Mission Impossible?
Solving Chronic Homelessness
The Hard Questions About Chronic Homelessness, Services, Funding and Outcomes
Please purchase tickets by Sunday, November 15, 6:00pm, here.
In Bellingham and Whatcom County, we have invested significant public resources in housing, shelter, behavioral health, outreach, and other services aimed at addressing homelessness. Yet chronic homelessness remains a persistent and highly visible challenge in our community. Why? Are our resources reaching the people and problems that need them most? Are gaps in housing, behavioral health, addiction treatment, and coordination limiting our progress? And are there difficult realities about chronic homelessness that our current system struggles to address? This candid panel brings together local perspectives to examine what is—and isn’t—working, and what it will take to create meaningful, lasting change.
Moderator: Heather Flaherty, Executive Director, Chuckanut Health Foundation.
Panelists:
- Housing: Doug Gustafson, Director of Homes NOW
- Services: Teri Bryant, Homeless Service Director, Opportunity Council
- City of Bellingham: Jason Korneliussen, Strategic Initiatives Manager/Human Services
- Whatcom County: Malora Christenson, Whatcom County Health and Community Services