Common CoC Acronyms

Common acronyms utilized in the Northern Nevada Continuum of Care (CoC): 

 

Acronym	Stands for	Description
AFR	Applicable Federal Rate
AHAP	Agreement to enter into a Housing Assistance Payments Contract
AMI	Area Median Income	Families with less than 30% of the AMI (AND) have moved two times in the last 30 days, or have doubled up are deemed "homeless" by HUD, or are exiting an institution.
AO	Administering Organization
API	Application Programming Interface
APP	Annual Performance Plan
APPS	Active Partners Performance System
APR	Annual Performance Report (Annual Progress Report for homeless programs)	A self-assessment prepared by recipients of HUD grants.
ARAMS	Automatic Renewal and Amendment Management Subsystem
ARP	American Rescue Plan (FY2021)	Provides $5 billion to assist individuals or households who are homeless, at risk of homelessness, and other vulnerable populations, by providing housing, rental assistance, supportive services, and non-congregate shelter, to reduce homelessness and increase housing stability across the country. Within this plan is the Homeless Assistance and Supportive Services Plan.
AWOC	Adults Without Children
BIPOC	Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
BNL	By Name List
BOLO	Be on the Lookout	Law enforcement term. BOLO's must be reviewed before entering a client onto the CoC housing cue.
CAC	(1) Community Assistance Center, Washoe County Or (2) Child Advocacy Center, Washoe County
CC	Case Conferencing
CDBG	Community Development Block Grant (CPD program)
CE	Coordinated Entry	An approach to coordination and management of a crisis response system's resources that allows users to make consistent decisions from available information to efficiently and effectively connect people to housing and service interventions that will rapidly end their homelessness.
CEE	Coordinated Entry Event	Client service transaction (various referrrals)
CEF	Community Empowerment Fund; administered by CPD
CERB	Coordinated Entry Review Board
CES	Coordinated Entry System	Coordinated entry is a process developed to ensure that all people experiencing a housing crisis have fair and equal access and are quickly identified, assessed for, referred, and connected to housing and assistance based on their strengths and needs.
CFCF	Capital Fund Education and Training Community Facilities
CFP	Capital Fund Program
CFR	Code of Federal Regulations
CHAB	Community Homelessness Advisory Board	The Community Homelessness Advisory Board is comprised of elected representatives from the City of Reno, City of Sparks, and Washoe County.  The board is tasked with providing input and making recommendations on homeless issues in the region.  Meetings are open to the public.
CHAS	Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy
CHAT
CIT	Children in Transition (program)	Provides children experiencing homelessness the opportunity to achieve the same high-quality academic standards by eliminating barriers to their education.  Includes services and supportive items. CIT rep should be on the leadership board.
CLS	Current Living Situation
CO	Contracting Officer
CoC	Continuum of Care	The CoC was established in response to a mandate from HUD for local coordination in addressing homelessness. According to HUD, “the Continuum…is a community plan to organize and deliver housing and services to meet the specific needs of people who are homeless as they move to stable housing and maximum self-sufficiency.”, starting September 1, 2021 Washoe County is now the Lead Agency for the Northern Nevada Continuum of Care. This was transitioned to Washoe County from the City of Reno September 1, 2021, and will provide staff time for Continuum of Care activities and responsibilities including the annual CoC application process and the Point in Time Count.
CoR	City of Reno
CPD	Community Planning and Development (HUD Office of)
EAP	Emergency Action Plan
EHV	Emergency Housing Voucher	Made available through the American Rescue Plan, provides housing choice vouchers to local Public Housing Authorities for individuals and families who are: Homeless, At risk of homelessness, Fleeing, or attempting to flee, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, or human trafficking, or have a high risk of housing instability.
eLOCCS	(Electronic) Line of Credit Control System (LOCCS)	The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) primary grant disbursement system
ES	Emergency Shelter
ESG	Emergency Shelter Grants (CPD program)
e-snaps	CoC Program Application & Grants Management System	The electronic Continuum of Care (CoC) Program Application and Grants Management System that HUD’s Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs (SNAPS) uses to support the CoC Program funding application and grant awards process for the CoC Program.
FMR	Fair Market Rent(s)	Used to determine payment standard amounts for the Housing Choice Voucher program, to determine initial renewal rents for some expiring project-based Section 8 contracts, to determine initial rents for housing assistance payment (HAP)
GIW	Grant Inventory Worksheet	Report is used annually to record all grants within a CoC's geographic area that are eligible for renewal funding for an upcoming CoC Program Competition.
GMS	Grants Management System
HAP	Housing Assistance Payments
HASSP	Homeless Assistance and Supportive Services Plan
HCV	Housing Choice Voucher	Housing choice voucher program is the federal government's major program for assisting very low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled to afford decent, safe, and sanitary housing in the private market. A housing subsidy is paid to the landlord directly by the PHA on behalf of the participating family.
HDX	Homeless Data Exchange	(www.hudhdx.info) is an on-line tool designed to allow Homeless Continuums of Care to submit data to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
