Burnes Center Hosts Event on Ending Homelessness

Guest post by Jennifer Hope Wilson

During the 2017-18 academic year, the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work launched the Social Work Grand Challenges Science for Action Series, dedicated to addressing all 12 of the challenges over the next four years.

Photo by Salvador Armendariz, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver

This past spring, the Burnes Center on Poverty and Homelessness hosted the third event of the series focusing on the Grand Challenge of Ending Homelessness. Attended by approximately 200 members of the University and greater Denver community, the event featured a plenary address by homelessness scholar and national expert, Dr. Benjamin Henwood, Associate Professor at USC’s Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. Expert panels and breakout sessions throughout the day addressed research, practice, and policy responses to chronic, veteran, family, and youth homelessness.

A recording of the full, live-streamed event can be found here.

Jennifer Hope Wilson, MSW, IMBA, is a PhD student at the University of Denver's Graduate School of Social Work and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Burnes Center on Poverty and Homelessness.