CRHC Spring 2021 Conference

April 29th, 2021

This is an education conference for homeless service providers and interested community members. A certificate of Continuing Education hours will be given to participants.

Conference topics to include:

• Addressing the Needs of Youth Experiencing Homelessness
• Antidiscrimination Topics Such as Racial Disparities in Homelessness and Discrimination Based on Protected Classes Under the Fair Housing Act
• Tenant Rights and/or Strategies to Support Renters Struggling to Keep Up During COVID
• Strategies to Increase Supportive Housing Participant’s Access to Mainstream Benefits and Opportunities Related to Employment, Education and/or Moving On to Other Affordable Housing Options
• Strategies for Housing Individuals with a Limited Stock of One Bedroom Units
• Outreach Strategies for Building Relationships with the Chronically Homeless
• Strategies for Implementing an Efficient Coordinated Entry System, Including a Review of the Strengths and Limitations of a Coordinated Assessment
• Prevention and Diversion Strategies
• Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) Best Practices
• Best Practices for Collaboration Between Public Health Authorities, Homeless Services, and Other Partners at the Local Level for a Coordinated Response
• Strategies for Authentic Lived Experience Engagement and Collaboration
• Data Visualization to Improve Program Performance and Overall System Performance
• Other topics as suggested by the presenter, especially related to COVID

Keynote Speaker: Sam Tsemberis

Recognized as the father of the Housing First model

Presented by:

If you are interested in providing a sponsorship so that others may attend (e.g. students, peer mentors, etc.), please contact Wendy Winters by email at wwinters@homelesscoalition.org