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Montana’s Youth Action Board is Seeking New Members!
The Montana Continuum of Care Coalition’s Youth Action Board (YAB) is a group of young adults with lived experiences of homelessness who work to advocate for and support other homeless…
2023 HUD Notice of Funding Opportunity
The Montana Continuum of Care is seeking project applicants for FY 2023 funding via the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Continuum of Care Program competition.
Montana Continuum of Care FY 2022 Supplemental NOFO to Address Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness Project Rankings
The Montana Continuum of Care Coalition Board of Directors voted on 10/3/2022 to accept all applications that were submitted for the Supplemental NOFO to Address Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness and approved the following final project rankings. No applications were rejected or reduced
2022 MTCoC Consolidated Application Posted
The Montana CoC Coalition posted the 2021 CoC Consolidated Application to the website today. This complies with the HUD requirement to post the application publicly two-days prior to the November 16th deadline. If you have any comments or feedback, please send them to admin@mtcoc.org.
HUD Supplemental Notice of Funding Opportunity
On June 22, 2022, HUD announced it is making $322 million in competitive funding available to communities to address unsheltered and rural homelessness through a Special CoC Program Notice of…
2022 HUD Notice of Funding Opportunity
HUD released the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Continuum of Care Competition and Noncompetitive Award of Youth Homeless Demonstration Program Renewal and Replacement Grants…
Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program in Montana Free Press
‘This is a real problem across the board. Making sure that every kid has a safe, happy, healthy place to be raised? Yeah. We’re not quite there.’ NICHOLE HEYER, YOUTH…
Training: Equal Access, LGBTQIA+, and Family Separation
HUD’s Equal Access rules ensures that all individuals – regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity – have equal access to HUD’s Department of Community Planning and Development (CPD) programs, shelters, benefits, services and accommodations. Here is a terrific YouTube video and accompanying training slide deck on Equal Access requirements and strategies to provide all individuals who interact with CoC funded agencies with a safe, healthy, inclusive, affirming and discrimination-free environment.
2021 MTCoC Consolidated Application Posted
The Montana CoC Coalition posted the 2021 CoC Consolidated Application to the website today. This complies with the HUD requirement to post the application publicly two-days prior to the November 16th deadline. If you have any comments or feedback, please send them to admin@mtcoc.org.
2021 MTCoC Project Rankings
The Montana Continuum of Care Coalition Board of Directors voted on 10/29/2021 to accept all applications that were submitted for 2021 and approved the following final project rankings. No applications were rejected or reduced.
2021 NOFO Competition for Renewal Project Applications
53% of renewal project scoring is based upon HUD’s System Performance Measures (SysPM) and using actual data from the most recent, fully completed Annual Performance Report. Another 40% of the scoring uses other objective scoring criteria with the remaining being subjective narratives related to how a project meets a need identified in a local Needs and Gaps Assessment.
2021 NOFO Competition for New Project Applications
80% of a new project’s score comes directly from answers provided in the HUD eSNAPS project application and 20% from MT CoC supplemental application questions.
2021 NOFO Process
A Scorecard Committee consisting of five voting members are assisted by a national technical assistance consultant to review past scorecards and the current NOFO to develop the scoring criteria and point valuations for the 2021 Competition. Separate scoring are developed for new and renewal project applications as well as for Domestic Violence (DV) and non DV projects. The draft scorecards are then presented to the MT CoC Coalition Board of Directors for discussion, change and final adoption.
