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SUMMARY:HPRI Race Equity Committee - Ritual\, Flourishing\, and Empowerment: Innovations in Homelessness Services
DESCRIPTION:Ritual and spirituality intentional practices—rooted in meaning\, belief\, and tradition—that nurture the inner life\, affirm personal and cultural identity\, and connect individuals to something greater than themselves\, whether divine\, communal\, or ancestral. Research shows these elements in their ability to foster resilience\, dignity\, and healing\, especially among marginalized populations. In social work and service provider settings spirituality helps clients process trauma\, find purpose\, and build community\, while rituals—such as prayer\, storytelling\, memorials\, crystals\, or culturally significant ceremonies—offer grounding\, structure\, and symbolic transformation. Studies emphasize that integrating spirituality into care enhances ethical\, culturally responsive\, and holistic practice.  \nThis approach aligns with flourishing and empowerment frameworks\, which emphasize not only meeting basic needs but supporting people in realizing their full potential\, sense of self\, and well-being. Ritual and spirituality provide pathways for meaning-making\, self-worth\, and identity reconstruction—critical components of flourishing—while empowering individuals to reclaim authorship over the narratives in their own lives. In homelessness response specifically\, where loss of community\, control\, and meaning are common\, spirituality and ritual can help restore a sense of belonging\, reframe identity beyond crisis\, and create sacred space in systems often marked by rigid processes that result in dehumanizing experiences. Whether through spiritual counseling\, group reflection\, or ritualized transitions (e.g.\, celebrating housing milestones)\, these practices humanize services and support long-term transformation\, offering people not just stability\, but the chance to thrive. \nPlease join us for a lecture and discussion on ritual followed by a sound bath.  Snacks and refreshments will also be provided. \nPlease register in advance for this event HERE. \n\nWe are excited to be joined by two experts in related fields\, Dr. Alisa Orduña and Micah Sheiner! \n \nDr. Alisa Orduña \nDr. Alisa Orduña is a nationally recognized strategist and scholar-practitioner in homelessness policy\, racial equity\, and community development. With over 28 years of experience in the nonprofit and public sectors\, she has shaped housing and homeless systems in cities across the U.S.\, including Los Angeles\, Philadelphia\, and Santa Monica. \nShe is the founder of Florence Aliese Advancement Network\, LLC\, a consulting firm advancing equity-centered\, community-driven solutions to homelessness through system design\, stakeholder engagement\, and participatory research. \nA depth psychologist and Adjunct Faculty at USC’s Price School of Public Policy\, Dr. Orduña bridges academic inquiry with practice\, teaching on the intersections of homelessness\, race\, and human rights. Her work is grounded in Indigenous and liberation psychologies\, with a focus on healing historical harm and cultivating belonging. Alisa is also an initiated priestess of Osun and Obatala in the Ifa/Orisa tradition of the Yoruba spiritual modality. \n  \n \nMicah Sheiner \nMicah Sheiner is a vibrational artist/healer. He travels extensively to learn from musical\, spiritual\, & healing traditions around the world. With inspiration from India\, he has dedicated much of his path to the yoga of sound. In Nepal he has trained in Himalayan sound healing with singing bowls\, gongs\, & bells. In Europe he has apprenticed in gong playing\, gong yoga\, & Starhenge World Peace Bell Gardens with Don Conreaux. \nHe is currently studying Traditional Tibetan Medicine & Yoga with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang – integrating external therapies\, herbal medicine\, mantra & spiritual healing into his sound healing practice. \nMicah received a Master’s degree in Education from UCLA. He explores and teaches sound through bowls\, gongs\, voice\, didgeridoo\, strings\, & percussion instruments. He weaves these into resonant soundscapes for healing\, meditation\, yoga\, & journeying. Micah conducts sound baths\, workshops\, individual sessions\, & performances in California and internationally.
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/hpri-race-equity-committee-ritual-flourishing-and-empowerment-innovations-in-homelessness-services/
LOCATION:HPRI Offices\, 1150 S. Olive St\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90015\, United States
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SUMMARY:HPRI Race Equity Committee: Holistic Approaches to Health and Housing
DESCRIPTION:Register for the Zoom Link: Register Here \n  \nAs we continue our Holistic Approaches to Homelessness Series\, we are thrilled to present Delores Brown\, CEO of Community Economic Development Corporation and Dr. Kelly Bruno-Nelson\, Executive Director of Cal Aim\, Cal Optima as our April Event Speakers.  Mrs. Brown brings over 30 years of experience of creating holistic strategies to develop Affordable Housing and overcome Economic insecurities that segue many individuals into homelessness.  Dr. Kelly Bruno-Nelson brings over 30 years of experience fighting to bring about holistic Healthcare strategies that address the persistent Social Determinants of Health for our homeless and highly vulnerable community members.  Please join us as these dynamic Change Agents present impactful approaches as we all strive to bring cohesive and collaborative resolutions that will restore Vibrant Health\, Economic Stability and Housing Security to all members of our communities. \n  \nSpeakers\n \nKelly Bruno-Nelson – Executive Director\, Medi-Cal/CalAIM \nAs Executive Director\, Medi-Cal/CalAIM\, Kelly Bruno-Nelson is responsible for oversight of the agency’s main health plan and its further development through the statewide California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative. She brings more than 25 years of experience serving vulnerable populations in Southern California through innovative work in health care and nonprofit organizations. Prior to joining CalOptima\, Kelly was President and Chief Executive Officer of National Health Foundation (NHF)\, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization working to improve the health of underserved communities. Prior to NHF\, she was Vice President of ONEgeneration in Van Nuys\, California\, a nationally recognized organization that provided an intergenerational program of adult day health care and childcare that brought together frail elderly and young children. Her earlier career also included leadership roles at a nursing home and in hospital-based social work. Kelly holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from Azusa Pacific University\, a master’s degree in social work from California State University\, Long Beach and a Doctorate in social work from University of Southern California. \n  \n  \n \nDelores A. Brown – President/CEO\, CEDC \nDelores A. Brown has over 39 years of experience in the private and nonprofit sector in the field of planning and development for Affordable Housing\, mix-use\, childcare and youth facilities banking/financial administration\, specializing community and economic development\, organizational development\, fund development\, financing and project management\, Delores also has more than 20 years of experience in advocating for and supporting public-private partnerships (P3s) at the federal\, state and local levels. \nPrincipal lines of Business: \nMs. Brown provides technical expertise and strategic thought leadership to non-profits organizations\, government agencies and community developers working to facilitate change by utilization of a cadre of funding mechanisms to include Opportunity Zone\, Housing Tax Credits\, New Market Tax Credits\, and other sources of financing. \nMs. Brown currently serves as a Chairman of the Board of the Clearinghouse CDFI New Markets Tax Credit Committee representing Los Angeles County for over 23 years. (Clearinghouse CDFI is one of largest participants in the NMTC Program\, with over $593.6 million of NMTC allocation deployed since inception).\, Money 360 New Markets Tax Credit Community Advisory Board and board member of Resources for Infant Educators. \nFVLCRUM Fund \nDelores Brown facilitated an introduction for transformative partnership between Clearinghouse CDFI and the Minority Wealth Commission to create new private equity funds to concentrate on the growth and global competitiveness of minority businesses. Funds. The launch of the FVLCRUM Fund. The fund has\, initial capital commitments of over $300 million\, to invest as a combination of equity and debt capital into proven\, high-growth enterprises operated by people of color. and business success for minorities. \n  \n 
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/hpri-race-equity-committee-holistic-approaches-to-health-and-housing/
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SUMMARY:HPRI Symposium: Natural Disasters\, Climate Change\, and Homelessness: Emerging Research from the Los Angeles Wildfires
DESCRIPTION:Register for the Zoom Link: Register Here \n  \nUnhoused individuals\, particularly those who are unsheltered\, are uniquely vulnerable to the negative health and wellbeing impacts wrought by extreme weather and disasters\, such as extreme heat\, air pollution\, and winter storms (Adepoju et al.\, 2022; Calvin et al.\, 2023; Thomas et al.\, 2019). Climate change is turbocharging these disruptions. Although extreme weather patterns impact the population writ large (Bell et al.\, 2018)\, persons experiencing homelessness face the highest risk of extreme weather-induced negative health effects\, reflecting their heightened exposure\, pre-existing health vulnerabilities\, and limited access to medical care (Bezgrebelna et al.\, 2021; Kidd et al.\, 2021; Ramin & Svoboda\, 2009). In Los Angeles\, exposure to heat\, wildfires\, and winter storm flooding are particularly dangerous threats to its larged unhoused population.  Recent events confirm that wildfires  impose a range of harms\, through displacement\, loss of belongings\, and injury. Moreover\, exposure to particulate matter in smoke can cause many health challenges\, including respiratory damage and increased long-term risk of cancer (Grant & Runkle\, 2022; Rosenthal et al.\, 2021). HPRI-affiliated research projects Periodic Assessment of Trajectories of Housing\, Homelessness\, and Health Study (PATHS) and the LABarometer are working to measure some of these varied impacts on housing insecure and unhoused individuals following the recent\, historic wildfires in the LA region. \nPlease join us for a virtual symposium where we will discuss how these studies are examining natural disaster vulnerabilities among the unhoused and housing insecure population\, and assess the studies’ emerging findings’ implications for policy and service provision. We will also consider what Los Angeles’ city and county governments are doing to address climate vulnerability among the unhoused\, as well as how they are preparing for future natural disasters and extreme weather events. We will conclude by examining how these developments are impacting service providers in our communities and how they serve unhoused Angelenos impacted by increasingly common natural disasters spurred by climate change. \nPanelists\n  \n \nRandall Kuhn – Professor\, Department of Community Health Services\, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health \nDr. Randall Kuhn conducts longitudinal research on the health and well-being of unhoused populations. Kuhn conducted some of the earliest quantitative research on health and substance use risks among chronically homeless adults. He led recent studies of COVID-19 mortality by homelessness status and race/ethnicity\, unsheltered homelessness and health; and COVID-19 vaccination among unhoused populations. He currently leads or co-leads new studies that use mobile phones to measure the well-being of unhoused and recently-housed populations. \n  \n \nKyla Thomas – Sociologist\, Director of LABarometer\, Center for Economic and Social Research \nDr. Kyla Thomas is a sociologist and research scientist at the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research. Her interests include class discrimination\, housing inequality\, the sociology of culture\, survey research\, and experimental methods. Since 2019\, Dr. Thomas has served as the director of LABarometer\, a longitudinal survey that tracks social and economic conditions in Los Angeles County. Dr. Thomas received her Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University. \n  \n \nCarter Hewgley – Local Jurisdiction Coordination & Support\, Homeless Initiative \nCarter Hewgley is a Senior Director for the Homeless Initiative at the Los Angeles County Chief Executive Office\, where he oversees LA County’s coordination with 88 cities\, 6 Councils of Government\, and 120 unincorporated areas on a joint emergency response to homelessness. He also directs LA County’s housing-focused encampment resolution partnerships like Inside Safe and Pathway Home. Before joining the County\, Carter was the Director of the Home for Good Initiative at the United Way of Greater Los Angeles\, where he focused on building the evidence base\, resources\, and coalition to end homelessness in LA County. He is the former Senior Advisor at the D.C. Department of Human Services and spent four years at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He is an Adjunct Professor of Applied Analytics at Johns Hopkins University and holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. \n  \n \nRyan Smith – President and CEO\, St. Joseph Center \nDr. Ryan J. Smith is a dynamic leader in the social and non-profit sector\, boasting two decades of experience in non-profit management. His expertise lies in developing transformative programs and building teams for the youth\, families\, and communities of Los Angeles. \n  \n \nAmanda Green – Chief Operating Officer\, Union Station Homeless Services \nAmanda Green serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Union Station Homeless Services (USHS)\, bringing over 13 years of dedicated leadership to the organization. As a key member of the executive team\, Amanda provides strategic oversight and operational direction across multiple departments\, including Human Resources\, IT\, Food Services\, Volunteer Services\, Development\, Facilities and Capital Improvements\, Office Administration\, Event Management\, and In-Kind Donations. \nShe leads a high-performing team and plays a central role in ensuring organizational stability\, efficiency\, and alignment with Union Station’s mission. Amanda’s deep institutional knowledge\, operational expertise\, and commitment to service are essential in advancing the USHS’s impact and long-term sustainability.
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/hpri-symposium-natural-disasters-climate-change-and-homelessness-emerging-research-from-the-los-angeles-wildfires/
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SUMMARY:HPRI Symposium: American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Homelessness
DESCRIPTION:Register for the Zoom Link: Register Here \n  \nThe American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Homelessness Symposium will bring together leaders\, scholars\, and advocates to discuss Indigenous homelessness through the lenses of innovative legal frameworks\, human rights\, Indigenous conceptions of home/belonging\, and transformative systems change. Dr. Andrea Garcia\, Mayoral Appointed Commissioner for the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission\, will serve as moderator\, guiding the event as we explore the unique challenges of Indigenous homelessness within the context of ongoing settler colonialism\, and what emerging housing and service approaches are being used to respond to this crisis. \nThe symposium will feature presentations from Dr. Cathy Fournier\, who will examine Canada’s definition of Indigenous homelessness and its broader implications in policy and research\, and Joseph Berra\, who will lead an exploration of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and its connection to housing rights and the LandBack movement. Both of these presentations will be complemented by panel discussions that will center Indigenous experience\, highlight culturally informed services to native communities\, address the responsibilities of researchers collecting or working with native data\, and outline the systems-level changes necessary to respond to intergenerational trauma and health disparities faced by indigenous communities in LA. These conversations will help us build a collective vision of a future in LA where home is more than housing\, and encompasses cultural safety and a place where healing can begin. \nPlease join us in this vital dialogue that builds on the incredible work of Indigenous scholars\, front line providers\, community based organizations\, and community members. We hope to see you there! \n  \nSpeakers\n \nAndrea Garcia – Mayoral Appointed Commissioner for the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission\, Durfee Stanton Fellow \nAndrea Garcia is a citizen of the Mandan\, Hidatsa\, and Arikara Nation on her maternal side\, and Mexican on her paternal side. Andrea works at the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health where has the privilege of focusing exclusively on the health and wellbeing of the Native American community through her clinical work\, larger community initiatives\, and through research. As a Mayoral appointee for the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission\, she serves as Chair of the subcommittee on homelessness as well as for the ad hoc Natives in LA COVID-19 Response Working Group. She also has the privilege of serving as Board chairperson for United American Indian Involvement\, and Vice Chairperson for We Are Healers. Through all of her work\, research\, and volunteer endeavors\, Andrea is most interested in centering the brilliance and inherent wisdom of Native people in addressing the structural determinants of health. \n  \n \nCathy Fournier\, PhD – Senior Scholar\, Indigenous Homelessness\, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness\, York University \nCathy is currently Director\, Indigenous Homelessness/Houselessness Prevention at the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH). Her research involves working with Indigenous communities and community partners examining Indigenous homelessness and homelessness prevention through a lens of social and structural dynamics of Indigenous Peoples’ health and wellness\, social justice\, Indigenous values\, and Indigenous concepts of home. \nCathy has settler and Indigenous ancestry (French\, Mi’kmaq\, Scottish and Algonquin) and is actively involved in the urban Indigenous community in Toronto. She was an Oshkeebewis (ceremonial helper) at the Native Women’s Resource Centre of Toronto from 2018 to 2024 where she worked with an Ojibwe and Cree healer helping Indigenous women recovering from trauma. Before pursuing a career in academia\, she was a complementary and alternative health practitioner for 20 years. \n  \n \nJoseph Berra\, Esq. – Human Rights in the Americas Project Director\, Promise Institute for Human Rights\, UCLA School of Law \nJoseph Berra is Human Rights in the Americas Project Director with the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law. He leads the Reimagining Human Rights in the Americas Initiative for the Promise Institute. His teaching and research interests include international human rights\, the Inter-Amerian system for human rights\, the rights of Afro-descendant and Indigenous peoples in the international framework\, and migrant rights. Berra coordinates projects with organizational partners in the U.S. and Latin America to engage students in human rights advocacy and the Inter-American system for human rights.  Current projects include collaboration with Indigenous organizations resisting extractivist industries in their territories\, litigation at the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights\, Indigenous migrants in the U.S.\,  and work in support of local tribes and the Indigenous Education Now! Coalition of Los Angeles. Recent work is focused on climate justice and climate migration from a human rights perspective. He recently organized the visit of the Inter-American Commission to UCLA for its 186th period of sessions in conjunction with the Reimagining Rights in the Americas Conference. \nBefore entering academia\, he was a successful civil and human rights litigator.  He is the past Executive Director of the of the Caribbean Central American Research Council (CCARC) and currently serves on the CCARC Board.  In addition to his law degree\, Berra holds an M.A. in Social Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.Div. from the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in San Salvador\, El Salvador. \n  \n \nPamela Villasenor – Executive Director\, Pukúu Cultural Community Services \n“For the first time\, Pukúu will be led by not only a California Native woman\, but one from the Fernandeño Tataviam Tribe that founded Pukúu\,” said Board Chair Samantha Ortega. The Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians (Tribe) established the non-profit as the social services branch of the Tribe for the betterment of their tribal citizens and Native Americans living in their homelands. Today\, Pukúu carries on that legacy with programs that continue to uplift and support the community\, the community in which Villaseñor was raised. You can learn from Villaseñor directly by watching her talks on the Tribe’s website at www.tataviam-nsn.us/videos. \n  \n \nDanielle Tobey – Consultant\, Tribal Housing Programs \nDanielle Tobey She/Her (Mashpee Wampanoag/Cape Verdean) is an enrolled member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. She is a private consultant for Tribal housing/rehousing programs. Ms. Tobey previously served as Family & Children’s Services Coordinator for Torres Martinez Tribal TANF\, advocating for families per the Indian Child Welfare Act and leading homeless systems integration within the organization. She is also a senior consultant for the Change Well Project within the Tribal Technical Assistance team. \nWith over 18 years of experience coordinating supportive services for people struggling with health\, mental health\, and developmental challenges\, she operates from the premise that safe and adequate housing is a basic human right. Her work focuses on finding and removing systemic barriers to permanent housing and integrating culturally specific practices.
