**Objectives:**

-   Assist State and local policymakers to develop an Action Plan
    intended to improve access for families with children who are
    homeless to mainstream health, human services, education, and
    employment and training programs that are coordinated with housing
    and other existing community programs.

-   Create and reinforce relationships among the Governor's office,
    State Legislators, key program administrators, and stakeholders from
    the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

-   Provide an environment conducive to the process of strategic
    decisionmaking that is result oriented and outcome related and
    benefits families with children who are homeless.

-   Assist State and local policymakers in identifying issues or areas
    of concern that may result in a formal request for technical
    assistance (TA).

**[Monday, October 31, 2005]{.underline}**

4:00 p.m. -- **Registration \[Pacific Ballroom AB\]**

7:00 p.m.

**[Tuesday, November 1, 2005]{.underline}**

7:30 a.m. **Registration \[Pacific Ballroom AB\]**

8:30 a.m. **Welcome and Overview of the Academy \[Pacific Ballroom
AB\]**

-   Federal Representatives

-   Philip Mangano, Executive Director, U.S. Interagency Council on
    Homelessness

-   Jamie Hart, Health Systems Research, Inc., Moderator

> **Introductions of State Team Members, Faculty, and Resource Persons
> and Brief Presentations by Each Team**

9:45 a.m. **State Team Session One: Setting the Stage and Revisiting the
Vision Statement and the Reality Assessment**

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-   **Assign State Team Members to Specific Breakout Sessions**

**California -- Mezzanine 3 Colorado -- Mezzanine 4**

**Indiana -- Mezzanine 5 Massachusetts -- Mezzanine 6**

**Montana -- Mezzanine 7 Rhode Island -- Mezzanine 8**

**Utah -- Mezzanine 9**

12:00 p.m. **Break**

12:15 p.m. **Working Lunch/Plenary Session One: Focus on the Issues
\[Pacific Ballroom AB\]**

> **Involving Consumers: Why and How**

-   William Joiner, Marriage and Family Therapist Intern, Los Angeles

**Addressing Family Homelessness**

-   Marybeth Shinn, New York University Department of Psychology

1:45 p.m. **Concurrent Breakout Sessions #1**

-   Youth Aging Out of Foster Care **\[Lido A\]**

-   Addressing the Health/Behavioral Health Needs of Homeless **\[Lido
    B\]**

> Families

-   Helping Homeless Families Meet the Educational Needs of **\[Lido
    C\]**

> Their School-Aged and Preschool-Aged Children

-   Reentry and Its Realities for Prisoners, Families, and **\[Balboa
    A\]**

> Communities

-   Are You Getting the Recommended Daily Allotment of **\[Balboa B\]**

> Federal Nutrition Dollars?

3:15 p.m. **Break**

3:30 p.m. **State Team Session Two: Report Out, Identifying Resource
Needs, and**

**Setting Priorities/Goals**

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-   Basis for planning, policymaking, and setting performance standards

    5:30 p.m. **Dinner (on your own)**

**[Wednesday, November 2, 2005]{.underline}**

7:00 a.m. **Networking \[Pacific Ballroom AB\]**

8:00 a.m. **Overview of the Day/Plenary Session Two: Focus on \[Pacific
Ballroom AB\]**

**Implementation, Integration, and Systems Change**

-   John Wagner, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Transitional
    Assistance

-   Charlene Flaherty, Program Administrator for Community Services,
    Arizona Department of Economic Security

-   Sherrie Downing, Coordinator, Montana Council on Homelessness

9:00 a.m. **Concurrent Breakout Sessions #2**

-   Housing **\[Lido A\]**

-   Assisting Homeless Families with Employment Skills **\[Lido B\]**

-   Creative Use of Funding Mechanisms: Medicaid **\[Lido C\]**

-   Supporting Homeless Families and At-risk Families Through **\[Balboa
    A\]**

> Creative Use of TANF Funds

10:30 a.m. State Team Session Three: Completing Priority Setting and
Developing Strategies

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-   Includes identifying TA needs

12:15 p.m. **Lunch (on your own)**

1:15 p.m. **Networking With Federal Representatives \[Pacific Ballroom
AB\]**

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-   U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

-   U.S. Department of Labor

-   U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

-   U.S. Department of Education

-   U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness

2:15 p.m. **State Team Session Four: Completing Strategies and
Identifying Action Steps**

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-   Who is responsible for coordinating each action?

