Strategies and Innovations for Preventing and Addressing Homelessness
Tuesday, June 29, 2021 | Now On-Demand
There are no silver bullets to address the rapidly worsening crisis of evictions and homelessness, but if communities don’t respond quickly and strategically, the consequences suffering and costs will grow dramatically in the coming months. Many people who had never experienced homelessness may sink into a hole of devastation and despair that will be hard to rise out of.
There has never been a more important time for communities to blend innovation with a strategy to respond to this crisis. Unprecedented funding is starting to become available, but fragmented, short-term, and “siloed” efforts will result in disappointing results and a missed opportunity to achieve much better outcomes. This webinar introduces a game-changing strategy map template for preventing and addressing homelessness—with an emphasis on helping the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people who may be pushed into homelessness for the first time in their lives—as a result of economic circumstances, not mental health problems or addiction. Much of the focus in many communities is on getting federal dollars to help cover back-rent to avoid evictions—but so much more can and should be done.
The webinar shares strategies that are often overlooked. It also introduces the first of a series of “Deep Dive Days” that are part of the Housing Solution Summit. The Deep Dive Day on homelessness (July 27) will feature over 20 presentations and a panel discussion. This first Deep Dive Day will be followed up with others over the next several months that can help you move from ideas to actions.
This webinar is part of the Housing Solution Summit series.
Speaker
Bill Barberg, a co-founder of the Population Health Learning Collaborative, is the President and Founder of InsightFormation, Inc., a Minnesota-based consulting and technology company that helps communities, regions, and states address complex social and health issues that require multi-stakeholder collaboration. His deep background in strategy implementation has been featured in dozens of conference presentations and webinars, and he both organized and hosted the recent virtual summit on Innovations in Naturally Affordable Housing. He has been a pioneer in many projects that have pushed forward the practices for achieving Collective Impact on a wide range of issues—from addressing the opioid crisis to transforming housing re-developments into Communities of Hope in Detroit.
Bill was selected to write the chapter on “Implementing Population Health Strategies” for the book, “Solving Population Health Problems through Collaboration” (Routledge, 2017). His recommendations for using strategy maps is featured as a core recommendation in the new report by the National Academy of Public Administration. Bill recently co-authored a paper for the Journal of Change Management on “Leading Social Transformations to Create Public Value and Advance the Common Good”.
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