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/hpri-symposium-the-american-indian-and-alaska-native-aian-homelessness/
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SUMMARY:HPRI Symposium: LA County Women’s Needs Assessment
DESCRIPTION:Register for the Zoom Link: Register Here \n  \nLos Angeles County Women’s Needs Assessment: Findings and recommendations from the 2022 Survey of Women Experiencing Homelessness. \nIn 2020\, both the City and County of Los Angeles County identified “unaccompanied” women experiencing homelessness as a unique subpopulation among people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles\, and the County of Los Angeles commissioned a countywide women’s needs assessment. In fall 2022\, nearly 600 women experiencing homelessness as individuals completed surveys intended to capture information about their experiences of homelessness\, barriers to housing and shelter\, and what they are looking for in housing and the homelessness response system.  The 2022 Los Angeles County Women’s Needs Assessment follows seven additional reports supported by Downtown Women’s Center tracking the needs of women experiencing homelessness for the last twenty years. \nPlease join the research experts\, local leaders\, and advocates of women experiencing homelessness as individuals for a conversation about the Los Angeles County Women’s Needs Assessment findings and its programmatic and policy implications. \n  \nRead the report: Los Angeles County Women’s Needs Assessment: Findings from the 2022 Survey of Women Experiencing Homelessness \n  \nSpeakers\n \nSamantha Batko – Senior Fellow Urban Institute  \nSamantha Batko is a senior fellow and practice area lead for the Preventing and Ending Homelessness practice area in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Her research focuses on homelessness\, housing instability\, housing assistance\, and supportive  services. She has developed expertise on homelessness and housing over a 19-year career in the sector that has included research\, federal policy\, and technical assistance and training. She has expertise in several primary homelessness programs including homelessness prevention\, emergency shelter\, rapid re-housing\, and permanent supportive housing. She is currently the principal investigator of Urban’s Housing Justice Hub\, the US Department Housing and Urban Development’s Pay for Success permanent supportive housing demonstration evaluation\, and the evaluation of Denver’s All in Mile High Initiative. Other current projects include the US Department of Health and Human Services Runaway and Homeless Youth Learning Agenda and case studies of Emergency Housing Voucher programs. Past projects have included the evaluation of Tipping Point Community’s Chronic Homelessness Initiative in San Francisco\, the Los Angeles County Unaccompanied Women Experiencing Homelessness Needs Assessment\, the development of the Emergency Rental Assistance Priority Index\, and evaluation of the State of New Jersey’s Keeping Families Together supportive housing program. Batko sits  on the State of California Interagency Council on Homelessness Advisory Board\, the National Alliance to End Homelessness Research Council\, The Homelessness Policy Research Institute based at USC Price\, the Homelessness Research Advisory Council for Portland State University\, and the Homelessness Research Advisory Board for All Home California. Batko has been cited in the LA Times\, Route Fifty\, and The Hill multiple times; has published multiple opeds\, including in The Hill and in Street Sense (Washington\, DC’s “street” newspaper); is frequently a guest on NPR affiliates; and has been a guest on PBS NewsHour. \n  \n \nSofia Herrera – Director of Research\, Planning\, and Policy\, Hub for Urban Initiatives \nSofia Herrera\, PhD is the director of research\, planning\, and policy at the Hub for Urban Initiatives\, a nonprofit consulting entity in Pasadena\, California. She is one of the co-principal investigators leading the Los Angeles County Women’s Needs Assessment. Dr. Herrera has led and worked on many homeless counts\, participatory action research projects\, and strategic plans in the field of homelessness for several jurisdictions in California. Through her work\, she is committed to continuously promoting trauma-informed services and gender equity in policy\, programmatic approaches\, and service delivery. Since 2016\, Dr. Herrera has chaired the Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count Advisory Board at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. She is also a past grantee and then a member of the research and steering committees at the Homelessness Policy Research Institute (HPRI) at the University of Southern California. \nTrained as a clinical psychologist in the research-practitioner model\, Dr. Herrera is licensed in California. She holds a faculty appointment as associate research professor at the Fuller Graduate School of Psychology in Pasadena\, California. In past years\, she was the research coordinator of the Fuller Youth Initiative for Violence Prevention and Positive Youth Development\, an extensive research program at the Fuller Graduate School of Psychology funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention\, U.S. Dept. of Justice. Dr. Herrera has also researched the impact of community violence exposure and traumatic experiences on youth and school teachers domestically and in Central America. She also consults with organizations conducting program evaluations in the United States and internationally. \n  \n \nMyong Kim – LCSW\, Chief Program Officer\, Downtown Women’s Center \nMyong Kim\, LCSW is the Chief Program Officer at the Downtown Women’s Center and oversees DWC’s Housing\, Health and Wellness\, Workforce Development and Clinical programs. She has been working at the Downtown Women’s Center in various leadership roles serving unhoused women in Los Angeles for the past 9 years. She takes a strengths-based\, trauma informed approach to program development\, leading staff and providing services for over 5\,000 women that Downtown Women’s Center serves annually. Myong has been a part of the social service field in Los Angeles serving our unhoused neighbors\, survivors of trauma\, children and families and transitional aged youth since 2004. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from University of California\, Santa Barbara and a Master’s Degree in Social Work from University of Southern California. \n  \n \nDaniella Urbina – Senior Advisor\, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisor Hilda L. Solis \nDaniella Urbina serves Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis as her Senior Advisor. In that role\, she supports the Supervisor’s work on homelessness\, housing\, immigration\, legislative affairs and libraries. Prior to serving Supervisor Solis\, Daniella was the Senior Manager for Reentry Supportive Services at the Los Angeles County Office of Diversion and Reentry. There\, she managed the Reentry Intensive Case Management program which provides case management services for individuals released from incarceration or on probation. Daniella also served as a Government Innovation Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy Government Performance Lab (GPL). GPL provides pro bono technical assistance to state and local government agencies to improve the outcomes of contracted social services. She worked with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) to improve the permanent supportive housing lease-up process and enhance LAHSA’s use of data to manage and monitor its contracts. \n Daniella began her career working on Senator Barbara Boxer’s reelection campaign in 2010\, and served in the Senator’s Washington office after the campaign. In 2012\, she returned to the campaign trail and helped reelect President Obama. Her desire to see more women in elected office drew her to EMILY’s List\, where she served as the Political Opportunity Program Coordinator. In this capacity\, Daniella worked to elect pro-choice Democratic women to local and state office across the US. She also managed the organization candidate training and recruitment program and served as a consultant on select campaigns. Daniella holds a B.A in Government from Harvard University and an MPA in Economic and Political Development from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. \n  \n \nRowena Magana – Principal Analyst\, Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative \nRowena has over 20 years of experience working in the homeless services and healthcare fields. She has been with the Homeless Initiative Office within the Los Angeles County Chief Executive Office since 2017. Rowena focuses on homeless outreach strategies; special populations\, such as women and older adults; and strengthening partnerships between County departments\, homeless service providers\, cities\, and other stakeholders. Prior to her current role\, she worked for the County Department of Health Services in government relations and homeless services. \nRowena earned a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. \n  \n \nTyana “Ms. T” – Advocate    \nTyana\, also known as Mz T\, is an award-winning social justice advocate\, producer\, writer\, and actress. She is a third-generation domestic violence (DV) survivor who chose to break the generational belief/curse. Born in Los Angeles\, California\, she grew up in a household where she witnessed and experienced domestic violence at the hands of her stepfather\, often taking on the role of counselor and referee at an early age. Striving for a “happy” home\, her role in life from then until now has been to give a voice to the voiceless. \nCurrently\, she co-hosts “Off the Top Thursdays” at Creating Justice in LA’s Skid Row\, every Thursday\, open to the public (free). Recently\, from 2022 to 2023\, she was both a DWC Lived Experience Board member and volunteer\, and from 2023 to 2024\, she serves as DWC’s Women’s Vision Committee Chairperson. Presently\, she is attending Los Angeles Southwest College (LASC)\, where her major is Interdisciplinary Studies. \nTyana has volunteered from 2014 to the present at The Toyota Museum\, American Legion Jackie Robinson Post #252 in Los Angeles\, M.E.N.T.O.R.S\, Creating Justice\, and The Row Church. Her stage credits include LASC and the Vision Theatre Complex Readers Theatre. She is a five-time winner at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KC-ACTF) for devised work credits\, including I am NOT your Property! (The Recy Taylor Story)\, Criminal (Emmitt Till)\, and The Threat. \nHer web series credits include Simple Ingredients and Hula Gang. Film credits include Hood Rats 2\, Mattais\, and the upcoming Hitman Heaven. \n  \n \nLynden Bond – Assistant Professor at the College of Social Work\, University of Kentucky \nLynden Bond (she/her)\, PhD\, MSW is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky’s College of Social Work. She is a community-centered mixed-methods researcher whose research focuses on homelessness\, housing insecurity\, and behavioral health. Lynden’s extensive direct practice\, organizing\, and advocacy experiences\, including as a clinical supervisor in a homeless outreach program and in a permanent supportive housing program\, guide her research and commitment to partnering with directly impacted people in this work. Her current research focuses on examining homelessness responses systems and how people experiencing housing security access and use behavioral health services and systems. Prior to joining the College of Social Work\, Lynden was a Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute in Washington\, DC. She holds a PhD and an MSW from the Silver School of Social Work at New York University. \n  \n  \nModerators\n \nSaba Mwine-Chang – Deputy Chief Equity Officer\, LAHSA \nSaba Mwine-Chang (She/Her/Hers) serves as the inaugural Deputy Chief Equity Officer at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) where she provides strategic leadership and facilitates shared vision and collaborative partnerships among LAHSA staff\, Los Angeles Continuum of Care\, the City of Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles. Saba’s work at LAHSA includes fostering: culturally specific and informed healing service delivery models; data driven equity goals\, metrics and implementation; equity technical assistance and guidance for service providers\, staff and the public at large. Prior to LAHSA\, Saba served as inaugural Managing Director of the Homelessness Policy Research Institute (HPRI)\, a collaborative of over one hundred researchers\, policymakers\, service providers and experts with lived experience of homelessness that accelerate equitable and culturally informed solutions to homelessness in Los Angeles County by advancing knowledge and fostering transformational partnerships between research\, policy and practice. Under Saba’s co-direction\, HPRI more than doubled in size\, growing collaboratively from a start-up to an established trusted racial equity centered institute locally and across the country. Saba helped deepen policy relationships\, supported anti-racist research\, practice and integrated community learning spaces. \nSaba has over twenty years of experience spearheading housing justice work throughout the nation. At the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)\, she worked to establish their first racial equity initiatives via fundraising\, designing grant programming\, developing and delivering transformative learnings\, and guiding community initiatives. Under the Obama Administration\, she facilitated the national Housing Discrimination Study throughout Los Angeles County and other major cities across the country\, measuring access to housing based on race and other protected classes. Saba is a classically trained actor and holds a master’s of fine arts in theatre; she is committed to the arts and somatic practice as a tool for healing racial trauma and shaping community spaces. Saba is a proud board member of Housing Works\, California and board chair of Arc4Justice and she serves on HPRI’s steering\, research and race equity committees. In California and nationally\, Saba is a leading voice in the movement for liberatory\, community engaged\, culturally informed healing approaches to addressing racism—the least examined cause and perpetuator of homelessness. \n  \n \nSuzette Shaw – Advocate \nDisplaced to Skid Row over a decade ago\, Suzette has volunteered with the Downtown Women’s Center in one capacity to another. Whether washing dishes\, serving food\, sorting and ironing clothes\, sitting in the day center having lunch with the other women\, advocating for policy changes through the DVHSC\, volunteering annually with the Homeless Count through the Homeless Count with DWC\, taking a lead role In S.C.A.L.E and Project 100\, volunteering with administering\, research or sharing my story with the DWAC Needs Assessment for the last decade and now a student in the Watts School of Social Work at Arizona State University in Community Advocacy/ Social Policy with a minor in Organizational Leadership Development\, She uses her grassroots efforts to be a voice for change. Her platform is: “We can no longer talk about equality and empowerment while enforcing inequities”….. \n \nResources for this symposium\nSlides of the Symposium
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/hpri-symposium-la-county-womens-needs-assessment/
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SUMMARY:HPRI Symposium: Guaranteed Income
DESCRIPTION:Register for the Zoom Link: Register Here \n  \nWhile guaranteed income and cash transfer programs have existed in other portions of the world\, such as Latin America\, since the 1980s (Fotta and Schmidt\, 2023)\, the discussion of Universal Basic Income in the 2020 presidential debates and the widespread financial need triggered by the pandemic brought these concepts popular attention in America (guaranteedincome.us).  The broad category of cash transfers (direct transfer of money to a target population) can be offered with or without behavioral conditions\, with guaranteed income programs representing a subset of unconditional cash transfer programs that make consistent payments on a regular basis\, with no strings attached (Center for High Impact Philanthropy\, 2024).  The Universal Basic Income\, an even more specific cash transfer\, is differentiated by its unconditionality and universality – “a periodic cash payment to all residents in a jurisdiction\, without obligation” (Lee\, 2021).  These approaches show great promise in poverty alleviation by providing recipients autonomy over their spending\, as well as other associated benefits like increased food security\, improved health care\, and spillover benefits like improved local economic activity (Stedman\, 2023).  Such benefits could be particularly reparative for communities of color in Los Angeles\, who are more likely to live below the federal poverty line than white counterparts (Ending Poverty Summit\, 2024)\, and for the Black and Latinx population which continue to be overrepresented in experiences of homelessness (LAHSA\, 2023).  Given the potential positive impacts for Black\, Latinx\, and indigenous populations\, many see guaranteed income as a potential vehicle for reparations (The California Reparations Report\, 2023). \nHow can these programs impact people experiencing housing insecurity or homelessness?  What sums of unconditional money could prevent vulnerable populations from falling into homelessness?  What other benefits are guaranteed income pilots uncovering in their evaluations?  Would it be more helpful in fighting homelessness to use a universal approach like UBI rather than targeted guaranteed income?  What are the most effective ways to utilize cash transfers to stabilize housing?  Join us to explore these questions and more as we learn about a cash transfer pilot program that targets people experiencing homelessness from Denver known as the Denver Basic Income Project and LA City’s effort to facilitate and evaluate a basic income program for families living in poverty known as the Big Leap! \n  \nPanelists:\n \nBo-Kyung Elizabeth Kim – Associate Professor\, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health\, Department of Community Health Sciences \nDr. Bo-Kyung Elizabeth Kim is an Associate Professor at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in the Department of Community Health Sciences. Her work seeks to bridge the research-practice gap in community-based service delivery models addressing the mental\, emotional\, and behavioral health needs of youth in and at-risk for being involved in the juvenile justice system. Over the years\, her research has evolved from universal approaches to community-based prevention to directly challenging systemic inequity (e.g.\, racial and socioeconomic). Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Justice\, National Institute of Health\, City of Los Angeles\, and Foundations. In collaboration with the UPenn Center for Guaranteed Income Research\, Dr. Kim is currently serving as the site-PI for BIG:LEAP\, a randomized controlled trial testing the effect of guaranteed income among families living in the City of Los Angeles. \n  \n \nAaron Strauss – Senior Program Manager\, Office of Community Wealth\, City of Los Angeles Community Investment for Families Department(CIFD) \nAaron Strauss is the Senior Program Manager for the Office of Community Wealth at the City of Los Angeles Community Investment for Families Department (CIFD). He spearheads a portfolio of financial empowerment and anti-poverty programs\, including BIG:LEAP\, LA’s Guaranteed Income Pilot program. Prior to joining CIFD\, Aaron was a Policy Analyst within the New York City Mayor’s Office of Operations\, improving the effectiveness of programs through implementation of interagency and mayoral initiatives. He covered policy areas such as local media\, temporary housing\, demographic data collection\, traffic safety\, and COVID-19 vaccinations. He was born and raised in Los Angeles and attended Cornell University\, earning his degree in Economics and Spanish. \n  \n \nDaniel Brisson – Professor\, Director\, Center for Housing and Homelessness Research (CHHR)\, Graduate School of Social Work\, University of Denver \nDr. Daniel Brisson is Professor\, and the Director of the Center for Housing and Homelessness Research (CHHR) at the Graduate School of Social Work\, University of Denver. Dr. Brisson is currently Principal Investigator of the Denver Basic Income Project (DBIP)\, and studies on trauma informed design in permanent supportive housing. Dr. Brisson’s research focuses on poverty\, high-poverty neighborhoods\, affordable housing\, and homelessness. Dr. Brisson has ongoing community partnerships around Colorado and the country with social service providers and other stakeholders interested in addressing challenges related to poverty. Dr. Brisson has written extensively on the role of neighborhood social cohesion as a mediator for the health and well-being of families living in high-poverty neighborhoods. Currently\, Dr. Brisson is focusing on community partnerships with affordable housing providers engaged in trauma informed design and guaranteed basic income programs. \nDr. Brisson teaches research methods\, statistics\, and macro social work practice with a focus on poverty alleviation. \n  \n \nMark Donovan – Founder and Executive Director\, Denver Basic Income Project \nMark Donovan is the Founder and Executive Director of the Denver Basic Income Project. He is a Denver based entrepreneur and philanthropist. He received a B.A. in Economics from Harvard and is a graduate of the National Outdoor Leadership School. In 1992 Mark co-founded Wooden Ships Knits\, a Bali based women’s sweater brand. He studies\, practices and teaches the principles of Lean (The Toyota Production System). In 2020 he founded the Denver Basic Income Project to advance the use of guaranteed income to invest in people and their ability to thrive when given trust\, hope\, and a financial foundation. Mark is the father of three boys\, an avid skier and outdoorsman who also loves to play the piano and guitar. He is committed to fighting all forms of injustice and protecting our planet for future generations. \n  \n \nMaria Sierra – Community Engagement Manager\, Denver Basic Income Project \nMaria Sierra is an experienced professional working with those experiencing homelessness and has over 25 years of experience working in nonprofit service organizations and low-income housing. Helping individuals overcome obstacles and difficulties and making the most of themselves is a gratifying yet challenging career. Maria has a thorough knowledge of housing and social service systems and a unique perspective and understanding of the struggle individuals and families often face with meeting their basic needs. What drives her is the desire for the people she works with to EXPERIENCE life truly and not just navigate through their struggles. \nMaria holds a bachelor’s degree in Chicano Studies/Human Services from the Metropolitan State University of Denver. \n  \n \nMoriah Rodriguez – Participant\, Denver Basic Income Project \nMy name is Moriah Rodriguez\, I was born and raised all throughout Denver\, Colorado. Growing up I was involved in community and the movement for change. I am a mother of Four children. I sit on the mental health Advisory Committee and also a council member of the Developmental disability Council. \n  \nGuest Moderator:\n \nSoomi Lee – Professor and Director\, Master of Public Administration program\, University of La Verne \nSoomi Lee is a Professor and Director of the Master of Public Administration program at the University of La Verne\, with a Ph.D. in Economics and Political Science from Claremont Graduate University. Her expertise lies in public policy\, public finance\, and urban economics. Her contributions have been published in top academic journals\, including Urban Studies\, Urban Affairs Review\, Regional Studies\, Journal of Socioeconomics\, State Politics and Policy Quarterly\, Public Finance Review\, and Basic Income Studies. \n\nResources for this Symposium \nBasic Income Grants to Reduce Homelessness in Los Angeles – Gary Blasi\, Benjamin Henwood\, Sam Tsemberis\, Dan Flaming \nGuaranteed Income and Homelessness Landscape Analysis – Erika Rogers \nUniversal Basic Income – Essential Knowledge – Karl Widerquist \nBasic Income: A Guide for the Open-Minded – Guy Standing \nWhat is a Basic Income Guarantee? – USBIG \nAdditional videos\, organizations\, journals\, and essays about basic income programs
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SUMMARY:HPRI Symposium: Improving Coordinated Entry Systems
DESCRIPTION:Register for the Zoom Link: Register Here \n  \nThe implementation of Coordinated Entry Systems (CES) has become a common feature across the country\, particularly after the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) required the use of such systems for its largest grant program in 2013.  These systems are intended to standardize processes across providers in a given jurisdiction so that unhoused clients can easily access a homeless services system\, work with a provider to understand their needs\, and get connected to housing and service resources according to their strengths and needs.  While this systematic approach has aided many localities in their ability to quickly identify relevant resources for clients entering their system\, it has often done little to disrupt patterns of inequitable distribution of resources across racial groups (Wilkey et al.\, 2019)\, with particular concerns around assessment tools\, like VI-SPDAT\, inequitably assessing client vulnerability (Cronley\, 2020). \nAs these concerns\, backed by emerging research\, continue to mount some jurisdictions are looking to restructure and improve their Coordinate Entry processes with special attention to racially equitable outcomes.  This symposium aims to share learnings from those research and system improvement efforts by discussing pressing issues and important questions facing CES.  Which issues in Coordinate Entry processes are most problematic in equitably addressing homelessness?  What processes have different jurisdictions used to create and execute community plans to improve their CES?  What changes have successfully been made to CES in different locations?  What process improvements are being discussed/considered for future changes?  Are there any CES-related research gaps that could be filled to inform further improvements? \n  \nPanelists:\n \nCynthia Nagendra – Deputy Director of Planning\, Performance\, and Strategy\, San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. \nCynthia Nagendra\, Deputy Director of Planning and Strategy\, was recently appointed by San Francisco Mayor London Breed to the executive leadership team of San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. She brings over 15 years of experience in designing homeless response systems and programs. She has focused her career on effectuating systems change at all levels of government using outcomes-based analysis and program design\, with the goal of preventing and ending homelessness and advancing housing justice. She has worked on homelessness policy\, planning\, data-driven program design and evaluation\, advocacy\, developing cross-sector partnerships\, and research in dozens of communities across the country. \n \nLahela Mattox – Chief Operations Officer\, Regional Task Force on the Homeless \nLahela specializes in compliance\, government partnerships\, and stakeholder engagement. She has 20 years of experience in housing\, social services\, mental health services\, criminal justice and other related fields\, both in Hawaii and California. Lahela has worked with individuals and families from all walks of life and is passionate about supporting them to live the best life they can. Lahela’s career has provided her with extensive experience in program oversight\, compliance with state and federal laws and regulations\, leadership\, supervision\, program development\, budgeting\, and staff development. \n \nEric Rice – Professor and Co-Director of the USC Center for AI in Society\, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work \nEric Rice is a professor and the founding co-director of the USC Center for AI in Society\, a joint venture of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Professor Rice received a BA from the University of Chicago\, and an MA and PhD in Sociology from Stanford University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California\, Los Angeles. He joined the USC faculty in 2009. Professor Rice specializes in social network science and theory\, as well as community-based research. His primary focus is on youth experiencing homelessness and how issues of social network influence may affect risk-taking behaviors and resilience. \n \nMarina Genchev – Director of Systems & Planning\, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority \nMarina Genchev has over 14 years of experience in homeless services\, with an emphasis on system design and implementation. She currently serves as Director of the System & Planning Department at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA). In this role\, she supports the ongoing improvement and reimaging of a homeless service system to effectively deliver services and housing to the entirety of Los Angeles City and County. Favorite responsibilities include creating policies and guidance to govern the use of system resources\, developing system management tools for data and funding\, and streamlining and refining complex housing processes to support increased utilization. Prior to her role at LAHSA\, Marina worked with a national non-profit as an Improvement Advisor\, leading technical assistance during the pilot and expansion phases of the Coordinated Entry System for Adults in Los Angeles County. Marina began her career in homeless services working at a community-based nonprofit where she ran housing programs\, grew outreach teams\, and served as Director of Housing and Homeless Services. Marina has a Bachelor of Sociology and a Master of Social Work\, both from the University of Southern California. As a proud third generation Angeleno\, Marina has a passion for seeing her homeless neighbors return to housing and dignity. \n \nZia Martinis – Community Liaison\, Talent Poole \nKezia (Zia) Villias-Martinis a third generation San Franciscan and recently graduated from the Rise for Racial Justice Program with USF. This past year she has been working with Talentpool as a community liaison and helped create Home by the Bay. She loves San Francisco and wants this City to succeed.\, because everyone deserves a home.
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SUMMARY:HPRI Symposium: Encampment Resolution Strategies
DESCRIPTION:Register for the Zoom link: Register Here \nAs the cost of housing continues to rise across the United States\, homelessness remains a growing issue in nearly all areas of the country (NAEH).  In urban areas\, this struggle is often visually and physically represented by the presence of encampments. As jurisdictions struggle to understand how they should address homelessness\, many are taking a punitive or enforcement approach (Thornton).  Despite knowledge that abating or “sweeping” encampments is harmful to encampment residents’ health (Chang et. al) and potentially breaks people’s access to local services/resources and residents’ sense of community (NHCHC)\, American governmental jurisdictions feel the acute pressure from housed residents’ complaints about visible poverty (Herring).  California\, and similar jurisdictions\, have attempted to pair enforcement actions with outreach and housing efforts so that folks can move from encampments into housing. At present\, data are inconclusive about the effectiveness of encampment resolution efforts in achieving long term housing stability (Kendall). \nAs the state and localities invest in this model\, it is imperative that we are able to answer the following questions: \nWhat are the key factors that make encampment resolutions effective or not?  Given America’s history of over policing people of color\, how can encampment resolution efforts ensure housing and services are provided equitably?  Which types of governmental support and service provision are necessary to move folks off the street and into housing?  What is the appropriate time frame for resolving encampments and what can be done in the interim?  What approaches in encampment resolution are working and how can we amplify those efforts?  We hope you will join us at our September symposium to seek answers to these questions and more! \n  \nPanelists: \n\nKim Olsen – Executive Director\, West Valley Homes Yes\nAnn Pacia – Associate Director for Metro LA Programs\, People Assisting the Homeless\nDaymond Johnson – Founder/ CEO of Community Crisis Housing Management\nClifton Jones\nMarissa Cuellar – Science & Research Analyst\, Abt Associates\nNick Weinmeister – Project Specialist\, Homelessness Policy Research Institute\n\nModerators: \n\nNichole Fiore – Principal Associate\, Abt Associates\nGary Painter – Director\, Homelessness Policy Research Institute\nSaba Mwine – Managing Director\, Homelessness Policy Research Institute\n\n  \nPanelist Bios \n \nKim Olsen – Executive Director\, West Valley Homes Yes \nKim Olsen is an advocate for our unhoused neighbors. During the start of the pandemic\, Kim sourced food and mobilized volunteers in the West San Fernando Valley to address the food insecurity and distress she was seeing in the community. Today\, this work has transformed into a nonprofit with the largest volunteer-led outreach program in the San Fernando Valley\, serving hundreds of unhoused Angelenos each week. She created food pantry pop-ups\, organized sanitation stations\, organized emergency frozen water drops on the hottest days of the year\, emergency winter supply distribution before and during the worst storms and facilitated voter registration drives to elevate the voices of our unhoused neighbors. She also partnered with the Department of Health Services to facilitate Covid-19 vaccines and to increase harm reduction supplies in the encampments that WVHY serves. \nAs Executive Director of West Valley Homes Yes (WVHY)\, Kim is focused on building collaboration across Los Angeles in support of better housing\, health outcomes\, and overall well-being for our unhoused neighbors. Kim created WVHY’s RV Program which is focused on service-first to decrease the total number of recreational vehicles and car dwellers living in uninhabitable vehicles across the San Fernando Valley. This successful program is elevating WVHY’s unique\, individualized\, holistic and trauma-informed work and is creating the groundwork for a citywide protocol to work with unhoused neighbors living in recreational vehicles and cars. Earlier this year\, Kim received a 2023 Pioneer Woman of the Year award from the Los Angeles Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department for her pioneering work in homelessness. Kim Olsen was born and raised in Los Angeles and received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from UCLA. \n  \nAnn Pacia – Associate Director for Metro LA Programs\, People Assisting the Homeless \n \nAnn began her career with PATH in 2015 as a Care Navigator and has served Angelenos experiencing homelessness ever since. She has served as Program Manager to a variety of outreach programs including Council District 1\, the Downtown Business Improvement District and Starbucks as well as Outreach Coordination for the entire SPA 4. She is now PATH’s Associate Director for Metro LA Programs\, leading multiple outreach and service initiatives across Los Angeles. Ann was nominated by Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez\, Council District 1 to be a recipient of the 2023 Pioneer Women Award for her efforts to solve the homelessness crisis. Ann is dedicated to helping those who are underserved. Outside of work\, Ann enjoys traveling with her husband and trying new foods. She is a first-time mom who loves spending time with her 8-month-old son. \n  \nMarissa Cuellar – Science & Research Analyst\, Abt Associates \n \nMarissa Cuellar\, MPA is a multilingual social policy researcher at Abt Associates with a focus on homelessness\, employment\, and economic well-being. She contributed to the 2022 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress and has gained specific knowledge on the context of homelessness in Los Angeles through an evaluation of California’s Project Roomkey and studying distinct approaches to encampment resolution efforts across the San Fernando Valley. Prior to Abt\, she worked in roles focused on community engagement in New Mexico and has continued to build on this interest at Abt\, conducting outreach and interviews with individuals receiving guaranteed income\, people experiencing homelessness\, and individuals in HUD’s Stepped and Tiered Rent Demonstration (Moving to Work 2). \n  \nNick Weinmeister – Project Specialist\, Homelessness Policy Research Institute \n \nNick Weinmeister (he/him/his) is a Project Specialist at the Homelessness Policy Research Institute. He holds a Master of Public Policy from the USC Price School of Public Policy\, where he developed his interests in housing and homelessness policy\, as well as strategies using policy\, research\, and communication as tools to pursue social and racial justice. \nNick comes to HPRI after working with the policy team at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. During his time in local government\, Nick facilitated a variety of research on emerging issues in homelessness\, created policies pursuant to the goals of the Los Angeles Continuum of Care\, developed processes to ensure high levels of culturally-informed agency operations\, and wrote myriad reports and resources for providers\, elected officials\, and the general public. In his free time\, Nick loves to attend live music performances and watch and play soccer. \n  \nNichole Fiore – Principal Associate\, Abt Associates \n \nMs. Fiore is a Principal Associate with Abt Associates with over 15 years of experience evaluating housing and homelessness programs across the country\, developing deep expertise on homeless service system alignment and coordination\, organizational capacity\, political and community will\, unsheltered homelessness\, and permanent supportive housing. During her time at Abt\, Ms. Fiore has successfully managed complex multimethod research projects\, including the State of California’s Homeless System Landscape Assessment\, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation’s Chronic Homelessness Initiative Evaluation\, the California Community Foundation’s Accelerating Permanent Supportive Housing Evaluation\, LAHSA’s Transitional Housing for Youth Evaluation\, and the United Way of Greater Los Angeles’ Investigating Housing Models for Accelerating PSH Production Evaluation. She has also contributed to HUD’s Family Options Study\, the HHS/HUD Study of Homeless Encampments\, and HUD’s Homelessness Prevention Study. Her skills include: collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data; analyzing system alignment and coordination; working with diverse stakeholders to plan and execute evaluations; and conducting site visits\, focus groups\, and interviews. \n  \nSelected Relevant Readings from the Research Catalogue \nHere are some research readings\, including some authored by our panelists\, from our catalogue that provide useful insights on encampments and unsheltered homelessness. \nBarocas et al. (2023). “Population-Level Health Effects of Involuntary Displacement of People Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness Who Inject Drugs in US Cities.” Journal of American Medical Association. https://hpri.