In this Week's Edition
News
SHA Meeting - April 6th
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Biden Administration Releases
Blueprint For Fiscal Year 2023 Budget
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Congressionally Directed Spending FY 2023 Applications Accepted Until April 20, 2022
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Gov. Murphy Signs $25M Bill
For Rehab Of Affordable Housing Projects Impacted By Natural Disasters
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DCA Awards Neighborhood
Revitalization Tax Credit Funds To
Benefit 19 Neighborhoods Across New Jersey
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SHA Seeks Focus Group Participants
For NJ Housing Navigation Project
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Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies Report Reveals Inequitable Rental Recovery
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Accessibility in Housing Data
From HUD American Housing Survey
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NLIHC Releases Advocates’ Guide 2022:
A Primer On Federal Affordable
Housing & Community Development
Programs & Policies
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Housing Crisis Grows And
NHC Data Update In Paycheck To Paycheck
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HUD Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program Funding Notice Published
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DMHAS RFP: Mobile Access to
Medications for Substance User Disorder
Resources & Virtual Forums
ICYMI: NJ Regional Family Support
Planning Council's Statewide Meeting
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Home is Where the Services Should Be:
A Conversation Across Sectors to Integrate Behavioral Health & Long-Term-Care in Supportive Housing Settings
April 6, 2022
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Rutgers CSS Clinician Documentation Training
April 19 & 26, 2022
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Boggs Center Spring 2022
Developmental Disabilities Lecture Series
April - May 2022
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Next SHA
Members Meeting
Next SHA
Developers Meeting
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HCDNNJ
Healthy Homes & Communities Summit Online
April 29, 2022 | 9am-1:30pm
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CHLP Law and
Disability Conference
Thursday, May 5, 2022
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LeadingAge New Jersey & Delaware
May 31 - June 2, 2022
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NJAAW
24th Annual Conference
June 13, 2022
New Brunswick.
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Check the New
Housing Available in:
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Duties include the following: Lead collaboration between state Agencies, Advisory Task Force, local government, community-based organizations, people with lived experience and other stakeholders to develop best practices and policies to address homelessness; analyze data related to homelessness to drive policy and programmatic recommendations and decisions, as well as to determine performance metrics; oversee efforts to develop and implement the state plan, making recommendations to the Division Director regarding policies and best practices, developing and implementing programs and evaluating performance; produce plans, reports, policy briefs and other written communications on homelessness in NJ; serve as an expert resource on homelessness, keeping current with research and emerging practices in addressing homelessness across the nation; represent the Office at meetings and conferences.
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SHA celebrates Connie Mercer, the founder of HomeFront, as she prepares to step down as CEO of the organization at the end of September. Following this leadership transition, Mercer plans to focus on addressing the issue of homelessness more broadly at the state and national levels. We are grateful for her years of dedicated work and trust that her advocacy efforts to address homelessness will thrive in her future ventures. |
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SHA gives a shout out to CORT as they collaborated with |
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SHA Welcomes New & Returning
Members In 2022
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SHA Member Meeting - April 6, 2022 |
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10:00AM - 12:00PM / ET
Members can join in for the next member meeting on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Additional details on guests will be posted soon. Please RSVP by email to Joseph Christensen.
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Biden Administration Releases
Blueprint For Fiscal Year 2023 Budget
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President Biden released his blueprint for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 budget, offering topline levels and key funding priorities. The $5.8 trillion request includes $71.9 billion for the Department of Housing (HUD) and $331 million for the Treasury’s CDFI Fund, a $36 million increase above the current funding level.
The request also includes an additional $10 billion the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (Housing Credit) program over 10 years, which would be achieved through selective basis boosts for bond-financed Housing Credit projects, and permanency for the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC), indexing the credit to inflation after 2026 and beyond. The Housing Credit and NMTC requests are detailed in the Treasury’s “Green Book,” which demarcates the revenue raising or tax-related provisions in the budget request.
The budget request proposes $32.1 billion for HUD’s Housing Choice Vouchers, which would be a significant investment toward addressing the housing crisis in the U.S., and $1.95 billion for the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, which is the largest federal block grant to state and local governments designed exclusively to create affordable housing for low-income households. Additionally, the proposed budget requests $3.8 billion for HUD’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program including $195 million in targeted resources to remove barriers and revitalize 100 of the most historically underserved neighborhoods in the United States.
In terms of climate resilience, the president’s budget requests $1.1 billion in targeted climate resilience and energy efficiency improvements in public housing, tribal housing, and other assisted housing. The budget also supports permanently authorizing the Community Development Block Grant—Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program.
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Congressionally Directed Spending FY 2023 Applications Accepted Until April 20, 2022 |
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The office of New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is now accepting applications for FY223 Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) requests. Public entities (e.g. local units of government) and non-profit organizations are eligible to apply. You can find the CDS application and answers to frequently asked questions on this website.
