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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
and
CAPITOL HILL DAY
July 15–17, 2015 Washington, DC
TABLE of
CONTENTS
1
onference Sponsors, Partners, Information
C
Tables, and Scholarships
2 – 10 Conference Agenda at a Glance
11 – 14 Workshop Tracks 15 Conference Agenda - Tuesday
15 – 23
Conference Agenda - Wednesday
24 – 36
Conference Agenda - Thursday
36 – 41
Conference Agenda - Friday
42 Plenary Speaker Biographies
43 – 51 Workshop Speaker Contact Information
52 About the Alliance
53 Alliance Board of Directors
54 Glossary of Terms
56 Notes
57 Save the Date
58 Hotel Map
WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS
Access conference WiFi throughout the hotel meeting space.
1.
Make sure your wireless is activated
2.
Connect to the Renaissance_Conf Network
3.
Open your internet browser
4.
You will be automatically rerouted to the page where
you will be asked to enter your access code
5.
Enter access code: NAEH15
Congratulations you are now connected to the internet!
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INFORMATION TABLES*
Be sure to check out the following organizations‘ information tables at the
conference. Information tables are located in the Grand Ballroom Foyer
Hospitality Sponsor
CONRAD N. HILTON FOUNDATION
Workshop Sponsor
BOWMAN SYSTEMS
Rob Hosier
[email protected]
318-213-8780
BOWMAN SYSTEMS
Investing Sponsors
COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS
CORT FURNITURE
CSH
FOCUS STRATEGIES
FOOTHOLD TECHNOLOGY
HANDUP.ORG
HOUSING INNOVATIONS
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE COLLABORATIVE
ALL A BOARD INC.
Andy Barth
[email protected]
800-882-2753
ASEWORTHY INC.
C
Scott Argeris
[email protected]
801-924-2834
CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INSTITUTE
Jennifer Gholston
[email protected]
212-801-3352
ENTRAL CITY CONCERN
C
Sarah Porter
[email protected]
503-784-9263
COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS
CHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNESS
NATIONAL AIDS HOUSING COALITION
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS
NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
NATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS VETERANS
NATIONAL FOSTER CARE COALITION
NATIONAL LAW CENTER ON HOMELESSNESS & POVERTY
NATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION
NATIONAL NETWORK FOR YOUTH
CONFERENCE
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
The National Alliance to End Homelessness
has established a Scholarship Program to
assist individuals who are currently
experiencing, or have formerly experienced
homelessness and cannot afford to cover the
full cost of participating in the conference.
Criteria for scholarship awards are based
on financial need, geographic distribution,
and the leadership skills the applicant will
be able to bring back to his/her community.
The number of scholarships available is
based upon funding received for the
Scholarship Program.
* As of July 7, 2015
CLOUDBURST GROUP
Sharon Price
[email protected]
240-582-3608
OMMUNITY SOLUTIONS
C
Maseta Dorley
[email protected]
336-521-3399
CONVENIENCE KITS INTERNATIONAL LTD.
Ben Lido
[email protected]
516-536-1300
ORT FURNITURE
C
Todd Shell
[email protected]
713-726-8019
CSH – THE SOURCE FOR HOUSING
SOLUTIONS
Liz Drapa
[email protected]
212-986-2966
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS,
HOMELESS VETERANS OFFICE
Anita Major
[email protected]
OOTHOLD TECHNOLOGY
F
Sarah Morrison
[email protected]
212-780-1450 x 8038
HANDUP Meghan Murphy
[email protected]
HOUSING FIRST PARTNERS CONFERENCE
Maria Jacinto
[email protected]
206-464-1570 x 3082
INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN,
POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS
Linda Bazerjian
[email protected]
212-358-8086
NATIONAL COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
Megan Hustings,
[email protected]
NATIONAL LAW CENTER ON HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY
Janelle Fernandez
[email protected]
202-638-2535 ext. 103
NATIONAL LOW INCOME
HOUSING COALITION
Mary Kolar
[email protected]
202-662-1530 x 233
NATIONAL NETWORK FOR YOUTH
Darla Bardine
[email protected]
202-783-7949
ROJECT HOME
P
Laura Weinbaum
[email protected]
215-232-7272
OCIAL SOLUTIONS
S
Kristin Brooks
[email protected]
609-576-1808
t 3 (think.teach.transform.)
Rachel Berkowitz
[email protected]
617-467-6014
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE COLLABORATIVE
Mayra Pabone
[email protected]
617-266-5657
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT’S OFFICE OF
POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH
Jennie Bray
[email protected]
703-742-7881
CONFERENCE
AGENDA
at a GLANCE
Tuesday
Time
Event
Location
JULY 14
5 – 7PM
Pre-Registration CHECK-IN
Grand Registration
Wednesday
Time
Event
Location
8AM – 5PM
Registration check-in
Grand Registration
8:15AM – 8:45AM
New Mexico Prep Session
Franklin Square
JULY 15
PRE-Conference SESSIONS
9AM – 11AM
Homelessness 101: What We Have Learned
about Ending Homelessness
Congressional Hall B
9AM – 12PM
Rapid Re-Housing 101 for Providers and
Community Leaders
Congressional Hall A
9AM – 12PM
Creating Medicaid Opportunities in States
Renaissance West B
9AM – 12PM
Improving Employment Outcomes: Exploring
Research, Funding, and Approaches That Work
Renaissance West A
10AM – 12PM
Exploring the Role of the Child Welfare System
in Ending Youth Homelessness
Congressional Hall C
11AM – 12PM
Alliance Conference Jumpstart
12:15 – 12:45PM
STATE PREP SESSIONS
Utah State Prep Session
Meeting Room 5
Ohio State Prep Session
Meeting Rooms 8/9
Virginia State Prep Session
Renaissance West A
California State Prep Session
Renaissance West B
12 – 1PM
Lunch on Your Own
1 – 1:45PM
Opening Plenary
Grand Ballroom
Welcome:
The Honorable Muriel Bowser
Mayor of the District of Columbia
Plenary overflow:
Renaissance East
Keynote Address:
Nan Roman
President and CEO, National Alliance to End
Homelessness, Washington, DC
Wednesday, July 15
Time
Event
2 – 4PM
Workshops I
Location
1.01 E
nding Family Homelessness: Key Strategies
Renaissance East
1.02 Building
an Effective Crisis Response
System to End Homelessness
Renaissance West A
1.03 F
inishing the Job: Ending Chronic
Homelessness
Renaissance West B
1.04 W
hat You Need to Know About the
Largest Homeless Subpopulation:
Single Adults
1.05 W
hat We Know about Ending Veteran
Homelessness: The Latest Research
1.06 Increase the Impact of Local
Homelessness Funding
Meeting Rooms
12/13/14
1.07 Preventing Homelessness
Meeting Rooms 8/9
1.08 Make It Work: Linking Rapid Re-Housing and Employment
1.09 Practical Harm Reduction Strategies in Supportive Housing
Penn Quarter
1.10 The Role of HUD Homeless and
Mainstream Programs in Ending Homelessness
Meeting Rooms 10/11
1.11
4:30 – 6PM
CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE
Working Together Works! Incorporating Homeless Youth Programs into CoCs
Meeting Room 2
1.12 Strategies for Developing and Financing Services in PSH Using Medicaid:
Where to Start
Meeting Room 3
1.13 S
erving Survivors of Domestic Violence in
Housing and Homeless Service Programs
Meeting Room 5
1.14 Officers and Partners: Working with Police Departments to End Homelessness
Meeting Room 16
Workshops II
2.01 Who Gets What? How Prioritization Works in Coordinated Entry
Renaissance East
2.02 Understanding the Core Components of
Rapid Re-Housing
Renaissance West A
2.03 Bringing the Community Together to End
Veteran Homelessness
Renaissance West B
2.04 Employment and Housing Go Hand-in-
Hand: Removing Barriers and Creating Employment Opportunities
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4
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENDING HOMELESSNESS
Time
Event
Location
Workshops II CONT.
6 – 6:30PM
2.05 Successfully Housing Single Adults through
Rapid Re-Housing
2.06 Crafting Productive Partnerships with
Public Housing Agencies
Meeting Rooms
12/13/14
2.07 B
est Practices in Serving Chronically
Homeless Veterans
Penn Quarter
2.08 It All Starts with a Plan: What States Are
Doing to End Youth Homelessness
2.09 Medicaid Strategies: Data Sharing
Meeting Rooms 8/9
2.10 Research on Youth Homelessness
Meeting Rooms 10/11
2.11 Increasing Access to Income and Benefits:
Strategies for SSI/SSDI
Meeting Room 2
2.12 Is Congress Doing Its Part?:
A Federal Budget Update and Advocacy
Opportunities
Meeting Room 3
2.13 Supporting Young Children and Their Parents through Partnerships with Early Childhood Development Programs
Meeting Room 5
2.14 R
eaching the Most Vulnerable:
Outreach and Engagement Strategies
Meeting Room 16
STATE PREP SESSIONS
Vermont State Prep Session
Meeting Room 15
Maine State Prep Session
Meeting Room 4
Idaho State Prep Session
Meeting Room 7
Missouri State Prep Session
Meeting Room 5
Alabama State Prep Session
Meeting Room 2
Illinois State Prep Session
Meeting Room 10/11
Texas State Prep Session
Penn Quarter
Thursday, July 16
Thursday
Time
EVENT
Location
JULY 16
8 – 9AM
Continental Breakfast
Grand Registration
Foyer
8AM – 4PM
REgistration check-in
Renaissance West A
8 – 9AM
Discussion On HUD Policy Priorities
Renaissance A
8 – 8:30AM
State Captain Meeting
Meeting Room 2
8:30 – 9AM
State Prep Sessions
9 – 10:45AM
Nebraska State Prep Session
Meeting Room 4
Washington State Prep Session
Meeting Room 5
Connecticut State Prep Session
Meeting Room 10/11
Workshops III
3.01 The Strategic Use of Transitional Housing Resources in Your Crisis Response System
Mount Vernon
3.02 Innovative Funding for Rapid Re-Housing
Renaissance West A
3.03 Implementing Effective Governance to
End Homelessness
Renaissance West B
3.04 Partnering with PHAs: Dedicating
Resources to End Chronic Homelessness
3.05 Functional Zero: What Does It Mean and
How Do You Achieve It?
3.06 Build an Affordable Housing Infrastructure in Your Community
Meeting Rooms
12/13/14
3.07 Find Housing Fast: Housing Identification
for Rapid Re-Housing
Penn Quarter
3.08 Diversion: Best Practice for Preventing
Homelessness
3.09 Medicaid Strategies: Understanding Healthcare
Meeting Rooms 8/9
3.10Recovery Housing Models and Strategies
Meeting Rooms 10/11
3.11 R
eaching out and Bringing Them in:
Outreach and Crisis Response for
Homeless Youth
Meeting Room 2
3.12 More than Acronyms: Youth Homelessness
Systems That Are Truly LGBT-Affirming
Meeting Room 3
3.13 Ending Homelessness in Rural Areas
Meeting Room 5
3.14Supporting the Most Vulnerable Families
Meeting Room 16
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6
6
Time
Event
Location
11AM – 12:45PM
LUNCH* PLENARY SESSION
Grand Ballroom
A CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD GERE:
Lunch overflow:
Renaissance East
Richard Gere
Actor, Activist, Philanthropist
Maria Cuomo Cole
Chairman HelpUSA
REMARKS BY:
Bryan Samuels
Executive Director of Chapin Hall at the
University of Chicago
Sister Mary Scullion
President and Executive Director of
Project HOME
1 – 2:30PM
Workshops IV
4.01 C
ommunity Efforts to Take Rapid
Re-Housing to Scale
Mount Vernon
4.02 What Is a Housing First Approach:
A Philosophy for Programs and Systems
Renaissance West A
4.03 Change Is Hard: Making Decisions about Your Coordinated Entry System
Renaissance West B
4.04 Research on Family Homelessness
4.05 Rapidly Re-Housing Veterans with SSVF
4.06 It’s a Family Affair: Family Intervention for Unaccompanied Youth
Meeting Rooms
12/13/14
4.07 TANF Agencies Mobilizing to End Family
Homelessness
Penn Quarter
4.08 Help Pay for Housing:
One Size Does Not Fit All
4.09 Medicaid Strategies:
How to Get What You Need
Meeting Rooms 8/9
4.10 G
etting Everyone to the Table:
Leveraging Community Partnerships
to Build Political Will
Meeting Rooms 10/11
4.11 W
hat Works to Get Them Working?
Creating Education and Employment
Opportunities for Homeless Youth
Meeting Room 2
4.12 Meeting the Need: Financing and Developing PSH
* Excess Food Donated to
Meeting Room 3
Thursday, July 16
Time
2:45 – 3:30PM
3:45 – 4:30PM
Event
Location
4.13 G
iving People a Second Chance: Opportunities for Discharge Planning and
Reentry from Prison and Jail
Meeting Room 5
4.14 Coordinating with School Systems to Support Students and Their Families
Meeting Room 16
Microsessions I
M1.01 Getting to Zero: Tools and Strategies to Create a Path to Ending Chronic Homelessness
Mount Vernon
M1.02Going to Scale with Rapid Re-Housing: How Virginia Changed Its Approach to Homeless Families
Renaissance West A
M1.03Missions and CoCs: A Partnership for Mutual Benefit
M1.04Ready to Convert Your Transitional Housing to Rapid Re-Housing?
M1.05Data Visualization and Analysis:
Using your Data to Improve Rapid
Re-housing Practice
M1.06Improving Services to Survivors in
Coordinated Entry Systems
Meeting Rooms
12/13/14
M1.07 Connecting Homeless Veterans to Mainstream Services
Penn Quarter
M1.08 The Impact of Racial Inequality on Homelessness
Renaissance West B
M1.09 Youth Voices: Informing Policy and Practice
Meeting Rooms 8/9
M1.10 Including the Consumer Voice in Planning
and Administration
Meeting Rooms 10/11
M1.11 Using Host Homes to House Homeless Youth
Meeting Room 2
M1.12 Olmstead and Creating Integrated Permanent Supportive Housing Opportunities
Meeting Room 3
M1.13 Pay for Success
Meeting Room 5
M1.14 Point-in-Time Counts
Meeting Room 16
Microsessions II
M2.01 Review and Rank: Evaluating Project Performance for Tiering and Reallocation
Mount Vernon
M2.02 Standardizing and Streamlining Funding Priorities Across Your System
Renaissance West A
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Time
Event
Location
Microsessions II CONT.
4:30 – 5PM
5 – 6:30PM
M2.03 Creative Ways to Meet the Challenges
of Rapid Re-Housing in High-Cost,
Low-Vacancy Markets
Renaissance West B
M2.04Is It Working? Evaluate Your Rapid
Re-Housing Program
M2.05 Maximize Your State's National Housing
Trust Fund Resources
M2.06Making the Most of Your Community
Initiatives to End Veteran Homelessness
Penn Quarter
M2.07 Human Trafficking Survivors: Identifying,
Serving, and Housing This Population
Meeting Room 16
M2.08 Employment and Income Performance Measures: Making Them Work for You
M2.09Making Rapid Re-Housing Work for
Youth: You Can Do It!