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Health-Effects-of-Involuntary-Displacement.pdf \nCaprara\, C.\, Obermark\, D.\, Rountree\, J.\, Santillano\, R. (2022). “Serious Mental Illness among People who are Unsheltered in Los Angeles.” California Policy Lab. https://www.capolicylab.org/serious-mental-illness-among-people-who-are-unsheltered-in-los-angeles/ \nChiang\, J.\, Bluthenthal\, R.\, Wenger\, L.\, Auerswald\, C.\, Henwood\, B.\, Kral\, A. (2022). “Health risk associated with residential relocation among people who inject drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco\, CA: a cross sectional study.” BMC Public Health. https://hpri.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Health-Risks-of-Injection-Drugs.pdf  \nDunton\, L.\, Yetvin\, W.\, Fiore\, N.\, Kwan\, C. (2023). “From Policy to Practice: Responses to Homeless Encampments in Los Angeles.” Abt Associates. https://www.hiltonfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Encampments-Brief_Abt-Associates_3.28.23_FINAL-1.pdf \nFeldman\, B.J.\, Feldman\, C.T.\, Coulourides-Kogan\, A. (2023). “The California Street Medicine Landscape Survey and Report.” California Health Care Foundation. https://www.chcf.org/publication/ca-street-medicine-landscape-survey-report/ \nLanz\, P.\, Cunningham\, T.\, Nguyen\, H.\, White\, P.\, Bar\, F. (2021). “Skid Row Power Now! A Participatory Co-design Project to Power up Digital Devices in Skid Row.” 10th International Conference on Communities and Technologies. https://socialinnovation.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/CT21-31-final-SkidRowPowerNow.pdf \nMontgomery\, A.E.\, Szymkowiak\, D.\, Culhane\, D. (2017). “Gender Differences in Factors Associated with Unsheltered Status and Increased Risk of Premature Mortality among Individuals Experiencing Homelessness.” Women’s Health Issue. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1049386716303528?via%3Dihub \nRichards\, J.\, Henwood\, B.F.\, Porter\, N.\, Kuhn\, R. (2023). “Examining the Role of Duration and Frequency of Homelessness on Health Outcomes Among Unsheltered Young Adults.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1054139X23003233 \nWeare\, Christopher. (2019). “Counting the Homeless: Improving Knowledge of the Unsheltered Homeless Population.” Homelessness Policy Research Institute. https://socialinnovation.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Christopher-Weare-Counting-the-Homeless.pdf \nWeare\, C.\, McElwain\, L.\, Schiele\, D.\, Waheed\, L. (2021). “Safe Parking: Insights from a Review of National Programs.” Center for Homeless Inquiries. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e40681539b77957555f10e0/t/609ef366f1f5035bc056db19/1621029735677/Safe+Parking+Briefer+Final.pdf \nWusinich\, C.\, Bond\, L.\, Nathanson\, A.\, Padgett\, D. (2019). “‘If you’re gonna help me\, help me’: Barriers to Housing Among Unsheltered Homeless Adults.” ScienceDirect: Evaluation and Program Planning. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149718918303823?via%3Dihub
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SUMMARY:HPRI Symposium: Understanding Older Adult Homelessness
DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP Here:  RSVP\nOlder adults who experience\, or are at risk of\, homelessness are a uniquely vulnerable population. The elderly are not only naturally more susceptible to many maladies\, including disease\, mental health disorders\, physical injuries and disabilities (World Health Organization\, 2019)\, but they are also much more likely to be reliant on fixed incomes and disconnected from social networks (NIH\, 2019). Recent data underscore that these risks have converged with historically high housing costs to fuel a housing precarity crisis within this population. Older adult homelessness increased 20% from 2017-2020 in Los Angeles (LAHSA\, 2021)\, and the 2022 homeless count marked another 2% increase (LAHSA\, 2022). Among those who experience homelessness\, older adults are more likely than any other age group to be chronically homeless (HPRI\, 2019). There are sharp racial disparities within this growing population\, as well. Black and Latinx older adults are much more likely than their white counterparts to have experiences of homelessness (Mcqueen-Gibson et. al\, 2021)\, reflecting the cumulative disadvantages they endure over the life course. \nEffectively confronting the strong headwinds facing this vulnerable community requires researchers and policymakers to come together and answer several important\, interrelated questions. How do we direct our resources to intervene before these trends grow worse? What housing and service interventions are most impactful for this population? How can we provide quality health care at prices that will not further destabilize older adults living on the margins? Which strategies can we use to develop housing that will meet the needs of an aging population\, in general\, and older adults of color\, in particular – especially as many care facilities close? \nPanelists:\n \nJune Cigar\, Artist and Advocate \nArtist June is well-respected and always supportive of her fellow artists at Piece by Piece\, offering a kind word with a welcoming nature. She completed the Speak Up! Advocacy program through CSH (Corporation for Supportive Housing) and has represented the Skid Row and South Los Angeles communities in Sacramento\, speaking to members of state government on issues such as homelessness\, domestic violence\, women’s issues\, and arts wellness. She is a breast cancer survivor\, and is passionate about advocating for women’s immediate health issues. As a trained artist with the program\, she works on large and small scale commissions\, and also enjoys making portraits of individuals who inspire her. \n  \n \nJean Galiana\, Older Adults System Coordinator\, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority \n@jeangaliana  \nAs LAHSA’s Older Adult System Coordinator\, Jean is focused on designing and implementing strategies based in age\, ability\, and racial equity to improve programs of prevention and housing for older adults. Jean is also committed to using gerontological expertise to support city and state advocacy efforts focused on older adult homelessness. Jean holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Lehman College and a Master’s of Aging Services Management degree from the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. She coauthored: Aging Well. Solutions to the Most Pressing Global Challenges of Aging. Published by Springer in 2019. Jean is a proud board member of the California Communication Access Foundation (ccaf.us) \n \nBen Henwood\, Professor and Director\, USC Dworak-Peck School of Social Work \nBenjamin Henwood\, PhD\, LCSW\, is a recognized expert in health and housing services research whose work connects clinical interventions with social policy. Dr. Henwood has specific expertise in permanent supportive housing and on improving care for adults experiencing homelessness and serious mental illness\, as well as in the integration of primary and behavioral health care. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (including the National Institute of Mental Health\, National Institute on Drug Abuse\, and National Institute on Aging) and he has served as the methodological lead for the Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count since 2017\, which is the largest unsheltered count in the United States. He is a co-author of a book on Housing First published by Oxford University Press\, and is the co-lead the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare’s Grand Challenge to End Homelessness. Dr. Henwood is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. \n \nLilliana Olivares\, Program Coordinator\, Kingdom Causes Bellflower   \n kcbellflower  \nLilliana Olivares has been working at Kingdom Causes Bellflower for 5 years. She began as a case manager in the rental assistance programs and has grown to become the Program Coordinator\, with a focus on the Older Adult population.  She brings her heart for social justice and the justice system and her background in Sociology and Political Science to bring tangible impact to the lives of many.  She has been a passionate advocate for people experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity in the local community. Her Latino heritage has been vital in her role as an advocate for the Latino community\, especially undocumented immigrants and their families.  Lilliana continues to pursue innovative solutions for collaboration in the service system and for advocacy for those the system represents. \n \nDr. Laura Trejo\, Director of the Los Angeles County Aging & Disabilities Department \nDr. Laura Trejo is the first Director of the Los Angeles County Aging & Disabilities Department. Appointed by the Board of Supervisors\, Dr. Trejo oversees programs and service delivery for older adults and adults with disabilities\, including Adult Protective Services (APS)\, the Area Agency on Aging (AAA)\, and the County’s fourteen Community and Senior Centers. Some of her key initiatives include Purposeful Aging Los Angeles (PALA) and the Los Angeles Aging Disability Resource Connection. With over 36 years of experience from the fields of aging\, health\, mental health\, Alzheimer’s\, and rehabilitation\, Dr. Trejo is committed to creating culturally competent and impactful programs to ensure that all older adults and adults with disabilities can live with dignity and independence. A nationally and internationally recognized expert and advocate\, Dr. Trejo is a sought-after panelist and keynote speaker.  Her commitment to excellence has earned recognition as an influential leader in program innovation\, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Community Health Leadership award\, considered the nation’s highest honor in community health. Dr. Trejo has also received Excellence in Leadership awards from the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (now USAging)\, American Society on Aging\, and National Hispanic Council on Aging.  \n Her advocacy work elevating the needs of the most vulnerable populations has been recognized by Justice in Aging\, the Los Angeles Aging Advocacy Coalition\, the Mexican American Opportunities Foundation\, Fearless Caregiver.com\, and the City of Hope. \n\nLos Angeles Magazine named Dr. Trejo among the “50 Most Influential Women\,” and the United States Library of Congress has recognized Dr. Trejo’s accomplishments as a force for social change. \n Dr. Trejo holds a doctorate in Social Work\, Master level degrees in Gerontology and Public Administration\, and a Graduate Certificate in Long Term-Care Administration\, all from the University of Southern California. \nModerator:\n \nMorgan Sutton\, Homeless Initiatives Coordinator (Older Adults)\, United Way of Greater Los Angeles \nMorgan Sutton works on the Home for Good Initiative as the Coordinator on Older Adult Strategies with the United Way of Greater Los Angeles. This work includes driving improved performance in homeless service delivery systems for older adults and seniors by project managing the implementation of the Older Adult roadmap for ending homelessness among this target population. Some projects include Patient Navigation in the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys\, cross-sector collaboration in SPAs 6 & 7\, and senior program development for Measure ULA. Previously\, Morgan served as Legislative Deputy for Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Krekorian\, specializing in homelessness policy development and implementation. She also served as Field Deputy for Council District 2 specializing in “boots on the ground” concerns with city homelessness policies\, often bringing a field perspective to city hall. Morgan championed and launched many successful pilots for the City of Los Angeles such as seRVeLA\, a Neighborhood-Based Unified Homelessness Response Team\, and the Homelessness Multi-Disciplinary Street Team focused on high acuity individuals. She thrives on working with community advocates\, elected representative offices and various coalitions to facilitate improvements across service providers\, government agencies and strategic policies. Morgan holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science with Distinction from California State University\, Northridge and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from University of California\, Santa Barbara; and\, is an active Coro Women in Leadership alumni. \n\nPlease RSVP Here:  RSVP\n 
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/hpri-symposium-understanding-older-adult-homelessness/
LOCATION:USC Vineyard Room\, Lower Level of Davidson Continuing Education Center\, 3409 S. Figueroa Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90089\, United States
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SUMMARY:HPRI Research Seminar: Coordinated Entry in Seattle
DESCRIPTION:Please join us 6/13 from 9-11AM for a virtual HPRI Research Seminar featuring some of our esteemed research partners – Sam Tsemberis\, Molly Brown\, and Rachel Fyall! \nThe research team will be presenting and discussing their 2019 study case study of the Coordinated Entry System (CES) for single adults experiencing homelessness in Seattle-King County\, Washington\, one of the largest populations of individuals experiencing homelessness in the United States. Their study utilized interviews and focus groups with a variety of stakeholders and reviews of relevant meeting materials (notes\, presentations\, attendance records) to document King County’s CES structure\, processes\, and procedures; examines the benefits and challenges in system implementation; and identifies similarities and differences in perspectives among stakeholders. \nPlease join us for an engaging research presentation and discussion of the important work to improve coordinated entry in Seattle\, Los Angeles\, and beyond! \nRegister Here:  Register\n  \n 
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/hpri-research-seminar-coordinated-entry-in-seattle/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:HPRI Symposium: High Cost Housing Areas on the West Coast
DESCRIPTION:Housing costs have risen nationally every single year for a decade\, with the trend finally breaking in September of 2022 (Gopal). Nowhere was this painful trend more evident than along the West Coast where housing markets in Los Angeles\, San Diego\, San Francisco/Bay Area\, and Seattle frequently make the top 5 in terms of high prices for housing (Ziraldo). We know that most of the West Coast has failed to build adequate new\, affordable housing while demand to work and live in urban areas has reached a fever pitch across the globe (Levin). Even when Los Angeles passed housing bonds to address its affordable housing gap\, the difficulties in permitting processes\, pushback from communities of property owners\, and high construction costs have prevented those large local investments from noticeably reducing its housing shortage (Klein). In light of these trends\, what strategies have different localities across the Pacific coast employed? What successes have been achieved? What lessons have been learned? What are the most actionable steps we can take to increase housing stability and decrease homelessness? Do any of these solutions have implications for gentrification/displacement? \n  \nPresenters and Panelists: \n\nRachel Fyall\, Associate Professor\, University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Policy and Governance; Faculty Co-lead\, Urban@UW’s Homelessness Research Initiative\nRachel Fyall (Ph.D.\, Public Affairs\, Indiana University\, 2014) is an Associate Professor at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington. Her research investigates the formation of public policy and the implementation of public services\, particularly within the areas of low-income housing and homelessness. Dr. Fyall is a mixed methodologist\, with extensive experience in qualitative methods\, survey research\, and quantitative evaluation. Dr. Fyall’s research has been published in Housing Policy Debate\, Housing and Society\, Public Administration Review\, Policy Studies Journal\, Cityscape\, and Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. She is a faculty affiliate of the West Coast Poverty Center and the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology\, both at UW\, as well as the Faculty Co-Chair of the Urban@UW Homelessness Research Initiative. Before pursuing her doctorate\, Dr. Fyall worked in housing policy at the Housing Development Consortium of Seattle-King County. \nFelicia Salcedo\, Executive Director\, We Are In\nFelicia Salcedo (she/her) is the Executive Director of We Are In. As a regional leader\, strategist and advocate for racial equity and social justice\, she strives to build authentic relationships\, utilize data to drive towards measurable results\, and support the leadership of people with lived experience of homelessness. Salcedo has worked for Public Health – Seattle & King County\, supporting overdose prevention and harm reduction solutions to substance use disorder. She has also worked at C4 Innovations\, providing technical assistance\, tools\, and training to communities across the nation and for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)\, embedding racial equity principles within its funding guidelines\, housing policies\, practices\, and services. Previously\, Salcedo was the External Relations Manager for All Home\, the Seattle/King County Continuum of Care Lead\, where she developed cross-sector community partnerships in support of ending homelessness. \n\n\nReba Stevens\, Homelessness Advocate\nReba Stevens is an advocate and activist who experienced homelessness for 21 years in Los Angeles. She has used her experience to promote approaches that will yield the greatest impact for anyone in a housing crisis.