Foreclosure Referral Workshop in Faribault County

The Faribault County Economic Development Authority and the Minnesota Home Ownership Center are partnering to offer a free "Foreclosure Prevention Information and Referral" workshop for professionals in Faribault County - and all of southern Minnesota.

The 90-minute training will provide an overview of the foreclosure process, where to refer homeowners and information on how to prepare them to talk with a housing counselor or loan servicer.

Who should attend? Staff from public, private, governmental and non-profit organizations who come in contact with distressed homeowners are invited to attend this training. This may include social workers, real-estate agents, librarians, clergy, etc. This session is NOT designed for struggling homeowners.

Date: Thursday, October 1st 2009, 10:00 - 11:30am

Location: Wells Community Center, Wells, MN

Additional information, including maps & driving instructions, or to register, visit:
http://faribault-foreclosure-session.eventbrite.com

Would you like to host a workshop for your staff or for other professionals in your area? Contact Ed Nelson at the Minnesota Home Ownership Center for more information.

Hope Now Information Session - Deadline April 8

This is just a reminder that the deadline to register for the information session at the Federal Reserve Bank for the upcoming HOPE NOW Workshop is Wednesday, April 8th, 2009.

The information session will be held on Monday April 13th.

Topics include:

• Additional information about the upcoming HOPE NOW Workshop at the St. Paul RiverCentre on June 4th
• Information about the foreclosure crisis in Minnesota
• Strategies to ensure that the workshop meets the needs of YOUR clients
• Strategies to best reach YOUR clients/constituents

Remember, space is limited and registration is required. If you would like to attend the Informational Meeting on April 13, or would like to request additional information about the meeting, contact:

Jackie Gausvik at (612) 204-5869 or
jacqueline.gausvik@mpls.frb.org by April 8.

Hope Now Workshop - Informational Session

The Minnesota Home Ownership Center is pleased to announce that, in partnership with the Hope Now Initiative and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, there will be a HOPE NOW BORROWER WORKSHOP held on June 4th at the St. Paul River Centre.

Homeowners will be able to meet with their lenders (we expect more than a dozen national lenders and servicers to attend) talk with foreclosure prevention counselors, and visit a homeownership resource fair.

The workshop will be free and open to the public. We hope to serve more than 1,500 homeowners at the event.

If you are encountering distressed homeowners in your line of work, you are invited to join us at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis on April 13 to hear more about the Hope Now workshop, underlying foreclosure crisis, and the availability of existing foreclosure intervention services in Minnesota. We will ask for your help in strategizing ways to ensure that the workshop meets the needs of your clients, and how to best reach those clients.

If you have provided assistance to distressed homeowners, your input will be valuable in helping us identify what additional resources to make available at the event.

Space at the April 13th informational session is limited.

For additional information, including how to register for the info session, please view the complete invitation here.

Working with clients in foreclosure - Video Available

As we posted earlier, the Minnesota Home Ownership Center, in partnership with Greater Twin Cities United Way and several other organizations hosted a webinar for social service professionals working with homeowners that are experiencing mortgage distress.

During the webinar, participants learned about the foreclosure situation in Minnesota, the statewide network of non-profit counselors, outreach tools that are available, and what is being done in Minnesota - at the statewide, county and even local levels to recover.

Several sections of the presentation are now available in video format on YouTube, and the entire presentation will be uploaded soon.

These videos will be a great help to any non-profit agency, librarian, clergy, etc... that is encountering families in mortgage distress and would like to do all they can to assist.

To view any of the videos, visit the Center's YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/hocmn

Working with clients in foreclosure

On Tuesday, March 10th, the Minnesota Home Ownership Center, in partnership with United Way Twin Cities and several other organizations hosted a webinar for social service professionals working with clients - either homeowners or renters - who are worried about their house payment, are are being affected by a foreclosure.

The audio and PowerPoint presentation from the webinar, along with additional information about participants and an overview of the presentation are available at the Center's website:

http://www.hocmn.org/ForeclosureClients.cfm