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Climate Change, Coastal Built Heritage, and Critical Challenges Facing the Heritage Law Frameworks of the United States, United Kingdom, and France
No full textClimate change poses a particular threat to the world’s unique built heritage—historic buildings, sites monuments, and museums. As preserving built heritage resources from climate change becomes a global priority, understanding the current inadequacies of legal frameworks designed to protect built heritage in coastal areas is essential. Only by identifying and examining these shortfalls can countries create resilient legal policies and tools that better protect coastal built heritage from the immediate and long-term effects of climate change. Building on previous comparative cultural heritage law scholarship, this article describes the legal frameworks that the United States, United Kingdom, and France use to protect their respective built heritage in coastal areas and identifies two critical challenges facing each country
Why Searching an Ex-President\u27s Estate is Not Easily Done - 4 Important Things to Know About the FBI\u27s Search of Mar-a-Lago
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PFAS Dangers, Requirements, and Strategies
No full textAs journalists, regulators, and litigants across the country turn their attention to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), it is crucial for lawyers, environmental consultants, and business owners to educate themselves about these ubiquitous emerging contaminants.
Please join us for this one-day symposium as we explore PFAS: Science and forensics; Regulatory requirements; Litigation, including the ongoing AFFF lawsuits; Business and technical impacts; and How you can stay ahead of the curv
Day 1: Morning Sessions & Keynote Address (GSHA 12th Annual Supportive Housing Conference)
No full textA Conversation with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities
Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities leadership will update us on the state\u27s efforts to provide housing and supports to formerly homeless persons with behavioral health and/or substance abuse disorders by providing supportive housing and services. They will update us on where we are now and share what lies ahead this year for DBHDD in the wake of the successful passage of the Mental Health Parity Act in 2022, with historic levels of federal and state funds.
Strategies to Advance Housing Equity Through Federal, State, and Local State Policy Actions
This session features recognized experts providing a national, state, and local perspective on important housing justice issues. Mr. Miao will discuss successful equitable housing policies implemented by local jurisdictions with support from the ChangeLab Solutions Housing Collaborative. Attorney Appley will update us on advocacy at the Georgia Capitol surrounding state policy on housing and homelessness. Dr. Raymond will provide an overview of her research on housing justice, race, segregation, and the financialization of housing.
Keynote Address: Housing First - Putting Proven Best Practices to Work to End Unsheltered Homelessness
The Housing First model, launched in 1992 by Dr. Sam Tsemberis, is an evidence-based intervention that uses a psych-rehab philosophy driven by consumer choice to engage, house, and keep housed individuals with long histories of homelessness, mental illness, and addiction. Housing First is based on the belief that housing is a basic human right and not something that must be earned through demonstrated periods of sobriety or other clinical or programmatic prerequisites. Housing First programs have been implemented across the United States, Canada, European Union, Australia, and New Zealand. Dr. Tsemberis is currently working with the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities and local nonprofits to expand the practice of Housing First throughout the State
A Guide to the Development of Supportive Housing in Georgia (GSHA 12th Annual Supportive Housing Conference)
No full textThis session will provide an overview for those interested in learning how to develop supportive housing in this state, including models of supportive housing, information specific to the current landscape of development in Georgia and how we got here, relevant partner information, and basic funding models. This training serves as a foundation for those interested in creating new units and new permanent supportive housing programs
An Overview of Medicaid Credentialing for Providers (GHSA 12th Annual Supportive Housing Conference)
No full textThis session explains the process for supportive services providers and providers of behavioral health services to become accredited providers in the state of Georgia to accept Medicaid as a form of payment
Day 2 - Morning Sessions & Keynote Address (GHSA 12th Annual Supportive Housing Conference),
No full textWelcome and Greetings from the Honorable Mayor of Atlanta, Andre Dickens
Mayor Dickens is committed to ensuring development without displacement and providing practical, diverse housing options for Atlanta’s community. He is directly involved and invested in efforts to combat homelessness, including leveraging federal funds to increase the affordable housing supply, decrease barriers to accessing services, and supporting the needs and meeting the challenges of nonprofits working in this area.
Mental Health Parity and the Work of the Behavioral Health Innovation and Reform Commission
Georgia House of Representatives Chairman Mary Margaret Oliver was a leader in the historic effort that saw unanimous passage of HB 1013, the Mental Health Parity Act, in 2022. This law created a sea change in the way mental health care is being delivered in Georgia. However, it is just the start. In this “decade of mental health reforms,” the high-level Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Commission, continues to develop short and long-range recommendations to address and improve the state’s mental health outcomes. Learn from a state leader about the progress of these reforms and priorities for the next legislative session, addressing the shortage of mental health professionals, the need for systems change and increased reimbursement rates, care coordination, licensing issues – all key priorities for the next round of reforms.
Housing Needs at the Intersection of Homelessness, Behavioral Health, and Criminal Justice
Georgia has been working hard to meet its obligations under a federal settlement agreement with the Department of Justice for the past 12 years, in a case growing out of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society’s landmark Olmstead decision. A critical aspect that remains involves the state’s commitment to house homeless people with severe and persistent mental illness who are cycling through the criminal justice system, the state hospitals and hospital emergency departments. Progress has been made through the Georgia Housing Voucher Program but more remains to be done. These already strained hospital and criminal justice systems are proven to be extremely expensive and ineffective ways of meeting the needs of chronically homeless persons, especially those with mental health and/or substance abuse disorders. Best practices support increased emphasis on diversion of these individuals away from the criminal justice system and into housing and supportive services and strengthening connections to housing and supports when leaving prisons and jails on re-entry. The Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Commission is working with the Council of State Governments, Fulton County and other Stepping Up communities on the Familiar Faces Advisory Committee to the Courts Diversion Committee to formulate solutions.
Keynote Address: A Property Owner Who Invests in People
Stagmeier offers an inside track on the successful transformation of blighted multifamily housing properties which were boarded up and blighted and had very high crime levels. Within two years, she worked to develop a community with children playing on the playground, families thriving, and kids outperforming their peers at the local elementary school