2024 Inclusive Housing Summit: Building for an Inclusive Future

November 4, 2024 @ 8:00AM — 4:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar

The Friday Conference Center: 100 Friday Center Dr Chapel Hill, NC 27517 Get Directions

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Join us for HOPE NC's Third Annual Inclusive Housing Summit

The objective of the Inclusive Housing Summit is to explore models of inclusive living for all ages and abilities and advocate for their development and funding in North Carolina. This year we will be exploring how the built environment can either enable or disable and how to create communities where everyone can be as independent as possible for as long as possible. Great topics for housing developers, aging and disability professionals, state and local leaders and people with lived experience! Join us!

Our keynote speaker is Esther Greenhouse, CEO of Silver to Gold Consulting. She is a visionary working on solutions at the intersection of societal problems, aging, disability, and design for 30 years. Esther works with organizations to reduce preventable long term care and caregiving needs and costs with the goals of enabling people to be as physically and financially independent as possible today--and as they age.

Breakout sessions will be presented by local and national builders, finance experts and non-profits who will provide the insight into how to create equitable and inclusive housing. See website for full breakout session details.

Summit agenda:

8-9am Registration/Breakfast/Visit Exhibit Hall

9--9:40am Welcome/HOPE NC Updates

Laura Wells, Collin Flake and Karen Oldoni from HOPE NC and residents from North Street and Grosvenor Gardens

9:40--10:55 Keynote: Housing & Communities that Enable People to THRIVE: A Vision for a New Reality

Esther Greenhouse, M.S., CAPS

CEO, Silver to Gold Consulting

10:55-11:05 Break

11:05 -12:20 Morning Breakout sessions

Session A: Housing Collaborations: Two successful examples of how housing developers have been able to build inclusive housing in partnership with nonprofits

Alaina Garmand and Rebecca McAdoo of Garman Homes of NC

Irrin Suvanasai, VP of Resident Services, Wesley Housing of VA

Session B: Older Adults and Housing–Are the Current Options Enough? Kathryn Mackey, OTD and Ryan Lavalley, Assistant Professor of Occupational Science and Medicine UNC-CH

Session C: Lessons North Carolina Can Learn From Inclusive Housing Success in Pennsylvania’s Interagency Collaboration. Marian Frattarola-Saulino and Pam Zotynia, Values Into Action of PA

Session D: What Does the Samantha R. Settlement Mean for Housing Opportunities in NC?

Kelly Crosbie, Director of DMH/DD/SUS at DHHS and Corey Dunn, Director of Public Policy at DRNC

12:20-1:20 Lunch/Networking–Visit Exhibit Hall

1:20-2:00 Collective Impact–What is it and how is it working in NC?

Kevin Giff, UNC-CH Community Partners Lab and HOPE NC Collective Impact Coordinator, Ann Oshel, Senior VP Alliance Health and Linda Kendall-Fields, Director, UNC Cares of UNC-CH School of Social Work

2:00-2:15 Break

2:15-3:30 Afternoon Breakout sessions (same as Morning Sessions)

3:35--4:00 Where do we go with Inclusive Housing in NC?

Disability Advocates from the NCCDD council