Get Lived Experience to the MCH Conference

 Support Lived Experience Leadership at the 2025 MCH Conference

This year, we’re working to bring 50 lived experience advocates to Minnesota’s largest statewide housing and homelessness conference.

We’ve already secured support for 30 leaders—and with your help, we can get 20 more there.

Your gift supports people who’ve lived through homelessness and housing instability and are now stepping up to lead change in their communities and across the state.

$500 covers one full scholarship — including hotel, meals, transportation, child care, accessibility, and peer support for a three-day experience. But any amount helps.

Your donation helps provide:

• Safe, accessible hotel stays

• Transportation assistance (bus/train fare, carpool gas cards)

• Child care or dependent care stipends

• Interpreters, mobility tools, and other access supports

• A welcoming peer-led community during the conference

Over the past three years, LEAN has provided support and community to over 100 lived experience leaders at the MCH Conference. This year’s gathering will again feature workshops led by people with lived experience—and we want to make sure they’re in the room.

Every dollar makes a difference:

• $5 – A meal for an attendee

• $25 – Gas card for an attendee

• $50 – One hour of ASL interpretation

• $100 – A mobility scooter rental

• $250 – Two nights in a hotel

• $500 – Full three-day scholarship for one leader

Donate today and help lived experience leaders lead the way.