Meeting Rooms 8/9
M2.10 C
apitol Hill Day 2015: What You Need to Know
Meeting Rooms 10/11
M2.11 Re-Housing Older Adults
Meeting Room 2
M2.12 H
ousing and Serving
Undocumented People
Meeting Room 3
M2.13 H
ow to Approach Ending Homelessness
for Those in Outdoor Encampments
Meeting Room 5
M2.14 M
aking Change Stick: Beyond the Initial
100 Days
Meeting Rooms
12/13/14
State Prep Sessions
Kentucky State Prep Session
Meeting Rooms 10/11
Oklahoma State Prep Session
Meeting Room 2
Rhode Island State Prep Session
Meeting Room 3
New York State Prep Session
Meeting Room 4
Florida State Prep Session
Meeting Room 7
North Carolina State Prep Session
Penn Quarter
Meet and Mingle
Grand Ballroom
With cash bar and light fare
Friday, July 17
Friday
Time
Event
Location
July 17
8 – 9AM
Grand Registration
Foyer
8AM – 3:30PM
Grand Registration
8 – 9AM
A CONVERSATION ABOUT YOUTH COUNT
With Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
8:30 – 9AM
9:15 – 10:45AM
State Prep SessionS
Arizona State Prep Session
Meeting Room 4
Nevada State Prep Session
Meeting Room 2
Workshops V
5.01 HUD Q&A
Mount Vernon
5.02 How to Use Your Performance Data to
Evaluate Effectiveness and Make System Improvements
Renaissance West A
5.03 Become an Even Better Rapid
Re-Housing Program
Renaissance West B
5.04 Veteran Transitional Housing:
What Comes Next
5.05 Creating Targeted Affordable Housing Opportunities for Single Adults
5.06 Helping More People Go Home
from Shelter
Meeting Rooms
12/13/14
5.07 Tips for Developing Great Continuum of
Care Written Standards
Penn Quarter
5.08 Help People Stay Housed:
Rapid Re-Housing Case Management
5.09 Improving Health in Housing:
Physical and Behavioral Health Services in
Permanent Supportive Housing
Meeting Rooms 8/9
5.10 H
ousing People with Substance
Abuse Issues
Meeting Rooms 10/11
5.11 E
xploring Housing and Service Models to
End Youth Homelessness
Meeting Room 2
5.12 H
omeless Assistance Providers
and the Media
Meeting Room 3
5.13 W
orking with Child Welfare Agencies to
Stabilize Housing and Preserve Families
Meeting Room 5
5.14 Working with Systems-Involved Youth
Meeting Room 16
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10
10
Time
Event
Location
11AM – 12:45PM
Lunch* Plenary Session
Grand Ballroom
REMARKS BY:
Lunch overflow:
Renaissance East
Jennifer Ho
Special Assistant to the Secretary of the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development
Matthew Doherty
Executive Director of U.S. Interagency Council
on Homelessness
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
The Honorable Robert A. McDonald
Secretary of the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs
1 – 5PM
Capitol Hill Day Visits and Report
Back Session
1 – 4PM
Post-Conference Sessions
1 – 2:30PM
Technical Assistance Collaborative and U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Present New Opportunities in Multifamily
Housing as Solutions to Homelessness
Meeting Rooms
12/13/14
1 – 3:30PM
You’ve Got What It Takes:
Reducing Homelessness by the Numbers
Mount Vernon
1 – 4PM
Homelessness and HIV: Two Issues,
One Intervention
1 – 4PM
H2: Homeless and Healthcare Systems
Integration - Field Perspectives on SystemsLevel Homeless Assistance and Healthcare
Integration Efforts.
Renaissance West A
1 – 4PM
Trauma-Informed Care: A Framework for
Enhancing Service Delivery
1 – 4PM
Facilitated Discussion and Planning with
Homeless Youth Providers
Renaissance West B
Near Grand
Registration
The 2015 National Conference on Ending Homelessness will offer an array of
workshop tracks – listed in detail below. You will also see special symbols listed
next to each workshop to identify to which tracks they belong.
Workshop Tracks
Workshops are designed for beginners and experts
alike looking to learn more on a specific interest area
or topic. C Ending Chronic Homelessness Track
National efforts to decrease chronic homelessness
have had significant impact, but more progress
needs to be made. The Ending Chronic Homelessness track focuses on ways to replicate successful
local strategies and promote quality in outreach,
supportive services, and housing. Workshops are
intended for systems planners and program
providers. Workshops are denoted with a “C.”
1.03 F
inishing the Job:
Ending Chronic Homelessness
1.12 Strategies for Developing and Financing
Services in PSH Using Medicaid:
Where to Start
2.07 Best Practices in Serving Chronically
Homeless Veterans
2.09 Medicaid Strategies: Data Sharing 2.11 Increasing Access to Income and Benefits
2.14 Reaching the Most Vulnerable:
Understanding Health Care
3.10 Recovery Housing Models and Strategies
How to Get What You Need
4.12 Meeting the Need:
Financing and Developing PSH
M1.01 Getting to Zero: Tools and Strategies to Create a Path to Ending Chronic Homelessness
M1.12 O
lmstead and Creating Integrated
Permanent Supportive Housing Opportunities
5.09 Improving Health in Housing: Physical and
Behavioral Health Services in Permanent Supportive Housing
V Ending Veteran Homelessness Track
The drive to end veteran homelessness by the
end of 2015 is well underway across the country.
Serving homeless veterans requires numerous
interventions funded by both the Department
of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban
Development’s Continuum of Care, including rapid
re-housing, permanent supportive housing, and
transitional housing. The Veterans Track provides
conference participants with the opportunity to
learn about these interventions and the resources
available for this population, how communities are
pushing toward zero, and what has proven most
effective at getting the job done. Workshops are
denoted with a “V.”
1.05 W
1.08 Make It Work: Linking Rapid Re-Housing
and Employment
Rapid Re-Housing
Rapid Re-Housing
2.07 Best Practices in Serving Chronically Homeless Veterans
How Do you Achieve It?
M1.07 Connecting Homeless Veterans to Mainstream Services
M2.06 Making the Most of Community Initiatives
to End Veteran Homelessness
What Comes Next
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WORKSHOP TRACKS
R Rapid Re-Housing Track
1.02 B
uilding an Effective Crisis Response
System to End Homelessness
1.11 Working Together Works! Incorporating
Homeless Youth Programs into CoCs
2.01 Who Gets What? How Prioritization Works
in Coordinated Entry
3.01 The Strategic Use of Transitional Housing
Resources in Your Crisis Response System
3.03 Implementing Effective Governance to End
Homelessness
3.08 Diversion: Best Practice for Preventing
Homelessness
4.02 What Is Housing First Approach: A Philosophy for Programs and Systems
4.03 Change is Hard: Making Decisions About
Your Coordinated Entry System
M1.05 Use Your Data to Tell a Meaningful Story
M1.13 Pay for Success
M2.01 Review and Rank: Evaluating Project Performance for Tiering and Reallocation
M2.02 Standardizing and Streamlining Funding
Priorities Across Your System
5.02 How to Use Your Performance Data to
Evaluate Effectiveness and Make System
Improvements
Rapid Re-Housing is a homeless intervention
intended to decrease the amount of time people
spend homeless by helping them access housing
and connecting them to community-based and
mainstream services. It is comprised of three core
components: housing identification, rent and
move-in assistance, and rapid re-housing case
management services. The Rapid Re-Housing
Track provides conference participants with the
opportunity to learn about operationalizing the
core components and strategies to increase rapid
re-housing capacity and effectiveness. Workshops
are denoted with an “R.”
1.08 M
ake It Work: Linking Rapid Re-Housing
and Employment
Rapid Re-Housing
Rapid Re-Housing
3.07 Find Housing Fast: Housing Identification
4.01 Community Efforts to Take Rapid
Re-Housing to Scale
4.08 Help Pay for Housing: One Size Does Not
Fit All
M1.02 Going to Scale with Rapid Re-Housing:
How Virginia Changed Its Approach to
Homeless Families
M1.04 Ready to Convert Your Transitional Housing
to Rapid Re-Housing
M1.05 Use Your Data to Tell a Meaningful Story
M2.03 Creative Ways to Meet the Challenges of
Rapid Re-Housing in High Cost, Low-Vacancy Markets
M2.04 Is It Working? Evaluate Your Rapid
Re-Housing Program
5.03 Becoming an Even Better Rapid
Re-Housing Program
SR
Systemic Responses to Homelessness Track
The Systemic Responses to Homelessness Track
offers workshops to participants who oversee, plan,
coordinate, and evaluate homeless assistance in
their communities. It is intended for community and
system leaders. The track includes sessions on governance, coordinated entry, community planning
and coordination, performance, data-driven decision-making, prioritization, and strategic allocation
of resources. Workshops are denoted with an “SR.”
FAM
Ending Family Homelessness Track
The Ending Family Homelessness track will examine
specific strategies to end family homelessness with
a particular focus on the role of public mainstream
systems. It includes a workshop that provides a
broad introduction to how family homelessness can
be ended and workshops that focus on how Continuums of Care can partner with larger social service
and housing programs to support at-risk and homeless families. Those interested in homeless families
should also look at the Rapid Re-Housing Track.
Workshops are denoted with an “FAM.”
1.01 E
nding Family Homelessness:
Key Strategies
1.13 Serving Survivors of Domestic Violence in
Rapid Re-Housing
2.04 Employment and Housing Go Hand-in-Hand:
Removing Barriers and Creating
Employment Opportunities
2.13 Supporting Young Children and Their
Parents Through Partnerships with Early
Childhood Development Programs
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4.13 G
iving People a Second Chance:
Opportunities for Discharge Planning and
4.14 Coordinating with School Systems to
Support Students and Their Families
M1.07 Connecting Homeless Veterans to
Mainstream Services
M2.06 Making the Most of Your Community
Initiatives to End Veteran Homelessness
M2.10 Missions and CoCs: A Partnership for
Mutual Benefit
Behavioral Health Services in Permanent
Supportive Housing
5.13 Working with Child Welfare Agencies to
3.14 Supporting the Most Vulnerable Families
4.06 It’s a Family Affair: Family Intervention for
Unaccompanied Youth
4.07 TANF Agencies Mobilizing to End Family
Homelessness
4.14 Coordinating with School Systems to
M1.02 Going to Scale with Rapid Re-Housing:
How Virginia Changed Its Approach to
Homeless Families
M1.04 Ready to Convert Your Transitional Housing
to Rapid Re-Housing
M1.06 Improving Services to Survivors in
5.13 Working with Child Welfare Agencies to
Y
Ending Youth Homelessness Track
CP
Community
Partnerships
The Ending Youth Homelessness Track includes a
series of workshops geared toward participants
exploring systemic and programmatic efforts to
end homelessness among youth. Topics to be covered include building a community-wide systemic
response to youth homelessness, tailoring housing
models—including rapid re-housing interventions—
for homeless youth, getting and using better data
on homeless youth, and working with other systems
with which youth may be engaged. Workshops are
denoted with a “Y.”
Ending homelessness is difficult work that benefits from the involvement of diverse community
stakeholders and leveraging these partnerships to
implement innovative solutions. The Community
Partnership Track will cover how to forge creative
partnerships with various essential partners in your
community, including funders, employers, police
and jails, public housing agencies, and mainstream
programs that are administered locally. Workshops
are denoted with an “CP.”
1.11 W
orking Together Works! Incorporating
2.10 Research on Youth Homelessness
3.11 Reaching out and Bringing Them in: Outreach and Crisis Response for
Homeless Youth
3.12 More Than Acronyms: Youth Homelessness
Systems That Are Truly LGBT-Affirming
4.06 It’s a Family Affair: Family Intervention for
Unaccompanied Youth
4.11 What Works to Get Them Working?
Creating Education and Employment
Opportunities for Homeless Youth
M1.09 Youth Voices: Informing Policy and Practice
M1.11 Using Host Homes to House
Homeless Youth
M2.09 Making Rapid Re-housing Work for Youth:
You Can Do It!
5.11 Exploring Housing and Service Models to
5.14 Working with Systems-Involved Youth
1.06 Increase the Impact of Local Homelessness
Funding
1.08 Make It Work: Linking Rapid Re-Housing
and Employment
1.14 Officer and Partners: Working with Police
Departments to End Homelessness
3.09 Medicaid Strategies: Understanding
Healthcare and Building Partnerships
3.14 Supporting Young Children and Their
Parents through Partnerships with Early
Childhood Development Programs
4.10 Getting Everyone to the Table:
Leveraging Community Partnerships to
Build Political Will
14
SA
Ending Single Adult Homelessness Track
Single Adults make up the largest portion of the
homelessness population and have yet to receive
specialized or targeted interventions. This track
focuses on early research, potential interventions,
and early frameworks for addressing homelessness
for this group. Workshops are geared towards
systems strategic planners and program providers.
Workshops are denoted with an “SA.”
1.04 W
hat You Need to Know about the Largest
Homeless Subpopulation: Single Adults
Rapid Re-Housing
4.13 Giving People a Second Chance:
Reentry from Prison
M1.08 The Impact of Racial Inequality on
Homelessness
M1.10 Including the Consumer Voice in Planning
and Administration
M2.11 Re-Housing Older Adults M2.13 How to Approach Ending Homelessness For
Those in Outdoor Encampments
5.05 Creating Targeted Affordable Housing
Opportunities for Single Adults
Experiencing Short-Term Homelessness
5.10 Housing People with Substance Abuse Issues
CONFERENCE
AGENDA
Tuesday
Time
Event
Location
JULY 14
5 – 7PM
Pre-Registration CHECK-IN
Grand Registration
Wednesday
Time
Event
Location
8AM – 5PM
Registration CHECK-IN
Grand Registration
8:15AM – 8:45AM
New Mexico State Prep Session
Franklin Square
JULY 15
PRE-Conference SESSIONS
9AM – 11AM
Homelessness 101: What We Have Learned
about Ending Homelessness
Have you only recently begun to work in the field of homelessness or is this your first
national conference? If so, this pre-conference session will provide you a broad
overview of research on homelessness, an introduction to the major interventions and
their effectiveness, and a summary of how communities are developing a systemic
response that can improve community-wide outcomes.
•Samantha Batko, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC
(Moderator)
•Steve Berg, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Moderator)
•Martha Burt, Urban Institute, Washington, DC
•Katharine Gale, Katharine Gale Consulting, Berkeley, CA
•Jill Khadduri, Abt Associates Inc., Bethesda, MD
• Norm Suchar, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
9AM – 12PM
Rapid Re-Housing 101 for Providers and
Community Leaders
Are you trying to implement an effective rapid re-housing model or improve your
existing rapid re-housing programs? This interactive session will offer training and
tools designed to provide practitioners and community leaders with skills and
strategies to successfully understand and implement rapid re-housing as part of a larger, system-wide approach to ending homelessness. Participants will have the
opportunity to develop strategies to implement the core components of rapid re-housing in their communities.
•Kay Moshier McDivitt, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC
9AM – 12PM
Creating Medicaid Opportunities in States
Renaissance West B
Medicaid is an important resource and can be used to support people living in
permanent supportive housing. This pre-conference session is an introduction for
Continuum of Care leads and other homeless system planners to start thinking about
systematic ways to integrate Medicaid into their system of services. The first part of
the session will provide an overview of Medicaid technical assistance available as well
as five basic strategies to help Continuums move forward, including: understanding
healthcare, local partnerships, data sharing, needs and gaps assessment, and how
to approach healthcare payers. Several experts will then facilitate independent small
group discussions of each strategy and help answer questions. Attendees will have
the opportunity to rotate between multiple strategies.
•Barbara Edwards, Technical Assistance Collaborative, Boston, MA
•Marti Knisley, Technical Assistance Collaborative, Raleigh, NC (Moderator)
•Valerie Mielke, Office of Treatment and Recovery Support, Trenton, NJ
•Kathleen Nolan, National Association of Medicaid Directors, Washington, DC
16
Time
Event
Location
9AM – 12PM
Improving Employment Outcomes: Exploring
Research, Funding, and Approaches That Work
Renaissance West A
Steady employment is a critical component both in preventing and ending
homelessness. This pre-conference session will provide an overview of research on
employment strategies, explore innovative ways to fund employment services for
people experiencing homelessness, and examine system-level and provider-level
strategies to bridge the gap between homeless assistance services and employment
services. These strategies will include how to engage employers and overcome the
barriers to employment that many homeless people face.
•Susanne Beaton, The Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation, Waltham, MA
•April Connolly, Father Bill’s & MainSpring, Brockton, MA
•Liza Doran, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC
•Jean-Michel Giraud, Friendship Place, Washington, DC
•Rachel Gragg, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC
•Kelly Green-Bloomfield, St. Joseph’s Villa, Richmond, VA
•Tatjana Meschede, Brandeis University, Boston, MA
•Jim Riccio, MDRC, New York, NY
•Kathy Tran, U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration,
Washington, DC
•Chris Warland, Heartland Alliance, Chicago, IL
10AM – 12PM
Exploring the Role of the Child Welfare System
in Ending Youth Homelessness
Many homeless unaccompanied youth have been or are currently involved in foster
care, and some youth aging out of foster care experience homelessness after leaving
the system. As we move toward the 2020 goal of ending youth homelessness set out in
Opening Doors, it is important to develop a clear prescription for the role of the child
welfare system in achieving that goal, including ensuring that young people leaving
the foster care system develop the skills they need to become stable adults. This preconference session will explore the current research on the intersections between foster
care and youth homelessness and how states and communities can better ensure that
no young person leaves foster care to become homeless.
•Kelly Canter, ICF International, Fairfax, VA
•Amy Dworsky, Chapin Hall, Chicago, IL
•Jasmine Hayes, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, Washington, DC
(Moderator)
•Catherine Heath, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
•Kevin Solarte, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
•Sarah Thankachan, D.C. Child and Family Services, Washington, DC
11AM – 12PM
Alliance Conference Jumpstart
This session is designed for first-time conference participants. Join Alliance staff,
experienced conference participants, and other first time participants to get a
jumpstart on the conference. Come hear an informal presentation on how you can
maximize your time at the conference by taking advantage of conference tracks,
different types of sessions, and networking opportunities. Meet other attendees to
increase your peer learning opportunities.
