ENDING HOMELESSNESS in NEW JERSEY EZINE

An occasional ezine of news related to ending homelessness in New Jersey.

August 15, 2006
Volume 1/Number 1 ISSN 1935-4835

September 13th Point in Time Debriefing

You are invited to attend a Workshop/Roundtable Forum hosted by Monarch Housing and CSH on Point in Time Counts. It will be help on September 13th 2006,  10:00am – 12:30pm at the  HRDI Training Facility – Multi Purpose Room, 200 Woolverton Ave., Building 20, Trenton, NJ. Click here for directions.

This is a venue for CoC’s from throughout the state to come together and discuss past Point in Time Counts, as well as, an opportunity to hear from guest speakers who will present new and innovative ideas that can be incorporated into the HUD mandated January 2007 PIT count.  This Forum will provide an excellent opportunity to begin the PIT process for your community, which will be followed by the roll out of the 2007 PIT Survey Tool and training's which will take place on a regional basis beginning in October.

Many of our NJ communities have had the opportunity to benefit from sharing our past and varied experiences performing PIT counts.  This Forum will provide us with the opportunity to share both our best practices as well as lessons learned, and will improve our ability to perform a successful 2007 count. With this in mind we would ask that you take a couple of minutes to write-down some of the lessons that you have learned and what you have found to work during past PIT counts, and e-mail it back to us so that we can develop a document that includes information from all of the counties attending. 

The 2007 count is an opportunity to build on the statewide baseline data collected during the 2005 PIT count on homelessness in New Jersey. The better coordinated we are, the more accurate the data will be.

We ask that each CoC send a maximum of (3) three representatives to this event, and that you RSVP to Kristin Green at or 908.272.5363 by September 8, 2006.

Please forward to those in your continuum that might be interested in attending this event.

News of Interest

The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs released its Housing Policy to create 100,000 new permanent housing units in ten years including units for the homeless. To read the policy click here.

We would like to hear your feedback. Please email us with your comments.

"THE HOMELESS EXPRESS is moving full speed ahead toward a December deadline for completing a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness." Click here to read the full August 11th article in the Bergen Record.

"Care Connection seeks to reduce emergency room overcrowding by diverting patients with less serious needs to other, less expensive resources." To read the full article click here.