CHAPA Breakfast Forum: Strategies for Breaking the Cycle of Poverty

On July 26, 2017, CHAPA sponsored a breakfast forum, "Strategies for Breaking the Cycle of Poverty", exploring three programs that have helped families increase their incomes: The Secure Jobs Initiative; EMPath's Intergenerational Mobility Project; and Compass Working Capital's innovations in the HUD Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) program. 

Moderator: Soni Gupta, Executive Director, Home Funders

Speakers include:

• Jeffrey Lubell, Principal Associate and Director of Housing and Community Initiatives, Social & Economic Policy, Abt Associates
• Sherry Riva, Executive Director and Founder, Compass Working Capital
• Sandy Guerrier, Direct Service Provider and Family/Youth Stability Advocate
• Nicki Ruiz de Luzuriaga, Associate Vice President of Mobility Mentoring Specialties & Capacity Building, Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath)
• Tatjana Meschede, Associate Director, Institute on Assets and Social Policy, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
• Patricia Belden, President, POAH Communities
• Robert Rodriguez, Secure Jobs Participant
• Ashley Brehm, Vice President Housing Stabilization Programs, Way Finders

Materials:

• Making $50,000 a Year and Barely Getting By in Boston – Sandy Guerrier https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2017/02/23/making-year-and-still-barely-getting-boston/Le8L10qNaoMmJoRKYvpMeL/story.html
• Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) Program - Overview
  • The Family Self-Sufficiency Program: A Promising, Low-Cost Vehicle to Promote Savings and Asset Building for Recipients of Federal Housing Assistance (2005) Cramer and Lubell http://community-wealth.org/content/family-self-sufficiency-program-promising-low-cost-vehicle-promote-savings-and-asset
  • Asset-Oriented Rental Assistance - Next Generation Reforms for HUD's FSS Program (2013) https://www.newamerica.org/asset-building/policy-papers/asset-oriented-rental-assistance/
• Compass Working Capital FSS Programs
  • Integrating Asset Building and Financial Capability Strategies into Subsidized Housing Programs: The Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program and Beyond, A National Roundtable, hosted by Compass Working Capital November 19, 2015, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Reflections on the Experience of Launching an Asset Building and Financial Capability Model for the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program
• Multifamily FSS
  • HUD Multifamily Program: Background and Guidebook https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/multifamily-fss/
  • FSS Proposed Legislation https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s1344/BILLS-115s1344is.pdfand bill summary by Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) http://www.poah.org/news/poah-applauds-senate-sponsors-family-self-sufficiency-act
• More background on FSS
  • Fact Sheet: Family Self-Sufficiency Program, HUD, February 2016 https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=FSSFactSheet_Feb2016.pdf
  • HUD FSS Resource Library (webpage) https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/fss/#1-introduction
  • HUD FSS Program Guidebook for PHAs (2017) https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/FSS-Program-Guidebook.pdf
  • FSS funding trends http://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/AG-2017/2017AG_Ch05-S05_HUD-Funded-Service-Coordination-Programs.pdf
  • Massachusetts PHAs receiving FSS Funding
• Secure Jobs Initiative (SJI)
  • Secure Jobs, Secure Homes, Secure Families: Final Report for Massachusetts’ Secure Jobs Initiative Tatjana Meschede Sara Chaganti Erika Krajcovicova (2017), Institute on Assets and Social Policy (IASP), Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
  • Link to 6 earlier reports on Secure Jobs by IASP http://iasp.brandeis.edu/research/housing/securejobs.html
• Economic Mobility Pathways (Empath) Programs and Model
  • How Poverty Changes the Brain, The Atlantic, April 19, 2017 https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/04/can-brain-science-pull-families-out-of-poverty/523479/
  • Coaching for Economic Mobility, Nicki Ruiz De Luzuriaga, October 2015 http://s3.amazonaws.com/empath-website/pdf/Research-CoachingForEconomicMobility-1015.pdf
  • Families Disrupting the Cycle of Poverty: Coaching with an Intergenerational Lens, Elizabeth Babcock and Nicki Ruiz De Luzuriaga, October 2016 http://s3.amazonaws.com/empath-website/pdf/EMPath-Families_Disrupting_the_Cycle_of_Poverty-Intergen-7-12-16.pdf
• Other Two Generations models: Housing Opportunities and Services Together (HOST) Demonstration – http://www.urban.org/policy-centers/metropolitan-housing-and-communities-policy-center/projects/housing-opportunities-and-services-together
  • A Theoretical Framework for Two-Generation Models: Lessons from the HOST Demonstration, Molly M. Scott, Susan J. Popkin, Jasmine Simington, January 15, 2015, Urban Institute http://www.urban.org/research/publication/theoretical-framework-two-generation-models
  • Making a Two-Generation Model Work in the Real World: Lessons from the HOST Demonstration, Molly M. Scott, Susan J. Popkin, Priya Saxena, January 14, 2016 http://www.urban.org/research/publication/making-two-generation-model-work-real-world

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Thank you to our generous 50th anniversary sponsors!