•Dean Klein, The Fairfax County Office to Prevent and End Homelessness, Fairfax, VA
•Sharan London, ICFI, Fairfax, VA
•Shalom Mulkey, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC
•Denise Neunaber, North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness, Raleigh, NC
•Nan Roman, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC
12:15 – 12:45PM
STATE PREP SESSIONS
Utah State Prep Session
Meeting Room 5
Ohio State Prep Session
Meeting Rooms 8/9
Virginia State Prep Session
Renaissance West A
California State Prep Session
Renaissance West B
Wednesday, July 15
CONFERENCE AGENDA
17
Time
Event
12 – 1PM
Lunch on Your Own
1 – 1:45PM
Opening Plenary
Grand Ballroom
WELCOME:
Plenary overflow:
Renaissance East
The Honorable Muriel Bowser
Mayor for the District of Columbia
Location
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Nan Roman
President and CEO, National Alliance to End
Homelessness, Washington, DC
Workshops I
2 – 4PM
FAM
1.01 Ending Family Homelessness:
Key Strategies
Renaissance East
How will family homelessness be ended? Speakers will provide a broad overview of
how national policy, research, and shifting local practices are helping to transform
homeless service delivery systems and reduce family homelessness.
•Kris Freed, L.A. Family Housing, Los Angeles, CA
•Sharon McDonald, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC
(Moderator)
•Sheila Morley, City of Spokane, Spokane, WA
•Norm Suchar, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
•Laura Zeilinger, District of Columbia Department of Human Services, Washington, DC
SR
1.02 Building an Effective Crisis Response System to End Homelessness
Renaissance West A
In order to reach the goal of ending homelessness, communities will need to move
from functioning as a collection of individual programs to a crisis response system
that makes strategic, data-driven decisions. Speakers will provide strategies that
communities can use to implement best practices for becoming a high-functioning
crisis response system.
•Tess Colby, Pierce County Community Connections, Tacoma, WA
•Megan Kurteff-Schatz, Focus Strategies, Sacramento, CA
(Moderator)
•Andrea Plevek, Washtenaw County Office of Community & Economic Development,
Ypsilanti, MI
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1.03 Finishing the Job:
Ending Chronic Homelessness
Renaissance West B
Many communities are poised to end chronic homelessness by 2017 or earlier.
Speakers in this workshop will present strategies local communities are using
to achieve this goal, including determining how much permanent supportive
housing you need and creating sustainable financing for housing, supportive
services, and outreach.
•Andrae Bailey, Central Florida Commission on Homelessness, Orlando, FL
•Matthew Doherty, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, Washington, DC
(Moderator)
•Linda Kaufman, Community Solutions, Washington, DC
•Lloyd Pendleton, Lloyd Pendleton Consulting, Bountiful, UT
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Time
Event
Location
Workshops I CONTinued
SA
1.04 What You Need to Know about the Largest Homeless Subpopulation:
Single Adults
Nearly half of people experiencing homelessness on a given night are single adults who
are homeless for short periods of time. Local and federal responses to homelessness
often do not prioritize this population. What do you need to know about short-term
homelessness among single adults, and how can you tailor your services to meet their
needs? Speakers in this workshop will discuss characteristics and needs of single adults
(both men and women) experiencing short-term homelessness and practical strategies
in and out of shelters to reduce homelessness for this group.
•Michelle Flynn, The Road Home, Salt Lake City, UT
•Cullen Ryan, Community Housing of Maine, Portland, ME
•Laura Woody, Friendship Place, Washington, DC
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1.05 W
The influx of resources and expansion of programs addressing veteran homelessness
has led to numerous lessons learned. In this workshop, speakers will cover the latest
research and data and how it can be applied to your community’s work – with veterans
and with homeless people overall.
•Tom Byrne, National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans, Boston, MA
•Dennis Culhane, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (Speaker/Moderator)
•Meagan Cusack, National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans, Philadelphia, PA
•Dan Treglia, National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans, Philadelphia, PA
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1.06 I ncrease the Impact of Local
Homelessness Funding
Meeting Rooms
12/13/14
Do you want to encourage funders in your community to more strategically invest in
ending homelessness? Or, are you a funder of homeless services looking to get more
for your investment? Participants will learn how to align local funding performance
goals and measures with broader community objectives, use funds to leverage other
resources, and increase collaboration and systemic planning in a community.
•Rebecca Allen, Melville Charitable Trust, New Haven, CT
•Kellyann Day, New Reach, Inc., New Haven, CT
•Michael McConnell, La Jolla Coin Shop, San Diego, CA
•Anne Miskey, Funders Together to End Homelessness, Boston, MA (Moderator)
SR
Meeting Rooms 8/9
Many individuals and families struggle with housing stability and teeter on the
edge of homelessness. How can we better support them and target homelessness
prevention services to reduce the number of people eventually forced to seek
shelter? Speakers in this workshop will provide an overview of their efforts to
prevent housing loss and promote stability for this vulnerable population.
•Mikkel Beckman , Minneapolis/Hennepin County Office to End Homelessness,
Minneapolis, MN
•Shakeita Boyd, District Alliance for Safe Housing, Washington, DC
•Michelle Daly, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD
•Andrea Reid, New York City Department of Homeless Services, New York, NY
(Moderator)
Wednesday, July 15
Time
R
V
CP
CONFERENCE AGENDA
19
Event
Location
1.08 M
ake It Work: Linking Rapid Re-Housing
and Employment
Income from employment is often essential to maintain the housing of people
exiting homelessness via rapid re-housing programs. Come to this workshop
to learn replicable strategies from agencies that have helped people access
employment, including adding employment specialists to your staff, and working
with employment partners.
•Toya Codjoe, Cornerstones Inc., Reston, VA
•Kelly Green-Bloomfield, St. Joseph’s Villa, Richmond, VA
•Jermaine Hampton, Friendship Place, Washington, DC
•Ian Lisman, Advocates for Human Potential, Germantown, MD (Moderator)
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Penn Quarter
There are many challenges for case managers and other housing program staff to
keeping people housed and maintaining or improving their wellbeing. Speakers in
this workshop will present on situations in which case managers were able to identify
problem behaviors and develop creative solutions to address these problems.
•Daniel Malone, DESC, Seattle, WA
•Christy Respress, Pathways to Housing DC, Washington, DC (Moderator)
•Sam Tsemberis, Pathways to Housing National, New York, NY
1.10 The Role of HUD Homeless and
Mainstream Programs in Ending
Homelessness
Meeting Rooms 10/11
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has many programs
that provide a variety of resources that can be used to end homelessness for
individuals and families experiencing homelessness. In this workshop, speakers will
provide information about HUD’s affordable housing programs, particularly focusing
on working with Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) as recent research shows PHA
resources can reduce homelessness. Additionally, speakers will discuss strategies that
communities can employ to better coordinate and target dedicated homelessness
resources and integrate them with available mainstream resources.
•Jennifer Ho, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
•Ann Oliva, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
•Marcy Thompson, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,
Washington, DC
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1.11 W
orking Together Works! Incorporating
Meeting Room 2
SR
With the increasing focus on a systemic community response to homelessness,
youth providers and Continuums of Care (CoCs) are starting to come together to
“move the dial” on youth homelessness. Speakers from both perspectives will give
an overview of the CoC structure and discuss how best to increase the involvement
of youth providers. They will also discuss new approaches to data; improving the
methodology for including youth in Point-in-Time Counts; and merging Runaway and
Homeless Youth Management Information System with the Homeless Management
Information System data.
•Jon Bradley, Preble Street, Portland, ME
•Telisa Burt, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
•Thomas Chalmers McLaughlin, University of New England, Portland, ME
•Sarah Hunter, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
(Moderator)
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Time
Event
Location
Workshops I CONtinued
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1.12 Strategies for Developing and Financing
Services in PSH Using Medicaid:
Where to Start
Meeting Room 3
Medicaid is a funding source Continuums of Care and providers should be exploring
for financing services in permanent supportive housing (PSH). Speakers in this
workshop will discuss resources available for technical assistance and provide an
overview of five basic strategies for communities to get started.
•Richard Cho, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, Washington, DC
(Speaker/Moderator)
•Barbara Edwards, Technical Assistance Corporation, Boston, MA
•Marti Knisley, Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc., Raleigh, NC
FAM
1.13 Serving Survivors of Domestic Violence in
Meeting Room 5
Domestic violence providers and advocates are increasingly exploring alternatives
to shelter and site-based transitional housing. Speakers in this workshop will provide
an overview of the housing strategies they are using and explore topics such as legal
protections for survivors and tailoring housing interventions to support those who
have recently experienced violence.
•Peg Hacskaylo, District Alliance for Safe Housing, Inc., Washington, DC
•Rosie Hidalgo, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC (Moderator)
•Linda Olsen, Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Seattle, WA
•Kim Pentico, National Network to End Domestic Violence, Washington, DC
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1.14 Officers and Partners: Working with Police
Departments to End Homelessness
Meeting Room 16
While many cities criminalize homelessness, some communities are flipping the script
and working with police officers to safely and respectfully address the problem.
Your community can make these changes, too, by learning from places where law
enforcement is seen as a critical outreach and referral partner by both providers and
people experiencing homelessness.
•Lisa Johnson, Cincinnati Police Department, Cincinnati, OH
•John Keuffer, Lighthouse Youth Services, Cincinnati, OH
•Nazmia Comrie, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC (Moderator)
•Angela Vance, Cincinnati Police Department, Cincinnati, OH
Workshops II
4:30 – 6PM
SR
2.01 W
ho Gets What? How Prioritization
Works in Coordinated Entry
Renaissance East
One important purpose of coordinated entry is to ensure that people experiencing
homelessness are able to access the assistance they need to escape it. This requires
prioritizing those with the greatest challenges for the most intensive interventions.
Participants will learn about prioritization principles and methods from varying
communities and discuss how prioritization should inform the assessment process.
•Cynthia Crain, Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance, Dallas, TX
•Iain De Jong, OrgCode Consulting Inc., Oakville, ON
•Cynthia Nagendra, National Alliance to End Homelessness,Washington, DC
(Moderator)
Wednesday, July 15
Time
R
V
FAM
CONFERENCE AGENDA
21
Event
Location
2.02 Understanding the Core Components of Rapid Re-Housing
Renaissance West A
In an environment of limited resources, rapid re-housing is a cost effective way to
help people exit homelessness quickly. Learn the key to successful rapid re-housing
implementation from service providers who are making it work. In this session
speakers will discuss how to find housing, financial assistance models, and strategies
for effective rapid re-housing case management.
•Will Evans, Community Connections of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
•Jeffrey King, Community Rebuilders, Grand Rapids, MI (Moderator)
•Kimberly Tucker, St. Joseph’s Villa, Richmond, VA
SR
Renaissance West B
V
CP
Ending homelessness among veterans requires bringing all partners and resources
in your community to the table. Speakers in this workshop will cover how to engage
obvious partners like the local Department of Veterans Affairs and less obvious
partners, like local military outposts and Veteran Service Organizations, to get
the job done.
•Matthew Leslie, Virginia Department of Veterans Services, Richmond, VA
•Anthony Love, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC (Moderator)
•Caroline Meehan, Volunteers of America, Alexandria, VA
•Mark Walker, The American Legion, Washington, DC
CP
FAM
SA
2.04 E
mployment and Housing Go Hand-inHand: Removing Barriers and Creating
For many families and individuals exiting homelessness, housing retention and
stability depend on employment. But finding a job is not always easy and people
experiencing homelessness often have significant barriers to employment. Speakers
will present on effective vocational models and community resources to support
employment, particularly for those with high barriers.
•Galiana Fajardo, REDF, San Francisco, CA
•Sherman Haggerty, VOA – Northern California and Northern Nevada, Sacramento, CA
•Barbara Poppe, Barbara Poppe & Associates, Columbus, OH (Moderator)
•Carl Wiley, Heartland Alliance, Chicago, IL
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V
2.05 Successfully Housing Single Adults
through Rapid Re-Housing
While rapidly re-housing single adults is sometimes perceived as challenging,
particularly for those with high housing barriers, many communities are adopting
rapid re-housing as a key intervention for singles. Speakers will discuss how they are
tailoring the rapid re-housing model for single adults, including lessons learned from
using Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) for single veterans, and relying
on shared housing strategies.
•Meradith Alspaugh, Strategies to End Homelessness, Cincinnati, OH
•Jayme Day, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Moderator)
•Caitlin Newswanger, HomeAgain, Richmond, VA
•Tramecia Garner, Swords to Plowshares, San Francisco, CA
CP
Meeting Rooms
12/13/14
Public Housing Agencies (PHA) are key partners in ending homelessness.
Speakers will explore how to foster a commitment to end homelessness among
PHA leaders and explore how PHA resources can be strategically used to
prevent and end homelessness.
•Bill Block, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Seattle, WA
(Moderator)
•Julia Orlando, Bergen County Housing, Health and Human Services Center,
Hackensack, NJ
•Jessica Preheim, Houston Housing Authority, Houston, TX
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Time
Event
Location
Workshops II CONTinued
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2.07 Best Practices in Serving Chronically Homeless Veterans
Penn Quarter
V
The joint-Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Veterans
Affairs (VA) supportive housing voucher program (HUD-VASH) is a critical
component to serving chronically homeless veterans. In this workshop, speakers
will cover effective targeting and use of vouchers, and discuss ways to serve
chronically homeless veterans who may be ineligible for VA healthcare services.
•Dave Lopez, Swords to Plowshares, San Francisco, CA
•Mandy Chapman Semple, City of Houston, Houston, TX (Moderator)
•Kathleen North, UNITY of Greater New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
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State plans to end youth homelessness can serve as a galvanizing tool to build
momentum and resources. Representatives from Minnesota and Alberta, Canada will present their plans, and participants will learn how they can help develop similar plans in their own states.
•Kiley Gosselin, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, Washington, DC
(Moderator)
•David French, Alberta Human Services, Edmonton, Alberta
•Cathy ten Broeke, Minnesota’s Office to Prevent and End Homelessness, St Paul, MN
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CP
Meeting Rooms 8/9
It is important to use data to make a case for Medicaid funding of services
for homeless and formerly homeless people. Workshop speakers will cover
considerations around sharing data across systems and the process for doing so,
including confidentiality issues. The workshop will highlight a community where this
is happening, and is meant for Continuum of Care (CoC) leaders and others working
closely with local data systems.
• Dennis Culhane, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
•Sarah Gallagher, CSH, Hartford, CT
•Carrie Schuettpelz, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,
Washington, DC (Moderator)
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2.10Research on Youth Homelessness
Meeting Rooms 10/11
Ending youth homelessness requires an understanding of its causes. It is also
important to understand the effectiveness of interventions that help youth reconnect
with family, or establish skills to live independently when family reconnection is
not safe or appropriate. Speakers will provide a broad overview of the current and
emerging research on youth homelessness.
•Sonali Patel, Chapin Hall, Chicago, IL (Moderator)
•Claudia Powell, University of Arizona, Southwest Institute for Research on Women,
Tucson, AZ
•Paul Toro, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
•Erin Valentine, MDRC, New York, NY
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2.11 Increasing Access to Income and Benefits: Strategies for SSI/SSDI
Meeting Room 2
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) can
provide an important source of income for people who are experiencing or at-risk
of homelessness and have a mental illness, medical condition, and/or a co-occurring
substance use disorder. In this workshop, speakers will present a paper developed
by multiple federal agencies describing key strategies for connecting people
experiencing homelessness to SSI and SSDI benefits.
•Jen Elder, Policy Research Associates, Inc., Delmar, NY
•ML Jordan Jr., Office of National and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Washington, DC
•Lindsay Knotts, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, Washington, DC
(Moderator)
Wednesday, July 15
Time
CONFERENCE AGENDA
Event
Location
2.12Is Congress Doing Its Part? A Federal
Budget Update and Advocacy Opportunities
Meeting Room 3
23
Federal resources are critical for you to make progress in preventing and ending
homelessness and Congress will be making important decisions about them this year.
Participants will learn where we are in the budgetary process, what current funding
levels mean for homeless assistance programs, and what increases Congress needs
to provide to make substantial progress in fiscal year 2016. Participants will also learn
about effective federal advocacy strategies and upcoming opportunities to use them
to impact key budget decisions.