The deadline to submit your CDS application to Senator Booker’s office is Wednesday, April 20, 2022.
As you may know, there are no guarantees that CDS requests will be funded. Additionally, the process in which appropriation bills are considered, finalized, and signed into law can take many months. Please refer to the FAQ below to check your eligibility to submit a CDS request and answer other questions.
To see a list of CDS awards for New Jersey in Fiscal Year 2022, click here.
Congressionally directed spending (CDS) requests direct specified amounts of money to state and local governments or to eligible non-profit entities for a specific project at a specific location.
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Gov. Murphy Signs $25M Bill For Rehab Of Affordable Housing Projects Impacted By Natural Disasters |
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The supplemental appropriation to HMFA for fiscal year 2022 will be made available as loans to finance the rehabilitation and physical improvement of eligible affordable housing properties. The appropriation will enable HMFA to provide funding for properties damaged by the hurricane that are in need of additional resources in a timely manner.
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DCA Awards Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit Funds To Benefit 19 Neighborhoods Across New Jersey |
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TRENTON, NJ – The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) announced $14.25 million in funding awards to 19 community-based nonprofit organizations across the state through the Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit (NRTC) Program. This is the largest amount of NRTC funding ever awarded, and also the most organizations to receive funding from the annual NRTC project application cycle. The nonprofit organizations will use the funding to implement revitalization plans that address housing and economic development, as well as complementary activities such as social services, recreation programs, employment training, and open space improvements.
The NRTC Program, which is administered by DCA’s Division of Housing and Community Resources, is designed to spur the renewal of neighborhoods at risk of experiencing a downturn. It accomplishes this through strategies developed by local residents and community-based nonprofit organizations that assist them, as well as through financial contributions from corporations. The community organizations prepare, submit, and receive approval from DCA for multi-year revitalization plans for the neighborhoods they serve. The corporations contribute funding to the NRTC Program and in return receive a 100 percent tax credit against various New Jersey state taxes. Every year, projects from the approved revitalization plans are listed in a qualified projects pool from which corporations choose the ones they want to financially support.
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SHA Seeks Focus Group Participants
For NJ Housing Navigation Project
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The goal of the New Jersey Housing Navigation Project (NJHNP) is to bridge a gap that will bring greater access to affordable housing to those most economically challenged in New Jersey. Through better understanding of both successful strategies and barriers to service delivery, the project aims to strengthen services that connect people with available housing and the capacity for program coordination throughout the state.
Why Join a Focus Group?
- We need the thoughts and ideas of people with very low incomes who have used services to connect to housing
- The focus groups will help us learn how people with lived experience are getting connected to housing in NJ.
- We want to hear from individuals with a wide variety of experiences from a range of backgrounds and communities from across NJ.
- Focus group participants will receive a gift card as a thank you for their participation.
How to Join a Focus Group:
We will let you know via email whether or not you have been chosen to participate. Focus group participants will receive a gift card as a thank you for their participation.
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Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies Report Reveals Inequitable Rental Recovery |
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On the surface, the rental market appears to have rebounded; however, a January 2022 report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) of Harvard University more closely examines the data to reveal disproportionate housing stability between high-income and low-income renters that the pandemic exacerbated. On January 21, 2022, JCHS held a virtual event, “America’s Rental Housing 2022,” and invited housing policy experts from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to discuss the report’s findings.
Disproportionate Recovery in Housing Stability
The report highlights persistent challenges in housing affordability stemming from the termination of emergency assistance programs and the disparate effects of the rental market recovery on lower-income and higher-income households. In the third quarter of 2021, thanks to rising demand from high-income earners unable to find for-sale housing and a surge in construction, rental rates were 10.9 percent higher and vacancies 4.6 percent lower than they were at the onset of the pandemic. At the same time, an unprecedented amount of federal emergency housing support — more than $46 billion in 2021 — ended, leaving low-income renters vulnerable to evictions and housing instability.
Challenges to Building Affordable Housing in Desirable Markets
Despite periodic fluctuations in rental trends, the shortage of affordable housing remains constant. The panelists point out that many barriers to new construction are regulatory in nature. Herbert explains that developers often struggle to find land that is zoned for housing, and when they do find the land, they are likely to face a difficult approval process and resistance from neighborhood residents.
Amending Public Policy to Protect Renters from Natural Disasters
Alongside the pandemic, disasters exacerbated by climate change, such as floods, winter storms, and heat waves, have devastated the rental housing stock, and investments are necessary to reinforce protections for nearly 2.1 million units of low-income housing in hazardous areas. According to the JCHS report, 40 percent of low-income housing tax credit units, 50 percent of units subsidized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and 30 percent of HUD project-based voucher units are at risk.
