“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” - Maya Angelou | | |
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Official Detroit CoC
Newsletter
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If you live in Detroit, Hamtramck, or Highland Park and are experiencing homelessness, please call CAM at (313) 305-0311. Intake is call-in only.
CAM Operating hours: Monday through Friday, 8AM - 6PM
For regular CAM updates, subscribe to the CAM newsletter here.
Visit the new CAM website.
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Due to limited availability, some shelters are not accepting walk-ins overnight. Please call CAM Monday - Friday between 8 am - 6 pm to speak to someone who can advise on shelter availability and/or other options. Please note that available shelter beds are limited and change daily. Please call CAM during open hours to get the latest information.
For more information, visit camdetroit.org
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2024 Detroit CoC Board Election Update | |
- If you are applying to be a board member, those applications are due October 25th.
- If you have been nominated and haven't filled out an application, please use this form to do so.
- Elections will be held November 21st at our General membership meeting. More information available here.
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The next Detroit CoC Board Meeting is November 6, 2023. Register here. | |
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Source of Income Protection Bill Passes Michigan Senate!
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From Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit:
"The Michigan Senate, by a narrow 20-18 vote, passed Senate Bills 205, 206, and 207 to bring long awaited source of income protection to Michigan.*
Senate Bill 207 will amend the Michigan Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act to include source of income protection. The bill broadly defines source of income to include “benefits or subsidy programs 21 including housing assistance, housing choice vouchers provided 22 under 42 USC 1437f, public assistance, veterans' benefits, Social 23 Security, supplemental security income or other retirement 24 programs, and other programs administered by any federal, state, 25 local, or nonprofit entity.” As the Senate Fiscal Agency’s Bill Analysis points out, “[t]he Housing Choice Program is a Federal Program meant to assist very low-income families, elderly, and disabled individuals in affording housing.”
Read more on the Fair Housing Center's website.
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CAM Community Forum
November 3, 2023 | 11 AM - 3 PM
Location: Focus:HOPE
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Thank you to our CAM Community Forum partners! | |
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The CAM Community Forum is just around the corner! Please join us at our forum and resource fair taking place November 3rd at Focus: HOPE. Guests will receive real-time connections to supports, help troubleshoot navigating the homeless service system, and presentations on the recent CAM Transition. Refreshments are provided.
For more information and to register for the event, visit HAND's website.
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If you haven't already, make sure to check out the new CAM website. | |
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NLIHC’s Housing Policy Forum 2024:
An Unwavering Path Forward to Housing Justice
March 18-20
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NLIHC’s Housing Policy Forum 2024: An Unwavering Path Forward to Housing Justice will commemorate the 50-year anniversary of NLIHC by celebrating our organization’s history, achievements, and partners, while renewing our commitment to solving the nation’s housing and homelessness crisis.
The 2024 Forum will give attendees the chance to engage with and learn from thought leaders, policy experts, researchers, tenant advocates, affordable housing practitioners, and members of Congress about how to end the housing crisis impacting low-income renters in America.
| Check NLIHC's website regularly for registration information. |
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Intermediate Motivational Interviewing
for Homeless Service Providers
Monday, November 6, 2023 | 11:30 am -3:30 pm
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
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Join Tiffany Turner, MSW, as she helps participants build on their foundational Motivational Interviewing (MI) skills through an increased understanding and application of the MI Spirit, strategic reflections to evoke change talk, and the practice of engagement, focusing, and evocation strategies in conversations.
This training is geared toward those who have taken Motivational Interviewing 101 (MCAH provided one in Livonia, MI, and Sidney, MI, this year) or similar training and have foundational knowledge of Motivational Interviewing.
Members: $75.00
Members can contact Allison Green, agreen@mihomeless.org for a coupon code.
Non-Members: $90.00
Register here.
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Social Work Ethics and Pain Management Training | |
November 14, 2023 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location: Okemos, MI
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Join the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence (MCEDSV) for a training that fulfils all required Social Work Ethics and Pain Management CEUs. After this training, participants will be able to understand ethical decision-making in a survivor-centered, trauma-informed lens. This training will focus on the cooccurrence of drug addiction, domestic violence and pay management and work toward a new understanding of what it means to “have drug seeking behavior” in the context of trauma. Available for Continuing Education Units (CEU) for Social Work.
Audience: The main audience is social workers, but is open to all.
CEUs for Social Work: $25.00
Registration: $100.00
You can more information on MCEDSV's website.
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The Power of Art
October 26 | 4 PM EST
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Storytelling is a key part of narrative change and stories come in many formats. Join the Housing Narrative Lab for our next webinar exploring a range of creative storytelling approaches about homelessness and housing, featuring a diverse panel of artists. We’ll discuss their goals and how they think about representing homelessness and unstable housing with care and compassion.
Find more information here.
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"VAWA 2022" Foundations for CoC and ESG Webinar Series:
Understanding VAWA
Prerecorded
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This HUD-sponsored three-part webinar series for the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 ("VAWA 2022") increases the capacity and knowledge of Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) and Continuum of Care (CoC) housing and homeless services providers about housing protections for survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in homeless services systems. The series features technical assistance providers, policy experts, and community leaders to showcase both requirements and best practices around VAWA implementation.
More information and the full series can be found on the HUD Exchange's website.
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SchoolHouse Connection’s Youth Leadership and Scholarship Program - For more information and to apply, please visit this link.
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Connect 4 Kids Childcare Locator - Go to United Way's website for more information.
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Detroit at Work Jumpstart Program - Learn more at Detroit at Work's website.
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Alternatives for Girls
Position: PSH Case Planner
Job Description: Using a Housing First approach, the Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Case Planner for Dr. Maya Angelou Village will provide in-house, intensive case management and support services to DMAV tenants and clients, targeting participants between the ages of 18-24, both singles and families. They will provide case management and mentoring services to program participants and their family to help them obtain and sustain permanent housing. CP will conduct intakes, recertifications and new tenant orientation to ensure continued eligibility for the program. CP will provide assistance in obtaining and maintaining eligibility for housing choice vouchers. They will also connect participants with community resources and supports. More information can be found by following the link.
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Homeless Awareness Month 2024 - Register your event to be shared in MCAH's public Homeless Awareness Month calendar
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