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2013 NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENDING FAMILY&YOUTH HOMELESSNESS Sheraton Seattle Hotel Seattle, WA February 21-22, 2013

Conference Program 2013 NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENDING FAMILY&YOUTH HOMELESSNESS

Times are still tough! The economic downturn swept through this country and upended many lives, pushing families into homelessness and leaving many others at the brink. Poverty among children and youth remains near the highest level since 1993. While a recovery may be underway for many, for the poorest and most vulnerable American families there is much to be done.

In the face of all this, people around the country working on family and youth homelessness never gave up. In fact, the community has worked harder and smarter; changing many things for the better in spite of the unhealthy economic environment. We brought about the enormous success of the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP), which helped over a million people escape or avoid homelessness. We saw levels of homelessness in communities that implemented efficient, evidence-based interventions for families remain relatively low or even decline through the recession and its uneasy recovery.

Big things are happening. New tools are in place. There are new ways of thinking about and addressing the problem. And the need for effectiveness could not be greater. Together we have the expertise and knowledge to end family and youth homelessness. If we are to reconnect families and youth to housing, we must mobilize and coordinate responses among agencies, communities, policymakers, and advocates. We must stand with homeless families, youth, and others to maximize opportunities to combat homelessness and build a country where everyone has a place to call home.

The National Alliance to End Homelessness welcomes you to the 2013 National Conference on Ending Family and Youth Homelessness. In the coming days we look forward to learning, sharing, and encouraging each other to take the next steps. Conference Program Table of Contents

Conference Sponsors, Partners, Information Tables, and Scholarship Program 4

Conference Schedule At-A-Glance 5-8

Conference Agenda, Wednesday 9

Conference Agenda, Thursday 9-20

Conference Agenda, Friday 21-30

Plenary Speaker Biographies 31 - 32

Workshop Speaker Biographies 33-51

Workshop Speaker Contact Information 52-61

About the Alliance 62

Alliance Board of Directors 63

Save the Date 64

Notes 65 - 66

Hotel Maps 67 NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON 2013 ENDING FAMILY&YOUTH HOMELESSNESS Conference Sponsors,* Partners,** Information Tables, and Scholarship Program The Alliance would like to thank the following Sponsors and Partners Premiere Sponsor: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Investing Sponsor: t3 (think. teach.transform.) Conference Partners Building Changes Housing Innovations Committee to End Homelessness in King County National Alliance on Mental Illness CSH The National Center on Family Homelessness Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Council of State Housing Agencies Ending Veteran Homelessness Initiative The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty Housing First Partners, presented by National Low Income Housing Coalition DESC & Pathways to Housing

Information Tables Be sure to check out the following organizations’ information tables at the conference – and feel free to contact the point of contact listed below for each organization if you would like to learn more about their work. Information tables are located in the Grand Ballroom Foyers.

• ClientTrack: • National Network for Youth (NN4Y): Monty Ball, [email protected] Darla Bardine, [email protected] • Covenant House: • National Safe Place: Tina Kelley, [email protected] Susan Harmon, [email protected] • Derby Industries: • Springwire - www.springwire.us: Ken Chrzan, [email protected] Trisha Matthieu, [email protected] • Empowered Solutions Group: • t3 (think. teach. transform.): Richard Ropolo, [email protected] Tom Bardwell, [email protected] • Farestart//Catalyst Kitchens: • The National Center on Family Homelessness: Kim Thomas, [email protected] Christina Murphy, [email protected] • Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness: • VisionLink: Shertease Wheeler, [email protected] Lisa Hrivnak, [email protected] • Mid America Assistance Coalition: John Rich, [email protected]

Conference Scholarship Program The National Alliance to End Homelessness has established a Scholarship Program to assist individuals who are currently, or have formerly, experienced homelessness and cannot afford to cover the full cost of participating in the conference. The Alliance would like to thank the organizations noted above that contributed to the Scholarship Program.

*As of February 7, 2013 **Denotes organizations that contributed to the 2013 Conference Scholarship Program

4 Conference Sponsors, Partners, Information Tables, and Scholarship Program Conference Schedule At-A-Glance The Alliance encourages attendees to share conference experiences on #NAEH Twitter (#NAEH2013)and Facebook throughout the conference. 2013 We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Wednesday, February 20th

Time Event Location 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Pre-Registration Grand Ballroom A/B Prefunction Area

Thursday, February 21st

Time Event Location 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration Grand Ballroom A/B Prefunction Area 8:00 am - 9:00 am Morning Snack with Coffee and Tea* Grand Ballroom A/B/C/D Prefunction Area 9:00 am - 10:00 am Opening Plenary Grand Ballroom • Welcome: Susan G. Baker, Co-Chair and Co-Founder, National A/B/C/D Alliance to End Homelessness, Houston, TX and The Honorable Mike Lowry, Co-Chair, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Renton, WA • Remarks: Mark Johnston, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs and Delegated Authority over CPD Programs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC • Keynote: Nan Roman, President and CEO, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC 10:15 am - 12:00 pm Workshops I 1.1 Moving Forward: A Blueprint for Ending Youth Homelessness Aspen 1.2 Avoiding Youth Homelessness: Early Intervention Strategies Juniper 1.3 Coordinated Assessment 101: Understanding the Basics Redwood A/B 1.4 Rapid Re-Housing: An Introduction Willow A 1.5 Coming Home: Progress and Outlook on the Five Year Plan to End Ravenna B/C Homelessness for Veterans and Their Families (Located on 3rd Floor, Union Street Tower) 1.6 Let’s Get to Work: Job Development and Overcoming Employment Madrona Barriers 1.7 Finding and Serving Homeless Youth and Families with the Willow B Highest Needs

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Thursday, February 21st

Time Event Location 1.8 How Are We Doing? Measuring Community-Wide Performance Cedar A/B 1.9 Health Care Reform: What's in It for Homeless Families and Ravenna A Youth? (Located on 3rd Floor, Union Street Tower) 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch* Plenary with Keynote Speaker Grand Ballroom • Welcome: A/B/C/D °° Tim Marx, CEO, Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN, Board Member, National Alliance to End Homelessness °° King County Executive Dow Constantine, Seattle, WA • Remarks: Barbara Poppe, Executive Director, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, Washington, DC • Keynote: Nan Stoops, Executive Director, Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Seattle, WA • Tribute to Carol Walter: Janice Elliott, The Melville Charitable Trust, Boston, MA 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm Workshops II 2.1 Thinking Systemically: Strategically Ending Youth Homelessness Willow B in Your Community 2.2 Promising Service Models to Improve Outcomes for Youth and Ravenna B/C Families (Located on 3rd Floor, Union Street Tower) 2.3 Getting Better: Performance Improvement Strategies Aspen 2.4 Survivors of Domestic Violence: Creating Responsive Programs Madrona 2.5 Organizing Your Resources: Using a Progressive Engagement Willow A Approach 2.6 Emerging Research on Veterans and Their Families Cedar A/B 2.7 After Re-Housing: Strengthening Economic Security of Families Ravenna A (Located on 3rd Floor, Union Street Tower) 2.8 Blueprint for Ending Family Homelessness: Next Steps Redwood A/B 2.9 Where Do They Fit? Ending Homelessness for Young Parents Juniper 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm Workshops III 3.1 Using Data to Size and Scope the Issue of Youth Homelessness Aspen 3.2 Family Interventions: Build Relationships and Create Housing Madrona Destinations 3.3 Developing System-Wide Prioritization and Targeting Standards Redwood A/B 3.4 Retooling Transitional Housing I: Getting Started Cedar A/B 3.5 Coordinated Response: Rapid Re-Housing and Employment Willow B 3.6 Critical Partners to End Family Homelessness: Child Welfare Ravenna B/C (Located on 3rd Floor, Union Street Tower)

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Time Event Location 3.7 Expanding Housing Opportunities for Veteran Families: Juniper Developing the SSVF Program Model 3.8 Helping Families Pay for Rent Willow A 3.9 Partnerships to Improve Children’s Outcomes Ravenna A (Located on 3rd Floor, Union Street Tower) 6:15 pm - 7:30 pm Reception hosted by the Conference’s Premiere Sponsor, the Bill & Bill & Melinda Gates Melinda Gates Foundation Foundation Pre-registration required – see full schedule in program journal for more details

Friday, February 22nd

Time Event Location 8:00 am - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast* Grand Ballroom A/B/C/D Prefunction Area 8:00 am - 12:00 pm Registration Grand Ballroom A/B Prefunction Area 9:00 am - 10:30 am Workshops IV 4.1 A Child Welfare and Legal Systems Collaboration: Alameda Cedar A/B County Initiative to Combat Youth Homelessness 4.2 Improving the Crisis Response to Youth Homelessness Juniper 4.3 Creating a Culture of Accountability: How Funders Can Willow A Encourage Good Results 4.4 Retooling Transitional Housing II: Community Stories Aspen 4.5 Improving Emergency Shelter Ravenna B/C (Located on 3rd Floor, Union Street Tower) 4.6 Working with Your PHA to Expand Housing Options Redwood A/B 4.7 Employment Strategies: Reducing Veteran Family Homelessness Ravenna A (Located on 3rd Floor, Union Street Tower) 4.8 Federal Budget Cuts: What’s Happening and What We Can Do Madrona 4.9 Promoting Recovery for Homeless Families and Youth Willow B 10:45 am - 12:15 pm Workshops V 5.1 Helping Youth Pay Rent: Short- and Long-Term Solutions Ravenna B/C (Located on 3rd Floor, Union Street Tower) 5.2 Making Transitional Housing More Accessible to Homeless Youth Cedar A/B

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Time Event Location 5.3 Leveraging Landlord Relationships: Creating Housing Solutions Willow A 5.4 Critical Partners to End Family Homelessness: TANF Willow B 5.5 New Congress, New Opportunities: Advocacy and the 113th Ravenna A Congress (Located on 3rd Floor, Union Street Tower) 5.6 Continuum of Care Planning: Engaging Stakeholders, Promoting Aspen Collaboration, and Ensuring Accountability 5.7 Shelter Diversion and Prevention for Families Redwood A/B 5.8 Identifying and Supporting Youth with Mental Health Disabilities Madrona 5.9 Exploring Approaches to End Family Homelessness: Australia Juniper 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch* Plenary with Keynote Speaker Grand Ballroom • Welcome: Nan Roman, President and CEO, National Alliance to A/B/C/D End Homelessness, Washington, DC • Keynote: The Honorable Patty Murray, Senator, Washington State • Video: Open Doors 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Workshops VI 6.1 Connecting Youth to Education and Employment Opportunities Willow B 6.2 The Unfortunate Intersection: Youth Homelessness and Sexual Cedar A/B Exploitation 6.3 Sustaining Housing: A Voluntary Services Approach Willow A 6.4 Reaching, Engaging, and Serving Recently Discharged Veterans Ravenna B/C (Located on 3rd Floor, Union Street Tower) 6.5 Messaging and Media Engagement Madrona 6.6 Understanding and Implementing the Continuum of Care Rule Redwood A/B 6.7 Domestic Violence Providers and Coordinated Assessment: Aspen Challenges and Opportunities 6.8 Exploring Strategies that Work: A USICH Listening Session Juniper

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Wednesday, February 20th

Time Event Location 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Registration Grand Ballroom A/B Prefunction Area

Thursday, February 21st

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Time Event Location 10:15 am - 12:00 pm Workshops I 1.1 Moving Forward: A Blueprint for Ending Youth Homelessness Aspen At the 2012 National Conference on Ending Family and Youth Homelessness, the Alliance unveiled a typology of youth experiencing homelessness and identified several promising practices for ending youth homelessness. Since then, the administration has released its own framework, building on that momentum and raising further awareness in the field. Presenters will review the emerging typology, explore the progress made since its inception, and chart the course for moving forward. • Samantha Batko, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Speaker/Moderator) • Stephen Gaetz, York University, Toronto, ON • Megan Gibbard, King County Housing and Community Development, Seattle, WA • Sonali Patel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Commissioner, Washington, DC • Todd Shenk, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC

1.2 Avoiding Youth Homelessness: Early Intervention Strategies Juniper There are many opportunities to intervene early with youth to prevent a homeless episode or quickly reconnect them with their families. This workshop will examine outreach, school-based and family support interventions. • Cassie Franklin, Cocoon House, Everett, WA • Sparky Harlan, Bill Wilson Center, Santa Clara, CA • Laurie Jackson, National Safe Place, Louisville, KY • Adrienne Quinn, Medina Foundation, Seattle, WA (Moderator)

1.3 Coordinated Assessment 101: Understanding the Basics Redwood A/B Coordinated assessment is now required for all communities receiving HUD funding. This workshop will cover what the new Continuum of Care regulations say about coordinated assessment, the basic concepts behind good implementation, and different models communities might consider, with a specific focus on families and youth. Providers who have experience with coordinated assessment will drive the discussion and answer questions about planning, design, implementation. • Cindy Burdine, Serenity House of Clallam County, Port Angeles, WA • Debbi Knowles, King County, Seattle, WA • Kimberly Mitchell, City of Memphis, Memphis,TN • Kimberly Walker, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Speaker/Moderator)

10 Conference Agenda Thursday, February 21st Time Event Location 1.4 Rapid Re-Housing: An Introduction Willow A Rapid re-housing is a cost-effective solution to homelessness that involves providing assistance locating new housing, short-term rental assistance, and follow-up case management services. This workshop will highlight communities’ experiences successfully implementing rapid re-housing to respond to family homelessness. Presenters will outline the basic housing and service components involved in the rapid re-housing model and provide examples of the results local communities have achieved in reducing homelessness using this approach. • Kris Billhardt, Volunteers of America, Oregon – Home Free, Portland • Michelle Flynn, The Road Home, Salt Lake City, UT • Ann Oliva, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC (Speaker/Moderator)

1.5 Coming Home: Progress and Outlook on the Five Year Plan to End Ravenna B/C Homelessness for Veterans and their Families (Located on 3rd As we reach and move past the halfway point in the Five Year Plan to End Floor, Union Veterans Homelessness, the goal is within sight. This workshop will look Street Tower) at where we have been and where we are going as we get closer to the goal. It will cover ways to better partner with your local VA and better leverage community resources, new funding opportunities, and what a post-homeless veteran system will look like. • Pete Dougherty, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC • Mary Forbes, Washington State Department of Veteran Affairs, Washington, DC • Anthony Love, National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans, Washington, DC (Moderator)

1.6 Let’s Get to Work: Job Development and Overcoming Employment Madrona Barriers This workshop will review job development and other strategies that lead to employment for people experiencing homelessness. Presenters will focus on recruiting potential employers and overcoming barriers such as disabilities and criminal histories. • Gail Gilman, Community Housing Partnership, San Francisco, CA • Amy Rynell, Heartland Alliance, Chicago, IL • Norm Suchar, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Moderator)

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Time Event Location 1.7 Finding and Serving Homeless Youth and Families with the Highest Willow B Needs The most effective strategies for chronically homeless families and youth combine permanent housing solutions with “right-sized” supportive services that promote independence in stable housing. This session presents service models that help target permanent supportive housing and meet the needs of the most vulnerable homeless youth and families. • Alison Harte, CSH, New York, NY • Katie Kitchin, Community Alliance for the Homeless, Memphis, TN • Amy Sawyer, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, Washington, DC (Moderator) • Julie Shapiro, The Door, New York, NY

1.8 How Are We Doing? Measuring Community-Wide Performance Cedar A/B System-wide performance measurement is challenging but critical for making progress on reducing homelessness. Furthermore, the HEARTH Act makes system-wide performance measurement almost a necessity. Presenters will describe a range of performance measurement strategies from basic to advanced. Participants will learn how to get more out of Homelessness Management Information Systems, how to measure the outcomes included in the HEARTH Act, and how to use performance measurement to allocate resources and improve collaboration. • Tom Albanese, Abt Associates, Inc., Columbus, OH • Iain DeJong, OrgCode Consulting, Port Credit, ON • Cathy ten Broeke, State of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN (Moderator)

