AKCH2 2015
Creating Healthy Communities for Returning Citizens – Alaska Prisoner Reentry Initiative
The Alaska Prisoner Reentry Initiative (AK PRI) is a first step in creating a process, both inside and outside, to help returning Alaska prisoners reengage in their home communities. We know that most Alaska inmates will return to their home communities at some time—DOC is working to develop clear reentry plans for each inmate while…
My House: Steamdriven Thrift Shop
The Steamdriven Thrift Shop is a for-profit business that trains and employs youth in the Mat-Su Valley as well as provides profits to be used for My House case management services. This session will discuss the Spirit of Youth award-winning business, how it was funded and became profitable.
Alaska Council on the Homeless Meeting
The Alaska Council on the Homeless meets twice per year to fulfill its mission as a public policy forum for recommendations on the use of state and federal resources to address homelessness. These efforts are outlined in the States’ Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness. This plan sets out annual, five year and ten year…
Bill Block, HUD Regional Administrator for Region X
Bill Block is the HUD Regional Administrator for Region X, serving Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Bill began his career in Seattle as a lawyer focusing on complex real estate transactions on behalf of both private and public entities. In 2005 he left the law to become Director of the Committee to End Homelessness, where…
Senator Lisa Murkowski and Local Coalition Reports
Senator Murkowski will address the Coalition, answer questions, and sit-in on local coalition reports.
Basics of the Fair Housing Act and Reasonable Accommodations
This session will cover the basics of the Fair Housing Act with an emphasis on disability and reasonable accommodations, as well as some recent developments in fair housing law. The training also includes ample time for Q&A to address your specific questions.
Utah’s Path to Functional Zero
The state of Utah’s 2015 point-in-time homeless count reflected a 91% reduction in their chronic homeless count since 2005. In addition, they reduced their chronic homeless veterans to a function zero at the end of 2013 and are close to a functional zero on all homeless veterans. This session will review how Utah organized to…
Community Forum On Homelessness
Please join the Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness in welcoming Mayor Ethan Berkowitz and Lloyd Pendleton, Key Note speaker for the annual conference on housing and homelessness to discuss community planning, strategies to address homelessness and for a conversation on the Mayor’s developing plans to end homelessness in our community. This session will provide…
Alaska Homeless Management Information System – Technical Assistance For Users
This will be an interactive Q&A session, led by the attendees. Attendees will be able to ask questions of ICA staff, who will be available “live and in person” to answer.