•Steve Berg, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC
(Speaker/Moderator)
•Christina, Monroe, Senate Appropriations Committee, Washington, DC
•Kathy Saile, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, DC
•Jason Woolwine, Senate Appropriations Committee, Washington, DC
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2.13Supporting Young Children and Their Parents through Partnerships with Early Childhood Development Programs
Meeting Room 5
Many families experiencing homelessness are headed by young and/or firsttime parents with infants and toddlers. They could benefit from early childhood
development programs. Speakers in this workshop will discuss how homeless service
providers and systems can partner with early childhood development providers
to promote the healthy development of young children. They will explore holistic
responses to help families quickly end episodes of homelessness and stabilize.
•Marsha Basloe, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
(Speaker/Moderator)
•Deborah McMillan, Public Health Management Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
•Grace Whitney, Connecticut Office of Early Childhood, Hartford, CT
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2.14Reaching the Most Vulnerable:
Meeting Room 16
Often the most vulnerable people experiencing homelessness, such as those living
outdoors, in cars, in encampments, or in abandoned buildings, are disconnected
from the homeless assistance system. Participants will learn creative strategies
for locating and engaging this population and linking them to housing providers
who can rapidly connect them to permanent housing and supportive services.
Attendees will gain insight into the unique role that people who are currently
experiencing or have formerly experienced homelessness can play in this process,
and learn how to involve them.
•Joe Hallmark, Goddard Riverside Community Center, New York, NY
•Angela Patterson, Unity of Greater New Orleans, New Orleans, LA (Moderator)
•John Spears, The Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT
6 – 6:30PM
STATE PREP SESSIONS
Vermont State Prep Session
Meeting Room 15
Maine State Prep Session
Meeting Room 4
Idaho State Prep Session
Meeting Room 7
Missouri State Prep Session
Meeting Room 5
Alabama State Prep Session
Meeting Room 2
Illinois State Prep Session
Meeting Room 10/11
Texas State Prep Session
Penn Quarter
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Thursday
Time
EVENT
Location
JULY 16
8 – 9AM
Grand Registration
Foyer
8AM – 4PM
REgistration CHECK-IN
Renaissance West A
8 – 9AM
Discussion on HUD Policy Priorities
Renaissance West A
8 – 8:30AM
State Captain Meeting
Meeting Room 2
8:30 – 9AM
State Prep Sessions
Nebraska State Prep Session
Meeting Room 4
Washington State Prep Session
Meeting Room 5
Connecticut State Prep Session
Meeting Room 10/11
Workshops III
9 – 10:45AM
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3.01 The Strategic Use of Transitional Housing Resources in Your Crisis Response System
Mount Vernon
As communities work to improve the housing outcomes and cost-effectiveness of
their homeless assistance systems, they will be thoroughly assessing their transitional
housing resources to use them in the most strategic way. Speakers will discuss
how communities have assessed and redesigned their transitional housing to more
effectively end homelessness.
•Elaine de Coligny, EveryOne Home, Hayward, CA
•Meghan Takashima, City of Detroit, Detroit, MI (Speaker/Moderator)
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Renaissance West A
Rapid re-housing is a flexible model that can be funded by a variety of federal, state,
local, and private sources. Participants will hear from programs and localities that have
braided a variety of funding sources together to increase rapid re-housing capacity.
•Melody Barr, City of Houston, Houston, TX
•Cynthia Nagendra, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC
(Speaker/Moderator)
•Melanie Zamora, The Road Home, Salt Lake City, UT
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3.03 Implementing Effective Governance to
End Homelessness
Renaissance West B
Effective governance sets the tone for a systemic focus on ending homelessness.
Speakers will discuss the essential elements of effective governance, including
managing and measuring performance and right-sizing the crisis response system
through resource allocation.
•Carl Falconer, Lutheran Services Florida Health Systems, Jacksonville, FL
•Kelly King Horne, Homeward, Richmond, VA
•Suzanne Wagner, Housing Innovations, New York, NY (Speaker/Moderator)
Thursday, July 16
Time
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CONFERENCE AGENDA
25
Event
Location
CP
Partnering with Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) is a critical component of
communities’ efforts to end chronic homelessness. Workshop attendees will learn
how to collaborate with PHAs to prioritize people experiencing chronic homelessness
on waitlists for public housing and Section 8 vouchers. Also explored will be ways to
help existing residents of permanent supportive housing to “move-up” or “graduate,”
in order to free up units for others in need.
•Doreen Eley, Fresno Housing Authority, Fresno, CA
•Peter Lynn, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, Los Angeles
•Marcella Maguire, City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
•David Nash, Asheville Housing Authority, Asheville, NC (Moderator)
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How Do You Achieve It?
A key to ending veteran homelessness in your community is to create a “functional
zero” system; however, the elements of such a system may not be clear and as a
result many communities are unsure when to announce they have ended veteran
homelessness. Speakers in this workshop will lay out potential metrics for a functional
zero system and discuss how a community can go about achieving them.
•Ed Gemerchak, FrontLine Services, Cleveland, OH
•Martha Kegel, UNITY of Greater New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
•Beth Sandor, Community Solutions, Los Angeles, CA (Moderator)
3.06 Build an Affordable Housing
Infrastructure in Your Community
Meeting Rooms
12/13/14
Do you feel that you can you count the number of available, affordable housing units
in your community on one hand? Speakers in this workshop will detail replicable landuse, financial, and development strategies that have proven effective in increasing
the availability of affordable housing across the country, including land banking, state
housing trust funds and tax credits, and mixed-use and in-fill development.
•Liz Hersh, Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania, Jenkintown, PA
•Howard Leibowitz, Enterprise Community Partners, Washington, DC (Moderator)
•Mark Shelburne, Novogradac & Company LLP, Raleigh, NC
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ind Housing Fast: Housing Identification
Penn Quarter
Helping people access housing is the first core component of rapid re-housing. Learn
how innovative programs are partnering with landlords and helping clients navigate
the lease process so that they are housed more quickly. In this interactive workshop,
participants will also develop their own creative techniques for recruiting and
identifying landlords.
•Jerrianne Anthony, Volunteers of America Chesapeake’s Bailey’s Crossroads
Community Shelter, Falls Church, VA
•Michael Raposa, St. Vincent de Paul South Pinellas, Saint Petersburg, FL
•Kimberly Walker, Urban Institute, Washington, DC (Moderator)
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3.08 Diversion: Best Practice for
Preventing Homelessness
Having trouble targeting your limited prevention resources, and uncertain of what
diversion really means and when it is most effective? Speakers will discuss how
prevention resources can be targeted for diversion from homelessness, particularly
with a focus on how to build diversion into a community’s coordinated entry system.
•Marlyn Benker, Mystic Area Shelter and Hospitality Inc., Mystic, CT
•Tricia Bradly, Your Way Home Montgomery County, Norristown, PA
•Katharine Gale, Katharine Gale Consulting, Berkeley, CA (Speaker/Moderator)
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Healthcare
Meeting Rooms 8/9
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Medicaid is complicated and it is hard to know where to start. Speakers in this
workshop will cover what Continuums of Care (CoCs) need to know about healthcare
and Medicaid and how to conduct a needs assessment at a systems level for services
that are, or could be, financed by Medicaid.
•Barbara DiPietro, National Health Care for the Homeless Council, Baltimore, MD
(Speaker/Moderator)
•Roula Sweis, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
•Carol Wilkins, Consultant, Berkley, CA
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3.10 Recovery Housing Models and Strategies
Meeting Rooms 10/11
Safe and supportive housing is a critical need for people experiencing homelessness
who want to address substance use problems. Speakers in this workshop will cover
strategies for creating supportive environments that encourage recovery, including
how to create sober environments and how to address relapses.
•Ann Oliva, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
(Moderator)
•Kristen Paquette, Center for Social Innovation, Needham, MA
•Rachel Post, Central City Concern, Portland, OR
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3.11 Reaching out and Bringing Them in: Outreach and Crisis Response for Homeless Youth
Meeting Room 2
Living on the streets is very dangerous for homeless youth, and it is often difficult
to both find them and engage them in services. Additionally, high barriers at some
shelter programs can mean that the youth with the highest needs are less likely to
find a safe place to sleep at night. Participants will gain insight into using innovative
peer outreach models to engage young people and develop low-barrier, harmreduction crisis response systems for homeless youth.
•Nicole Giannone, Ali Forney Center, New York, NY
•Christopher Holloway, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Washington, DC
•Joan Klayman, Preble Street, Portland, ME
•Polly Williams, Safe Place for Youth, Venice, CA
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ore than Acronyms:
Youth Homelessness Systems That Are
Truly LGBT-Affirming
Meeting Room 3
Programs and systems that serve homeless young people must ensure that lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) youth are safe, welcome, and respected. This
workshop will explore the specific steps organizations and communities are taking
and the policies they are instituting to make this happen. Participants will learn
about how to operationalize effective best practices for serving LGBT populations.
•Lesley McMillan, Eva’s, Toronto, OR
•Eva Thibaudeau, Coalition for the Homeless, Houston, TX
•Jama Shelton, True Colors Fund, New York, NY (Moderator)
3.13Ending Homelessness in Rural Areas
Meeting Room 5
Rural providers face unique challenges in ending homelessness, including limited
resources and vast coverage areas. Speakers will explore strategies they are
adopting to develop a comprehensive response to the needs of people experiencing
homelessness and housing crises in rural communities. Adapting successful
homelessness prevention, shelter, rapid re-housing and permanent supportive
housing strategies for rural communities will be among the topics explored.
•Norah Deluhery, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC (Moderator)
•Sherri Downing, Advocates for Human Potential, Helena, MT
•Hilary Melton, Pathways Vermont, Burlington, VT
•Amanda Stempson, HomeBase, San Francisco, CA
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3.14Supporting the Most Vulnerable Families
Meeting Room 16
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Families that have experienced multiple or protracted homeless episodes may
require intensive or long-term support to escape homelessness. Speakers will
explore how they are identifying and supporting these families in housing. Critical
Time Intervention and permanent supportive housing models will be among the
topics discussed.
•Alison Harte, CSH, New York, NY
•Jennifer Ho, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
•Martha Kenton, Center for Urban Community Services, New York, NY
•Debra Rog, Westat, Rockville, MD
11AM – 12:45PM
LUNCH* PLENARY SESSION
Grand Ballroom
A CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD GERE
Lunch overflow:
Renaissance East
Richard Gere
Actor, Activist and Philanthropist
Maria Cuomo Cole
Chairman of HelpUSA
REMARKS BY:
Bryan Samuels
Executive Director of Chapin Hall at the
University of Chicago
Sister Mary Scullion
President and Executive Director of
Project HOME
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ommunity Efforts to Take Rapid Re-Housing to Scale
Mount Vernon
In order to quickly re-house families and individuals when they experience a housing
crisis, communities need to begin to move beyond a rapid re-housing “program”
to a systemic rapid re-housing intervention model. Speakers will share how their
communities have taken rapid re-housing to scale by braiding together multiple
funding sources, using data, and converting other program models to rapid rehousing.
•Frank Cirillo, Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness, Lawrenceville, NJ
(Speaker/Moderator)
•Eva Thibaudeau, Coalition for the Homeless, Houston, TX
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4.02 What Is a Housing First Approach:
A Philosophy for Programs and Systems
Renaissance West A
Housing First is a program model, but also a philosophy about the importance of
housing in every person’s life. Speakers will discuss what it means to adopt Housing
First in different program models such as rapid re-housing and permanent supportive
housing. They will also reflect upon what Housing First means to a community-wide
system where not everyone wants or can get immediate housing.
•Kris Billhardt, VOA Oregon – Home Free, Portland, OR
•Sam Tsemberis, Pathways to Housing National, New York, NY
•Nan Roman, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Moderator)
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4.03 Change Is Hard: Making Decisions about Your Coordinated Entry System
Renaissance West B
Coordinated entry, done right, involves a re-examination of a community’s entire
homelessness system. What are the steps to getting this done? What decisions
need to be made and when? Speakers will share strategies on how to move from the
planning process to implementation, make changes to the front- and back-end of
your system, and use data to drive these important decisions.
•Matthew Ayres, Office to End Homelessness, Hennepin County, Minneapolis, MN
•Molly Rysman, Housing and Homelessness Deputy Office of Supervisor of Sheila
Kuehl, Los Angeles, CA
• Matt White, Abt Associates, Inc., Bethesda, MD (Moderator)
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Recently, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released the shortterm impact findings from the Family Options Study, a study undertaken to compare
various interventions to end homelessness. This session will include a presentation on
the findings and a discussion of the implications of those findings by a panel of experts
•Samantha Batko, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC
•Elaine de Coligny, Everyone Home, Alameda County, CA
•Dennis Culhane, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
•Mary Cunningham, Urban Institute, Washington, DC
•Jill Khadduri, Abt Associates, Bethesda, MD
•Mary Beth Shinn, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
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The Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program is the only federal
program dedicated solely to rapidly re-housing homeless veterans and their families.
Speakers in this workshop will highlight best practices of SSVF, including the core
components of rapid re-housing, and the overall vision for the program and its role
in the drive to end veteran homelessness.
•Jonathan Castillo, PATH, Los Angeles, CA
•Teresa Grenawalt, Community Catalysts of California, San Diego, CA
•Gary Grier, Coalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harris County, Houston, TX
(Moderator)
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4.06 It’s a Family Affair: Family Intervention for Unaccompanied Youth
Meeting Rooms
12/13/14
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Youth homelessness is often rooted in family conflict, and the vast majority of young
people experiencing homelessness return home. Even when returning home to live
is not an option, many youth still desire some kind of relationship with their families.
Participants in this workshop will learn how to implement family intervention models
that range from prevention to early intervention to family reconnection.
•Marilyn Calderon, Latin America Youth Center, Hyattsville, MD
•Gregory Lewis, True Colors Fund, New York, NY (Moderator)
•Kim Wirth, Boys and Girls Clubs of Calgary, Calgary, AB
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4.07 TANF Agencies Mobilizing to End
Family Homelessness
Penn Quarter
Increasingly, states and localities are using the Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families (TANF) program to help families escape homelessness. Speakers will
describe local innovations and provide helpful tips on how participants can engage
TANF administrators in their own communities.
•Mark Greenberg, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
•Sharon McDonald, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC
(Moderator)
•Nisha Patel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
Thursday, July 16
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4.08 Help Pay for Housing: One Size Does Not Fit All
Clients are not all the same, so why should financial assistance be? Understand why
rapid re-housing providers are adopting flexible financial assistance models despite
the challenge in administering them. Speakers will discuss different models, including
progressive engagement, and explore how to establish criteria that will let you judge
how much and how long financial assistance is needed.
•Vera Beech, Community Rebuilders, Grand Rapids, MI
•Anna Blasco, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Moderator)
•Melanie Zamora, The Road Home, Salt Lake City, UT
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4.09 Medicaid Strategies: How to Get What You
Need
Meeting Rooms 8/9
There are several partners in the healthcare world who can help Continuums of Care
and housing providers access or finance supportive services in permanent supportive
housing. Speakers will discuss how to develop local partnerships and how to ask for
services to be financed by other healthcare payers such as Managed Care Organizations.
•Peggy Bailey, CSH, Washington, DC (Moderator)
•Arturo Bendixen, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Chicago, IL
•Marcella Maguire, City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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4.10 Getting Everyone to the Table: Leveraging Community Partnerships to Build Political Will
Meeting Rooms 10/11
Ending homelessness necessitates a community-wide effort, involving all levels of
government and a variety of other stakeholders. Workshop attendees will learn effective
strategies for advocating to local, state, and federal leaders; cultivating champions;
and building political will to end homelessness. Strategies will include mobilizing your
community; and partnering with local businesses, service providers, media, and faith-
based groups. Advocacy messaging and outreach will also be explored.
•Dean Klein, Fairfax County Office to Prevent and End Homelessness, Fairfax, VA
•Stephen Piasecki, Supportive Housing Network of New York, Albany, NY (Moderator)
•Kurt Runge, Miriam’s Kitchen , Washington, DC
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4.11 What Works to Get Them Working? Creating Education and Employment Opportunities for Homeless Youth
Meeting Room 2
With the enactment of the Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act, states
and localities will have greater opportunities to put federal resources to work for
“opportunity youth,” including youth experiencing homelessness. Speakers will discuss
how to help young people access those resources as well as how to help youth
complete their secondary educations and move into higher education opportunities.
•Andrea Barnes, Center for Law and Social Policy, Washington, DC
•Tiffini Jackson, Friendship Place, Washington, DC
•Nicole Lee-Mwandha, Office of the State Superintendent of Education,
Washington, DC
•Brian Lyght, U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration
Washington, DC (Moderator)
•Caitlin Schnur, Heartland Alliance, Chicago, IL
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eeting the Need: Financing and
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Developing PSH
Meeting Room 3
Meeting local demand for the development of new permanent supportive housing
units means creatively leveraging federal, state, local, and private resources.
