Housing & Houselessness Leadership Network
Developing leaders to tackle the houselessness crisis
Housing & Houselessness Leadership Network is a part-time leadership development program that builds the skills, resilience, and relationships that leaders need to drive transformative solutions to housing and houselessness challenges. With a focus on cross-sector collaboration, Housing & Houselessness Leadership Network fosters personal growth and perspective-building, encouraging exploration of diverse viewpoints to uncover new opportunities for collaboration. Participants graduate equipped with leadership tools to address the complex, systemic nature of the houselessness crisis.
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Housing & Houselessness Leadership Network includes 60 hours of immersive professional development over 7 sessions from February to May.
Opening Retreat: Participants are introduced to essential leadership tools and frameworks as they build strong relationships to support their growth throughout the program. This overnight weekend retreat fosters self-reflection and sets the stage for Coro’s approach to learning.
Leadership Forums: Sessions led by Coro’s expert facilitators, focusing on leadership strategies to effectively impact the housing and houselessness field. Practice and apply proven leadership strategies:
- human-centered design
- coalition building and effective advocacy
- navigating diverse perspectives within a team
- systems thinking
- inquiry and evaluation skills
- stakeholder analysis, and more.
Group Projects: Cohort-led explorations of specific challenges promote collaboration, relationship building, and strategic thinking. Participants work in small teams to design and lead an in-depth exploration of a housing issue, deepening their understanding of challenges and potential solutions.
Increase your capacity to address real-world professional challenges through peer coaching, testing solutions in a confidential, empowered environment.
Deepen your understanding of time-tested leadership strategies and skills, including inquiry, feedback, and communication. Adaptive leadership modules increase participants’ capacity to successfully navigate change.
Amplify your skill set to address challenges in the field, while engaging in thought-partnership with the cohort and expert stakeholders to develop the skills needed to innovate solutions.
Build meaningful relationships with other regional change makers in the housing and houselessness field. Join Coro’s 15,000-strong network of remarkable leaders.
At Coro, the learning doesn’t stop when your program ends. Coro alumni gain access to:
Alumni-only continuing education sessions.
- Networking events with key decision-makers working to shape the spirit and integrity of our region.
Coro Classifieds, an alumni-only job board.
A Credly by Pearson™ digital badge showcasing your credentials.
Alumni-only digital networking platforms to exchange resources and collaborate with other alumni.
Find the Program Benefits Guide below to learn more.
For decades, Coro leaders have made their way to influential positions in business, public service, and as advocates on behalf of our country’s most pressing issues. Coro values diverse perspectives, identities, experiences, and worldviews in our programs.
Ideal candidates…
work, live, or serve communities in Los Angeles County.
have 5+ years of professional experience in housing and/or houselessness.
view housing and houselessness as a cross-sector, collaborative endeavor.
are committed to deepening their leadership capacity with a cohort of peers.
- commit to meeting for the scheduled sessions.
There’s nothing like the Coro approach. Coro helps people deepen their innate leadership skills, giving them the tools and a lifelong network to activate tangible change.
It’s not just about finding the right solutions; Coro training is uniquely focused on helping leaders ask the right questions. It’s about equipping leaders to relate across differences rather than simply reacting to them. Coro leaders intentionally engage and collaborate with others across identities, ideologies, sectors, and generations. Participants should be ready to engage productively with different perspectives and in personal reflection.
Coro views leadership as an active practice that requires hands-on experiential learning. Participants are expected to be engaged, mindful, and fully present, minimizing external distractions to maximize their growth and contribution to the cohort.
Coro leaders learn to move from judgment to curiosity, navigate ambiguity, sit in discomfort, and embrace empathy and vulnerability as essential leadership practices, critical for unleashing learning, and building authentic connections. Participants must be willing to embrace vulnerability to foster a psychologically safe environment — a necessary precursor to adaptive, innovative collaboration.
Program Cost
The program fee is $350 (subsidized from $7,500 by our generous sponsors).
Stipends
Coro provides need-based stipends to offset expenses related to program participation. Applicants seeking a stipend must complete the relevant questions on the application.
Employer Assistance
Many participants secure financial support from their employers to cover the program fee. Please reference the Program Benefits Guide below to support this conversation with your employer.
Questions? Contact
Callie Spaide
Associate Director, Recruitment & Alumni Relations
callie@corola.org
Past Participating Organizations
See Housing & Houselessness Leadership Network graduates’ organizations
Abundant Housing LA
Century Housing
City of Long Beach, Department of Health and Human Services
City of Los Angeles, City Planning Department
City of Los Angeles, Office of Council President Paul Krekorian (CD 2)
City of Los Angeles, Office of Council Member Nithya Raman (CD 4)
City of Los Angeles, Office of Council Member Heather Hutt (CD 10)
City of Pasadena, Accessibility and Disability Commission
Coalition for Economic Survival
Communities for a Better Environment
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
County of Los Angeles, Office of the Chief Executive
County of Los Angeles, Office of Supervisor Holly Mitchell (District 2)
Covenant House California
Downtown Women’s Center
Ethos Real Estate
Highland Park Developments
Hollywood Food Coalition
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
Impact Justice
Los Angeles County Development Authority
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA)
Los Angeles Metro
Los Angeles Mission
Merritt Community Capital
Miracle Messages
M. Sherman Consulting
My Friend’s Place
National Council of Jewish Women LA
Ontario International Airport Authority
Orange County Department of Education
PATH
Rainbow Services, Ltd
RAND Corporation
Safe Place for Youth
San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust
SSG/HOPICS
Southern California Health and Rehabilitation Program
The Center in Hollywood
The People Concern
Thomas House Family Shelter
Urban Environmentalists
Thomas Safran & Associates
WET Design
Whalar
Alumni Testimonials
“My time with Coro has had a lasting impact on my professional approach and personal interactions with people in my life and the spaces that I navigate…Now I am in a space where I feel confident in my advocacy capacity and ability to amplify voices that need to be centered. Although my program focused on a specific issue area, the tools and execution processes that I learned can be applied to any industry should I choose to make a career pivot down the line.”
Courtney Alicia Miles
“I’ve gone through corporate management training before, with varying degrees of success, but participating in HHLN was very different. It was a truly diverse cohort with participants from all different sectors. Our cohort was a microcosm of the housing and houselessness space at large: developers from the private sector collaborated with social workers and case managers. We shared a mutual respect for each other and our different areas of expertise.”
Jason Brown
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