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The 2024 rate of U.S. homelessness increased by 18% over the previous year, with a 39% rise in families experiencing homelessness. According to an annual survey conducted in communities across the country, more than 770,000 people were living in shelters or outside—the largest number since the report was initiated in 2007. Our panelists will provide historical context for homelessness in the United States, as well as research findings on the effectiveness of various policy and practice approaches to decreasing homelessness and supporting unhoused families and individuals.
Cindy I-Fen Cheng,...
Topics: Homelessness, Housing
Shared by Housing Is
on Mar 31, 2025 0
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Topics: Housing Is Working Group
Shared by Kirsten Greenwell
on Oct 1, 2024 0
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This webinar includes a discussion about innovations in trauma-informed approaches to housing from expert speakers. We heard from Julianna Stuart-Lomax presenting about the POAH Trauma-Informed Housing Toolkit and their work in this area. Chad Holtzinger, president of Shopworks Architecture and partner of the Denver Housing Authority, discussed PHA trauma-informed practices at their Thrive project.
Topics: Healthy homes, Housing Is Working Group, Mental health
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter
on Nov 15, 2023 0
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Topics: Asthma, Healthy homes, Housing, Housing Is Working Group, Mental health, Mobility
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter
on Sep 13, 2023 0
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This webinar will describe new research that shows children whose families participated in a program that helped them move from distressed neighborhoods to areas with lower rates of poverty experienced significant improvements in severe asthma episodes. Before moving, for every 100 children, there were approximately 88 severe asthma attacks per year. After moving, there were approximately 40 severe attacks per year, a reduction of more than 50%. The webinar will explore factors that help explain these changes in asthma, including the critical role of neighborhood-related stress, and describes...
Topics: Asthma, Healthy homes, Housing, Mental health, Mobility
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter
on Sep 13, 2023 0
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Building and maintaining effective community partnerships is a critical component of health center management and community involvement. Local partners help integrate important stakeholders into organizational processes and empower health centers to better understand and care for the communities they serve. But can health centers design and evaluate their partnerships? In this webinar, we reviewed tools and procedures for designing, evaluating, and strengthening community partnerships with a focus on pragmatic, practical and innovative solutions.
Topics: Health, Housing, Partnerships
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter
on Aug 8, 2023 0
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Partnerships across housing, transportation, aging and disability, and health are essential to ensure housing stability. Transportation is necessary for community living. With transportation assistance, many older adults and people with disabilities can shop for groceries, get to medical appointments, stay connected and engaged, and otherwise access everyday locations and participate in their community.
Partnering to help people connect to transportation options is therefore a critical component of making community living possible.
This webinar:
Highlights effective pathways for...
Topics: Transportation
Shared by Malcolm Guy
on Apr 26, 2023 0
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Please join us for a time to hear from PHA leaders and industry professionals on key cross-sector topics of interest. This month will focus on strategies for working with your health department including presentations from those in the field and tips from your fellow PHAs already doing the work.
Topics: Health, Housing Is Working Group, Medicaid / Medicare, Partnerships
Shared by Sandra Ware
on Apr 13, 2023 0
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CLPHA and the U.S. Department of Energy hosted a webinar to provide PHAs with an overview of climate resiliency funds now available through the Office of State and Community Energy Programs. Dr. Henry McKoy joined the webinar and gave details on applying for various environmental resiliency funds now available.
Topics: Environmental Resiliency/Climate Change, Green, Sustainability
Shared by Malcolm Guy
on Apr 11, 2023 0
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On October 13, 2022, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra extended the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, effective through January 11, 2023. While when the Public Health Emergency will end is still unknown, when it does, state Medicaid and CHIP plans will begin reassessing the eligibility of all recipients to confirm they still meet the eligibility requirements (“redetermination”).
At the Housing Is Working Group webinar on November 8, 2022, we heard from UnitedHealthcare about the important actions needed to ensure individuals retain their Medicaid enrollment and how PHA staff can support...
Topics: Health, Housing Is Working Group, Medicaid / Medicare
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter
on Nov 8, 2022 0
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View this webinar to learn more about actions public housing authorities can take to promote environmental resiliency in their communities. We first heard from Natalie Hildt Treat, senior policy advisor for Building Electrification Initiative at Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM). Treat discussed NESCAUM’s efforts in the field of environmental resiliency, including her work helping states harness the power of clean, efficient electric building technologies to meet their climate and air quality goals. Next, we heard a case study about how the Municipal Housing...
Topics: Energy, Environmental Resiliency/Climate Change, Green, Healthy homes, Housing Is Working Group, Sustainability
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter
on Sep 14, 2022 0
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The Housing Is team will be joined by staff from the Department of Education and Department of Housing and Urban Development to discuss evaluation considerations and best practices when evaluating multi-sector, community-based interventions such as the Promise and Choice Neighborhoods Initiatives. They will examine how they chose outcomes to track and how they set goals for the Promise and Choice Neighborhood Initiatives. They will also reflect on evaluation design considerations for these multifaceted programs.
Topics: Data sharing, Education, Metrics
Shared by Stephanie Gray
on Apr 18, 2022 0
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This webinar encouraged HUD staff and stakeholders to learn how public health data sharing agreements can better inform on-the-ground vaccine efforts.
Topics: COVID-19, Data sharing, Health
Shared by Kirsten Greenwell
on Jul 30, 2021 0
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A discussion with attorney Alex Elson from the National Student Legal Defense Network and director of FAIL STATE, Alex Shebanow, to talk about predatory for-profit institutions and how that affects low income residents.
