In This Edition:
News:
Most NJ Small Businesses Will Be Eligible
for $50M Expansion of EDA Grant Program
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NJ DCF Announces $9 Million in
Emergency Funding for Congregate Care Providers
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NJHMFA: Green Point Benchmarking Initiative Update
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CMS Announces Changes to Medicare Advantage and
Part D to Increase Access for Medicare Beneficiaries
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Revised OSHA Enforcement Policies for COVID-19
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CBPP on
3 Principles for an Anti-Racist, Equitable State Response to COVID-19 — and a Stronger Recovery
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NAMI NJ
Offers Resources,
Online Support Groups,
and Webinars for Mental Health Month
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CSH Virtual Supportive Housing Summit
Planning Beyond the Crisis
June 23-26, 2020
Video Resources & Webinars:
Webinar Recordings for Non-Profits
from SRS Strategic Associates Now Available
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NJAMHAA: Free Webinar
Coping with
Provider-Related Grief and Loss
May 28, 2020
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Free CSH Webinar:
Centering Equity in Health and
Housing Partnerships in Times of Crisis
June 4, 2020
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NJFA Webinars Learning from COVID-19:
June 5, 2020 & June 12, 2020
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Most NJ Small Businesses Will Be Eligible
for $50M Expansion of EDA Grant Program
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Almost all small businesses and many nonprofits will be eligible to receive grants from the $50 million expansion of the state’s Small Business Emergency Assistance Grant Program, according to the provisions approved by the board of the
New Jersey Economic Development Authority
last Friday morning. The state also announced the program will reserve $15 million of the funding for businesses located in ZIP codes designated as Opportunity Zones, in an effort to ensure more money goes to under-served communities.
The changes announced Friday to increase eligibility for phase two include:
- Increasing the cap on the number of full-time employees: Companies with up to 25 employees may apply; the limit was 10 in the first phase;
- Elimination of North American Industry Classification System code restrictions: This will make nearly all small businesses eligible;
- Increased eligibility of nonprofits: Elimination of NAICS codes makes 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), and 501(c)(7) nonprofit organizations eligible;
- Inclusion of home-based businesses and sole proprietors: They were not eligible in the first phase.
The EDA did not announce the date it will begin accepting applications — details are still being worked out.
The EDA did say that $5 million of the program will be reserved for companies that were told they were on a “waiting list” from the first phase. Those told they were on the “oversubscribed” list will need to reapply.
Grants of up to $10,000 will be awarded; it is not clear how the size of the grant will be determined. There will be no application fee. And applications will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis.
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NJ DCF Announces $9 Million in
Emergency Funding for Congregate Care Providers
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Funding Will Offset Additional Costs Associated with
Residential Care during COVID-19 Pandemic
TRENTON – The New Jersey Department of Children and Families announced today the release of $9 million in emergency funding for providers of children’s residential treatment, and shelter services for children and families. These services comprise a critical portion of the NJ DCF network of support for children with behavioral and developmental needs, survivors of domestic violence, parents seeking help with substance use disorder, and adolescents transitioning out of foster care to independent living.
In order to manage the health and life safety of residents, providers have incurred additional costs, including additional staffing costs related to increased child supervision during daytime shifts, the purchase and distribution of Personal Protective Equipment to staff, and heightened cleaning and sanitization of facilities. These emergency funds will be used to offset those additional costs of care.
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NJHMFA: Green Point Benchmarking Initiative Update
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Attention:
Due to the current health concerns related to COVID-19, the process of obtaining Tenant Utility Releases for the NJHMFA Green Point Benchmarking Initiative shall be suspended until further notice.
Questions? Need Help?
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CMS Announces Changes to Medicare Advantage and
Part D to Increase Access for Medicare Beneficiaries
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today finalized requirements that will increase access to telehealth for seniors in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, expand the types of supplemental benefits available for beneficiaries with an MA plan who have chronic diseases, provide support for more MA options for beneficiaries in rural communities, and expand access to MA for patients with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Together, the changes advance President Trump’s Executive Orders on Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation’s Seniors and Advancing American Kidney Health as well as several of the CMS strategic initiatives.
Due to the upcoming June 1, 2020, MA and Part D bid deadlines for the 2021 plan year, CMS is finalizing a subset of the proposed policies before the MA and Part D plans’ bids are due. CMS plans to address the remaining proposals for plans later in 2020 for the 2022 plan year. We understand that the entire healthcare sector is focused on caring for patients and providing coverage related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and we believe this approach provides plans with adequate time and information to design the best coverage for Medicare beneficiaries.
