History and Origins of DHN
Membership Benefits of DHN
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MARCH UPDATE
March 2010
DHN is pleased to share with our membership the first set of videos outlining several aspects of our work and our organization. The first of the two videos (above) outline the history and origins of DHN through the words of two current Board members who were involved with the creation of DHN. The second video outlines the benefits of membership, as shared by current DHN members and our liaison with the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities.
Further down this homepage you will see the sessions from the DHN Fall 2009 Conference. We hope to continue to provide these taped sessions for our membership unable to make it to our conferences.
We thank the William J. and Dorothy K. O'Neill Foundation for their support of DHN's capacity building and technology project.
DHN Fall 2009 Conference Sessions
Session One: Housing Guidance for Service Providers, County Boards, and Housing Corporations
Session Two: Housing Planning at the County Level: Overview and Best Practices
Session Three: 2008 Rent Cost Study
Session Four: Best Practices for Nonprofit Housing BoardsSession Five: Q&A with Facilities Development and DODD
Spring Conference Sessions Finalized; Register now for DHN Spring 2010 Conference on Wednesday, March 24
Below are descriptions for the sessions at the DHN Conference on Wednesday, March 24 from 9:45am to 4:15pm. The DHN Conference is one of the tracks on the second day of the Ohio Provider Resource Association conference (OPRA) at the Dublin Embassy Suites Hotel.
Registration is now available on the OPRA website.
Session One and Two: Housing Conversations for Service Providers, County Boards and Housing Corporations (Follow-up to Fall 2009 Session)
During this special two-hour session, members of the Housing Guidance Working Group will lead off with a brief overview of the guidance developed to help address issues among housing corporations, service providers, and county boards.
The second hour will focus on the practical applications of the housing guidance tool. Housing corporation staff and service provider staff will take part in lively conversations, facilitated by Working Group members, that are sure to lead to important insights into this area where housing corporations and service providers have common interests.
A follow-up to the session in the fall, we believe that this will provide a very interesting opportunity for housing corporation folks to talk with service provider colleagues about these very important and timely issues.
Presenters: Al Willis, Superintendent, Auglaize County Board of DD; Doreen Mohr, SSA Director, Defiance County Board of DD; Julie Bohl, Housing Resource Group; Tom Weaver, CEO, Partners for Community Living; Deb Guilford, NOWAC; Stephanie Lowe, CEO, Ottawa Residential Service, Inc.
Session Three: Ask the Lawyer: Legal guidance on topics commonly encountered by housing corporations
Housing corporation legal counsel Glenn Billington will be providing an overview of specific legal issues common among housing corporations, such as human resources, leases, housing discrimination, etc. He will also take questions form attendees on pressing legal questions that they encounter in their day-to-day operations.
Glenn Billington is a graduate of Cornell has practiced law in Cleveland for the last 40 years. He works with individuals, small business owners and many DD residential service providers in northeast Ohio. He has been the attorney for North Coast Community Homes for the last 25 years.
Presenter: Glenn Billington, Billington Law Offices
Session Four: New products in special needs housing field
Back by popular demand, DHN will again host the introduction of building and maintenance products that are new on the market and have been tried, tested and approved by special needs housing professionals. This session will focus on items that are easily accessible at mainstream stores.
Presenters: Tim Oberschlake Director of Operations, Creative Housing; Eric Frentzel, Director of Facilities, Creative Housing
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