Welcome to Fall River Homeless Service Providers Coalition!
If you are currently homeless or at risk of becoming homeless in Fall River please call for assistance today.
Fall River Coordinated Entry System
Telephone: 774-520-2555
E-mail: frce@cssdioc.org
The Coordinated Entry System (CES) allows families and individuals to connect to resources to help resolve their housing crisis. CES works to connect the highest need, most vulnerable persons in the community to available housing and supportive services that best fit their needs
The Fall River HSPC seeks to provide quality of life to the formerly homeless and empower them to live as independently as possible.
The Fall River Homeless Service Providers Coalition’s (HSPC) mission is to:
- work towards eradicating homelessness in Fall River, MA
- to improve access to mainstream resources
- to assist in the transition from homelessness through the continuum of care
- to provide supportive services
- to help maintain housing
- to prevent discharge of homeless people to the streets
- and to employ a quality Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) that accurately tracks and counts the homeless.
- Homeless Services:
If you or some you know is homeless or at risk for homelessness please contact us today.
September 22, 2021
Dear Director:
This is to inform you that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released the Continuum of Care application for its competitive grants for housing and services for the homeless.
Any entity looking to apply for renewal funding of its programs must forward a Letter of Intent
to the Homeless Service Providers Coalition {HSPC) by 5:00 p.m., October 1, 2021.
The organization must actively participate in the application process and may schedule time with me at my office to obtain assistance to complete the application in e-snaps, if necessary. Project applications will be due in e-snaps October 13, 2021.
Also attached is a description of opportunities that are available in the federal competition and may be available in the Fall River competition (local approval pending; available to any 501{c)(3) organization operating in Fall River). The opportunity to consolidate existing CoC projects is available, provided that the projects are operated by the same agency and of the same component. Please include information regarding what programs your agency is·considering for consolidation in your Letter of Intent.
General information regarding the Continuum of Care Program Competition may be found at https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/comm_planning/coc/competition. (Please note: The Coe Competition information has been moved from the HUD Exchange to HUD.gov.)
Please forward your Letter of Intent by scanning your original signed letter and attaching it to an e-mail to mdcamara@fallriverma.org by 5:00 p.m., Friday, October 1, 2021. If you have any questions, please contact me at 508-679-0131.
Sincerely,
Mary D. Camara
Homeless Service Providers Coalition
https:ljwww.hud.gov/program offices/comm planning/coc/competition
The FV2021 Continuum of Care application allows for the following:
- New projects created through reallocation of funds from an existing under-performing
- New projects created from new CoC bonus funds:
- Permanent housing-permanent supportive housing (PH-PSH) projects;
- Permanent housing-rapid rehousing (PH-RRH)
- New projects where 100% of the participants are or will be survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking created from Domestic Violence bonus funds:
- Permanent Housing-Rapid re-housing projects;
- Supportive services only-coordinated entry project (specific for DV programs).
- Dedicated HMIS project (FRCoC is ineligible as we already have a grant for HMIS}.
- Supportive services only (SSO-CE) project to develop or operate a centralized or coordinated assessment system (FRCoC is ineligible as we already have a grant for coordinated entry).
- Expansion project to increase the number of units, beds, persons served, services provided to existing program participants, or to increase the current HMIS activities within the
- Consolidated project to combine two but no more than 10 eligible renewal projects (e.g., permanent housing-permanent supportive housing projects)
Available funding for FRCoC – MA-515 FY202
| Preliminary Pro Rata Need | Estimated Annual Renewal Demand | Tier 1 100% ARD |
CoC Bonus |
DV Bonus |
CoC Planning |
| $2,525,650 | $1,941,319 | $1,941,319 | $126,283 | $378,848 | $75,770 |
Preliminary Pro Rata Need: The formula amount based on the metropolitan cities, urban counties, and other counties claimed by the Coe as part of its geographic area during the CoC Program Registration process (the city of Fall River).
Annual Renewal Demand: The total amount of all the CoC’s projects that will be eligible for renewal in the FY 2021 Coe Program Competition.
Tier 1: 100 percent of the combined Annual Renewal Amounts.
Continuum of Care Bonus: 5 percent of its Final Pro Rata Need (FPRN).
Domestic Violence Bonus: 15 percent of its Preliminary Pro Rata Need (PPRN}.
Continuum of Care Planning: 3 percent of its Final Pro Rata Need (FPRN).
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