Photo courtesy of Los Angeles Poverty Department
LOS ANGELES—Part of the exhibit, Welcome to the Covid Hotel, The Los Angeles Poverty Department is hosting several panel discussions exploring housing as a human right. Join the panel on Thursday, April 11, Housing is Healthcare, Part 1.
The conversation is intended to highlight the experiences of frontline workers involved with LA County’s Quarantine and Isolation (QI) sites during the COVID-19 pandemic and to explore lessons learned about how to expeditiously place and maintain homeless individuals successfully in housing. Key topics will include housing placement and retention strategies, Housing First successes and failures, anticipating post-placement challenges, the role of permanent supportive housing on the housing continuum, best practices for ongoing support, and markers of successful transition, including measurement criteria and anticipatory strategies.
Panelists are: Heidi Behforouz, MD Chief Medical Officer, Housing For Health, LA County Department of Health Services, Angi Enriquez, RN, PHN, Permanent Supportive Housing Supervisor, Housing For Health LA County Department of Health Services, and Steve Diaz, Skid Row activist. Moderated by Clancey Cornell, a clinical social worker and member of LAPD’s archive staff whose interviews are featured in the exhibition.
When: Thursday, April 11, 6-8 pm
Where: Skid Row History Museum & Archive, Los Angeles, CA
About the exhibit:
Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) is pleased to announce the opening of its new Skid Row History Museum & Archive exhibition, Welcome to the Covid Hotel.
Welcome to the Covid Hotel reveals the exceptional innovations and successes of a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals who ran LA County Health Department’s emergency Quarantine and Isolation sites for houseless Covid patients and people exposed to the virus in shelters.
Exhibit
March 9-December 14, 2024
Thursdays-Saturdays, 2-5pm
For information, contact info@lapovertydept.org or visit the website.
Los Angeles Poverty Department is a multi-disciplinary arts organization that produces and presents artworks and events that instaniate the existence of the Skid Row community—affirming its assets, advocating for its rights, and supporting its aspirations.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.