1.9 Health Care Reform: What's in It for Homeless Families and Youth? Ravenna A From funding for home visiting programs to extending health care coverage (Located on 3rd after foster care, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is relevant for families and Floor, Union youth who have experienced homelessness. This session will provide an Street Tower) update on ACA implementation, timelines, and new programs/benefits that should be considered in plans to end homelessness. • Carie Bires, Heartland Health Outreach, Chicago, IL • Aisha Hunter, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, MD • Lisa Stand, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Speaker/Moderator)

* Excess food donated to 12 Conference Agenda Thursday, February 21st Time Event Location 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch* Plenary with Keynote Speaker Grand Ballroom • Welcome: A/B/C/D °° Tim Marx, CEO, Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN, Board Member, National Alliance to End Homelessness °° King County Executive Dow Constantine, Seattle, WA • Remarks: Barbara Poppe, Executive Director, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, Washington, DC • Keynote: Nan Stoops, Executive Director, Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Seattle, WA • Tribute to Carol Walter: Janice Elliott, The Melville Charitable Trust, Boston, MA

2:15 pm - 3:45 pm Workshops II

2.1 Thinking Systemically: Strategically Ending Youth Homelessness in Willow B Your Community Community-level strategic planning helps to ensure that local resources are being used as effectively as possible to provide safe places for homeless youth to stay and to quickly end their homelessness. This workshop will explore communities that have begun to take a systematic approach to ending youth homelessness. Targeting interventions, resource allocation, and desired system- and program-level outcomes will be among the topics discussed during this workshop. • Nicole Amling, Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness, Chicago, IL • Katie Hong, Raikes Foundation, Seattle, WA (Speaker/Moderator) • Laura Kadwell, Heading Home Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

2.2 Promising Service Models to Improve Outcomes for Youth and Ravenna B/C Families (Located on 3rd Some families and youth benefit from intensive but time-limited supportive Floor, Union services to help them successfully transition out of homelessness and achieve Street Tower) housing stability. This workshop will focus on evidence-based service models, including Critical Time Intervention and Wraparound, and how homeless service providers are adapting these service models to get better outcomes for homeless and at-risk families and young adults. • Erin Maguire, Catholic Community Services, Seattle, WA • Lauren Pareti, Center for Urban Community Services, New York, NY • Judith Samuels, Nathan Kline Institute, Haworth, NJ (Speaker/Moderator)

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Time Event Location 2.3 Getting Better: Performance Improvement Strategies Aspen This workshop will provide examples of community strategies that encourage better performance at reducing homelessness. It will include examples of performance-based contracting and other financial incentives, reallocation, publicly recognizing providers with good outcomes, and targeting technical assistance to those with poor outcomes. • Elaine DeColigny, EveryOne Home, Hayward, CA • Michelle Heritage, Community Shelter Board, Columbus, OH • Otis Thornton, City of Forth Worth, Forth Worth, TX (Moderator)

2.4 Survivors of Domestic Violence: Creating Responsive Programs Madrona Ensuring survivors of domestic violence are able to safely and effectively access housing and services is essential. This workshop will discuss how the homeless assistance system and domestic violence providers can work together to ensure that survivors receive the most appropriate and effective interventions, including rapid re-housing and homelessness prevention strategies. • Linda Joyce, YWCE of Kitsap County, Bremerton, WA • Barbara Langdon, LifeWire, Bellevue, WA • Linda Olsen, Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Seattle, WA (Moderator) • Ann Simpson, Forks Abuse Program, Forks, WA

2.5 Organizing Your Resources: Using a Progressive Engagement Willow A Approach Communities typically have a variety of programs to serve families and youth experiencing homelessness. However, it can be difficult to organize homeless assistance so that people who need particular interventions are the ones who receive them. Many communities have begun using progressive engagement to overcome this challenge. This workshop will provide an overview of progressive engagement approaches and examples from communities that are employing these strategies. • Katharine Gale, Katharine Gale Consulting, Berkeley, CA • Norm Suchar, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Moderator) • Melanie Zamora, The Road Home, Salt Lake City, UT

14 Conference Agenda Thursday, February 21st Time Event Location 2.6 Emerging Research on Veterans and Their Families Cedar A/B Data and related research are some of the most important tools in our mission to end homelessness among veterans and their families. The changing face of homeless veteran families is measured through demographics and its implications are understood through research. During this workshop, researchers will identify trends and project outcomes. Presenters will discuss what new research suggests in homelessness prevalence, related demographics, risk factors for families, and other emerging trends in veteran family homelessness. • Tom Byrne, National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans, Philadelphia, PA • Allison Calibro, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC • Vince Kane, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Philadelphia, PA (Moderator) • Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans, Philadelphia, PA • Dan Treglia, National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans, New York, NY

2.7 After Re-Housing: Strengthening Economic Security of Families Ravenna A Most families can use additional help getting on their feet financially after (Located on 3rd an episode of homelessness. Young single people who have experienced Floor, Union homelessness can also benefit from extra support after they have found Street Tower) suitable housing. This workshop explores self-sufficiency programs and other economic security models working to strengthen low-income families and sustain young people as they gain independence. • Lanette Marcum, Glacier Bancorp, Meridian, ID • Alison McIntosh, Neighborhood Partnerships, Portland, OR • Greg Morris, CATCH, Inc., Boise, ID • Victoria Shire, Enterprise Community Partners, New York, NY (Moderator)

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Time Event Location 2.8 Blueprint for Ending Family Homelessness: Next Steps Redwood A/B We now know how to end family homelessness, what are the next steps forward? This workshop will examine the existing and emerging evidence that informs the policy and practice strategies that are being implemented to end family homelessness. Workshop speakers will also examine the steps communities can take to make more effective use of their resources to end homelessness. • Mark Greenberg, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC • Mark Johnston, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs and Delegated Authority over CPD Programs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC • Sharon McDonald, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Moderator) • Debbie Thiele, CSH, Seattle, WA

2.9 Where Do They Fit? Ending Homelessness for Young Parents Juniper Young parents age 24 and under who enter the family homelessness system have unique needs as they both head a household and are still developing youth themselves. This workshop will examine how family homelessness service systems can enhance and modify existing interventions to serve young parents more effectively. Family reunification, peer groups, and clustered housing models will be discussed. • Heather Baeckel, Janus Youth Programs, Portland, OR • Andrea Kuebbeler, Alternatives, Inc., Chicago, IL • Melissa Maguire, The Night Ministry, Chicago, IL

4:15 pm - 5:45 pm Workshops III

3.1 Using Data to Size and Scope the Issue of Youth Homelessness Aspen For the first time, HUD required communities to count and report out on the number of youth (ages of 18 to 24) during the January Point-in-Time (PIT) Counts of homeless people. The information, coupled with using Homelessness Management Information Systems (HMIS), will provide communities with improved data on youth homelessness. Presenters will cover PIT Count methodologies, using HMIS to improve data, and how communities can use their data to tell a story. • Richard Hooks Wayman, Hearth Connection, Minneapolis, MN (Moderator) • Matthew Doherty, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, Washington, DC

16 Conference Agenda Thursday, February 21st Time Event Location 3.2 Family Interventions: Build Relationships and Create Housing Madrona Destinations Many youth remain in contact with their families when they are out of the home. Family intervention provides an opportunity to engage, connect, and reunify young people with caring adults. Presenters will discuss how family intervention can create housing destinations and decrease negative behaviors. The discussion will also focus on the need to provide family intervention to all youth regardless of age, sexual orientation, or gender identity. • Resa Matthew, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC (Moderator) • Norweeta Milburn, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, CA • André Wade, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC

3.3 Developing System-Wide Prioritization and Targeting Standards Redwood A/B The new Continuum of Care regulations mandate that communities develop written standards that lay out eligibility and prioritization criteria for transitional housing, rapid re-housing, and permanent supportive housing programs. This workshop will discuss how homeless assistance systems can take advantage of this new opportunity to codify best practices in terms of targeting and service matching across the system and integrate their new written standards with their coordinated assessment referral process. • Lianna Barbu, Community Shelter Board, Columbus, OH • Brett Gagnon, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC • Ann Oliva, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC

3.4 Retooling Transitional Housing I: Getting Started Cedar A/B Many providers and community leaders are exploring options for retooling their transitional housing programs in order to improve their communities’ overall performance. This workshop will provide an overview of how to evaluate the options for retooling and the steps and strategies providers can take to get the process started. • Kay Moshier McDivitt, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Speaker/Moderator) • Kimberly Tucker, St. Joseph’s Villa, Richmond, VA

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Time Event Location 3.5 Coordinated Response: Rapid Re-Housing and Employment Willow B Helping families connect quickly to housing and employment is key to ending homelessness. This workshop will examine strategies that local communities are using to integrate rapid re-housing and employment interventions. Successful partnerships across multiple agencies and service sectors will be explored. • Nick Codd, Building Changes, Seattle, WA • Jackie Edwards, Catholic Charities - Diocese of Trenton, Trenton, NJ • Carol Wilkins, Consultant, Berkeley, CA (Moderator) • Michelle Flynn, The Road Home, Salt Lake City, UT

3.6 Critical Partners to End Family Homelessness: Child Welfare Ravenna B/C Families experiencing homelessness are at heightened risk of becoming (Located on 3rd involved in the child welfare system, and many of the families on child Floor, Union welfare caseloads are at risk of homelessness. This workshop will examine Street Tower) how child welfare agencies are strengthening and stabilizing families by providing supportive services and addressing families’ housing needs. • Mary Cunningham, Urban Institute, Washington, DC • Elaine de Coligny, EveryOne Home, Hayward, CA • Sharon McDonald, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC • Don Moulds, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC (Moderator)

3.7 Expanding Housing Opportunities for Veteran Families: Developing Juniper the SSVF Program Model In order to reach the federal goal of ending veteran homelessness, the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program will be a key resource. VA continues to expand the SSVF program to house veteran families, building on the success of the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP). This workshop will provide information and examples that can be used by recently funded grantees as well as communities considering applying for SSVF to develop and implement a best practice rapid re-housing and prevention model for veterans and their families. • Sage Foster, Abode Services, Oakland, CA (Moderator) • John Kuhn, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Lyons, NJ • Marjorie Wherley, Abt Associates, Inc., Minneapolis, MN

18 Conference Agenda Thursday, February 21st Time Event Location 3.8 Helping Families Pay for Rent Willow A In most housing markets, formerly homeless and at-risk families are challenged by the high cost of rent. There are a variety of funding options available for communities to address this problem. This workshop will cover new opportunities and funding streams like the Supportive Service for Veteran Families (SSVF) programs as well as traditional and existing rental assistance through programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). • Tom Albanese, Abt Associates, Inc., Columbus, OH • Seth Lyon, Multnomah County, Portland, OR (Moderator) • Greg Morris, CATCH, Inc., Boise, ID • Christy Thomas, CATCH, Inc., Boise, ID

3.9 Partnerships to Improve Children’s Outcomes Ravenna A Communities can develop new partnerships to expand the resources available (Located on 3rd to them in supporting the children of households experiencing homelessness. Floor, Union This workshop will discuss new opportunities presented with the expansion Street Tower) of the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program under the Affordable Care Act, and strategies for working with McKinney-Vento Homeless Student Liaisons. • Carie Bires, Heartland Alliance, Chicago, IL • Carmela DeCandia, The National Center on Family Homelessness, Needham, MA (Moderator) • Margaret Schuelke, Progressive Redevelopment, Inc., Decatur, GA

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Time Event Location 6:15 pm - 7:30 pm Reception The Bill & The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Conference’s Premiere Sponsor, is Melinda Gates opening its Foundation doors to conference attendees for this reception. Pre- Foundation registration is required and is separate from general conference registration, but is included in the conference registration fee. To be added to the reception guest list, please visit conference registration, located in Grand Ballroom A/B Prefunction Area. We will be able to add registrants to the guest list until 3pm on Thursday, February 21.

If you plan to attend the reception, please bring a photo ID and your conference name badge for entry!

Listed below are several transportation options getting from the Sheraton Seattle Hotel to the reception, which will be held at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (500 5th Avenue, N, Seattle, WA 98109). You will also find a map of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in your conference tote bag – please refer to the map for additional instruction.

Taxi: • Taxi cabs can be hailed outside of the Sheraton Seattle Hotel. Hotel representatives at the front entrance will be happy to assist you in hailing a cab. • Estimated one-way cab fare to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is $6.50-$12.50, depending upon traffic. • To get a return cab after the reception, a representative at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be happy to assist you in calling for a return cab.

Seattle Monorail: • The Westlake Center Mall Monorail Station is roughly .2 miles from the Sheraton Seattle Hotel. • The Monorail goes direct and stops at the Seattle Center Monorail Station (right next to the Seattle Space Needle, and .3 miles from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). • The monorail departs both stations every 10 minutes, and travel time on the rail is roughly 2 minutes. • The monorail runs until 9pm on Thursday evenings. • One-way fare for the monorail is $2.25 for adults. • To get to the Westlake Center Mall Monorail Station from the Sheraton Seattle Hotel: °° Exit the Sheraton Seattle Hotel at the 6th Street entrance and walk northwest approximately .1 miles °° Turn left onto Pine Street and walk approximately 466 feet °° The Westlake Center and Monorail Station will be on your right • To get to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from the Seattle Center Monorail Station: °° Exit the monorail station at the Space Needle and walk east exiting the Seattle Center towards 5th Ave. North °° Turn left onto 5th Ave. N °° The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be on your right °° Enter through the doors located near the large parking garage – you can’t miss it! Bus: • The numbers 3 and 4 buses run on Third Avenue near Macy’s (1601 Third Avenue) and head right to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and drop you at the door. • Estimated one-way bus fare for adults, ages 19-64, is $2.25-$2.50, and $.75 for seniors, ages 65+. • To get to the Bus Stop from the Sheraton Seattle Hotel: °° Exit the Sheraton Seattle Hotel at the 6th Street entrance and walk northwest approximately 213 feet. °° Turn left onto Pike Street, and walk approximately .2 miles. °° Turn right onto Third Avenue, and walk approximately .1 miles.

