Several Avalon Housing staff members participated in the 2024 Michigan Summit on Ending Homelessness in Lansing, Oct. 29 and 30.
Director of Services Molly Smith and Sean Allen, Intensive Case Management Team Lead, spoke at a session titled “Housing First Foundational Knowledge,” discussing the key principles of Housing First and how it guides engagement and support of people moving into supportive housing by recognizing there are multiple paths to recovery.
Director of Mission Advancement Scott Ellis participated in a session titled “Securing Funding to Prevent & End Homelessness: Case Studies in Successful Advocacy” along with Catherine Distelrath, Director of the Corporation for Supportive Housing, and Kirstie Sieloff, a lobbyist at Khoury Johnson Leavitt. The discussion addressed examples of and strategies for advocacy for support for affordable and supportive housing.
Real estate and development consultant Michael Appel participated in asession titled, “How to leverage Federal & Non-Federal Resources with CoC programming, making a collective impact to homelessness: We’ve got the water; who’s got the bucket?” The panel’s other participants were Esther Haugabook and Charlotte Carrillo from HUD’s Detroit Field Office. It provided an overview of which federal resources can be coupled with CoC programming to address each stage of homelessness and how to access these resources.
