Stable Housing Sustains Workforce Development IV

Forgotten and Overlooked—Young and Older Adults

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

9:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Business Solutions Center

1435 Cincinnati St., Suite 300

Dayton, OH 45417

See the location of Business Solutions Center on Google Maps.

Lunch Included

The Montgomery County Office of Reentry—through its Reentry Council Housing Subcommittee—is hosting a free housing workshop for service providers, social workers, and landlords to give them tools to better house at-risk populations in Dayton and surrounding areas.

Come to this free session to earn continuing education (CE)* credit and to learn how to assist citizens returning from incarceration, and gain skills to help these clients break through barriers preventing them from attaining decent housing and prevent homelessness. This year’s theme, “Forgotten and Overlooked—Young and Older Adults” will feature speakers whose profession deals with either or both Older Adults or Younger People who are at risk for homelessness, have a criminal history and are at risk or have mental disabilities and illnesses.

Purpose:
Assist any professional or volunteer whose work intersects with assisting citizens returning from incarceration to gain skills in working with both younger and older people facing housing and job barriers.

Impact Goal of event:
to help these younger and older people break through barriers preventing them from attaining decent housing and jobs and ultimately to prevent homelessness.

Objectives:
Attendees will

Resources for referrals for clients experiencing barriers
Practical strategies to share with clients experiencing barriers
Information about the Offices of Reentry at the local and state levels
Information about programming that exists locally and statewide to assist their clients
*3 Clock Hours for Licensees with the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board (pending).

Speakers are professionals from

Montgomery County Office of Reentry
Montgomery County Human Services, Planning & Development
County Corp
Goodwill Easter Seals
Daybreak
Dayton Public Schools, McKinney Vento Program
Montgomery County ADAMHS
Area Agency on Aging.
Miami Valley Housing Opportunities
St. Mary’s Development Corporation (pending)

About the Montgomery County Office of Reentry:

The Montgomery County Office of Reentry works with a variety of community stakeholders to provide programming and services to the men and women who are returning to Montgomery County from incarceration.

The Montgomery County Reentry Collaborative serves as a community education assembly which promotes reentry provider networking, organizational support via resource building, and long-term sustainability through leveraged partnerships.

The collaborative body is comprised of service providers and advocates working cooperatively with the Montgomery County Office of Reentry to promote programs, services, and partnerships that minimize barriers to successful reentry and promote a reduction in recidivism.

We invite agencies, organizations, community partners, and advocates seeking to provide services to returning citizens and their families to contact us today.

Our Mission
Serving the citizens of Montgomery County with programs and services that minimize barriers to effective reentry and promote reduction in recidivism.

Our Motto
Action, Alliance, Accountability.

Administrative Office
1133 S. Edwin C. Moses Blvd, Suite 370
Dayton, Ohio 45417
Hours: Mon-Fri, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. (walk-ins welcome)
Phone: (937) 496-7129
Fax: (937) 225-6426

Reentry Training Center & Computer Lab
1111 S. Edwin C. Moses Blvd., Suite 1175
Dayton, Ohio 45417
Hours: Tues-Thurs (by appointment only)
(937)496-6604