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Workshops at a Glance
Tuesday, September 17
9:30 a.m.–10:45 a.m. Breakout I
- Housing stability in rural Minnesota: Preserving 515 properties and rental assistance in Greater Minnesota
Room: TBD
Elizabeth Glidden, Minnesota Housing Partnership (MHP); Margaret Kaplan, Housing Justice Center - Bringing System Support and Services to the Street: A Comprehensive and Collaborative Approach to Street Outreach Services
Room: TBD
John Tribbett, St. Stephen’s Human Services; Casey Holstrom, St. Stephen’s Human Services - Minneapolis Navigation Center – Lessons Learned
Room: TBD
Marian Wright, Simpson Housing Services; Wendy Wiegmann, Simpson Housing Services - “Getting to know your CoC (and getting the most out of it!)
Room: TBD
Jennifer Prins, River Valley Continuum of Care; Other Continuum of Care Presenters TBD - Empowering Youth Leadership Models to Address Homelessness and Social Injustice
Room: TBD
Beth Holger, The Link; James Lewis, The Link - Insights from Envision Community: Co-designing with Patients for Health Equity
Room: TBD
Bill Walsh, Hennepin Health System, Upstream Health Innovations; Dewayne, Rome, Freddy, Junail, and Sherry, Street Voices for Change - Mile in My Shoes: running together to change perceptions and change lives
Room: TBD
Monica Nilsson, Mile in My Shoes; Mile in My Shoes participants TBD - New Services to Support Housing
Room: TBD
Mark Caldwell, Department of Human Services – Housing Division; Bekah Kaufenberg-Satre, Department of Human Services – Housing Division
11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Breakout II
- The Wall of Forgotten Natives: Lessons learned from the Franklin Hiawatha Encampment. Creating a response during Crisis, Chaos, and Conflict
Room: TBD
Patina Park, Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center - Making your Organization and LGBTQ+ inclusive and Affirming Environment
Room: TBD
Andrea Simonett, MN Dept of Human Services; Annie Wells, St. Stephen’s Human Services - You Can’t Prevent What You Can’t Count: Finding the Homeless in Minnesota’s Mortality Data Systems
Room: TBD
Terra Weins, Minnesota Department of Health; Melissa Heinen, Minnesota Department of Health - Your Cultural Lens: Engaging Communities with Cultural Self-Awareness
Room: TBD
Janice Barbee, Healing Roots - Reflections from the Field: A Guide to Working with Sexually Exploited Youth
Room: TBD
Beth Yotter, Olmsted County; Mollie Kolb, Olmsted County - MN Homeless Study Workshop: Using 2018 Data to Inform Service and Policy Decisions
Room: TBD
Brian Pittman, Wilder Research - Trauma Informed Screening for Domestic Abuse and Housing Protections for Survivors
Room: TBD
Nicole Mourgos, Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services; Meghan Maes, Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services - Coordinated Entry Assessment Tool/Process Improvement
Room: TBD
Jiyoung Choi and Coordinated Entry Prioritization Assessment Tool (CEPAT) Work Group - Addressing the Elephant in the Room; Understanding Unconscious Bias and how it impacts decision making
Room: TBD
Valerie Jensen, Azon Consulting
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. – Lunch, Annual Awards Presentation in Lake Superior Ballroom
1:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Breakout III
- How one man’s dream to change started in his community and expanded to beyond Mille Lacs Reservation
Room: TBD
Colin Cash, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe - The Stepping Stone Way
Room: TBD
Julie Jeppson, Stepping Stone Emergency Housing - Identifying the Experience of Homelessness for Individuals in the Corrections System and the Journey to Solutions
Room: Gooseberry TBD
Kate Erickson, Minnesota Department of Corrections; Katelyn Warburton, Minnesota Department of Human Services - From Outreach to Housing
Room: TBD
David Katzenmeyer, People Incorporated/Outside-In; Alan Ostergaard, Radias Health/Outside-In - Solace
Room: TBD
Jennifer Lamb, Southwest Minnesota Housing Partnership; Cassandra Sassenberg, Nicollet County Human Services - Addressing Suicide Risk in Homeless and Veteran Populations- Public Health and Practical Approaches
Room: TBD
Kelsey Place, LICSW Minneapolis VA HUD VASH Program; Larisa Breid, LICSW Minneapolis VA HUD VASH Program - Beyond a Bed: Supporting Informal Hosting Arrangements for Youth Facing Homelessness
Room: TBD
Jacqueline White, CloseKnit; Cindy Ley, Open Doors for Youth - Violent Deaths among the Homeless in Minnesota
Room: TBD
Terra Wiens, Minnesota Department of Health; Melissa Heinen, Minnesota Department of Health
3:15 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Breakout IV
- Best Practices Working with Safe Harbor Youth
Room: TBD
Kate LePage, Lutheran Social Services; Nick Riba, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension - “Navigating the Domestic Violence Housing Experience through the Lens of an Immigrant Survivor”
Room: TBD
Rachel Kohler, Standpoint; Traci Thomas-Card, Standpoint - Welcome Home! Collaborating across Difference for Equitable Housing and Inclusive Community-Building
Room: TBD
Marnita Schroedl, Marnita’s Table - Partnering with schools to support children and youth experiencing homelessness
Room: TBD
Jennifer Prins, River Valleys CoC; Melissa Brandt, Rochester Public Schools - Extending Power Sharing into Housing and Homeless Intervention Practices
Room: TBD
Jennifer Horton, The Link; 2 Youth Advisory Members and 2 Case Management Staff, The Link - Criminal Background: How much does it matter to housing success?
