to announce conditional funding for Tier 1 Renewal projects within 45 day of the application submission deadline (Monday, February 3, 2014) of the CoC Program Competition. 2013 Continuum Application 2013 Project Priority Listings

Leveraging and State Executive Order information for Project Applicants

The Maine CoC is still in need of $792,221 in leveraging for the 2013 HUD competitive application process.  Please refer to the  Leveraging Spreadsheet Column J for each projects total leveraging contribution:  Leveraging Spreadsheet 1-17-14 HUD will award up to 5 points to CoCs that demonstrate the extent to which the amount of assistance to … Continue reading Leveraging and State Executive Order information for Project Applicants

CoC Project Ranking Notification

The MCOC Steering and Project/Monitoring Committees have completed the ranking process for the 2013 application and the link to the results is below. The Steering and Project/Monitoring Committees carefully considered HUD's priorities, as well as its own priorities which were adopted earlier by the MCOC.  Those priorities include, reduction of SSO and services funded by … Continue reading CoC Project Ranking Notification