Sherri Downing

Sherri
Downing

Senior Consultant ll, CTTAC

Sherri Downing is a senior consultant II for Advocates for Human Potential (AHP). Ms. Downing is nationally recognized as a thought leader for her expertise in homelessness and housing with an emphasis on these issues in frontier and rural communities. She has expertise in issues that lead to and sustain homelessness, including trauma, poverty, domestic and sexual violence, and behavioral health disorders. She is an experienced coalition and capacity builder and is knowledgeable about public housing initiatives and implementing the strategies, public policies, and practices needed to address homelessness. She has led the creation of resources on a wide range of topics, including substance use disorders and treatment, homelessness prevention, homelessness in rural and frontier environments, rural opioid issues, homelessness among youth, accessing mainstream identification for people experiencing homelessness, community collaboration, and rural housing.