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Webinar Nov 14, 2023
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.

Authored by: Housing Is Working Group
Topics: Healthy homes, Housing Is Working Group, Mental health
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter on Nov 15, 2023
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Webinar Sep 12, 2023
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...

Authored by: Housing Is Working Group, Johns Hopkins University researchers
Topics: Asthma, Healthy homes, Housing, Mental health, Mobility
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter on Sep 13, 2023
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Webinar Aug 8, 2023
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.

Authored by: National Center of Health In Public Housing
Topics: Health, Housing, Partnerships
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter on Aug 8, 2023
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Webinar Apr 26, 2023
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...

Authored by: Housing and Services Resource Center (HSRC)
Topics: Transportation
Shared by Malcolm Guy on Apr 26, 2023
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Webinar Apr 13, 2023
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.

Authored by: CLPHA
Topics: Health, Housing Is Working Group, Medicaid / Medicare, Partnerships
Shared by Sandra Ware on Apr 13, 2023
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Webinar Apr 11, 2023
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.

Authored by: Malcolm Guy
Topics: Environmental Resiliency/Climate Change, Green, Sustainability
Shared by Malcolm Guy on Apr 11, 2023
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Webinar Mar 14, 2023
At the Housing Is Working Group webinar on March 14, 2023, we heard from Catherine Crago, Head of Strategic Initiatives at the Housing Authority of the City of Austin (HACA), about the importance of promoting Digital Equity within public Housing and how other public housing authorities can get involved in this work. During this presentation Catherine presented on a case study about the work that her housing authority has done and shared resources to other housing authorities interested in promoting digital equity.

Authored by: CLPHA
Topics: Housing Is Working Group
Shared by Sandra Ware on Mar 14, 2023
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Webinar Nov 8, 2022
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...

Authored by: Housing Is Working Group
Topics: Health, Housing Is Working Group, Medicaid / Medicare
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter on Nov 8, 2022
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Webinar Sep 13, 2022
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...

Authored by: Housing Is
Topics: Energy, Environmental Resiliency/Climate Change, Green, Healthy homes, Housing Is Working Group, Sustainability
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter on Sep 14, 2022
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Webinar Dec 14, 2021
At its December 2021 meeting, CLPHA's Housing Is Working Group learned from experts in the field about how they have worked to create resident-focused and community-centered work with their PHAs and partners. We also brainstormed how best to support residents and work towards more equitable and representative housing for everyone, and left with the knowledge of how to better highlight and prioritize resident voices and leadership at every level of our work.

Authored by: Housing Is
Topics: Family engagement, Health, Healthy homes, Housing, Housing Is Working Group, Mental health, Racial inequalities, Supportive housing
Shared by Stephanie Gray on Apr 18, 2022
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Webinar Feb 8, 2022
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.

Authored by: Housing Is
Topics: Data sharing, Education, Metrics
Shared by Stephanie Gray on Apr 18, 2022
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Webinar Jan 19, 2022
Announced as part of Biden-Harris Administration’s Maternal Health Call to Action, CLPHA held a special Martin Luther King Jr. Day event on the intersection of racial inequities, housing insecurity, and maternal health outcomes. This hour-long webinar includes presentations and discussions on this topic, and how we as a society can move forward to address these inequities.

Topics: Child welfare, Early childhood, Health, Pre-natal, Racial inequalities
Shared by Kirsten Greenwell on Jan 19, 2022
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News Article Jan 6, 2020
Scope of Practice article on the American Medical Association's website

Authored by: Tanya Albert Henry, American Medical Association
Topics: Cost effectiveness, Health
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter on Aug 26, 2021
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Webinar Aug 24, 2021
Community Health Workers (CHWs) are taking a larger role in patient-centered care and community health. Yet, questions remain around the scope of their work, licensure requirements, and available funding sources to build a capable workforce. In this webinar, we will clarify their work and explore their role in advancing equity. We will hear from Ashley Rodriguez, chair of the American Public Health Association’s Community Health Worker Section. Rodriguez is leading national efforts to promote CHWs’ work and support their professional development. Jenna Grant, a resource development manager...

Authored by: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Topics: Health, Preventative care
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter on Aug 26, 2021
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Webinar Jul 30, 2021
This webinar encouraged HUD staff and stakeholders to learn how public health data sharing agreements can better inform on-the-ground vaccine efforts.