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Revised OSHA Enforcement Policies for COVID-19
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The
U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
has adopted two revised policies for enforcing OSHA's requirements to ensure employers are taking action to protect their employees, including workers with disabilities, with respect to coronavirus, as economies reopen in states throughout the country. First, OSHA is increasing in-person inspections at all types of workplaces and is prioritizing COVID-19 inspections. Second, OSHA is revising its previous enforcement policy for recording cases of coronavirus. Under OSHA's recordkeeping requirements, coronavirus is a recordable illness, and employers are responsible for recording confirmed cases of work-related coronavirus.
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NJ DHS to Ensure Medicaid Residents in
Care Facilities Receive Their Federal Stimulus Checks
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(TRENTON) – Department of Human Services Commissioner Carole Johnson released guidance making clear that individuals with Medicaid coverage who reside in long-term care facilities are entitled to receive their federal stimulus payments and the payments cannot be retained by the facilities. Further, payments will not be counted as income or considered a Medicaid resource for up to a year. The federal CARES Act provided for economic stimulus payments of up to $1,200 per adult.
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CBPP on
3 Principles for an Anti-Racist, Equitable State Response to COVID-19 — and a Stronger Recovery
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COVID-19’s effects have underscored the ways our nation’s history of racism, bias, and discrimination are embedded in our health, social, and economic systems. People of color are experiencing disproportionately more infections and hospitalizations — and among Black people, highly disproportionate death rates — with people of color also overrepresented in jobs that are at higher infection risk now and in the jobs hardest hit economically.
Three principles should guide state policymakers in these equity efforts:
- Target aid to those most in need due to the COVID-19 and consequent economic crises.
- Advance anti-racist and equitable policies — both short- and long-term — to dismantle persistent racial, gender, and economic inequities and other barriers that non-dominant groups and identities experience.[1]
- Protect state finances to preserve the foundations of long-term economic growth and opportunity.
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NAMI NJ
Offers Resources,
Online Support Groups,
and Webinars for Mental Health Month
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The following two groups are being offered online, using the Zoom platform:
NAMI Family Support Group
Tuesdays at 12 pm
Wednesdays at 7 pm
Thursday at 7 pm
NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group
Tuesdays at 7 pm
Wednesdays at 12 pm
Wednesdays at 7 pm
Groups will continue to meet through the full month of May.
If you have any questions, please contact:
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Diving Into Peer Support
Sunday, May 31, 2020
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
In this NAMI NJ Hearts & Minds presentation, we will be
Diving Into Peer Support
. Jay Yudof, MS, Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner and NAMI New Jersey Recovery Programs Coordinator will cover topics, such as:
- What Peer Support is and where NAMI fits in
- Information about support groups
- Strengths and benefits of peer support
- Other mental health peer support resources (call centers, wellness centers, respite houses, clubhouses)
- State and national organizations, conferences/events and the role of ongoing learning in recovery
- Roles of peer providers in NJ
- Advocacy considerations: Expanding roles and access
- Ways to volunteer in NAMI peer support and advocacy
- Career options and credentials in mental health peer support and advocacy
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In Our Own Voice
Sunday, May 31,
2020
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM EDT
We are offering a presentation of our popular NAMI In Our Own Voice program to raise mental health awareness and reduce stigma. Learn from trained NAMI volunteers about their lived experience of mental health recovery; What Happened, What Helps, and What’s Next.
This is a presentation we give over 200 times a year to a wide variety of audiences, including high school and college classes, professional trainings, family education courses, and congregations.
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Staying ‘Senior-Tough’ During the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond
Wednesday May 27, 2020
1 - 2 PM EDT
Older Americans are among the most medically vulnerable populations being impacted by COVID-19, especially those in long-term care settings. However, seniors’ life experiences in dealing with adversity and their outlooks on living make them among our nation’s most resilient citizens! This webinar will explore some of the unique physical, social and psychological challenges faced by older adults during this current COVID-19 crisis, and offers some suggestions on how seniors and their family caregivers can maximize their skills and abilities to help survive and thrive during and beyond the pandemic.
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CSH Virtual Supportive Housing Summit
Planning Beyond the Crisis
June 23-26, 2020
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Now more than ever, it is important for the supportive housing field to come together and assess where we are and how we rebuild more inclusive and resilient systems. While we cannot join together in person this year, we can come together, virtually.