-   Who is responsible for completing each action?

-   What resources are required?

-   What is the timeline?

-   Who will be affected?

5:30 p.m. **Adjourn**

**Assignment:** Each State Team should prepare to share with the other
Teams their action planning to-date -- including their written vision
statement, reality assessment, and goals/priorities at tomorrow
morning's plenary session. Each Team also should identify what they
anticipate their TA needs to be. Results should be recorded on newsprint
and posted in the main conference area.

**[Thursday, November 3, 2005]{.underline}**

7:00 a.m. **Networking \[Pacific Ballroom AB\]**

8:00 a.m. **Overview of the Day \[Pacific Ballroom AB\]**

8:15 a.m. **Exchange of Ideas** **\[Pacific Ballroom AB\]**

9:15 a.m. **State Team Session Five: Completing Action Steps and
Identifying TA Needs**

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-   Anticipated long- or short-term goals of the TA

12:00 p.m. **Lunch (on your own)**

1:00 p.m. **State Team Session Six: Identifying Next Steps**

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-   Timeline and process for revision and submission of action plan

2:15 p.m. **State Team Report-outs with Faculty Feedback (5 minutes
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3:15 p.m. **Closing Remarks and Review of Next Steps \[Pacific Ballroom
AB\]**

-   Josephine Robinson, Director of the Federal Office of Community
    Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

3:30 p.m. **Adjourn**

### 

### Improving Access to Mainstream Services for Families with Children Experiencing Homelessness

Sponsored by:

### U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Administration for Children and Families

Health Resources and Services Administration

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

### U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

**U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs**

**U.S. Department of Labor**

### U.S. Department of Education

**U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness**

In partnership with:

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service

American Public Human Services Association

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

National Association of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Directors

National Association of County and City Health Program Directors

National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors

National Conference of State Legislatures

National Governors Association

National Head Start Association

U.S. Conference of Mayors

*U.S. Department of Health and Human Services U.S. Department of
Education*

*U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development U.S. Department of
Agriculture*

*U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs U.S. Department of Justice*

*U.S. Department of Labor U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness*

**Improving Access to Mainstream Services for Families with Children
Experiencing Homelessness**

## Hilton Anaheim

Anaheim, CA

November 1--3, 2005

**Breakout Session Descriptions**

# Day One

1.  Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

2.  Addressing the Health/Behavioral Health Needs of Homeless Families

3.  Helping Homeless Families Meet the Educational Needs of Their
    School-aged and Preschool-aged Children

4.  Reentry and Its Realities for Prisoners, Families, and Communities

5.  Are You Getting the Recommended Daily Allotment of Federal Nutrition
    Dollars?

# Day Two

6.  Housing

7.  Assisting Homeless Families with Employment Skills

8.  Creative Use of Funding Mechanisms: Medicaid

9.  Supporting Homeless Families and At-risk Families Through Creative
    Use of TANF Funds

### 1. Youth Aging Out of Foster Care 

**Objectives:**

-   Identify the unique set of housing and service needs required by
    youths aged 18--21 who have recently exited foster care

-   Present best practices and successful models of States and
    localities that have developed programming that serves youth aging
    out of foster care

-   Engage the audience in a discussion of the opportunities and
    challenges of serving youth aging out of foster care

**Content:**

-   Exploration of the variety of independent living program models
    currently being used to provide housing and services to youth aging
    out of foster care

-   Discussion of the program typologies and the range of services
    offered in each program type

-   Focus of the role of employment and skills training programs for
    youth aging out of foster care

-   Presentation of a model supervised independent living program
    designed for youths aged 18--21

**Presenters:**

-   Judith Dobbins, Executive Director of Covenant House, Washington, DC

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-   Joan McAllister, Project Director, North Carolina Independent Living
    Program

