Asset Suport Center - Convenings

Exploring the Health-Wealth Connection: Health Insurance as an Asset Building Strategy

Families without adequate health insurance for all members are an illness away from asset poverty as medical bills can quickly consume a lifetime of savings. Recent research highlights the role of health insurance in family financial security: 62% of all bankruptcies in 2007 were related to medical debt and an estimated half of all mortgage foreclosures in the following year were caused by medical debt or illness.

Asset-building stakeholders (practitioners, advocates, funders) have long acknowledged the importance of health insurance as an asset-building strategy. To date, however, they have not consistently prioritized connecting families to health insurance or advocating for supportive public policies that facilitate access to quality healthcare for low- and moderate- income families.

With support from The California Endowment, the Bay Area Support Center (ASC) has published a briefing paper and will be hosting a webinar Exploring the Health Wealth Connection: Health Insurance as an Asset Building Strategy on September 30th, from 10 to 11:30AM PST, featuring:

Presenters:

Heather McCulloch
Managing Director
Asset Support Center
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Bobbie Wunsch
Pacific Health Consulting Group
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Suzie Shupe
California Children Health Initiatives
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Lisa Forti
Urban Strategies Council/Alameda County Community
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Wednesday, September 30th
10 AM-11:30 AM PST

If you have any questions please contact Siobhan Mulvey at siobhan.mulvey@gmail.com

Outcome Based Evaluation: Measuring the Impact of Asset Building Programs in the Bay Area

The webinar on Monday, June 15th featured Bay Area practitioners engaged in outcomes-based evaluation.  Presenters discussed how they are measuring the impact of their work in terms of increasing a household's financial security over time.  The webinar was moderated by Christi Baker, consultant to the Asset Support Center, who recently authored the ASC report, "Outcomes Based Evaluation for Asset Building Programs."  The brief was produced in response to broad interest - among Bay Area asset-building practitioners, funders, public agencies and other stakeholders - in understanding ways to develop effective outcomes-based evaluation systems.

Presenters:

Christi Baker
Consultant
Asset Support Center
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Daniela Salas
Asset and Savings Program Director
Mission Asset Fund
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Emily Waterbury 
Asset Services Director
EARN
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Note: We apologize for technical difficulties during this webinar. Emily Waterbury's audio presentation will be made available.  Please check back soon!
 

Building Assets Through Shared Ownership: Opportunities for Bay Area Residents

The webinar featured national experts on shared ownership strategies who discussed ways for low- and moderate-income households to invest in homes and business in partnership with other stakeholders: co-workers, neighbors, nonprofits or the public and private sector. 

Presenters:

Melissa Hoover, Executive Director, US Federation of Worker Cooperatives

Rick Jacobus, Consultant, NCB Capital Impact Shared Equity Housing Initiative

Corey Rosen, Executive Director, National Center for Employee Ownership

The webinar was moderated by Heather McCulloch, managing director of the Asset Support Center, who recently co-authored, "Expanding Asset Building through Shared Ownership," with Beadsie Woo of the Annie E. Casey Foundation.  The paper framed a national discussion on shared ownership and asset building co-hosted by the Casey Foundation and the national Asset Funders Network in December 2008.  

If you missed this webinar, check it out here!

Asset Building After Foreclosure

More than 80 nonprofit practitioners, funders, public officials and other interested stakeholders in the Bay Area gathered to discuss the types of services families need post-foreclosure at the Asset Support Center's second convening.  The event, Asset Building After Foreclosure, was held on October 29 at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

The convening was organized around the sad fact that an average of 80 percent of homeowners in default end up losing their homes through foreclosure.  In the Bay Area, 12,093 families lost their homes in the third quarter of 2008, a 273% increase in foreclosures over the same period last year (October 23, 2008).  The event's panels focused on services that help former homeowners and renters recover from foreclosure and transition back on the asset-building path.  The types of services needed were divided into three broad categories: services for basic needs; personal support services and financial recovery services.  The convening aimed to inform, inspire and connect leaders to expand existing efforts that assist displaced families due to foreclosure.  Below are materials from the event to continue its aim.

Inform

Inspire

Connect