A Place to Call Home – Community Update

November is Housing Month in Edmonton, an annual campaign that raises awareness of the need for affordable housing throughout our community. Since our last Community Update in November 2016, there has been a lot of work and much progress. With the release of A Place to Call Home: Edmonton’s Updated Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness in July 2017, we committed to bold targets, as well as regular updates to community on our progress and impact.

Please join us on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 as we celebrate successes, share local data, and profile new initiatives. Our partner organizations will be presenting and providing updates, learning, and next steps on their work and we will be updating the progress we have made over the past year. Reserve your free ticket here.

 

We are proud to announce Rosanne Haggerty from the Institute for Global Homelessness as a keynote speaker for the event.

About Rosanne Haggerty:

Rosanne Haggerty is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Community Solutions. She is an internationally recognized leader in developing innovative strategies to end homelessness and strengthen communities. Community Solutions assists communities throughout the US in solving the complex problems facing their most vulnerable residents by leading large scale change initiatives including the 100,000 Homes and Built for Zero Campaigns to end chronic and veteran homelessness, and neighborhood partnerships that bring together local residents and institutions to change the conditions that produce homelessness.  Earlier, Rosanne founded Common Ground Community, a pioneer in the development of supportive housing and research-based practices that end homelessness.

Rosanne Haggerty is a:

  • MacArthur Foundation Fellow
  • Ashoka Senior Fellow
  • Hunt Alternative Fund Prime Mover
  • Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce Fellow
  • 2012 Jane Jacobs Medal for New Ideas and Activism from the Rockefeller Foundation
  • 2015 Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur
  • 2015 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s National Design Award
  • 2017 John W. Gardner Leadership Award

 

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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We recognize we are gathered, in collaboration and with joint purpose, on Treaty 6 territory. This territory is the traditional home and gathering place for diverse Indigenous peoples. The nêhiyaw (Cree), Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Dene, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Anishinaabe (Saulteaux/Ojibwe), Nakota Isga (Nakota Sioux), Inuit, and Métis, among many others cared for this land since time immemorial and continue to steward it today. As visitors in this territory, we honour the importance of the Treaty and our responsibility to these communities. Only in partnership can we create the changes necessary to end homelessness. It is vital we meaningfully engage and partner with Indigenous people and communities in this work while recognizing and addressing the conditions brought forth by colonialism. Displacement from traditional homelands, systemic racism, residential schools, the Sixties Scoop, and the ongoing overrepresentation of Indigenous people in child welfare, correctional systems, and homelessness are responsibilities we all share.