**Moderator:**

-   Michael Sanders, Consultant, Columbus, Ohio

**Target Audience:**

-   Policymakers and representatives from the State Department of Family
    and Children

-   Policymakers and representatives from local workforce investment
    boards or the State Employment Agency

-   Practitioners who work with youth in the foster care system

**2. Addressing the Health/Behavioral Health Needs of Homeless
Families**

**Objectives:**

-   Provide information and practical application of substance abuse,
    mental health, and trauma issues and services

-   Provide information about the primary health care needs of homeless
    families and children

**Content:**

-   An overview of the health and behavioral health needs of homeless
    families

-   Issues of homeless mothers, including health problems, barriers to
    care, reproductive health, mental and substance abuse disorders, and
    the role of trauma and violence in homelessness

-   Characteristics of homeless children, including physical, emotional,
    and behavioral health and learning needs

-   Keys to homelessness and parenting

-   Issues and challenges involving funding of services, limitations on
    evidence-based approaches, access to mental health and substance
    abuse services, engaging families, prevention and early intervention
    concepts and care need, linkages with primary care, and cultural
    issues

-   Systems change and responsiveness

-   Emerging best or promising practices

**Presenters:**

-   John Parvensky, President, Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

-   Francine Feinberg, Executive Director, Meta House, Inc., Milwaukee,
    Wisconsin

**Moderator:**

-   Lynnette Araki, Office of Planning and Evaluation, Health Resources
    and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human
    Services

**Target Audience:**

-   Health care providers and managers

-   Behavioral health providers and managers

-   Policymakers who are responsible for the provision of health, mental
    health, and substance abuse services

3.  **Helping Homeless Families Meet the Educational Needs of their
    School-aged and Preschool-aged Children**

**Objectives:**

-   Provide an overview of Federal legislative and policy support from
    the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act designed to
    eliminate educational barriers for homeless children (Pre-K--12)

-   Highlight effective efforts in Orange County (California) that
    demonstrate how collaboration and coordination among agencies can
    address educational needs of homeless children

-   Identify strategies to enhance collaboration and coordination among
    State and local agencies to support the education of homeless
    children

**Content:**

-   Handouts: Introduction to educational issues related to homeless
    children and overview of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education
    Assistance Act that addresses educational barriers for homeless
    children

-   Presentation: Introduction to the McKinney-Vento Act and
    illustration of model collaborations in Orange County that
    illustrate how community agencies, including school districts, can
    address the educational needs of homeless children (Pre-K--12)

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    coordinate efforts to address educational issues related to homeless
    children and youth?

-   How can coordination/collaboration be increased at State and local
    levels?

-   General Q&A

**Presenters:**

-   Mary Bishop, Homeless Prevention Coordinator, County of Orange,
    California

-   Jeanne Awrey, Student Support Services Manager, Orange County
    Department of Education

**Moderator:**

-   Diana Bowman, Director, National Center for Homeless Education at
    SERVE, Greensboro, North Carolina

### Target Audience:

-   State and local administrators in programs that address the needs of
    homeless children, youth, and families

4.  **Reentry and Its Realities for Prisoners, Families, and
    Communities**

**Objectives:**

-   Discuss a comprehensive approach for working with ex-offenders as
    they transition from prison to the community (including intake and
    assessment, pre-employment training, HIV prevention and education,
    job referral and followup, support services to address substance
    abuse or mental health issues, housing, and family reunification)

-   Discuss the impact on the family when an ex-offender transitions
    from prison back to the home

-   Identify barriers and solutions to housing issues raised in reentry
    including approaches to working with housing authorities

-   Identify barriers and solutions to the issues ex-offenders face
    regarding finding and keeping a job

-   Identify federal resources available to assist jurisdictions in
    their reentry efforts

**Content:**

Nationally, over 600,000 individuals leave prisons each year to return
to their families and communities. A comprehensive discharge plan is
crucial to the returning offender's successful transition. Several major
challenges facing a returning prisoner include housing, finding a job,
substance abuse and mental health treatment, medical treatment, and
issues of domestic violence and family reunification. The transition
process needs to begin "behind the walls." An offender's needs must be
assessed to understand adequately the challenges he/she will face upon
release. At each phase of re-entry, the person's family, if appropriate,
should be involved in the process.

