Join the Kalamazoo Continuum of Care for presentations from people working across the region in all roles in the homeless service sector, including grassroots organizations, advocates, policymakers, program and system leaders, frontline workers, philanthropic partners, developers, people with lived expertise of homelessness, researchers, and others.

Example Sessions

• Southwest Michigan Perspectives: Innovative Approaches from Rural and Urban Service Providers 
• Board Match: Speed Connections for Housing Impact Session
• Supporting Transition from Homelessness – Disability Network of Southwest Michigan
• Trauma Informed Care- Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness
• Street Medicine: Working at the Intersection of Housing and Health – WMED
• Shared Walls, Shared World: What a One-Week Hotel Shelter Project Taught Us
• Hope & Healing for Houseless Youth: Building Resiliency Through Youth Development – KYDNET

Lunch Session

Housing Security and College Success: How Eviction Derails Parents in College and Ways to Change That Reality.

Based on collaborative work between Princeton Eviction Lab and New America’s Parenting Student Initiative, this session walks through why parenting students are such a critical population in higher education today, why housing security is vital to their success, and how lessons from parenting students can be applied to all students facing basic needs insecurity. We will explore who parenting students are as a group, what the data we have shows about how harmful eviction and housing insecurity is for parenting students’ success in college, and the cross-sector work needed to help change this narrative. Attendees will leave with new knowledge, ways to think about cross sector partnerships, and hopefully be inspired to work on local housing solutions to help parenting students succeed.

Please register for this event here