\nShe possesses a unique understanding of the mental health\, criminal justice\, and substance abuse treatment systems in Los Angeles County because of incidents she had with each one. A mental health diagnosis and health resources were the lynchpins to her successful road to recovery and journey out of homelessness. These life changing markers fuel her passion to ensure that mental health and substance abuse screenings and treatment are funded; and accessible and embedded in all facets of service delivery for people experiencing homelessness as well as those who are now housed after being homeless.\nReba’s service to community includes numerous cross-departmental appointments to strategic and major bodies that drive policy and practice in homelessness\, mental health\, criminal justice\, and substance abuse areas. She currently serves on the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health-Service Area 6 Advisory Committee\, Los Angeles City & County Office of Diversion and Re-entry Prop 47 Steering Committee\, Los Angeles County Steering Committee on Black People Experiencing Homelessness\, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health Commission\, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Continuum of Care Board\, LGBT South Community Advisory Board\, SPA 6 Homeless Coalition\, USC Homelessness Policy Research Institute and USC/UCLA (PCHOOSE Study) Person-centered\, Housing Options\, Outcomes Services & Environment and newly appointed to the California Interagency Council on Homelessness Advisory Committee.\nHer unabashed voice for equality and humility in serving people experiencing homelessness is largely documented in print and broadcast media such as the Los Angeles Times\, Los Angeles Daily News\, NBC Universal\, Free Your Mind Projects Radio Show\, KABC-AM (AM790)\, Hope on The Horizon MHSOAC News Publication\, Making Sense of Measure H: Dr. Mitch Katz and Reba Stevens with Pat Prescott (94.7 The Wave)\, Unsheltered… New Possibilities TEDx Crenshaw (Ted Talk)\, and Strategic Concepts in Organizing & Policy Education (SCOPE).\nReba is a mother of 4\, the fur parent of two lovely Boston Terriers Sage & Star\, and a Los Angeles native.\n\nDr. Christopher Weare\, Director of Research and Outcome Management\, Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services\nChristopher Weare\, Ph.D. is the Research Director for the Santa Clara County Behavioral Health System. He is also President of the Center for Homeless Inquiries\, a non-profit research organization that he founded when he identified a need to improve the capacity of policy makers and program managers to incorporate data analysis into addressing homelessness. He has over 25 years of experience in public policy as a researcher\, professor\, and practitioner. Previously\, he was the Manager of Data Analytics and Research at Sacramento Steps Forward\, the lead agency for Sacramento’s Homelessness Continuum of Care and a research professor at the USC Price School of Public Policy where he led major\, grant–funded research projects on citizen engagement\, e-government\, and performance management. Prior to being at the USC Price School\, Dr. Weare conducted research at the Public Policy Institute of California. There he authored a report on the 2001 California Electricity Crisis that Sacramento Bee Columnist Dan Weintraub called “the best thing written about the crisis I have seen.”\nDr. Weare also has extensive experience as a practitioner. Most recently\, he advised Mayor Garcetti’s administration in Los Angeles on a major set of management reforms to create an innovative\, data-centric management culture within City operations. With Mayor Hahn’s and Villaraigosa’s administrations he developed a system of participatory budgeting for Los Angeles that remains in place to this day.\nDr. Weare received a BA in Government from Harvard University and a MPP and Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of California\, Berkeley. He lives in San Francisco with his wife\, who is a USC Professor. They all enjoy taking advantage of a house in Bolinas to commune with the beautiful California coast. \nMarisa Zapata\, Associate Professor of Land-Use Planning at Portland State University; Director\, PSU Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative\nDr. Marisa Zapata is an Associate Professor of land-use planning and Director of the Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative at Portland State University\, an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to reducing homelessness and its negative impacts on individuals\, families\, and communities\, with an emphasis on communities of color. As an educator\, scholar\, and planner\, Dr. Zapata is committed to achieving spatially-based social justice by preparing planners to act in the face of the uncertain and inequitable futures we face. She believes how we use land reflects our social and cultural values. \nFacilitators:\nGary Painter\, Director\, Homelessness Policy Research Institute\nSaba Mwine\, Managing Director\, Homelessness Policy Research Institute
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SUMMARY:HPRI Symposium: Moving Toward an Anti-Racist System for Ending and Preventing Homelessness: Health Equity
DESCRIPTION:Health and wellbeing sit at the core of a person’s ability to live life as they see fit. Whether an injury that hinders a person’s ability to work and earn an income or disability that makes traveling to various appointments onerous\, it is easy to see the many ways that ill health can lead to\, or exacerbate\, housing insecurity and homelessness. People living with mental health challenges regularly face barriers to securing and maintaining employment (Poremski et al.\, 2014) and that lack of secure employment can lead to homelessness\, where we can observe an overrepresentation of people living with serious mental illnesses (Perry and Craig\, 2015). Additionally\, often for people that are struggling to maintain housing\, the job opportunities available to them are temporary\, inconsistent in pay/benefits\, and can be dangerous (Shier et al.\, 2012). These realities of employment may not only compound existing mental or physical health challenges but could even create new ones that destabilize employment\, financial\, and housing stability. Finally\, structural challenges such as environmental racism and inequities in health services compound the issue of high healthcare costs in America for those most at risk of housing insecurity and homelessness (Spalter-Roth and Lowenthal\, 2005). \nJoin us as we explore these themes through emerging research\, learnings from lived experiences of homelessness\, rising best practices\, and discussion of ongoing intersectional dynamics between research\, policy and practice. Together we will seek to create deeper understandings of how equitable health interventions can increase housing and housing stability\, and how housing itself can act as a form of healthcare and community wellness. \nPresenters and Panelists:\n\nVanessa Rios\, Senior Program Manager\, Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)\nVanessa Rios worked as a Senior Program Manager at Corporation for Supportive Housing (commonly known as CSH)\, where she was responsible for project management in the areas of workforce development\, property management\, and older adult homelessness. \nRios grew up in East Los Angeles during the early 1990s. Her passion for public service ignited as a child when she was exposed to the destructive effects of poverty and powerlessness in her community. She began working with AB 2034 (funded services to reduce homelessness among the mentally ill) homeless persons on Skid Row in Los Angeles at age twenty-one. She moved on to work in supportive housing\, providing services for formerly homeless individuals with a history of substance use\, severe mental illness\, and/or physical disability. It was here that she gained a deep understanding of homelessness—why they were there\, what they needed to survive\, and their greatest obstacles. Her work includes a research project titled “Frontline Workers: Urban Solutions for Developing a Sustainable Workforce in the Homeless Services Sector of Los Angeles County\,” which looked at the relationship between retention and the needs of frontline workers. In June 2022\, she released a report on peer workforce development titled “Advancing Health Equity through Skilled Peer Workers.” She holds a M.A. in Urban Sustainability and a B.A. in Liberal Studies. She believes voices struggle to be heard\, and given the opportunity\, she hopes to make her voice speak strongly for many. \nIan Costello\, Program Manager\, CSH\nIan Costello (he/him) is a program manager on CSH’s national Strategy and External Affairs team. Ian joined CSH in 2018 and his work primarily focuses on data and analytics. Ian’s portfolio includes data use and sharing\, analysis and reporting\, dashboard development\, and is particularly interested in ethical uses of data and technology to build equitable and human-centered systems. Ian has worked with many communities designing and implementing CSH’s signature FUSE initiative projects across the country using data to link frequent users of justice\, health\, and homeless systems of care to supportive housing. He has written a number of products for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on data and racial equity\, including how to use public and administrative data to analyze racial equity\, and establishing racial equity performance measures. \nPrior to his work at CSH\, Ian was the Manager of the Performance Analysis and Reporting unit at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority\, the collaborative applicant for the LA Continuum of Care\, covering most of Los Angeles County where he lives. There\, he was responsible for project evaluation\, performance analysis\, data visualization and dashboards\, as well as all performance reporting responsibilities for the agency. \n\nJayden Alexander\, Life Skills Advocate\, Housing Works\nJayden Alexander is a CSH SpeakUp! advocate who works as a life skills advocate/coach at Housing Works to guide individuals to become independent from experiencing homeless. Jayden’s past of being homeless and experiencing it for four years make him the kind\, humble man he is today\, allowing him to give others the love he never had.\n\n\nCelina Alvarez\, Executive Director\, Housing Works\nCelina Alvarez is a proud Tejana…(Texan/Mexican)….born and raised in rural West Texas where tumbleweeds and dust storms are plenty. If you have ever seen the movie No Country For Old Men….that’s where she grew up. A town with few traffic lights\, a Wal-Mart\, a Federal Prison\, OIL\, and lots of Catholics. Upon graduating from college\, Celina moved to LA to pursue a journalism degree but her life took a different turn. Instead\, she entered into the nonprofit sector in 1993 during the peak of the AIDS epidemic. In 1999\, she met Mollie Lowery who would\, for 17 years\, show her the ropes relevant to harm reduction and housing first principles. Celina joined Housing Works in 2008 as one of the first members of the nationally recognized Mobile Integrated Services Team. In 2015 she earned a bachelors degree in Social Work from CSULA and in that same year\, she was promoted from the frontline into the Executive Director role at Housing Works. In 2017 she obtained a master’s degree in nonprofit management from Antioch University Los Angeles. As for the journalism dream…she enjoyed a seven year stint as a senior producer on 90.7FM\, KPFK’s Feminist Magazine. Celina loves the aroma of freshly cooked food and a beautiful sunset. Celina has a 27yo and 23yo and a vivacious 2 year old grandson. She lives in beautiful Altadena with her partner and their dog Winston.\n\n\nLaVonna Lewis\, PhD\, MPH\, Associate Dean of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion\, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy\n \nLaVonna Blair Lewis\, Ph.D.\, MPH\, is a Teaching Professor and the Director of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. She joined the University of Southern California faculty in the Fall of 1996. \nDr. Lewis’ areas of research consistently focus on cultural competency and the health status and health care needs of underrepresented groups. She is currently involved in addressing racial disparities cardiovascular disease and diabetes through the Community Health Councils\, Inc.\, African American Building a Legacy of Health Project. The project\, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, is a community based project that explores individual\, organizational\, and community support for (and barriers to) healthy living. \nHer work has appeared in the American Journal of Public Health\, the Journal of General Internal Medicine\, and other health management and policy journals. Moreover\, all of the work to date has employed a community based participatory research framework that partners with the relevant stakeholder groups in developing the research questions. \nShe is a member of the Board of Directors for the Association of University Programs in Health Administration; and the Standards Council for the Commission on Accreditation in Health Management Education. She is also a member of several associations including the American College of Healthcare Executives and Community Campus Partnerships for Health. \n\nD’Artagnan Scorza\, Ph.D.\, Executive Director\, Racial Equity\, Los Angeles County CEO\n \nDr. D’Artagnan Scorza is the inaugural Executive Director of Racial Equity for Los Angeles County overseeing the Anti-Racism\, Diversity\, and Inclusion (ARDI) Initiative and working to expand the County’s work on anti-racism\, equity\, and inclusion. \nThe Inglewood\, CA native brings years of experience to his role as a national expert on issues focused on poverty\, education and public health. Currently\, a lecturer in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health\, Dr. Scorza works to prepare students to apply community organizing to center community voice and change health policy. \nPreviously\, Dr. Scorza served 14 years as the Executive Director and Founder of the Social Justice Learning Institute (SJLI) leading health\, environmental\, housing and educational justice. He was a Business Alliance for Local Living Economy Fellow (BALLE)\, an Education Pioneers Fellow\, a UC Regent Emeritus and a former President of the Board of Education for the Inglewood Unified School District. In these positions\, he worked to launch programs that helped youth of color become social justice leaders and college graduates\, passed policies that prioritized $160 million for student services across UC campuses\, and secured $350 million to support school construction for K-12 schools. \nA U.S. Navy Iraq-War Veteran and civic leader\, he has been recognized as one of the 40 Emerging Civic Leaders under 40 in 2018 and received the UCLA Recent Graduate Achievement Award in 2016. \nDr. Scorza attended both UCLA and National University and earned his Ph.D. in Education from UCLA. His work is cited in multiple publications including The New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Huffington Post\, Los Angeles Magazine\, and you can hear him in several podcasts. \nModerators:\n\nGary Painter\, Director\, Homelessness Policy Research Institute\nGary Painter is a Professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He also serves as the Director of the Homelessness Policy Research Institute. He recently published a co-authored book entitled\, “Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds: Outcome-based Payment Systems in the UK and US.” He has published numerous articles in top journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics\, Journal of Urban Economics\, Urban Studies\, Journal of Human Resources\, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management\, Real Estate Economics\, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics\, and Regional Science and Urban Economics. \nProfessor Painter is a leading figure in the field of social innovation. In addition to his recent book\, he works extensively with a variety of social innovation organizations and collective impact networks to address some of the grand challenges that society faces. His current research focuses on how to activate the social innovation process. Professor Painter also has extensive expertise in housing\, urban economics\, and education policy\, which shapes his research on how the social innovation process can identify new models of social change within these complex policy areas. \n\nSaba Mwine\, Managing Director\, Homelessness Policy Research Institute\nSaba Mwine (She/Her/Hers) is the managing director of the Homelessness Policy Research Institute\, a collaborative of over seventy researchers and policymakers that accelerate equitable and culturally informed solutions to homelessness in Los Angeles County by advancing knowledge and fostering transformational partnerships between research\, policy\, and practice. She has over 16 years of experience spearheading projects throughout the nation that measure\, investigate and enforce equal access to housing based on multiple protected classes. Saba played numerous roles\, from project designer and civil rights investigator to management consultant and educator. In her more recent tenure at the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)\, she established CSH’s first racial equity initiatives via fundraising\, designing grant programming\, developing and delivering transformative learnings\, and guiding community initiatives. Saba is a classically trained actor and holds a master’s of fine arts in theatre; she is committed to the performing arts as a tool for healing racial trauma and shaping community spaces. In California and nationally\, Saba is a prominent voice in the movement to establish racism and white supremacy culture as the most major and least examined cause and perpetuator of homelessness. \nAs managing director of the Homeless Policy Research Institute\, Saba is responsible for advancing the Institute’s strategic vision to accelerate equitable and culturally informed solutions to homelessness and serves as the lead staff person for all HPRI activities\, including conducting and supervising rapid response research\, RFP services\, and research translation. Additionally\, Saba supports the implementation of HPRI’s research agenda and works in close leadership with HPRI’s Race Equity Committee and other stakeholders to establish equity frameworks for key areas of the HPRI’s work. She is also responsible for planning and producing HPRI research symposia and other events and helps conduct policy outreach at the local\, state\, and national levels. \n\nSeth Pickens\, Director\, Realization Project\, Economic Roundtable\nSeth is a counselor\, educator\, and minister. His undergraduate degree is from Morehouse\, he has an MDiv from Union Theological Seminary\, and an EdD from USC. Seth served for a decade as the Senior Pastor of a congregation in South Los Angeles. He has worked to decrease stigma and promote resources around mental well-being\, been an elementary school teacher\, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Haiti\, and\, long ago\, a stand-up comedian. \n Fill out my Wufoo form!