Although there are a myriad of issues that ex-offenders face as they
transition from prison to their community, key issues such as housing,
employment, and family reunification can impact the success he/she will
have in the community. Without a roof over his/her head and a steady
paycheck, the ex-offender will has little hope of addressing other
issues such as substance abuse and mental health, family, child support
and child care, etc.

This session will offer attendees models of partnerships that have
worked in dealing with housing, employment, and family reunification for
ex-offenders. Attendees will learn about the various Federal resources
that are currently available for re-entry efforts. For example, the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Administration for
Children and Family, Fatherhood Initiative works closely with men who
are returning home from prisons and jails by providing them with the
tools to successfully reintegrate with their families and children.

**Presenters:**

-   Anthony Lowery, Safer Foundation, Chicago, Illinois

-   Judy McBride, Family Justice, New York City, New Yori

**Moderator:**

-   Richard Morris, U.S. Department of Labor

**Target Audience:**

-   State-level policymakers

5.  **Are You Getting the Recommended Daily Allotment of Federal
    Nutrition Dollars?**

**Objectives:**

-   Increase awareness of the availability of funding opportunities and
    the use of mainstream nutrition assistance programs as a tool for
    helping serve families experiencing homelessness

-   Highlight the local perspective regarding the use of mainstream
    dollars to help families experiencing homelessness

-   Encourage exchange among State participants regarding approaches for
    using nutrition programs for families experiencing homelessness

**Content:**

This session will focus on various Federal nutrition programs available
(1) to serve homeless families with children and their potential funding
sources and (2) to provide the perspective of a service provider who
uses a variety of funding sources to meet the nutritional needs of their
clients. It will include:

-   A description of the Federal response to hunger and Food and
    Nutrition Service funding available to help meet the nutritional
    needs of the homeless families you serve, including a discussion of:

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    programs administered by the Food and Nutrition Service, U.S.
    Department of Agriculture (USDA)

-   Various grant programs that States can use to serve this population
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-   Examples of effective use of Federal dollars to provide nutritional
    assistance, including:

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    the Foundation uses funding from the DHHS as well as the Food and
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-   Discussion of what your State has done or would like to do and
    questions for speakers

**Presenters:**

-   Vicky Robinson, Food Stamp Program at the Food and Nutrition
    Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

-   Gary M. Grier, AIDS Foundation Houston, Inc.

**Moderator:**

-   Marsha Werner, Office of Community Services, U.S. Department of
    Health and Human Services

**Target Audience:**

-   State administrators of nutrition programs

-   Conference participants who are interested in mainstream funding
    opportunities

-   Conference participants who work with local organizations in
    fighting hunger

6.  **Housing**

**Objectives:**

-   Participants will be able to determine the relative merits of
    housing development, rental assistance, or a blended strategy

-   Participants will be able to describe and adapt for local/State use
    key elements in strategic partnerships that will support new housing
    opportunities for homeless families

**Content:**

-   Exploration of housing issues, including development strategies, the
    use of rental assistance, and strategic partnerships to provide
    housing for homeless families

-   Discussion of topics such as a brief overview of the U.S. Department
    of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and other resources for
    housing, effective strategies for engaging and retaining homeless
    families in housing, and successful examples

 

**Presenters:**

-   William F. Bolton, Multifamily Hub Director, Los Angeles HUD Office

-   Ann Denton, Director of Housing, Advocates for Human Potential, New
    York Office

-   Marty Fleetwood, Executive Director, HomeBase/The Center for Common
    Concerns, San Francisco, California

-   Jim Miller, Shelter for the Homeless, Orange County, California

**Moderator:**

-   Pat Carlile, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs
    Assistance, Office of Community Planning and Development, U.S.
    Department of Housing and Urban Development

 