Participants will learn about how to combine a variety of resources to create a
project. Also discussed will be the strategies and challenges of preserving existing
permanent supportive housing.
•Cristian Ahumada, Clifford Beers Housing Inc., Los Angeles, CA
•Holly Denniston-Chase, CSH, Washington, DC (Moderator)
•Blaise Rastello, Gilbane Development Company, Vienna, VA
•Brendan O’Donnell, Skid Row Housing Trust, Los Angeles, CA
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iving People a Second Chance:
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Meeting Room 5
It is no secret that individuals who have been incarcerated face innumerable
obstacles upon leaving prison or jail — including homelessness — that could result
in recidivism. How can we work to remove barriers to housing for this population?
The answer may lie in the Second Chance Act. Participants in this workshop will
learn about opportunities the Second Chance Act provides to plan for discharge and
reentry, and to prevent homelessness after discharge.
•Doug Bond, Amity Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
•Eric Morse, Frontline Service, Cleveland, OH
•Danielle Wildkress, CSH, Los Angeles, CA (Moderator)
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oordinating with School Systems to
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Meeting Room 16
Homeless students are particularly at risk for having their educations disrupted.
Homeless assistance systems can, however, coordinate with schools and homeless
school liaisons to help identify students in need of shelter and housing and ensure
that they remain connected to school. Participants in this workshop will learn about
how school personnel and homeless service providers have successfully collaborated
to promote educational stability.
•Christina Dukes, National Center for Homeless Education, Washington, DC
(Moderator)
•Chuck Kieffer, Cloudburst Consulting Group, Ann Arbor, MI
•Debra Krittenbrink, Bridges of Norman, Norman, OK
•Cheryl Pooler, Waco Independent School District, Waco, TX
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Getting to Zero: Tools and Strategies to Create a Path to Ending Chronic Homelessness
Mount Vernon
Ending chronic homelessness will require an assessment of your community’s existing
resources and a plan for increasing the availability of permanent supportive housing.
Speakers will present tools and strategies to help communities make progress
towards this goal and create a path to zero that includes setting targets, improving
the targeting of existing units, and creating new units.
•Richard Cho, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, Washington, DC
•Jessica Marcus, Community Solutions, New York, NY
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M1.02
Going to Scale with Rapid Re-Housing: How Virginia Changed Its Approach to Homeless Families
Renaissance West A
Are you ready to end family homelessness? This session will provide an in-depth
discussion on how Virginia significantly reduced family homelessness by shifting
resources to increase rapid re-housing capacity and improve performance.
•Kathy Robertson, Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development,
Richmond, VA
M1.03
Missions and CoCs: A Partnership for Mutual Benefit
Missions play a key role in ending homelessness by providing various resources,
ranging from connections to supportive community members to shelter and
permanent housing assistance. This in-depth discussion will cover how Continuums
of Care (CoC) and missions can better engage each other and work together in a
coordinated fashion.
•Alan Thronton, Rescue Mission, Syracuse, NY
Thursday, July 16
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Housing to Rapid Re-Housing?
Providers and community leaders across the country are exploring options for
retooling their transitional housing programs to increase rapid re-housing capacity.
Speakers will cover the journey they took to successfully shift from providing
transitional housing to rapid re-housing, including challenges, solutions, and the
impact the change has made on ending homelessness in their community.
•Kimberly Tucker, St. Joseph’s Villa, Richmond, VA
•Katina Williams, St. Joseph’s Villa, Richmond, VA
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M1.05
ata Visualization and Analysis:
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Using your Data to Improve Rapid
Re-housing Practice
Data is powerful when it is accessible and actionable. How do you convey data so that
it can be easily used for analysis to improve practice and drive policy? In this workshop,
participants will learn how several communities are engaged in a rapid evaluation
project of their rapid re-housing programs and will be using data dashboards to guide
meaningful community discussion on improving rapid re-housing practice.
•Jamie Taylor, The Cloudburst Group, Avon, CT
•Mark Johnston, Mark Johnston Consulting, Holladay, UT
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M1.06
Improving Services to Survivors in
Meeting Rooms
12/13/14
Coordinated entry systems must be prepared to appropriately assess and respond to
the needs of domestic violence survivors to effectively serve their community’s homeless
population. Speakers will provide an overview of intake, assessment, and referral
strategies they have adopted to improve services to survivors as well as data strategies
they are using to evaluate program and system performance while maintaining the
confidentiality of survivors required by the Violence Against Women Act.
•Kris Billhardt, Volunteers of America Oregon-Home Free, Portland, OR
•Mary Louise Kelley, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
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onnecting Homeless Veterans to
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Mainstream Services
Penn Quarter
Beyond the targeted homeless programs at the Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA)
and Labor, veterans are often eligible for federal mainstream programs and resources
at VA and other federal agencies. This microsession will be an in-depth discussion of
what is available for homeless veterans and how your community can access those
resources to help house them.
•Baylee Crone, National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, Washington, DC
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M1.08
he Impact of Racial Inequality
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on Homelessness
Renaissance West B
African Americans are significantly over-represented in homelessness. This microsession
will explore racial inequalities in housing, employment, and the criminal justice system
and how homelessness should be part of the larger discussion on racial equality.
•Jeffrey Olivet, Center for Social Innovation, Needham, MA
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outh Voices:
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Informing Policy and Practice
Meeting Rooms 8/9
Youth who have experienced homelessness can be powerful advocates for
change. Speakers will explore how homeless service providers and advocates can
authentically partner with youth to inform and shape state and local policies as well
as improve the effectiveness of local programs. Speakers will include both agency
and youth advocates who work together to create change.
•Shallamar Campbell, Mockingbird Society, Seattle, WA
•Liz Hernandez, Mockingbird Society, Seattle, WA
•Frederick Kingston, Mockingbird Society, Seattle, WA
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Including the Consumer Voice in
Planning and Administration
Meeting Rooms 10/11
Services should be responsive to the needs and wants of those who are meant to
receive them. In this microsession, speakers will discuss the value of including the
consumer voice on the boards of Continuums of Care and permanent supportive
housing programs, and other programs and organizations that provide homeless
services. Topics will include recruiting consumers for planning, and the insights of
consumers who have drawn on their experiences in the homeless system to inform
their work on these boards.
•Dorothy Edwards, CSH, Los Angeles, CA
•Ann English, CSH, Los Angeles, CA (Moderator)
•Vikki Vickers, CSH, Los Angeles, CA
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M1.11 Using Host Homes to House
Homeless Youth
Meeting Room 2
“When it works, it’s like magic.” That’s how one host homes provider describes this
flexible, community–based model for housing homeless youth. This microsession will
explore the innovative host home models being used in one community. Learn how you
can adapt it to provide young people with more housing options in your programs.
•Ryan Berg, Avenues for Homeless Youth, Minneapolis, MN
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M1.12
Olmstead and Creating Integrated Permanent Supportive Housing Opportunities
Meeting Room 3
The Supreme Court ruling on the Olmstead case requires states to serve people with
disabilities in the least restrictive settings and to support community integration
for these individuals. Participants will learn about strategies to increase personal
choice for people with who are experiencing homelessness, including transportation,
employment, and alternative housing strategies.
•Kevin Martone, Technical Assistance Collaborative, Boston, MA
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M1.13
Pay for Success
Meeting Room 5
Pay for Success is an innovative model to fund programs that can produce
measureable impact. Speakers in this session will describe how these types of
initiatives work to create and evaluate innovative ways to finance high-quality,
effective supportive housing interventions.
•Ky Le, County of Santa Clara, San Jose, CA
•Dana Archer-Rosenthal, Nonprofit Finance Fund, New York, NY
M1.14
Point-in-Time Counts
Meeting Room 16
Every January, communities undertake Point-in-Time Counts in efforts to enumerate
unsheltered and sheltered people experiencing homelessness. This microsession will
detail recent Department of Housing and Urban Development guidance and new tools
as well as feature a community example of a Point-in-Time Count and how to develop
crucial partnerships and ensure that oft-missed populations, including unaccompanied
youth, are captured.
•Timothy Burch, Clark County Department of Social Services, Las Vegas, NV
•William Snow, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
Thursday, July 16
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eview and Rank: Evaluating
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Project Performance for Tiering and
Reallocation
Mount Vernon
Reviewing project performance and its impact on system performance is a crucial
part of the Continuum of Care Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA). Learn how
communities establish ranking and performance criteria before the NOFA application.
Explore a data-driven project evaluation process that measures program outcomes
against local and national performance targets and guides the reallocation of
resources to interventions that work. Hear from communities that make project and
system evaluation a year-round activity.
•Piper Ehlen, HomeBase, San Francisco, CA
•Ky Le, County of Santa Clara, San Jose, CA
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M2.02
tandardizing and Streamlining
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Funding Priorities Across Your System
Renaissance West A
When funding strategies are fragmented or not well coordinated, it is difficult
to adequately respond to the needs of homeless households. Aligning funding
priorities across different funding streams can bring together resources for
successful solutions and mutually-reinforcing activities. Participants will learn how
to create a community-wide, data-driven spending plan, identify how resources
are currently used, decide how resources could be better utilized or reallocated,
and plan for funding changes over time.
•Kelly King Horne, Homeward, Richmond, VA
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reative Ways to Meet the Challenges
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of Rapid Re-Housing in High-Cost,
Low-Vacancy Markets
Renaissance West B
Are you struggling to find housing for your clients because of the tight rental market?
Discover creative strategies for successfully applying the core components of rapid
re-housing in these challenging environments. Participants will learn about landlord
marketing techniques, essential staff competencies, and how to maximize resources
to help more people.
•David Levine, Good Shepherd Housing and Family Services, Alexandria, VA (Moderator)
•Vivian Wan, Abode Services, Fremont, CA
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M2.04
Is It Working? Evaluate Your Rapid
Re-Housing Program
The main goals of a rapid re-housing program are to decrease the amount of time
people spend homeless, increase the number of people exiting to permanent
housing, and decrease the number of people returning to homelessness. Speakers in
this session will detail how your organization can evaluate its current performance in
meeting those three goals as well as how to set performance goals and benchmarks.
•Iain De Jong, OrgCode Consulting Inc., Oakville, ON
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aximize Your State's National
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Housing Trust Fund Resources
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development anticipates that states will
receive their first Housing Trust Fund allocations by the summer of 2016. This year,
your state is responsible for developing an “Allocation Plan” that will identify priority
needs to be addressed with the resources. Participants will learn about opportunities
to impact their state’s Allocation Plan. Included will be a discussion of how to ensure
funds go to the types of housing projects that will meet the greatest needs of
extremely low income people, and ensuring that the needs of rural areas
are considered as well as those of metropolitan areas.
•Ed Gramlich, National Low Income Housing Coalition, Washington, DC
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aking the Most of Your Community
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Initiatives to End Veteran
Homelessness
Penn Quarter
The national push to end veteran homelessness has led to numerous nationwide
initiatives focused on a community’s effort to get the job done. This in-depth
discussion will focus on how to capitalize on these initiatives and commitments in
your community in addition to creating momentum in localities that may not have
active national campaigns.
•Karla Avalos, City of Tucson, Tucson, AZ
•Elisha Harig-Blaine, National League of Cities, Washington, DC (Speaker/Moderator)
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uman Trafficking Survivors:
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Identifying, Serving, and Housing This
Population
Meeting Room 16
People experiencing homelessness, particularly those living on the streets, are
vulnerable to exploitation and trafficking for sex and/or labor. However, many people
who have been trafficked do not identify themselves as such, and service providers
do not always know the signs of trafficking or how to help survivors. Speakers in this
session will engage in an in-depth discussion of strategies that service providers can
use to identify trafficking, how to provide trauma-informed care to survivors, and
what housing resources are available for this population.
•Megan Mahoney, Heartland Alliance, Chicago, IL
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mployment and Income Performance
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Measures: Making Them Work for You
Income, either earned from employment or from other sources, is crucial for people
experiencing homelessness to maintain housing and to help sustain supportive
housing programs. These measures are not easy to track and the way the U. S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development Continuums of Care Notice of
Funding Availability measures employment and income has changed over the last
couple years. This workshop will review how to measure these outcomes and how
to implement best practices to improve employment and income outcomes for
people receiving housing assistance.
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aking Rapid Re-Housing Work for
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Youth: You Can Do It!
Meeting Rooms 8/9
Rapid re-housing can work for young people. This in-depth discussion will cover how
one provider is using the core components of rapid re-housing to ensure youth are
not just surviving, they are thriving!
•Bill Motsavage, Valley Youth House, Bethlehem, PA
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M2.10 Capitol Hill Day 2015: What You Need to Know
Meeting Rooms 10/11
Establishing relationships with policymakers who control federal resources is critical
to ending homelessness. Capitol Hill Day will provide conference attendees with the
opportunity to build these relationships at meetings with your congressional offices. You will have the opportunity to discuss with Members and/or their staffs the impact
of their decisions on people experiencing homelessness in their districts. In this
workshop, Alliance staff will arm you with messaging on this year’s key policy asks
and tips on conducting successful congressional meetings.
•Steve Berg, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC
•Jaime Colman, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC
•Julie Klein, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC
•Joyce Sacco, Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania, Jenkintown, PA
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Re-Housing Older Adults
Meeting Room 2
As our population ages, finding appropriate housing for older adults is becoming
more important. Speakers in this workshop will explore housing needs specific
to older adults experiencing homelessness and approaches to rapid re-housing
for this population.
•Mark Hinderlie, Hearth Inc., Boston, MA
M2.12 Housing and Serving
Undocumented People
Meeting Room 3
Identifying and providing assistance to undocumented immigrants is complicated
by a number of barriers, including language barriers, cultural differences, and
uncertainty about program eligibility. Speakers will discuss legal restrictions on
resources, including from federal programs. They also will examine options available
to programs serving undocumented immigrants experiencing homelessness,
including those who are survivors of domestic violence and trafficking.
•Sage Foster, Sage B Foster Consulting, Richmond, CA
•Helly Lee, Center for Law and Social Policy, Washington, DC
SA
M2.13 How to Approach Ending Homelessness for Those in Outdoor Encampments
Meeting Room 5
As cities are redeveloping there are growing pressures to relocate homeless persons
who are camping outdoors in urban areas. Panelists will present innovative and
promising strategies on how to outreach to these groups and provide a truly lowbarrier intervention to incentivize people out of camps and work towards linking
them with mainstream services and permanent housing.
•Bevan Dufty, City of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
•Kathleen Treggiari, Episcopal Community Services, San Francisco, CA
M2.14 aking Change Stick: M
Beyond the Initial 100 Days
Meeting Rooms
12/13/14
Several of us in the sector experienced the power of challenging local teams to
“go for broke” for 100 days or less, with Housing Acceleration Rapid Results Boot
Camps in 2013 and 2014, and more recently with Zero; 2016 Action Camps. We know
that magic often happens in the initial 100 days. But how can communities keep
the same level of energy and motivation after the novelty wears off? Nadim Matta,
founder of the Rapid Results Institute, will offer some initial ideas on this, drawing
on experiences from recent work the Institute has been doing in the UK to integrate
social and health care for at-risk populations.
•Nadim Matta, Rapid Results Institute, Stamford, CT
4:30 – 5PM
State Prep Sessions
Kentucky State Prep Session
Meeting Rooms 10/11
Oklahoma State Prep Session
Meeting Room 2
Rhode Island State Prep Session
Meeting Room 3
New York State Prep Session
Meeting Room 4
Florida State Prep Session
Meeting Room 7
North Carolina State Prep Session
Penn Quarter
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Time
Event
Location
5 – 6:30PM
Meet and Mingle
Grand Ballroom
The Meet and Mingle is an opportunity for
conference attendees to network. There will be a
cash bar and light fare.
Friday
Time
Event
Location
July 17
8 – 9AM
Grand Registration
Foyer
8AM – 3:30PM
Grand Registration
8 – 9AM
A CONVERSATION ABOUT YOUTH COUNT
With Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
State Prep SessionS
8:30 – 9AM
Arizona State Prep Session
Meeting Room 4
Nevada State Prep Session
Meeting Room 2
Workshops V
9:15 – 10:45AM
5.01 HUD Q&A
Mount Vernon
Officials with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will be
on hand to answers questions about HUD homeless assistance programs and address
specific details of HEARTH Act implementation. Topics to be addressed will include
the Emergency Solutions Grant program, Point-in-Time Counts, the Continuum of Care
program, data standards, and outcome measures. Attendees should come prepared
with questions on these topics.