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Accessibility in Housing Data
From HUD American Housing Survey
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HUD included several questions in the 2019 American Housing Survey to gauge the level of accessibility in the U.S. housing stock. The responses to the "Housing Accessibility" module revealed that 13 percent of U.S. households include someone who uses a mobility-assistive device, and 19 percent of households include an individual with accessibility needs. In addition, 6 percent of households include someone who has difficulty entering the home, or accessing or using a kitchen, bathroom, or bedroom due to a condition.
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NLIHC Releases Advocates’ Guide 2022:
A Primer On Federal Affordable Housing
& Community Development Programs & Policies
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NLIHC has released Advocates’ Guide 2022: A Primer on Federal Affordable Housing & Community Development Programs & Policies, a comprehensive resource for advocates and others involved in many aspects of affordable housing and community development. Advocates' Guide is an invaluable resource for advocates around the country advocating for affordable housing solutions throughout the year. Advocates’ Guide is NLIHC’s resource about virtually every federal affordable housing program and policy pertaining to low-income people. Written by NLIHC staff and other leading experts in the field, Advocates’ Guide contains summaries of housing and community development programs as well as housing policy advocacy tools and other information. It contains everything advocates need for advocating with public officials, in both the legislative and executive branches of government.
This year’s Advocates’ Guide features new information about the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Emergency Rental Assistance program to protect renters from eviction during and after the COVID-19 pandemic; NLIHC’s End Rental Arrears to Stop Evictions (ERASE) project and HoUSed campaign for racial housing justice and universal, stable, and affordable housing; overcoming NIMBY opposition to affordable housing; and much more.
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Housing Crisis Grows And
NHC Data Update In Paycheck To Paycheck
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The National Housing Conference released a quarterly update of the Paycheck to Paycheck dataset, comparing the wages needed to afford a typical home or apartment in 390 metropolitan areas with the average local pay for 147 occupations. Data in this release shows the housing crisis is deepening in the middle of the country, with greater impacts on the ability of working families to afford adequate housing. This quarter’s update shows that the housing affordability crisis, historically a coastal trend, is now nationwide.
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Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program
Notice Of Funding Opportunity Published
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Through this NOFO, HUD will award approximately $72 million in up to 25 participating communities, with a priority for communities with substantial rural populations in up to eight locations. All communities are strongly encouraged to consider applying. The deadline for submissions is June 28, 2022.
Application Details
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Applications must be submitted through Grants.gov (not through e-snaps).
- The FY 2021 YHDP Application is for your community’s participation in the initiative only. Project funding applications will only be submitted by communities selected to participate.
- The FY 2021 YHDP Application must be submitted by a community’s Continuum of Care (CoC) Collaborative Applicant but should be co-developed with a broad array of community partners, including a youth action board, a state or local child welfare agency, youth homelessness housing, and service providers, local school districts, community health organizations, workforce development organizations, law enforcement, judges, corrections, and more.
- Youth leadership is a critical component of the YHDP. Communities are required to establish a Youth Action Board to guide the Coordinated Community Plan and YHDP project design development.
- American Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments and organizations may be eligible to receive project funding under this NOFO. View the upcoming webinar below for details.
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Technical Assistance (TA) documents on YHDP are located on the HUD Exchange YHDP page.
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DMHAS RFP: Mobile Access to
Medications for Substance User Disorder
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This initiative is funded through a blend of federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) State Opioid Response (SOR) grant program awarded to the New Jersey Department of Human Services (DHS), Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) in 2020 as well as federal funding from the Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention block grant. The contracts awarded for this initiative will be for one year and therefore, the term will be July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023.
This Request for Proposals (this RFP) is issued to implement an initiative that will enable agencies to travel to communities on a regular basis to provide low-threshold medication services to people with a substance use disorder (SUD) who encounter obstacles to receiving services at traditional “brick-and-mortar” treatment agencies. The selected bidder(s) in response to this RFP (Contractee(s)) will purchase a Mobile Outreach Vehicle (MOV) to travel to areas of high need in the agency’s service area and prescribe medication to people with SUD or co-occurring SUD and mental illness. Total annualized funding is $3,000,000 subject to Federal and State appropriations. DMHAS anticipates making up to three (3) awards. Contractees will address the behavioral and medical health needs of, at minimum, 100 people and refer them to primary or specialty providers for needed services. Each Contractee will receive $1,000,000, which will include start-up funds in the amount of $300,000 for each contractee to purchase the MOV. When the initiative ends, the MOV will be the property of DMHAS, and Contractees may continue to operate by renting the vehicle from DMHAS for a nominal cost.
This initiative, Mobile Access to Medications for Substance User Disorder (Short Title: Mobile Access) is designed to increase access to medications for SUD, i.e., buprenorphine, naloxone, naltrexone, methadone or acamprosate; case management; and recovery support services. This initiative is open to any Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) licensed by the NJ Department of Health Certificate of Need Licensing Office prior to the start of services. Priority will be given to proposals from counties with low access to those medications, as well as areas of the State with a high number of people who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness.
