TITLE
Title
DHHS-CONTINUUM OF CARE (COC) PROGRAM 2024 HUD PLANNING GRANT APPLICATION
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SPONSOR
Sponsor
Cheri Neal, CoC Program Manager
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BACKGROUND
Background
Guilford County serves as the Collaborative Applicant for the Guilford County or NC-504 Continuum of Care (CoC), and in that role, prepares and submits the CoC Planning Grant as part of the Guilford CoC's collaborative application for the Continuum of Care Notice of Funding Opportunity (CoC NOFO).
The Continuum of Care (CoC) Program is designed to promote a community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; to provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, States, Indian Tribes or Tribally Designated Housing Entities, and local governments to quickly rehouse individuals and families experiencing homelessness, persons experiencing trauma or a lack of safety related to fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence and other similar threats; to promote access to and effective utilization of mainstream programs by homeless individuals and families, and to optimize self-sufficiency among those experiencing homelessness Continuums of Care operate under authorization provided in the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act and the federal CoC Program Rule. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development regularly distributes funding for CoCs to provide services including funds to support collaborative planning and application preparation and submission activities that the Collaborative Applicant performs.
The 2024 CoC NOFO competition is currently active and collaborative applications must be completed by October 28 for community review prior to being formally submitted on October 30, 2024. NOFO grants have a twelve month term, but HUD has notified applicants that the 2024 NOFO will be a two-year competition with awards made in 2024 being eligible for automatic renewal on new twelve-month terms in 2025. The Guilford County CoC is eligible for up to $3.7 million in grant fu...
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