Shifting the Narrative: A data-driven, person-centered approach to combating the criminalization of homelessness

This workshop at the National Human Services Data Consortium outlined how to leverage lived experience expertise to assess gaps in legal services and inform the creation of legal clinics for people experiencing homelessness.

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Getting Creative with Funding: Leveraging criminal legal system funds for housing and supportive services

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.

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Where are they supposed to sleep? Leveraging Critical Public Defender Data in Non-Carceral Homeless Responses

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.

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Lessons Learned from CalAIM: Enacting California's New Housing-Related Services for People Experiencing Homelessness

This webinar provides an overview of key lessons learned from California’s CalAIM housing-related services - Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports - and the Housing and Homelessness Incentive Program. It includes a panel of four partners – from Alameda, Fresno/Madera, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara counties – sharing their diverse perspectives on successes and challenges in implementing California’s housing-related Medicaid programs for people experiencing homelessness.

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