Over the course of four days, we hope to bring much of what you enjoyed about our in-person Summit experience to your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet. We'll talk about what matters right now and where we need to be in the future as the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 crisis unfold.
With two tracks focused on supportive housing programs and the systems that touch supportive housing, sessions will dive into racial equity, organizational resilience, care coordination, listening to lived expertise, federal policy, tracking data in the crisis and more.
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Video Resources & Webinars:
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Webinar Recordings for Non-Profits
from SRS Strategic Associates Now Available
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SRS Strategic Associates provides the following video resources to help non-profits evaluate and strengthen their structure and build organizational sustainability.
Webcast #1: GRANTS -- Helping Funders say Yes!
As funding opportunities for recovery assistance becomes available, there will be a great deal of competition for limited resources. You may have heard this concept before that people generally want to say ‘yes’. This presentation will offer proven ‘tips of the trade’ about how to get funders to say ‘yes’ to your proposals.
Webcast #2: BUSINESS CONTINUITY
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Expand your Business Continuity Plan for Future Growth & Sustainability.
This webcast prepares your organization for the future by improving and expanding service delivery, safety, financial, and the communication components of your Business Continuity Plan. You will hear first-hand from Triple C Housing – an experienced housing provider – about the successful methods they cultivated after 9/11, Superstorm Sandy up to the present COVID-19 pandemic.
Webcast #3
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BUSINESS PLANNING: Position Your Organization for Successful Growth.
If you agree that now is the time to start thinking about what comes next, this webinar presents a step-by-step format for organizations interested in practical methods for making organizational growth and sustainability decisions that lead to success.
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NJAMHAA: Free Webinar
Coping with
Provider-Related Grief and Loss
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May 28, 2020 | 10-11 AM EDT
Losses of life, job, routine and freedom of movement have made this a devastating pandemic for many clients and providers. As a consequence, many are and will be struggling with feelings of grief. In this interactive workshop with Barry J. Jacobs, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and healthcare consultant, personal and agency practices for healing from grief will be shared. These include distinguishing between normal and complicated bereavement, utilizing and creating rituals for community-sanctioned emotional expression and resolution, and implementing supportive policies and practices.
Barry J. Jacobs, PsyD, is a Pennsylvania clinical psychologist,family therapist and a Principal in the Philadelphia office of Health Management Associates, a national healthcare consulting firm. He specializes in working with individuals and families coping with medical illnesses in his clinical practice in Media, PA. He is the author of two books on family caregiving and writes a self-help column for family caregivers for the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP.org).
Registrants will receive a link to join the training 1 day prior to session.
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Free CSH Webinar:
Centering Equity in Health and
Housing Partnerships in Times of Crisis
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Thursday, June 4, 2020 | 12:00-1:30PM ED
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Please join CSH, the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, and health center partners for an interactive discussion on how health centers can center equity in their work with housing partners in times of crisis, including the current response to COVID-19.
Panelists will discuss how to center equity in both immediate response work as well as long-term planning, opportunities for re-imagining and strengthening the role of health centers in addressing structural inequities; and building stronger health and housing partnerships in crisis and beyond.
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NJFA Webinars Learning from COVID-19:
June 5, 2020 & June 12, 2020
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June 5, 2020 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Impact on Long-Term Care and Medical Decision Making
Please join the New Jersey Foundation for Aging to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on Advance Care Planning. Dr. David Barile will introduce you to the NJ POLST form and talk about the importance of POLST forms for at-risk people. A NJ POLST form can be downloaded at
goalsofcare.org for you to have on hand during the webinar.
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Friday, June 12, 2020 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
Impact on Age-Friendly Communities and Immigrant Families
Join us as our presenter discusses the barriers faced by immigrant seniors in accessing need-based services and benefits that can assist in preventing vulnerability. Navigating public benefit systems while adhering to immigration-based policies for these benefits can be a complex process. Jonelle will explain how the COVID-19 pandemic has complicated this process even further and how service providers can assist with increasing access for their clients and be effective in providing support and guidance.
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Advocate ● Educate ● Support
The Supportive Housing Association of New Jersey unites its diverse coalition of members engaging development, resources, and information to sustain supportive housing systems within New Jersey. Since 1998, our statewide mission seeks to enhance lives and accessibility to enable independent living within our communities.
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Supportive Housing Association of New Jersey
185 Valley Street, South Orange, NJ 07079
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