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Flip4Good to Lead Panel on Trauma-Informed Design at SCANPH’s Annual Conference
Los Angeles, CA, USA
September 2, 2025 at 8:37:00 PM
Flip4Good will lead a featured session at the 2025 Southern California Association of NonProfit Housing (SCANPH) Annual Conference, one of the region’s most influential gatherings for affordable housing leaders, policymakers, and advocates.
Session Title:
A Space to Heal: Shifting the Story of Transitional Housing Through Design
Track: Narrative Game-Changers for Housing Justice
Date + Time: Thursday, September 11 at 10:30 AM
Location: Room 103, Pasadena Convention Center
Authored and submitted by Flip4Good, the session will explore how trauma-informed design serves as a behavioral health intervention in transitional housing, improving outcomes, reshaping policy, and redefining the role of the built environment in healing.
Panelists:
Sam Lubell, Architectural Writer (Moderator)
David Prentice, President + CEO, The Midnight Mission
Erika Brulé, Founder + CEO, Flip4Good
Lauren Gamboa, Associate, McKinsey + Company
Rebecca Fairman, Interior Architecture Manager, Airbnb + Chief Design Officer, Flip4Good
The conversation reflects Flip4Good’s continued work to center trauma-informed design as a core strategy for housing stability, and to challenge how design decisions are made in environments that serve individuals and families in transition.
About Flip4Good
Flip4Good transforms transitional housing through trauma-informed design.
We create sensory-conscious spaces built for healing, stability, and long-term success, starting with the communities most impacted by housing insecurity.
Our model is built on behavioral health research, supplier diversity, and design as intervention. We work at the intersection of design, equity, and systems change.
Every project is delivered at an accessible cost to the facility. Every space we flip is built to help people move forward.
About Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing (SCANPH)
The mission of SCANPH is to facilitate development of affordable homes across southern California by advancing effective public policies, sustainable financial resources, strong member organizations, and beneficial partnerships.
Nonprofit developers, SCANPH’s core constituent, provide below market-rate homes for low-to-extremely-low income community members and for people experiencing homelessness. Simply put, we focus on economically disadvantaged individuals and families who are most in need of affordable housing.