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title: "From Our Partners: Register for the Engaging the Disability Community in Fair Housing Planning Webinar Series – April 27-28, 2022"
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published_at: "2022-04-27T11:36:31+00:00"
modified_at: "2022-04-27T11:40:53+00:00"
url: "https://tchcsc.org/2022/from-our-partners-register-for-the-engaging-the-disability-community-in-fair-housing-planning-webinar-series-april-27-28-2022/"
excerpt: "From Our Partners: Register for the Engaging the Disability Community in Fair Housing Planning Webinar Series – April 27-28, 2022 Part I: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing for Individuals with Disabilities […]"
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| \| \\| From Our Partners: Register for the Engaging the Disability Community in Fair Housing Planning Webinar Series – April 27-28, 2022 \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| |
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| \| \\| \\\| #### Part I: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing for Individuals with Disabilities April 27, 2022 – 3:30 – 4:30 PM EDT #### Part II: Best Practices in Engaging the Disability Community in Fair Housing Planning April 28, 2022 – 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM EDT \\\| \\\| --- \\\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| \| \\| This webinar series is designed to educate disability stakeholders and fair housing partners on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) and community engagement throughout the fair housing planning process. These webinars will be sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD), Office of Fair Housing & Equal Opportunity (FHEO), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Community Living (ACL). Participants will learn how to best affirmatively further fair housing to support individuals with disabilities and engage them in the fair housing planning process. [Register today!](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_5926498411212642452_Registration) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| \| \\| ## Agenda and Speakers \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| \| \\| #### Part I: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing for Individuals with Disabilities - History of the Fair Housing Act and context for the requirement to “affirmatively further fair housing” - Best practices for fair housing planning that considers the needs of individuals with disabilities - Overview of effective community participation that involves individuals with disabilities and their stakeholders \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| \| \\| **Demetria McCain** Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (HUD, FHEO) \\| \\| --- \\| \\| **Alison Barkoff** Acting Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging (HHS, ACL) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| \| \\| **Sarale Sewell** Program Analyst, Policy & Legislative Initiatives Division (HUD, FHEO) \\| \\| --- \\| \\| **Joshua Gillerman** Disability Law & Fair Housing Attorney, Fair Housing Compliance Division (HUD, OGC) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| \| \\| \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| \| \\| #### Part II: Best Practices for Engaging the Disability Community in Fair Housing Planning - A brief synopsis of Part I Webinar: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing for Individuals with Disabilities - Principles of community engagement with the disability community - Best practices for community engagement throughout the fair housing planning process - Engaging stakeholders in fair housing planning – Questions and data gathering \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| \| \\| **Sarale Sewell** Program Analyst, Policy & Legislative Initiatives Division (HUD, FHEO) \\| \\| --- \\| \\| **Daniel Davis** Policy Analyst (HHS, ACL) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| \| \\| **Micaela Connery** CEO/Co-Founder The Kelsey \\| \\| --- \\| \\| **Fatimah Aure** Director of Field & Capacity Building The Kelsey \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| \| \\| **Leslie Dara Baldwin** Director of National Policy Center for Disability Rights \\| \\| --- \\| \\| **Cashauna Hill** Executive Director Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| \| \\| ## Who Should Attend? - HUD grantees, including representatives of entitlement communities, participating jurisdictions (PJs), and public housing authorities (PHAs), who are responsible for producing fair housing documents - Individuals with disabilities, their caregivers, and their stakeholders \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| \| \\| ## Schedule and Registration \\\| **Session Title** \\\| **Dates and Times** \\\| **Registration** \\\| \\\| --- \\\| --- \\\| --- \\\| \\\| Part I: AFFH for Individuals with Disabilities \\\| April 27, 2022 3:30 PM EDT \\\| [Register Now](https://hudexchange.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=87d7c8afc03ba69ee70d865b9&id=7b083c6e2e&e=ae5fdc3d29) \\\| \\\| Part II: Community Engagement Best Practices \\\| April 28, 2022 11:30 AM EDT \\\| [Register Now](https://hudexchange.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=87d7c8afc03ba69ee70d865b9&id=b59e0fd19f&e=ae5fdc3d29) \\\| **You must have a HUD Exchange account to register**. Follow these [instructions for registering](https://hudexchange.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=87d7c8afc03ba69ee70d865b9&id=a62e00963a&e=ae5fdc3d29). \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| \| \\| ## Additional Information and Resources - [ACL page](https://hudexchange.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=87d7c8afc03ba69ee70d865b9&id=39b981ae50&e=ae5fdc3d29) - [FHEO page](https://hudexchange.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=87d7c8afc03ba69ee70d865b9&id=eeffba7e3c&e=ae5fdc3d29) - [FHEO Disability page](https://hudexchange.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=87d7c8afc03ba69ee70d865b9&id=8bc6a43630&e=ae5fdc3d29) - [AFFH page](https://hudexchange.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=87d7c8afc03ba69ee70d865b9&id=bc7a6d606f&e=ae5fdc3d29) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| \| \\| ## Disability Access and Reasonable Accommodation Request(s) Webinars will meet 508 compliance standards. HUD will provide interpretation services for American Sign Language (ASL) and Communication Access Real Time Translation (CART) speech-to-text (also referred to as real-time captioning). Please contact [https://tchcsc.org/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5f393e362d37302a2c3631381f3e3d2b3e2c2c303c363e2b3a2c713c3032](https://tchcsc.org/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5f393e362d37302a2c3631381f3e3d2b3e2c2c303c363e2b3a2c713c3032)[\[email protected\]](https://tchcsc.org/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7b1d1a120913140e0812151c3b1a190f1a08081418121a0f1e0855181416) by April 25, 2022, at 11:59 PM EDT for specific reasonable accommodation requests. \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| \| \\| ## Training Point of Contact For more information, please contact: [https://tchcsc.org/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3157505843595e4442585f56715053455042425e5258504554421f525e5c](https://tchcsc.org/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3157505843595e4442585f56715053455042425e5258504554421f525e5c)[\[email protected\]](https://tchcsc.org/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6402050d160c0b11170d0a03240506100517170b070d051001174a070b09) \\| \\| --- \\| \| \| --- \| |

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