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Time Event Location 8:00 am - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast* Grand Ballroom A/B/C/D Prefunction Area

8:00 am - 12:00 pm Registration Grand Ballroom A/B Prefunction Area

9:00 am - 10:30 am Workshops IV

4.1 A Child Welfare and Legal Systems Collaboration: Alameda County Cedar A/B Initiative to Combat Youth Homelessness Alameda County, California has implemented a demonstration project to answer the question, “how can the child welfare system support homeless or unaccompanied minors?” Through California’s Fostering Connections Act, which provides extended foster care to youth up to the age of 21, Alameda County will attempt to reduce youth homelessness by improving coordination between homeless youth services, county child welfare agencies, juvenile justice and legal aid services. Presenters will provide information about the replicable demonstration project, lessons learned, and recent findings. • Brian Blalock, Bay Area Legal, Oakland, CA • Reed Connel, Alameda County Foster Youth Alliance, San Jose, CA • Rachael Gardiner, Bay Area Legal, Oakland, CA • Todd Shenk, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC (Moderator)

4.2 Improving the Crisis Response to Youth Homelessness Juniper When a youth runs away from home or a young adult becomes homeless, there is an immediate need for safety and emergency housing to prevent that young person from being exposed to the inherent dangers that accompany sleeping on the street. This workshop will examine best practices for providing emergency shelter to youth, as well as ways to increase your community’s capacity to house youth. Host homes and improving the adult system’s response to youth will be discussed. • TC Cassidy, NRCYS - RHYTTAC, Tulsa, OK (Moderator) • Mark Kroner, Lighthouse Training Institute, Cincinnati, OH • Kathy Sauve, Lutheran Social Services, St. Paul, MN

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Time Event Location 4.3 Creating a Culture of Accountability: How Funders Can Encourage Willow A Good Results Funders are a key aspect in determining what programs a community develops in its efforts to end homelessness. This workshop will provide an opportunity for funders to come together and discuss how to use their resources and influence to change homeless services. Presenters will include public and private sector funders with experience moving from shelter to rapid re-housing models. • Anne Miskey, Funders Together to End Homelessness, Boston, MA (Speaker/Moderator) • Kathy Robertson, State of Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, Richmond, VA • David Wertheimer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA

4.4 Retooling Transitional Housing II: Community Stories Aspen This workshop will highlight one community that has retooled their transitional housing resources to increase rapid re-housing resources for families. Hear about the journey this community took to successfully change their programs and system to serve families experiencing homelessness, including their challenges, solutions, and successes. How to work with survivors of domestic violence will also be covered. • David Jordan, Agape Child and Family Services, Memphis, TN • Katie Kitchin, Community Alliance for the Homeless, Memphis, TN • Alice Shobe, Building Changes, Seattle, WA (Moderator) • Caprice Snyder, Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association, Memphis, TN

4.5 Improving Emergency Shelter Ravenna B/C Emergency shelters have an important role to play as communities work to (Located on 3rd implement the HEARTH Act. This workshop will discuss how to improve Floor, Union your community’s emergency shelter system by focusing on performance Street Tower) measurement, reduction of entry requirements, and integration with rapid re-housing, and coordinated assessment efforts. • Elfi Di Bella, YWCA Columbus, Columbus, OH • Robert Pulster, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, Washington, DC • Lisa Thornquist, Hennepin County, Minneapolis, MN

22 Conference Agenda Friday, February 22nd Time Event Location 4.6 Working with Your PHA to Expand Housing Options Redwood A/B Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) are key players in preventing and ending homelessness among families. This workshop will discuss successful relationships with PHAs and explore creative ways to partner with local housing agencies to expand housing opportunities. • Beverly Ebersold, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, Washington, DC (Moderator) • Kevin Finn, Strategies to End Homelessness, Cincinnati, Ohio • Denise Neunaber, North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness, Raleigh, NC • Kristin Winkel, King County Housing Authority, Tukwila, WA

4.7 Employment Strategies: Reducing Veteran Family Homelessness Ravenna A Veterans with families who are at risk of or are currently experiencing (Located on 3rd homelessness tend to be unemployed or underemployed. This workshop will Floor, Union explore programs that help these veterans obtain and keep employment, as Street Tower) well as look at how existing employment programs can better serve their veteran family clients. Transferring military skills to the civilian market, entrepreneurship, and job development will also be covered. • Allison Calabro, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC (Moderator) • Carma Heitzmann, VA Homeless Veterans Supported Employment Program, Washington, DC • Dana Niemela, Denver Human Services, Denver, CO • Rob Reynolds, VA Benefits Assistance Services, Washington, DC

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Time Event Location 4.8 Federal Budget Cuts: What’s Happening and What We Can Do Madrona The Budget Control Act, passed in August 2011, dramatically changed the way the federal government will spend money for the next eight years. In recent months, the debate around federal spending has continued, and will continue, with the outcome of these conversations hugely impacting funding for homeless assistance programs. Presenters will cover what’s happening and how it will affect your programs as well as what you can do to impact these decisions. • Steve Berg, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC • Liz Schott, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Seattle, WA • Kate Seif, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Moderator) • Andrew Sperling, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Arlington, VA

4.9 Promoting Recovery for Homeless Families and Youth Willow B For the most vulnerable families and youth, re-housing efforts increasingly include harm reduction strategies to optimize behavioral health outcomes. This workshop will examine how providers use evidence-based approaches, including peer support, and how their program outcomes are affected. • Cathy Cave, Advocates for Human Potential, Albany, NY • Claudia Powell, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ • André Wade, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Moderator)

10:45 pm - 12:15 pm Workshops V

5.1 Helping Youth Pay Rent: Short- and Long-Term Solutions Ravenna B/C For youth who are able to live independently, rental assistance and help (Located on 3rd finding employment may be enough to end their experiences of homelessness. Floor, Union Presenters will discuss designing, implementing, and evaluating a variety of Street Tower) short-term rental assistance programs for youth. Discussion will also include how programs are preparing youth to transition off of short-term rent subsidies and into sustainable employment. • Darla Bardine, National Network for Youth, Washington, DC (Moderator) • Tiana Brown, The Salvation Army of Central Ohio, Delaware, OH • Christy Saxton, First Place for Youth, Oakland, CA

24 Conference Agenda Friday, February 22nd Time Event Location 5.2 Making Transitional Housing More Accessible to Homeless Youth Cedar A/B For youth who are unable to quickly reunite with a caring adult and are not prepared to live independently in housing of their own, transitional living programs serve a crucial role. This workshop will focus on transitional living programs that are serving youth with the most significant challenges, including disabilities and long-term homelessness, and helping them make successful transitions into independent living and greater self-sufficiency. • Mark Kroner, Lighthouse Training Institute, Cincinnatti, OH • Deanne Pearn, First Place for Youth, Oakland, CA • Deborah Shore, Sasha Bruce Youthwork, Washington, DC (Moderator)

5.3 Leveraging Landlord Relationships: Creating Housing Solutions Willow A Establishing and maintaining positive relationships with private and public landlords is critical to the success of efforts to rapidly re-house families. This workshop will cover how to develop strong partnerships with landlords and how to use those relationships to acquire housing through creative strategies. There will be an emphasis on finding housing solutions for high-barrier families, including those who are undocumented or live in rural or high-cost areas. • Shakeita Boyd, District Alliance for Safe Housing, Washington, DC (Moderator) • Keely McCave, Hamilton Family Center, San Francisco, CA • Scott Pitts, Good Shepherd Housing, Falls Church, VA • Kathy Wahto, Serenity House of Clallam County, Port Angeles, WA

5.4 Critical Partners to End Family Homelessness: TANF Willow B TANF agencies are charged with helping low-income parents with children find employment and achieve greater levels of economic self-sufficiency. In addition to providing income and work supports, TANF resources can also be used to support rapid re-housing interventions. This workshop will examine how TANF agencies are effectively working to end family homelessness. • Marygrace Billek, New Jersey Department of Human Services, Trenton, NJ • Barbara Broman, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC (Moderator) • Ross Mason, Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Boise, ID • Sharon McDonald, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC

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Time Event Location 5.5 New Congress, New Opportunities: Advocacy and the 113th Congress Ravenna A The 113th Congress, which convened in January, will focus on a variety of (Located on 3rd issues related to housing and homelessness programs. This workshop will Floor, Union provide an overview of the new Congress, priority issues, and ways to educate Street Tower) new and returning Members. • Nicole Amling, Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness, Chicago, IL • Benjamin Miksch, Washington Low Income Housing Alliance, Seattle, WA • Kate Seif, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Speaker/Moderator)

5.6 Continuum of Care Planning: Engaging Stakeholders, Promoting Aspen Collaboration, and Ensuring Accountability The Continuum of Care (CoC) planning process is changing under the HEARTH Act, and its importance is growing. This workshop will review effective strategies for organizing a CoC and its leadership. Topics will include CoC structure; tailoring the CoC to your community’s characteristics; engaging stakeholders such as consumers, political leadership, and mainstream partners; and using the CoC process to improve your community’s performance. • Michael Arnold, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, Los Angeles, CA (Moderator) • Kelly King Horne, Homeward, Richmond, VA • Suzanne Wagner, Housing Innovations, New York, NY

5.7 Shelter Diversion and Prevention for Families Redwood A/B Shelter diversion and targeted prevention can ensure that shelter beds and other program beds are being held for those families that do not have another safe housing alternative. This workshop will review successful models for identifying families that can be prevented or diverted from entering shelter, how to serve such families effectively, and how to integrate prevention and diversion with coordinated assessment. The workshop will also include discussion on how best to allocate a community’s financial resources among prevention, diversion, and other interventions to achieve maximum system performance. • Matthew Ayres, Hennepin County Office to End Homelessness, Minneapolis, MN • Amy Price, Community Shelter Board, Columbus, OH • Sara Zuiderveen, NYC Department of Homeless Services, New York, NY

26 Conference Agenda Friday, February 22nd Time Event Location 5.8 Identifying and Supporting Youth with Mental Health Disabilities Madrona Mental health disabilities and symptoms often manifest themselves in late adolescence and early adulthood. This workshop will explore strategies to help parents and practitioners identify and understand early symptoms of mental health disabilities among young people. Speakers will also examine strategies to help these vulnerable youth develop and retain connections to appropriate supports while making the transition to more independent living. • Charlene Ray, School Based Mental Health Services, Island County, WA • Andrew Sperling, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Arlington, VA (Speaker/Moderator) • Janet Walker, Regional Research Institute, Portland State University, Portland, OR

5.9 Exploring Approaches to End Family Homelessness: Australia Juniper The commitment to end homelessness is shared by our international partners. This facilitated discussion session explores strategies underway in Australia to meet the needs of at-risk and homeless families. Efforts to integrate domestic violence and family homelessness interventions, addressing the needs of young parents with young children, and supporting homeless children will be among the topics explored. • Nan Roman, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Facilitator) • Kylie Robertson, Micah Projects, Brisbane, Australia • Alison Thornbun, Micah Projects, Brisbane, Australia • Karyn Walsh, Micah Projects, South Brisbane, Australia

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch* Plenary with Keynote Speaker Grand Ballroom • Welcome: Nan Roman, President and CEO, National Alliance to End A/B/C/D Homelessness, Washington, DC • Keynote: The Honorable Patty Murray, Senator, Washington State • Video: Open Doors

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Workshops VI

6.1 Connecting Youth to Education and Employment Opportunities Willow B Education and employment opportunities can help stabilize youth who are formerly or currently experiencing homelessness and provide them with a foundation for a successful future. This workshop discusses strategies to help connect youth to employment and education opportunities, and the skills they need to obtain them. Presenters will explore how to develop partnerships with local employment and educational institutions. • Sherilyn Adams, Larkin Street Youth Services, San Francisco, CA (Moderator) • Melinda Giovengo, YouthCare Seattle, WA • Amanda Noble, Raising the Roof, Toronto, ON

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Time Event Location 6.2 The Unfortunate Intersection: Youth Homelessness and Sexual Cedar A/B Exploitation Youth who are out of their homes are at high risk of sexual exploitation. Organizations providing housing and services to youth experiencing homelessness should be aware of how to identify and better serve those who are currently experiencing and are survivors of exploitation. Presenters will provide an overview of the sexual exploitation of youth, how to better identify and protect young survivors, and how communities are responding by implementing a systemic response. • Joselyn Baker, Multnomah County Department of Community Justice, Portland, OR • Leslie Briner, YouthCare, Seattle, WA • Beth Holger-Ambrose, Minnesota Department of Human Services, St. Paul, MN • Dennis Morrow, Janus Youth Programs, Portland, OR

6.3 Sustaining Housing: A Voluntary Services Approach Willow A A voluntary services approach has become an increasingly popular mechanism for providers to serve vulnerable families and youth. This workshop will demonstrate how providers are successfully implementing a voluntary service model and examine the benefits of this approach. Presenters will also explore how this model is being used to provide home-based services for a rapid re-housing intervention. • Kay Moshier McDivitt, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Moderator) • Anna Melbin, Full Frame Initiative, Yarmouth, ME • Kathy Wahto, Serenity House of Clallam County, Port Angeles, WA

6.4 Reaching, Engaging, and Serving Recently Discharged Veterans Ravenna B/C Veterans of America’s current conflicts make up an increasing proportion (Located on 3rd of both homeless veterans and all people experiencing homelessness. Recent Floor, Union veterans, more often young, female, and part of a family, have access to Street Tower) numerous veterans-specific resources that can end their homelessness. This workshop will cover the basics of homeless assistance provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs and how homeless assistance providers can ensure they are identifying and providing the right interventions for the veteran and his or her family. • Robin Baker, U.S. Army Ft. Lewis Transition Assistance Program, Ft. Lewis, WA • Katherine Gerard, Department of Veterans Affairs, Seattle, WA • Kathleen Guarino, The National Center on Family Homelessness, Needham, MA

28 Conference Agenda Friday, February 22nd Time Event Location 6.5 Messaging and Media Engagement Madrona Advancing your organization’s mission involves reaching out to the media as well as the public. While it is important to understand how to use the many public relations tools at your disposal, it is equally important to understand how to craft a message that is effective and compelling. Presenters will discuss strategies for engaging traditional media, how to take advantage of new media tools, and the creation and tailoring of messages for specific audiences and media platforms. • Daniel Heimpel, Fostering Media Connections, San Francisco, CA • Tina Kelley, Covenant House, New York, NY • Sara Loken, Community Shelter Board, Columbus, OH • Kollin Min, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA

6.6 Understanding and Implementing the Continuum of Care Rule Redwood A/B The Continuum of Care rule, released July 2012, went into effect on August 30 and was implemented nationwide with the release of the NOFA in November; however, many communities have questions and concerns about the rule. This workshop will be an audience-driven question and answer session and discussion. Presenters will address as many questions as time provides. • Brett Gagnon, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC • Norm Suchar, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Speaker/Moderator)

6.7 Domestic Violence Providers and Coordinated Assessment: Aspen Challenges and Opportunities A successful coordinated assessment process for survivors will require solid and safe assessment and referral processes, quick linkages to permanent housing, and special consideration for survivors’ various safety, privacy, and confidentiality needs. This workshop will explore successful collaborations around coordinated assessment between the domestic violence and homeless assistance systems in different communities, keys to assessing survivors’ needs effectively, and the potential advantages of a single coordinated assessment process for all homeless and survivor households. • Samantha Batko, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC (Moderator) • Monica Bernhard, Kitsap Community Resources, Bermerton, WA • Joyce Probst MacAlpine, Montgomery County, Dayton, OH

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Time Event Location 6.8 Exploring Strategies that Work: A USICH Listening Session Juniper What is working in your community to end family homelessness? Conference participants are invited to share promising approaches, partnerships and lessons learned with U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness leaders in this listening session. Opportunities and challenges to achieving the national goal of ending family homelessness will be explored. Recommendations on how federal and state agencies can be more effective partners in supporting the most effective strategies to end family homelessness will also be sought. • Katharine Gale, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, Washington, DC (Facilitator)

30 Conference Agenda Friday, February 22nd Plenary Speaker Biographies

Dow Constantine has served as King County Executive since 2009. For eight years, he served as a member of the King County Council and, for five years, served in the Washington Legislature, including two terms in the House of Representatives (where he co-chaired the House Judiciary Committee) and one in the state Senate. A Seattle native, Mr. Constantine graduated from West Seattle High School and the University of Washington, going on to earn University of Washington post-graduate degrees in law and urban planning. Throughout his public service career, he has been an outspoken advocate for environmental protection, public transit, and government reform. He currently serves as co- chair of the Governing Board of the Committee to End Homelessness in King County.

Mark Johnston serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs. In this role he oversees HUD’s grant programs to prevent and end homelessness. Mr. Johnston oversees $7 billion in funding devoted to affordable housing for low-income persons, stabilizing neighborhoods, and supportive housing for homeless persons and families. To administer this array of programs, he leads the management of approximately 800 federal employees. In 2012, Mr. Johnston was a key part of a team from HUD and the Department of Veterans Affairs that won the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Citizen Services Medal for their work to reduce veteran homelessness by 12 percent in one year. Previously, Mr. Johnston served as HUD’s Senior Advisor on Homelessness and as Deputy Director for the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness.

Senator Patty Murray has a proven track record spanning more than two decades of fighting for Washington state families in the U.S. Senate. Serving as a member of Senate Democratic leadership since 2007, Senator Murray has established herself as a tireless and effective leader on education, issues, health care, and budget and veterans issues. In addition to being the first female Senator from the state of Washington, she served as the first female Chair of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee during the 112th Congress and currently serves as the first female Chair of the Senate Budget Committee. As a unique voice in the U.S. Senate, she is known for her down-to-earth, determined style and is often looked to by colleagues and the media in Washington, DC for her ability to articulate how complex issues affect every day American families.

