General Admission tickets for the 2024 RTFH Conference on Homelessness at The Hilton Bayfront on December 3rd and 4th are now sold out!
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, “Mindset, Motivation & Moxie: Rethinking San Diego’s Homelessness Story” brings 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
Please see the schedule below for what to look forward to at this year’s conference. Sessions may be updated periodically, so please refresh this page as needed to see the most updated agenda.
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Sponsorship Opportunities
This year, 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 are currently working on developing 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.
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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.
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. 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: 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!
