In a recent Crosscut
article, Robin DiAngelo, a white woman, shared why it is important for white people to have a serious conversation about
race in America today.
On white fragility: “it ends
up functioning to block the challenge, to stop the conversation. It’s actually
quite powerful in its effectiveness. It really does block the conversation,
protect our worldviews and allow us to continue on without really understanding.”
On racism: “if you suggest
I’ve done anything racist you’ve basically just suggested that I’m for
racism…and, of course, that is a character insult to me. And now I need to
defend my character…. This makes it virtually impossible to talk to white
people about the inevitable blind spots and assumptions and patterns that we
have across race by virtue of living in the society that we live in.”
On treating everyone the
same: “I think that’s probably the number one white racial narrative. But
that’s not actually humanly possible. We make meaning of the world through the
cultural framework we were socialized to make meaning of it through. And it’s
infused with biases and assumptions.”
On the responsibility of
white people on issues of race: “if white people don’t get involved in
addressing it, we can only support and maintain it.”
All Home Stakeholder Meeting: Ending Homelessness Through Racial Equity – A Follow Up Discussion
date: Wednesday, April 19 time: 9:30am – 11:00am location: El Centro de la Raza, room 307
Whether you were able to attend the March event or not, we
encourage you to join us at our April Stakeholder meeting. We will be reviewing
the data shared during the summit and offer an exercise you can utilize and
incorporate into your work to further our actions in ending homelessness
through racial equity. We will also be asking for your input on system-level
efforts to address homelessness through racial equity.
If you haven’t had a chance to look at the materials from
the March event, you can find them on our website here.
Also, we encourage you to watch this 5 minute video on
Targeted Universalism as another way to approach this work at your
organizations.
Single Adult and Veteran Affinity Group
date: Wednesday, April 19 time: 11:00am - 12:30pm location: El Centro de la Raza
All meeting dates, times and locations
as well as other related materials are available on the All Home website. All
Home Continuum of Care meetings are open to the public and attendance is
encouraged.
All Home Director, Mark Putnam, wrote a guest
editorial for The Stranger on the
need to address homelessness, with urgency, at the local level:
“The cost of reducing homelessness has changed in Seattle
and King County in the past few years…Rents have increased 57 percent in the
past six years, six times the national rate. Just taking rent increases into
account, not to mention the need to pay staff more so they can also live here,
the costs to provide rental assistance to people living outside have increased
significantly in four years. That number keeps rising with the cost of land,
property, and rental units. Also contributing to homelessness is our
underfunded state mental health system and a substance use treatment system
that is not able to keep pace with the pharmaceutical industry-created opiate
crisis.
The federal government is aiming to slash housing and healthcare budgets,
and at the state level, House Bill 1570 (sponsored
by Rep. Nicole Macri, 43rd) needs to pass through the state legislature to
provide sustained revenue to address homelessness. If it does, it will help but
it still will not be enough to meet the exponentially growing need. In 2017, it
has become abundantly clear that we're going to have to address our
homelessness, housing affordability and behavioral health crises locally.”
The Housing Development Consortium is excited to announce
King County's second annual Affordable
Housing Week, May 15 - 22! HDC is kicking off this new annual tradition,
alongside partners from across the County, to highlight the current need and
potential policy solutions for preserving and creating affordable housing in
cities throughout our communities.
In 2016, cities across the County banded together to fight
for affordable housing in the region for our first ever Affordable Housing
Week, and what a success:
39 AHW Partners
20 Cities & King County participating
24 Proclamations
157 Event Attendees
684 Emails sent by HDC advocates
This year, we hope even more advocates will attend city
council meetings, community events, and participate through social
media. A calendar of Affordable Housing Week events and additional
resources will be online shortly.
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Join the Seattle/King
County Coalition on Homelessness (SKCCH) for a fun, free, participatory
workshop on Wednesday, April 19,
6.00 – 8.00 p.m. at Skyway Library. This federal iteration of the Homelessness
Advocacy 101 series will explore:
- What
does Donald Trump’s proposed budget mean for people who are homeless?
- How
can King County residents influence federal decisions about funding and programs
that help, house, and shelter our neighbors?
- The
latest from Washington, D.C. about key budget and policy priorities related to
housing and homelessness (funding for public housing, Section 8 vouchers) and
related federal supports (Medicaid, Medicare, Food Stamps).
- A
Civics 101 refresher from Nancy Amidei (Professor emerita at the UW School of
Social Work) – how a bill becomes a law, who represents you in Washington, D.C.
and how to communicate with them, and how YOU can be an effective advocate for
housing, services, and shelter.
- How
to speak up and get other people to speak up with you!
Register
for Homelessness Advocacy 101 here.
All Home is committed to support system transformation
efforts through relevant capacity building activities. The full Capacity
Building Plan can be found on our website, here
and all learning opportunities can be found on our calendar, here. If you are
offering a training and want to get the word out or have a specific training
need or recommendation for All Home, please contact Triina Van.
Partner Trainings
Equal Access and
Gender Identity Rules Training Webinar
The webinar recording is now available on the HUD Exchange
along with the presentation slides, speaker notes, and transcript. You can
access the materials under Related Materials and
Resources.
2017 Fair Housing Workshops for Housing
Providers: King County Office of Civil Rights
http://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/civil-rights/fair-housing/providers-workshops.aspx
Bitfocus Clarity General Trainings
Register for specific dates and times at: http://kingcounty.hmis.cc/training/schedule-a-training/
Cross Agency Systems Training (CAST) for
Adults and Child/Youth Services: King County Behavioral Health Recovery
Division
Learn whom each system serves, goals of each program,
services available to consumers, and how to access these services.
Systems represented include: Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Crisis Services,
Child Welfare, Parent Supports, Juvenile Justice, Mental Health Courts, and
more. Register
here.
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