A COLLABORATION TO END HOMELESSNESS IN EL DORADO COUNTY 

El Dorado Opportunity Knocks Continuum of Care (EDOK CoC) is a regional planning body of representative stakeholders in El Dorado County that coordinates the community’s policies, strategies, and activities toward preventing and ending homelessness.

Its work includes gathering and analyzing information to determine the needs of people experiencing homelessness, implementing strategic responses, educating the community on homeless issues, providing advice and input on the operations of homeless services, and measuring CoC performance.

Continuum of Care (CoC) 

Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) 

2022 Competition Updates

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On Monday, August 1, HUD released its Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the 2022 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program Competition. The amount of funding is pending and will be released soon by HUD. The CoC may apply for new projects under the bonus funding. Projects may include: 

·  New RRH projects  for families or individuals experiencing homelessness (including fleeing violence), as described by HUD in the FY 2022 NOFO
·  New TH-RRH projects for families or individuals experiencing homelessness (including fleeing violence), as described by HUD in the FY 2022 NOFO
·  New projects for Coordinated Entry (including comparable database for DV survivors) 

Information regarding the El Dorado CoC Competition local process, including key dates, is below. 

Key Dates
The following dates outline key steps for applicants in our local process:
 
August 10, 2022, 9:00am - 11:00am
Technical Assistance (TA) Workshop
Materials from the workshop can be found here. 

August 17, 2022, 12pm
Letter of interest is due to edc@homebaseccc.org. 
The El Dorado CoC is now open to receive letters on interest from agencies interested in applying for CoC funding. Letters of interest are due to edc@homebaseccc.org by August 17th, 12pm. If you are interested in applying for the CoC funding this year, you must submit a letter of interest that includes your agency name, your contact name and the type of project you wish to apply for. 

August 24, 2022 – by 12:00pm (noon) local time
Project applications are due to edc@homebaseccc.org. 

ADDITIONAL NOFO RESOURCES
2022 NOFO Local Competition Timeline

NOFO Summary
Local Competition Policies
Scoring Tool: New Housing Project
Scoring Tool: New Coordinated Entry Project
First Year Renewal Project Benchmarks

New Projects workshop (June 29, 2022)

2022 CoC Program Federal Competition Resources
The following overview provides information about the local process required by HUD as part of this competition, including key dates. You can find more information about the 2022 CoC NOFO on HUD's website [link: https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/e-snaps/fy-2022-coc-program-nofa-coc-program-competition/].

Please contact Homebase with any questions at edc@homebaseccc.org