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36th Annual Keys for the Homeless Conference

Theme: Shifting the Narratives: Doing What’s Right and What Works
Date: Thursday, December 19, 2024
Time: 8:30am-4:30pm
Location: Marriott Melville Long Island, 1350 Walt Whitman Rd, Melville, NY 11747 

Key Conference Workshops

  • Best Practices in Person-Centered Housing Focused Case Management

  • Cultivating Resilience and Self-Compassion: Supporting Ourselves and Others in Uncertain Times

  • Challenges and considerations in diabetes care for people facing homelessness

  • Fighting for Immigrants’ Access to Shelter and Other Social Services

  • Combatting the Nation’s Migrant Housing Crisis on the Frontlines: Community Integrated Health Solutions to Migrant Homelessness

  • Preventing Burnout: Realistic Self-Care for the Helping Professional

  • Redefining Affordability: Changing the Narrative on Housing in the Suburbs.

  • Transformation from the inside out: Using a rights-based approach to reimagine services for our unsheltered neighbors

  • The Trauma-Homelessness Cycle: Breaking the Barriers

  • Creating a Wellness Program for Staff and Guests

  • Human Trafficking

Sponsorship Opportunities

Sponsorships are due November 19, 2024. Sponsorship includes registration for your organization's representatives and other perks.

Workshops,

TBA

Workshop proposals are due October 15. Nominations for the Unsung Hero Award are due October 18. Download the forms below to learn more and submit!

The 2024 Helen Martin Scholarship

Was due on June 7th, 2024. Click the button to download the scholarship application and requirements.

Previous Key Converences

35th Annual Keys for the Homeless Conference

LESS TALKING, MORE LISTENING:
Centering People With Lived Experience to Solve Homelessness

Wednesday, October 18, 2023
8:30am-4pm
St. Joseph’s University

Workshop Topics


Persons with Lived Experience Plenary

Library Social Work: A Collaborative Community Approach to Expanding Ser-vices to Unsheltered Individuals

Financial Literacy: Building Competency for Vulnerable Populations

Serving the Migrant Population

Building Resilience: Turning ACEs into PACEs and the Study Hope

Balancing Compassion and Accountability in Supervision

Peer Work Force Development and the Importance of Peer Specialists

...and more

Keynote Speaker


Albert Townsend
Director Of Lived Experience & Innovation,
National Alliance to End Homelessness
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Helen Martin Scholarship Recipients
Vincent Grauso, Skylar Hayes, Kimberlie Gittens, Hunter Tashjian, Crystal Rye

 

Leonard I. Saltzman Unsung Hero Award Recipients

Judge Fern Fisher and Porsh

 

Lifetime Achievement Award

Thomas Ronayne

Director, Suffolk County Veteran Services

Thank You to our Sponsors

As a sponsor of the Keys Conference, you help us achieve our goal of ending homelessness on Long Island while increasing brand awareness and positioning yourself as a leader in our community!

34th Annual Keys Conference

TAKING WHOLE HEALTH TO THE FOREFRONT An Inclusive Conference of Caregiving for Clients, Employees, and Ourselves

Friday, December 9, 2022
8:30am-4pm
St. Joseph’s University

Workshop Topics

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Yourself and Others: Understanding and Managing Grief

A Trauma-Informed Approach Through Peer Support

Elder Abuse and the Adult Caregiver

Words Matter: Addressing Stigma in the Helping Professions

Rethinking Self-Care: Mindfulness and Health

Introduction to Genograms

Beyond Burnout: Cultivating Staff Resilience

...and more

Keynote Speaker

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Alicka Ampry-Samuel
Regional Administrator for Region II,
US Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Helen Martin Scholarship Recipients
Alicia Baldridge, Aaliyah Thompson, Chelsea Holmes, Dom Nickson, Matthew Buckley
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Leonard I. Saltzman Unsung Hero Award Recipients
Richard Babbino and Linda Sherlock-Reich
 
Key of Excellence Award
Connie Bruno
Director of Section 8 Programs,
NYS Homes & Community Renewal

Thank You to our Sponsors

As a sponsor of the Keys Conference, you help us achieve our goal of ending homelessness on Long Island while increasing brand awareness and positioning yourself as a leader in our community!

33rd Annual Keys Conference

#StopInequity:
Challenges Opportunities Resilience and Equity for Homelessness

November 10, 2021
9:00am-3:30pm 
Virtual Conference

Workshop Topics

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Landlord/Tenant Law, Evictions and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Combating Homelessness for Veterans with Less-Than-Honorable Discharges

With Challenge Comes Opportunity: How We Have Adapted Our Homeless Response and Used COVID Resources to Better Address Local Needs

Compassionate Interventions for People Experiencing Homelessness with Animals

Redesigning the Front Door of Shelter to Decrease the Trauma Associated with Homeless and Increase Social Inclusion, Employment & Housing

Putting Homeless Youth to Work

Effectively Accessing Mainstream Benefits in a Virtual World

...and more

Keynote Speaker

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Norman A. Suchar
Director of HUD's Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs,
US Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Helen Martin Scholarship Recipients
Deshanti Dortch, Brini Duran, Vera Pagett, Bejewel Muckle, Denise Akabey
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Leonard I. Saltzman Unsung Hero Award Recipients
Muriel Erdmann and Siran O'Connor
 
Key of Excellence Award
Dr. Debbie Salas-Lopez
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Senior Vice President, Community and Population Health Northwell Health Professor, Medicine

Thank You to our Sponsors

As a sponsor of the Keys Conference, you help us achieve our goal of ending homelessness on Long Island while increasing brand awareness and positioning yourself as a leader in our community!