Barbara Poppe is the executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. In this role, Ms. Poppe oversees the federal response to homelessness by working with 19 federal agencies to create a national partnership at every level of government and with the private sector to reduce and end homelessness. In June 2010, Ms. Poppe and four cabinet secretaries announced Opening Doors, the nation’s first-ever comprehensive federal plan to prevent and end homelessness. She has more than 25 years of nonprofit experience working on homelessness with housing- related organizations. Ms. Poppe served as executive director of the Columbus, Ohio-based Community Shelter Board (CSB) from October 1995 to November 2009. CSB is a nationally recognized nonprofit organization that creates collaborations, develops innovative solutions, and invests in quality programs to end homelessness in Columbus and Franklin County, OH.

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Nan Roman, President and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, is a leading national voice on the issue of homelessness. Under her leadership, the Alliance has developed a pragmatic plan to end homelessness. To implement this plan, Ms. Roman works closely with Members of Congress and the Administration, as well as with cities and states across the nation. She collaborates with Alliance partners to educate the public about the real nature of homelessness and its solutions. She has researched and written on the issue, is frequently interviewed by the press, and regularly speaks at events around the country. Ms. Roman’s unique perspective on homelessness and its solutions comes from years of local and national experience in the areas of poverty and community-based organizations.

Nan Stoops has worked in the anti-violence movement as an advocate, trainer, and organizer for more than 30 years. Currently, she serves as the executive director of the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, a nonprofit organization that works on behalf of 73 community-based domestic violence advocacy agencies in Washington. Previously, Ms. Stoops served as the associate director of the FaithTrust Institute, a national organization that mobilizes religious leaders and communities to address sexual and domestic violence. She was a founding member of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, and a past board chair of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Ms. Stoops is the 2010 recipient of the Seattle Girls School Grace Hopper Award for Exemplary Leadership and is a participant in the Novo Foundation’s “Move to End Violence” initiative.

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Sherilyn Adams has served as the executive director of Larkin Street since 2005. Ms. Adams has developed and managed a wide range of programs for children, youth, families and single adults over the course of her 20 year career in service to others. Her proficiencies encompass the areas of substance use and abuse, mental health, HIV/AIDS, child abuse and family violence issues. Prior to her current role, Ms. Adams served as the chief of programs at Larkin Place, where she supervised the agency’s licensed residential programs, HIV/AIDS-related services and outreach programs, and established strong relationships with public and private funders. She has been an active member of many nonprofit boards and community task forces and has received numerous prestigious awards and honors.

Tom Albanese provides consulting and technical assistance services as a senior associate with Abt Associates Inc. Tom has provided planning, development, implementation and management support for housing and homeless programs since 1992. He currently manages Abt support for HUD around data collection and reporting, provides technical assistance around policy and evidence-based practices for various states and localities as part of HUD technical assistance initiatives, and is a lead provider of technical assistance for VA’s Supportive Services for Veterans Families (SSVF) program. Mr. Albanese previously served as the director of programs and planning for the Community Shelter Board (CSB) in Columbus, OH, where he managed local Continuum of Care planning and technical assistance, and as the associate director of a diverse family services agency. He has served as the director of an emergency shelter for single adults and families and was the founding director of a 75-unit transitional housing program recognized as a best practice by HUD and the state of Ohio.

Nicole Amling is the director of policy and planning at the Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness. She is responsible for the Chicago Alliance’s policy and advocacy initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels, as well as implementation of Chicago’s Plan 2.0: A Home for Everyone. In 2012, she managed the redevelopment of Chicago’s Plan to End Homelessness. Ms. Amling worked previously at The Night Ministry as the manager of government relations and at Women Employed as a senior policy associate.

Heather Baeckel, has been supporting young parents and their children through her work at Insights Teen Parent Services in Portland, OR for 10 years. Ms. Baeckel has worked as a Home Visiting Family Advocate, Group Facilitator, Coordinator of Insights’ Youth Advisory Council, and is currently supervising staff working in Insights’ Homeless and Foster Care programming. She aligns herself closely with Insights’ Strengths’ Based services approach and believes that teen parents can be great parents when given respect, support, and opportunity.

Joslyn Baker is the collaboration specialist for Multnomah County’s Department of Community Justice, where she works on an effort to end the commercial sexual exploitation of children. For the past 20 years Ms. Baker has worked for Multnomah County on various social justice projects. The common thread weaving her work together through the years is a passion for social justice that supports healthy families and communities where people are safe and treated with dignity and respect. Ms. Baker holds a Master’s in special education from the University of the Pacific. She is the proud parent of a 17 year-old son and 25 year-old daughter and she lives with her son and wife in Vancouver, WA.

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Lianna Barbu is directing the internal operations of the Community Shelter Board (CSB). She is responsible for overseeing the operation and management of the finance, grants, information technology, and human resources. Ms. Barbu is also directing the data, research, and evaluation affairs and is responsible for program and system evaluations necessary for programmatic and planning decisions at CSB. She holds an MBA from the Ohio State University Max M. Fisher College of Business and an undergraduate degree in Computer Sciences.

Darla Bardine is a public interest attorney who has dedicated her career to fighting for youth and their families living in poverty and facing homelessness, violence, and addiction. Prior to joining the National Network for Youth, Ms. Bardine was a federal policy advocate for families struggling with poverty, violence, trauma, and navigating the criminal justice and child welfare systems. Her work included building several successful national coalitions, and she helped lead the initiative to end the shackling of incarcerated pregnant mothers in U.S. federal prisons. She has also helped conduct leadership and policy advocacy training workshops for grassroots advocates throughout the United States. At Georgetown Law, Ms. Bardine taught, conducted research, and wrote on topics affecting vulnerable youth with limited access to the care they need. She created the Fight Child Exploitation in Tourism Initiative in South Africa, worked on issues affecting foster and adoptive children in Washington, DC, and clerked as a public defender.

Samantha Batko is the Director of the Homelessness Research Institute, leading the research arm of the National Alliance to End Homelessness. In that role, she authors and oversees the publication of reports and research briefs as well as co-chairs the Alliance’s Research Council. Prior to this position, Ms. Batko focused on crafting policy and identifying promising programs that end homelessness for unaccompanied youth and young parents as a member of the Alliance’s policy team. Ms. Batko also served as the Alliance’s lead staff person on issues affecting survivors of domestic violence. She has previous experience helping state and local governments, communities, and nonprofits design and implement rapid re-housing/Housing First systems and programs. Ms. Batko joined the Alliance in February 2006 after graduating from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor’s in psychology.

Steve Berg, vice president for programs and policy at the National Alliance to End Homelessness, specializes in employment, economic development, and human services, and the crossover between those issues and housing. He came to the Alliance from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where he worked on state-level welfare reform and employment. Before coming to Washington, he spent 14 years as a legal services attorney in California and Connecticut, working on housing, government benefits, employment and family integrity. His experience includes nonprofit management and staff training and development.

Kris Billhardt, director of Volunteers of America’s Home Free program, has worked in the domestic violence movement for over three decades. Her accomplishments include development of a nationally recognized innovative program design, extensive training and technical assistance, scholarly publications, and development of ethical communication policies and practices for use in human services settings. She serves on several local and statewide boards, including Oregon’s Ending Homelessness Advisory Council. In 2007, the Home Free program was honored with the Annie E. Casey Foundation Family Strengthening Award and in 2010 the Home Free rapid re-housing program was recognized by the Alliance as a best practice for responding to domestic violence survivors’ homelessness.

34 Workshop Speaker Biographies Carie Bires is a systems integration manager at Heartland Health Outreach (HHO) in Chicago. Ms. Bires’ work focuses primarily on the integration of fragmented service systems that impact the lives of families experiencing homelessness, with a particular focus on the child welfare, early intervention, and early learning systems. Prior to her work with HHO, she managed a program for children at a long-term transitional housing program in Champaign, IL. With seven years of diverse experience in the field, Ms. Bires is skilled in the areas of program development, management, and evaluation; community-level practice; and creative arts therapy interventions with both children and adults. She holds a Bachelor’s in music therapy from Western Illinois University and an MSW from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Ms. Bires also serves on the UIUC School of Social Work Alumni Association Board.

Leslie Briner has worked in the field of direct services with children, youth, and families for over 12 years. Since 2005, she has worked with commercially sexually exploited youth. Ms. Briner served as the program director of youth services at SAGE (Standing Against Global Exploitation) in San Francisco, CA, from 2005 to 2007. Beginning in 2009, she consulted for the Seattle Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention Division in the efforts to develop community-based training and programming to respond to commercially sexually exploited youth. In 2010, Ms. Briner joined YouthCare, charged with implementing the Bridge program, a continuum of services for commercially sexually exploited youth in Seattle. Currently, she serves as the commercial sexual exploitation training and policy coordinator for YouthCare.

Tiana Brown is the rural housing coordinator at The Salvation Army in central Ohio, where she is responsible for managing and supervising the organization’s homeless housing and homelessness prevention programs in Region 10 of the Balance of State Continuum of Care, which consists of Delaware, Union, Morrow and Madison Counties. In the nearly six years Ms. Brown has been with The Salvation Army, she has helped develop the Central Ohio Rescue and Restore Coalition and worked on the Anti-Human Trafficking Program. Since shifting to housing and homelessness prevention, Ms. Brown has overseen the implementation of three new program areas, including homelessness prevention services, youth in transition, and programs for seniors. She has also seen duplication of those successes across her service area. Ms. Brown directly supervises 10 case management professionals along with acting as field instructor to Bachelor’s and Master’s level interns.

Cindy Burdine is the deputy director at Serenity House of Clallam County. Since joining Serenity House in 2004, Ms. Burdine has developed and overseen the implementation of four new family Housing First programs and is currently directing three Housing Resource Centers that serve as coordinated intake and assessment centers for Clallam County. Prior to Serenity House, Ms. Burdine worked for 11 years with homeless families in an emergency community nonprofit in Colorado.

Tom Byrne is an investigator at the National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans. His current work at the Center includes examining the health service utilization of veterans using VA and mainstream homeless assistance services, aging and mortality among homeless veterans, and community-level predictors of veteran and non-veteran homelessness. His work also includes contributing to an evaluation of the SSVF program. Mr. Byrne received an MSW and Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice, where he also has an appointment as a research assistant professor. His prior experience includes working with refugee groups, doing street outreach work with homeless persons, and working with a housing program for homeless families.

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Allison Calabro serves as the homeless veterans outreach program manager for the Benefits Assistance Service of the Veterans Benefits Administration. Prior to working for the VA Central office in Washington, DC, she served as a veterans service representative at the Cleveland VA Regional office assisting former prisoners of war and seriously injured veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars with VA benefits eligibility and claims processing.

Reed Connell has served as the executive director of the Alameda County Foster Youth Alliance since May 2009. An Oakland native, Mr. Connell has more than ten years of experience working directly with homeless and foster youth in Alameda County. He has worked with youth in residential treatment programs, public and non-public schools, and transitional housing programs. He has also worked as a consultant to families committed to raising children with serious needs. Mr. Connell holds a Master’s in social welfare from UC Berkeley, with a focus in management and planning.

Carmela J. DeCandia serves as the director of the National Center on Family Homelessness. She is a licensed clinical psychologist with a specialty in child assessment, child development, trauma, and working with underserved populations. With over 20 years of experience as a clinician, she has held leadership roles in nonprofit direct service agencies that serve homeless families, young parents, and severely traumatized children. Ms. DeCandia received her Doctorate in clinical psychology from Antioch University, New England, and holds a Master’s certificate in global mental health with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma.

Elfi Di Bella is the president and CEO of YWCA Columbus, which houses the Family Center for homeless families. Over the past three years, Ms. Di Bella has successfully navigated the challenging economy and critical excess of homeless families requiring services. Under her leadership, the Family Center continues to be an award-winning model for re-housing families within 20 days of entering the center.

Pete Dougherty began working for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1983. In 1989, Pete began working as a professional staff member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. He was later employed as a professional staff member to the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. His work with both committees focused on issues of housing and homelessness. Mr. Dougherty began working for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in 1994 and later served as the director of VA’s Homeless Programs Office, the acting deputy assistant secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs, and the acting executive director of USICH. He serves as VA’s policy lead coordinating the agency’s plan to end homelessness among veterans. He has served as the chair of multiple VA committees and working groups, and has received numerous awards.

Jackie Edwards is the service area director for Catholic Charities, Diocese of Trenton, Emergency and Community Services. In this capacity, she is responsible for oversight and management of programs that help individuals and families lift themselves out of poverty and homelessness, including three rapid re-housing programs, basic needs assistance and prevention services, and career development, job readiness, and job retention/advancement trainings. She currently serves on the board of the Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness. Prior to joining Catholic Charities, Ms. Edwards was the executive director/CEO of Village Resources and served for 13 years as associate executive director for programs with Cerebral Palsy of New Jersey. She has more than 30 years of experience in the social services field.

36 Workshop Speaker Biographies Kevin Finn is the founding executive director of Strategies to End Homelessness, which oversees Emergency Solutions Grant, Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS, and CoC for the homeless funding in the city of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. His organization is also the CoC and HMIS lead agency and operates the community’s centralized access system. Mr. Finn began working with the homeless in 1998, providing street outreach services to teenagers who were living on the streets. He founded a day shelter for homeless teenagers and began several new homeless service programs targeted toward breaking the cycle of homelessness for chronically homeless people as well as those with substance abuse issues. Mr. Finn has been with Strategies to End Homelessness since 2007.

Michelle Flynn is the associate executive director of programs at The Road Home, where she has worked for 16 years. The Road Home provides emergency shelter as well as transitional and permanent supportive housing for individuals and families experiencing homelessness in Salt Lake County - UT. She has served on a variety of homeless and fundraising boards and committees, including the Utah Chapter of NAHRO, Utah Society of Fundraisers (USFR), State of Utah Homeless Coordinating Committee, and the Salt Lake County Homeless Coordinating Council. Ms. Flynn received the Pathfinder Award from the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce and the Outstanding Development Officer Award from USFR.

Mary Forbes, retired colonel, served on active duty for over 26 years in a variety of positions for the Washington National Guard and the U.S. Army. Ms. Forbes graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1983 and U.S. Army War College in 2006. She was previously assigned as the warrior, veteran, and family readiness service support director, J9, for the Washington National Guard, where she synchronized and delivered a wide spectrum of resources and services available to service members and their families throughout the deployment cycle. In 2010, she was appointed to serve as the assistant director of the Veteran Services and Behavioral Health Services Divisions, Washington Department of Veterans Affairs (WDVA). One of her primary focuses is heading up the WDVA’s initiative to end veteran homelessness in the state of Washington within five years.

Sage B. Foster has been focused on permanent housing location and retention for diverse populations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 25 years. He is currently the housing partnerships manager at Abode Services and the program manager of the rapid re-housing program that provides financial assistance and stabilization services to more than 600 households throughout Alameda County. By leveraging HPRP funds with Oakland Housing Authority subsidies and working collaboratively with the City of Oakland, Alameda County, and nonprofit organizations, he has provided subsidized housing and appropriate services to re-entering parolees, encampment dwellers, and disabled shelter residents in Oakland, CA. Mr. Foster has worked successfully with special needs populations by utilizing a Housing First, harm reduction and integrated services ‘best practice’ approach in achieving positive long-term housing outcomes.

Stephen Gaetz is committed to a research agenda that foregrounds social justice and attempts to make research relevant to policy and program development. His research interests include homelessness, youth culture and community development. In his research on homelessness, he has focused on economic strategies, nutritional vulnerability, and educational and legal and justice issues. He also has done research on solutions to homelessness from both a Canadian and international perspective. Dr. Gaetz is the director of the Canadian Homelessness Research Network and the Homeless Hub, projects dedicated to mobilizing homelessness research so that it has a greater impact on policy, planning and service provision, thereby contributing to solutions to end homelessness in Canada.

