Predatory Lending:Teaching Your Clients to Protect Their Investments Before and After They Borrow
Monday, December 14, 2009
09:00am-12:30pm
This training will provide Service Providers with a better understanding of predatory practices that plague our financial communities. They will be provided with the tools and resources to help their clients plan to avoid such financial pitfalls.
Target Audience:
Case Managers
Consumer Advocates
Peer Support Workers
Direct Service Providers
Quarterly Direct Service Provider's Meeting
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
10:30am-01:30am
The Partners Ending Homelessness Initiative’s Continuum of Care Action Team will host its’ Quarterly Direct Service Provider's meeting. The purpose of the Direct Service Provider Network is to increase frontline staff’s ability to access resources in a more efficient manor, expand awareness and access of services available in Guilford County, provide training opportunities, and to create an ongoing resource network of direct service providers. The training topic for the quarterly meeting will focus on Preventing & Managing Compassion Fatigue & Burn Out.
This workshop will teach staff how to understand and recognize symptoms and when and what strategies and skills to implement in order to address issues as they arise. Effectively managing compassion fatigue and burn out positively impacts high turnover, chronic absenteeism, friction between management & employees, conflict between employees, and unreasonable resistance to changes. Prevent burnout & re-energize your compassion!
Fair Housing Law: Landlord Responsibility & Tenant Relationships Training
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
09:00am-12:30pm
This training will provide Landlords with a better understanding of their rights and responsibilities and the importance of Landlord/Tenant relationships. It will educate and inform attendees on the Fair Housing Law including Reasonable Accommodations.
Target Audience:
· Landlords
· Public Housing Managers
· Realtors
· Leasing Agents
· Developers
Fair Housing Law: Understanding Housing for Tenants with Disabilities
Monday, September 28, 2009
09:00am-12:30pm
This training will allow Direct Service Providers to gain a better understanding of the challenges faced by individuals dealing with mental illness, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse as they attempt to access housing. It will equip service providers with the knowledge to help their clients access safe, decent, and affordable housing.
Target Audience:
· Case Managers
· Consumer Advocates
· Peer Support Workers
· Direct Service Providers
Meeting the Challenge in Guilford County: Empowering Frontline Staff
Friday, May 08, 2009
10:30am-1:30pm
The Partners Ending Homelessness Initiative’s Continuum of Care Supportive Services & Housing Action Team will host its Quarterly Direct Service Provider's meeting.The purpose of this event is to help frontline staff gain a better understanding of Guilford County’s Funding Landscape. The event will focus on the role frontline staff play in the vital relationship between service provision and program funding.
Fair Housing Law: Understanding Housing for Tenants with Disabilities
Monday, May 04, 2009
09:00am-12:30pm
This training will allow Direct Service Providers to gain a better understanding of the challenges faced by individuals dealing with mental illness, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse as they attempt to access housing. It will equip service providers with the knowledge to help their clients access safe, decent, and affordable housing.
Target Audience:
· Case Managers
· Consumer Advocates
· Peer Support Workers
· Direct Service Providers
NC Fair Housing Law: Landlord Responsibility & Tenant Relationships Training
Thursday, January 29, 2009
09:00am-12:30pm
This training will provide Landlords with a better understanding of their rights and responsibilities and the importance of Landlord/Tenant relationships. It will educate and inform attendees on the Fair Housing Law including Reasonable Accommodations.
Target Audience:
· Landlords
· Public Housing Managers
· Realtors
· Leasing Agents
· Developers
Building Housing First into Guilford County’s Homeless System
Friday, June 15, 2007
09:00am-11:00pm
A workshop designed to provide service providers technical assistance in establishing Housing First models. Kay Moshier McDivitt, Vice President for Programs for Tabor Community Services will present Developing Strategies to End Homelessness: The Lancaster County Model. This informative presentation will focus on best practices in housing counseling and choice, rapid re-housing, homeless assistance and “housing first” programming. Participants will gain a better understanding of how to develop strategies to engage landlords and increase funding opportunities in implementing Housing First in our community.




