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Moving to Action:
Ending Homelessness through Racial Equity – A Follow up Discussion
This morning’s All Home Stakeholder forum advanced our
analysis of the homeless response system and its current status in perpetuating
and dismantling racism. Participants reflected on data
shared during All Home’s recent event, Moving to Action: Ending Homelessness
through Racial Equity and utilized the Continuum
on Becoming an Anti-Racism Multi-Cultural Organization assessment tool to evaluate
their agency and the larger homeless response system. It’s easy to see where
the problem lies, but what would success look like? Does is look different at
an agency level than from a system’s level? Here’s some of what participants
had to share:
“We want to see program outcomes and targets by race and
ethnicity”
“Program design and evaluation are driven by participant
voice”
“Decisions aren’t made until equity analysis has been
completed”
“Shift conversation from “how does race impact homelessness”
to “how does racism impact homelessness”
Do you have something to add to the conversation about how
we can improve our agency and system racial equity impact? Let us know: allhome@allhomekc.org. Materials from
the March event can be found on the All Home website here.
The Office of Homeless Youth will soon be releasing a Request
for Proposals (RFP) to develop a statewide training on homeless youth for
criminal justice personnel. The Office of Homeless Youth, per RCW 43.330.715,
is required to establish a statewide training which must include the following
elements:
- Identifying homeless youth
- Existing laws governing the
intersection of law and enforcement and homeless youth
- Best practices for engaging
homeless youth in services.
The Office of
Homeless Youth will award up to $30,000 to support the development of the
criminal justice training. The RFP will be available towards the end of April,
with responses due towards the end of May. Grants awarded as a result of the
RFP process will be effective July 2017 through June 2018. The official RFP
announcement will be posted on their website at: http://www.commerce.wa.gov/OHY
as well as on WEBS at: https://fortress.wa.gov/ga/webs/home.html
All Home Annual Conference – Save the Date!
Wednesday, June 14 | 8:30am – 3:30pm |
Location: Youngstown Cultural Arts
Center
This year’s Annual Conference will mark the half-way point
of our Strategic Plan to make homelessness rare, brief and one-time in King
County. Join us as we reflect on our progress and recommit to our goals. The
conference will offer a variety of workshops for all members of our Continuum
of Care, as part of our larger training and technical assistance plan. Stay
tuned for more details.
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 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/
King County HMIS User Group
and HMIS Agency Lead Meeting
Friday, April 21 | 12:30pm-2:00pm | Friends of Youth (13116
NE 132nd Street, Kirkland, WA 98034)
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.
YouthCare
Community
Resource Specialist
Family Engagement Case Manager
Maintenance Technician
Mental Health Therapist – Prevention
Program Manager – HOPE Center
Program Manager – Pathways
Youth Counselors – Housing Services
Accelerator YMCA
Mental
Health Therapist for Youth/Young Adult Engagement |