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Katharine Gale is a policy director with the U.S Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH). Her portfolio focuses on performance measurement and family homelessness, as well as dedicating time to USICH’s regional work. Ms. Gale has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of homelessness and special needs housing. She has served as a consultant and project manager for public and nonprofit agencies working to end homelessness and as a deputy director at the Housing and Community Development Department of Alameda County, CA. Ms. Gale’s recent projects have focused on helping communities transform local responses to homelessness in keeping with the goals of HEARTH and Opening Doors. In 2011, she cofounded Focus Strategies, a joint venture dedicated to helping communities use local homeless data to improve outcomes and implement system change.

Katherine Gerard is the homeless program manager for the VA Puget Sound Health Care System. The homeless programs at Puget Sound include: Health Care for the Homeless, Supported Housing, and the Homeless Prevention Demonstration Program at American Lake. Prior to her current position, Ms. Gerard worked as a liaison with several Grant and Per Diem sites serving homeless veteran families and as an outreach clinician in the Homeless Women Veterans Program. Before that, Ms. Gerard worked in a VA Mental Health Clinic and Addictions Treatment Center, where she conducted a family support group for family members of veterans with substance abuse disorders. Ms. Gerard participates on several local committees as well as the Seattle King County Veterans Advisory Committee to End Veterans Homelessness.

Megan Gibbard is the homeless youth and young adult project manager with the King County Department of Community and Human Services. Ms. Gibbard is responsible for the county-wide implementation of coordinated engagement for homeless young people, data coordination, prevention, and family reunification strategies, and King County’s comprehensive plan to end youth and young adult homelessness. She previously served as the executive director of Teen Feed, a small agency in Seattle’s University District, and has 10 years of clinical experience with homeless youth. Current volunteer service includes membership on the board of the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance and the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.

Melinda Giovengo has been the Executive Director of YouthCare since 2006. She has over 27 years of experience in developing and implementing re-engagement programs for high school dropouts and homeless youth, as well as recovery services for victims of sexual exploitation. She holds a Master’s degree, a Ph.D., and is published on issues surrounding homeless youth and the impact of learning disabilities among hard-to-serve populations. Ms. Giovengo speaks locally and nationally on youth homelessness, child development, program development, domestic minor sex trafficking, and adolescent mental health issues.

Kathleen Guarino is director of training at the National Center on Family Homelessness, an affiliate of the American Institutes for Research, where she develops programs, resources, and training curricula to support organizations to implement trauma-informed practices. Ms. Guarino trains on traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, and trauma-informed care, and provides individualized consultation to organizations across the country to support trauma-informed programming. Her previous experience includes working as a clinician in a residential treatment facility and providing therapeutic services for children and families impacted by trauma.

38 Workshop Speaker Biographies Alison Harte, senior program manager, Innovations and Research, joined CSH in 2007 to direct Keeping Families Together, a supportive housing initiative designed to prevent foster care placement among very high need homeless families, which is now being replicated in several communities. She also helped implement 200 units of supportive housing for young adults aging out of foster care and founded the Young Adult Learning Collaborative, a peer learning group for government and nonprofit housing providers. Previously, Ms. Harte worked at the New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS). While there, Ms. Harte served as the special assistant to the deputy commissioner of family court legal services and worked in the Division of Community Partnerships, where she facilitated community-led initiatives in neighborhoods with high levels of child welfare involvement.

Carma Heitzmann is the national program manager of the Homeless Veteran Supported Employment Program in the Veterans Health Administration Homeless Program Office. She has worked in a variety of VA and public health settings, including inpatient psychiatry, substance abuse, residential mental health, and homeless programs. For 18 years, Ms. Heitzmann was the clinical coordinator of two residential and four work-therapy programs at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. In addition to providing direct clinical care, supervision, and training, she has written 12 peer reviewed publications and given multiple professional presentations. Ms. Heitzmann received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Arizona State University in 1989 and has been a licensed clinical psychologist in California since 1990.

Daniel Heimpel is an award-winning journalist and the founder of a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children through solution-based journalism. He also teaches graduate students of public policy, social work and journalism how to use media to drive social change. He is the publisher of The Chronicle of Social Change, a news website dedicated to solution-based coverage of issues facing vulnerable children and youth. He has written and produced stories about vulnerable children for Newsweek, the Los Angeles Daily News, and the LA Weekly, among many others, which has garnered him numerous journalism awards. In 2010, Mr. Heimpel founded Fostering Media Connections (FMC), a nonprofit with the mission of harnessing the power of media and journalism to drive public and political will behind improving the lives of vulnerable children. Since its inception, FMC has been central to policy-change to the child welfare system on both the state and federal level.

Michelle Heritage has served as the executive director of the Community Shelter Board, a nationally recognized nonprofit organization that works to end homelessness through collaborations, innovative solutions, and investments in quality programs in Columbus and Franklin County, OH, since 2010. In her role, Ms. Heritage provides leadership in achieving community-wide objectives focused on ending homelessness. She is responsible for strategic planning and collaborative efforts, private and public-sector fundraising and resource development, and effective governmental systems. Prior to her current position, Ms. Heritage served as the president and CEO of St. Vincent Family Center from 2001 to 2010. She has extensive nonprofit and public sector experience, including more than 20 years in leadership roles in the homeless, mental health, child welfare and alcohol and drug systems. She also serves as the Chair of the National Alliance to End Homelessness’ Leadership Council.

Beth Holger-Ambrose is the homeless youth services coordinator for the Minnesota Department of Human Services, where she works with services, program development, policy and funding for runaway, homeless and trafficked youth populations. She is also one of the state department leaders on the implementation of the Minnesota Safe Harbor Law and received a Bush Foundation Leadership Fellowship to further this work. Previously, Ms. Holger-Ambrose worked for Avenues for Homeless Youth and The Bridge in Minneapolis on runaway and homeless youth programs, including street outreach, emergency shelter, transitional living programs and independent living skills programs. Her research has been published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

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Kelly King Horne has served as Homeward’s Executive Director since 2007. Her professional background is in homelessness and affordable housing, organizational development, board governance, and nonprofit management. From 2005 to 2006, she served as Homeward’s Program and Development Director. Prior to that, she worked as the Manager for Community Initiatives on Homelessness with Homeward and the United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg from 2003 until 2005. Ms. Horne served as a Program Development Manager with Habitat for Humanity and worked particularly with Habitat affiliates in Romania, Armenia, and Northern Ireland. She also created the international staff training curriculum for Habitat for Humanity Europe/Central Asia. Ms. Horne serves on the Statewide Coordinating Council for Homelessness for the Commonwealth of Virginia and serves on the Affordability Workgroup of the Virginia Housing Commission. She chairs the City of Richmond Community Criminal Justice Board.

Aisha Hunter has worked at the Annie E. Casey Foundation since April 2011, where her work initially focused on the disconnected older youth portfolio in the foundation’s Center for Effective Family Services and Systems. She now works on national policy within Policy Advocacy and Reform. She currently leads the foundation’s ongoing work around the Affordable Care Act as it connects to older youth who have experience in the child welfare or juvenile justice systems.

David Jordan serves as the executive director of Agape Child & Family Services in Memphis, TN. Agape, a nationally accredited Christian nonprofit organization that serves 10,000 youth and families members annually. Agape’s Families in Transition (FIT) program, which began in 2001, serves homeless, pregnant, and parenting mothers and their children through a “transition in place” model with a 90 percent permanent housing success rate. FIT is supported by a place- based human services collaborative infrastructure, called Powerlines Community Network, led by Agape. Agape also provided HPRP programming where 92 percent of 1,000 imminently homeless family members served in more than two years remained in housing 12 months after services were provided.

Vince Kane is director of the National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans. In this role he oversees various programs and initiatives, including the Veterans Homelessness Prevention Demonstration Project and SSVF programs. Through research, evaluation, and model development efforts, Mr. Kane supports a comprehensive set of initiatives designed to prevent and end homelessness among veterans. These activities include collaborating on a research agenda that assesses the current continuum of services offered to veterans experiencing homelessness; developing and validating various practice models and program implementation strategies; and introducing evidence-based practices to VA. Mr. Kane has been with the Department of Veterans Affairs since 1999 and has more than 20 years of experience as a clinician, educator, and administrator. He is the former executive officer for the Veteran Health Administration Office of Mental Health and for the Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers within the Veterans Integrated Service Network.

Tina Kelley is the co-author of Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope, a book about six homeless young people and the forces that sent them to the street. For 10 years, Ms. Kelley worked as a reporter at The New York Times, where she belonged to the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for contributing to coverage of the September 11 attacks, and writing 121 “Portraits of Grief,” short descriptions of the victims. Ms. Kelley’s first book of poems, The Gospel of Galore, won a Washington State Book Award. She recently published her second book, “Precise.” Ms. Kelley is on the staff of Covenant House.

40 Workshop Speaker Biographies Katie Kitchin is the executive director of the Community Alliance for the Homeless, a nonprofit agency responsible for planning and coordinating services that benefit individuals and families who experience homelessness in Memphis and Shelby County, TN. Prior to joining the Community Alliance, Ms. Kitchin served as the project consultant for the City of Memphis’s HPRP and Action Plan to End Homelessness. Prior to moving to Memphis in 2008, Ms. Kitchin was the Director of the Office to End Homelessness for the City of Norfolk Virginia where she developed and implemented a ten year plan that led to a 25 percent reduction in homelessness after three years. Ms. Kitchin has also served as a chief of staff to the City of Norfolk’s Department of Human Services, a professional staff member of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, and as federal legislative director for Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge.

Mark Kroner is the Director of the Lighthouse Training Institute in Cincinnati. Mr. Kroner has been involved in developing and operating, independent and transitional living programs since 1986 and has worked with thousands of young people in the child welfare and homeless youth systems. Mr. Kroner is a licensed independent social worker who has also worked in the field as a group home director, a group trainer, and a consultant. He has published numerous articles, books, and workbooks focusing on self-sufficiency development and housing for youth in transition. Mr. Kroner has spoken extensively around the country on independent living issues and has helped dozens of agencies start and develop scattered-site apartment programs.

Andrea Kuebbeler is the clinical director at Alternatives, Inc., a community-based youth and family service agency in Chicago, where she oversees all behavioral health programming for adolescents and their families. Ms. Kuebbeler has more than twenty years’ experience working in the social service field and offers extensive knowledge of adolescent mental health and substance abuse issues, domestic violence, and trauma-related disorders within abusive family systems. As clinical director, Ms. Kuebbeler oversees numerous contracts from city, state and federal government programs, including a state-funded program for locked-out, runaway, and homeless youth.

John Kuhn has led the development and launch of the SSVF program, VA’s new homelessness prevention and rapid re- housing initiative. In the coming year, SSVF will provide $300 million in grants to community organizations assisting homeless and at-risk veteran families. For the past several years Mr. Kuhn has also authored the VA’s CHALENG Report, a community assessment of the needs of homeless veterans. Previously, Mr. Kuhn led VA homeless programs in New Jersey. Mr. Kuhn has received national recognition for his development of innovative employment, housing, and treatment services, receiving Mutual of America’s Community Partnership Medal and acknowledgement by the former chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee. Mr. Kuhn has been working with the homeless for more than 20 years.

Sara Loken, chief of staff of the Community Shelter Board, has 17 years of nonprofit experience in homelessness. Currently, Ms. Loken is responsible for professional support of the executive director in all agency activities. She leads project management, research, communications, and community relations activities, as well as all aspects of board governance, including policy development and monitoring. She also partners with the executive director to implement local, state, and federal legislative advocacy strategies to end homelessness. Established in 1986, the Community Shelter Board is a nationally recognized nonprofit organization that invests in quality programs, creates collaborations, and innovates solutions to end homelessness in Columbus and Franklin County, OH.

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Anthony Love serves as senior advisor and director of community engagement for Veterans Healthcare Administration (VHA), Homeless Programs working out of the Department of Veterans Affairs National Center on Homelessness among Veterans. In this role, Mr. Love provides timely and insightful advice to the national director of VHA Homeless Programs on operational and strategic opportunities, as well as identifies and recommends best practices related to homeless solutions and community, state and local government engagement. He also facilitates alignment of VHA Operations and Research functions. Mr. Love previously served as deputy director for USICH, where he was responsible for coordinating the state and local work of the Council and served as the lead on veterans issues for the Council. He has over 15 years of experience in homelessness and poverty issues, including as site director for United States Veterans Initiative’s Houston office and president and CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harris County.

Seth Lyon is a senior program specialist working for the Multnomah County, Oregon Department of County Human Services. Mr. Lyon worked in community mental health for fifteen years and has worked on the housing team for the past six years. He oversees a continuum of programs for homeless populations including rapid re-housing, permanent supportive housing, workforce training programs, and housing development programs as well as a new initiative to implement the assertive engagement model across Multnomah County.

Joyce Probst MacAlpine is the manager of housing and homeless solutions for Montgomery County, OH. Ms. Probst MacAlpine is responsible for supporting the implementation of the Homeless Solutions Community Ten Year Plan; A Blueprint for Ending Chronic Homelessness and Reducing Overall Homelessness. Her duties include supporting the Homeless Solutions Policy Board which acts as the community’s Continuum of Care, identifying new resources for housing and supportive services, and analyzing existing and proposed programs and policies affecting the homeless system. She is leading Montgomery County’s engagement in the production of 750 units of supportive housing and 1,800 units of affordable housing over the ten year life of the Homeless Solutions Plan.

Erin Maguire works for Catholic Community Services of King County in Washington state. She is the program manager for homeless youth services, including the Groundwork Project, a high-fidelity wraparound program, and the University District Youth Center, a multi-service center in Seattle. After serving for two years with Jesuit Volunteers International, providing counseling and coordinating a center for teenage mothers in Central America, Ms. Maguire worked as a healthy families supervisor in Boston before returning to the northwest for graduate studies and becoming a member of the Catholic Community Services Youth Services Leadership Team. She has 10 years of youth development experience working with vulnerable and at-risk youth.

Melissa Maguire has 20 years of experience working in youth and homeless service agencies. Her direct service experience includes crisis intervention, youth and family counseling to runaway and at-risk youth, family education, and counseling to youth and families in a residential treatment program. For the past five years, she has been the director of the Response-Ability Pregnant and Parenting Program, which serves pregnant and parenting homeless youth and their children and collaborates with other agencies on family reunification efforts. Ms. Maguire was on the team that developed this program by integrating the issues of teen parents with runaway and homeless youth. Presently, the program is the only emergency/interim program in Chicago that solely serves runaway and homeless teen parents. Currently, Ms. Maguire is the director of performance measurement at The Night Ministry.

Lanette Marcum is the vice president and the community reinvestment act (CRA) compliance officer for Mountain West Bank, a division of Glacier Bank. Ms. Marcum has been in banking for 32 years and has been the CRA officer for Mountain West Bank for the past seven years. She covers three states in her role as CRA officer for the Bank.

42 Workshop Speaker Biographies Ross Mason has served as regional director for southwest Idaho for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare for the last seven years, and has been with the Department for 16 years. He is responsible for community development that coincides with the mission of the Department of Health & Welfare. Mr. Mason sits on the Board of Directors of CATCH (Charitable Assistance To Community Homeless), a rapid re-housing program for homeless families. He has been very active in funding efforts from state agencies that benefit from the CATCH program and has been instrumental in current efforts to expand the CATCH program statewide. Mr. Mason is also involved in a community health clinic program, an education program for children of incarcerated parents, and the Idaho Mobility Council, which is trying to build a statewide public transportation system. He also has an extensive background in television journalism.

Resa Matthew, Ph.D, has more than 16 years of experience working with federal, state, and local governments on public health and behavioral health-related programs, including large, complex multi-site evaluations and service delivery projects. Her work has focused on HIV/AIDS, rapid HIV testing, substance abuse (SA), maternal and child health, mental health, and knowledge dissemination. Ms. Matthew currently serves as the Family and Youth Service Bureau’s director for the division of adolescent development and support in the Administration for Children and Families. She provides oversight for the runaway and homeless youth and the adolescent pregnancy prevention programs.

