2021 HOUSING FIRST! A VIrtual conference

thank you for attending the first hfpc virtual event!

April 20 & 21, 2021
Presented by DESC and Pathways Housing First

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The 2021 virtual conference was an overwhelming success, attracting over 1300 attendees. We hope you found your participation both valuable and rewarding, and that you had the opportunity to virtually make new friends, renew old acquaintances and to have discussion and exchange of many experiences, suggestions and opinions with other attendees.

A special thank you goes out to those attendees from outside the US for participating in our international conference! Countries represented include: Australia, Canada, Ireland, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States.

HFPC depends on the generosity and support of partners and sponsors. We are very grateful to them for their continued support of the Housing First Partners Conference.

2012 & 2014 Conference Highlights

HFPC in 2012 and 2014 attracted service providers in the field of homelessness from around the country and the world. Thought leaders and policy experts gave keynotes. Attendees engaged in an impassioned dialogue about the many facets of Housing First policy and practice, furthering our collective mission of ending homelessness.  Above video provides a brief glimpse of the first Housing First Partners Conference of Spring 2012.

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2016 Taking Housing First to Scale

HFPC 2016: Taking Housing First to Scale held in Los Angeles on March 22-25, 2016 was an overwhelming success, attracting over 800 attendees and 160 presentations. Thought leaders and policy experts gave inspiring, informative and engaging keynotes and presentations. Attendees engaged in an impassioned dialogue about the many facets of Housing First and what it means to take Housing First to scale. HFPC 2016 furthers the conversation about the interpretation and implementation of the Housing First model as a Best Practice in ending homelessness, especially chronic homelessness.

2018 Assuring Program Integrity in a Changing Environment

HFPC 2018: Assuring Program Integrity in a Changing Environment held in Denver, Colorado on April 9-12, 2018 was an overwhelming success, attracting over 800 attendees and 165+ presentations focused on how the principles and values of Housing First are useful in guiding a consistent approach to program practice, even as populations served and locations expand, and assuring that Housing First remains a person-centered and consumer-driven intervention. Thought leaders and policy experts gave inspiring, informative and engaging keynotes and presentations.