Creating Opportunities to Succeed for Families Experiencing Homelessness in Detroit

This event will focus on describing common elements of family trajectories into family homelessness and housing instability, including Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), intergenerational trauma and poverty, and institutional and structural barriers to recovery from housing instability. Partners from COTS will share their current innovative approaches to supporting families to break the cycle of instability.

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Housing Instability, Housing and Neighborhood Design, and Healthcare

This event will highlight areas of overlap between the healthcare and housing sectors, including the cost of housing instability on the healthcare system, integration of health-promoting attributes in Low-Income Housing Tax Credit supported housing, and future directions for research and practice. Speakers include: Kimberly Rollings, Health and Design Research Fellow at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation Alfreda Rooks, Director of Community Health Services at Michigan Medicine Paula Lantz, James B. Hudak Professor of Health Policy at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

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