Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing is pleased to offer a Professional Certificate Program:

Asset Management/Certified Housing Asset Manager
A Professional Designation from the Consortium for Housing and Asset Management

OCCH is pleased to announce that the OCCH Training Academy plans to partner with HUD and the Consortium for Housing and Asset Management to bring the Certified Housing Asset Manager (CHAM) training to CHDOs and OCCH partners this year.

CHAM is a professional certificate program that recognizes that nonprofit asset management is difficult work, and requires managers to be particularly skilled and sophisticated. CHAM's mission is to better enable community-based organizations and others in the nonprofit housing industry to responsibly own and oversee the management of affordable housing. This training is especially appropriate for community-based organizations that contract property management with third-party managers, as well as organizations that handle property management directly.

Participants earning their professional designation will have the skills to:

To obtain the designation, participants must attend 6 required courses and complete an asset management project. Due to the support of OCCH, HUD and the Consortium for Housing Asset Management, we will be able to offer 5 of the 6 courses in the coming 12-14 months. (The sixth course is a Low Income Housing Tax Credit compliance course which can be obtained from numerous sources.) All classes will be offered in Columbus, Ohio, at the CPO Training Center. Pricing for the full series of classes is $2,720 per person.  Please note that if participants took these courses through the NeighborWorks Institute, which is generally held in locations such as Washington, D.C., or Atlanta, Georgia, this series of classes would cost approximately $9,000 - $10,000 for the course work, travel and lodging. OCCH is pleased to be able to offer these classes at a significant discount. 

Preliminary interest in this series of classes has been overwhelming and space is limited. Therefore, registration will initially be limited to those individuals who are committed to attending all five courses. Prepayment of 50% of the fee will be required with registration and is non-refundable. Payment of the final 50% must be made by August 1, 2009. Registration for individual classes will be offered at a later date, if space permits.

The classes consist of:

*Participation in Financial Tools for Asset Managers and Advanced Housing Asset Management requires that each participant bring a laptop computer equipped with Excel. Laptops will not be provided; participants must provide their own laptop for the classes.

For more information or to register for these classes, contact Melanie Shapiro (mshapiro@occh.org), Director of Partner Services, or Lynn Logan (llogan@occh.org), Administrative Assistant at 614-224-8446.