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NERHMIS Training & Symposium

Posted October 19, 2011

NERHMIS 2011 Training flyer

MONDAY: November 14, 2011

9:00 am – 3:30 pm

UMASS Campus Center: Boston, MA

Registration: http://nerhmis2011.eventbrite.com – Deadline to Register is November 4th

Annual training for Continuum of Care members, homeless providers, HMIS IT and program staff, consumers, advocates, and HUD officials to share expertise, network with colleagues, and improve their community HMIS and Continuum of Care planning and management systems.

Examples of Topics to be covered:

  • Continuum of Care date
  • HEARTH Act
  • Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) Strategic Planning
  • Program Spotlights
  • Veteran Administration Program HMIS Participation
  • Regional Program Spotlights

Confirmed Presenters:

  • Mark Johnson, Deputy Assistant Secretary, HUD CPD
  • Dr. Sam Tsemberis, Pathways to Housing
  • Dr. Dennis Culhane, The National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans
  • Dr. Charlene Le Fauve, SAMHSA

 

 


The Home Depot Foundation is running a special program to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

Posted September 29, 2011

The Home Depot Foundation is running a special program to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

From 11 Sep 2011 through Veteran’s Day (11 Nov 2011), Home Depot is offering to conduct work projects on military member’s personal homes.

Home Depot will provide the materials, labor and contractors. Projects will include repairs and installations. If there are any questions, please make contact through the website below.

http://homedepotfoundation.org/

The priority is as follows:

  • -       Wounded warriors returning from combat & disabled veterans
  • -       Members returning from deployment
  • -       Members with special needs (either themselves or Family members)

 

 


hurricane disaster relief: updates & resources

Posted September 2, 2011

MESSAGE FROM THE CVOEO MOBILE HOME PROJECT

Shaun Gilpin, CVOEO Mobile Home Project Program Director

The CVOEO Mobile Home Project has been trying to compile a list of affected parks. I know that there are a number of organizations trying to do the same, so feel free to exchange and cross-check this information so that we can all get an accurate picture of the effects to parks throughout the state.

We have received a few updates on the status of parks in the flooding. This is our most up-to-date list:

Non-profit owned

  • · Glen Park and Mountain View Park – Brattleboro – Both parks experienced significant flooding. There is now some confusion as to FEMA regulations for rebuilding and an effort to make sure the town is disseminating appropriate information.
  • · Verd-Mont – Waitsfield – Evacuation, little to no flood damage.
  • · Mobile Acres – Braintree – Lacking electricity and water, significant damage to access road; HFI making efforts to restore access road.
  • · Riverside Mobile Home Park – Woodstock – Severe flooding

Privately owned

  • · Weston’s Mobile Home Park – Berlin – Severe flooding damage. Significant response effort underway.
  • · Tucker Mobile Home Park – Northfield – bridge entrance is compromised, other damage yet unknown.
  • · North East Kingdom Mobile Home Park – Lyndon – Evacuation; some flooding damage, several residents have returned to homes (resident account).
  • · Whalley Trailer Park – Waterbury – Significant flooding (Park owner: 11 homes affected, 3’-6’ of water)
  • · Tenney’s Trailer Park – Athens – Evidence of significant flooding, residents currently vacated (THO account)
  • · Green Mountain Mobile Home Park – Pownal – Pre-emptive evacuation, little damage
  • · Barbers Pond Trailer Park – Pownal – Some washout to access road
  • · Patterson – Duxbury – Severe Flooding (eyewitness, non-resident account)

There is still another park in Pownal that was preemptively evacuated, but the Bennington Banner is reporting that there was little to no flood damage.

I am not sure if Mobile Acres in Braintree has gotten their electricity back yet, although there are some reports that power has been restored to at least part of the area. Apparently the flooding at Riverside in Woodstock was similar in severity to Weston’s Mobile Home Park in Berlin.

Shaun

CVOEO Mobile Home Project

Program Director

294 North Winooski Avenue

Burlington, VT 05401

Phone. 802-660-3455 x 107

Fax. 802-651-4179

Email. sgilpin@cvoeo.org

 

 


hurricane disaster relief: updates & resources

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MESSAGE FROM LEGAL SERVICES LAW LINE OF VERMONT

August 31, 2011

DISASTER RELIEF INFORMATION ON VTLAWHELP

http://www.vtlawhelp.org/disaster_Irene

Please forward to folks in need.  I hope you all are well.

Thanks!

Mary McGinniss, Paralegal

Legal Services Law Line of Vermont, Inc
274 North Winooski Avenue
Burlington, VT  05401
1-800-639-8857 ext 115
(802) 651-4130
www.vtlawhelp.com

 

 


hurricane disaster relief: updates & resources

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MESSAGE FROM THE VERMONT STATE HOUSING AUTHORITY

Kathleen Berk, Director Housing Program Administration

We’re still assessing the magnitude of the impact to our current and future clients as a result of Irene.  We have asked Senator Leahy’s office to reach out to Secretary Donovan asking for an allocation of  ‘special purpose vouchers’  for victims displaced by Irene… will keep you posted on those conversations.  In the meantime, we will be opening our waiting list for the Housing Choice Voucher program to accept applications only from families displaced by Tropical Storm Irene.  The VSHA is working with the Red Cross and FEMA and we hope to soon get into the communities most affected by Irene to take applications for assistance.

Bethany Lunn, on my staff, is working with me and will serve as our single point of contact relating to ‘Irene’ related issues, including receiving inquiries relating to the need for rental assistance from victim’s and advocates.

Kathleen R. Berk, Director

Housing Program Administration

Vermont State Housing Authority

802-828-3019

kathyb@VSHA.ORG

 

 


hurricane disaster relief: updates & resources

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MESSAGE FROM VHCB

August 31, 2011

AFFORDABLE HOUSING FLOOD IMPACTS AND FLOOD CLEANUP INFORMATION

Dear Housing Friends,

Over the last two days we have heard from many of you with reports of flood and storm related damage to the individual homes, multifamily buildings and mobile home parks that you manage and steward.  We have been reassured with your response to the crisis.   We’d like to hear from you if you have not already been in touch with VHCB staff and have sustained significant damage.  Please call or email one of us.

In the event flood cleanup is an issue for you, we are passing along a link for a manual that may be helpful to you:  Rebuilding Water-Damaged Homes: A manual for the safe, healthy, green, and low-cost restoration of housing http://www.afhh.org/flooddamagedhomes.pdf

In closing, if you think volunteer cleanup of any of your sites may be helpful let us know.  We are exploring the possibility of directing volunteer effort to needy housing and conservation sites.

Polly Nichol                             Rick DeAngelis

828-3259                                 828-3526

 


CCV helps veterans get an education

Posted April 5, 2011

Source: WCAX, March 30, 2011

“Unemployment for Vermont veterans returning from Afghanistan is about 30 percent according to the Vermont National Guard. Many of those soldiers hope a college education will help them land jobs.

The Community College of Vermont is working to assist these students in school and off campus in their post-war lives. [More ...]