David Husid:
CLASS OF 1979
Capuchino High SchoolClass of 1979
San bruno, CA
David's Story
David Husid - BIO
David Husid is the Vice President for Community Development for Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc. SCHI was launched in 1994 to create healing residential communities where homeless people help themselves ¿ and each other ¿ through the transition from the streets to self-sustainability. Its award-winning supportive housing projects ¿ Quinn Cottages and Serna Village ¿ utilize the asset-based, participant-driven Resiliency Model that engages residents in all aspects of program operations to cultivate the competence, confidence and creativity they need to transform their homeless nightmare into the American Dream.
His first experience with Cottage Housing was in 2000 when he was released from Folsom State Prison, homeless, hopeless, unemployed and on parole. Within 15 months he completed the program and was finishing up his degrees in Chemical Dependency and Human Services and was working as a counselor in the field of addiction. In 20...Expand for more
02, he graduated from college and was hired as a Personal Development Coach at Quinn Cottages. He left Cottage Housing in 2003 to pursue other job opportunities at the Effort Inc., and Oak House Treatment for Men.
In 2006, he rejoined the SCHI team as Vice President for Community Development. Since 2006 his efforts have helped reduce the length of stay at Quinn Cottages while increasing the number of graduates (over 80% of program participants now leave with housing secure, income stabilized and sobriety intact)
In addition to numerous management trainings, Husid participated as an emerging leader in Bank of Americas Neighborhood Builders Initiative where he was voted Valedictorian for the 2006 graduating class.
Husid has been a strong advocate for homeless issues, and has been the voice for so many who have been silenced by their homelessness. He now resides in Citrus Heights with his wife Nanette, daughter Lacy, and his faithful companion ¿Oreo¿ the dog¿
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