Housing and Homelessness

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 is if you provide people with permanent, supportive, stable housing, then it’s easier to treat the underlying cause of their homelessness.

Panelists include:
Nancy Burke – Senior program director, Alaska Mental Health Trust
Sam Tsemberis – Founder and CEO of Pathways to Housing, New York City
Bill Hobson – Executive director, Downtown Emergency Services Center, Seattle

Contributors include The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, The Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness, and The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Juneau in partnership with the Juneau Clean Air Coalition.

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With Jimmy Ord of Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, Chris Perez of the Rasmuson Foundation, Scott Ciambor of the Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness, and Dan Robinson, Karinne Wiebold, Robert Krieger of the Alaska Department of Labor.