Past Events
COVID-19 Webinar Series: Using Your Data to Analyze Racial Disparities During the Pandemic
Because of historic and ongoing structural racism, the coronavirus pandemic is hitting communities of color particularly hard. That same historic and structural racism also makes people of color more likely to experience homelessness. Homelessness systems and programs must understand and […]
COVID-19 Webinar Series: Focusing on People Who Are Unsheltered
As communities struggle to manage the intersection of the coronavirus pandemic and homelessness, many efforts have been focused on people who are sheltered. In the meantime, thousands of unsheltered people are unable to comply with social distancing or preventative hygiene […]
COVID-19 Webinar Series: Effective Advocacy During the Pandemic
Ensuring resources and responses are tailored to and reach people experiencing homelessness during the coronavirus crisis requires effective advocacy at all levels of government. Hear from national, state, and local experts about how you can up your advocacy game to […]
COVID-19 Webinar Series: COVID-19 and Data Collection Resources for Your Community
It is advisable for homeless service providers to capture data on COVID-19 status within the population they serve. This information is useful for public health planning, public and private funding allocations that are based on area need, as well as […]
COVID-19 Webinar Series: Federal Funding to Address Homelessness and COVID-19: Ask the Experts
The CARES Act provided important new financial resources for addressing homelessness, both through grants to communities’ homelessness systems and through direct payments to most low-income individuals and families. This webinar will provide details about what new money is available and […]
COVID-19 Webinar Series: Ensuring Racial Equity During the COVID-19 Homelessness Response
Early data suggests the COVID-19 pandemic is hitting Black communities particularly hard in the U.S. COVID-19 has exposed glaring health disparities across locales, bringing racial inequity into vivid focus. The subject of this webinar will be on the homelessness system’s […]
COVID-19 Webinar Series: Supporting People Remotely in Housing Programs During COVID-19
This webinar will be facilitated by Iain De Jong of OrgCode Consulting, Inc. and will highlight a number of considerations for staff that work in Rapid Re-Housing (RRH) and Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) programs to support people remotely during the […]
COVID-19 Webinar Series: Working with FEMA to Address Homelessness During the Pandemic
To respond to the COVID-19 pandemic among people experiencing homelessness, 48 US states so far have declared states of emergency and many have begun applying for FEMA assistance to aid their efforts. Utilizing federal funding through FEMA can have a […]
COVID-19 Webinar Series: Serving and Supporting Unsheltered People During COVID-19
This webinar will be facilitated by Iain De Jong of OrgCode Consulting, Inc. and will examine the following: a rationale for why and under which conditions street outreach should continue at this time; examining and re-configuring the workflow for responding […]
2020 Solutions for Individual Homeless Adults: A National Conference
The Solutions for Individual Homeless Adults Conference convenes stakeholders from across all sectors to examine what we know about people who are homeless without their families, and to discover new ways to help end their homelessness. The largest group of […]