Webinar: Ending Chronic Homelessness

Built for Zero Canada (BFZ-C), an initiative of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, is an ambitious national change effort that applies a collaborative peer-learning approach to ending chronic homelessness. BFZ-C recognizes that achieving and sustaining functional zero on chronic homelessness is a first step on the path to eliminating all homelessness in Canada.

On this webinar, three communities will speak to how this structured, supportive, collaborative, and data-driven process has supported their campaigns to create a sense of urgency, optimize local homeless systems, accelerate the adoption of proven practices, and drive continuous improvement.

Register for this free webinar here.

Speakers:

Marie Morrison

Marie Morrison is a dynamic veteran leader and innovator with over 20 years of experience in housing and homelessness. She joined the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness as the Director of the 20,000 Homes Campaign (now Built for Zero Canada) in September of 2017. Marie brings to the campaign a driven and focused leadership style that encourages a bias for action, failing forward, continuous improvement, and learning from and working together with others. Prior to joining CAEH, Marie worked for 15 years with the Region of Waterloo delivering federal, provincial and local funding and working with community partners to create a housing focused system designed to end homelessness. Waterloo was the first community in the 20,000 Homes Campaign to pilot a Registry Week and was one of the first to achieve a quality By-Name List. Over the years, Marie has participated in many federal and provincial advisory groups and for two years served as the chair of the Ontario Municipal Services Association Homelessness Prevention Network. She was one of two people in Canada chosen to participate in the inaugural Institute for Global Homelessness Leadership Program.

 Jaime Rogers

Jaime Rogers is the Manager of the Homeless and Housing Development Department with the Medicine Hat Community Housing Society. She is also member of the Alberta Interagency Council on Homelessness, and the 7 Cities on Housing and Homelessness. Medicine Hat, Alberta has been recognized provincially and nationally for the significant strides that have been made towards ending homelessness. Ms. Rogers is charged with leading the implementation of Starting At Home in Medicine Hat – Our Five-Year Plan to End Homelessness, and A Plan for Alberta: Ending Homelessness in 10 Years. Ms. Rogers holds a Master of Social Work from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Calgary.

Michelle Corley

Michelle has held various housing specific roles in the City of Kawartha Lakes' Human Services department over the past 15 years and is an accredited member of the Institute of Housing Management. Michelle’s current role as Program Supervisor has her overseeing the Social Housing program administration as well as Housing Help and Homelessness Services for the regional area of Kawartha Lakes and the County of Haliburton.

Lori Richer

Lori Richer is the Housing Stability Manager for Wellington County Social Services and Built for Zero Lead for the Guelph-Wellington Community. Lori and her team deliver federal, provincial, and local funding to Homeless System Service Providers and homelessness prevention programmes, as well as collaborating with community partners to improve the homeless serving system for the City of Guelph and the County of Wellington. Throughout her 23-year career in Social Services, the last three have been in her current role, and she is excited to be working with a great community that is committed to designing a housing focused system to end homelessness.