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/hpri-symposium-moving-toward-an-anti-racist-system-for-ending-and-preventing-homelessness-health-equity/
LOCATION:USC Davidson Conference Center – Vineyard Room\, 3409 S. Figueroa Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90089
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SUMMARY:HPRI Symposium: Unsheltered Homelessness
DESCRIPTION:Perhaps the most discussed issue related to homelessness is unsheltered homelessness. People experiencing street homelessness have an increased risk of adverse health outcomes and\, potentially\, death. From April 2020 to March 2021 alone\, 1\,988 unhoused individuals died in Los Angeles County\, a 56% increase from the previous 12 months (NYT). Although historically marginalized racial/ethnic groups are more likely to experience this form of homelessness\, the number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness is on the rise and includes “people of every race\, ethnicity\, gender\, and most age groups. Only children (people under 18) have realized an overall decrease in unsheltered homelessness” in recent years (NAEH). Questions remain on how best to serve people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. \nAre encampment “sweeps” effective practices or do they exacerbate the experience of homelessness? What are the intersections between the criminalization of unsheltered homelessness and racial inequities? What kind of Interim Housing solutions are most effective; and which groups benefit the most from it? What types of outreach practices can help move someone from the streets to housing? This symposium will further these discussions with informed perspectives to facilitate collaborative approaches toward ending unsheltered homelessness. \nPresenters and Panelists: \n\nDr. Benjamin Henwood\, Professor of Social Work\, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work\nBenjamin Henwood\, PhD\, LCSW\, is a recognized expert in health and housing services research whose work connects clinical interventions with social policy. Dr. Henwood has specific expertise in permanent supportive housing and on improving care for adults experiencing homelessness and serious mental illness\, as well as in the integration of primary and behavioral health care. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (including the National Institute of Mental Health\, National Institute on Drug Abuse\, and National Institute on Aging) and he has served as the methodological lead for the Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count since 2017\, which is the largest unsheltered count in the United States. He is a co-author of a book on Housing First published by Oxford University Press\, and is the co-lead the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare’s Grand Challenge to End Homelessness. Dr. Henwood is currently a Professor at the University of Southern California Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.\n\n\nDr. Randall Kuhn\, Associate Professor\, Department of Community Health Sciences\, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health\nRandall Kuhn (Ph.D.\, University of Pennsylvania\, 1999) is a demographer and sociologist who employs a wide array of research methods and data to study the social determinants of health\, health program evaluation\, and the health-development nexus. He has conducted seminal research on the impacts of migration on health. In Bangladesh\, he leads a 35-year evaluation of the effects of randomized child and reproductive health interventions on health and socioeconomic change across generations. His cross-national research and forecasts explore the effectiveness of global health policies and the role of improvements in health as a driver of social and political change. Kuhn’s methodological expertise includes longitudinal data analysis\, experimental and quasi-experimental research design\, forecasting\, and novel uses of administrative data. \n\n\nDr. Sarah Hunter\, Senior Behavioral Scientist at RAND\, Director of the RAND Center on Housing and Homelessness\nSarah B. Hunter (she/her) is a senior behavioral scientist\, professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and Director of the RAND Center on Housing and Homelessness in Los Angeles (CHHLA). Over a decade ago\, Sarah started working in the field of supportive housing for individuals experiencing homelessness as an evaluation consultant for Skid Row Housing Trust in downtown Los Angeles. Since that time\, she led a report on LA County’s Housing for Health initiative that was featured in a number of media outlets\, including the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times\, National Public Radio’s “Marketplace\,” the Christian Science Monitor\, CurbedLA\, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Hunter is currently the principal investigator on a number of supportive housing evaluations\, including LA County’s Just In Reach Pay for Success initiative\, which targets individuals in the criminal justice system\, and an initiative operated by the Inland Empire Health Plan. She also led a longitudinal study of veterans experiencing homelessness in West Los Angeles to better understand service utilization and barriers to housing stability. Hunter received her B.A. from New York University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara.\n\n\nDr. Jason Ward\, Associate Economist; Associate Director\, RAND Center for Housing and Homelessness in Los Angeles\nJason Ward is an economist who conducts research on housing\, labor\, and education policy. His recent research has included assessing the housing needs and preferences of unsheltered individuals in Los Angeles\, estimating the feasibility of adaptive reuse of commercial real estate for housing\, and estimating the causal effect of restrictive labor regulations on the production of affordable housing. Other research has assessed changes in lifetime veteran educational attainment over recent decades\, exploring how selection bias resulting from a change in interview methodology for a canonical national labor survey during the COVID-19 pandemic affected the survey’s accuracy\, and estimating the effect of four-day school weeks on student achievement. His research has appeared in peer reviewed journals including Health Affairs\, Economics of Education Review\, Demography\, and Economic Inquiry. His research and commentary has been featured in media outlets including the Los Angeles Times\, Los Angeles Magazine\, KPCC Los Angeles\, CNN Business\, and CalMatters. Dr. Ward received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2019.\n\n\nAlexander Lawton\, MPH\, Survey Researcher 2\, Department of Community Health Sciences\, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health\nAlexander Lawton\, MPH is a research analyst that has contributed to survey design and data analysis of multiple longitudinal research projects focusing on people experiencing homelessness. He has worked under the guidance of Dr. Randall Kuhn since receiving his MPH from UCLA’s Department of Community Health Sciences in 2020. \n\n\nColleen Murphy\, Associate Director\, Unsheltered Strategies\, LAHSA\n \nColleen Murphy is the Associate Director of Unsheltered Strategies at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA). Since 2017\, she has been the co-lead on the County of Los Angeles’ strategy to build and foster a more coordinated services system for the 45\,000 people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. \nPrior to LAHSA\, she directed Outreach and Engagement at both PATH (People Assisting the Homeless) in Southeast LA and St Joseph Center on the Westside. She’s a trained public health professional and researcher with more than 20 years’ experience fostering community engagement\, partnerships and outreach in underserved communities both here in LA and in sub-Saharan Africa. Her focus areas included infectious diseases and maternal and child health. She received her bachelor’s degree in international affairs from James Madison University and her postgraduate diploma in epidemiology from the University of London\, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. \n\n\nBerlin Contreras\, Senior Manager\, Street-Based Access and Engagement\nBerlin Contreras was born and raised in Inglewood\, CA and has always had a passion to provide services to underserved youth\, individuals\, families\, and communities. Berlin’s childhood experience has shaped her to be an advocate to underserved communities.\nBerlin has more than 8 years of experience working in the field of social services. She began her therapist career with Special Service for Groups in August 2017 in the Homeless Outreach Program Integrated Care System (HOPICS) division as a Mental Health therapist in the Multidisciplinary Teams (E6) working with individuals and families experiencing homelessness. \nIn her role as a Homeless Access and Engagement Senior Manager for Street-based Access and Engagement\, she is responsible for leading the activities of the E6 MDT Outreach Program\, SPA6 Outreach Coordination\, and Street Outreach. She ensures that services are being provided to youth\, individuals\, families\, experiencing homeless in Service Planning Area 6 (SPA). \nBerlin received her Master’s degree in Social Work with a concentration in children\, youth\, and families from the University of Southern California. In her role at HOPICS\, she hopes to bring services to those who have lost hope in the system\, and a new outlook on a “new tomorrow.” \n  \n \nWilliam Jackson III\, Special Teams Housing Navigator\, HousingWorks\nWilliam Jackson is a native Angeleno who was homeless for 4 years\, his journey taking him across Los Angeles\, to New York\, to France\, then back to LA again (going through all levels of homelessness in the process – from sleeping on friends’ floors and couches to living in a vehicle to sleeping on the sidewalks of Hollywood to living or sleeping in shelters). Will is an original member of Ktown For All\, a homeless outreach and advocacy group that started as a counter-protest to all the residents of Koreatown coming out against Bridge Housing in Koreatown\, countering their antipathy towards the homeless with love\, compassion\, openness\, and services for our unhoused neighbors. William Jackson has also worked as a public servant\, serving as Chair of the Homelessness Committee for Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council\, where he succeeded in acquiring a trash disposal service for cleaning up garbage from the encampments in Ktown and where\, also\, he took part in developing LA’s first Homelessness Resource Fair that took place in 2019. Lastly\, for over 2 years\, Will has worked professionally in the field of homeless services as an Outreach Specialist and Housing Navigator for Housing Works CA\, an organization started by Mollie Lowery where Housing First is a priority and housing itself is medicine.\n \nModerators: \nGary Painter\, Director\, USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation\, Homelessness Policy Research Institute\nSaba Mwine\, Managing Director\, Homelessness Policy Research Institute \n  \nRSVP \n 
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/hpri-symposium-unsheltered-homelessness/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) 2022 Spring Policy Forum: Homelessness in California
DESCRIPTION:More than 160\,000 Californians are without housing — a number close to the populations of Salinas or Hayward. Despite the billions of government and private dollars spent to prevent homelessness\, that number continues to rise in California while it dips nationwide. \nIs this the result of failed policies and misguided efforts? Is homelessness too complex and intractable to solve in a state so large? Do we even have enough data to support a particular path forward? \nThe Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) spring Policy Forum brings together leading experts to delve into some of the issues driving the crisis and offer their ideas on how to address them. We’ll take stock of housing prices and shortages\, mental illness and drug addiction\, criminal justice\, and an already fragile economic landscape. \nThe event will be held in person on May 19th at the SIEPR-Gunn Building on the Stanford campus. The full-day event begins with breakfast at 8:30 am PT and ends with dinner. We look forward to having you join us for all or part of the day! \n\nPanel 1: Housing Affordability & Economic Vulnerability (9:30am-10:30am PDT)\n\nChris Ko\, VP of Impact & Strategy\, United Way of Greater Los Angeles\nGary Painter\, Professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy\, USC; Director of the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation and the Homelessness Policy Research Institute\nRegina Celestin Williams\, Executive Director\, SV@Home\nModerator: David Grusky\, Edward Ames Edmond Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences\, Stanford University; Director\, Center on Poverty and Inequality; Senior Fellow\, SIEPR.\n\nLearn More
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/stanford-institute-for-economic-policy-research-siepr-2022-spring-policy-forum-homelessness-in-california/
LOCATION:Stanford
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SUMMARY:NDSC Virtual Community Training 5/18
DESCRIPTION:NDSC research staff host free monthly trainings\, the 3rd Wednesday of every month\, to teach the public about our Neighborhood Map – a digital tool that provides access to reliable\, aggregated data at the neighborhood level. Join us next on May 18th from  12:00-1:00pm PST via Zoom. You’ll learn how to access data for specific neighborhoods and cities within Los Angeles County\, understand why specific data sets are important\, and conceptualize data stories to better tell the stories of your communities. \n  \nRSVP
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/ndsc-virtual-community-training-5-18/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:10th Anniversary Social Innovation Summit & Fireside Chat with Sec. Julián Castro
DESCRIPTION:On April 27th\, 2022\, the USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation will host its 10th Anniversary Social Innovation Summit and fireside chat. This event will serve as the culminating event in the USC Price Center for Social Innovation’s 10th Anniversary Social Innovation Summit Series\, which examines how social innovation can advance equity across multiple systems and institutions\, including: education\, housing\, and the criminal legal system. \nThis fireside chat will feature a dynamic conversation between Price Center Director Gary Painter and Julián Castro\, former Democratic candidate for President\, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development\, and former mayor of San Antonio. Dr. Painter and Sec. Castro will discuss how social innovation can help tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our day\, including housing and homelessness\, criminal justice\, education\, and inequality broadly. Sec. Castro will discuss his insights and experiences catalyzing multiple social innovation approaches through his tenure as Mayor of San Antonio and Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development\, including the development of the federal Promise Zone program\, which aimed to tackle poverty through collective impact. \n\nSec. Julián Castro has distinguished himself as a strong leader and successful public servant for nearly two decades. A former Democratic candidate for President\, Castro served as the 16th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2017\, and as mayor of San Antonio from 2009 to 2014. At HUD\, Castro managed 8\,000 employees and a budget of more than $46 billion\, and he led progress at the Department that earned it recognition as one of the most improved federal agencies. Castro also co-chaired the United States delegation to the United Nations Habitat III conference\, spearheaded efforts to reduce homelessness\, and created Connect Home\, a public-private partnership to deliver broadband to public housing residents. \nPreviously\, as mayor of America’s seventh largest city\, Castro brought a strong focus to expanding educational achievement and making San Antonio a leader in the 21st century global economy. Under Castro’s leadership\, San Antonio implemented Pre-K4SA\, a high quality early childhood learning initiative that has earned praise as one of America’s strongest public pre-kindergarten programs. During his tenure\, San Antonio ranked first on the Milken Institute’s Best Performing Cities List\, received an A+ grade for doing business by Forbes\, and was the only Top 10 city at the time to achieve a Triple A bond rating with each of the three major ratings agencies. \nA native Texan\, Castro began his public service career in 2001\, becoming\, at the age of 26\, San Antonio’s youngest city councilman in history at the time. Castro made history again in 2012\, when he delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention\, the first Latino to do so. \nFollowing his service in the Obama administration\, Castro served as the Dean’s Distinguished Fellow and Fellow of the Davila Chair in International Trade Policy at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Castro’s memoir\, An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up From My American Dream was published by Little Brown in 2018. \nToday\, Castro serves on the board of directors of the LBJ Foundation and is a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. \nCastro received a B.A. from Stanford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He and his wife\, Erica\, have a daughter\, Carina\, and a son\, Cristián. Castro’s twin brother\, Joaquin\, represents the 20th Congressional District of Texas. \n\nDr. Gary Painter is a Professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He also serves as the Director of the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation and the Homelessness Policy Research Institute. He recently published a co-authored book entitled\, “Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds: Outcome-based Payment Systems in the UK and US.” He has published numerous articles in top journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics\, Journal of Urban Economics\, Urban Studies\, Journal of Human Resources\, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management\, Real Estate Economics\, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics\, and Regional Science and Urban Economics. \nProfessor Painter is a leading figure in the field of social innovation. In addition to his recent book\, he works extensively with a variety of social innovation organizations and collective impact networks to address some of the grand challenges that society faces. His current research focuses on how to activate the social innovation process. Professor Painter also has extensive expertise in housing\, urban economics\, and education policy\, which shapes his research on how the social innovation process can identify new models of social change within these complex policy areas. \nHe has served as a consultant for the National Association of Realtors\, Pacific Economics Group\, Andrew Davidson Co.\, Fannie Mae\, Grant Thornton LLP\, Burr Consulting\, and the Research Institute for Housing America \n\n Fill out my Wufoo form!
