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(206) 805-6131

(206) 805-6101

As manager of Building Changes' HIV/AIDS housing initiatives, Mariah Ybarra brings over 20 years of extensive management and housing operations experience to the AIDS housing field. Mariah provides a broad range of information, training, and consultation about the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) program and AIDS housing funding, operations, and supportive services to HOPWA grantees and project sponsors and other housing and service providers across the country. Under the direction of HUD's Office of HIV/AIDS Housing and in collaboration with other HOPWA technical assistance providers and local HUD Field Offices, she has worked extensively with HOPWA grantees and project sponsors to assist them with effective program management, reporting and oversight, most recently serving as lead organizer and trainer for a series of 16 regional trainings for HOPWA grantees convened between March and August 2008. Mariah is also BC’s lead trainer and consultant for McKinney-Vento-funded homeless programs, and in that capacity has conducted trainings and direct consultations with grantees and potential beneficiaries in Washington State, Hawaii and the Pacific Insular Territories, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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