The Partnership Center provides a wide range of training and technical
assistance (TA) services focused on homelessness with individual
agencies/programs, statewide organizations, and for federal agencies. The
TA Division of PCL has:
At the
local level PCL has -- facilitated the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of
Care for the Homeless from 1995 through 2008; administered Cincinnati’s ESG,
HOPWA and SPC programs; twice facilitated and authored city and county
Consolidated Plans; provided extensive classroom training for HUD grantees; and
developed new systems to integrate mainstream services and resources.
At the state level PCL has been a
HUD TA provider since 2006 and has provided direct TA on demand/response to
multiple grantees across Ohio as designated by the HUD Field Office; provided
start-up training for all CoC grantees in Ohio; provided grantee support to
amend budgets from services to operating/leasing; trained
all SPC grantees and field office staff; provided start-up technical support to
the Ohio Interagency Council on Homelessness and Affordable Housing; designed
SSI Ohio’s statewide SOAR initiative, and provided HEARTH training for both
grantees and FO staff .
At the national level PCL is been a national TA provider and has served on the
initial HMIS national review group; developed a new HUD SPC Desk Guide; serves on the HUD APR Workgroup to create
the APR Guidebooks and tools needed to implement the APR in e-snaps; runs the HMIS Test Environment for HUD; serves on the HUD HMIS Software Certification
Workgroup; and is a member of the SAMSHA PATH Workgroup.
Certification provided by PCL for the HMIS Test Environment:
This is to certify to THE
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT (HUD) from THE
PARTNERSHIP CENTER, LTD. (PCL) the following:
1.
PCL agrees to use it’s Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) software
product VESTA® as the HMIS Test
Environment for HUD.
2.
PCL agrees not to sell or license VESTA outside of the Cincinnati/Hamilton
County, Ohio area (including exclusively Cincinnati, Ohio; Hamilton County, Ohio
and the Cincinnati EMSA) for the period of time we are authorized as the HMIS
Test Environment and for up to 6 months thereafter.
3.
PCL agrees to utilize the 100% HMIS data collection set, as collected within
the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless jurisdiction
as test data – providing only de-identified data for testing and development
Further, PCL understand HUD has tasked it, under the
CPD-TA Demand/Response System, to provide from the HMIS Test Environment the
following:
1.
Technical peer-review of SNAPS reporting formats;
2.
HMIS testing including validation for query methods, reporting formats, and
data elements;
3.
Testing and documentation of
technical specifications for reporting;
4.
The provision of “dummy data sets” for use by HMIS vendors.
This certification is effective this second day of March, 2011 and will run for
no less than a three year period.