HDX	Homelessness Data Exchange (HDX)	Continuums of Care (CoCs) can submit their Fiscal Year (FY) System Performance Measures (SPM) data through this web portal
HEARTH	Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009	The HEARTH Act identifies performance indicators for Continuum’s of Care (CoC) known as System Performance Measures, which help communities track their progress toward the goal of ending homelessness. CoC recipients and subrecipients should familiarize themselves with these measures by reading the Performance Measures of Homeless Systems. The big difference is that focus shifts from viewing homeless assistance programs and funding sources operating independently in a community to viewing the local homeless response as a coordinated system of homeless assistance options.
HIC	Housing Inventory Count	The Housing Inventory Count (HIC) is a point-in-time inventory of provider programs within a Continuum of Care that provide beds and units dedicated to serve people experiencing homelessness (and, for permanent housing projects, where homeless at entry, per the HUD homeless definition), categorized by five Program Types: Emergency Shelter; Transitional Housing; Rapid Re-housing; Safe Haven; and Permanent Supportive Housing.
HOME	HOME Investment Partnerships Program	HOME provides grants to state and local governments to create affordable housing for low-income households
HP	Homeless Prevention	Housing relocation and stabilization services and short-and/or medium-term rental assistance as necessary to prevent the individual or family from moving to an emergency shelter, a place not meant for human habitation
LSA	Longitudinal System Analysis	Report produced from a CoC’s HMIS and submitted annually to HUD via the HDX 2.0, provides HUD and CoCs with critical information about how people experiencing homelessness use their system of care.
MCO	Managed Care Organization
MTW	Moving to Work (Demonstration Program)	Provides PHAs the opportunity to design and test innovative, locally designed strategies that use Federal dollars more efficiently, help residents find employment and become self-sufficient, and increase housing choices for low-income families.
NNAMHS	Northern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services	Comprehensive, community-based behavioral health system for adult consumers. Inpatient services are provided through Dini-Townsend psychiatric hospital, located on the same campus as the central NNAMHS site. Numerous outpatient services are available which include but not limited to the Washoe Community Mental Health Center, Outpatient Pharmacy, more.
NNCLC	Northern NV Continuum of Care Leadership Council
OP	Our Place	An outcome-based campus designed to create a safe and stable environment where women and families who are experiencing homelessness.
PBV	Project Based Voucher	Rental vouchers that are tied to a specific number of units in a building. The assistance stays with the unit after a tenant moves out.
PH	Permanent Housing	Can be with or without Supportive Services, there is no disability required.
PHA	Public Housing Agency	Any state, county, municipality or other governmental entity or public body, or agency or instrumentality of these entities that is authorized to engage or assist in the development or operation of low-income housing under the U.S. Housing Act of 1937
PIT (Count)	Point in Time Count	An annual count on a single night of the sheltered, and unsheltered homeless population in the region. Usually conducted in the last 10 days of January. Time determined by RAH members.
PSH	Permanent Supportive Housing	Disability required for entry.
RAH	Regional Alliance to End Homelessness
ROI	Release of Information
RRH	Rapid Rehousing (Permanent)	A form of permanent housing that is short-term (up to 3 months) and/or medium-term (for 3 to 24 months) tenant-based rental assistance, as set forth in 24 CFR 578.51(c), as necessary to help a homeless individual or family, with or without disabilities, move as quickly as possible into permanent
Sage	Sage HMIS Repository	Replaces eSnaps for all recipients. APRs will be submitted to Sage. Collaborative apps will still go through eSnaps.
SH	Safe Haven	A form of supportive housing that serves hard-to-reach homeless persons with severe mental illness who are on the street and have been unable or unwilling to participate in supportive services.
SHP	Supportive Housing Program
SO	Street Outreach	Essential Services related to reaching out to unsheltered homeless individuals and families, connecting them with emergency shelter, housing, or critical services, and providing them with urgent, non-facility-based care.
SPM	System Performance Measures
SSO	Supportive Services Only	Includes street outreach
Stella A	Stella Modeling Module	Will assist CoCs to develop a vision of the system interventions and capacity needed to end homelessness. Using data on homelessness, combinations of project types, and performance goals, Stella M calculates the inventory needed for an ideal crisis system response that can guide resource investment decisions.
Stella P	Stella Performance Module	Uses dynamic visuals of CoCs’ LSA data to illustrate how households move through the homeless system and highlight outcome disparities. Stella P does the analytical heavy lifting, so your CoC can focus on planning and improving your crisis response system.
TAC	Technical Assistance Collaborative
TAY	Transitional Aged Youth	Persons between age 18 and 24 who are transitioning from childhood to adulthood.
TH	Transitional Housing
VSP	Victim Service Provider	Eg: DV Shelter Program
WIC	Women, Infants & Children	A special supplemental nutrition program that serves income eligible pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women, infants, and children up to age 5 who are at nutrition risk.
YHDP	Youth Homeless Demonstration Project

Last Revised: 02/10/22