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This is the HUD CoC scores, ranking, rejection & reallocation data to be submitted to CoC Governing Board on September 23, 2022 for final approval

Mid Florida Homeless Coalition
Ranking and Tiering HUD CoC NOFA 2022
CoC Information: FL520

HUD has announced the FY 2022 Continuum of Care (CoC) Competition with approximately $2.794 billion available. You can access the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) at CoC Program Competition Page.

$52 million for DV Bonus projects

$80 million for YHDP Renewals

As of August 11, 2022, HUD has released the following information for the four county CoC FL 520 Citrus, Hernando, Lake, Sumter Counties CoC (Continuum of Care):

FL-520 Funding – To Be Determined by HUD – this information has not yet been posted.

• Preliminary Pro Rata Need –
• Est. Annual Renewal Demand (ARD) – $544,756.00
• Tier 1 – $517,518.00
• CoC Bonus – $ 68,881.00
• DV Bonus – $137,761.00
• CoC Planning – $41,328.00

All New and Renewal applications are due on Monday, August 29,2022, by 4:30 p.m. The application will need to be submitted into e-snaps and the Supplemental application to be submitted via email to execdirector@midflhc.org. If you’re new to e-snaps, please start with the HUD Exchange for info on “getting started in e-snaps, navigating in e-snaps, and applying for project funds.”

Check out our website for the most current FY2022 HUD CoC NOFO INFO, including the local timeline and supplemental information/resources.

We will be holding a Mandatory FY2022 CoC Bidder’s Conference via  GoToWebinar August 12, 2022, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Stay tuned for updates!

Notice of Funding Opportunity FY 2021 – FL 520 Citrus, Hernando, Lake, Sumter Counties CoC (Continuum of Care)

HUD has announced the FY 2021 Continuum of Care (CoC) Competition with approximately $2.656 billion available, which includes up to $77 million for Domestic Violence Bonus Projects (of which $50 million is carried over from FY 2020) and approximately $77 million for non-competitive Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program renewal and replacement expiring grants. You can access the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) here.

FL-520 Funding
· Preliminary Pro Rata Need – $1,457,553
· Est. Annual Renewal Demand (ARD) – $528,305
· Tier 1 – $528,305 (total amount of all eligible renewal projects)
· CoC Bonus – $72,878
· DV Bonus – $218,633 (FY 2020 and FY 2021)
· CoC Planning – $43,727

All New and Renewal applications are due on Friday, October 15th, by 4:30 p.m. The application will need to be submitted into e-snaps and the Supplemental application to be submitted via email to mfhc.information@gmail.com. If you’re new to e-snaps, please start with the HUD Exchange for info on “getting started in e-snaps, navigating in e-snaps, and applying for project funds.”

For more information on this funding, please email us – and stay tuned for important upcoming dates!

Check out our website for the most current FY 2021 HUD CoC NOFO INFO, including the local timeline and supplemental information/resources.

We’ll hosting a Mid Florida CoC Bidder’s Conferences for your convenience on September 22, 2021, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.

Please email us to reserve your spot.

Stay tuned for weekly updates!

Summary
The purpose of this information is to inform of the reinstatement of work requirements effective June 1, 2021. All newly approved Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA) recipients and individuals identified as Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs) will be referred to the Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) to participate in work requirements. Current TCA recipients and ABAWDs will be reengaged at the time of recertification.

Food Assistance
Able Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs) must participate in E&T activities for at least 80 hours per month in order to remain eligible for food assistance. Failure to comply with ABAWD work requirements will result in an electronic request from DEO to sanction the noncompliant individual.

DCF staff will continue to refer ABAWDs to DEO/CareerSource with the appropriate codes on AGPI. DEO/CareerSource will begin engaging any new customers beginning June 1, 2021. Current ABAWDs will be engaged at the time of their recertification. Any new referrals and recertifications sent to DEO will begin the reengagement process, the notices of mandatory participation will be mailed and the normal process (pre-COVID) will occur.

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act, Section 2301, prohibits State agencies from limiting an ABAWDs eligibility unless the individual is not complying with work requirements offered by the State.

