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How to Be an Awesome Shelter – Edmonton

March 20 - 21, 2017

 

The National Alliance to End Homelessness is partnering with OrgCode to offer a special learning opportunity – How to Be an Awesome Shelter – a learning clinic that will provide 1.5 days of intensive instruction and interaction. This Learning Clinic is a deep-dive into:

  • Ensuring your shelter is housing-focused;
  • Connecting your shelter to the broader of system of care and coordinated entry;
  • Implementing diversion and prevention that works;
  • Moving from charitable approaches of shelter delivery to professional approaches that focus on the use of data, program improvement, and core competencies of staff;
  • Practicing trauma-informed shelter and practicing harm reduction within shelter;
  • Establishing appropriate expectations rather that enforcing social control;
  • Needs of subpopulations within shelter – and special sheltering for subpopulations;
  • Ensuring you have solid policies and procedures to guide your shelter operation;
  • How shelters help end homelessness.

How to Be an Awesome Shelter is being offered twice (same material, two different locations and dates):

*Americans are welcome to attend the session in Edmonton and Canadians are welcome to attend the session in Dallas. The sessions are identical.


 

The cost is $400 (US) but you can receive a 15% discount by using promo code AWESOME – and a block of rooms has been reserved at each of the Learning Clinic hotels. You will see instructions for that when you register.

What you will get at the Learning Clinic:

  • Main currents of thought and practice in effective sheltering from leaders in the field – the Capacity Building staff at the Alliance and leaders from OrgCode;
  • Sheltering self-assessment;
  • Sample diversion script and work flow steps;
  • Sample policies and procedures for low-barrier shelter;
  • Sample job descriptions and interview questions;
  • Sample shelter expectations for guests;
  • Sample dashboard and data capture for monitoring shelter operations;
  • Case studies of shelters that have made effective change and how they did it;
  • Everything you need to implement change in your shelter!

WHEN:

12:00 pm, March 20 - 21, 2017

WHERE:

Varscona Hotel on Whyte
8208 106 Street Northwest
Edmonton, AB T6E 6R9
Canada

03/20/2017 12:00 pm 02/21/2017 4:00 pm America/New_York Being an Awesome Shelter (Edmonton) This 1.5 day workshop focuses on transforming shelters as a critical part of ending homelessness when they have a strong housing orientation. From intake procedures to staff engagement strategies; rules to barring practices; built form considerations to approaches to housing engagement – this Learning Clinic is rich in not just provocative content, but also practical adjustments shelters can make to improve positive destinations out of shelter. This clinic also features specialized streams for families, youth, and single adults. 8208 106 Street Northwest Edmonton, AB T6E 6R9 Canada

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