About the film:
Over five years in the making, FAIL STATE investigates the for-profit college industry and the decades-long reports of student loan abuse within the sector. The film’s central thesis: aided by a cabal of politicians, nationwide disinvestment in public colleges and universities, and an unscrupulous desire to maximize profits at all costs, for-profit colleges...
Topics: Advocacy, CLPHA, Education, Housing Is Working Group, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Post-secondary
Shared by Abra Lyons-Warren
on Feb 12, 2020 0
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CLPHA’s Education Working Group convened on Tuesday, June 11 to learn about one of the Housing Authority of Kansas City’s (HAKC) newest housing communities: Pemberton Park, a subsidized apartment building that serves grandparents caring for grandchildren. Representatives from HAKC and their partners discussed the process of establishing the grand-family complex, as well as challenges and successes they experienced along the way.
Topics: Education, Family engagement, Housing, Housing Is Working Group, Low-income, Partnerships, Seniors, Youth
Shared by Housing Is
on Jun 11, 2019 0
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This webinar explored strategies for leveraging data to support college and career readiness and success (CCRS) goals for all students, with special emphasis on students in foster care. With access to quality data, education and child welfare agencies can work together to improve educational outcomes and promote CCRS for students in foster care. Presenters discussed a set of emerging practices that serve as examples of how states can use and link data to support CCRS. As states work to fulfill the requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), this webinar also aims to provide...
Topics: Asset building, Foster care, Post-secondary, Workforce development, Youth
Shared by Housing Is
on May 21, 2019 0
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Explains the provisions in the Family First Prevention Services Act related to reducing reliance on congregate care and explores approaches to achieve this goal. This webinar includes a summary of the provisions and examples from agencies that have successfully reduced the number of children in group care. Presenters from child welfare agencies in Connecticut and Oklahoma share strategies used to increase the number of children who safely remain with their families or in the least restrictive, most family-like setting.
Topics: Child welfare, Foster care, Youth
Shared by Housing Is
on May 21, 2019 0
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Puerto Rico faces enormous challenges due to its history as a colony, the state of its finances, and the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria and the US response to it. This has created a will to rebuild the island’s economy in line with a more community-owned vision. In this webinar, we hear from a number of people involved in and leading that effort.
Topics: Asset building, Community development, U.S. Territories
Shared by Housing Is
on May 20, 2019 0
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Advocacy is everyone's job and it is essential to the children and communities we serve. CLPHA’s Education Working Group hosted a webinar to learn about advocacy efforts to build support and investment in housing. Representatives from Partnership for Children and Youth (PCY) – a California-based advocacy organization that promotes and supports learning opportunities for underserved students – discussed strategies for providing, sustaining, and increasing access to Out-of-School-Time services in housing. PCY also touched on a range of advocacy strategies and preliminary results from the...
Topics: CLPHA, Education, Housing, Housing Is Working Group, Legislation & Policy, Out-of-school time, Partnerships, Youth
Shared by Housing Is
on Apr 10, 2019 0
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Join us for an examination of how cross-sector data sharing initiatives are being used to tackle tough public health problems. The webinar will provide an in-depth look at a cross-sector collaboration in Illinois between public health, law enforcement, emergency medical services, a fire department and a jail aimed at addressing the needs of high utilizers of behavioral health services.
Topics: Criminal justice, Data sharing, Health, Mental health, Midwest, Partnerships, Safety, Stability
Shared by Housing Is
on Mar 6, 2019 0
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During CLPHA’s Education Working Group Webinar on addressing school attendance at PHAs, representatives from the King County Housing Authority and the national nonprofit Attendance Works presented on tools for addressing chronic absenteeism, as well as strategies for fostering a culture of attendance among residents.
Topics: Attendance, CLPHA, Dual-generation, Education, Housing, Housing Is Working Group, Low-income, Metrics, Partnerships, Place-based
Shared by Housing Is
on Feb 12, 2019 0
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Featuring Ellen Childs, PhD, from Boston University School of Public Health and Vaughan Rees, PhD, from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Topics: Health, Housing, Legislation & Policy, Smoke-free
Shared by Housing Is
on Feb 4, 2019 0
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NLIHC and other leaders of the Campaign for Housing and Community Development Funding (CHCDF) provided updates on the latest information and guidance on how advocates can engage lawmakers to help end the shutdown.
Topics: Funding, Housing, Legislation & Policy
Shared by Mica O'Brien
on Jan 16, 2019 0
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Webinar slide deck that provides a brief overview of FUP, building blocks of successful FUP voucher implementation, facilitated panel on increasing impact and enhancing FUP operations, and other opportunities and resources.
Topics: Child welfare, CLPHA, Foster care, Funding, Housing, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Partnerships, Preventative care, Safety, Supportive housing, Youth
Shared by Mica O'Brien
on Dec 18, 2018 0
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CLPHA’s Education Working Group hosts a webinar including presentations on efforts from the Chicago Housing Authority to work with residents on pursuing postsecondary opportunities, as well as an update from HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research on data collection around tracking and increasing FAFSA utilization.
Topics: CLPHA, Cost effectiveness, Data sharing, Education, Funding, Housing, Housing Is Working Group, Low-income, Metrics, Midwest, Post-secondary, Research, Stability, Youth
Shared by Mica O'Brien
on Dec 12, 2018