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/social-innovation-10th-anniversary-summit-fireside-chat/
LOCATION:USC Campus
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SUMMARY:Together We Can: Solutions to Address Health Equity
DESCRIPTION:The Illumination Foundation’s ‘Together We Can Consortium: Solutions to Address Health Equity’ offers the most up-to-date solutions\, trends\, and best practices for serving vulnerable groups. This event will bring together leaders to bridge the gap between health care and homelessness. Attendees will leave with ideas from industry leaders on how to best promote health equity in their field and community. \nDr. Gary Painter\, Director of the USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation and the Homelessness Policy Research Institute\, will present alongside three other industry experts and thought leaders. \n  \nRSVP
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/together-we-can-solutions-to-address-health-equity/
LOCATION:Disneyland Hotel
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SUMMARY:Social Innovation Summit: Housing Stability
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Ann Owens\, Price Center Associate Director\, housing stability is one of the most critical policy issues of our time\, and traditional policy levers have failed to catalyze the change needed to provide safe\, affordable housing for all populations. Further\, racial discrimination remains deeply entrenched within housing systems in the United States\, building upon decades of racist and exclusionary policies. This panel will examine how social innovation can expand housing stability for vulnerable populations\, and more specifically\, correct some of the housing injustices and neighborhood inequities that have disproportionately affected BIPOC communities. \n\nSpeakers:\nDr. Gary Painter\, Director\, USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation\, Homelessness Policy Research Institute \n \nGary Painter is a Professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He also serves as the Director of the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation and the Homelessness Policy Research Institute. He recently published a co-authored book entitled\, “Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds: Outcome-based Payment Systems in the UK and US.” He has published numerous articles in top journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics\, Journal of Urban Economics\, Urban Studies\, Journal of Human Resources\, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management\, Real Estate Economics\, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics\, and Regional Science and Urban Economics. \nProfessor Painter is a leading figure in the field of social innovation. In addition to his recent book\, he works extensively with a variety of social innovation organizations and collective impact networks to address some of the grand challenges that society faces. His current research focuses on how to activate the social innovation process. Professor Painter also has extensive expertise in housing\, urban economics\, and education policy\, which shapes his research on how the social innovation process can identify new models of social change within these complex policy areas. \nHe has served as a consultant for the National Association of Realtors\, Pacific Economics Group\, Andrew Davidson Co.\, Fannie Mae\, Grant Thornton LLP\, Burr Consulting\, and the Research Institute for Housing America. \n\nDr. Ann Owens\, Associate Director\, USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation; Associate Professor of Sociology\, Public Policy and Spatial Sciences \nAnn Owens is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at USC. Her research interests include neighborhood poverty\, neighborhood change\, racial and economic school and neighborhood segregation\, educational inequalities\, affordable housing\, and social policy. Previously\, Ann received a PhD in Sociology & Social Policy from Harvard University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Stanford. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nDiane Yentel\, President & CEO\, National Low Income Housing Coalition \nDiane is the President and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition\, a membership organization dedicated solely to achieving socially just public policy that ensures people with the lowest incomes in the United States have affordable and decent homes. Diane is a policy expert and advocate with over two decades of experience on affordable housing and community development issues. Among other roles\, she previously served as Vice President of Public Policy and Government Affairs at Enterprise Community Partners and Director of the Public Housing Management and Occupancy Division at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nGustavo Velasquez\, Director\, CA Dept of Housing and Community Development \n \nIn May of 2020\, Gustavo Velasquez was appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom Director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development. In this leadership role\, Velasquez leads California’s housing policy agenda and administers a wide range of programs that produce\, preserve\, and protect affordable housing and communities of opportunity across the state. \nVelasquez was a senior director at the Urban Institute\, a renowned national research organization working to provide data analysis and insights to policymakers and practitioners in ways both relevant and actionable. Velasquez served for nearly three years as assistant secretary for fair housing and equal opportunity at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). He served on behalf of the president as the strategic lead of the fair housing and inclusive community agenda for the Obama administration. During his tenure\, HUD achieved groundbreaking enforcement victories in fair lending and in major housing discrimination cases. Velasquez led efforts to promulgate the landmark Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule\, a key tool for cities\, states\, and other HUD funding recipients to reduce inequality and disparities in access to opportunity. \n  \nRSVP \n 
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/social-innovation-summit-housing-stability/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Social Innovation Speaker Series: Dela Wilson
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, April 4th at 11am\, Dela Wilson will join the Social Innovation Speaker Series. Dela is the founder and managing director of Axle Impact Studio\, a social impact design firm\, and the founder of Due Goodies\, a promotional products initiative tackling the student loan debt crisis. She has advised technology and entrepreneurial ecosystems\, nonprofit organizations and corporations on cultural transformation\, impact evaluation and design across eight countries\, all guided by a central question: how do we design to reposition the margin? As the Social Entrepreneur-in-Residence at USC Marshall’s Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab she counsels students on launching ventures\, navigating social impact careers\, and developing ethical leadership philosophies. \nPreviously\, Dela worked as head of impact and strategy for HBCUvc\, a leading non-profit reimagining the innovation economy by developing the next generation of venture capital leaders\, and head of strategy and operations for BEACON: The D.C. Women Founders Initiative\, a public-private partnership and campaign among Google\, the D.C. Mayor’s Office and Georgetown’s Institute for Technology Law and Policy. As the editor of Black Founders at at Work: Journeys to Innovation\, she helped chart the leadership journeys of ecosystem builders and technologists from their formative days. She is currently building on this research through a grant from the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity. \nDela is a sought-after speaker and writer and has received recognition from the Atlantic Institute\, the World Economic Forum\, Georgetown Law Tech Institute\, Humanity in Action\, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University\, and the University of California at Berkeley. She earned a J.D. from Georgetown University\, an MPA from Harvard University\, and a B.A. summa cum laude in political science from Spelman College. When offline\, find her studying interior design\, listening to Anderson Paak and watching/re-watching Chef’s Table. \nDiscussion Topic: Designing Amidst Dysfunction: Can You Outbuild Bad Leadership?\nDela’s work at Axle has included work with some of the largest\, global technology companies and boutique community-based organizations to design and iterate social innovation strategies. Across each\, she navigated reactionary leadership\, shaky management foundations\, and competing priorities to craft meaningful impact for historically-excluded communities across the global majority. \nAxle helps organizations to: 1) Center into the interconnectedness of systems\, balancing self-awareness and understanding of institutional responsibility; 2) Contextualize a social issue in relation to its past and present operating environments; 3) Co-Create tools that drive transformative change emphasizing connection to proximate communities\, 4) Synthesize insights and new approaches to relationships\, and 5) Catalyze sustainable change through research\, strategic facilitation\, and leadership coaching. \nDela will lead an interactive discussion on design amidst dysfunction\, walking you through case studies of her experience and offering insight on the realities of navigating systemic change on the ground. \nRSVP to Stacia Fewox at stacia.fewox@usc.edu
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/social-innovation-speaker-series-dela-wilson/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Social Innovation Summit: Education
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Dr. Christine Beckman\, this virtual event will examine how the processes and models of social innovation can improve equity for historically marginalized populations\, with a particular focus on education. A number of social innovation processes and models have been established to improve educational outcomes in the United States. Most famously\, charter schools emerged as a social innovation in the 1990s. Additional efforts\, such as collective impact\, have been used to foster greater collaboration within educational networks\, and empower parents and other community actors working to advance educational equity for their children. \nSpeakers:\nDr. Gary Painter\, Director\, USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation\, Homelessness Policy Research Institute \n \nGary Painter is a Professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He also serves as the Director of the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation and the Homelessness Policy Research Institute. He recently published a co-authored book entitled\, “Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds: Outcome-based Payment Systems in the UK and US.” He has published numerous articles in top journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics\, Journal of Urban Economics\, Urban Studies\, Journal of Human Resources\, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management\, Real Estate Economics\, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics\, and Regional Science and Urban Economics. \nProfessor Painter is a leading figure in the field of social innovation. In addition to his recent book\, he works extensively with a variety of social innovation organizations and collective impact networks to address some of the grand challenges that society faces. His current research focuses on how to activate the social innovation process. Professor Painter also has extensive expertise in housing\, urban economics\, and education policy\, which shapes his research on how the social innovation process can identify new models of social change within these complex policy areas. \nHe has served as a consultant for the National Association of Realtors\, Pacific Economics Group\, Andrew Davidson Co.\, Fannie Mae\, Grant Thornton LLP\, Burr Consulting\, and the Research Institute for Housing America. \n\nDr. Christine Beckman\, Associate Director & Price Family Chair in Social Innovation; Professor of Public Policy\, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy \n \nChristine Beckman is an Associate Director at the Price Center\, Price Family Chair in Social Innovation\, and Professor at the USC Price School of Public Policy. She is the current Editor at Administrative Science Quarterly and Past Division Chair of the Organization and Management Theory division of the Academy of Management. She previously served on the faculty at the Robert H. Smith School of Business\, University of Maryland\, and the Paul Merage School of Business\, University of California\, Irvine. At Maryland\, she was the Academic Director for the Center for Social Value Creation\, diversity officer\, and facilitated a peer network for junior faculty women. At UC Irvine\, she was a Chancellor’s Fellow from 2008-2011 and Faculty Director of the Don Beall Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She was the 2006 Western Academy of Management Ascendent Scholar. \nProfessor Beckman has published over 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals. She is known for her research on organizational learning\, interorganizational networks\, inequality\, innovation and entrepreneurship\, particularly on how collaborative relationships and diverse experiences facilitate organizational change. Her research sites are varied and include urban charter schools\, F500 companies\, Silicon Valley start-ups\, law firms\, the U.S. Navy\, and German football teams. She has a new book\, co-authored with Melissa Mazmanian\, called Dreams of the Overworked: Living\, Working and Parenting in the Digital Age\, which is an ethnographic account of working parents efforts to be Ideal Workers\, Perfect Parents and Ultimate Bodies. The book highlights how technology intensifies these myths of perfection\, celebrates the people who actually do the work of scaffolding the dreams of those around them\, and reveals the hidden sources of gender inequality in everyday life. She is a native Californian and received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University. \n\nMarlon Marshall\, MPM\, Partner\, City Fund \n \nMarlon Marshall is a Partner with City Fund. Most recently\, he was a founding partner at 270 Strategies. He served as Special Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy Director in the Obama White House Office of Public Engagement\, Deputy National Field Director for President Obama’s re-election campaign\, and States Director for Hillary for America. Marlon hails from St. Louis\, Missouri and is a graduate of the University of Kansas. He is a die-hard fan of the Jayhawks and the St. Louis Cardinals\, and now lives in Denver with his wife Stacy and their two daughters. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nFrances Messano\, MBA\, President\, New Schools Venture Fund \nFrances Messano is President at NewSchools Venture Fund. In this role\, she leads the organization’s strategy and oversees its $45M annual grantmaking budget across four investment areas: Innovative Schools\, Learning Solutions\, Diverse Leaders and Racial Equity. Throughout her seven-year tenure at NewSchools\, Frances has had a broad set of responsibilities\, including creating the Diverse Leaders investment strategy and leading the Innovative Schools team. Previously\, Frances served as a Vice President at Teach for America\, where she led the development of the organization’s long-term\, national strategy. Before that\, Frances was an Associate Partner at Monitor Institute\, the social impact practice within Monitor Deloitte’s strategy consulting arm\, where she helped education organizations scale their impact through strategy development\, organizational design\, leadership development\, and program design. Frances has an MBA from Harvard Business School and AB from Harvard College. She serves on the board of Unidos US\, Stand for Children\, Pahara Institute\, and Latinos for Education. She is also on the Tipping Point leadership council and a Pahara-Aspen education fellow. Frances is a first-generation college graduate and an alum of Prep for Prep\, Management Leadership for Tomorrow\, and Sponsors for Educational Opportunity\, non-profit organizations that she credits with helping her gain access to educational opportunity. Frances lives in San Francisco with her partner\, Maurice\, and their three children. She also sings with the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir and will always say yes to a karaoke night out. \n\nJulie Mikuta\, Co-President\, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies \n \nJulie Mikuta is Co-President of Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies and leads our K12 Education portfolio. In this capacity\, she oversees our strategy and investments in increasing the number of low-income students\, especially students of color\, who graduate from high school ready for college and the workplace. Julie joined the organization in 2013 to build our Education portfolio and team. \nPrior to joining Schusterman\, Julie was a Managing Director at NewSchools Venture Fund\, focused on teacher preparation. Previously\, she led trainings for school board and superintendent-teams of large urban districts at the Center for Reform of School Systems. Julie also served as an elected member of the D.C. Board of Education from 2001 until 2004. During her time on the School Board\, Julie was Vice President of Alumni Affairs for Teach For America. Julie began her career in education teaching high school science in New Orleans through Teach For America. \nJulie graduated from Georgetown University\, where she was captain of the women’s basketball team\, and did a doctorate at Oxford University\, as a Rhodes Scholar. Julie is on the boards of Stand for Children and New Meridian\, as well as the Yu Ming Charter School. \n  \nRSVP \n 
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/social-innovation-summit-education-and-inequality/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:NDSC Virtual Community Training 3/16
DESCRIPTION:NDSC research staff host free monthly trainings\, the 3rd Wednesday of every month\, to teach the public about our Neighborhood Map – a digital tool that provides access to reliable\, aggregated data at the neighborhood level. Join us next on March 16th from  12:00-1:00pm PST via Zoom. You’ll learn how to access data for specific neighborhoods and cities within Los Angeles County\, understand why specific data sets are important\, and conceptualize data stories to better tell the stories of your communities. \n  \nRSVP
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/ndsc-virtual-community-training-3-16/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Social Innovation Speaker Series: Zahirah Mann
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, March 9th at 11am\,  Zahirah Mann will join the Social Innovation Speaker Series. Zahirah is the President and CEO of SLATE-Z\, a place-based initiative and collective impact effort whose mission is to revitalize South Los Angeles by moving residents to economic opportunity.  In this role\, she leads a backbone team that coordinates the goals\, principles\, and activities of the South Los Angeles Promise Zone\, which has around 100 local partners and is part of a 22-member Promise Zone Network that addresses systemic poverty in select urban\, rural\, and tribal communities across the nation. \nPrior to joining SLATE-Z\, Zahirah split her career between philanthropy and law. Most recently\, Zahirah was a Senior Program Officer at The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation where she oversaw a diverse portfolio of grants that supported vulnerable children and families and led a strategic initiative focused on child welfare and wellbeing. Within that work\, she helped launch and lead Foster Together Network\, a collective impact effort aimed at addressing child welfare concerns throughout LA County\, engaging hundreds of stakeholders who represented county departments\, elected officials\, foundations\, non-profits\, faith communities\, caregivers\, and youth. Zahirah also held program staff positions at the Annenberg Foundation and United Way of Greater Los Angeles. Before entering philanthropy\, Zahirah worked as a public interest attorney\, representing and advising for-profit and non-profit entities\, coalitions\, and governmental agencies on large-scale\, systemic issues that impacted families\, youth\, and businesses. \nIn her broader civic life\, Zahirah serves as an alternate commissioner on the California Coastal Commission. She also chairs the executive committee of the Black Equity Collective and serves on the board of the Center for Nonprofit Management.  Zahirah earned an A.B. in Political Science from Vassar College and a J.D. with a specialization in environmental law from Tulane University Law School. \n  \nRSVP to Stacia Fewox at stacia.fewox@usc.edu\n 
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/social-innovation-speaker-series-zahirah-mann/
LOCATION:USC Campus
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:USC Center for AI in Society Seminar Series: Equity in Data-Driven Policies
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Patrick Fowler’s research centers on homelessness prevention and the negative consequences of homelessness on youth\, families\, and communities. His recent research focuses on homelessness among youth aging out of foster care and child maltreatment prevention among families experiencing homelessness. Using linked administrative data\, Dr. Fowler designs and tests big data applications to improve the fairness and efficiency of homelessness services delivery. He employs a complex systems approach to create developmentally appropriate and culturally tailored responses to homelessness. \nDiscussion Topic:\nDr. Fowler will present work investigating group fairness in algorithmic decision-making. The team uses administrative records on homeless service delivery to demonstrate inherent tradeoffs in fairness that depend on the operationalization of equity. The findings inform data-driven policy-making in homelessness and social services broadly. \n  \nRSVP \n 
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/usc-center-for-ai-in-society-seminar-series-equity-in-data-driven-policies/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Social Innovation Summit: Criminal Justice
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Dr. Brittany Friedman\, this virtual summit will examine how the field of social innovation – including both processes and models of social innovation – can be used to reverse the centuries-long history of racism and economic discrimination within the criminal legal system. A number of social innovation models are currently underway to address various components of the criminal legal system; many social impact bonds target criminal justice and recidivism outcomes and processes of co-production and co-creation can illuminate more equitable and effective alternatives to the current criminal legal system. \n\n\n\n\n				\n			\n\n\n\n				\n			\n\nDr. Gary Painter \nDirector USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation\, Homelessness Policy Research Institute(Social Innovation Framing) \n\n\n \n\n\n				\n			\n\n\n\n				\n			\n\n\n		\nRSVP
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/social-innovation-summit-criminal-justice/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:HPRI Symposium: Substance Use Disorder & Homelessness
