Events and Workshops
Seminar: Reasonable Accommodations in Housing for People with Psychiatric and/or Developmental Disabilities
This seminar discussed fair housing laws, reasonable accommodations, eviction defense, and other related issues for people with psychiatric and/or developmental disabilities in various housing settings.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
Archive of event livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmzLp2N8CBU
Speakers:
Tara Collins, MD, MPH, Psychiatrist, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
Thomas E. Drohan, Esq., Tenant Attorney, Legal Assistance to the Elderly, San Francisco, CA
Michael Rossoff, Esq., Landlord Attorney, San Francisco, CA
Colleen Janatpour, Consultant III Specialist, & Lilian Miwa Maher, Esq., Consultant II, State of California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Fremont, CA
Joe Femino, Director of Housing & Residential Services, The Arc of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Victoria Tedder, Housing Advocate, Independent Living Resource Center, San Francisco, CA
Lisa Noriega, Reasonable Accommodation Experience
Aisha Scott, Tenant Experience
Allen Zeltzer, Tenant Experience
Moderated by People With Disabilities Foundation
Approved for 2.0 hours of participatory MCLE for attendees, including 1.0 hour in Elimination of Bias, from the State Bar of California. Approved for 2.0 hours of self-study MCLE through live stream viewing, including 1.0 hour in Elimination of Bias, from the State Bar of California.
PWDF Seminar 15 MC Script 10-06-2015
PWDF Seminar 15 Housing MCLE Handouts – website
PWDF-Seminar-15-Activity-Evaluation-for-CA-MCLE
Mental Disorders & Reasonable Accommodations (Tara Collins, MD, MPH)
Independent Living & Housing – The Arc (Joe Femino)
Advocating for Therapeutic Animals (Lisa Noriega)
Resources for Reasonable Accommodations in Housing
Course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences through People With Disabilities Foundation, provider #PCE 3221.
Participants will become familiar with fair housing laws as they apply to people with psychiatric and/or developmental disabilities, reasonable accommodations for impairments that may enable tenants with these disabilities to remain living in their homes, the process to request a reasonable accommodation, and housing issues and challenges that people with psychiatric disorders and/or developmental disabilities face that are a result of or that exacerbate their disorders.
This is not a library-sponsored program. Refreshments are not allowed in the Auditorium.
We thank these organizations for helping to promote this event:
Coming Event: Children’s SSI, SSDI, and/or Lanterman Act Benefits for Children with Mental and/or Developmental Impairments