- Effective Interviewing for Program Integrity - May 21-22, 2024 (Dallas, TX)
Price:
Training Only: $600 Member/ $700 Non Member
Training with Exam: $750 Member/ $850 Non Member
Training Location:
DHA – Housing Solutions for North Texas 3939 N. HAMPTON ROAD DALLAS, TX 75212
Purpose
Successful error reduction strategies and fraud prevention begin with interviewing. This training provides the know-how to produce skilled, well-trained interviewing staff, utilize effective tools for communication and data collection, and create a standardized staff interviewing methodology. Throughout the training, you will examine hands-on case studies that illustrate topics such as conducting eligibility interviews, resolving discrepancies, asking the right questions to prevent fraud, collecting data, and using verification forms. The training allows attendees to identify key policy issues to reduce errors and prevent fraud.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the Effective Interviewing for Program Integrity training, you should be able to leverage a strong understanding of HUD regulations and guidance in order to:
- Identify the skills needed for interviewing effectively
- Learn a planned approach to interviewing
- Improve your listening skills
- Improve your questioning techniques:
- What makes one question better than another?
- What questions should you avoid?
- How do you bridge questions to gather maximum information?
- Deal more effectively with “zero-income” families
- Recognize the difference between a participant’s “failure to report” and “fraud”
- Utilize interview tools and forms for program integrity
- Identify policy issues to improve program integrity
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- HOTMA: An In-Depth Review of Programmatic Changes - May 23-24, 2024 (Fort Worth, TX)
Training Only: $450 Member/ $550 Non Member
Training with Exam: $600 Member/ $700 Non Member
Training Location:
Tarrant County Housing 2100 Circle Dr #200 Fort Worth, TX 76119
Description:
The Housing Opportunity through Modernization Act (HOTMA) has made a myriad of changes to the Housing Choice Voucher Program and Public Housing.
This class will view HOTMA from the lens of how it affects different program aspects at the micro and macro levels. We will review the optional and required policy decisions PHAs will need to make to be in compliance with HOTMA.
We will provide scenarios on how HOTMA will be changing the way we calculate, adjust, and determine income and eligibility.
Focusing on the following three sections of HOTMA:
Section 102 – Income Reviews Section 103 – Over-Income Tenants of Public Housing (in effect) Section 104 – Asset Limitations
Objectives:
Identify regulatory changes in eligibility and annual income for applicants and participant families. Understand where the program has changed Determine Administrative Plan/ACOP Revisions to existing and new policies. Update knowledge on what is considered income and what is excluded Calculate rents and apply correct allowances at initial, new admission, interim, and annual re-examination. Operationalize the phase-in and hardship clauses built within the changes to limit impacts on families. Obtain knowledge on when to process interim re-examinations and determine the effective dates. Refresh knowledge of the student rule. Pre-emptively celebrate the end of EID, which is within two years of the final rule. Apply the asset limits to your program at new admission and re-examinations. Understand and apply the updated Income Limits in Public Housing Uphold the HCV/PH program and regulations to the highest standards Understand the impacts of HOTMA on their program Apply the new HOTMA rules to their program Process interim and annual re-examinations accurately Maintain program compliance Who Should Attend:
It is strongly recommended that individuals who have a strong background in HCV and Public Housing Programs attend this training. Specifically, this training is perfect for individuals who have taken NAHRO’s HCVOEIR or PHOEIR training in the past.
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- RAD Project-Based Voucher (PBV) Specialist - July 16-18, 2024 (Dallas, TX)
Price:
Training Only: $600 Member/ $700 Non Member
Training with Exam: $750 Member/ $850 Non Member
Training Location:
DHA – Housing Solutions for North Texas 3939 N. HAMPTON ROAD DALLAS, TX 75212
Purpose
The RAD Project-Based Voucher (PBV) Specialist seminar is designed specifically for agencies transitioning their public housing units to the project-based voucher program under the first component of the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) Program. This course is intended as an introduction for public housing or HCV staff transitioning to the PBV program as well as for anyone unfamiliar with RAD PBV. The course begins with an overview of the basics of both RAD component one and PBV and explores the differences between tenant-based vouchers and project-based vouchers as well as the difference between PBV and RAD PBV. Staff will leave with an understanding of how to set rents, how PBV contracts work, how to determine eligibility and operate the waiting list, the basics of inspections, how units are leased, how to organize files, and occupancy issues such as annual recertification, income increases, and terminations.
Learning Outcomes
Based on HUD regulations and guidance, develop and master the skills needed to successfully transition your PHA’s public housing units to the project-based voucher (PBV) program under the first component of the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program and ensure long-term compliance.
Day One
- Introduction to component one of the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program
- Applying for RAD, and RAD requirements for the five-year and administrative plans
- Similarities and differences between tenant-based vouchers, PBV, RAD PBV, and public housings
- The CHAP contract (Commitment to Enter into a Housing Assistance Payments Contract) and other important documents
- PBV HAP contract
Day Two
- Eligibility and the waiting list
- Initial and ongoing rents
- Utility allowances
- Choice mobility
- Annual and interim recertifications
- Increases in income
- Inspections
- Terminations
- Reporting and administrative management
- PBV project files
- Program administration
- Action plan for the PBV program
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- HOTMA – HCV - Aug 20-21, 2024 (Austin, TX)
Price:
Training Only: $600 Member/ $700 Non Member
Training with Exam: $750 Member/ $850 Non Member
Training Location:
Housing Authority of the City of Austin
1124 S I-35 Frontage Rd
Austin, TX 78704
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