Please be part of The Annual Forum on Ending Homelessness in Clallam County, Wednesday, June 8, 2011 from 8:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the downstairs Fellowship Hall at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 Lopez Avenue, Port Angeles. See agenda pasted below.
To help prepare for the 9-30-11 AM roundtable discussion about homelessness, please tell us how the ‘economic tsunami’ and homelessness are impacting you and your clients.
Send input to Shelter Providers Network coordinator Martha Ireland at serenitymartha@gmail.com or 452-4737.
Also – watch for “Survey Monkey” to send you a brief pre-forum survey.
Please share this invitation with your board of directors and everyone who is?”or should be?”interested in ending homelessness.
Thanks! and I hope to see you there,
Martha Ireland
2011 Annual Planning Forum on Ending Homelessness Agenda
‘Facing the Economic Tsunami’
8:30 AM Registration – Coffee and Tea
9:00 AM Welcome and Introduction – Martha Ireland, coordinator
9:10 AM Annual Report Card on Ending Homelessness – Pam Tietz and Kathy Wahto
9:20 AM From Homeless to Homeowner – one woman’s personal story
9:30 AM Facing the Economic Tsunami – a roundtable discussion about homelessness
- Impacts on Agencies – Impacts on People – Impacts of Homelessness
- Legislative Challenges, Accomplishments, Prognosis affecting Homelessness
- Homelessness and Public Services – Cities, County, Schools, Hospitals
- Strategies & Opportunities – Effectively Raising Revenue to End Homelessness
- Strategies & Opportunities – Efficiently Employing Resources to Prevent and End Homelessness
11:00 AM Collaboration to Build Capacity – Sandy Burgess, Catholic Housing Services Introduction by Pam Tietz, Peninsula Housing Authority
1:45 AM Light lunch, announcements, results of baseline poll (Survey Monkey)
12:00 PM Planning to End Homelessness, Second Half of the Ten Year Plan
a ‘small group’ exercise to explore how to maintain advances and continue to move ahead with the Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness in Clallam County
12:45 PM Report Back for a Unified Plan
1:30 PM Adjourn
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