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We are currently planning our 4th Annual RTFH Conference on Homelessness, taking place December 9–11, 2025 at the San Diego Convention Center. Over the past three years, this conference has become a must-attend event, bringing together 1,000+ attendees from more than 165 organizations, including policy leaders, service providers, healthcare professionals, and individuals with lived experience.
In 2025, we are expanding to three full days, with the opening day dedicated to Continuums of Care (CoCs) across the country, elevating best practices, strengthening national collaboration, and addressing anticipated changes in federal homelessness policy. RTFH is proud to serve as a leader in this space with trusted relationships at the local, state, and federal levels.
Sponsorship plays a critical role in ensuring the accessibility and success of this event. Your support will help keep registration costs low, allowing more frontline workers and community-based organizations to participate. In return, sponsors receive high-visibility recognition and the opportunity to directly engage with key stakeholders across sectors.
Watch the 2024 Conference Recap Video
If you’re ready to join us as a sponsor, you can complete your sponsorship here—or feel free to reach out with any questions or to schedule a time to connect. We’d be honored to have your partnership as we continue advancing real solutions to end homelessness.
Sponsorship Opportunities
We aim to bring together national, state, and local leaders and experts to continue to advance The Regional Community Action Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness in San Diego. We will develop engaging breakout sessions and confirming notable speakers, with an ongoing focus on lived experience. We are committed to making this year’s event even more impactful than before. Hosting an event of this scale requires substantial resources and every contribution will make a significant difference in the success of this conference.
Become a Sponsor of the 2025 RTFH Conference on Homelessness! Sponsorship opportunities can be found here.
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Questions about the conference? Please send them to events@rtfhsd.org
RTFH is dedicated to ensuring people with lived homeless experience are able to attend the conference. Please email events@rtfhsd.org to request a scholarship for this year’s conference. Scholarships are limited and will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis and are only available to those without a supporting organization. If interested, please fill out this form.
2024 RTFH Conference on Homelessness
RTFH hosted its third annual conference, Mindset, Motivation & Moxie: Rethinking San Diego’s Homelessness Story, on December 3rd and 4th at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. With over 1,000 attendees representing more than 165 organizations, the event reinforced the region’s commitment to making homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring. Building on previous successes, the conference featured engaging discussions, impactful keynotes, and peer-to-peer learning opportunities that left attendees energized and ready to implement innovative solutions. A central theme was the role of leadership, mindset, and strategy in addressing homelessness, highlighted in a conversation between Tamera Kohler and Iain De Jong. They emphasized that true leadership is not about titles but about resilience, strategic thinking, and the courage to drive change. Throughout the event, sessions challenged participants to strengthen their workforce, rethink approaches, and foster collaboration.
Grounded in lived experience and framed around The Regional Community Action Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness in San Diego, the 3rd Annual RTFH Conference brought us together in learning, discussion, and collaboration with:
• Local, State, and National Experts on Homelessness
• Local Elected Officials
• Lived Experience Experts and Advisors
• Peers and Partners
Here is the schedule for the 2024 conference: 2024 RTFH Conference Agenda
We’re thrilled to share a video recap of the event with you—an expression of our passion, our purpose, and our deep gratitude. It captures the spirit of the conference and the heart of this work, and we are honored to offer it as a reflection of what we can achieve together for our community.
2023 RTFH Conference on Homelessness
Thank you to attendees, speakers, sponsors, and more for making the 2023 RTFH Conference on Homelessness a huge success. With over 1,000 registered attendees, over 160 organizations represented, and two packed days of learning and collaboration, “Peers, Partners, and Practices” showed that our region is all about reducing and ending homelessness. We’ll see you in 2024!
With keynote addresses by Iain De Jong and Dr. Margot Kushel, panels featuring national, state, and local leaders, San Diegans with lived experience, RTFH and CoC board members, elected officials, and frontline staff members. RTFH was honored to put together a rich conference that increased collaboration and knowledge sharing and left many participants feeling energized and reconnected to the work and each other.
Keep reading the recap the events that made the second conference one to remember by clicking here.
View 2023 RTFH Conference Agenda
2022 RTFH Conference on Homelessness
The RTFH hosted its first annual conference on homelessness November 30th and December 1st 2022. With a focus on Solutions for San Diego, the 2022 RTFH Conference on Homelessness was an opportunity to get stakeholders, people in the work, and everyone with an interest in reducing homelessness in our region together in one place. Â It was a full two days of learning, where we were honored to have national, state, and local leaders and experts together in support of San Diego and our goals to reduce homelessness, including:
- Ann Oliva: CEO, National Alliance to End Homelessness
- Amanda Misiko Andere: CEO, Funders Together to End Homelessness
- Iain De Jong: President & CEO, OrgCode Consulting, Inc.
- Gregg Colburn: Co-Author, “Homelessness is a Housing Problem”
- Donald Whitehead: Executive Director, National Coalition for the Homeless
- Helene Schneider:Â United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH)
- Keith Harris: VA Homeless Program, National Director and Senior Ex. Homeless Agent LA
- Ed Boyte: The Listening Group Founder and National Expert on Diversion
- Darlene Mathews & Michele S Williams: Principles of EIA, Nationally Recognized Experts
- Local Elected Officials
- Lived Experience Experts and Advisors
The conference will take place from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm on Wednesday, November 30th, and 8:00 am – 5:30 pm on Thursday, December 1st at the San Diego Convention Center.
Each ticket comes with full access to the two-day conference, breakout sessions, and food options, including a plated lunch on Day 2. Grounded in lived experience and racial equity, we truly believe that this conference will have a big impact on our region’s most pressing issue. We look forward to seeing you at the San Diego Convention Center to take part in this important two-day event!
