Program Components

Over 60 hours of professional development programming from February to May meeting about twice per month. You can also expect about 5 to 10 hours spent outside of sessions on minimal Focus Day team group work and individual assignments. HHLN is broken into three components.

• Opening Retreat – Multi-day, off-site weekend retreat laying key skills-building and cohort-building foundations.

• Leadership Forums – Facilitated professional, management, and leadership development skill-building sessions featuring Coro’s time-tested and unique curriculum.

• Focus Days – Cohort-curated and -led explorations of a challenge facing houselessness and housing to stretch your professional and leadership development in a real-time setting. The teams select the topics to bring learning into the room with their cohort. The Focus Days serve as vehicles for you to exercise leadership and management skills-building in a real-time setting, enhancing your knowledge of a houselessness and housing challenge, while also practicing your professional development in an experiential way.

Program Outcomes

1. Provides you with the leadership skills and a cross-sectoral network to advance your capacity to ignite action and impact within your organizations and across the region to better provide houselessness solutions and services.

2. Enables you to enhance your knowledge of the houselessness challenges and solutions (and the systems in which those challenges and solutions lie) by learning from your peers within the cohort and across the housing and homelessness space.

Curricular Components

• Adaptive Leadership

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging (DEIB) and Anti-Racism

• Effective Communication and Advocacy

• Effective Inquiry and Critical Thinking

• Giving and Receiving Feedback

• Human Centered Design

• Interpersonal Leadership Styles™

• Managing Diverse Teams

• Negotiations

• Project Management Tools

• Public Narrative Frameworks

• Self-Awareness and Self-Management Tools

• Stakeholder Analysis and Coalition Building

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Coro values the representation of diverse perspectives, identities, experiences, and world views; as such, HHLN cohorts reflect the make-up of the region, representing a wide array of backgrounds, beliefs, and identities.

Ideal HHLN candidates…

• work, live, and/or serve communities in Los Angeles County

• have 5+ years of professional experience working across and within the issues of housing and homelessness

• hold an interest in innovating solutions to Los Angeles County’s houselessness and housing challenges

• view houselessness and housing as a cross-sectoral field and are willing to communicate and collaborate with other stakeholders in and outside of the field

• have the support they need from their organizations to fully commit to participating

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Multi-Perspective

You should be ready to engage productively with different perspectives and ready to engage in personal reflection, open to changing your opinion or position.

Vulnerability and Psychological Safety

As a necessary component of multi-perspective learning, Coro views vulnerability as a critical leadership attribute essential for unleashing learning, building authentic and meaningful connection, and for holding spaces that are psychologically safe as a precursor to adaptive, innovative collaboration. You should be ready to contribute to building a psychological safe cohort environment.

Intentional Ambiguity

A signature characteristic of Coro programming is generating intentional ambiguity, which works to highlight your defaults, ignite your learning, and support you to lead and manage through uncertainty. 

Learn by Doing

Coro views leadership as a practice; you should be ready to learn by doing with sessions as opportunities to lay the foundation; you will gain the most by taking the skills, tools, and frameworks and practicing/adapting them in your professional roles.

As a leadership and professional development institute, Coro’s program goals, including HHLN, aim to expand the leadership and professional capacity of our program participants in order for them to have the networks, skills, and knowledge to drive impact in their work and communities. 

HHLN is…

• A place to experience and appreciate diversity of experiences and viewpoints and engage in productive conflict and discourse

• A place to identify personal professional strengths and areas for growth and practice skills building

• A space to build a collaborative network of peers eager to work together – both during the program and afterward – to better understand how to address this crisis and expand your toolkit of frameworks to enhance your capacity to do so

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Career Benefits

The program creates opportunities for you to bring your professional work into the program.

• Personal Leadership Commitment – You will name a specific area of growth you plan to practice over the course of the program.

• Peer Consultancy – The peer consultancy case enables you to bring into the program a real-world professional challenge you are seeking to address and to seek peer coaching from your cohort.

• Exploring Tough Interpretations – An adaptive leadership module that builds on Coro’s effective inquiry, giving and receiving feedback, and effective communication tools to illuminate your resistance to change.

