36th Annual Keys for the Homeless Conference
Theme: Shifting the Narratives: Doing What’s Right and What Works
Date: Thursday, December 19, 2024
Time: 8:30am-4:30pm
Location: Marriott Melville Long Island, 1350 Walt Whitman Rd, Melville, NY 11747
Key Conference Workshops
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Best Practices in Person-Centered Housing Focused Case Management
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Cultivating Resilience and Self-Compassion: Supporting Ourselves and Others in Uncertain Times
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Challenges and considerations in diabetes care for people facing homelessness
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Fighting for Immigrants’ Access to Shelter and Other Social Services
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Combatting the Nation’s Migrant Housing Crisis on the Frontlines: Community Integrated Health Solutions to Migrant Homelessness
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Preventing Burnout: Realistic Self-Care for the Helping Professional
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Redefining Affordability: Changing the Narrative on Housing in the Suburbs.
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Transformation from the inside out: Using a rights-based approach to reimagine services for our unsheltered neighbors
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The Trauma-Homelessness Cycle: Breaking the Barriers
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Creating a Wellness Program for Staff and Guests
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Human Trafficking
Previous Key Converences
35th Annual Keys for the Homeless Conference
LESS TALKING, MORE LISTENING:
Centering People With Lived Experience to Solve Homelessness
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
8:30am-4pm
St. Joseph’s University
Workshop Topics
Persons with Lived Experience Plenary
Library Social Work: A Collaborative Community Approach to Expanding Ser-vices to Unsheltered Individuals
Financial Literacy: Building Competency for Vulnerable Populations
Serving the Migrant Population
Building Resilience: Turning ACEs into PACEs and the Study Hope
Balancing Compassion and Accountability in Supervision
Peer Work Force Development and the Importance of Peer Specialists
...and more
Keynote Speaker
Albert Townsend
Director Of Lived Experience & Innovation,
National Alliance to End Homelessness
Helen Martin Scholarship Recipients
Vincent Grauso, Skylar Hayes, Kimberlie Gittens, Hunter Tashjian, Crystal Rye
Leonard I. Saltzman Unsung Hero Award Recipients
Judge Fern Fisher and Porsh
Lifetime Achievement Award
Thomas Ronayne
Director, Suffolk County Veteran Services
Thank You to our Sponsors
As a sponsor of the Keys Conference, you help us achieve our goal of ending homelessness on Long Island while increasing brand awareness and positioning yourself as a leader in our community!
34th Annual Keys Conference
TAKING WHOLE HEALTH TO THE FOREFRONT An Inclusive Conference of Caregiving for Clients, Employees, and Ourselves
Friday, December 9, 2022
8:30am-4pm
St. Joseph’s University
Workshop Topics
Yourself and Others: Understanding and Managing Grief
A Trauma-Informed Approach Through Peer Support
Elder Abuse and the Adult Caregiver
Words Matter: Addressing Stigma in the Helping Professions
Rethinking Self-Care: Mindfulness and Health
Introduction to Genograms
Beyond Burnout: Cultivating Staff Resilience
...and more
Keynote Speaker
Alicka Ampry-Samuel
Regional Administrator for Region II,
US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Helen Martin Scholarship Recipients
Alicia Baldridge, Aaliyah Thompson, Chelsea Holmes, Dom Nickson, Matthew Buckley
Leonard I. Saltzman Unsung Hero Award Recipients
Richard Babbino and Linda Sherlock-Reich
Key of Excellence Award
Connie Bruno
Director of Section 8 Programs,
NYS Homes & Community Renewal
Thank You to our Sponsors
As a sponsor of the Keys Conference, you help us achieve our goal of ending homelessness on Long Island while increasing brand awareness and positioning yourself as a leader in our community!
33rd Annual Keys Conference
#StopInequity:
Challenges Opportunities Resilience and Equity for Homelessness
November 10, 2021
9:00am-3:30pm
Virtual Conference
Workshop Topics
Landlord/Tenant Law, Evictions and the Covid-19 Pandemic
Combating Homelessness for Veterans with Less-Than-Honorable Discharges
With Challenge Comes Opportunity: How We Have Adapted Our Homeless Response and Used COVID Resources to Better Address Local Needs
Compassionate Interventions for People Experiencing Homelessness with Animals
Redesigning the Front Door of Shelter to Decrease the Trauma Associated with Homeless and Increase Social Inclusion, Employment & Housing
Putting Homeless Youth to Work
Effectively Accessing Mainstream Benefits in a Virtual World
...and more
Keynote Speaker
Norman A. Suchar
Director of HUD's Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs,
US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Helen Martin Scholarship Recipients
Deshanti Dortch, Brini Duran, Vera Pagett, Bejewel Muckle, Denise Akabey
Leonard I. Saltzman Unsung Hero Award Recipients
Muriel Erdmann and Siran O'Connor
Key of Excellence Award
Dr. Debbie Salas-Lopez
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Senior Vice President, Community and Population Health Northwell Health Professor, Medicine
