Ballroom (upstairs)

Welcome! We are so happy you are here!

Join us in the ballroom upstairs for coffee, breakfast treats, and find any table to settle in.

Ballroom (upstairs)

Get settled in at any table, set out any printed materials for the networking Resource Roundtable session, take a look at the Networking Bingo on your table!

Ballroom (upstairs)

This goal of this session is to facilitate networking for service providers and provide attendees with an opportunity to deepen their understanding of partner agency’s programs, resources, and teams. 

Networking Bingo instructions:

• At your seat, set out any program/agency materials you’d like to share with other attendees.

• Grab a Networking Bingo card.

• Meet the other folks in the room!

• Try to fill your bingo card by writing the names of other attendees in the squares that match information about them.

• You should only use each person’s name one time.

• You are encouraged to share materials and business cards to stay connected with each other moving forward.

• The first 5 people to fill out their bingo card will receive a prize!

• Interested in sharing resources as a follow up to this session? Send materials to mstarrett@mccac.com.

Ballroom (upstairs)

A Day in the Life

Presenters: local service providers and community members with lived experience of houselessness

Focusing on collaborative change and promoting awareness of local challenges and barriers community members face at all levels of housing stability.

Take this time to get a snack, use the restroom, and transition to the next session.

Breakouts will be hosted in the Ballroom, Community Room, and Fireside Room.

No Place to Grow Old Film Screening

• Ballroom (upstairs)

• Presenter: Kai Nichols Burgess, Greater Oregon Behavioral Health, Inc.

• Watch this impactful film about a growing crisis unfolding quietly across America: older adults aging into homelessness.

Affordable Housing 101 - Building and operating housing for the people

• Community Room (by the entrance)

• Presenters: Traci Manning, Executive Director, Housing Development Center, and Karen Long, Executive Director, Mid-Columbia Housing Authority

• Housing is a basic human right. And yet - we don’t have enough of it and what we have can be expensive, hard to find, and hard to get into. Why is that and what can we do about it? Please join us to hear how housing is built in Oregon and why it works the way it does.

Know Your Rights- Protect Our Communities

• Fireside Room (next to the Community Room)

• Presenter: Amber Orion, Community Engagement Coordinator and Statewide Field Organizer, The Hood River Latino Network and Rural Organizing Project

• Get ready to learn our Know Your Rights song! We will review our constitutional rights, share resources and recent updates in Oregon and learn ways to protect our communities in times of crisis.

Take some time to reset after those impactful morning sessions!

Lunch from Mt. Hood BBQ will be served in the Community Room (downstairs by the entrance) at noon.

Community Room (downstairs by the entrance)

Lunch provided by Mount Hood BBQ

Hope you enjoyed your lunch!

Join us in one of the three spaces for the next set of breakout sessions at 1:15pm.

Being An Ally in Indian Country (2-hr session)

• Ballroom (upstairs)

• Presenter: Jillene Joseph, Executive Director, Native Wellness Institute

• This workshop will provide participants with opportunities for small and large group discussions and to learn by doing. Tips, tools and strategies will be shared on how to show up as an ally and to better understand the housing crisis in tribal communities.

Effective Communication Basics (2-hr session)

• Fireside Room (next to the Community Room)

• Presenter: Sandra Amiry, CNVC Certified Trainer, Rose City Non-Violent Communication

• Largely on Nonviolent Communication; a practice based on Humanistic psychology and developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenburg. NVC is designed to catalyze efficient & empathetic interpersonal dynamics, emotional intelligence, and effective conflict resolution. When applied to the business sector, NVC accelerates and clarifies communication, while also building team cooperation, trust, and motivation

The 100 Day Challenge: Addressing Bottlenecks and Coordinating Care in Our Community (1-hr session)

• Community Room (by the entrance) - 1:15-2:15pm

• Presenters: The Gloria Center partners (The 100 Day Challenge Team)

• In November 2024 community partners (MCACC, CGHC B2H, YES, OHDC and more) partnered with RE!NSTITUTE to support 100-Day Challenge in The Gorge to create a goal to improve housing collaborative work in our community.

• The team made huge strides to improve coordinated client care across programs for housing stabilization. The team addressed bottlenecks in systems and prioritized strengthening collaboration across programs, even where unavoidable barriers existed.

• Join us in learning about 100 Day Challenge Team and how you can join the work!

Trauma Informed Practice (1-hr session)

• Community Room (by the entrance) - 2:30-3:30pm

• Presenter: Rebekah Lubeck, LCSW, Pulse Wellness

• In this course we will explore trauma and the impact of trauma on those you serve. You will come away with an understanding of how to de-escalate and care for your self as you help others during crisis.

Head to the Community Room by the entrance to join us for closing remarks and a final moment to share space with all attendees.

Thank you for joining us!