Call for Proposals & Sponsors Open!
Become a Sponsor of the 2027 Summit on Homelessness and Housing!
Join the Kansas Statewide Homeless Coalition on April 21–22, 2027, in Overland Park, Kansas, for Upstream Solutions: Stopping the Inflow.
The Summit brings together organizations, community leaders, and partners from across Kansas to strengthen our response to homelessness, explore prevention strategies, and build pathways to housing stability.
We invite you to be part of this important statewide gathering! Sponsorship opportunities range from $1,000 to $10,000, offering opportunities for organizational recognition, networking, and engagement with professionals and community partners working to prevent and end homelessness.
Explore our sponsorship opportunities and help us move upstream toward lasting solutions.
Session Proposals
Due Date: All proposals are due by December 18, 2026, at 5 pm.
Cost: Presenters not attending the Summit will receive a free event registration. Presenters who want to attend the Summit will receive a 50% discount on registration. We will notify you if your presentation was selected by January 8, 2027, and if selected, we will give you instructions to upload your presentation information into our Summit APP.
Scholarships for People with Lived Experience: There will be limited scholarships available to people with lived experience of homelessness, and we encourage presenters to invite individuals who have been impacted by your presentation’s area of focus as a co-presenter, where appropriate.
Selection Policy: The Summit Planning Committee reserves the right to request a modification of the proposed content, which may include asking presenters to alter their presentation or combine similar presentations submitted from other communities.
Tracks: KSHC would like the majority of the 2027 learning session to fall under these tracks. If your presentation does not fit these categories, submit your proposal anyway. There may be room for it.
TRACK 1 — PREVENT THE CRISIS
Intervening earlier to keep housing instability from becoming homelessness
Explore prevention, diversion, early identification, and practical interventions that help individuals and families remain safely housed.
Topics may include: Eviction prevention • Diversion • Flexible assistance • Landlord engagement • Tenancy preservation • Early identification • Rural prevention • Housing problem-solving • Utility assistance • Prevention data and outcomes
TRACK 2 — BRIDGE THE SYSTEMS
Creating stronger pathways between housing and the systems people encounter every day
Examine how housing, healthcare, behavioral health, education, child welfare, corrections, domestic violence services, and other systems can work together to prevent people from falling through the gaps and into homelessness.
Topics may include: Hospital discharge • Behavioral health • Foster care transitions • Reentry • Schools and youth • Domestic violence • Veterans • Older adults • Cross-system referrals • Case conferencing • Shared accountability
TRACK 3 — EXPAND THE SOLUTIONS
Building and sustaining housing options that meet the needs of Kansans
Focus on practical and innovative approaches to expanding housing access, helping people exit homelessness quickly, and supporting long-term housing stability.
Topics may include: Affordable housing development • Rapid Re-Housing • Permanent Supportive Housing • Landlord recruitment • Master leasing • Rural housing • Medicaid and housing supports • Housing navigation • High-barrier populations • Fair housing • Housing retention
TRACK 4 — CHANGE THE SYSTEM
Using data, partnerships, policy, and lived expertise to reduce homelessness at its source
Look beyond individual programs to the policies, practices, partnerships, and community conditions that influence who enters homelessness—and what it takes to change them.
Topics may include: Coordinated Entry • HMIS and data • Understanding inflow and outflow • System performance • Lived experience leadership • Policy and advocacy • Cross-sector partnerships • Braided funding • Continuum of Care strategies • Rural system capacity • Community planning • Shared accountability