Healing Starts at Home: Reimagining Permanent Supportive Housing for Trauma Survivors
Healing Starts at Home: Reimagining Permanent Supportive Housing for Trauma Survivors was a special panel discussion on the newly released Creating Permanent Supportive Housing to Meet the Needs of Survivors of Domestic Violence. The program includes an overview of key insights from the Toolkit on pathways for developing more inclusive, trauma-informed housing programs that advance survivor healing and empowerment, based on the perspectives of housing developers, architects, property managers, service providers, and survivors across the country.
Presenters:
- Amy Turk, Chief Executive Officer, Downtown Women's Center
- Suzanne Marcus, Director of Community Engagement & Partnerships, National Alliance for Safe Housing
- Tiffany Duvernay-Smith, Advocate, Document Specialist, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
- Saba Mwine, Sr. Program Manager, Corporation for Supportive Housing
Additional Resources:
- Creating Permanent Supportive Housing to Meet the Needs of Survivors of Domestic Violence: A Toolkit for Low-Income Housing Developers, Architects, Property Managers, and Housing Service Providers
- Sign up to receive information about future trainings here.
- Domestic Violence & Homeless Services Coalition: https://downtownwomenscenter.org/dvhsc/
- Understanding the Cycle of Housing Insecurity for Marginalized Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence: https://safehousingpartnerships.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/CoordinatedEntryPapers-CycleofHousingInsecurity.pdf
- FreeFrom: www.freefrom.org
- Report & Recommendations of LAHSA Ad Hoc Committee on Women Experiencing Homelessness: https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=1586-ad-hoc-committee-on-women-and-homelessness-report-and-recommendations.pdf
- Report & Recommendations of LAHSA Ad Hoc Committee on Black People Experiencing Homelessness: https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=2823-report-and-recommendations-of-the-ad-hoc-committee-on-black-people-experiencing-homelessness
- Downtown Women's Center: downtownwomenscenter.org
- Corporation for Supportive Housing: csh.org
- National Alliance for Safe Housing: nashta.org
- Domestic Violence and Housing TA Consortium: safehousingpartnerships.org