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HUD, VA Secretaries to Speak at NCHV Annual Conference
WASHINGTON, May 11, 2011 – Shortly after they were sworn into office in early 2009, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan and VA Secretary Eric Shinseki met with the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans (NCHV) Board of Directors to express their support of President Barack Obama’s commitment to end veteran homelessness.
Two years later, with the administration’s Five-Year Plan to End Veteran Homelessness underway, they will meet again to address the nation’s veteran service providers at the 2011 NCHV Annual Conference, June 6-8, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Keeping with the theme of this year’s conference, “Leadership: Implementing the Plan to End Veteran Homelessness,” Secretaries Donovan and Shinseki will assess the progress toward ending veteran homelessness by 2015, and highlight the important work that lies ahead. Over the course of three days, conference attendees will learn firsthand how the plan will impact their organizations and federally funded programs.
Joining the secretaries at the opening session will be Barbara Poppe, Executive Director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH), and Ray Jefferson, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Labor-Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS).
Poppe facilitated the drafting of the Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness, the first comprehensive blueprint in U.S. history to coordinate homeless services across all federal agencies. Her work has helped coordinate the response of 19 federal agencies invested in the campaign to end homelessness. The conference will help service providers assume a leadership role in developing local action plans in their communities.
Assistant Secretary Jefferson has undertaken an ambitious campaign to increase veteran employment opportunities by reaching out directly to corporate America and veteran-owned small businesses. In the process he has emphasized outreach to veterans who are homeless, unemployed and underemployed, and veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
NCHV Policy Forum and Workshops
The NCHV Policy Forum, which will be held on the afternoon of June 6, will dispel rumors and answer questions about the impact of the Five-Year Plan on grant-funded homeless veteran assistance programs. Top officials from the Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Veterans Affairs and Labor will participate in Q-and-A sessions, directly responding to service providers’ concerns. USICH Deputy Director Anthony Love will co-facilitate the forum with NCHV President and CEO John Driscoll.
In addition to policy briefings and networking opportunities at this year’s annual conference, attendees will be able to engage in 34 critical workshops, including sessions on the following:
1. Changes in the Grant and Per Diem Program
2. The future of HUD-VASH and access to low-income housing
3. Increasing veteran employment opportunities
4. Ensuring veteran access to mainstream and homelessness prevention services
5. Expanding legal aid for homeless veterans
6. Data integration impact on local programs and funding
Registration for the 2011 NCHV Annual Conference is still open. A registration form can be downloaded here (PDF). Although NCHV’s discount room-block at the Grand Hyatt has sold out, general reservations may still be made by calling 202-582-1234 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 202-582-1234 end_of_the_skype_highlighting. You may also search for other accommodations at www.travelocity.com/hotels.
For more information on the 2011 NCHV Annual Conference, click here.
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Many of us in the “intervention-outreach & mentorship platforms see NCHV as the Raymond Davis of the homeless contractor “biz”…Look where they get their money? Look at the “New Awards to newe ideas? there are none”…Look at how much money it takes to get them on your side to get an GPD approval Its like joining a “secret society” with just enought Mafia management to insure “job security” and continued homeless vets. Every one talks to the GPD NCHV “approved” providers…but no-one talks to the vets who are getting the services….I wonder why?
If a homeless provider takes the task, the mission on “To End” and it becomes a career…you have to ask..why? Sorry most of us faith-based homeless providers just don’t get it…so we just quietly “end” homelessness in our small ways..By the way how do you define “end”..do you account for the chronic relapeser, regress, wrong diganoses…or social workers why play MD?…. How many VA numbers are the “same” vet in CWT or Drug & exessive drinking groups now in the Doms. Aand if “Isolation” is the number one cause of suicide and homelessness,
Then why do the VHA build “Doms’ that keeps vets isolated..in the old days the Doms that were barricks style had a higher success ratio, today they build “hiltons”?….sorry I do not trust the :motives” of NCHV or VHA contractors who do not add faithbased spirited holistic programs into the platforms of treatments.
And why is it a homeless vets can only stay two years in the NVHV process? If the mission is to end, there is no time lines with respect to the “chronic RVN era’s. You know many stay in “city shelters…just so they are not alone, bet ya did not know that.
To many questions in the real field and no one has a answer..which is the first clue. Much the same as the contractor Ray Davis story……