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Consortium TA Team COVID-19 Special Topic Series: Emergency Transfers

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Emergency transfers are a main way to ensure safety in housing for survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence, dating violence and stalking. During this session, the National Alliance for Safe Housing (NASH) provides an overview of emergency transfer requirements under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and highlights promising practices, strategies and considerations for Continuums of Care (CoC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The session further spotlights the Los Angeles Homeless Services Agency’s (LAHSA) Interim VAWA Emergency Transfer Policy, specifically developed to ensure operability of expedited emergency transfers for survivors in a broad range of program types (emergency shelter, Bridge Housing, Permanent Supportive Housing, Rapid Re-Housing, hotel/motels and others). Finally, the Shriver Center on Poverty Law examines common themes that have emerged as additional barriers to emergency transfers in public housing, Housing Choice Voucher, and other federally subsidized housing programs during the COVID pandemic, providing advocates with strategies to navigate barriers, while centralizing survivor safety.

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The special topic series is designed to give advocates a chance to learn more about the available housing funding for survivors, ask questions, process issues, and provide mutual support on the impact of the COVID-19 virus in safe housing programs.

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This project is sponsored under Family Violence Prevention and Services grant awards from the Office of Family Violence Prevention and Service within the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Office on Violence Against Women and the Office for Victims of Crime at the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The interagency collaboration established this domestic violence and housing technical assistance consortium to provide national domestic violence and housing training and resource development.