**Target Audience:**

-   State and local administrators in programs that are interested in
    addressing the mainstream housing needs related to homeless families
    and children and finding the best solutions to serving them

7.  **Assisting Homeless Families with Employment Skills**

**Objectives:**

-   Demonstrate a collaborative, comprehensive approach to assist
    homeless families with employment services through many and various
    mainstream services, including Department of Labor Programs,
    Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), and HUD

-   Highlight promising practices by local service providers, One-Stop
    Career Centers, and community-based organizations that effectively
    and efficiently serve homeless families. These practices include
    accessing a variety of funding streams, creating a comprehensive
    network to serve the homeless, collaborative and referral-based case
    management, building community support, creating a business
    alliance, and promoting a step-by-step approach

-   Encourage discussion and exchange among State Team participants with
    local and community-based organizations and employment service
    providers

-   Assist State Teams in developing a comprehensive and collaborative
    strategy

**Content:**

-   Overview of significant and effective programs who serve homeless
    families by promising proactive practices highlighted in objectives

**Presenters:**

-   Kate Lyons, Associate Vice President of Programs, SEARCH, Houston,
    Texas

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-   Steve Nelson, Director of Employment Services, Pima County Community
    Services, Jackson Employment Center, Tucson, Arizona

-   John Rio, Senior Program Associate, Advocates for Human Potential

**Moderator:**

-   Randy Cooper, U.S. Department of Labor

**Target audience:**

-   All State Team members in accessing employment services to help
    homeless achieve self-sufficiency

-   Local community-based providers

-   State and local employment, housing, and health services agencies

-   Other participants with an interest in employment and
    training-related services for this population

8.  **Creative Use of Funding Mechanisms: Medicaid**

**Objectives:**

-   Enable State Policy Teams to recommend concrete and creative
    programs and mechanisms using Medicaid funding streams to better
    meet the needs of homeless families and children in their States

**Content:**

-   Describe mechanisms that State Medicaid Programs can implement to
    expedite and improve access to Medicaid eligibility for homeless
    families and children

-   Explain how to use Medicaid to fund mental health services

-   Provide examples of how States have adopted Medicaid eligibility and
    mental health service provisions to benefit homeless families and
    children

**Presenters:**

-   Pat Post, National Health Care for the Homeless Council

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-   Gary Smith, Human Services Research Institute

**Moderator:**

-   Ronald Reepen, Region IX, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services,
    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

**Intended Audience:**

-   Local community-based providers

-   Administrators of State Medicaid Agencies

-   Administrators of State Mental Health Agencies

9.  **Supporting Homeless Families and At-risk Families Through Creative
    Use of TANF Funds**

**Objectives:**

-   Identify creative ways of utilizing TANF and other resources to
    address the prevention of, or rapid exit from, homelessness as it
    affects families with children

-   Present best practices and successful models of States and
    localities that have developed programming that utilizes TANF
    funding to address the needs of homeless families with children

-   Engage the audience in a discussion of the opportunities and
    challenges of utilizing TANF funds to provide services to families
    at risk of or currently experiencing homelessness

**Content:**

-   Presentation of two exemplary programs that utilize TANF funds
    (paired with other funding sources) to deliver services to families
    successfully in order to prevent homelessness or ensure a rapid exit
    from homelessness

-   Discussion of the practice of weaving TANF funds with other sources
    of funding to serve homeless families with children

-   Focus on the particular challenge faced by rural communities with
    few or no homeless assistance resources

-   Facilitated discussion to consider the transferability of these
    model programs to other States and the opportunities and challenges
    therein

**Presenters:**

-   John Wagner, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Transitional
    Assistance

-   Crucita Nuanez-Ochoa, Director of Domestic Violence Programs,
    Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc., Pheonix, Arizona

**Moderator:**

-   Girley Wright, Administration for Children and Families, U.S.
    Department of Health and Human Services

**Target Audience**

-   State TANF Administrators

-   Participants who are interested in exploring and blending funding
    streams and collaborating to increase resources

-   State Team members from the State Department of Family and Children
    Services