1. Tennessee Community Assistance Corporation
Determined to Succeed: Strengthening Families and Improving Public Housing Communities
Samuel B. Little, PhD
President of NAR-SAAH
Annual Conference
Tennessee Community Assistance Corporation
May 24, 2016
Chattanooga, TN

2. Legislative Update: Putting Together An Action Plan for Your Resident Council
HUD Budget FY $48.9B
Housing Choice Voucher Program($38
RAD - $38B
Family Self-Sufficiency Program - $75M
Choice Neighborhoods - $200M
Public Housing Capital Fund
Jobs Plus - $35M

3. Continued
Narrowing the Digital Divide for Students and Families in HUD Assisted Housing - $5M
Ending Family and Chronic Homelessness - $13.8B
Lead Hazard Control & Healthy Homes - $110M
Public Housing Plan Proposed by Presidential Candidates?

4. Questionable HUD Policies
Mandatory Eviction Policy
Smoke Free Housing
Time Limits in Public Housing

5. What is Community Engagement?
Community Engagement: Organizing for Social Action and Non-Violent Protest
What is Community Engagement?
Engagement' can cover consultation, extension, communication, education, public participation, participative democracy or working in partnership. For our purposes, 'engagement' is used as a generic, inclusive term to describe the broad range of interactions between people. It can include a variety of approaches, such as one-way communication or information delivery, consultation, involvement and collaboration in decision-making, and empowered action in informal groups or formal partnerships.

6. Whenever a group of practitioners gather to discuss 'what is engagement,' a discussion about diversity of language usually emerges. Depending on the situation in which you are working, 'engagement' can cover consultation, extension, communication, education, public participation, participative democracy or working in partnership. For our purposes, 'engagement' is used as a generic, inclusive term to describe the broad range of interactions between people. It can include a variety of approaches, such as one-way communication or information delivery, consultation, involvement and collaboration in decision-making, and empowered action in informal groups or formal partnerships.
                                                                                                

10. Reading List for Resident Councils
The Future of Public Housing, Mark Stephens, 2015
Private Discomfort in Public Housing, The Abell Report, Vol 19, No3, 2006

11. Stay Focus to the End! Encouraged Yourself and Others Daily
Self-Awareness (Know Who You Are)
Build A successful Resident Council Team
Promote Self-Development (Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life, Charles Duhigg)
Be A “Uber-Smart” Leader
Go Where There Is Light
Create Breaking Space for Your Engagement
Be a Butterfly for your community