SHPA Annual meeting October 18, 2011

1. SHPA Annual meetingOctober 18, 2011 Get to Know Your Colleague, Elect Officers, Legislative Agenda for 2012

2. Get to Know Your Co(lleagues) You have a star or a dot on your nametag, find someone with the opposite shape but same color and learn all about them in the next 10 minutes. Be ready to introduce your new acquaintance when we are done.

3. Slate of Officers for 2012 Officers Committee Chairs • President: Sharon Hess, SICH in Marion • 1st Vice-President: Felix Matlock, MHL in Chicago • 2nd Vice-President: Diana Knaebe, HBHC in Decatur • Treasurer: Bill Nelson, Bridgeway in Galesburg • Secretary: Teyonye Franks, HOW in Chicago • Legislative: Lisa Kuklinski, MHL in Chicago and Chris Kahl, Southside Office of Concern in Peoria • Governance: Eileen Higgins, Catholic Charities in Chicago • Standards & Best Practices: Beth Epstein, DuPage PADS in Wheaton and Dave Thomas, AIDS Foundation of Chicago • Residents: Dorothy Yancy and Linda Hood

4. Legislative Priorities It’s all up to you! VOTE! • Every year during the SHPA Annual Meeting, we ask our membership to vote on our advocacy agenda. • Each regular SHPA member organization was given six dots at registration: three dots for state and three dots for federal. • Get together with your fellow staff members in attendance and decide how you want to vote. Place your dots on the appropriate choices.

5. IDHS Contract Update You should have a received an email from Jenny Boyd requesting a budget update for FY’12. There was a budget form attached with a column showing your submitted four-month budget, a column for your 8 month budget and a twelve-month total column. This budget must be submitted by the end of business, Monday, October 24, 2011. Be on the lookout for an email from IDHS any day now. This email will include instructions for accessing, completing and returning the FY'12 Special Amendment Signature Page to your agency's FY'12CONTRACT. This Signature Page will be due no later than October 31, 2011 so it is very important to complete in a timely manner.

6. Legislative Priorities It’s all up to you! VOTE! • Remember, you only have three dots to place on the state advocacy choices and three dots to place on the federal advocacy choices. • Individual, Affiliate and Continuum Members may show their preference by making a check mark in the bottom right hand corner of their advocacy choice (you also only have three check marks to give to each – state & federal). • We will tally the results at the end of the day and set the SHPA FY’12 Advocacy Agenda.

7. Legislative Priorities State State • Preserving Supportive Housing Service Funding • Obtaining New Supportive Housing Service Funding • Budgeting for Results • Class Action Lawsuit Consent Decree Implementation (Williams, Ligas, Colbert) • Re-Entry Supportive Housing Initiative • Unified Budgeting • Medicaid Reform, Coordinated Care, Affordable Care Act Implementation (IDHFS)

8. Legislative Priorities Federal Federal • HEARTH Act Implementation • HEARTH Act Funding - $2.4B • Enact SELHA • HUD-VASH resources • Affordable Care Act Implementation – Medicaid expansion • SESA (Section Eight Savings Act) • WIA Reauthorization – serve most vulnerable populations • Second Chance Act – funding to prevent homelessness for people leaving corrections

9. Thank You! 2011 Dues Paid 2011 Dues Paid • EdgeAlliance • AIDS Foundation of Chicago • Alexian Brothers: Bonaventure House and Mental Health • Alliance to End Homelessness of Suburban Cook County • Association for Individual Development • Bridgeway • D&O Properties • Butler Woodcrafters • Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Chicago • Catholic Charities, Diocese of Joliet • Central Illinois CoC • Chestnut Health Systems • Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness • A Safe Haven/CCIL • LifeLinks • Wellspring Resources

10. Thank You! 2011 Dues Paid 2011 Dues Paid • Cornerstone Services • Crosspoint Human Services • Daveri Development Group • Deborah’s Place • Delta Center • DeWitt Human Resource Center/Kleeman Village • Dove Inc./Homeward Bound • DuPage PADS • Featherfist • The H Group • Grand Prairie Services • Heart of Illinois CoC • Heritage Behavioral Health Center • Housing Action Illinois • Housing Authority of Henry County • Housing Opportunities for Women • Human Resources Development Institute

11. Thank You! 2011 Dues Paid 2011 Dues Paid • Human Service Center of South Metro-East • Human Support Services • Illinois Association of Community Action Agencies • Interdependent Living Solutions Center • Facing Forward to End Homelessness • Tom Johnson • Lake County CoC • Lazarus House • Lighten-Gale Group • Light the Way, Inc . • MCS Community Services • Mercy Housing Lakefront • Perry County Counseling Center • Primo Center • Hesed House • The Renaissance Collaborative

12. Thank You! 2011 Dues Paid 2011 Dues Paid • Renaissance Social Services • St. Clair CoC • St. Leonard’s Ministries • Southside Office of Concern • This End Up Furniture • Together We Cope • Thresholds • Urbana-Champaign CoC • West Central Illinois CoC • Will County CoC • Zion Development Corporation

13. 2011 Dues Thanks to everyone who has paid their 2011 dues. If you didn’t see your organizations name on the list, talk to a SHPA staff member today.