Creating a system to overcome homelessness

Addressing the Challenges of Poverty national conference presentation spotlight

In October 2017, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was recognized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as the only community in the United States to ensure that both veteran homelessness and chronic homelessness are rare, brief, and nonrecurring. Learn how the Lancaster County Coalition to End Homelessness has partnered with the Together Initiative Network Bridges Community to address rural poverty and reinvent how rapid rehousing and crisis housing are addressed.

Learning objectives include:

Gain exposure to a government-recognized system that addresses homelessness.
Discover the causes of homelessness and how these causes interact with other disparities.
Learn how the Bridges framework helps address homelessness.

Target audience: Advanced aha! Process users, Bridges, Policy, Government

Presenters: Jen Koppel, executive director, Lancaster County Coalition to End Homelessness, Chuck Holt, president and CEO, The Factory Ministries, Paradise, Pennsylvania

Time/Location: Tuesday, September 25, Addressing the Challenges of Poverty national conference, Atlanta, Georgia

About the Author: aha! Process

aha! Process is an award-winning training and publishing company providing workshops, publications, and consulting services to help improve lives and build sustainable success in communities, schools, and higher education. We do this by creating an understanding of the dynamics that cause and maintain poverty from the individual to systems level.