•Sherri Boyd, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
•Karen DeBlasio, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
•Brett Gagnon, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
•Marlisa Grogan, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
•Ebony Rankin, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
SR
5.02 How to Use Your Performance Data
to Evaluate Effectiveness and Make
System Improvements
Renaissance West A
Measuring performance is a critical aspect of evaluating homeless systems’
performance and improving the way Continuums of Care (CoCs) serve homeless
people. Participants will gain understanding about performance measures and learn
ways to use system-level performance data as an integral part of CoC planning and
the allocation of resources. The selection criteria outlined in the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development interim CoC rule will be covered.
•Tom Albanese, Abt Associates, Columbus, OH (Moderator)
•Michelle Heritage, Community Shelter Board, Columbus, OH
•William Snow, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
Friday, July 17
Time
R
CONFERENCE AGENDA
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Event
Location
5.03 Become an Even Better Rapid
Re-Housing Program
Renaissance West B
Your rapid re-housing program may be great, but you can make it even better. This
workshop is for rapid re-housing program leadership who want to learn how to use
their data for continuous improvement. Participants will gain practical ideas on how
to implement performance improvement plans to serve more people and rapidly rehouse clients faster.
•Katharine Gale, Katharine Gale Consulting, Berkeley, CA (Moderator)
•Ben Knoll, Friendship Place, Washington, DC
•Gwen McQueeney, Northern Virginia Family Service, Manassas, VA
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What Comes Next
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Grant and Per Diem program will continue to
play an important role in helping homeless veterans; however, that role will likely
change in the coming months and years. Speakers in this workshop will cover the
possible next steps for the program and how your community should be thinking
strategically about this important resource.
•Barbara Banaszynski, Volunteers of America, Alexandria, VA
•Beth Sandor, Community Solutions, Los Angeles, CA
•Kate Seif, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Moderator)
•Joshua Stewart, National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, Washington, DC
SA
5.05 Creating Targeted Affordable Housing
Opportunities for Single Adults
Homeless systems often have to create affordable housing opportunities for their
clients. Speakers will discuss shared housing and other innovative models that help
single adults find and afford housing.
•Karen Heyward-West, St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center, Baltimore, MD
•Barbara Poppe, Barbara Poppe & Associates, Columbus, OH (Speaker/Moderator)
•Vivian Wan, Abode Services, Fremont, CA
5.06 Helping More People Go Home from Shelter
Meeting Rooms
12/13/14
Emergency shelters provide a safe place to stay so people do not need to sleep
on the street. But when emergency shelters erect barriers to entry, some of the
most vulnerable people may be left with nowhere to turn. Learn how to safely
lower barriers to entry and decrease involuntary exits. Strategies to increase exits
to permanent housing will be discussed, including rapid re-housing, homelessness
diversion, and working with coordinated entry systems.
•Heather Lyons, CSH, Portland, OR (Moderator)
•Deronda Metz, The Salvation Army, Charlotte, NC
•Catherine Zall, New London Homeless Hospitality Center, New London, CT
SR
Penn Quarter
What are the requirements for Continuum of Care written standards? What do
really good standards look like? How will we ever agree on what they should say?
Many communities are grappling with these questions as they work to accomplish
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requirement that each
Continuum of Care has written standards for projects. Panelists will help you tackle
these challenges and share tips and lessons learned from communities that are
implementing their standards.
•Gina Schaak, Technical Assistance Collaborative, Boston, MA (Speaker/Moderator)
•Elizabeth Stewart, Technical Assistance Collaborative, Boston, MA
•Marcy Thompson, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,
Washington, DC
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Time
Event
Location
Workshops V continued
R
Rapid re-housing is a short-term intervention that relies heavily on connecting
clients to community and mainstream services. Learn how rapid re-housing case
management differs from long-term case management and how it can improve client
engagement and stability in housing. As part of this interactive session, participants
will have the opportunity to evaluate their own case management strategies.
•Meghann Cotter, Micah Ministries, Fredericksburg, VA
•Tiana Purvis, The Salvation Army in Greater Hartford, Hartford, CT
•Julie Steiner, Abt Associates, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI (Moderator)
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CP
Behavioral Health Services in Permanent Supportive Housing
Meeting Rooms 8/9
Financing and delivering both medical and behavioral services in housing programs
can often mean bringing two separate worlds together. This workshop will present
best practices for integrating physical and behavioral health services in permanent
supportive housing and will feature case managers discussing the challenges and
opportunities they face addressing the health needs of tenants.
•Andrew Sperling, National AAlliance on Mental Illness, Washington, DC (Moderator)
•Barbara Martin, Central City Concern, Portland, OR
•Christy Respress, Pathways to Housing DC, Washington, DC
SA
5.10Housing People with Substance
Abuse Issues
Meeting Rooms 10/11
People experiencing homelessness sometimes struggle with substance use problems
that they may not wish to, or have the capacity to, address. Speakers in this
workshop will discuss strategies for managing substance use in congregate settings
and how to implement harm reduction strategies in permanent housing programs.
•Paula Boutte, Skid Row Housing Trust, Los Angeles, CA
•Carson Dean, Men’s Shelter of Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
•Nicole Macri, DESC, Seattle, WA (Speaker/Moderator)
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5.11 Exploring Housing and Service Models to
Meeting Room 2
Young people who cannot immediately return home may require longer-term housing
and supportive services until they are developmentally (and financially) prepared
to live independently. Speakers will provide an overview of the array of housing and
service models that providers rely on to end youth homelessness. Scaling up the
range of housing models to provide appropriate opportunities for all youth, including
harm reduction models, will be among the topics explored.
•Caryn Blitz, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
•Debby Shore, Youthwork, Washington, DC
• Sasha Bruce, Youthwork, Washington, DC
•Lesley McMillan, Eva’s Initiative, Toronto, ON
•Richard Hooks Wayman, LUK Inc., Fitchburg, MA (Speaker/Moderator)
5.12Homeless Assistance Providers
and the Media
Meeting Room 3
As stewards of a newsworthy social issue, homeless assistance providers frequently
come into contact with the media. In this workshop, providers and members of the
media will discuss the media’s role in telling stories about the issue, their sometimes
divergent perspectives, and how they can more effectively work together to raise
awareness of homelessness and the fight to end it.
•Marisol Bello, Center for Community Change, Washington, DC
•Jennifer Loving, Destinaton: Home, San Jose, CA
•Jake Maguire, Community Solutions, New York, NY (Moderator)
•Lloyd Pendleton, Lloyd Pendleton Consulting, Bountiful, UT
Friday, July 17
Time
FAM
CONFERENCE AGENDA
Event
Location
5.13Working with Child Welfare Agencies to
Meeting Room 5
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CP
Most of the families involved with child welfare agencies are very poor and many
also experience significant housing problems. Overcrowding, inadequate living
conditions, and homelessness can undermine the work of child welfare agencies
to preserve and reunify families. In this workshop, speakers will examine strategies
that are being explored and implemented by child welfare agencies to help address
the housing needs of the families they serve in order to protect and support
children and their families.
•Joslyn Carter, New York City Department of Homeless Services, Bronx, NY
•Betsy Cronin, The Connection Inc., Middletown, CT
•Kimberly Henderson, District of Columbia Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health
and Human Services, Washington, DC
•Debra Porchia-Usher, District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency
Washington, DC
•Ruth White, National Center on Housing and Welfare, Washington, DC (Moderator)
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5.14Working with Systems-Involved Youth
Meeting Room 16
Many homeless youth have aged out of foster care or are currently involved in or
eligible for extended foster care. Other homeless youth have been involved with the
juvenile or criminal justice systems, often as a result of engaging in survival activities
related to their homelessness. In this workshop, speakers will highlight research
and practical knowledge about the increasing options available for and challenges
involved in serving systems-involved young people experiencing homelessness.
•Bill Motsavage, Valley Youth House, Bethlehem, PA
•Debbie Powell, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
(Moderator)
•Todd Shenk, Casey Family Programs, Washington, DC
11AM – 12:45PM
Lunch* Plenary Session
Grand Ballroom
REMARKS BY:
Jennifer Ho
Special Assistant to the Secretary of the
Development
Lunch overflow:
Renaissance East
Matthew Doherty
Executive Director of U.S. Interagency Council
on Homelessness
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
The Honorable Robert A. McDonald
Secretary of the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs
1 – 5PM
Capitol Hill Day Visits and Report
Back Session
Post-Conference Sessions
Near Grand
Registration
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Time
Event
Location
1 – 2:30PM
Technical Assistance Collaborative and
Development Present New Opportunities
in Multifamily Housing as Solutions to
Homelessness
Meeting Rooms
12/13/14
This session is designed for conference participants seeking new, relatively
unchartered approaches to accessing multifamily housing for individuals and
families exiting homelessness in their communities. The session will introduce
participants to two national opportunities in the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development-assisted multifamily property arena. First on the agenda will
be the new optional homeless admissions preference and ground breaking work
in pioneering its implementation in ten communities. Participants will learn how to
apply for technical assistance for September of 2015 to promote the preference in
their local multifamily housing. Second will be the HUD 811 Project Rental Assistance
program and specifics of its implementation in a growing number of states as well
as its potential role in helping to solve homelessness. Participants in the session will
take away insights from peer communities, concrete knowledge of these two areas
of opportunity, and guidance on how to apply for technical assistance related to the
homeless preference.
1 - 3:30PM
You’ve Got What It Takes:
Reducing Homelessness by the Numbers
Mount Vernon
The National Alliance to End Homelessness and Focus Strategies have partnered to
create a suite of tools called System-Wide Analytics and Projection. SWAP is
designed to produce system performance reports for local communities and
states and allows them to model the impacts of system change and performance
improvement efforts. These tools fit neatly with U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development System Performance Measures, which will be the key component
of the scoring system for future CoC NOFA competitions. HUD has identified the
indicators of a well-functioning system and made clear what kinds of performance
measurement should be taking place. SWAP uses these HUD concepts, along with
cost information, and puts them in a context that allows communities to see the
relationships among different system performance dynamics. The SWAP tools will
be made available for free to any interested community. This workshop will provide
an opportunity to preview the tools before they are officially launched. Bring your
thoughts about systems change and performance measurement – we’ll bring SWAP
materials and an activity to get you started. We’ll also show examples of results we
have helped various communities produce using the prototype version of these tools.
• Tracy Bennett, Focus Strategies, Sacramento, CA
• Meghan Kurteff-Schatz, Focus Strategies, Sacramento, CA
• Cynthia Nagendra, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC
1 - 4PM
Homelessness and HIV:
Two Issues, One Solution
The session will begin with an overview of issues specific to HIV and Homelessness
including medication adherence, prevention of opportunistic infections, and disease
transmission. The overview will also emphasize the HIV Housing Care Continuum
Research will be presented around housing as an HIV healthcare intervention and as
an HIV prevention intervention. A presentation of “HIV Homeless Housing: Successful
Models” will offer best practices and unique models from across the country. Finally,
the session will highlight successful models specific to housing as HIV prevention.
•Arturo Bendixen, National AIDS Housing Coalition and Center for Housing and
Health, Chicago, IL
•Russel Bennett, National AIDS Housing Coalition and Collaborative Solutions, Inc.,
Birmingham, AL
•Rita Flegel, National AIDS Housing Coalition and Collaborative Solutions, Inc.,
Birmingham, AL
Friday, July 17
CONFERENCE AGENDA
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Time
Event
Location
1 - 4PM
H2: Homeless and Healthcare Systems
Integration Field Perspectives on Systems-Level
Homeless Assistance and Healthcare
Integration Efforts.
Renaissance West A
Across the nation, communities are conducting Action Planning Sessions to develop
action plans to improve access to and effective utilization of healthcare services
for homeless and HIV/AIDS program participants. Stakeholders have included
representatives from the Continuums of Care and Emergency Solutions Grants
homeless assistance provider and HIV provider (including Housing Opportunities
for Persons with AIDS) networks along with local/state representatives from the
healthcare service system. This session will provide an overview of the action
planning processes and summary of plans for each of the participating states and
communities, with a peer to peer sharing among the eight communities that have
conducted a session so far. Federal partners from across the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development and Health and Human Services may also
participate and/or attend the session.
1 - 4PM
Trauma-Informed Care: A Framework for
Enhancing Service Delivery
Exposure to trauma is a common denominator for individuals, families, and youth
experiencing homelessness. Increasingly, “trauma-informed care” is identified as a
best practice for addressing trauma at an organizational level and creating service
environments that foster optimal success for service users. Speakers will discuss
trauma-informed care as an organizational framework for service delivery, why this
approach is critical to serving all groups experiencing homelessness, and steps for
implementing. Participants will learn about strategies to assess current practice and
readiness to adopt trauma-informed care and lessons from organizations that have
adopted this approach.
• Barbara Broman, American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC
• Kathleen Guarino, American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC
1 - 4PM
Facilitated Discussion and Planning with
Homeless Youth Providers
Renaissance West B
Join the National Network for Youth and our federal agency partners for a discussion
about defining a pathway to positive transitions to adulthood for homeless
youth. This will be an active discussion about what it means to: 1) prevent youth
homelessness; 2) provide crisis interventions; 3) provide longer-term housing
options; and 4) evaluate the effectiveness of programs. Please come with your ideas,
questions, and willingness to think outside of the box!
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Muriel Bowser
Mayor Bowser is the seventh elected mayor of Washington, DC. Ms. Bowser brings a pragmatic,
inclusive, hands-on approach to her public service and remains committed to creating pathways
to the middle class for all District residents. During her time as mayor, she has added $100
million in the Housing Production Trust Fund to expand affordable housing opportunities and
made historic investments in the District’s ongoing effort to end homelessness. Prior to her time
as Mayor, Bowser served as the Ward 4 councilmember of the DC Council, during which time
she served as the Chairwoman of the Committee on Economic Development, which created
more than 5,000 units of affordable housing and secured from the federal government the best
portion of the Walter Reed campus for DC. She also led her colleagues to pass comprehensive
ethics reform and increased transparency in government contracting.
Richard Gere
Richard Gere is a celebrated actor and outspoken human rights advocate. Among his recent
projects is the film Time Out of Mind, directed by Oren Moverman, in which he plays the role
of a mentally ill man living on the streets of New York City. Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Gere
attended the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, but left college after two years to pursue
an acting career, going on to star in in such films as Chicago, An Officer and a Gentleman, Days
of Heaven, and Pretty Woman. In addition to his acting, Mr. Gere is an accomplished musician
and photographer. He also is a student and friend of the Dalai Lama, and has made numerous
journeys throughout India, Nepal, Tibet, Mongolia and China. He is the founder of the Gere
Foundation, which contributes to numerous health education and human rights projects and is
especially dedicated to promoting awareness of Tibet and her endangered culture.
Robert McDonald
Robert A. McDonald is the eighth Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Secretary McDonald is
personally committed to values-based leadership and improving the lives of others. An Army
veteran, Secretary McDonald served with the 82nd Airborne Division; completed Jungle, Arctic,
and Desert Warfare training; and earned the Ranger tab, the Expert Infantryman Badge, and
Senior Parachutist wings. Upon leaving military service, Secretary McDonald was awarded the
Meritorious Service Medal. Prior to joining VA, Secretary McDonald also served as Chairman,
President, and Chief Executive Officer of The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G). During his
tenure, P&G added nearly one billion people to its global customer base and committed itself
to the 2020 goal of “saving one life every hour” by annually providing two billion liters of clean
drinking water to people in the world’s developing countries.
Nan Roman
Nan Roman is President and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, a public
education, advocacy, and capacity-building organization. She is a leading national voice
on the issue of homelessness. Under her guidance, the Alliance has successfully identified
and promoted innovative strategies for ending homelessness that have been adopted by
communities across the country. In her role, Ms. Roman works closely with members of Congress and the Administration, as well as with officials and advocates at the state and
local levels. She collaborates with Alliance partners to educate the public about the real
nature of homelessness and effective solutions. She has researched and written on the issue
of homelessness, regularly speaks at events around the country, and frequently serves as an
expert on the issue for the media. Her unique perspective on homelessness and its solutions
comes from more than 20 years of local and national experience in the areas of poverty and
community-based organizations
Cristian Ahumada,
Executive Director
Clifford Beers Housing, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
[email protected]
@CBeersHousing
Tom Albanese,
Senior Associate
Abt Associates
Columbus, OH
[email protected]
Rebecca Allen,
Program Officer
Melville Charitable Trust
New Haven, CT
[email protected]
Meradith Alspaugh,
Continuum of Care Director
Strategies to End Homelessness
Cincinnati, OH
[email protected]
Jerrianne Anthony,
BCCS Program Director
Volunteers of America
Chesapeake’s Bailey’s Crossroads
Community Shelter
Falls Church, VA
[email protected]
Dana Archer-Rosenthal,
Program Manager, Pay for Success
Nonprofit Finance Fund
New York, NY
[email protected]
Karla Avalos-Soto,
Human Services Policy Advisor
City of Tucson
Tucson, AZ
[email protected]
Matthew Ayres
Office to End Homelessness,
Hennepin County
Minneapolis, MN
[email protected]
Andrae Bailey,
Chief Executive Officer
Central Florida Commission
on Homelessness
Orlando, FL
[email protected]
Peggy Bailey,
Director of
Health Systems Integration
CSH
Washington, DC
[email protected]
@pbailey20003
Barbara Banaszynski,
Senior Vice President of Program
Operations
Louisville, KY
[email protected]
Andrea Barnes, Policy Analyst
Youth Center for Law and
Social Policy
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Melody Barr, Administration
Manager, Public Services, Housing
and Community Development
City of Houston
Houston, TX
[email protected]
Marsha Basloe,
Senior Advisor for Early Childhood
Development
U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Samantha Batko,
Director,
Homelessness Research Institute
National Alliance to End Homelessness
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Susanne Beaton,
Director of
Special Initiatives
The Paul and Phyllis Fireman
Charitable Foundation
Waltham, MA
[email protected]
Vera Beech, Executive Director
Community Rebuilders
Grand Rapids, MI
[email protected]
Arturo Bendixen,
Vice President for
Housing Partnerships
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Chicago, IL
[email protected]
Marlyn Benker, Social Worker
Mystic Area Shelter & Hospitality, Inc.
