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Co-Sponsored Webinar: The Intersections of Housing Instability, Homelessness and Maternal Mental Health

Thursday, February 6, 2025 | 12pm ET / 11am CT / 10am MT / 9am PT 

Co-sponsored by: Funders for Maternal Mental Health & Grantmakers In Health 

“Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.”
Matthew Desmond


Funders Together to End Homelessness is excited to partner with Funders for Maternal Mental Health and Grantmakers in Health to host a webinar on the impact of homelessness, evictions, and housing insecurity on maternal mental health. This webinar will explore the intersectional nature of housing instability and maternal mental health, delving into the complexities of these issues through the insights of leading voices working to address family wellbeing.  

In this session you will learn about cutting-edge research underway to understand the impacts of housing instability on maternal mental health. You will hear from on-the-ground programs working in communities with pregnant women and parents to provide housing supports, like rental assistance, temporary shelter, and permanent supportive housing as a preventive measure to promote maternal well-being and economic mobility. And you will come away with policy solutions and systems change ideas that promote housing, reproductive care and health care justice from a national policy and advocacy organization that sits at the intersection of these issues. These presentations will provide funders with recommendations and insights on how they can connect the dots between housing stability and wellbeing for birthing people.


Speakers

  • D. Michael Durham, MTS, Director of Networks | Funders Together to End Homelessness
  • Devora Keller, MD, MPH, Director of Clinical and Quality Improvement | National Health Care for the Homeless Council
  • Runisha Johnson, Farm & Community Outreach Coordinator | Lotus House Women's Shelter
  • Dr. Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson, PhD, MPH,  Associate Professor | The Ohio State University
  • Dr. Katherine Marçal, Assistant Professor | Rutgers University

Webinar Eligibility & Registration 

Please register for this webinar through Funders for Maternal Mental Health; only funders are eligible to attend. 

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Technology 

This webinar will take place via Zoom and will last 90 minutes. 

Co-sponsored by: 

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February 06, 2025 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
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Michael Durham · · 6172450314

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  • Michael Durham
    published this page in Programming 2025-01-15 16:33:33 -0500

We joined Funders Together because we believe in the power of philanthropy to play a major role in ending homelessness, and we know we have much to learn from funders across the country.

-Christine Marge, Director of Housing and Financial Stability at United Way of Greater Los Angeles

I am thankful for the local partnerships here in the Pacific Northwest that we’ve been able to create and nurture thanks to the work of Funders Together. Having so many of the right players at the table makes our conversations – and all of our efforts – all the richer and more effective.

-David Wertheimer, Deputy Director at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Very often a lack of jobs and money is not the cause of poverty, but the symptom. The cause may lie deeper in our failure to give our fellow citizens a fair chance to develop their own capacities, in a lack of education and training, in a lack of medical care and housing, in a lack of decent communities in which to live and bring up their children.

-President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 State of the Union Address

Funders Together has given me a platform to engage the other funders in my community. Our local funding community has improved greatly to support housing first models and align of resources towards ending homelessness.

-Leslie Strnisha, Vice President at Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland

Our family foundation convenes local funders and key community stakeholders around strategies to end homelessness in Houston. Funders Together members have been invaluable mentors to us in this effort, traveling to our community to share their expertise and examples of best practices from around the nation.

-Nancy Frees Fountain, Managing Director at The Frees Foundation


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