• If DCF does not receive a sanction request, the assumption is the individual is compliant with DEO/CareerSource.
• If an individual applies that had a sanction request prior to June 1, 2021, the sanction will be removed and individual referred
  to DEO/CareerSource.
• If a sanction is received on or after June 1, 2021, the individual must meet an exemption or comply with DEO/CareerSource
  before the sanction can be lifted.

Time Limits
In addition, the Act states to disregard any previous time-limited months an ABAWD may have received until the end of the public health emergency (PHE). Therefore, all time-limited months received for ABAWDs from the beginning of the designated three-year period through the end of the public health emergency will be disregarded and not count towards their three time-limited months for that 3-year period.

Note: An individual can be sanctioned for not participating in work activities, but it will not count as a time-limited month until the month after the PHE ends. The individual must get the sanction lifted or meet an exemption in order to participate again.

Nancy Kennedy
Dec 21, 2020

Each Dec. 21, a day that’s often filled with holiday preparation, shopping and early celebrations, a handful of people gather to honor those who have died during the year while experiencing homelessness.

This year, the Salvation Army of Citrus County in Lecanto and Mid Florida Homeless Coalition hosted the memorial service for those who died in Citrus, Lake, Hernando and Sumter counties; the service was also on Facebook Live.

“Today we honor and remember the people who, for the most part, are unseen and who we generally forget and pass by on the street,” said Salvation Army Col. Dennis Strissel of Hernando County. “But for us at the Salvation Army, we know they’re part of our family … and each person we are memorializing today had a story.”

“Since 2017, we have been documenting those who have passed away either during homelessness or while in housing for the formerly homeless,” said Kristy Jocelyn, from Mid Florida Homeless Coalition. “But we know there are many more who are unaccounted for.”

Jocelyn read the names of people who died in 2020 from the four counties covered by Mid Florida, which includes Citrus County:

Veteran Joseph Ancell, Veteran John Bianchi, Ronald Copeland (Citrus), Veteran Thomas Dougherty (Citrus), Michael Gilkerson (Citrus), Patricia Huskey, Lastarza “Star” Johnnies (Citrus), Josephine Johnson, Freda Love, Steve McBride (Citrus), Maurice McCook, Veteran Ricky Minzer (Citrus), Veteran Anthony Nazzario, Gay Parsons, Joseph Smith and Lee Vangelder-Murtagh (Citrus).

“Just naming them is significant,” Strissel said. “Even these people who are generally overlooked … have value and worth, just like you and I do.”

Salvation Army Maj. Ken Fagan ended the brief, but poignant, service with a prayer and a charge:

“Holy God, in the midst of winter, in di”cult economic times, in this pandemic … we grieve for those who have died, who have experienced homelessness,” he said. “No one should live a third-world life in a first-world country.

“For those of us who remain, I pray that we will be your agents of love and change … may we work tirelessly for a new world where homelessness and poverty are ended.”

Contact Chronicle reporter Nancy Kennedy at 352-564-2927 or nkennedy@chronicleonline.com.

Read more of Nancy’s stories at tinyurl.com/yxt69grh

NANCY KENNEDY Reporter

While those of us who are fortunate to have housing struggle to deal with the impacts of the pandemic, those experiencing homelessness have even more challenges. Mid Florida Homeless Coalition, Inc. has requested and been awarded funding to help meet some of the needs that have been identified by its staff. Hygiene kits that will provide hand sanitizer, mosquito repellant, and other items to protect and hopefully keep them well.

Mid Florida Homeless Coalition, Inc. (MFHC) and its partners assess the needs of those experiencing homelessness. Once the pandemic hit and the CDC provided a list of medical conditions that would make people more vulnerable, MFHC created a list of those who are literally homeless (not in shelter) and most vulnerable due to their medical conditions. Many do not have access to needed prescriptions or health related items. Imagine being diabetic, having COPD, immunocompromised state, and not being able to afford to get needed medications or supplies and living in the woods.

Based on these findings, we knew we needed to ask for funding for prescription and over-the-counter medications, first aid items and supplies. “Thanks to the generosity of this grant, we are excited to be able to address head-on some of the medical and basic survival needs of our participants who are most-vulnerable during this stressful, uncertain time.”

For more information on what you can do to help or to request a speaker, please contact Barbara Wheeler, Mid Florida Homeless Coalition at (352) 860-2308 or by e-mail at mfhc.information@gmail.com