Education and Outreach for Fair Housing Professionals / (a 5 day course)

Description: This is a participant centered training that will prepare fair housing professionals to conduct all aspects of fair housing education and outreach. The goal is to teach attendees how to promote the core values of and increase the enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. It is designed to produce fair housing professionals who are prepared to educate the general public, inform the housing industry of their responsibilities, better inform the fair housing community, effectively utilize existing resources; educate public policy makers and elected officials regarding important fair housing issues, and increase fair housing compliance of HUD program participants. Training session topics include:

Overview of Fair Housing: History, laws, major players, fair housing infrastructure, core values, and enforcement process.

Conducting training for various audiences: Making more effective presentations; providing training for industry professionals; appropriate training for staff, boards, commissioners, and program participants; explaining fair housing rights and processes to the public; conducting public meetings and community engagement events; training as part of voluntary compliance agreements; accessibility training; and training for LEP community.

Conducting Outreach: Conducting more effective public outreach; reaching marginalized populations; building fair housing partnerships and coalitions; addressing “NIMBYism” and community opposition; organizing and holding public fair housing events; effectively utilize social media; and measuring and reporting on the success of outreach.

Fair housing policy and planning: Affirmatively furthering fair housing through education; utilizing currently available training materials prepared by government, industry, and the fair housing community; and giving testimony before policy makers.

Education: Teaching fair housing in the public schools, colleges, and professional schools; developing and utilizing reports, studies, AI’s and fair housing assessments; and use of webinars and distance learning.

Exploring E&O resources and best practices: Resources for fair housing training; use of internet resources; national media campaigns, advertisements and PSAs; affirmative marketing; and harnessing the power of volunteers.

  • Course Event: Online
  • Date:coming soon
  • Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM (EDT)
  • Cost: $1,500
  • Course Event: On-Site
  • Location:8737 Colesville Rd.
    Silver Spring, MD 20910
  • Date: coming soon
  • Time 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM (EDT)
  • Cost: $1,500