Mystic, CT
[email protected]
Tracy Bennett, Director of
Analytics and Evaluation
Focus Strategies
Sacramento, CA
[email protected]
Ryan Berg,
Program Manager
Avenues for Homeless Youth
Minneapolis, MN
[email protected]
Steve Berg,
Vice President for
Programs and Policy
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Rusty Bennett,
Chief Executive Officer
National AIDS Housing Coalition and Collaborative Solutions, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
[email protected]
Kris Billhardt,
Director
VOA Oregon – Home Free
Portland, OR
[email protected]
Anna Blasco,
Technical Assistance Specialist
Washington, DC
[email protected]
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Doug Bond, Director of
California Services and Operations
Amity Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
[email protected]
Sherri Boyd,
Specialist, Special
Needs Assistance Programs
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Jon Bradley, Associate Director
Preble Street
Portland, ME
[email protected]
Tricia Bradly,
Program Manager, Housing and
Community Development
Your Way Home
Montgomery County
Norristown, PA
[email protected]
@TriciaBradly
Timothy Burch,
Director
Clark County Department of
Social Services
Las Vegas, NV
[email protected]
@tim_burch
Marti Burt,
Affiliated Scholar
Mandy Chapman-Semple,
Special Assistant to the Mayor for
Homeless Initiative
City of Houston
Houston, TX
[email protected]
Executive Director
National Coalition for
Homeless Veterans
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Richard Cho,
Dennis Culhane,
Frank Cirillo,
Meagan Cusack,
Senior Policy Director
U.S. Interagency Council on
Homelessness
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Executive Director
Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness
Lawrenceville, NJ
[email protected]
Toya Taylor Codjoe,
Division Director
Cornerstones, Inc.
Reston, VA
[email protected]
Tess Colby,
Manager,
Housing, Homeless and Community
Development Programs
Jonathan Castillo,
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Senior Social Science Analyst
U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, DC
[email protected]
April Connolly,
Chief Operating Officer
Father Bill’s & MainSpring
Brockton, MA
[email protected]
Meghann Cotter,
Program Manager
ICF International
Fairfax, VA
[email protected]
Executive Servant Leader
Micah Ministries
Fredericksburg, VA
[email protected]
Director
of Veteran Services
PATH
Los Angeles, CA
[email protected]
Program and Policy Analyst
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Kellyann Day, CEO
W. Carson Dean,
Conference Associate
Nazmia Comrie,
Kelly Canter,
Jayme Day,
Jaime Colman,
Tom Byrne, Investigator
Mockingbird Society
Seattle, WA
[email protected]
Project Manager
National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans
Philadelphia, PA
[email protected]
Tacoma, WA
[email protected]
Shallamar Campbell
Dana and Andrew Stone Professor
of Social Policy
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
[email protected]
New Reach, Inc.
New Haven, CT
[email protected]
@kad9999, @NewReachCT
Pierce County Community Connections
Urban Institute
Santa Fe, NM
[email protected]
Boston, MA
[email protected]
Baylee Crone,
Cynthia Crain,
CEO
Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance
Dallas, TX
[email protected]
@cjcrain
Executive Director
Men’s Shelter of Charlotte
Charlotte, NC
[email protected]
@carson_dean, @CLTMensShelter
Karen DeBlasio,
Program Specialist, Special Needs
Assistance Programs
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Norah Deluhery,
Director, Faith-Based &
Neighborhood Partnerships
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Holly Denniston-Chase,
Loan Officer
CSH
Washington, DC
[email protected]
@HollyDChase
SPEAKER CONTACT INFORMATION
Bevan Dufty,
Director of Housing Opportunities,
Partnerships and Engagements
City of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
[email protected]
Elaine de Coligny,
Executive Director
EveryOne Home
Hayward, CA
[email protected]
Iain De Jong,
President and CEO
OrgCode Consulting, Inc.
Oakville, ON
[email protected]
@orgcode
Barbara DiPietro,
Director of Policy
National Health Care for the
Homeless Council
Baltimore, MD
[email protected]
Matthew Doherty,
Executive Director
Homelessness
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Liza Doran,
Research Associate
Washington, Dc
[email protected]
Dorothy Edwards,
Community Advocate
CSH
Los Angeles, CA
[email protected]
Piper Ehlen, Managing
Director, Federal Programs
HomeBase
San Francisco, CA
[email protected]
Jen Elder,
Senior Project Associate
Policy Research Associates, Inc.
Delmar, NY
[email protected]
@SOARWorks
Ann English,
Program Manager
CSH
Los Angeles, CA
[email protected]
Will Evans, Vice President of
Housing & Supportive Services
Community Connections of
Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL
[email protected]
Galiana Fajardo,
Senior Associate, Portfolio
REDF
San Francisco, CA
[email protected]
Carl Falconer,
Senior Program Manager
Advocates for Human Potential
Sudbury, MA
[email protected]
Director of
Community Engagement
Lutheran Services Florida
Health Systems
Jacksonville, FL
[email protected]
Christina Dukes,
Rita Flegel,
Sherri Downing,
Federal Liaison
National Center for Homeless Education
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Amy Dworsky, Research Fellow
Chapin Hall
Chicago, IL
[email protected]
Barbara Edwards,
Consultant
Technical Assistance Corporation
Boston, MA
[email protected]
National AIDS Housing Coalition and Collaborative Solutions, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
[email protected]
Michelle Flynn,
Associate
Executive Director of Programs
The Road Home
Salt Lake City, UT
[email protected]
@TheRoadHomeUT
Sage Foster,
Principal
Independent Contractor
Richmond, CA
[email protected]
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David French, Manager of
Homeless Supports Initiatives
Alberta Human Services
Edmonton, Alberta
[email protected]
@DaveKFrench
Brett Gagnon,
Program Specialist, Special Needs
Assistance Program
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Katharine Gale, CEO
Katharine Gale Consulting
Berkeley, CA
[email protected]
@kgaleberkeley
Sarah Gallagher,
Director of
the Connecticut Office
CSH
Hartford, CT
[email protected]
Tramecia Garner,
Director of Residential Programs
Swords to Plowshares
San Francisco, CA
[email protected]
Ed Gemerchak,
Associate Director,
Emergency Housing Services
FrontLine Services
Cleveland, OH
[email protected]
Nicole Giannone,
Director,
Program Evaluation, Training
and Advocacy
Ali Forney Center
New York, NY
[email protected]
Kiley Gosselin,
Management & Program Analyst
U.S. Interagency Council
on Homelessness
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Rachel Gragg,
SNAP Office of
Employment and Training
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Washington, DC
[email protected]
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Ed Gramlich, Director of
Regulatory Affairs
National Low Income Housing
Coalition
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Mark Greenberg,
Acting Assistant Secretary
Human Services
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Kelly Green-Bloomfield,
Employee Specialist
St. Joseph’s Villa
Richmond, VA
[email protected]
Teresa Grenawalt,
Regional Manager
Community Catalysts of California
San Diego, CA
[email protected]
Gary Grier,
Project Manager
Coalition for the Homeless of
Houston/Harris County
Houston, TX
[email protected]
Marlisa Grogan,
Specialist,
Special Needs Assistance Programs
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Jean-Michel Giraud, CEO
Friendship Place
Washington, DC
[email protected]
@friendshipplace
Joe Hallmark,
Associate Director
Goddard Riverside
Community Center
New York, NY
[email protected]
@Goddardriv
Jermaine Hampton,
Division Director
Friendship Place
Washington, DC
[email protected]
@mrjhampton
Elisha Harig-Blaine,
Principal Housing Associate
National League of Cities
Washington, DC
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@HarigBlaine
Alison Harte,
Associate Director, Government
Affairs and Innovation
CSH
New York, NY
[email protected]
Jasmine Hayes,
Policy Director
Homelessness
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Catherine Heath, Child and
Family Bureau Specialist
Human Services
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Kimberly Henderson,
Liz Hersh, Executive Director
Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania
Jenkintown, PA
[email protected]
Karen Heyward-West,
Director of Homesharing
St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center
Baltimore, MD
[email protected]
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Deputy Director for Policy
U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, DC
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President and CEO
Hearth, Inc.
Boston, MA
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Senior Advisor for
Housing and Services
Washington, DC
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Program Manager, Runaway &
Homeless Youth Program
Human Services
Washington, DC
[email protected]
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Executive Director
Homeward
Richmond, VA
[email protected]
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District Alliance for Safe Housing, Inc.
Washington, DC
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District of Columbia, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and
Human Services
Washington, DC
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Special Assistant
Washington, DC
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Michelle Heritage,
Tiffini Jackson,
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Director,
Mather Community Campus
VOA – Northern California and Northern Nevada
Sacramento, CA
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Community Shelter Board
Columbus, OH
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Liz Hernandez,
Network Representative
Mockingbird Society
Seattle, WA
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Youth and
Young Adult Specialist
Friendship Place
Washington, Dc
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Cincinnati Police Department
Cincinnati, OH
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Mark Johnston Consulting
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National Movement Manager
Community Solutions
Washington, DC
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Executive Director
UNITY of Greater New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
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Elizabeth Kennedy,
Social Insurance Specialist
Social Service Administration
Los Angeles, CA
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Senior Consultant
Center for Urban Community Services
New York, NY
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Sheakley Center for Youth
Lighthouse Youth Services
Cincinnati, OH
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Principal Associate
Abt Associates, Inc.
Bethesda, MD
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The Fairfax County office to Prevent and End Homelessness
Fairfax, VA
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State and Local Policy Coordinator
Enterprise Community Partners
Washington, DC
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Julie Klein,
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Housing Development for Veterans
Virginia Department of
Veterans Services
Richmond, VA
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Washington, DC
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Director,
National Community Support
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Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
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Bridges
Norman, OK
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Germantown, MD
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Focus Strategies
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Center for Law and Social Policy
Washington, DC
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Director of Social Work
Preble Street
Portland, ME
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Good Shepherd Housing and
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Alexandria, VA
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Policy Advisor
Homelessness
Washington, DC
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Advancement and Communication
Community Rebuilders
Grand Rapids, MI
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Youth Programs
The Mockingbird Society
Seattle, WA
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Director,
Office of Supportive Housing
County of Santa Clara
San Jose, CA
[email protected]
Nicole Lee-Mwandha,
Homeless Education State
Coordinator
Office of the State Superintendent of Education
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Executive Director
True Colors Fund
New York, NY
[email protected]
Ian Lisman,
Vice President
ICFI
Fairfax, VA
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Dave Lopez,
Deputy Director
for Programs & Operations
Swords to Plowshares
San Francisco, CA
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Anthony Love,
Senior
Advisor and Director of
Community Engagement, VHA
Homeless Programs
Department of Veterans Affairs
Central Office
Washington, DC
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@alove522
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Executive Director
Destinaton: Home
San Jose, CA
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Brian Lyght, Senior Fellow
U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Kevin Martone,
Caroline Meehan,
Heather Lyons,
Nadim Matta,
Hilary Melton,
Nicole Macri,
Michael McConnell,
Associate Director
CSH
Portland, OR
[email protected]
@Heather_CSH
Director of Housing
DESC
Seattle, WA
[email protected]
@nicolemacri
Jake Maguire,
Director of Communications
Community Solutions
New York, NY
[email protected]
@jakemaguire
Marcella Maguire, Director
of DBH Homeless Services
City of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
[email protected]
Megan Mahoney,
Director,
Northern Tier Anti-Trafficking
Consortium
Heartland Alliance
[email protected]
Chicago, IL
Daniel Malone,
Executive Director
DESC
Seattle, WA
[email protected]
@DESCSeattle
Jessica Marcus, Research and
Quality Assurance Coordinator
Community Solutions
New York, NY
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Barbara Martin, Director of
Primary Care
Central City Concern
Portland, OR
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Executive Director
Technical Assistance Collaborative
Boston, MA
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Catalyst in Chief
Rapid Results Institute
Stamford, CT
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@NadimMattaRRI
Program & Research Manager
Alexandria, VA
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Pathways Vermont
Burlington, VT
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Tatjana Meschede,
Scientist and Senior Lecturer
Brandeis University
Boston, MA
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President
La Jolla Coin Shop
San Diego, CA
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Sharon McDonald, Director
for Families and Youth
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Deronda Metz,
Director of Social Services
The Salvation Army
Charlotte, NC
[email protected]
Anne Miskey,
Thomas Chalmers
McLaughlin, Proffer
University of New England
Portland, ME
[email protected]
Executive Director
Funders Together to End
Homelessness
Boston, MA
[email protected]
Kay Moshier McDivitt,
Sheila Morley,
Senior Technical Assistance
Specialist
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Deborah McMillan,
Project Director
Public Health Management
Corporation
Philadelphia, PA
[email protected]
HHA
Lesley McMillan,
Program Office
Eva’s
Toronto, OR
[email protected]
@Lesleymcmillan
Gwen McQueeney,
Deputy Director of Shelter and
Rapid Re-housing
Northern Virginia Family Service
Manassas, VA
[email protected]
@NVFS
Program Manager
City of Spokane
Spokane, WA
[email protected]
Eric Morse,
Frontline Service
Cleveland, OH
[email protected]
@FRONTLINECLE
Bill Motsavage, Senior Vice
President of Independent Living
Programs
Valley Youth House
Bethlehem, PA
[email protected]
Shalom Mulkey ,
Washington, Dc
[email protected]
Cynthia Nagendra, Director,
Center for Capacity Building
Washington, DC
[email protected]
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Caitlin Newswanger,
Program Manager
HomeAgain
Richmond, VA
[email protected]
Kathleen Nolan, Director of
State Policy & Programs
National Association of
Medicaid Directors
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Kathleen North,
Clinical Director of Coordinated
Assessment and Housing Placement
UNITY of Greater New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
[email protected]
Brendan O’Donnell,
Business Development Associate
Skid Row Housing Trust
Los Angeles, CA
[email protected]
Ann Oliva,
Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Special Needs
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Jeffrey Olivet,
CEO and President
Center for Social Innovation
Needham, MA
[email protected]
@jeffolivet
Linda Olsen,
Housing Program Coordinator
Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Seattle, WA
[email protected]
Julia Orlando , Director
Bergen County Housing,
Health and Human Services Center
Hackensack, NJ
[email protected]
Nisha Patel, Director, Office of
Family Assistance
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Sonali Patel , Policy Fellow
Chapin Hall
Chicago, IL
[email protected]
Kristen Paquette,
Chief Program Officer
Center for Social Innovation
Needham, MA
[email protected]
@kpaquette610
Lloyd Pendleton, CEO
Lloyd Pendleton Consulting
Bountiful, UT
[email protected]
Kimberly Pentico, Senior
Economic Justice Specialist
National Network to End
Domestic Violence
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Andrea Plevek,
Human Services Manager
Washtenaw County Office of
Community & Economic Development
Ypsilanti, MI
[email protected]
Cheryl Pooler,
Homeless Liaison
Waco ISD
Waco, TX
[email protected]
Barbara Poppe, Principal
Barbara Poppe & Associates
Columbus, OH
[email protected]
@bjpoppe
Rachel Post,
Public Policy Director
Central City Concern
Portland, OR
[email protected]
Claudia Powell,
Research Scientist and Director of
Evaluation Services
University of Arizona, Southwest Institute for Research on Women
Tucson, AZ
[email protected]
Debbie Powell,
Deputy Associate Commissioner
Human Services
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Tiana Purvis,
Director of Operation, Marshall
House Family Shelter
The Salvation Army in Greater Hartford
Hartford, CT
[email protected]
Michael Raposa, CEO
St. Vincent de Paul South Pinellas
Saint Petersburg, FL
[email protected]
Ebony Rankin,
Desk Officer, Special Needs
Assistance Programs
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Blaise Rastello,
Director of Affordable Housing
Transitional Housing Corporation
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Andrea Reid,
Assistant Commissioner,
Prevention Services
New York City Department of Homeless Services
New York, NY
[email protected]
Christy Respress,
Executive Director
Pathways to Housing DC
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Jim Riccio, Director
MDRC
New York, NY
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John Rio,
Senior Program Associate
Fairfax, VA
[email protected]
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Kathy Robertson,
Associate Director Housing
Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development
Richmond, VA
[email protected]
@kdeerobertson
Debra Rog, Associate Director
WESTAT
Rockville, MD
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Nan Roman,
CEO and President
Washington, DC
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Cullen Ryan,
Executive Director
Community Housing of Maine
Portland, ME
[email protected]
@CHOMhousing
Gary Sanford,
Executive Director
Metro Denver Homeless Initiative
Denver, CO
[email protected]
Gina Schaak,
Associate Housing Policy
Boston, MA
[email protected]
Caitlin Schnur, Coordinator,
National Initiatives on
Poverty & Economic Opportunity
Heartland Alliance
Chicago, IL
[email protected]
@schnurtles
Mark Shelburne,
Senior Manager, Public Policy
Novogradac & Company LLP
Raleigh, NC
[email protected]
Jama Shelton,
Deputy Executive Director
True Colors Fund
New York City, NY
[email protected]
@PagingDrJama
Todd Shenk, Special Assistant
Office of the Secretary
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Beth Shinn, Professor and
Chair, Department of Human and
Organizational Development
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
[email protected]
Carrie Schuettpelz,
Policy Advisor
Washington, DC
[email protected]
William Snow,
Senior Program Specialist, Special
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Kevin Solarte,
Special Assistant on
Homelessness Policy
Washington, DC
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John Spears, Executive Director
The Salt Lake City Public Library
Salt Lake City, UT
[email protected]
Andrew Sperling, Director of
Legislative Advocacy
National Association on
Mental Illness
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Julie Steiner , Associate
Elizabeth Stewart , Associate
Boston, MA
[email protected]
Joshua Stewart,
Assistant Director of Policy
National Coalition for
Homeless Veterans
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Norm Suchar, Director, Special
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Roula Sweis,
Supervisory
Program Advisor – Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Community
Planning and Development
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Meghan Takashima , Senior
Homelessness Policy Advisor
City of Detroit
Detroit, MI
[email protected]
Jamie Taylor,
Manager, Public Health
The Cloudburst Group
Avon, CT
[email protected]
Cathy ten Broeke,
State Director to Prevent
and End Homelessness
Minnesota’s Office to Prevent and End Homelessness
Saint Paul, MN
[email protected]
Eva Thibaudeau,
Ann Arbor, MI
[email protected]
Director of Programs
Coalition for the Homeless
Houston, TX
[email protected]
Amanda Stempson,
Christy Thomas,
Staff Lawyer
HomeBase
San Francisco, CA
[email protected]
Director of Client Services
CATCH, Inc.
