Ensuring Racial Equity During the COVID-19 Homelessness Response

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Early data suggests the COVID-19 pandemic is hitting Black communities particularly hard in the U.S. COVID-19 has exposed glaring health disparities across locales, bringing racial inequity into vivid focus. The subject of this webinar will be on the homelessness system’s response to the intersection of COVID-19 and racial disparities.

Topics to be covered in the webinar include: racial disparities and health inequity, centering racial equity as a response to COVID-19 in the homelessness system, organizational inequity, and systems change.

Moderator:

• Pascale Leone, Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at CSH

Speakers:

• Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellum, President and CEO of St. Joseph Center
• Melissa Haley, Director of Supportive Services at Volunteers of America Southeast Louisiana.