<div dir="ltr"><h3 style="text-align:center">Registration Now Open!</h3><p style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>12th annual Community Forum on Ending Homelessness in Ottawa</b></span></p><p style="text-align:center">Tuesday, November 24, 2015 || 8:45 am - 4:15 pm<br></p><p style="text-align:center">RA Centre (2451 Riverside Drive, Ottawa)</p><p style="text-align:center">Register: <a href="http://www.universe.com/ateh2015forum">http://www.universe.com/ateh2015forum</a></p><p style="text-align:center"><br></p><h3 style="text-align:center"><em></em></h3><h3 style="text-align:center"><font size="2"><em>The Alliance to End Homelessness
presents the 12th annual Community Forum on Ending Homelessness in
Ottawa. The Forum provides a rich opportunity to engage with local
and national leaders, enabling dialogue between research and practice.
Join us at our Forum as we grow our collective knowledge to inform
local action and policy - and together take the next step into
Ottawa's own 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness.</em></font></h3><h4 style="text-align:center">
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<strong><strong>Morning Keynote Speaker: </strong></strong>
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<strong><strong>Dr. Travis P. Baggett, MD</strong></strong> </h4><p><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/uniiverse_production/attachments/1e42527a050f55d953b818649223e1ee-dr%20travis%20baggett.jpg" style="width: 127px; display: block; margin: auto;" alt=""></p><p>Dr.
Travis P Baggett, MD: faculty clinician-investigator in the
Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Medicine at
Harvard Medical School and a staff physician at the Boston Health Care
for the Homeless Program. Dr. Baggett's research focuses on the health
of homeless people, with an emphasis on addictive behaviors and their
medical consequences in this population. <a href="http://www.massgeneral.org/primarycare/doctors/doctor.aspx?id=19579" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">More on Dr. Baggett here.</a></p><h4 style="text-align:center">
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<strong><strong>Closing Keynote Speaker: </strong></strong>
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<strong><strong>Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing</strong></strong> </h4><p><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/uniiverse_production/attachments/08435008686a28ee009f96bc0be21bb6-Leilani-Outdoor-199x300.jpg" style="width: 119px; display: block; margin: auto;" alt=""></p><p>Leilani
Farha: Executive Director of the NGO Canada without Poverty and UN
Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing. A lawyer by training, for the
past 20 years Ms. Farha has worked both internationally and
domestically on the implementation of the right to adequate housing for
the most marginalized groups. In her current work she continues to
promote a human rights based approach to poverty. Internationally, Ms.
Farha has actively participated in a number of missions around the
world to examine the status of housing rights and to assist in
developing policy responses for the implementation of these rights.
Within the UN human rights system, she helped spearhead the first
resolution regarding women and the right to adequate housing. Ms.
Farha has also undertaken numerous consultancies related to housing
rights; she has appeared before various UN human rights mechanisms to
address economic, social and cultural rights issues; and she was a
member of the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions for UNHabitat.</p><div style="text-align:center"><i>The Program also includes a plenary panel discussion, Table Talks and poster presentations, and a number of concurrent sessions in the afternoon from which participants will be able to choose.<br><br></i><i><b>Register: <a href="http://www.universe.com/ateh2015forum">http://www.universe.com/ateh2015forum</a> </b><br><br>* * * * * * * * * * * * * <br><br></i></div><div style="text-align:center"><i>ALSO: Our <b>Call for Table Talks and Poster Presentations</b> is still open: <br><a href="http://endhomelessnessottawa.ca/call-for-table-talks-poster-presentations-november-24-community-forum/">http://endhomelessnessottawa.ca/call-for-table-talks-poster-presentations-november-24-community-forum/</a><br></i></div><div><div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b>Mike Bulthuis</b><br>Executive Director<br><br><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa</b></span></span><br>171 George Street, Ottawa ON K1N 5W5<br>Office: 613-241-1573 x 314<br>Mobile: 613-222-9831<br></div></div></div></div>
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