AKCH2 2014

Featuring the Association of Alaska Housing Authorities, Ricardo Worl of the Tlingit-Haida Regional Housing Authority and Nancy Burke of the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority.

​Joshua Arvidson is the Director of the Alaska Child Trauma Center at Anchorage Community Mental Health Services and an Associate Director for the National Complex Trauma Treatment Network. He was a lead author of the Alaska Trauma 101 curriculum and the Principal Investigator for the Alaska Child Trauma Clinical Outcomes Study.

With Megan Nigro, Sadhanaworks.com, Integrative Somatic Body Therapy, Trauma Resolution

With Mike Courtney and Catherine Stone of the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation.

With Jimmy Ord of Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, Chris Perez of the Rasmuson Foundation, Scott Ciambor of the Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness, and Dan Robinson, Karinne Wiebold, Robert Krieger of the Alaska Department of Labor.

With Patrick Sidmore of the Alaska Mental Health Board/Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.

The fall meeting of the Alaska Council on the Homeless. For the full agenda, click here.

A broad overview of the basic elements of housing first project development. Session will focus on site selection practices; creative funding strategies for both capital and operational funding; selecting residents; dealing with opposition; and community relations strategies. Bill Hobson has been executive director of the Seattle’s DESC since 1988.

Featuring Mark Romick of the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, Tyler Robinson of Cook Inlet Housing Authority, Glenn Gellert of Volunteers of America, Corrine O’Neill of RurAL Cap, Mandy O’neal Cole of AWARE, Inc., and John Weaver of VRS.

Featuring Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority Program Officer Amanda Lofgren and Sean O’Brien of the Alaska Division of Vocational Rehabilitation.