Housing and Homelessness

8:45 a.m. – Making a Difference Samuel Johns to discuss why he wants to make a difference in the world and the start of the Forget-Me-Not facebook group that reconnects the people that are homeless with their friends and family. 9:15 a.m. – Alaska State Song Jeff Rognes 9:30 a.m. – Alaska Governor Bill Walker

Featuring the Association of Alaska Housing Authorities, Ricardo Worl of the Tlingit-Haida Regional Housing Authority and Nancy Burke of the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority.

​Joshua Arvidson is the Director of the Alaska Child Trauma Center at Anchorage Community Mental Health Services and an Associate Director for the National Complex Trauma Treatment Network. He was a lead author of the Alaska Trauma 101 curriculum and the Principal Investigator for the Alaska Child Trauma Clinical Outcomes Study.

With Megan Nigro, Sadhanaworks.com, Integrative Somatic Body Therapy, Trauma Resolution

With Mike Courtney and Catherine Stone of the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation.

Housing First Across the Country is the second in a series of A Roof town hall meetings to be held around the state. Nancy Burke with the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority moderates a discussion with Housing First experts Sam Tsemberis and Bill Hobson. Housing First is a growing movement for addressing chronic homelessness. The basic idea…