Continuum of Care

Tools for Partners

HMIS

Training/Tools

Funding Opps/Awards

Coordinated Entry

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  HMIS

  The Contra Costa Homeless Continuum of Care utilizes a web-based Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) which helps gives our collaboration of homeless agencies a better way to collect data, coordinate care, and manage operations. The HMIS can be used to produce an unduplicated count of homeless persons, understand patterns of service use, and measure the effectiveness of homeless programs in Contra Costa County. If your program serves homeless individuals or families and you would like to become an HMIS partner agency, please contact homelessprogram@cchealth.org.

  Service Provider Forms

  • Client Release of Information (ROI) Authorization and List of Partner Agencies
  • Benefits of signing the HMIS ROI
  • Contra Costa Standardized HMIS Intake Form
  • Contra Costa Standardized HMIS Exit form
  • Contra Costa Standardized HMIS Update Form
  • Runaway and Homeless Youth Intake Form
  • Runaway and Homeless Youth Exit Form
  • Runaway and Homeless Youth Update Form
  • Runaway and Homeless Youth Aftercare Form

  
  

  Workflow Manuals

  • HMIS Policies & Procedures
  • Data Collection Guide
  • Clarity User's Manual

  
  

  HMIS Database

  

  • Access the Contra Costa HMIS Database (secure site)

  
  

  Video Tutorials

  • Clarity HMIS - Basic Functions
  • For PSH/RRH Programs - logging a move-in date, a loss of unit, and handling program transfers

  
  
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  Training Tools

  The Contra Costa Continuum of Care offers training for partner agencies on a variety of topics.

  • Bedbug protocol
  • Homeless Encampment protocol

  
  

  VI-SPDAT

  The VI-SPDAT is an evidence-informed approach to assessing an individual's or family's acuity. The tool, across multiple components, prioritizes who to serve next and why, while concurrently identifying the areas in the person/family's life where support is most likely necessary in order to avoid housing instability.

  • Introductory Script
  • Administering the VI-SPDAT
  • Training Video:
    • Single VI-SPDAT
    • Family VI-SPDAT

  
  

  CoC Trainings

  • Equal Access Rule
  • Conservatorship 101
  • Lifting Barriers to Housing for Individuals with Criminal Records
  • Lifting Civil Legal Barriers to Housing
  • Mental Health Crash Course

  
  
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  Funding Opps/Awards

  NOFA - Notice of Funding Availability

  The CoC Program (24 CFR part 578) is a program the Department of Housing and Urban Development and is designed to promote a community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; to provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, States, and local governments to quickly re-house the homeless while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused by homelessness; to promote access to and effective utilization of mainstream programs by the homeless; and to optimize self-sufficiency among those experiencing homelessness. Please find the most recent Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) process below.

  2019

  • 2019 CoC NOFA CA-505 Consolidated Application - 9/25/2019
  • 2019 CoC NOFA CA-505 Priority Listing - 9/25/2019
  • Competition Priority Listing - 9/05/2019
  • Application Process - 5/02/2019
  • Renewal Project Scoring Tool - 5/02/2019
  • Technical Assistance (TA) Handbook For Applicants - 7/26/2019
  • New Project Scoring Tool - 8/01/2019
  • Supplemental Questionnaire
  • Eligible Renewal Projects
  • Public Solicitation - 7/11/2019

  Accessible versions of these documents are available upon request by emailing ContraCostaTA@homebase.org

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  Request for Proposal (RFP)

  • HEAP Amendment
  • HEAP Q & A
  • Homeless Emergency Aid Program (HEAP) - Transition Age Youth Rapid Rehousing
  • Budget Template

  
  

  Homeless Emergency Aid Program

  • HEAP: Final Funding Decisions

  
  
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  Coordinated Entry

  • Overview
  • Flyer (English/Spanish)
  • Policies & Procedures
  • Process Flow
  • CoC/ESG Written Standards