Keely McCave is the current program director of the First Avenues Program at Hamilton Family Center, which provides rental assistance to homeless or nearly homeless families and individuals in San Francisco. Ms. McCave has led rental assistance initiatives for over six years and helped initiate the new and expanded Housing First programs of First Avenues in 2005 and 2006, developing a temporary shallow rental subsidy program and an eviction prevention program. She headed up the HPRP First Avenues program expansion from 2010 to 2012 and has presented on topics related to rapid re-housing at technical assistance workshops for new housing programs.

Kay Moshier McDivitt is a capacity building associate at the National Alliance to End Homelessness. In this role, she works with the Center for Capacity Building to help communities create, implement, and evaluate plans to end homelessness based on their specific needs. She is the Center’s point person on issues related to retooling transitional housing and the Performance Improvement Clinics, and assists in projects ranging from ten year plan development to rapid re-housing planning. Prior to joining the Alliance in 2011, Ms. Moshier McDivitt served as the Community Homeless Advisor for the Lancaster County (PA) Coalition to End Homelessness, providing leadership for the County’s 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness and Continuum of Care, and as Vice President for Programs for Tabor Community Services, Inc., where she oversaw a number of model program initiatives focused on ending homelessness including prevention and rapid re-housing approaches. She has provided community leadership in the homeless service arena since 1994 both at the local level and national level on best practice models for ending homelessness. She received her degrees in Social Work and Sociology from Eastern Mennonite University.

Sharon McDonald is the director for families and youth at the National Alliance to End Homelessness where she has worked since 2001. Ms. McDonald is a social worker with an MSW and Ph.D. in Social Work and Social Policy from Virginia Commonwealth University and has worked as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Ms. McDonald began her post-graduate work with individuals and families experiencing poverty and homelessness as a direct practitioner in Richmond, VA in 1989. She supervised a community-based seven-day-a-week program that served as the “Living Room” and access point to supportive services and clinical interventions for people experiencing homelessness, primarily adults living outside of the shelter system. She also has experience providing and supervising social work services in a service- enriched subsidized housing development for low-income families. Ms. McDonald served as the 1999/2000 National Association of Social Workers/Council on Social Work Education Social Work Congressional Fellow in Senator Paul D. Wellstone’s office.

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Alison McIntosh joined Neighborhood Partnerships in late 2006, where she manages the Bridges to Housing collaboration and oversees fundraising. At Neighborhood Partnerships, Ms. McIntosh is responsible for advocacy, communications, and policy analysis. She coordinates the work of the Housing Alliance, advises on asset building, and formulates strategies to engage members in advocacy through coalitions, voter registration, and voter engagement. Ms. McIntosh began working for nonprofit organizations in 2001 as a community organizer in Minnesota. After moving to Portland in 2003, she gained experience in local housing issues as a volunteer and board member for the Portland-based Community Alliance of Tenants, where she participated in Portland’s Quality Rental Housing Workgroup. In 2010, she was selected to participate in Robert Wood Johnson’s Ladder to Leadership fellowship program.

Anna Melbin has 20 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations and on state and federal level policy. In 2011, Ms. Melbin joined the Full Frame Initiative (FFI), a nonprofit organization devoted to breaking cycles of poverty and violence through systems change. As the director of network growth and strategy, she is responsible for expanding the organization’s national network of social service programs and strategic allies, and oversees a statewide project in California that identifies and documents the ways in which different stakeholders frame success for domestic violence survivors. In her previous position as the housing director at the National Network to End Domestic Violence, Ms. Melbin began her career working in homeless shelters and battered women’s shelters, and as a case manager in transitional housing programs for families.

Benjamin Miksch joined the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance as the state and federal policy associate early last year. In his position, he fights for policies that ensure every Washingtonian has access to a safe, healthy, and affordable home. Prior to joining the Housing Alliance, Mr. Miksch spent two years in Washington, DCwhere he was able to see first-hand how legislation affecting housing and homelessness moved through Congress while working on housing, tax, and bank regulation for U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell. A dyed-in-the-wool political junkie, Mr. Miksch has been hooked since he first interned on a candidate’s campaign while he was in college. He has also run a successful state senator’s re-election campaign, worked on a successful effort to amend Washington’s constitution to aid in funding education, and spent a legislative session working as an aide in Olympia.

Norweeta G. Milburn, Ph.D., is a professor in residence for the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA Semel Institute Nathanson Family Resilience Center. She received her Ph.D. in Community Psychology from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include homelessness, substance abuse, mental health and family-based behavioral interventions. Ms. Milburn has led studies as a principal investigator or co-investigator that have examined paths into and out of homelessness, as well as the risk for HIV among homeless youth in the U.S. and Australia. She has designed and implemented a behavioral intervention for homeless adolescents at risk for HIV and their families; and designed and tested recruitment strategies for behavioral substance abuse interventions. She is currently adapting and testing a behavioral intervention for youth exiting the juvenile justice system and their families. Ms. Milburn chaired the APA 2009 Presidential Task Force on Psychology’s Contribution to End Homelessness.

Kollin Min is a program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the Pacific Northwest Initiative in the United States Program, where he leads the advocacy work for the foundation’s family homelessness initiative. Prior to joining the Foundation, he served as the Seattle/Washington state director for Enterprise Community Partners Inc., a national nonprofit housing intermediary. Mr. Min is an attorney with more than 10 years of experience in the nonprofit, governmental, and private sectors. He also serves on the Board of Commissioners of the Seattle Housing Authority.

44 Workshop Speaker Biographies Anne Miskey is executive director of Funders Together, an organization seeking to end homelessness by harnessing philanthropy’s expanding potential for impact and change. Prior to joining Funders Together, Ms. Miskey worked for a number of years in the philanthropic and corporate sectors. Her most recent position was director of community initiatives for the Oakville Community Foundation, where she helped to build cross-sectoral collaboratives focused on social issues and to produce an annual community indicator report, called Vital Signs, which identified community needs and gaps. Before that, she worked for United Way, doing social research on root causes and systems change. She also ran a consulting business and worked for many years in public relations and corporate communications for Bell Canada.

Ann Elizabeth Montgomery has been conducting research with the National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans and the University of Pennsylvania since 2009. Ms. Montgomery holds Master’s degrees in social work and public administration from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. In her role with the Center, Ms. Montgomery collaborates with researchers to develop and implement a diverse research agenda with emphases on homelessness prevention, interventions to end homelessness among high- need populations, and the demography and epidemiology of homelessness among veterans. Ms. Montgomery has been developing and piloting a system-wide homelessness screening clinical reminder and evaluating several model development projects including the Housing First pilot and Safe Haven demonstration.

Greg Morris is the founder and executive director of CATCH, Inc. in Boise, ID. In 2006, Mr. Morris developed and implemented the CATCH re-housing model. The National League of Cities, CH2MHill, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have recognized the model for its innovation in housing homeless families for Boise. Over the past 20 years, Mr. Morris has worked extensively with at-risk populations, including homeless and runaway youth, homeless families with children, resettled refugees, and persons with disabilities. He previously served as the director of Community House, the largest homeless shelter in Idaho at the time, and served as Boise’s ADA fair housing coordinator from 2005 to 2011.

Denise Neunaber is currently the executive director of the North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness, a statewide membership nonprofit that works to secure resources, encourage public dialogue, and advocate for public policy change to end homelessness. Ms. Neunaber began her work to end homelessness first as a crisis intervention counselor, assisting homeless individuals to access resources and services. She has worked as an advocate for 10 years at the state and federal levels, crafting new legislation and assisting the state and communities in designing, funding, and implementing programs.

Dana Niemela is the coordinator for the Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program at the Denver Department of Human Services and serves as a member of the Colorado Board of Veterans Affairs. Ms. Niemela has a Bachelor’s in history from George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she was commissioned through the Naval ROTC and served eight years on active duty. While in the Navy, she served under the commander of the Sixth Fleet in Europe, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, and as a white house military aide. Currently, Ms. Niemela is a graduate student at the University of Denver, where she helps organize the Pioneer Student Veteran Organization and serves on the Veterans Advisory Committees for Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, Colorado Senator Michael Bennet, and Colorado representatives Diana DeGette and Ed Perlmutter.

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Amanda Noble is the manager of research and community initiatives at Raising the Roof, where she has led national research on employment programs for at-risk and homeless youth. She is a Ph.D. candidate at York University in the Faculty of Education, where she researches innovative housing models for homeless youth. Ms. Noble has worked as an anti-poverty advocate and a front-line worker for youth, women, and children experiencing homelessness.

Lauren Pareti is the director of training and consulting services at the Center for Urban Community Services. She has provided training and consultation to nonprofit and public human service agencies in Ohio, California, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Virginia and New York. She has provided strategic guidance and practical supports to several Continuums of Care, including the nation’s largest Continuum and has helped improve housing placement outcomes at programs serving homeless people. She has 20 years’ experience in working to increase access to housing and improve service quality for homeless, disabled, and low-income people. She has extensive consulting experience in a broad range of areas, including implementation of evidence-based practices, program development and evaluation, continuous quality improvement, data-driven management, and systems planning.

Deanne Pearn is co-founder and vice president of policy for First Place. In her 14 years with First Place, Ms. Pearn has been instrumental in helping grow the organization. She launched the Policy Department in 2010 with the goal of building the field and advocating for best practices in programs nationwide which provide critical services to youth; providing technical assistance to local community-based providers and county agencies; and increasing public funding and resources to support youth as they prepare to leave foster care and begin independent, productive lives. She currently serves on the board of Housing California, a statewide advocacy organization dedicated to affordable housing and ending homelessness, where she is the only youth service provider. In addition, she serves on the leadership board of EveryOne Home in Alameda County.

Scott Pitts is currently the housing locator network coordinator at Good Shepherd Housing in Alexandria, VA. The Housing Locator Network is a collaboration between county agencies and homelessness service nonprofits that provides housing counseling, housing option plans, and financial assistance. For the past five years, Mr. Pitts has worked in human services, initially in the foster care sector, then in homelessness services. He has served as a member of Arlington County’s In-Take Redesign Team and 100K Homes’ Implementation Team, and has experience connecting domestic violence victims with housing location services and new sources of financial assistance.

Charlene Ray is the clinical mental health supervisor for Island County, WA. She has over 27 years of experience in the field of mental health working with children, adolescents, adults, and families in diverse settings. She created and coordinates a highly successful school-based mental health program in Island County. She is also a wilderness quest guide and leads youth and young adults in a rites of passage program that assists them in transitioning into adulthood. Every summer she leads a Coming of Age for Girls camp in Eastern Washington.

Robert Reynolds was appointed director of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Benefits Assistance service in May 2010. As director, he provides executive level oversight in the development of policy, planning, and integration of direct services and client outreach. Previously, Mr. Reynolds served as the executive management officer and the deputy to the Associate Deputy Under Secretary for Policy and Program Management in VA’s central office from May 2006 to May 2010. In that capacity, he assisted in coordinating the activities of five major programs that collectively administered about $40 billion in annual benefits.

46 Workshop Speaker Biographies Kathy Robertson is the Associate Director of Homeless and Special Needs Housing for the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, where she is responsible for the implementation, administration, and management of six grant programs providing approximately $15 million in funding to organizations for prevention and homeless services to individuals and families in Virginia. She also oversees the Livable Homes Tax Credit program. Ms. Robertson is now assisting with the Homeless Outcomes Coordinating Council and serves on the Governor’s Domestic Violence Prevention and Response Advisory Board. She earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and is certified by the Supreme Court of Virginia as a Family Mediator.

Christy Saxton is the director of contracts and partnerships at First Place for Youth in Oakland, CA. She currently oversees all government contracts and partnerships and works closely with the policy department. In her current position, she takes part in myriad stakeholder groups, task forces, and working committees throughout Northern California to advocate for current and former foster youth. In the years since Ms. Saxton joined First Place in 2006 as a program manager, she has helped First Place expand from serving youth in two counties to serving youth in four Bay Area counties and in Los Angeles. She has helped grow core programming from serving 150 youth annually to over 1600 youth annually this year. She has been working with at-risk youth for the past twelve years.

Liz Schott is a Senior Fellow with the Family Income Support Division at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), working primarily on TANF. She served as a Senior Policy Analyst at CBPP from 1997 until 2000 and continued to work as a consultant for CBPP after 2000 until rejoining the Center staff in 2007. Ms. Schott has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Seattle University Law School from 2000 to 2006. She has consulted on public policy issues affecting low-income persons, including projects for Mathematica Policy Research, MDRC, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Employment Law Project, and the Washington State Budget and Policy Center. From 1978 to 1997, Ms. Schott worked as an attorney in Washington State at Evergreen Legal Services, and its successor Columbia Legal Services, serving for nearly 10 of those years as statewide coordinator on public benefits issues. She received her law degree from Boston University School of Law.

Margaret Schuelke is the executive director of Project Community Connections Inc. (PCCI). Ms. Schuelke came to PCCI from PRISM, Progressive Redevelopment Inc.’s property management affiliate, where she served as vice president and director of operations. Previously, she served as chief operating officer for the YWCA of Greater Atlanta. She also served as the assistant director of program operations for the DeKalb County Police Department. Ms. Schuelke was first introduced to the field of affordable housing and homelessness during her tenure as the director of fund development and technical assistance for the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.

Kate Seif serves as the policy outreach coordinator at the National Alliance to End Homelessness. In this capacity, she works to mobilize advocates from across the country to advance policy priorities around preventing and ending homelessness. She does this by providing the Alliance’s local partners with updates on what is happening in Washington, DC and helping communities to build their capacity to take action through the sharing of effective advocacy tools and practices. Ms. Seif also works directly with congressional offices to advance federal policy regarding homelessness. She also works with the Alliance’s Leadership Council, coordinating its activities. Prior to her current role, Ms. Seif served as the Assistant to President at the Alliance. She graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor’s in political science and a minor in international relations.

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Julie L. Shapiro has been executive director of The Door since 2010, a multi-service youth development agency that provides a full range of integrated services to more than 11,000 young people annually from all five boroughs of New York City. Services provided by The Door include: health care, counseling, career training, college access, legal representation, and crisis services for runaway and homeless youth. Of the young people who come to The Door each year, more than 1,800 are homeless or at risk of homelessness, and one in six identify as LGBTQ.

Victoria Shire provides national leadership to Enterprise’s vulnerable populations initiative. She sets strategic direction for all of Enterprise’s activities in ending homelessness, which includes supporting the needs of veterans and providing quality housing and services solutions for low-income seniors across the country. She serves on the board of the Center for Urban Pedagogy and is a steering committee member for the New York City Continuum of Care. In her nine years at Enterprise, she has also served as deputy director for the New York program. In that role, she contributed to the successful development of nearly 3,000 affordable homes in New York each year. She also ensured development and implementation of all programmatic initiatives and oversaw external affairs, operations and public policy.

Alice Shobe brings more than 20 years of experience in the fields of homeless assistance, community development, housing, and philanthropy to her role as executive director of Building Changes. Ms. Shobe joined Building Changes as deputy director in 2008 and was promoted to her current position in 2012. Previously, as the director of Sound Families, she led efforts to create more than 1,400 units of service-based housing for vulnerable families. As the CEO of Philanthropy Northwest, she managed the operations of a 180-plus membership organization and strategic efforts to launch The Giving Practice consultancy. In 2007, Ms. Shobe was one of 16 professionals selected nationwide for the Annie E. Casey Foundation Children and Family Fellowship program. She began her career as a city planner with A Regional Coalition for Housing and the City of Kent, WA.

Caprice Snyder has dedicated her work to social services for more than 33 years. She has spent the past 22 years with the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association (MIFA), where she serves as the vice president of family programs. These programs include emergency financial assistance, transitional housing for homeless families, and assistance to teens for college attainment. Ms. Snyder formerly worked as the supervisor of an adolescent rehabilitation program, as well as with various Tennessee Department of Human Service programs, and the Board of Parole. She started her social work career as the mental health coordinator with a Mississippi Head Start program.

