There are numerous planning processes that are required or encouraged by HUD, including the Continuum of Care (CoC), Ten Year Plan (TYP), and Consolidated Plan (CP). Recent legislation and HUD initiatives will lead to more integration of these planning processes. Speakers will describe the changes and provide strategies for better coordination.

1. Coordinating your CoC, Ten Year, and Consolidated Plans Piper Ehlen HomeBase

2. Agenda Coordinated Planning Pre-HEARTH What’s Changing: HEARTH Example: Contra Costa County, CA – Coordinating CoC, Ten Year and Consolidated Plans

3. What is HEARTH? McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 = legislative framework and funding for HUD Homeless Assistance grants: Emergency Shelter Grants (ESG), Supportive Housing Program (SHP), and Shelter Plus Care (S+C) Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009 (HEARTH Act) amends the McKinney-Vento Act with some key changes

5. Engaged in community planning

6. Filed the annual HUD application

7. Oversaw HMIS implementation

8. CoC Incentives to Coordinate with Other Plans

9. CoC Project certification of consistency with the Con Plan

10. CoC Application gives points for aligning with a Con Plan and/ or Ten Year Plan for ending homelessness

11. Does the Consolidated Plan include the CoC strategic plan goals for addressing homelessness?

12. Does the 10-year plan include the CoC strategic plan goals to address homelessness and chronic homelessness?

14. CA Responsibilities – CoC Competition Selection Criteria CA’s Plan for reducing homelessness and length of homelessness, which should include: Needs of subpopulations Comprehensive strategies Quantifiable performance measures Timelines Funding sources Responsible parties And more

16. Met as separate groups for 3 years

17. Realized they were duplicative

18. Merger took about 6 months and many joint planning sessions

19. CCC’s annual CoC Plans are annual implementation plans for its Ten Year Plan

20. CCC encompasses 19 cities; 5 are CDBG entitlement jurisdictions

22. Homeless Needs Assessment

23. Homeless Inventory

24. Homeless Strategy that was created in collaboration with homeless services agencies

25. Plan to be created with input from public: need public outreach and public engagement

26. CCC: Con Plan draft is brought to TYP/CoC body and discussed at a TYP meeting

27. TYP body comments on draft and helps to create Homeless Strategy

29. Coordinating with the Consolidated Plan: Local Example (Contra Costa County, CA) 5 entitlement jurisdictions in CCC have a CDBG Consortium that meets quarterly Have 1 standard CDBG application for all jurisdictions Have a standard report format 5 entitlement jurisdictions combined HPRP funds to create 1 HPRP program in the county 1 program design with 1 lead agency and multiple sub-contractors 1 set of standard intake and assessment tools, case planning tools, data collection and reporting tools

30. Benefits of Integrated Planning Efforts Satisfy HEARTH and Con Plan requirements Eliminate duplicative planning and re-inventing the wheel Create closer relationships with key stakeholders outside the CoC arena – those that control the CDBG purse strings Support systems integration, whole-system problem solving, and maximize impact of all HUD funding coming in Break down silos

31. Questions? Piper Ehlen HomeBase piper@homebaseccc.org