VCEH 2015 Conference "Housing Virginia's Most Vulnerable" 

Please join us for our annual conference.  We have a great selection of breakout sessions on topics from Targeting and Prioritizing Housing Assistance to Best Practices in Supportive Housing.   Come learn from local, state, and national speakers as they share their challenges and successess with Housing Trust Funds, Using Housing Navigators and much much more.

Plus attend a reception on Wednesday evening to meet with new collegues and catch up with friends.

We are also offering a 3 part webinar series with Suzanne Wagner from Housing Innovations LLC on Critical Time Interventon and Motivational Interviewing. Then follow-up with Suzanne in person here at the conference!  Registration for the webinars will be limited to 100 participants so sign up early. 

1st webinar- June 30th,  2-3pm **SOLD OUT**

2nd webinar- July 14th,  2-3pm **SOLD OUT**

3rd webinar-  August 13th, 10-11am 

 

 VCEH 2015 Conference Keynote Speaker:  Dr. Sam Tsemberis  

                                                               

Dr. Sam Tsemberis is sometimes called the "father" of Housing First. Dr. Tsemberis founded Pathways  to Housing in 1992, based on the belief that housing is a basic human right. Pathways  developed the consumer-driven Housing First model, which provides immediate access to permanent supportive housing for people coming out of homelessness and who have mental health and addiction problems. In addition to serving as a lead trainer within Pathways' Housing First Institute, Dr. Tsemberis is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. He is currently participating in national studies of homelessness, mental illness, and addiction, and has published numerous articles and book chapters on these topics, including the Housing First manual (Hazelden Press, 2010).

 This Conference is in partnership with:

                       

                           

 

Agenda At-a-Glance:

August 26^th

7:30am – Registration and continental breakfast

9am – 10:15 – Welcome and National, State and Local Housing Trust Fund panel: Ed Gramlich, National Low Income Housing Coalition; Bob Adams, HD Advisors; and Kathy McHugh, City of Charlottesville

10:30 to noon - Workshop sessions

Noon to 2:00 - Luncheon and Housing First Awards Ceremony: Governor (Invited)– Dr. Sam Tsemberis, keynote

2:00 to 3:30 – Workshop sessions 

3:45 to 5:15 – Workshop sessions

5:30 to 7:00 - Networking reception.

August 27^th

7:30am – Registration and continental breakfast

9 to 10:15 – Updates on State Initiatives, including Housing and Healthcare (H2)  and Veterans Initiatives: Pam Kestner and Matt Leslie

10:30 to noon – Workshop sessions

Noon – Adjourn

Workshop sessions:

• CTI 101: Introduction to Critical Time Intervention and Motivational Interviewing
• CTI Intermediate Level: Q and A for those who are using it
• Using Housing Navigators to help house the most vulnerable
• Outreach and services to those with serious mental illness
• Housing People with substance use issues – Client Choice: Harm Reduction and the Healing Place
• Safer, healthier communities: Housing models for people involved with the justice system
• Fair housing law and its impact on shelters and housing.
• The recovery revolution: peers as a resource for housing stability
• Leveraging Americorp resources to end veteran and chronic homelessness
• Best practices in emergency shelter
• Zero 2016: Accelerating efforts to end veteran and chronic homelessness

 

Presenters include: Morgan Barker, HOME; Tom Barnett, Fairfax County; Ann Bohr Benner, VOCAL Virginia; Akeria Brown, Arlington County; Meghan Cotter, Micah Ecumenical Ministries; Charlotte Dillow, HELP, Inc.; Kaki Dimock, Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless; Jill Fox, Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH);  Sarah Paige Fuller, Norfolk CSB; Kate Gibson, Town of Warrenton; Stephanie Gittinger, Americorp NCCC Southern Region; Amanda Harris, Pathways to Housing DC; Sean Monroe, HomeAgain;  Ryan Moser, CSH; Karen Stanley, CARITAS; Sara Thompson, Arlington County; Carol Tuning, City of Roanoke; Andrea Ukrop, DHCD; Suzanne Wagner, Housing Innovations; Annie White-Guertin, PARC, Inc.; Katina Williams, St. Joseph’s Villa; Virginia Williams, VCEH; Lydia Wilson, VOCAL Virginia; and Kristin Yavorsky, Virginia Supportive Housing; 

 

 

 

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