Andrew Sperling is the director of federal legislative advocacy for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). In this position, he leads NAMI’s legislative advocacy initiatives in Congress and before federal agencies. Mr. Sperling works on issues affecting the mental health community with a focus on improving the lives of people with severe mental illnesses. Since 1994, he has also served as co-chair of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Housing Task Force. Prior to joining NAMI, Mr. Sperling served as the deputy director of government relations for the National Community Mental Healthcare Council and was a legislative assistant for U.S. Representative Dick Swett (D-NH).

Lisa Stand joined the National Alliance to End Homelessness as a senior analyst in November 2010. She concentrates on policy intersections between solutions to homelessness and access to health care, to inform advocacy and program development, and to support Alliance priorities. She has background in health law, advocacy campaigns, and community engagement. Prior to November 2010, she concentrated on health and aging issues at AARP, and previously worked as an attorney at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lisa has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a Bachelor’s from Bard College.

48 Workshop Speaker Biographies Norm Suchar joined the staff of the National Alliance to End Homelessness in 2002. He directs the Alliance’s Capacity Building Center, which helps communities implement system-wide strategies that prevent and end homelessness. He assists communities with implementation of the HEARTH Act and systems improvements. His prior experience includes work on federal policy for the Alliance related to housing and homelessness programs, three years in the Budget Office at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he focused on homelessness and community development programs, and two years working in child welfare for the State of Utah.

Cathy ten Broeke is Minnesota’s director to prevent and end homelessness. In this role, she oversees the state’s response to homelessness by working with multiple state agencies, community partners, and private stakeholders to create a statewide partnership to end homelessness. She has 20 years of experience working on homelessness in both the nonprofit and government sectors. Prior to this position, she served as director of the Minneapolis/Hennepin County Office to End Homelessness and most recently served as a special advisor to the executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness.

Debbie Canavan Thiele is senior program manager for CSH. She leads the organization’s technical assistance work with public housing agencies and guides local and national efforts in systems change and funding alignment. Ms. Thiele has held previous leadership positions in multifamily lending for the mayor’s Office of Housing in Seattle and in homeless housing initiatives for the King County Housing Authority, where she developed the country’s first sponsor- based Section 8 program. Her work is rooted in the direct service experience she gained early in her career and a unique understanding of the cultural and operational needs of the government and nonprofit sectors. She currently serves as a commissioner of the Seattle Housing Authority.

Christy Thomas is the lead social worker for CATCH, Inc. in Boise, ID. Ms. Thomas graduated from Trinity Western University (Langley, BC) in 2004 with her Bachelor’s in psychology and human services. She attended both the University of Southern California and Boise State University to obtain her Master’s in Social Work. In 2009 Ms. Thomas became the Program Coordinator for CATCH of Canyon County, a nationally recognized program model which re-houses homeless families with children in southwestern Idaho. Her broader experience includes working in homeless shelters, youth group homes, child care facilities, senior residential homes, community nonprofits, and school districts.

Lisa Thornquist is acting director of the office to End Homelessness for Hennepin County, MN. She has conducted public policy research and program evaluations for the past 25 years. Ms. Thornquist is currently working with the Office to End Homelessness to implement Heading Home Hennepin, the Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness in Minneapolis and Hennepin County. She oversees the evaluation of the Ten Year Plan and conducts program evaluations for many of the initiatives of Heading Home Hennepin.

Dan Treglia is a research assistant at the National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice. His research focuses on the dynamics of shelter use among homeless veterans. Prior to enrolling in this program, he worked at the New York City Department of Homeless Services conducting program evaluation and research of trends and dynamics in homelessness, where his emphasis was on quantitative methods. He has a Master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Kimberly Tucker is the senior director of housing and homeless services for St. Joseph’s Villa in Richmond, VA. In this role she oversees Flagler Home, Flagler Community/Rapid Re-Housing Program, and Hollybrook Apartments. In 2011, her team was funded to establish the Flagler Housing Resource Center, which provides prevention and rapid re-housing services and is the lead agency in the Tri-City area of Virginia. Previously, Ms. Tucker served for six years as the director of community outreach at North Shore Community Action Programs, where she oversaw five direct service programs and facilitated all grant writing and the agency’s strategic planning process. She has also served as an administrator in several nonprofits in the areas of child abuse prevention, autism and teen pregnancy prevention.

André Wade is a program and policy analyst at the National Alliance to End Homelessness with a focus on youth who are runaway and unaccompanied, exiting or formerly in foster care, and LGBTQ. Mr. Wade has worked in social services for over 13 years, providing and coordinating services to at-risk families in and out of child welfare, youth on probation and school-aged children with developmental disabilities. From 2008 to 2010 he was on the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) All Children-All Families Advisory Council, which focuses on equity in the recruitment of LGBT foster/adoptive parents. Currently, Mr. Wade is on the national Board of Directors for StandUp for Kids and has been on the Advisory Board of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center (RHYTTAC) since 2011. Mr. Wade is from Las Vegas where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in psychology and a Master’s degree in public administration from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Suzanne Wagner is a principal at Housing Innovations, a group that provides consulting to organizations throughout the U.S. and abroad on developing and implementing innovative solutions to homelessness. Ms. Wagner has provided training and consultation to hundreds of nonprofit and public agencies throughout the country, helping them to expand their capacity, provide effective services and improve coordination among homeless, housing, and social service systems. She has guided government agencies and community groups through planning processes to allocate resources strategically and close gaps in services. Ms. Wagner also provides extensive training on social service delivery strategies and approaches. She has 30 years of experience designing housing programs and services for people experiencing homelessness, ranging from adolescents and families to single adults with special needs.

Kathy Wahto has been executive director of Serenity House since 2002, the lead agency for Continuum of Care homeless planning in Clallam County, a rural county in the northwest corner of Washington state. Since 2006, Serenity House has led the development and implementation of the county’s ten year plan, which calls for the implementation of countywide coordinated assessment, prevention assistance, short-term rental assistance, and rapid re-housing assistance for households experiencing homelessness. In 2012, the coordinated intake system served more than 1800 households. Since the plan was adopted, the county has developed five permanent supportive housing projects and an extensive array of housing and services for veterans.

Kimberly Walker is a capacity building associate with the National Alliance to End Homelessness. In this role, she works with the Center for Capacity Building to help communities create, implement, and evaluate plans to end homelessness based on their specific needs. She is the Alliance’s point person on issues related to coordinated assessment, prevention, and diversion, and has assisted in projects all over the country ranging from ten year plan development to survey assessment of consumer needs. Prior to joining the Alliance, Ms. Walker worked for Beyond Shelter, a Housing First program for homeless families in Los Angeles, and contracted with U.S. Department of Housing Urban Development’s Office of Community Planning and Development. She received a Master’s degree in urban planning with a focus on community development and housing from UCLA in 2009 and a Bachelor’s from the College of William and Mary in 2006.

50 Workshop Speaker Biographies David M. Wertheimer has worked in a variety of capacities in the nonprofit, government, educational and philanthropic sectors for three decades. He has been employed at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle since 2006, and currently serves as the deputy director for the Pacific Northwest Initiative. He is responsible for overseeing the foundation’s programs addressing family stability and homelessness, as well as the Northwest team’s measurement, learning, and evaluation activities. He also serves as the national board chair of Funders Together to End Homelessness and on the Board of Directors of Partners for Our Children.

Marge Wherley has spent the past 20 years developing homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing approaches. The program she managed at Hennepin County was a model for HUD’s HPRP program and for VA’s SSVF grant program. Over the past 35 years, Ms. Wherley has worked with a wide variety of prevention, re-housing, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing programs for disabled adults, and for homeless families. Her work has included developing quality assurance standards, contracting, performance measurement, and training. Currently, she is an associate at Abt Associates, where she develops training materials and provides technical assistance. She is a technical assistance provider for SSVF grantees.

Kristin Winkel is the senior director of Homeless Housing Initiatives for King County Housing Authority, Tukwila, WA, where she manages the development and administration of KCHA’s permanent supportive and transitional housing programs. In her role as director, Ms. Winkel works in close collaboration with local nonprofit service providers and government and private funders to design and implement new homeless housing programs in response to local needs. Prior to joining the Housing Authority in 2007, Ms. Winkel worked for seven years at Abt Associates, in Cambridge, MA, in the Social and Economic Policy Group, where she consulted to Public Housing Authorities nationally. Ms. Winkel received a Master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and a Bachelor’s from Vassar College.

Melanie Zamora is the director of housing programs for The Road Home. She has been an advocate for the homeless for 13 years. After graduating from Southern Utah University in 1995, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Suriname, South America. She actively works to increase awareness in her community about the issue of homelessness and is an active supporter of homeless rights and legislation reform. Ms. Zamara has a graduate certificate in conflict resolution and mediation and will graduate with a master’s in public administration from the University of Utah in July of 2013.

Sara Zuiderveen is the assistant commissioner for the Prevention Services Division of the New York City Department of Homeless Services, where she administers $26 million in homelessness prevention contracts with 20 social service vendors. She joined the agency in early 2004, assisting with the planning and implementation of the HomeBase homelessness prevention program, an innovative pilot program that was expanded city-wide in 2007. She previously served as the Department of Homeless Services’ director of program analysis for prevention, managing data collection, reporting, quality assurance, and ongoing program development for HomeBase and other prevention efforts. Prior to that, she worked in the field of child abuse prevention as a program analyst for Healthy Families America, a national home visiting program based in Chicago.

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Sherilyn Adams, Executive Director Robin Baker, Transition Services Manager Larkin Street Youth Services United State Army 701 Sutter Street 2013 North 3rd Street, Building 2013B San Francisco, CA 94109 Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA 98433 [email protected] [email protected]

Tom Albanese, Associate Lianna Barbu, Operations Director Abt Associates, Inc. Community Shelter Board 3253 Indianola Avenue 115 Liberty Street, Suite 150 Columbus, OH 43202 Columbus, OH 43215 [email protected] [email protected]

Nicole Amling, Director of Policy and Planning Darla Bardine, Policy Director Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness National Network for Youth 651 W Washington 1050 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite #504 Washington, DC 20036 Chicago, IL 60661 [email protected] [email protected] Samantha Batko, Director Homelessness Research Michael Arnold, Executive Director Institute Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority National Alliance to End Homelessness 811 Wilshire Boulevard, 6th Floor 1518 K Street, NW, Suite 410 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Washington, DC 20005 [email protected] [email protected]

Matthew Ayres, Project Manager Steve Berg, Vice President for Programs and Policy Hennepin County Office to End Homelessness National Alliance to End Homelessness 300 S 6th Street, A2308 1518 K Street, NW, Suite 410 Minneapolis, MN 55487 Washington, DC 20005 [email protected] [email protected]

Heather Baeckel, Supervisor, Insights Teen Parent Monica Bernhard Services Kitsap Community Resources Janus Youth Programs 845 8th Street, 711 SE Ankeny, Suite B Bremerton, WA 98337 Portland, OR 97214 [email protected] [email protected] Marygrace Billek, Director Joselyn R. Baker, Collaboration Specialist Mercer County Department of Human Services Multnomah County Department of Community Justice 640 South Broad Street 501 SE Hawthorne Boulevard #250 Trenton, NJ 08650 Portland, OR 97214 [email protected] [email protected]

52 Workshop Speaker Contact Information Kris Billhardt, Director Shakeita Boyd, Community Housing Program Director Volunteers of America, Oregon - Home Free Distict Alliance for Safe Housing 3910 SE Stark Street PO Box 73186 Portland, OR 97214 Washington, DC 20056 [email protected] [email protected]

Carie Bires, Systems Integration Manager Cindy Burdine, Deputy Director Heartland Health Outreach Serenity House of Clallam County 400 W. 76th Street, Suite 100 PO Box 4047 Chicago, IL 60620 2203 West 18th Street [email protected] Port Angeles, WA 98363 [email protected] Brian Blalock, Youth Justice Project Director Bay Area Legal Aid Tom Byrne, Investigator 1735 Telegraph Avenue National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans Oakland, CA 94612 615 South Taney Street [email protected] Philadelphia, PA 19146 [email protected] Leslie Briner, Sexual Exploitation Policy and Training Coordinator Allison Calibro, Veterans Benefits Administration YouthCare Department of Veterans Affairs 2500 NE 54th Street 810 Vermont Avenue, NW Seattle, WA 98105 Washington, DC 20420 [email protected] [email protected]

Cathy ten Broeke, State Director to Prevent and End TC Cassidy, Program Supervisor Homelessness National Resource Center for Youth Services State of Minnesota 4502 E. 41st Street, Building 4W 400 Sibley Street, Suite 300 National Resource Center for Youth Services St. Paul, MN 55101 Tulsa, OK 74135 [email protected] [email protected]

Barbara Broman¸Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Cathy Cave, Senior Program Associate Human Services Policy Advocates for Human Potential U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 41 State Street 200 Independence Avenue SW, Room 405F Albany, NY 12207 Washington, DC 20201 [email protected] [email protected] Nick Codd, Senior Economic Opportunities Specialist Tiana Brown, Rural Housing Coordinator Building Changes The Salvation Army of Central Ohio 2014 E Madison Street, Suite 200 340 Lake Street Seattle, WA 98122 Cabin 4- Rural Housing Office [email protected] Delaware, OH 43015 [email protected] Reed Connell, Executive Director Alameda County Foster Youth Alliance 675 Hegenberger Road, Suite 100 Oakland, CA, 94621 [email protected]

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Mary Cunningham, Senior Research Associate Kevin Finn, Executive Director Urban Institute Strategies to End Homelessness 2100 M Street, NW 2260 Park Avenue, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20037 Cincinnati, OH 45206 [email protected] [email protected]

Carmela DeCandia, Director Michelle Flynn, Associate Executive Director of Programs The National Center on Family Homelessness The Road Home 200 Reservoir Street, Suite 200 210 South Rio Grande Street Needham, MA 02494 Salt Lake City, UT 84101 [email protected] [email protected]

Elaine deColigny, Executive Director Cassie Franklin, CEO EveryOne Home Cocoon House 224 W. Winton Avenue, Room 108 2929 Pine Street Hayward, CA 94544 Everett, WA 98201 [email protected] [email protected]

Iain De Jong, President and CEO Mary Forbes, Assistant Director, Veteran Services OrgCode Consulting, Inc. Washington State Department of Veteran Affairs One Tecumseth Avenue 102 Quince Street SE Port Credit, Ontario L5G 1K5 Olympia, WA 98504 Canada [email protected] [email protected] Sage Foster, Alameda County Rapid Re-housing Program Elfi Di Bella, President & CEO Manager Young Women Christian Association (YWCA) Columbus Abode Services 65 South Fourth Street 7200 Bancroft Avenue, Suite 262 Columbus, OH 43215 Oakland, CA 95605 [email protected] [email protected]

Pete Dougherty Brett Gagnon U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development 409 3rd Street, SW 451 7th Street SW Washington, DC 20024 Washington, DC 20410 [email protected] [email protected]

Jackie Edwards, Service Area Director - Emergency and Katharine Gale, Policy Director Community Services U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness Catholic Charities - Diocese of Trenton Federal Center Southwest 200 Mott Street 409 3rd Street, SW, Suite 310 Trenton, NJ 08611 Washington, DC 20024 [email protected] [email protected]

Janice Elliott, Executive Director Rachael Gardiner Melville Charitable Trust Bay Area Legal Aid 240 Newbury Street 2nd Floor 1735 Telegraph Avenue Boston, MA 02116 Oakland, CA 94612 [email protected] [email protected]