Boise, ID
[email protected]
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Marcy Thompson,
Senior Advisor, Special Needs
Assistance Programs
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Paul Toro, Professor
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
[email protected]
Kathy Tran,
Deputy Administrator,
Office of Workforce Investment
U.S. Department of Labor
Employment and Training Administration
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Kathy Treggiari,
Director of Shelters
Episcopal Community Services
San Francisco, CA
[email protected]
Dan Treglia, Research Fellow
Philadelphia, PA
[email protected]
@dan_treglia
Sam Tsemberis,
CEO and Founder
Pathways to Housing National
New York, NY
[email protected]
@SamTsemberis
Kimberly Tucker, Director of
Housing and Homeless Services
Richmond, VA
[email protected]
Erin Valentine,
Research Associate
MDRC
New York, NY
[email protected]
Angela Vance,
LGBTQ Liaison Officer
City of Cincinnati Police Department
Cincinnati, OH
[email protected]
Jessica Venegas, Director of
Strategic Partnerships
Community Solutions
Washington, DC
[email protected]
@jessven2011, @cmtysolutions
Vikki Vickers,
Community Advocate
CSH
Los Angeles, CA
[email protected]
Suzanne Wagner, Principal
Housing Innovations
New York, NY
[email protected]
@SuzanneNWagner
Kim Walker,
Senior Program Manager
CSH
New York City, NY
[email protected]
@kimwtweets
Mark Walker,
Deputy Director,
National Veterans Employment &
Education Division
The American Legion
Washington, DC
[email protected] Vivian Wan, Associate Director
Abode Services
Fremont, CA
[email protected]
Chris Warland,
Associate Director, Field Building
Heartland Alliance
Chicago, IL
[email protected]
Richard Hooks Wayman,
CEO
LUK, Inc.
Fitchburg, MA
[email protected]
Matt White,
Associate
Bethesda, MD
[email protected]
Grace Whitney, Director Head
Start State Collaboration
Connecticut Office of Early Childhood
Hartford, CT
[email protected]
Danielle Wildkress,
Associate Director
CSH
Los Angeles, CA
[email protected]
Carl Wiley,
Coordinator,
National Center on Employment
and Homelessness
Heartland Alliance
Chicago, IL
[email protected]
Carol Wilkins, Consultant
Berkley, CA
[email protected]
Katina Williams,
Director of Program Operations
Richmond, VA
[email protected]
@sjv_richmond
Polly Williams,
Youth Services Manager
Safe Place for Youth
Venice, CA
[email protected]
Kim Wirth,
Manager of
Prevention and Outreach
Boys and Girls Clubs of Calgary
Calgary, AB
[email protected]
Laura Woody,
Division Director
Friendship Place
Washington, DC
[email protected]
Catherine Zall,
Executive Director
New London Homeless
Hospitality Center
New London, CT
[email protected]
Melanie Zamora,
Director of Housing Programs
The Road Home
Salt Lake City, UT
[email protected]
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OUR WORK
The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a leading voice on the issue
of homelessness. The Alliance analyzes policy and develops pragmatic,
cost-effective policy solutions. We work collaboratively with the public,
private, and nonprofit sectors to build state and local capacity, leading to
stronger programs and policies that help communities achieve their goal of
ending homelessness. We provide data and research to policymakers and
elected officials in order to inform policy debates and educate the public
and opinion leaders nationwide.
ALLIANCE STAFF
Nan Roman
Liza Doran
President and CEO
Research Associate
Shalom Mulkey
Michelle Fantone
Development Coordinator
Steve Berg
Jeanna Gover
Vice President for Programs and Policy
Federal Advocacy Intern
Barbara Anzelmo
Julie Klein
Director of Finance and Administration
Assistant to the President,
Policy Outreach Associate
Samantha Batko
Director, Homelessness Research Institute
Anna Blasco
Technical Assistance Specialist
Shelley Bradley
Development Fellow
Keri Buscaglia
Director of Communications
Emanuel Cavallaro
Communications Associate
Jaime Colman
Conference Associate,
Policy Outreach Associate
Sharon McDonald
Director for Families and Youth
Mindy Mitchell
Kay Moshier McDivitt
Sr. Technical Assistance Specialist
Cynthia Nagendra
Director, Center for Capacity Building
Susan Nich
Office Coordinator
Kate Seif
Program & Policy Analyst
Jayme Day
Kaitlyn Snyder
Research Fellow
David Dirks
Jared Thompson
Meeting and Events Planner
Program & Policy Intern
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CO-CHAIRMEN
BOARD MEMBERS
The Honorable Mike Lowry
The Honorable Henry Cisneros
Former Governor, Washington State
Renton, WA
Chairman and CEO, City View
San Antonio, TX
Gary M. Parsons
Stephen Coyle
Potomac, MD
AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust
Washington, DC
VICE CHAIRMAN
The Honorable Kenneth M.
Duberstein
Tim Marx
CEO, Catholic Charities of
St. Paul and Minneapolis
Minneapolis, MN
Chairman and CEO, The Duberstein Group
Washington, DC
Jeffery Hayward
Fannie Mae
Washington, DC
SECRETARY
Alan Hoffman
Elizabeth Boyle
Herbalife
Los Angeles, CA
Co-Founder
Chevy Chase, MD
G. Allan Kingston
Lincoln, CA
TREASURER
Karen Kornbluh
Robert D. Villency
Nielsen Company
Washington, DC
RRH, LLC
New York, NY
PRESIDENT & CEO
Nan Roman
Washington, DC
Past CHAIRMAN
Susan G. Baker
Co-Founder
Houston, TX
D. William Moreau, Jr.
Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Indianapolis, IN
Irene Mabry Moses
Faith Realty, LLC
Baltimore, MD
Michael R. Steed
Paladin Capital Group
Washington, DC
Judy Woodruff
PBS NewsHour
Arlington, VA
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CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS
Under the Department of Housing
and Urban Development’s definition,
a chronically homeless individual
is someone who has experienced
homelessness for a year or longer,
or who has experienced at least four
episodes of homelessness in the
last three years and has a disability.
A family with an adult member who
meets this description would also
be considered chronically homeless.
COORDINATED ASSESSMENT,
COORDINATED ENTRY,
OR CENTRALIZED INTAKE
A centralized or coordinated process
designed to coordinate program
participant intake assessment and
provision of referrals. A centralized
or coordinated assessment system
covers the geographic area, is easily
accessed by individuals and families
seeking housing or services, is
well advertised, and includes a
comprehensive and standardized
assessment tool.
CONTINUUM OF CARE
A regional or local planning body
that coordinates housing and
services funding for homeless
families and individuals.
CONTINUUM OF CARE PROGRAM
The Homeless Emergency
Assistance and Rapid Transition
to Housing Act of 2009 (HEARTH
Act) consolidated three separate
homeless assistance programs
administered by HUD under the
McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act into a single grant
program, the Continuum of
Care program.
DIVERSION
Diversion is a strategy that prevents
homelessness by helping people, at
the point they seek help from the
shelter system, to identify permanent housing arrangements that are
immediately available, and if necessary, connecting them with services
and financial assistance to help
them return to permanent housing.
Examples of the type of services
diversion programs provide include
landlord or family mediation and
financial assistance.
EMERGENCY SHELTER
Emergency shelters address housing crises for individuals and families
experiencing homelessness. These
programs do not require occupants
to sign leases or occupancy agreements. While the length of time
households stay in emergency
shelter varies, it is typically a short
term model where households stay
while they work on resolving their
housing crisis.
EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS
GRANT (ESG)
The HEARTH Act revised the
Emergency Shelter Grants Program
to create the Emergency Solutions
Grants (ESG) Program. The ESG
program is administered by HUD,
and provides funding for homelessness outreach, emergency shelter
operations and supportive services,
rapid re-housing, and homelessness
prevention.
FUNCTIONAL ZERO
A term that has been used informally for the Department of Veterans
Affairs’ goal of ending veteran
homelessness. The precise definition is still a subject of debate, but
it generally means that there are no
veterans living unsheltered; and
that there is a system in place to
find and immediately shelter any
veteran who becomes homeless,
and to house that veteran within
30 days. An indicator is that the
number of veterans in homeless
shelters is smaller than the number
that the community re-houses in
a typical month.
GRANT AND PER DIEM
PROGRAM (GPD)
A grant program administered by
the Department of Veterans Affairs
to promote the development and
provision of service centers or
transitional housing for veterans
experiencing homelessness.
HEARTH ACT
The HEARTH Act is the first
significant reauthorization of
the McKinney-Vento Homeless
Assistance programs in nearly
20 years and allocates funds to
homelessness prevention, rapidly
re-housing, and providing permanent supportive housing for
homeless people with disabilities.
It also modernized and streamlined
housing and services to more
efficiently meet the needs of
people seeking assistance. The
bill reauthorized the HUD’s McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance
programs, which represent the
largest federal investment in preventing and ending homelessness.
HOMELESS MANAGEMENT
INFORMATION SYSTEM (HMIS)
A local information technology
system used to collect client-level
data and data on the provision of
housing and services to homeless
individuals and families and persons
at risk of homelessness.
HOUSING FIRST
Housing First is an approach to
ending homelessness that centers
on providing people experiencing homelessness with housing
as quickly as possible – and then
providing services as needed.
HUD-VETERANS AFFAIRS
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
(HUD-VASH)
This program combines Hosing
Choice Voucher (HCV) rental
assistance for homeless Veterans
with case management and clinical services provided by VA. HUD
and VA award HUD-VASH vouchers based on geographic need
and public housing agency (PHA)
administrative performance.
MEDICAID & MEDICARE
Medicaid is a public health insurance program jointly funded by the
states and federal government that
provides free or low-cost health
care. Medicaid is an entitlement for
eligible low-income people, families
and children, pregnant women, the
elderly, and people with disabilities.
Eligibility varies from state to state.
Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people who are 65
or older, certain younger people with
disabilities, and people with EndStage Renal Disease (permanent
kidney failure requiring dialysis or a
transplant, sometimes called ESRD).
OPENING DOORS
Launched in 2010, Federal Strategic
Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness: Opening Doors is the nation’s
first comprehensive strategy to
prevent and end homelessness and
serves as a roadmap for the 19 U.S.
Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) member agencies.
The plan sets a Federal goal of
ending Chronic homelessness by
2017; preventing and ending homelessness for families, youth, and
children by 2020; and setting a path
to end all types of homelessness.
PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE
HOUSING
Permanent housing in which supportive services are provided to
assist homeless persons with a
disability to live independently.
Permanent Supportive Housing has
proven particularly successful in
for persons experiencing chronic
homelessness.
POINT-IN-TIME COUNT
A federally-mandated yearly count
of homeless persons conducted by
CoCs at the end of January. Communities are required to count
sheltered persons every year and
to count unsheltered persons every
other year. These counts provide a
snapshot of how many people are
homeless on a single night.
RAPID RE-HOUSING
Rapid re-housing is an intervention
designed to help people to quickly
exit homelessness and return to permanent housing. Rapid re-housing
assistance is offered without preconditions (such as employment,
income, absence of criminal record,
or sobriety) and the resources and
services provided are tailored to
the unique needs of the household.
The core components of rapid rehousing are housing identification,
financial assistance for rent or movein costs, and case management and
services. Services and financial assistance in rapid re-housing are short
term, typically six months or less.
RUNAWAY AND HOMELESS
YOUTH ACT (RHYA)
RHYA provides support to address
youth and young adult homelessness and is administered by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS). It funds three main
interventions: street outreach, basic
center, and transitional living. Basic
Center Programs provide temporary
shelter, family reunification services,
counseling, food, clothing, and aftercare services, while the Transitional
Living Program provides longer term
housing with supportive services to
homeless youth ages 16 to 21 for up
to 18 months.
RUNAWAY AND HOMELESS YOUTH
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION
SYSTEM (RHYMIS)
An information technology
system used to collect data on
youth serviced, issues affecting
these youth, and the services
provided by RHYA programs.
RIGHT-SIZING
Right-sizing is a term used to define
an ideal homelessness assistance
system which has the right mix and
amount of interventions (emergency
shelter, rapid re-housing, permanent
supportive housing, etc.) to house
everyone who becomes homeless
within 30 days. SUPPORTIVE SERVICES FOR
VETERAN FAMILIES (SSVF)
PROGRAM
A program administered by VA
designed to rapidly re-house homeless Veterans and their families and
prevent homelessness for those at
imminent risk of homelessness due
to a housing crisis.
TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR
NEEDY FAMILIES (TANF)
A block grant provided to states,
TANF funds monthly cash assistance
payments to low-income families
with children. TANF can also fund
a wide range of services such as
education and training, case management, job search, and counseling.
TRANSITIONAL HOUSING
Transitional housing is designed
to provide housing and appropriate supportive services to people
experiencing homelessness to facilitate movement to independent
living. The housing is short-term,
typically less than 24 months. In
addition to providing safe housing
for those in need, other services
are available to help participants
become self-sufficient.
NOTES
NOTES
SAVE
the
DATE!
FEBRUARY
18–19, 2016
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
ENDING
FAMILY AND YOUTH
HOMELESSNESS
The Oakland Marriott City Center
Oakland, CA
We hope you will be able to join us this coming February
for another exciting and informative conference!
Visit the Alliance website frequently for event updates at
WWW.ENDHOMELESSNESS.ORG.
60
61
1518 K Street, NW, Second Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Tel 202-638-1526
Fax 202-638-4664
ENDHOMELESSNESS.ORG

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