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AN INTERVIEW WITH DR GREG COLBURN, CO-AUTHOR OF HOMELESSNESS IS A HOUSING PROBLEM
Mary's Place Youth Action Program (YAP) participant Blythe interviews Dr. Gregg Colburn, co-author of Homelessness is a Housing Problem, alongside Mary's Place CEO Dominique Alex. Blythe, Dominique, and Dr. Colburn discuss everything from the root causes of homelessness to the affordable housing crisis and what our community can do to ensure families have access to safe, stable housing.
August 18, 2026
ENDING FAMILY HOMELESSNESS WITH PREVENTION STRATEGIES
Exploring the use of Prevention strategies, specifically rental assistance, to keep families in their hard-won homes and stem the growing and unsustainable flow into homelessness. Moderated by Mary's Place CEO Dominique Alex, panelists include Chad Bojorquez - Chief Program Officer at Destination: Home, David Phillips - Research Professor of Economics, Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) at the University of Notre Dame, and Miriam Clithero - Prevention & Stability Director at Mary's Place
September 4, 2024
ADDRESSING FAMILY HOMELESSNESS THROUGH MOBILE OUTREACH SERVICES
Mary’s Place CEO Dominique Alex is joined by our Outreach & Diversion Director, Jessica Safley, Popsicle Place Outreach Coordinator Kianna Nguyen, and Kyle Serquinia, Housing Stability Director at Vine Maple Place. The panel discusses how our mobile outreach team, together with partners like Vine Maple Place, works with unsheltered families to find housing quickly, often avoiding a stay in shelter.
July 9, 2024
AN INTERVIEW WITH GREGG COLBURN, CO-AUTHOR OF THE BOOK: HOMELESSNESS IS A HOUSING PROBLEM: HOW STRUCTURAL FACTORS EXPLAIN U.S. PATTERNS
Mary's Place Chief Program Officer Dominique Alex, talks to Gregg Colburn talks about the findings of his (and co-author Clayton Page Aldern) work to test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in cities—including mental illness, drug use, poverty, weather, generosity of public assistance, and low-income mobility—and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country. Instead, housing market conditions, such as the cost and availability of rental housing, offer a far more convincing account.
MARY’S PLACE PARTNERSHIP WITH MERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST
Mary's Place CEO Dominique Alex sits down with Joe Thompson, President of Mercy Housing Northwest, to talk about our exciting partnership to build a new campus that co-locates emergency family shelter and permanently affordable housing! Learn more about the project: https://www.marysplaceseattle.org/burien-development
March 31, 2026
THE IMPACTS OF HOMELESSNESS ON CHILDREN
A Lunch & Learn program focused on what we can do as a community to help minimize the impact of homelessness on children.
Our panelists include McKinney-Vento and Foster Care Liaison, Highline Public Schools, Antonio Lewis, Kaleidoscope Play & Learn Program Manager, Child Care Resources, Zivit Shechter Nissim, Mary's Place Youth Services Director, Marta Asfaw, and Mary's Place Chief Program Officer, Dominique Alex.
MARY’S PLACE PARTNERSHIP WITH AYAN MATERNITY HEALTHCARE SERVICES
Mary’s Place CEO Dominique Alex is joined by Ayan Abdulahi, founder of Ayan Maternity Health Care Services, which provides culturally familiar doula and women’s maternity care for women, including Mary’s Place guests. Dominique and Ayan discuss why those services are so critical, particularly for low-income families.
August 22, 2025
MARY’S PLACE PARTNERSHIP WITH AYAN MATERNITY HEALTHCARE SERVICES
In this Mary's Place Moment, Mary's Place CEO Dominique Alex sits down with Olga Chinka, Make-a-Home Coordinator, and program volunteer Katie Bernston, to chat about the importance of a furnished home for families moving out of shelter into stable housing. Learn more about Make-a-Home: https://www.marysplaceseattle.org/get-involved/make-a-home
November 25, 2025
MARY’S PLACE MOBILE OUTREACH PROGRAM
Mobile outreach teams from Mary's Place and other partner organizations help families who are living unsheltered in our community move directly into housing, bypassing a stay-in shelter.
Panelists include Kyle Serquinia – Housing Stability Director, Vine Maple Place, Ryan Disch-Guzman – Mobile Outreach Director, Mary’s Place, Sherry Tillman – Intake Specialist Manager, Mary’s Place, and Kimen Trochalakis – Outreach Specialist, Mary’s Place.