54 Workshop Speaker Contact Information Stephen Gaetz, Associate Dean, Research and Sparky Harlan, Chief Executive Officer Professional Development, Faculty of Education, Bill Wilson Center Director, Canadian Homelessness Research Network 3490 The Alameda York University Santa Clara, CA 9505 631 York Research Tower, York University [email protected] 4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Alison Harte, Senior Program Manager [email protected] CSH 50 Broadway, 17th Floor Katherine Gerard, VA Puget Sound New York, NY 10004 Homeless Program Manager [email protected] Department of Veterans Affairs 810 Vermont Avenue, NW Carma Heitzmann, National Program Manager Washington, DC 20420 VA Homeless Veterans Supported Employment Program [email protected] 810 Vermont Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20420 Megan Gibbard, Homeless Youth and Young Adult [email protected] Project Manager King County Housing & Community Development Daniel Heimpel 401 5th Avenue, Suite 510 Fostering Media ConnectionsSan Francisco, CA Seattle, WA 98104 [email protected] [email protected] Michelle Heritage, Executive Director Gail Gilman, Chief Executive Officer Community Shelter Board Community Housing Partnership 111 Liberty Street, Suite 150 20 Jones Street, Suite 200 Columbus, OH 43215 San Francisco, CA 94102 [email protected] [email protected] Beth Holger-Ambrose, Homeless Youth Services Melinda Giovengo, Executive Director Coordinator Youth Care Shelter Support Success Minnesota Department of Human Services 2500 NE 54th Street 444 Lafayette Road Seattle, WA 98105 St. Paul, MN 55155 [email protected] [email protected]

Mark Greenberg, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Katie Hong, Program Officer U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Raikes Foundation 370 L’Enfant Promenade, SW 6th Floor-West (901 D 4616 25th Avenue NE, #769 Street SW) Seattle, WA 98105-4183 Washington, 20447 [email protected]

Kathleen Guarino, Senior Program Associate, Kelly King Horne, Executive Director Clinical Design Homeward The National Center for Family Homelessness 1125 Commerce Road 200 Reservoir Street, Suite 200 Richmond, VA 23236 Needham, MA 02494 [email protected] [email protected]

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Aisha Amanda Marie Hunter, Program Assistant Katie Kitchin, Executive Director Annie E. Casey Foundation Community Alliance for the Homeless 701 St Paul Street 44 N. Second Street, Suite 302 Baltimore, MD 21202 Memphis, TN 38104 [email protected] [email protected]

Laurie Jackson, Executive Director Debbi Knowles, Project/Program Manager III Family National Safe Place Homelessness Initiative 2411 Bowman Avenue King County Housing and Community Development Louisville, KY 40217 401 Fifth Avenue, Suite 501 [email protected] Seattle, WA 98104 [email protected] Mark Johnston, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs and Delegated Authority over CPD Programs Mark Kroner U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development Lighthouse Training Institute 451 Seventh Street, SW 401 East Mcmillan Street Washington, DC 20410 Cincinnati, OH 45206 [email protected] [email protected]

David Jordan, Executive Director Andrea Kuebbeler, Clinical Director Agape Child & Family Services Alternatives, Inc. 111 Racine Street 4730 N. Sheridan Road Memphis, TN 38111 Chicago, IL 60640 [email protected] [email protected]

Linda Joyce John Kuhn, Acting Director of SSVF YWCA of Kitsap County U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 905 Pacific Avenue 151 Knollcroft Road, Building 8 PO Box 559 Lyons, NJ 07939 Bremerton, WA 98337 [email protected] [email protected] Barbara Langdon Laura Kadwell, Statewide Director LifeWire Heading Home Minnesota PO Box 6398 2801 21st Avenue South, Suite 230 Bellevue, WA 98008 Minneapolis, MN 55407 [email protected] [email protected] Sara Loken, Chief of Staff Vincent Kane Community Shelter Board U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 111 Liberty Street, Suite 150 National Center on Homelessness among Veterans Columbus, OH 43215 4100 Chester Avenue, Suite 201 [email protected] Philadelphia, PA 19104 [email protected] Anthony Love, Senior Advisor National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans Tina Kelley, Staff Writer 1722 I Street NW, 9th Floor Covenant House Washington, DC 20006 5 Penn Plaza, 3rd Floor [email protected] New York, NY 10001 [email protected] 56 Workshop Speaker Contact Information Seth Lyon Sharon McDonald, Director of Families and Youth Multnomah County National Alliance to End Homelessness 501 SE Hawthorne Boulevard 1518 K Street, NW, Suite 410 Portland, OR 97214 Washington, DC 20005 [email protected] [email protected]

Erin Maguire, Director - Homeless Youth Services Alison McIntosh, Policy and Communications Director Program Manager Neighborhood Partnerships Catholic Community Services 1020 SW Taylor, Suite 680 4516 15th Avenue, NE Portland, OR 97205 Seattle, WA 98105 [email protected] [email protected] Anna Melbin, Director of Network Growth and Strategy Lanette Marcum Full Frame Initiative Glacier Bancorp 266 E Elm Street 2970 E. Street Lukes Drive Yarmouth, ME 04096 Meridian, UT 83642 [email protected] [email protected] Benjamin Miksch, State and Federal Policy Associate Melissa Maguire, Director Youth Shelter Network Washington Low Income Housing Alliance The Night Ministry 1411 Fourth Avenue, Suite 85 4711 North Ravenswood Seattle, WA 98101 Chicago, IL 60640 [email protected] [email protected] Norweeta Milburn, Director of Research and Evaluation Ross Mason, Regional Director UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Behavior 450 W State Street, PTC/10th Floor 760 Westwood Plaza, A8-159A Boise, ID 83720-0036 Los Angeles, CA 90024 [email protected] [email protected]

Resa Matthew, Director Kollin Min, Program Officer U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 1250 Maryland Avenue, SW 500 Fifth Avenue, North Washington, DC 20024 Seattle, WA 98102 [email protected] [email protected]

Keely McCave, Program Director, First Avenues – Anne Miskey, Executive Director Housing Solutions for Families Funders Together to End Homelessness Hamilton Family Center 240 Newbury Street, 2ND Floor 1631 Hayes Street Boston, MA San Francisco, CA 94117 [email protected] [email protected] Kimberly Mitchell, Administrator, Homeless Kay Moshier McDivitt, Capacity Building Associate & Special Needs National Alliance to End Homelessness City of Memphis 1518 K Street, NW, Suite 410 701 N. Main Street Washington, DC 20005 Memphis, TN 38107 [email protected] [email protected]

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Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Research Associate Lauren Pareti, Director of Training and Consulting National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans Services 1232 Chestnut Street, #2001 Center for Urban Community Services Philadelphia, PA 19107 198 E. 121st Street, 6th Floor [email protected] New York, NY 10035 [email protected] Greg Morris, Executive Director CATCH, Inc. Sonali Patel, Senior Policy Advisor 503 South Americana Boulevard U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Boise, ID 83702 Office of the Commissioner [email protected] 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, DC 20201 Dennis Morrow, Executive Director [email protected] Janus Youth Programs 707 NE Couch Deanne Pearn, Chief Policy Officer Portland, OR 97232 First Place for Youth [email protected] 519 17th Street, Suite 600 Oakland, CA 94612 Denise Neunaber, Executive Director [email protected] North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness PO Box 27692 Scott Pitts, Housing Locator Raleigh, NC 27611 Good Shepherd Housing [email protected] 3080 Patrick Henry Drive Falls Church, VA 22044 Dana Niemela, Program Coordinator [email protected] Denver Human Services 1200 Federal Boulevard Claudia Powell, Associate Research Social Scientist Denver, CO 80204 Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona [email protected] Southwest Institute for Research on Women 925 North Tyndall Avenue Amanda Noble, Manager of Research & Community Tucson, AZ 85719 Initiatives [email protected] Raising the Roof 263 Eglinton Avenue, West, Suite 200 Amy Price Toronto, ON M4R1B2, Canada Community Shelter Board [email protected] 111 Liberty Street Columbus, OH 43215 Ann Oliva, Director of Special Needs Assistance [email protected] Programs U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Robert Pulster, Regional Coordinator 451 7th Street, SW U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness Washington, DC 20410 409 3rd Street, SW, Suite 310 Washington, DC 20024 Linda Olsen, Housing Program Coordinator [email protected] Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence 1402 3rd Avenue, Suite 406 Adrienne Quinn, Executive Director Seattle, WA 98101 Medina Foundation [email protected] 801 Second Avenue, Suite 1300 Seattle, WA 98104 [email protected] 58 Workshop Speaker Contact Information Rob Reynolds, Director Margaret Schuelke, Executive Director VA Benefits Assistance Service Project Community Connections Inc. [email protected] 321 West Hill Street, Suite 3 Decatur, GA 30030 Kathy Robertson, Associate Director [email protected] Department of Housing and Community Development 600 East Main Street, Suite 300 Kate Seif, Policy and Outreach Coordinator Richmond, VA 23219 National Alliance to End Homelessness [email protected] 1518 K Street, NW, Suite 410 Washington, DC 20005 Amy Rynell, Director [email protected] Heartland Alliance 33 W. Grand Avenue, Suite 500 Julie Shapiro, Executive Director Chicago, IL 60654 The Door [email protected] 121 Sixth Avenue New York, NY 10013 Judith Samuels Ph.D., Research/Consultant [email protected] Nathan Kline Institute 162 Valley Road Todd Shenk, Special Assistant, Office of the Secretary Haworth, NJ 07641 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development [email protected] 451 7th Street, SW Washington, DC 20410 Kathy Sauve [email protected] Lutheran Social Services 2485 Como Avenue Victoria Shire, Senior Director St. Paul, MN 55108 Enterprise Community Partners [email protected] 1 Whitehall Street, 11 Floor New York, NY 10004 Any Sawyer, Regional Coordinator [email protected] U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness 409 3rd Street, SW, Suite 310 Alice Shobe, Executive Director Washington, DC 20024 Building Changes [email protected] 2014 E Madison Street, Suite 200 Seattle, WA 98122 Christy Saxton, Director of Contracts and Partnerships [email protected] First Place for Youth 426 17th Street Deborah Shore, Executive Director Oakland, CA 94612 Sasha Bruce Youthwork [email protected] 741 8th Street, SE Washington, DC 20003 Liz Schott, Senior Fellow [email protected] Center on Budget and Policy Priorities 820 First Street NE, Suite 510 Ann Simpson Washington, DC 20002 Forks Abuse Program [email protected] PO Box 1775 Forks, WA 98331 [email protected]

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Caprice Snyder, VP Children & Families Dan Treglia, Research Assistant Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association National Center on Homeless Among Veterans 910 Vance Avenue 3701 Locust Walk, 20th Floor Memphis, TN 38126 Philadelphia, PA 19104 [email protected] [email protected]

Andrew Sperling, Director of Legislative Advocacy Kimberly Tucker, Director National Alliance on Mental Illness St. Joseph’s Villa 3803 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 100 8000 Brook Road Arlington, VA 22203 Richmond, VA 23227 [email protected] [email protected]

Lisa Stand, Senior Policy Analyst André Wade, Program and Policy Analyst National Alliance to End Homelessness National Alliance to End Homelessness 1518 K Street, NW, Suite 410 1518 K Street, NW, Suite 410 Washington, DC 20005 Washington, DC 20005 [email protected] [email protected]

Norm Suchar, Director, Center for Capacity Building Suzanne Wagner, Principal National Alliance to End Homelessness Housing Innovations 1518 K Street, NW, Suite 410 198 East 121st Street, 6th Floor Washington, DC 20005 New York, NY 10035 [email protected] [email protected]

Debbie Canavan Thiele, Senior Program Manager Janet Walker Corporation for Supportive Housing Regional Research Institute for Human Services, 700 5th Avenue, Suite 5700 Portland State University Seattle, WA 98104 1600 SW 4th Avenue, Suite 900 [email protected] Portland, 97201 [email protected] Christy Thomas, Lead Social Worker CATCH, Inc. Kathy Wahto, Executive Director 503 S. Americana Boulevard Serenity House of Clallam County Boise, ID 83702 PO Box 4047 [email protected] Port Angeles, WA 98363 [email protected] Lisa Thornquist, Program Analysis Supervisor Hennepin County Richard Hooks Wayman, Executive Director 1800 Chicago Avenue Hearth Connection Minneapolis, MN 55404 2446 University Avenue W, Suite 150 [email protected] Saint Paul, MN 55114 [email protected] Otis Thornton, Homelessness Coordinator City of FortWorth David Wertheimer, Deputy Director 1000 Throckmorton Street Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Fort Worth, TX 76102 500 Fifth Avenue, North [email protected] Seattle, WA 98102 [email protected]

60 Workshop Speaker Contact Information Marjorie Wherley, Associate Abt Associates, Inc. A-1600 Government Center 300 South Sixth Street Minneapolis, MN 55487-160 [email protected]

Carol Wilkins, Consultant [email protected]

Kristin Winkel, Senior Director, Homeless Housing Initiatives King County Housing Authority 600 Andover Park West Tukwila, WA 98188 [email protected]

Melanie Zamora, Director of Housing Programs The Road Home 210 South Rio Grande Street (455 West) Salt Lake City, UT 84101 [email protected]

Sara Zuiderveen, Assistant Commissioner, Prevention Services NYC Department of Homeless Services 33 Beaver Street, 20th floor New York, NY 10004 [email protected]

Workshop Speaker Contact Information 61 NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON 2013 ENDING FAMILY&YOUTH HOMELESSNESS About the National Alliance to End Homelessness

Our Work

The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a leading voice on the issue of homelessness. The Alliance analyzes policy and develops pragmatic, cost-effective policy solutions. We work collaboratively with the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to build state and local capacity, leading to stronger programs and policies that help communities achieve their goal of ending homelessness. We provide data and research to policymakers and elected officials in order to inform policy debates and educate the public and opinion leaders nationwide.

Alliance Staff Nan Roman Julie Klein Norm Suchar President and CEO Assistant to the President/Policy Director, Center for Capacity Outreach Associate Building Shalom Mulkey Chief Operating Officer D’Arcy Klingle André C. Wade Director of Meetings and Events Program and Policy Analyst Steve Berg Vice President for Programs and Ian Lisman Kimberly Walker Policy Program and Policy Analyst Capacity Building Associate

Barbara Anzelmo Kay Moshier McDivitt AdeOla Fadumiye Director of Finance and Capacity Building Associate Meeting and Events Intern Administration Sharon McDonald Edward SanFilippo Samantha Batko Director of Families and Policy Fellow Director Homelessness Research Youth Institute Jennifer Olney Anna Blasco Administrative and Development Capacity Building Assistant Associate

Emanuel Cavallaro Kate Seif Communications Associate Policy Outreach Coordinator

Jeni Gamble Lisa Stand Director of Development and Senior Policy Analyst Communications

62 About the National Alliance to End Homelessness National Alliance to End Homelessness Board of Directors

Co-Chairmen Board Members Susan G. Baker The Honorable Henry Cisneros D. William Moreau, Jr. Houston, TX CityView Barnes & Thornburg LLP Co-Founder San Antonio, TX Washington, DC

The Honorable Mike Lowry Stephen Coyle Irene Mabry Moses Renton, WA AFL-CIO Housing Investment Faith Realty, LLC Trust Baltimore, MD Vice Chairman Washington, DC Gary M. Parsons Michael R. Steed Potomac, MD The Honorable Kenneth M. Paladin Capital Group Duberstein Washington, DC Secretary The Duberstein Group Elizabeth Boyle Washington, DC Robert D. Stillman Chevy Chase, MD Milbridge Corporation Co-Founder Jeffery Hayward Management, LLC Fannie Mae Chevy Chase, MD Treasurer Washington, DC Robert D. Villency Judy Woodruff 250 RH, LLC. G. Allan Kingston PBS NewsHour New York, NY National Community Renaissance Arlington, VA Corp President and Chief Culver City, CA Executive Officer Nan P. Roman The Honorable John J. LaFalce Washington, DC HoganWillig

Amherst, NY

Tim Marx Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis Minneapolis, MN

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National Conference on Save the Ending Homelessness Date July 22-24, 2013

The National Alliance to End Homelessness National Conference on Ending Homelessness will be held July 22-24, 2013 at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel in Washington, DC.

We hope you will be able to join us this summer for another exciting and informative conference!

Visit the Alliance website frequently for event updates at www.endhomelessness.org.

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66 Notes Hotel Maps

SECOND FLOOR - PIKE TOWER

THIRD FLOOR - UNION STREET

Hotel Maps 67 1518 K Street, NW, Suite 410 Washington, DC 20005 Tel 202-638-1526 Fax 202-638-4664 www.endhomelessness.org