Highlights from the HPRI Symposium on American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Homelessness. Watch the full webinar: https://youtu.be/jpvFN9RzbLk The American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Homelessness Symposium will bring together leaders, scholars, and advocates to discuss Indigenous homelessness through the lenses of innovative legal frameworks, human rights, Indigenous conceptions of home/belonging, and transformative systems change. Dr. Andrea Garcia, Mayoral Appointed Commissioner for the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission, will serve as moderator, guiding the event as we explore the unique challenges of Indigenous homelessness within the context of ongoing settler colonialism, and what emerging housing and service approaches are being used to respond to this crisis. The symposium will feature presentations from Dr. Cathy Fournier, who will examine Canada’s definition of Indigenous homelessness and its broader implications in policy and research, and Joseph Berra, who will lead an exploration of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and its connection to housing rights and the LandBack movement. Both of these presentations will be complemented by panel discussions that will center Indigenous experience, highlight culturally informed services to native communities, address the responsibilities of researchers collecting or working with native data, and outline the systems-level changes necessary to respond to intergenerational trauma and health disparities faced by indigenous communities in LA. These conversations will help us build a collective vision of a future in LA where home is more than housing, and encompasses cultural safety and a place where healing can begin.
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In 2009 the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics was established at the University of Southern California (USC) with a generous gift from Leonard and Pamela Schaeffer. The establishment of the Schaeffer Center came at a time that demanded new thinking and new approaches to solving our health and health care challenges. The nation has long sought to better understand and to develop policy to increase access, control spending and improve quality and health outcomes. The passage of Federal health care reform adds a new sense of urgency to these issues and, in addition, raises new questions related to the macro consequences of health spending on the nation's economy and fiscal health. Because health care touches everyone's life and is inextricably linked with the broader economy, addressing health policy issues requires perspectives from different fields of expertise and creative research methods. For this reason, the Schaeffer Center is based on the principle of interdisciplinary research. The Center is the result of a unique collaboration between the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and the USC School of Pharmacy. For the first time, this new Center brings together health policy experts from the School of Public Policy, a seasoned pharmacoeconomics team from the School of Pharmacy, and other affiliated faculty and scholars from across USC and a number of other distinguished universities. The Center is led by Dana Goldman, the Norman Topping Chair in Medicine and Public Policy, at USC. A core faculty of three distinguished colleagues, Darius Lakdawalla, Neeraj Sood, and Geoffrey Joyce, oversee the domestic, international and policy research programs, respectively. The Center is committed to developing exceptional human and technical capacity to conduct interdisciplinary research, policy analysis, and training. The Center's vision is to become a premier research and educational institution recognized for innovative, independent research and significant contributions to policy development and health care system improvement. Its mission is to promote health and value in health care delivery by conducting rigorous research and policy in the United States and internationally. With its extraordinary breadth and depth of expertise, the Center will have a vital impact on the transformation of health care.
The Sol Price Center for Social Innovation develops ideas and social entrepreneurs who will improve the quality of life for people in low-income, urban communities across the globe. - http://socialinnovation.usc.edu/