Mandatory Bidders Conference – April 5, 2022 at 10:00 am.
Proposal Due Date – no later than 4:00 p.m. on May 2, 2022
Notify Date – May 23, 2022
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Resources & Virtual Forums |
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ICYMI: NJ Regional Family Support
Planning Council's Statewide Meeting
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If you missed the New Jersey Regional Family Support Planning Council's Statewide Meeting, the full recording may be found here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wgAWzRlb4ZA
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Home is Where the Services Should Be:
A Conversation Across Sectors to Integrate Behavioral Health & Long-Term-Care in Supportive Housing Settings
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April 6, 2022 03:00 PM Eastern Time
For some of the most vulnerable people in America — people with mental illness, chronic health conditions, histories of trauma, and other struggles — supportive housing programs are a crucial lifeline. A safe and secure home is the essential starting point on the path toward adequate treatment and eventual recovery. The rapid aging of the supportive housing population, however, is a growing conundrum, one that cries out for innovative strategies to integrate affordable housing, behavioral health and long-term-care services. To blend and braid programs and policies across multiple service lines is a challenging undertaking. New provider partnerships and cross-sector collaborations will be needed to achieve the type of coordinated care strategies that residents of supportive housing will need to age in place.
Please join us for a robust discussion on how to build stronger partnerships between supportive housing and long-term-care providers through such options as New Jersey’s Assisted Living Program and other emerging community based care models. Co-sponsored and facilitated jointly by the Corporation for Supportive Housing and Capital Impact Partners, this convening will provide an opportunity to explore how cross-sector partnerships can be fostered to develop adaptable models of healthy and supportive housing and build the foundations needed to strengthen communities across New Jersey.
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Rutgers CSS Clinician Documentation Training
April 19 and 26 – Register Now
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The Rutgers School of Health Professions (SHP) is offering a two-session training that will provide licensed Community Support Services (CSS) providers (e.g., LCSW, LPC, LSW, LAC, RN) a clear understanding of CSS and documentation standards. This training is intended for licensed staff (pursuant to supervision guidelines) and Registered Nurses who are responsible for completing the CRNAs and IRPs for their agencies who have NEVER attended a CSS training OR who feel they need further training to complete these documents. CSS programs should limit registration to 1 to 2 staff.
This CSS Clinician Documentation training will review CSS interventions, psychiatric rehabilitation goals, values, and principles, the comprehensive rehabilitation needs assessment (CRNA), and the individualized rehabilitation plan (IRP). Sessions will be small enough to provide participants with practice opportunities.
The CSS Clinician Documentation training will be remote:
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There will be online content on Canvas to complete before the training.
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You must complete five asynchronous CSS Orientation Pre-Requisite Modules on Canvas (Overview of Admissions and Documentation, CSS Services, the Golden Thread of CSS, Development of the Rehabilitation Needs Assessment, and Development of the Individualized Rehabilitation Plan) by Tuesday 4/12 at 5 pm. These modules should take about 2-3 hours to complete.
- After the staff register, they will receive detailed instructions to sign up for Canvas and complete the pre-requisite modules.
- The training will be held live through Zoom over two days, and participants must attend both days:
- Day 1: April 19 (9:30 am-12:30 pm)
- Day 2: April 26 (9:30 am-12:30 pm)
Space is limited, so licensed staff (e.g., LCSW, LPC, LSW, LAC, RN) should register as soon as possible. Registration information must be for the staff attending the training.
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Boggs Center Spring 2022
Developmental Disabilities Lecture Series
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SPRING 2022 SESSIONS
Friday, April 1, 2022 l 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM l Webinar
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion and Person-Centered Practice
Friday, April 8, 2022 l 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM l Webinar
Supported Decision Making
Friday, April 22, 2022 l 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM l Webinar
Neurodiversity, Self-Advocacy, and Self-Determination
Friday, May 13, 2022 l 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM l Webinar
Acknowledging and Fostering the Critical Role of Support Coordinators
The Spring 2022 Developmental Disabilities Lecture Series will be held on the Zoom Webinar platform. The webinars are free of charge. Space is limited for each of the sessions. Open to people who live or work in New Jersey.
To access the webinars, you must register in advance on The Boggs Center Online Registration System.
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Want all the member benefits with SHA? Visit our website or contact Joseph Christensen to apply or manage your membership.
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Members can post jobs to find applicants within the wider supportive housing community. Click on the button to visit our job page.
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Diane Riley, Executive Director
Joseph Christensen, Membership & Communication Manager
Kate Kelly, MSW – Integrated Community Project Manager
Kate Leahy, Housing Navigator Project Manager
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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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