Changing Times: Creative Vision for Housing and Services

Workshop Topics

Advocacy/Legal:
- The Foreclosure Crisis – Problems of Tenants and Some Solutions
- Housing Isn’t Just for Grown-Ups
Best Practices Housing:
- Making a Real Difference – Successful Approaches to Rapid Re-Housing and the handout
- Special Needs Housing Initiative and Other FHFC Programs
- Homeless Outreach – If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, You Might Not Get There

Best Practices Services:
- Trauma Informed Homeless Services
- Co-Occurring Disorders – CCISC Development Must Include Supportive Housing and Homeless Providers!
- The Columbia Re-Entry Model – Hammer or Hope
- Strengthening Families Through Evidence-Based Prevention
- Battered Women – Your Best/Worst Tenant

Housing Development:
- Preservation of Housing
Research/Resources:
- Transitioning Citizens From In-Patient Facilities into the Community
- Cost Effectiveness of Supportive Housing: Making the Argument
- Pinellas Hope: The Story of Tent City
Youth Homelessness:
- McKinney-Vento 101 – Overview of the Rights of Homeless Students to a Public Education and handout
- The Right Tool for the Job: Supporting Safety and Success for Unaccompanied Youth and handout
- Working Together Works! Servicing Children with Disabilities Who Are Experiencing Homelessness and handout
- OMG – My Own Place!
- Applying Law – Discussion of Challenging Scenarios for McKinney-Vento Local Homeless Liaisons
- Open Sesame – Welcoming Unaccompanied Youth into School and Keeping Them There and handout

New Federal Approaches to Combat Homelessness and Promote Affordable Housing
By Jordan Press