All In: Addressing Homelessness in Lane County
Time: Noon to 1:15 pm
Venue: Carlita's Restaurant in the Gordon Hotel
555 Oak Street
Eugene, Oregon
97401
Please note the location of this program: Carlita's at the Gordon Hotel. A taco bar will be available for purchase. Ask a question of the speakers! cityclubofeugene@gmail.com
Topic:
On January 10, 2023, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek issued an Emergency Declaration Due to Homelessness. Efforts related to the Emergency Declaration are coordinated under the All In Oregon program. Lane County received over $15 million from the program. The All In lead committee for Lane County is the Multi-Agency Coordinating group (MAC). It was created to provide strategic coordination among agencies in Lane County. Thus far, All In Lane County has prevented 795 households from becoming homeless, moved 200 households from a state of being unsheltered into permanent housing, and created or improved 294 emergency shelter beds.
Panelists Kate Budd and Terri Hsieh will describe how All In works in our community and provide details about its impact.
Speakers
Title: Manager, Human Services Division
Organization: Lane County Dept. of Health & Human Services
Website: https://www.lanecounty.org/government/county_departments/health_and_human_services/human_services_division/about_us_-_h_s_d
Biography:
Kate Budd is the manager of the Human Services Division in the Lane County Department of Health and Human Services. She oversees the Veteran, Workforce, Community Action, and Homelessness Programs. She has worked in the housing/homelessness field for more than 20 years.
Before coming to Lane County, she worked in Clark County, Washington, as the Executive Director of the Council for the Homeless and as the Homeless Program Coordinator for Clark County Community Services. Kate earned her Masters of Social Work at Eastern Washington University and served with AmeriCorps for two years in the Forest Grove and Beaverton School Districts.
Title: Street Outreach Manager
Organization: HIV Alliance
Website: https://hivalliance.org/staff/terri-hsieh/
Biography:
Terri Hsieh spent a lot of their career working with individuals in the carceral system, working on re-entry programs and advocacy for improved prison conditions and facilitating workshops. In Lane County, they worked at Sponsors as a Housing Liaison, before going to the HIV Alliance as a Ryan White Case Manager for clients in Marion County. They have been the Street Outreach Manager at HIV Alliance since May 2022 and also currently participate as the Direct Service Representative on Lane County’s Poverty and Homelessness Board.
They graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in sociology and gender studies.
