An interview with Nicole Green, Forensic Social Worker, Office of the Public Defender, and Chair of the Contra Costa Community Advisory Board (CAB).

The Partnership Action Lab brought together homelessness systems and public defenders to improve outcomes for people who are experiencing housing instability and charged with and/or convicted of misdemeanors.

The Bridging Boundaries Action Lab brought together parole, probation, and homelessness systems to reduce barriers to housing for people involved with the criminal legal system.

This session at the NAHRO National Conference explored the role PHAs can play in breaking the homelessness-criminal legal system cycle by implementing trauma-informed, low-barrier policies.

This session at the Northern California Nevada National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO) conference focused on the Grants Pass decision, why it matters for Public Housing Authorities and other housing providers, and what providers can do to help protect their clients while responding to an ever-changing legal landscape.

This session at the NAEH conference was led by homelessness system leaders with experience with building partnerships focused on high impact intervention points – pre-sentencing (public defenders) and post-release (probation).

This conference session at Housing California focused on strategies for how CoCs can work with criminal legal system partners to leverage AB 109 funds for housing dedicated to people with criminal records.

This session at the Equal Justice Conference focused on how to facilitate partnerships between public defenders and the Continuum of Care to leverage resources, prevent collateral consequences, and mitigate criminal legal outcomes.

This training is designed to help cross-sector partners gain a basic understanding of relevant housing resources and challenges. It provides an overview of the homelessness response system and covers topics to improve coordination and collaboration across systems. Gain a basic understanding of relevant housing resources and challenges, learn when and how to leverage your clients’ housing status as a form of mitigation, Identify questions to ask your clients that will elicit the information you need, and learn about collaboration opportunities to better defend your clients.

This training for cross-sector partners provides an introduction to the homeless system of care and an overview of the practical and legal landscape of the intersection of homelessness and the criminal legal system.

This cross-sector training deck features panelists who draw from a variety of cross-system experiences to share insights and solutions to some of the common obstacles communities face when housing people who have been incarcerated.