Authored by: HUD Exchange
Topics: COVID-19, Data sharing, Health
Shared by Kirsten Greenwell on Jul 30, 2021
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News Article Feb 1, 2018
Chicago’s troubling homicide rate could be significantly reduced through a massive increase in state spending for Chicago schools. That's just one of the proposals floated Monday by a prominent University of Chicago economist Jens Ludwig. With a substantial commitment, he says homicides could be reduced by nearly 60 percent. Illinois is dead last when it comes to the percentage of education dollars provided by the state to its cities. Ludwig believes adding $1.7 billion dollars would not only bring Illinois up to the national average, but could substantially reduce gun violence as well....

Authored by: FOX 32 CHICAGO
Topics: Child welfare, Community development, Education, Funding, Legislation & Policy, Preventative care, Youth
Shared by Housing Is on Oct 15, 2020
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News Article Jun 29, 2017
One Summer Chicago Plus is a jobs program designed to reduce violence and prepare youth living in some of the city’s highest-violence neighborhoods for the labor market. This study was carried out over the summer of 2013 in partnership with the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services. It found that the program, which provided a six-week, minimum-wage job for 25 hours a week, reduced the number of violent-crime arrests for participants by 33 percent over the subsequent year. The One Summer Chicago Plus 2013 study—accompanied by a long-term follow-up of the 2012 program—closely...

Authored by: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO URBAN LABS
Topics: Child welfare, Community development, Criminal justice, Out-of-school time, Partnerships, Preventative care, Safety, Youth
Shared by Housing Is on Oct 15, 2020
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Webinar Feb 12, 2020
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...

Authored by: CLPHA
Topics: Advocacy, CLPHA, Education, Housing Is Working Group, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Post-secondary
Shared by Abra Lyons-Warren on Feb 12, 2020
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Webinar Jun 5, 2019
This All In webinar will feature projects addressing transportation with a multi-sector data component. FLOURISH: St. Louis, one of the BUILD Health Challenge awardees from St. Louis, MO, will talk about how they are using data to addressing infant mortality through transportation in St. Louis. The Community Transportation Association of America, a national non-profit, will highlight Wheels to Wellness (W2W), a program in Southern Maryland, that allows healthcare staff in rural Maryland to schedule on-demand and pre-scheduled trips using an online portal, and Oklahoma City, OK, who is working...

Authored by: All In: Data for Community Health
Topics: Data sharing, Health, Partnerships, Racial inequalities, Transportation
Shared by Housing Is on Jun 13, 2019
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News Article Jun 12, 2019
About half of the student body at one Ohio elementary school has witnessed drug use at home. Educators spend time every day teaching the children how to cope.

Authored by: Dan Levin for The New York Times
Topics: Child welfare, Early childhood, Education, Health, Substance abuse, Youth
Shared by Housing Is on Jun 13, 2019
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News Article Jun 9, 2019
When applications opened for New York City’s first affordable housing property for LGBTQ older adults recently, 1,000 people eagerly sent theirs in on that first day.

Authored by: Grace Birnstengel for Forbes
Topics: East Coast, Homelessness, Housing, Low-income, Seniors
Shared by Housing Is on Jun 13, 2019
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News Article Jun 10, 2019
More than a half million renters have been evicted in Los Angeles County over the past eight years, according to a new report by Public Counsel and the UCLA School of Law that calls on county supervisors to adopt permanent rent control measures.

Authored by: Jenna Chandler for Curbed Los Angeles
Topics: Homelessness, Housing, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Research, West Coast
Shared by Housing Is on Jun 13, 2019
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Webinar Jun 11, 2019
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.

Authored by: CLPHA, Housing Is
Topics: Education, Family engagement, Housing, Housing Is Working Group, Low-income, Partnerships, Seniors, Youth
Shared by Housing Is on Jun 11, 2019
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News Article
Recognizing that the aging of its population will reshape housing needs, the city of Washington, DC, has fostered numerous options for older residents, including some that are intentionally multigenerational.

Authored by: PD&R Edge Online Magazine
Topics: Early childhood, Family engagement, Housing, Low-income, Seniors, Youth
Shared by Housing Is on Jun 11, 2019
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News Article Jun 5, 2019
In the United States, more than 2.7 million grandparents report that they’re primarily responsible for their grandchildren under 18. The problem is many are struggling with food insecurity because of federal rules and regulations.

Authored by: Marie C. Gualtieri for Next Avenue
Topics: Child welfare, Food insecurity, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Nutrition
Shared by Housing Is on Jun 11, 2019