Housing and Homelessness

Agenda items include the Mayor’s Challenge to End Veteran Homelessness, opportunities in VA Rural Health resources, and other updates.

Featuring:

• Colleen Bickford, USICH Co-Chair & HUD Anchorage Field Office
• Susan Yeager, USICH Co-Chair, Alaska VA Healthcare System
• Eileen DeVine, VISN 20 Homeless Coordinator
• John Pendrey, Alaska VA – Health Care for Homeless Veterans

Featuring Troy Buckner of New Life Development, Inc., Cathleen McLaughlin of Partners for Progress and Gastineau Human Services.

Featuring Sam Tsemberis, founder and CEO of Pathways To Housing.

Speakers include TC Cassidy, of Runaway and Homeless Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center, Diana Bline of Covenant House, Kathi Trawyer of the University of Alaska Anchorage, Walter Majoros of Juneau Youth Services and Michelle Overstreet of MY House.

Featuring division director Albert Wall and program coordinator Sherrie Hinshaw.

Sam Tsemberis, Ph.D., is founder and CEO of Pathways to Housing, Inc., a nonprofit organization with global reach, headquartered in New York City. An International spokesperson on homelessness, mental illness, addiction, and the Pathways Housing First (PHF) model, he is widely published in these subjects and is on the faculty of the Columbia University Medical Center’s psychiatry department.