Thank you for taking an interest in the Family Homelessness Initiative in King County. As we work towards aligning our current homeless housing and services system for families to a Housing Stabilization Approach, we will be offering various opportunities for community stakeholders to engage in the process, as well as future professional development opportunities for family providers. Please see below for all materials and resources from our past meetings and presentations (most recent on top). To find out more about the initiative and to learn of any upcoming events, please click here. Presentation Materials1/30/11 - 1/31/11: Katharine Gale on Prevention and HEART / Transitional Housing Conversion
Katharine Gale presented to King, Pierce, and Snohomish County representatives on effective strategies for homelessness prevention and ideas for converting transitional housing to non-time limited housing. Katharine Gale is an independent consultant from the San Francisco Bay Area with 20 years experience in the fields of homelessness and special needs housing. She provides services to public and non-profit agencies including community-wide and organizational planning; grant writing and new program development; data analysis, research and evaluation. Recent projects include research on prevention targeting and development of a multi-agency homelessness prevention and rapid rehousing system; facilitation of a process to adopt system-wide outcome measures for homeless-serving programs; and preparation of community plans for increasing mental health housing. 10/12/11: Housing First for Survivors of Domestic Violence: Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Eastside Domestic Violence Program
At this meeting, local stakeholders learned about a local initiative facilitated by a partnership between Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Through this initiative, a group of Domestic Violence providers in Washington, including EDVP piloted the emerging practice of Housing First for survivors of DV and their children. Stakeholders heard about Housing First Principles and how they were able to find unique strategies to help survivors keep or quickly regain housing. 9/12/2011 - 9/13/11: The Road Home
At the September meetings, local stakeholders and family providers heard from Michelle Flynn (Associate Executive Director) and Melanie Zamora (Director of Housing Programs) from the Road Home in Salt Lake County, Utah. They spoke about their Rapid Re-Housing Program and Progressive Engagement Approach. Please see below for the materials they provided. 8/10/11 - 8/11/11: Heartland Alliance
In August, Heartland Alliance staff, Maura McCauley, Senior Director; Cassandra Hudson, Associate Director; and Michelle Pihlaja-Olson, Program Manager from The Heartland Alliance in Chicago presented to local stakeholders and family providers. They spoke about their Rapid Re-Housing Model and the Strengths-Based Approach they use in service delivery. Please see below for the materials they provided. 7/25/11 - 7/26/11: Community Rebuilders
For our first presentation (of the Summer Speakers Series), local stakeholders and family providers heard from Anna Diaz, Housing Resource Specialist Coordinator from Community Rebuilders in Grand Rapids. Anna highlighted their Housing First Approach and The Strengths-Based Case Management Approach used at Community Rebuilders housing programs. Please see below for the materials they provided. June 2011: Regional Provider Meetings
Initiative staff met with local providers (over the course of 3 meeting times) highlighting implementation efforts underway, responding to early feedback and comments provided by program providers and other local stakeholders. See below for the meeting's PowerPoint. May 2011: Regional Provider Meetings
Initiative staff met with local providers to summarize the conclusion of planning efforts and future implementation efforts.
April 2011: Community Outreach Meetings
Launching implementation efforts, Initiative staff attended various standing, community meetings with local stakeholders to reengage after planning efforts have concluded. Additional Resources and Materials- Concluded Family Homelessness Initiative Provider Survey (pdf)
- Provider Survey Instructions
If you would like to learn more about the systems change efforts underway, please feel free to contact: Triina Tennelo, Project Manager at triina.tennelo@kingcounty.gov
Debbi Knowles, Project Lead at debbi.knowles@kingcounty.gov
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