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May 22, 2017
Please forward to your sub grantees and contact your CHG program manager
if you have any questions.
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Myth: The longer the stay in shelter, the better
prepared a household is for permanent housing.
Fact: Longer shelter stays do not increase success
in permanent housing. In fact, most households can exit homelessness with a
light touch of services and rent assistance. The following link from HUD
discusses the benefits of getting households into permanent housing as quickly
as possible.
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The 2017 Conference on Ending Homelessness took place in Tacoma on May 10 and 11. We asked Maylee Stevenson from
the Commerce Home Management Information System team to give us her experience of attending the conference:
“The Conference on Ending Homelessness is my
favorite event of the year. It’s a great opportunity to network and meet with
people I correspond with but don’t always get to see in person. I really
appreciate the diversity of sessions and speakers represented. I am grateful to
have the opportunity to learn about issues I rarely get to learn about in my
work environment such as issues around race, class, disability or gender as
these issues ARE related to ending homeless. I appreciate this year’s emphasis
on intersectionality and talking about politics as we can’t separate the
implications politics has on our lives and our work. I take the information and
awareness gained from the session and try to apply them to my job and even my
personal life. At lunch, I often sit next to new and interesting people. The
conversations I have during lunch are the most fruitful.”
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In 2016, six Washington
communities engaged in 100-Day Challenges to rapidly transform their homeless
systems and make progress toward eliminating family homelessness. |
Have you ever visited the Washington State Human Rights Commission
web page? Under the law, everyone has the right to be free from
discrimination in housing and in a public accommodation. Any individual who
believes that he or she has been discriminated against based on protected class
status may file a charge of discrimination. Check out these links for
information for your agency and your clients:
The first two webinars in the National Alliance to End Homelessness series were hosted in April and May. Webinar recordings and extensive resources are posted on the landing page for the series where you can also sign up for future webinars. |
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