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Consortium TA Team COVID-19 Special Topic Series: CARES Act Funds: FEMA

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FEMA funds through the CARES Act relief package are a critical source of funding to ensure short term safe housing options for survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence and human trafficking during COVID-19. During this Special Topic session, Traci L. Brasher from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) discusses the CARES Act FEMA funds. Noah Patton, with the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), discusses strategies for states/localities, coalitions and domestic violence programs to access and utilize the funds. Karen Jarmoc, with the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence (CTCADV), discusses strategies at the state level for building relationships/partnerships to access the funds as well as provide an overview of how Connecticut is utilizing FEMA funds to support survivors. Finally, Amy Turk with the Downtown Women’s Center (DWC), lends a homeless service provider perspective on the California Project Roomkey Initiative and discuss how local homeless/housing providers in Los Angeles County are utilizing FEMA funds for hotel/motel vouchering as well as provide best practice strategies for homeless/housing providers supporting survivors.

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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.