Room: TBD
Annie McCabe, CommonBond Communities; TBD - Supporting young children in accessing early care and education
Room: TBD
Stacia Rosas, MN Department of Human Services; Sandy Myers, MN Department of Education - Maximizing Landlord Relationships
Room: TBD
Warren Duncan, Hearth Connection; Keith Nance, Ujamaa Place - How proactive culturally capable mental health services meet the challenges of communities of color experiencing housing and economic insecurity and the change makers that serve them
Room: TBD
Carl Young, Increasing Life Chances 4 You; Linda Roberts, Increasing Life Chances 4 You
6:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. – Social Hour Events
Wednesday, September 18
9:30 a.m.–10:45 a.m. Breakout V
- Current Trends in Affordable Housing Research
Room: TBD
Laura Proescholdt, Minnesota Housing Partnership; Gabriela Norton, Minnesota Housing Partnership - Overview of key findings from the 2018 Homeless Study: discussion of characteristics, trends, and what’s new
Room: TBD
Michelle Decker Gerrard, Wilder Research - Changing how homeless families are served in Dakota County – Blending private and public funding for diversion, prevention and landlord engagement
Room: TBD
Kristin Bates, Dakota County; Terri Lazaretti, Dakota County - Leveraging Earned Media for Advocacy
Room: TBD
Amanda Horner, Catholic Charities and Homes for All Communications Co-Chair - Connecting Homelessness and Food Justice: Strategies for improving food security and housing security through interconnected strategies
Room: TBD
Adam Pine, University of Minnesota Duluth - How Your Congressional Office Can Help With Housing
Room: TBD
Katie Kottenbrock, U.S. Senate; Osman Ahmed, U.S. Senate - Changing Outcomes for Child Welfare Involved Families who are Housing Unstable
Room: TBD
Leah Lindstrom Rhea, CSH; TBD - Policy Practice Among NASW-MN Members
Room: TBD
Magdelena Unger, Augsburg University - Working together and working differently with Public Housing Authorities to create change and increase housing stability for the lowest-income Minnesotans
Room: TBD
Amy Stetzel, CSH; Julie Grother (Guild Inc.), Terri Smith (Metro HRA), Sue Speakman Gomez (HousingLInk), Nicole Randall (St. Louis Park HRA), Eric Gustafson (Family Housing Fund), Bryan Hartman (Bloomington HRA)
11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m. – Keynote Presentation
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. – Lunch
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Break (Check out the Exhibitor Showcase)
2:00 p.m.–3:15 p.m. Breakout VI
- Developing Grant Proposals that Make Our Programs Shine – Improving the Competitiveness of Rural Programs
Room: TBD
Becky Schuller, NW Minn Continuum of Care - PERFORMANCE: A Prairie Homeless Companion
Room: TBD
zAmya Theater Project, (Maren Ward, Director) - Creating Lasting Change and Ending Homelessness with Community Engagement – Lessons from Heading Home Dakota
Room: TBD
Rebecca Bowers, Dakota County; Jean MacFarland, Chair, Heading Home Dakota Community Engagement - It’s OK To Call Us Queer And Other Things To Know About Us
Room: TBD
Kathy Hermes, Lutheran Social Service - Aging in Community: The Impact of Elder Homelessness
Room: TBD
Melea Blanchard, Catholic Charities - Homework Starts with Home: Building Collaborations to End Student Homelessness
Room: TBD
Eric Grumdahl, Minnesota Office to Prevent and End Homelessness - Workplace Mortgage – Everything a nonprofit employee needs to know to become a happy home owner
Room: TBD
Cliff Morse, US Bank
