This session will cover how to advocate and collaborate with your local Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) continuum of care to ensure people with HIV have access to housing services. Specific to Coordinated Entry, presenters will share challenges encountered, solutions to overcome, client success stories, outcomes, lessons learned, and recommendations.
Learning Objectives
- Distinguish how similarities and differences among Ryan White, Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS, and continuum of care housing programs may create obstacles, and describe solutions to overcome.
- Gain knowledge of how to prevent disclosure or confidentiality breeches when working to coordinate housing with their local continuum of care.
- Explain two to three ways to advocate for people with HIV within their local continuum of care to promote housing access for people with HIV.