DESCRIPTION:Substance Use Disorders are prevalent among 52% of adults experiencing chronic homelessness in Los Angeles County.¹ In the broader media\, we rarely hear the clear evidence about how homelessness and substance use disorders intersect. Lack of affordable housing and substance use are named as separate “causes” for increased encampments of people experiencing homelessness\, without capturing a more nuanced understanding of how the two issues may mutually reinforce each other. This symposium will illuminate research\, lived experiences\, service provision and policy practice perspectives to grow our collective understanding for how to inform equitable and culturally responsive approaches to homelessness. \n¹LAHSA 2020 Homeless Count \nPresenters and Panelists: \nHoward Padwa\, Principal Investigator\, Integrated Substance Abuse Programs\, UCLA\nHoward Padwa is a health services and qualitative researcher at UCLA’s Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (UCLA-ISAP). He has led qualitative data collection and analyses for mixed-methods studies of mental health system transformation\, behavioral health service integration\, evidence-based practice implementation\, and the creation of a full continuum of care for substance use disorder treatment under California’s Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System (DMC-ODS) Medicaid 1115 Waiver. In addition\, he has conducted historical research on drug policy in the United States and overseas\, served as project director for an initiative to integrate adolescent substance use prevention and early intervention services into healthcare and school settings nationwide\, and facilitated stakeholder engagement for several projects. Currently\, Dr. Padwa is leading several evaluations of initiatives to provide integrated services for homeless and other populations in Los Angeles\, and he is co-investigator on a PCORI-funded study examining substance use disorder treatment assessment and decision-making. \nRicky Bluthenthal\, Professor of Preventative Medicine\, Associate Dean for Social Justice\, Institute for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention\, USC\nRicky N. Bluthenthal\, Ph.D. is the Associate Dean for Social Justice and Vice Chair for Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion and a Professor in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences and the Institute for Prevention Research in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He received a BA in History and Sociology from the University of California Santa Cruz and a MA and PhD in sociology from the University of California Berkeley. His research has established the effectiveness of syringe exchange programs\, tested novel interventions and strategies to reduce HIV risk and improve HIV testing among injection drug users and men who have sex with men\, documented how community conditions contribute to health disparities\, and examined health policy implementation. His current studies include an observational cohort study of how cannabis legalization impacts use patterns and health outcomes of cannabis and opioids among people who inject drugs and a randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of a single session intervention to reduce injection initiation risk behaviors among established people who inject drugs. Dr. Bluthenthal has authored or co-authored over 170 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals such as the American Journal of Public Health\, Social Science and Medicine\, The Lancet\, Addiction\, and Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research among others. \nReba Stevens\, Community Leader\nReba Stevens is dedicated to using her lived experience as a homeless individual for 21 years to advocate for lasting solutions to homelessness and represent the voice of lived expertise in many forums. Her relentless focus on the magnitude of mental health and substance abuse amongst people experiencing homelessness is founded in her own experience. A diagnosis of her mental health condition was the lynchpin to her successful road to recovery and journey out of homelessness. As a result\, she possesses a unique understanding of the mental health\, criminal justice\, and substance abuse treatment systems in Los Angeles County. Her goal is to ensure that mental health and substance abuse screenings and treatment are funded\, accessible and embedded in all the facets of service delivery for people experiencing homelessness as well as those who are now housed after being homeless.Reba’s activism and profound knowledge is demonstrated in numerous cross-departmental appointments to strategic and major bodies that drive policy and practice in homelessness\, mental health\, criminal justice\, and substance abuse areas. She currently sits on the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority\, Homeless Advisory Board\, the Los Angeles Regional Homeless Advisory Council\, the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health\, Service Area\, 6 Advisory Committee\, the Los Angeles City & County Office of Diversion and Reentry Prop 47 Steering Committee\, the LAHSA Ad Hoc Committee on Black People Experiencing Homelessness\, the Los Angeles County\, Department of Mental Health Commission\, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority\, Continuum of Care Board\, the LGBT South Community Advisory Board and the SPA 6 Homeless Coalition. Reba was one of 50 members on the Measure H roundtable. \nHer unabashed voice for equality and humility in serving our homeless and formerly homeless neighbors is largely documented in print and broadcast media such as the Los Angeles Times\, Los Angeles Daily News\, NBC Universal\, Free Your Mind Projects Radio Show\, KABC-AM (AM790)\, Hope on The Horizon MHSOAC News Publication\, Making Sense of Measure H: Dr. Mitch Katz and Reba Stevens with Pat Prescott (94.7 The Wave)\, Unsheltered… New Possibilities TEDx Crenshaw (Ted Talk)\, and Strategic Concepts in Organizing & Policy Education (SCOPE). \nReba is a mother of 4\, the owner of two lovely Boston Terriers Sage & Star\, and a Los Angeles native. \nMelisa Chavez\, LCSW\, Director of Client Services\, Community Health Project LA\nMelisa Chavez is the Director of Client Services for Los Angeles Community Health Project\, where she focuses on the health and safety of marginalized communities. At LACHP\, Melisa has been successful in integrating and developing low barrier programs that have increased access to services to our most vulnerable and criminalized populations in Los Angeles. \nMelisa has spent her entire career serving at risk youth and adults struggling with substance use\, mental illness\, and homelessness. She began her experience providing direct services through several of LA County’s agencies\, including DPSS\, DCFS and DMH. Melisa has a deep understanding of the County’s intricate processes and the existing barriers preventing access to services for our disadvantaged populations. Prior to LACHP\, Melisa was the program director for the only Adult Day Health Care center serving PEH in the San Fernando Valley. Melisa developed and molded the health center with the resources and creative hands-on approach to services that she felt were essential in the process of supporting and advocating for our underserved populations. She implemented harm reduction modalities\, and specialized case management services that emphasized low threshold access to services\, as well as\, provided innovative therapeutic interventions to address the harm and trauma associated with underprivileged populations. \nMelisa is a graduate from CSU Northridge\, where she received her BS in Psychology and earned a Master’s degree in Social Work. Her ongoing desire to search for methods to help infiltrate and deconstruct the systems that exploit\, punish\, and dehumanize underserved and marginalized individuals and communities\, is driven by her lived experiences as a Latina woman growing up in low-income communities of Los Angeles. \nAmanda Cowan\, Outreach Director\, Clare Matrix\nAmanda studied in the UK\, obtaining her undergraduate degree in sociology and social work. While working for the National Health Service on alcohol liaison and harm reduction pilot programs she went back for her Masters in addiction and mental health\, focusing her dissertation on the link between opioid use disorder and ability to accurately assess emotional states.Amanda has worked in a multitude of substance use settings; from community based mutual aid programs to jails\, hospitals and outpatient treatment to helping implement syringe exchanges. Amanda’s specialty is harm reduction\, where she provides technical assistance and capacity building to agencies.\nAmanda’s current role is at Clare Matrix as director for outreach on one of the California state response to opioids & stimulants grants- the hub and spoke project – focusing on removing barriers to those accessing treatment for opioid use disorder and/or stimulant use disorder\, decreasing stigma\, working on state policy and ensuring equity in treatment. Amanda is chair for the Integrated Health committee at Los Angeles Regional Reentry Partnership\, working on health equity for those impacted by mass incarceration as well as commissioner for Supervisor Sheila Kuehl on LA County’s Alcohol and other drugs commission. \nGary Tsai\, Director\, Substance Abuse Prevention and Control\, County of Los Angeles\, Department of Public Health\nGary Tsai\, M.D. is the Director of the Substance Abuse Prevention and Control\, a division of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. In this role\, he is responsible for leading over 400 staff with a budget of approximately $400M\, overseeing a full spectrum of substance use prevention\, treatment\, and recovery support services for the 10 million residents of Los Angeles County. Dr. Tsai is board certified in both general adult psychiatry and addiction medicine\, and completed his medical training at the University of California\, Davis School of Medicine.Having experienced the stigma and criminalization that often accompanies serious mental illness as the son of a mother with schizophrenia\, Dr. Tsai is a passionate advocate for improving our behavioral health systems. In his pursuit of meaningful change\, he founded Forgotten Films\, a film production company focusing on social issue projects\, specializing in behavioral health. Its first film\, Voices (www.VoicesDocumentary.com)\, premiered on public television in May 2015 for Mental Health Awareness Month and was awarded a 2016 SAMHSA Voice Award\, Honorable Mention. \nModerators: \nDr. Gary Painter\, Director\, USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation\, Homelessness Policy Research Institute\nGary Painter is a Professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He also serves as the Director of the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation and the Homelessness Policy Research Institute. He recently published a co-authored book entitled\, “Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds: Outcome-based Payment Systems in the UK and US.” He has published numerous articles in top journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics\, Journal of Urban Economics\, Urban Studies\, Journal of Human Resources\, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management\, Real Estate Economics\, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics\, and Regional Science and Urban Economics. \nProfessor Painter is a leading figure in the field of social innovation. In addition to his recent book\, he works extensively with a variety of social innovation organizations and collective impact networks to address some of the grand challenges that society faces. His current research focuses on how to activate the social innovation process. Professor Painter also has extensive expertise in housing\, urban economics\, and education policy\, which shapes his research on how the social innovation process can identify new models of social change within these complex policy areas. \nHe has served as a consultant for the National Association of Realtors\, Pacific Economics Group\, Andrew Davidson Co.\, Fannie Mae\, Grant Thornton LLP\, Burr Consulting\, and the Research Institute for Housing America. \nSaba Mwine\, Managing Director\, Homelessness Policy Research Institute\nSaba Mwine (She/Her/Hers) is the managing director of the Homelessness Policy Research Institute\, a collaborative of over seventy researchers and policymakers that accelerate equitable and culturally informed solutions to homelessness in Los Angeles County by advancing knowledge and fostering transformational partnerships between research\, policy\, and practice. She has over 16 years of experience spearheading projects throughout the nation that measure\, investigate and enforce equal access to housing based on multiple protected classes. Saba played numerous roles\, from project designer and civil rights investigator to management consultant and educator. In her more recent tenure at the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)\, she established CSH’s first racial equity initiatives via fundraising\, designing grant programming\, developing and delivering transformative learnings\, and guiding community initiatives. Saba is a classically trained actor and holds a master’s of fine arts in theatre; she is committed to the performing arts as a tool for healing racial trauma and shaping community spaces. In California and nationally\, Saba is a prominent voice in the movement to establish racism and white supremacy culture as the most major and least examined cause and perpetuator of homelessness. \nAs managing director of the Homeless Policy Research Institute\, Saba is responsible for advancing the Institute’s strategic vision to accelerate equitable and culturally informed solutions to homelessness and serves as the lead staff person for all HPRI activities\, including conducting and supervising rapid response research\, RFP services\, and research translation. Additionally\, Saba supports the implementation of HPRI’s research agenda and works in close leadership with HPRI’s Race Equity Committee and other stakeholders to establish equity frameworks for key areas of the HPRI’s work. She is also responsible for planning and producing HPRI research symposia and other events and helps conduct policy outreach at the local\, state\, and national levels. \nRSVP
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/hpri-symposium-substance-use-disorder-homelessness/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Examining the Complex Social Safety Net for Low-Income Working Families
DESCRIPTION:Join the Price Center for Social Innovation and Imagine LA for a webinar on January 19\, 2022 to discuss key findings from the recent report\, Examining the Complex Society Safety Net for Low-Income Working Families: How Benefit Resources Respond to Increases in Wages. \nThis report is a result of detailed research into all the social benefits (federal\, state and local) available to low-income families and how the benefits react to increases in wages. The study examined the total resources families have available and identified the threshold points where the safety net may actually become a barrier towards increased economic mobility. The report shows how most families receiving social benefits will experience lengthy resource plateaus\, where an increase in earned income is met with the equivalent loss of some benefit. In addition\, the ecosystem of social benefits is extremely challenging to navigate and protects mainly families with extremely low incomes by providing childcare and housing benefits. Policymakers must take immediate steps to simplify and streamline the benefits infrastructure to promote economic mobility\, create transparency and encourage greater use and awareness of benefits among the public\, and specifically improve access to housing benefits as they are proven to be the most effective in aiding families in poverty. \nThis webinar will include a research presentation on the report\, as well as commentary and a panel discussion about ways to improve access to the social safety net for low-income working families in the Los Angeles region. \nSpeakers\nWelcome Remarks\nPresenters\n \nCommentary\n \nPanelists\n\nJacqueline Chun\, Chief Program & Operations Officer\, Carl & Roberta Deutsch Foundation\nWendy Garen\, President & Chief Executive Officer\, Ralph M. Parsons Foundation\nBrit Moore Gilmore\, Social Impact Consultant\, USC MSSE\, co-founder Social Benefit Calculator\nAbigail Marquez\, General Manager\, Community Investment for Families Department\, City of Los Angeles\nLisa Salazar\, Workforce Expert\, Executive Director Youth Development Department\, City of Los Angeles\nJon Vein\, Entrepreneur (YPO) and Major Contributor to Project RoomKey\, Data Systems Expert\nLeilani Reed\, SEIU and Lived Experience\nKelvin Driscoll\, Senior Deputy\, Human Services & Child Welfare\, Office of Supervisor Holly Mitchell\n\nModerators\n\nGary Painter\, Director\, USC Price Center for Social Innovation\, Homelessness Policy Research Institute\nJill Bauman\, CEO & President\, Imagine LA\n\n  \nRSVP \nExplore the Report \n 
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/examining-the-complex-social-safety-net-for-low-income-working-families-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Social Innovation Speaker Series: Chris Herring
DESCRIPTION:Chris Herring is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Inequality in America Initiative and Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCLA. His research focuses on homelessness\, housing\, welfare\, and criminal justice in US cities. His work has been published in the American Sociological Review\, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences\, Social Problems\, City and Community\, City\, and numerous edited volumes. Chris’ forthcoming book\, Cruel Streets\, explains how San Francisco\, a city at the vanguard of progressive urban politics\, intensified punishment towards the unhoused amidst initiatives of criminal justice reform and shelter expansion. \nDiscussion topic:\nIn the past five years\, the City of San Francisco has experienced rapid development of policy innovation in both welfare provision and criminal justice treatments of unsheltered homelessness. These innovations include: expansions of navigation center shelters and sanctioned encampments in gentrifying neighborhoods\, a new Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing\, a new collaboration between police\, sanitation\, and public health agencies through its Healthy Streets Operation Center\, a new anti-camping ban\, and reforms to warrants and citations for the unhoused. Drawing on two-years of ethnographic research spending time both residing on the streets and the city’s shelters with those experiencing homelessness\, as well as observations alongside police officers and social workers\, Chris’s presentation will offer a ground-level perspective of these policies from varying perspectives. He also draws connections between how changes in welfare assistance have impacted criminalization and vice versa. \nIn spotlighting the positive improvements and negative impacts of these policy innovations\, Chris puts forward a broader argument about how and why welfare and penal reforms addressing homelessness in progressive cities continue to coalesce in increasing punishment toward the unsheltered that undermine broader welfare provision. He will conclude by considering policy alternatives\, as well as alternative frameworks researchers and scholars might use in relating penal and welfare state programs addressing poverty. \n  \nRSVP \n  \n 
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/social-innovation-speaker-series-chris-herring/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Social Innovation Speaker Series: Dr. Brandon Nicholson\, Executive Director of the Hidden Genius Project
DESCRIPTION:An Oakland native\, Brandon Nicholson is founding Executive Director of The Hidden Genius Project.  He has dedicated his life to promoting equity in the public realm\, particularly in the education space.  In his previous stint as a senior evaluator and consultant\, Brandon conducted research\, evaluation\, and consulted on a range of projects related to intersections of education policy and workforce and economic development.  It was there that he began to recognize the potential for technology to bolster the domestic and global economy as underrepresented populations gain more equitable access to growth sectors.  Brandon has conducted substantial research in the areas of education and youth development\, with a particular focus on issues of equity and access in K-12 education for underserved populations.  He has considerable experience investigating linkages among race\, class\, and youth development. \n \nDiscussion Topic:\nAs ensuing generations become increasingly comfortable and well versed in envisioning a life comprising multiple career pathways (including multiple starts and stops)\, over time our institutions and practices will need to catch up with this reality. Our world is evolving into one shaped by shorter-term successes\, some educational “failures\,” and compilation of more numerous skills and experiences over the entire trajectory of our lives. We know that thirty years of service and a gold watch is barely visible in the rearview mirror\, and our budding workforces will need to get even more adept at navigating this reality. In this conversation\, we will discuss what steps we might take along young people’s learning and growth continuum to create more meaningful and holistic life experiences. \nRSVP
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/social-innovation-speaker-series-dr-brandon-nicholson-executive-director-of-the-hidden-genius-project/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Social Innovation Speaker Series: Dr. Christopher Fox
DESCRIPTION:  \nOn Thursday\, November 18 at 12pm\, Dr. Christopher Fox will join the Social Innovation speaker series to share his research on social impact bonds. Chris is a  Distinguished Fellow at the Price Center for Social Innovation. His home institution is Manchester Metropolitan University\, where he is Director of the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit. Chris is an expert on evaluating public policies\, public service innovation and social investment\, particularly Social Impact Bonds. His research cuts across a number of sectors but he has particular expertise in criminal justice. Chris has been collaborating with the Price Center for several years\, including on a book on Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds: Outcome-based payment systems in the UK and US that was published by Policy Press/University of Chicago Press in 2018. Chris is currently collaborating with Dr. Gary Painter on several articles exploring different aspects of Social Impact Bonds and impact investing. \nDiscussion topic:\nA new generation of Pay for Success and Social Impact Bonds is emerging that offer new possibilities for creating public services that embody collaborative design\, flexible delivery and co-production with people who use services. Services delivered in this way have great potential to accelerate social innovation\, drive system change and create more personalised services. Professor Chris Fox will discuss findings from recent research undertaken in the UK. \nFor more on this topic\, read the recent series of briefings on the future of Social Impact Bonds\, published by the Price Center and PERU. \n  \nView the Full Briefer Series \nTake away lunch will be provided!\n  \n\n\nFill out my Wufoo form!
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/social-innovation-speaker-series-dr-christopher-fox/
LOCATION:VPD 101 Lower Level
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:NDSC Virtual Community Training 11/17
DESCRIPTION:NDSC research staff host free monthly trainings\, the 3rd Wednesday of every month\, to teach the public about our Neighborhood Map – a digital tool that provides access to reliable\, aggregated data at the neighborhood level. Join us next on November 17th from school 12:00-1:00pm PST via Zoom. You’ll learn how to access data for specific neighborhoods and cities within Los Angeles County\, understand why specific data sets are important\, and conceptualize data stories to better tell the stories of your communities.
URL:https://hpri.usc.edu/event/ndsc-virtual-community-training-11-17/
LOCATION:Zoom
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