You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming -Pablo Neruda | | |
|
|
Official Detroit CoC
Newsletter
| |
|
If you live in Detroit, Hamtramck, or Highland Park and are experiencing homelessness, please call CAM (313) 305-0311. CAM intake is call-in only.
New operating hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 9am-5pm; Wednesday: 11am-5pm
| |
|
Friday, March 10, the Request for Qualification (RFQ) for the new CAM Lead Agency was released. The RFQ and application materials, including a workshop recording, are posted on HAND’s website. March 15, Applicants attended a mandatory webinar. Applications are due to HAND by 12:00 pm on April 17, 2023.
| |
The most up-to-date information about CAM's transition can be found on HAND's website. | |
|
Detroit CoC General Membership Meeting
March 21 | 1:30PM - 3PM EST
| |
|
Tomorrows Membership meeting will cover a range of important topics related to recent changes within the Detroit CoC. Importantly, the Members will be voting on the inclusion of new members for the Values & Funding Priorities (VFP) Committee. The VFP committee's purpose is to strategize on funding utilization for existing resources that align with CoC values and priorities; and identify funding gaps and potential resources to meet those needs.
| |
|
Medicaid Benefit Changes
During the federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), many changes were made to the Medicaid program's eligibility, administration, and policies to ease rules for providers and prevent Medicaid beneficiaries from losing health care coverage. Michigan will soon restart Medicaid eligibility renewals and certain waived policies that were in place during the pandemic. MDHHS is preparing for these changes and will send notifications soon on what this means for beneficiaries.
Community partners are a vital resource to assist people with Medicaid coverage during this transition. In preparation for the end of the federal PHE, community partners are encouraged to take the following steps:
- Help beneficiaries verify or update their contact information in MI Bridges.
- Remind beneficiaries to look and open mail from MDHHS, and complete and return renewal documents.
Resources
| |
HAND is hosting our second Internship Presentation Day. CoC members and interested members of the community can register here. Past presentations can be viewed here. | |
Congressional Caucus on Homelessness | | |
|
|
“Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), Cori Bush (D-MO), and Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) announced the reestablishment of the Congressional Caucus on Homelessness on February 28. The caucus will provide a dedicated forum for members of Congress to work toward the common goal of ending homelessness in the U.S."
Read more about the Caucus on NLIHC's site.
| | | |
|
|
Request a Mobile Michigan Secretary of State Visit
“The Secretary of State Mobile Office brings their services directly to the residents of Michigan through partner organizations that support communities with limited access to Secretary of State offices and the internet. The Mobile Office can be set up in the lobbies and shared spaces of senior centers, homeless shelters, foster-care facilities and other community organizations.
The Michigan Department of State operates three Mobile Offices between Southeast Michigan, Mid-Michigan, and West Michigan.
To offer to host the Mobile Office at your organization, please use the request form link.
| |
Colorectal Cancer Screening | | |
|
Neighborhood Services Organization Detroit, in further aligning housing with health, will be hosting screenings for colorectal cancer. Currently, they are offering free at-home screening kits which can be requested here. | |
|
NLIHC Advocate’s Guide
“Every year, the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) publishes the Advocates’ Guide to Housing and Community Development Policy to educate advocates of all kinds about the programs and policies that make housing affordable to low-income people across America."
Download the guide here.
| |
|
CSH Supportive Housing Summit 2023
May 31, 10AM – June 2, 12:30PM
The Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) Summit is a national, cross-sector gathering of homeless service providers, developers, funders, people with lived experience of homelessness (PWLEH), healthcare professionals, child welfare workers, and the justice system advocates. This summit is an opportunity to gather with “supportive housing leaders and innovators … to discuss innovations and to generate new ideas and connections that can advance supportive housing.”
Learn more about the summit here.
| | |
|
|
Wayne Metro Fair Housing Workshop Series
March 29, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM EST
Wayne Metro's Fair Housing class promotes fair housing and protecting civil rights. It addresses the barriers to fair housing, and reasonable steps to affirmatively further fair housing. You can register here.
| |
|
Housing First Webinar
On April 6, 2023, HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) will host a virtual PD&R Quarterly Update on Housing First, a service model that addresses homelessness by quickly getting individuals and households experiencing homelessness into housing without any preconditions or barriers. Learn more at HUD's website.
| |
|
1) A man and his boss have the same parents but are not siblings. How is this possible?
Answer: They are self-employed.
| |
|
2) I am an odd number. Take away a letter, and I become even. What am I?
Answer: the number Seven
| | | | |
