The Round Table is committed to strategies that ensure that policymakers are partnered with researchers to inform policy direction and budget investment on homelessness. In pursuit of its mission to abolish homelessness, the Round Table works across the nation to ensure the rapid dissemination of NEXT PRACTICES that scale solutions to end homelessness, and advance innovations that are data and research driven, consumer preferred, results-oriented, field-tested, and evidence-based. The American Round Table to Abolish Homelessness (ART), developer of the NEXT PRACTICES approach, is based in Boston. Mangano, President and CEO, American Round Table, Through a focus on the consumer prioritizing housing and employment Jean-Michel Giraud, Friendship Place, Washington, DC, on ending homelessness In Southern California and research on homeless Veterans Joseph Colletti, Founder and CEO, Institute for Urban Initiatives,ДЇuller Seminary, Pasadena, CA, on challenges and opportunities for Coc's Housing, and Social Environment Cluster of ExcellenceДr. Benjamin Henwood, USC School of Social Work, Homelessness,

Mike Gallo, Technical Employment Training,Дr. San Bernardino County, on Housing Authority initiatives Housing Authority, on Housing Authority and Ten Year PlanДan Nackerman, President and CEO, Housing Authority of Steve Rudman, Executive Director, Home Forward, the Portland, OR On Housing First and a 'Sense of Belonging'ДЄntoinette Hayes-Triplett, City of St. On key policy issues, legislative initiatives, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Through Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.ДЄndrew Sperling, Director of Federal Legislative Advocacy, On strategies and opportunities to end homelessness Monica Bharel, Boston Health Care for the Homeless, VA National Center on Homelessness among Veterans, on planningДr. Dennis Culhane, the leading researcher on homelessness, University of Pennsylvania, and Director of Research, VA National Center on Homelessness among Veterans, and Co-director, Intelligence for Social Policy Initiative to promote development of integrated public sector data for policy analysis and systems reform.

Caroline's work on the first ever SIF initiative targeted to chronic homelessness based in Massachusetts and her national perspective offer insights into moving SIF from talk to action.Дr. Third Sector is leading the effort in several California counties, including Santa Clara County, to think through and implement Social Impact FInancing (SIF). Peter Barth, Third Sector Capital Partners, and former Assistant Secretary for Program and Fiscal Affairs at the California Health and Human Services Agency (2008-2012) and Executive Fellow (2007-2008).Д¬arolie Whistler, Third Sector Capital Partners. John Wagner, First5LA COO, former Director of the CA Department of Community Services and Development (2011-2012) and CA Department of Social Services (2007-2011), former Commissioner, MA Department of Transitional Assistance (2002-2007), and former Asisstant Secretary for Children, Youth, and Families, MA Executive Office of Health and Human Services. The intent of the Colloquy is to engage particpants and faculty in an immersion that enahnces our mission to end the homelessness of the most vulnerable and disabled. The Faculty will ensure that your Board of Directors, local CoC Governance Board, Advisory Board, Interagency Council, funders, supporters - anyone you'd like to engage further - will hear the innovations in a vernacular they understand. The American Round Table to Abolish Homelessnes (ART)

Fashioning youth strategies, new research, and community-wide partnership - 'Reimagining the Response' to youth homelessness.

Identifying the most effective strategies with VA resources to end veteran homelessness.

Creating an employment trajectory to a career with a future.

Upgrading Housing First with a 'Sense of Belonging' for those who have moved to housing.

Cultivating scale in housing through landlord relationships.

Newest national and international trends and issues in Research.

Strategies and opportunities to end homelessness as the Affordable Care Act moves ahead.

What does the future hold? How do advancements in Social Impact FInancing, the Affordable Care Act, and Research offer opportunities to scale housing, employment, and a Sense of Belonging for our homeless neighbors?

What is evidence-based, consumer preferred, cost effective.

Colloquy themes