Join the next monthly webinar on Wednesday, June 5 from 1 - 2 p.m. - find the registration link below! If you have any questions about your webinar registration, please email dan.gregory@state.mn.us
Topics for June 5 include:
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An update on the HMIS transition from ICA
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How the Department of Veterans Affairs is implementing funding and policies from the 2023 legislative session to support former service members who face homelessness or housing insecurity
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A recap of the 2024 legislative session
The beginning 10 minutes of each monthly webinar will be held to hear from the Speakers Bureau. Anyone who has lived experience of homelessness is welcome to sign-up to share through the Speakers Bureau. This is open time each month for lived experience experts to share ideas and feedback with the webinar audience.
The next webinar Speakers Bureau will be on Wednesday, June 5 at 1 p.m. There is a monthly prep session held the Tuesday before the webinar. The prep session will be Tuesday, June 4 from 3-3:30 p.m. Follow this link to join the prep session. This is an ongoing opportunity that happens each month. Sign up is required. Please email dan.gregory@state.mn.us or call/text Dan at 651-983-9985 to sign up to speak or with any questions.
The Minnesota Interagency Council on Homelessness is holding their next meeting on Wednesday, May 29, from 2 - 4 p.m. This meeting will introduce the new implementation consultants and highlight the beginning of the implementation efforts for the Crossroads to Justice plan.
Click here to register to watch the May 29, 2024 Council Meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
These meetings are open to the public and we hope you join and listen in to the Council’s discussion. There is no public testimony during the meeting; however, you can always share your thoughts with us by email or the Contact Us Form on our website.
The Capacity Building Program funds activities that build the capacity of organizations and communities to address root causes of housing challenges and create thriving and inclusive communities. Communities most impacted by housing challenges and disparities are experts and key partners in developing solutions to these challenges. Minnesota Housing trusts organizations and communities to use their knowledge and creativity to develop strategies that work for them.
Minnesota Housing has up to $4,875,000 available through the 2024 Capacity Building RFP. The maximum award is up to $200,000 per grantee for a two- or three-year grant period. Eligible applicants include Tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, Tribal governments and Tribal Business Entities. Collaboration is welcome if the lead applicant is an eligible applicant. The lead applicant is the primary grantee. Additional partners are considered sub-grantees or contractors.
How can we address homelessness in a comprehensive way? Attend the FREE Special Preview Impact Screening of BEYOND THE BRIDGE: A Solution to Homelessness, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A, at The Parkway Theater on Tuesday evening, June 4. This event is presented by A Bigger Vision Films, the Corporation for Supportive Housing, Minnesota Housing, and Together Films.
About Beyond the Bridge: A Solution to Homelessness The team at A Bigger Vision Films noticed that most documentaries on homelessness offer few solutions, so they set out to create BEYOND THE BRIDGE, an ambitious documentary film about solutions to homelessness. The film crew drove over 40,000 miles to visit 12 cities and dozens of service providers, those with lived experience and policy makers to answer this question: How can this country solve homelessness in a comprehensive way?
Their answer: Working with deep coordination — a single homelessness response systems plan based on the principles of Housing First with community buy-in from law enforcement, judicial systems, business communities, service providers, volunteers, and leadership from the mayor and county executive, all working from the same page.
If you are able to attend this FREE special screening event, please RSVP here.
WHEN? Tuesday, June 4th, 6 - 8:30 p.m. (special filmmaker Meet & Greet beginning at 5:30 p.m.)
WHERE? The Parkway Theater, 4814 Chicago Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55417
CoLab is funding a systematic study of what Minnesotans living in poverty say they need for long-term thriving. This pilot project aims to develop methods that could be expanded statewide and replicated in the future. Learn more about the project here.
Part of the study includes a paid survey, available to youth and families with young children who are living in poverty in Hennepin, Ramsey, and Saint Louis counties.
What to know before you take the survey:
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This survey will take about 30 minutes to complete.
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If you are eligible to complete the survey, after you finish, you will be directed to a link to get a $25 e-gift card within 72 hours.
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To send you your gift card, we will need you to provide an email. To keep you anonymous, we will not record or share your email.
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You can only take the survey once.
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Taking the survey is voluntary and you can skip any question you do not wish to answer.
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The survey is confidential, and your identity will not be shared.
Crossroads to Justice is the strategic plan of the Minnesota Interagency Council on Homelessness, bringing a housing, racial and health justice approach for people facing homelessness in Minnesota to guide the work of state government.
As part of the plan, the Council committed to:
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Repair and transform unjust systems that have caused and perpetuate housing instability and homelessness.
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Recognize people facing homelessness as relatives and our collective responsibility to each other is rooted in mutual care and radical hospitality.
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Empower people who have faced homelessness and housing instability to identify and describe the problems to be solved, design the solutions needed for those problems, and implement and evaluate those solutions.
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Hold each other and systems accountable in the work to achieve housing, racial and health justice for people experiencing homelessness.
This plan offers a new vision for Minnesota’s collective response to homelessness and housing instability and outlines the vision of justice and the bold results that center a set of specific strategies and actions the State commits to. This plan, building new pathways to housing, racial and health justice for people facing homelessness, is a living document that will require continuous improvements and adjustments to ensure we are getting the results we seek. The Council is committed to working alongside every Minnesotan to realize the vision of housing, racial and health justice and to one day ensure that no Minnesotan must worry about where they will sleep at night.
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