MESSAGE FROM HUD

Please contact Continuum of Care in your office's jurisdiction to encourage them to attend two upcoming homeless-related forums.

HMIS and COC Homeless Forum are co-located in Denver, Colorado. The HMIS Conference will be held September 18-19. The CoC Homeless Forum will begin on the afternoon of September 19 and end on September 20. The HMIS forum has been held annually; this the first Continuum of Care forum.

Continuum of Care Forum. To give every Continuum an opportunity to attend the Continuum forum, we initially limited participation to 1 person for each of the 450 Continuums. Now that each CoC has had a chance to register and there are still a number of remaining spaces we are opening up registration. Any COC member may attend and any community- and faith-based organization with an interest in learning more about the Continuum may also attend. We also welcome field office attendance at the forum. To register, CoC representatives should go to http://www.cocforum.info.

HMIS Conference. The HMIS target audience is more narrow. As in past years, each Continuum may send one representative. Additionally, each HMIS implementing jurisdiction may send one HMIS Administrator (e.g. HMIS System Administrator or Project Manager per HMIS implementation). For more information or to register for the HMIS Conference, interested persons should go to http://www.hmisconference.info

Thanks for your help in promoting these important CPD conferences.