PORT ANGELES — Shelter Providers Network co-chairs Kim Leach and Cheri Tinker will present the annual Report Card on the Work to End Homelessness on Wednesday.
The report will be part of the annual planning forum, set from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 Lopez Ave.
The theme of the forum is Defining Our Response to Homelessness.
Free public forum
The forum, which will be followed by a panel defining the service network, will be free and open to the public.
It replaces the network meeting originally scheduled for Wednesday.
Registration will begin at 9:30 a.m. Forum presentations will begin at 10 am. and end at 1:30 p.m.
The featured speakers will be Melodie Pazolt, project director of the state Department of Social and Health Services’ Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery, and Jon Brumbach, senior policy analyst for the Washington State Health Care Authority.
They will introduce the state’s new Medicaid transformation waiver which deals with the connection between health and housing.
Consumer needs to be defined
Consumer needs will be defined by people who have come through local homelessness programs.
The forum will conclude with the group defining new directions, setting goals for 2016-17.
Leach is the executive director of Serenity House of Clallam County. Tinker is the executive director of North Olympic Regional Veterans Housing Network.
