Wednesday, February 9, 2022, 12:00 – 3:00 p.m. PT
Overview:
This workshop focuses on understanding behavioral health and homelessness through an equity lens and offers strategies to connect people to systems of care. This workshop will include live viewing of a presentation (originally part of the CARE TA Center virtual conference in June 2021) and facilitated discussion focused on applying insights from the presentation to your daily work. Action planning will focus on understanding and responding to the connections between homelessness, housing, and behavioral health and using equity as a lens for serving different populations with overlapping behavioral health and housing needs.
Meet the Presenters
Alicia Lehmer serves as a Senior Policy Analyst with Homebase, working with communities to implement best practices, maximize utilization of funding, and develop cross-system partnerships to prevent and end youth homelessness. Her interest in homelessness policy began in graduate school while researching the needs of LGBTQ+ homeless youth in San Francisco, and she has continued this research on a national level. Her areas of focus in working with communities across the country include youth homelessness, unsheltered homelessness, and housing and health care integration. She is committed to incorporating a focus on equity and authentic engagement of persons with lived expertise throughout all aspects of this work.
Katricia Stewart works with communities across the country to strengthen regional responses to homelessness through community-based research, data analysis, evaluation, and capacity-building. Prior to joining Homebase, Katricia engaged in community research and evaluation related to sense of community and well-being for populations experiencing homelessness. She also wrote her doctoral dissertation on sense of community and well-being among youth experiencing homelessness, which included how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted youth. Alongside this community engagement, Katricia also worked with a consulting company helping organizations and individuals implement and evaluate programs aimed at improving organizational culture and work-place personal growth — including programs that helped individuals and small groups and prevent empathy fatigue and burnout through building their capacity for compassion. Katricia holds a BA in Psychology and Music from Linfield University, and a MA in Psychology and a PhD in Community Psychology from Portland State University. Katricia is also a certified yoga instructor and has completed the Compassion Institute’s Compassion Cultivation Training.