Ending Homelessness and Building Social Cohesion: Quality Data as a Needs Must
This session aims to shed light on the importance of investment that can support inclusive digital economy growth in order to minimize the inequality between the Global North and South. It will explore ways to adopt multi-stakeholder engagement for sharing information and ensuring that the necessary data can impact change.
Housing and Social Protection for all to End Homelessness Roundtable
OnlineThe Roundtable gathers high-level technical experts, as well as representatives of Governments, to discuss the new urgency of addressing homelessness within the context of a COVID-19 new normal, as well as the opportunities arising from the collaborations established throughout the response phase.
Making the invisible, visible through new approaches to inclusive data
OnlineThis panel brings together homelessness experts to explore how did their work has helped make the invisible, visible in data, and why this matters for ending homelessness. The session will examine how we ensure the right balance between the need for granular data on marginalized groups and ensuring their privacy and anonymity, building marginalized peoples’ […]
Leave No One Behind: Ending Youth Global Homelessness In The Decade of Action
OnlineThis panel promises to be both engaging and dynamic, where participants from inside and outside the UN ecosystem will draw on their vast experiences and expertise to talk all things solving youth global homelessness - from multilateral partnership, policy, grassroots and youth activism, lived experience and of course, the SDGs. Join the conversation to learn how you can contribute to solving homelessness, and ultimately and ensure a future that leaves no one behind.
The Intersection of Race, Caste, and Homelessness
COVID-19 has put a spotlight on the deep racial inequalities in our world and we wanted to bring this issue to the forefront during our Vanguard City Summit. This convening will allow Vanguard Cities to ask questions and think more deeply about the intersection of race, caste, and homelessness in their own communities, and discuss ways to better address the issues related to race and caste in homelessness service provision, systems, and policy.
Scaling Up Housing First
Housing First is a homeless assistance approach that offers permanent housing with supportive services. Many Vanguard Cities are working to expand housing-led approaches to homelessness including Housing First and this convening will focus on the implementation of Housing First, deploying support services, and how cities can scale up Housing First to end homelessness in their communities.
Systems Change to End Homelessness in the Post-Pandemic City
Many cities have drastically changed their systems due to COVID-19. This convening will focus on strategies to keep positive changes in cities post-pandemic and also have a discussion on ending homelessness with systems thinking. The convening will focus on lessons learned during the pandemic, positive systems changes, and what the road forward looks like regarding ending homelessness in a post-COVID-19 world. We will also talk about ways communities can re-orient systems using data to advance work to end homelessness.
Tackling Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Digital Conference
OnlineWestminster Insight’s Tackling Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Digital Conference will explore how positive response to homelessness can be sustained and progress can be made post-Covid-19 to ensure no one who is experiencing street homelessness needs to go back to sleeping rough.
Homeless Prevention Strategies: IGH Community of Impact Webinar Series
Prevention strategies and programs help communities reduce the number of people becoming homeless. In this webinar for IGH's Community of Impact Series, we will feature homeless prevention programs and research throughout the world. Webinar Speakers: Abe Oudshoorn, PhD - Western University Lynette Barnes - All Chicago's Emergency Financial Assistance Program Katie Schomacker and Melissa Matthews […]
Homelessness, SDG 1 and Sustainable Recovery from COVID19: Poverty left behind
OnlineUnited Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) co-organized with Institute of Global Homelessness Homelessness is the manifestation of the failure to implement the right to adequate housing and to an adequate standard of living among others fundamental rights. The variations in definition for homelessness and homelessness-related conditions carries significant complications in terms of the consistency of […]
Housing First in International Contexts: Community of Impact Webinar Series
OnlineHousing First has been widely adapted throughout the world since being developed by Dr. Sam Tsemberis. Housing First programs have been found to be highly effective at achieving housing stability for chronically homeless individuals with complex needs. In this webinar, Dr. Sam Tsemberis and speakers from three international cities, Edmonton, Canada; Glasgow, Scotland, and Santiago, […]