Countywide Discharge Planning Forum
Video Highlights
The Countywide Forum on Discharge Planning and Homelessness brings together the three Cook County homeless continuums of care, along with county and state agencies, to discuss the policies of discharging institutions and how they impact homelessness. The day long interactive discussion is an opportunity to learn about current discharging policies and plan for new solutions and collaborations to help end homelessness.
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Highlights:
“This forum is a significant next step in Chicago ’s work to prevent and end homelessness. Through Chicago ’s Plan to End Homelessness, we are making progress in ending homelessness for thousands of people in Chicago . We are finding that people who leave other systems—from mental health, from corrections, from child welfare—can end up in the homeless system. This forum highlights how effective planning and coordination among these systems is the key to preventing homelessness for so many people.”
Nancy Radner, Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness
“Today we are bringing together representatives from federal, state, county and local government with nonprofits, advocates and consumers of homeless services to talk about how we can work together to prevent homelessness for people who have been discharged from institutions. It is this type of collaboration that is absolutely necessary to create new initiatives and more effective policies so that people move out of systems and into safe, decent, affordable housing”
Honorable Jan Schakowsky, U.S. Representative, 9th District of Illinois