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https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/4688/fy-2015-coc-program-nofa/
USA – New Funding Opportunity: Homeless & Human Trafficking
[DEADLINE: November 20, 2015] – The U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the FY 2015
Continuum of Care Program, which includes programs serving victims of human
trafficking and other populations at high-risk for human trafficking. The
Continuum of Care Program is designed to promote a community-wide commitment to
the goal of ending homelessness; to provide funding for efforts by nonprofit
providers, States, and local governments to quickly re-house homeless
individuals and families while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused to homeless
individuals, families, and communities by homelessness; to promote access to
and effective utilization of mainstream programs by homeless individuals and
families; and to optimize self-sufficiency among individuals and families
experiencing homelessness.
HUD provides a definition of homelessness and human
trafficking in their NOFA:
Definition of Homelessness and Human Trafficking. HUD wishes to clarify that persons who are fleeing or attempting to flee human trafficking may qualify as homeless under paragraph 4 of the “homeless” definition at 24 CFR 578.3, and therefore may be eligible for certain forms of homeless assistance under the CoC Program, subject to other restrictions that may apply. HUD considers human trafficking, including sex trafficking, to be “other dangerous or life threatening conditions that relate to violence against the individual or family member” under paragraph 4 of the definition of “homeless” at 24 CFR 578.3. Where an individual or family is fleeing, or is attempting to flee human trafficking, that has either taken place within the individual’s or family’s primary nighttime residence or has made the individual or family afraid to return to their primary nighttime residence; and the individual or family has no other residence; and the individual or family lacks the resources or support networks to obtain other permanent housing; HUD would consider that individual or family to qualify as “homeless” under paragraph 4 of the definition.