• Focus Days – As a cohort-led component of the program, the Focus Days provide participants with an opportunity to expand their knowledge of the challenges the region faces related to the issues of housing and houselessness, while also engaging in through-partnership with other cohort participants and external stakeholders on how to move forward.

Program Impact

Coro’s unique approach to leadership and professional development training delivers both immediate and long-lasting capacity-building benefits by expanding your skills, networks, and knowledge.

• 100% of past participants agreed that their participation in HHLN expanded their professional networks.

• 97% of past participants reported improved ability to identify their areas of growth due to their participation in HHLN.

• 91% of past participants reported that due to their HHLN participation they have a better understanding of their personal strengths and weaknesses that influence their effectiveness.

• Almost 90% of past participants said their HHLN participation increased their leadership skills.

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Benefits for Employers

Coro’s programs deliver deep impact (see more in the “Program Impact & Testimonials” tab above and in the Program Benefits Guide) at a highly subsidized professional development rate. The housing and houselessness work environment and the challenges your team members face in it are complex. Investing in your team by expanding their skills, network, and knowledge further builds your capacity to deliver on your organization’s mission. 

Supporting team members, either financially and/or with the time and space to participate fully in HHLN, yields strong organizational benefits by:

• Increasing the skills of employees in critical positions that can be incorporated departmentally and instilled in their direct reports.

• Demonstrating your commitment to the employee, increasing their feeling of engagement, which often leads to higher productivity, loyalty, and retention; and

• Motivating all employees by signaling that leadership and a commitment to their work is rewarded by the organization.

Connect with Coro to discuss an organizational partnership and nominate a member of your team for HHLN.

Program Cost

Tuition is $250 (subsidized from $7,500 thanks to the generous support of our sponsors). Participants may incur additional incidental expenses such as transportation and parking costs.

Participant Stipends

Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, Coro is able to offer a limited number of need-based stipends to offset expenses related to their participation, such as transportation and child care. Applicants seeking a stipend must complete the relevant questions at the time of application.

Employer Assistance

Many participants secure financial support from their employers to cover the program fee. We encourage you to speak with your employer about potential support utilizing the Program Benefits Guide to guide your conversation.

Our 75-year history gives us one of the most diverse alumni networks in the country — 15,000 graduates and growing — spanning sectors, perspectives, and geography. At Coro, the learning doesn’t stop when your program ends. Coro alumni status gives you access to:

• The Resources – Coro alumni have access to AlumniFire, Coro’s Job Board (Coro Classifieds), & Coro’s alumni-only LinkedIn page, where they can network, find job opportunities, fill roles at their organizations, and learn from one another.

• The Exposure – Coro brings together decision makers across sectors to share perspectives and discuss the future of our region at a number of annual events, many of which are exclusive to Coro alumni. Joining the Coro network ensures that partners stay connected with forward-thinking leaders at all levels and across all sectors, and provides you exposure to key decision makers.

• The Credentials – Coro has partnered with Credly by Pearson™ to issue and maintain digital badges. As authenticated, certified, and individually-awarded badges, you’ll be able to showcase your unique professional, management, and leadership development capacity-building in real-time with colleagues, current and future employers, and your network.

• The Network – Alumni have powerful networks to ignite change and continuous support for tackling professional challenges through their Coro family. Program participants directly engage with numerous leaders over the duration of their experience. This, coupled with the over 15,000 Coro alumni, creates a unique opportunity for alumni to quickly expand their social capital.

HHLN 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 Pasadena, Accessibility and Disability Commission

• Communities for a Better Environment

• Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

• County of Los Angeles, Office of the Chief Executive

• Covenant House California

• Downtown Women’s Center

• Ethos Real Estate

• Hollywood Food Coalition

• Los Angeles County Development Authority

• Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA)

• Los Angeles Mission

• My Friend’s Place

• Ontario International Airport Authority

• Orange County Department of Education

• San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust

• SSG/HOPICS

• The Center in Hollywood

• Thomas Safran & Associates

• WET Design

• Whalar

Organizations listed do not constitute an endorsement of the HHLN program, or Coro, by the organization.