Advancing Anti-Criminalization Efforts: Protecting the rights of people experiencing homelessness

This webinar co-hosted by Homebase and Destination: Home was designed to empower and educate Santa Clara County service providers, advocates, and community members about the legal rights of people experiencing homelessness, especially those affected by encampment sweeps and vehicle tows. The training also included information about reasonable accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities experiencing homelessness.

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PHAs and the Criminalization of Homelessness

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.

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Disrupting the Homelessness-Criminal Legal System Cycle through Strategic Partnerships

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).

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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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