Available Workshops

The HRC offers a variety of workshops that teach consumers, their families, and support staff how to prepare, search for, and maintain permanent housing. Housing is far more than securing the security deposit, but a life long understanding on how to maintain an apartment or home. The workshops are a chance to learn in depth housing information.

Workshops

1. Housing Readiness: What does it mean to be housing ready? What is the difference between Housing Ready and Housing First? How does a person prepare for housing? How can a person break the pattern of evictions? All these questions and more are answered in this workshop.
2. How to Create a Housing Goal: An individual can not prepare for housing without a strong housing goal. A goal is matched to the person's needs, desires, and dreams with the focus on both mental health and housing.
3. Person Centered Planning (PCP): Persons with a disability have the right to plan their life. PCP helps people do just that with support from family, friends, and the community. Learn what PCP is and how it works.
4. Subsidized Housing: This workshop defines the Choice Voucher (Section 8), how it works, what happens once a person is on a wait list, and how to maintain and keep your voucher. The training also explains Public Housing and other forms of subsidized housing.
5. Landlord/Tenant Relationship: The strongest support a consumer can have in the community is the landlord. Once an honest and strong relationship is built, the landlord will often work with the tenant to prevent an eviction. Learn how to build that relationship and understand the eviction process.
6. Leaving Residential for Independent Housing: A group home was initially designed for a person to learn daily living skills to prepare an individual for independent living. This workshop will teach consumers, families, and providers what practical skills are necessary to move into independent housing and how to create housing goals to address the individual's needs.
7. Fair Housing: Fair housing is the law that creates fair and equal housing for all peoples. Find out how the law applies and the history of why Fair Housing was created and how you can benefit from it.
8. Finances, Budgeting, and Credit Repair: This workshop will help you understand budgeting, how to budget your money and how credit affects both your housing and employment. The workshop will give you immediate tools to begin your credit repair and/or create a budget.
9. Landlord/Tenant Law: Are you aware of the landlord/tenant law? Do you understand your responsibility as a tenant? The landlord's responsibility? Learn how to be successful in your housing by understand both landlord and tenant responsibility.
10. Locating, Assessing, and Securing Housing in the Community: How do you find the right housing for you? By asking the right questions. This workshop will teach you the process of finding the right apartment or house for you and/or your family. Learn how to ask the right questions; how to approach a landlord; where to find the security deposit, and much more.