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  • Family center offers comprehensive care for the homeless

    June 29, 2016 |

    KING-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Homelessness has many challenges that require different services to aid those who have no place to live—including daycare and laundry. Seattle has established Mary’s Place Family Center, a public space that collaborates with non-profits to provide a multitude of social services to the homeless. Large corporations have donated buildings to serve as Seattle’s Mary’s Place shelters to diminish costs.

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  • #SeaHomeless: Finding affordable, innovative ways to harness technology to combat homelessness

    June 29, 2016 |

    GeekWire |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The homeless population in Seattle is in a crisis of high proportions, with people facing a myriad of challenges. Different organizations have started to better integrate technology such as social media in addressing some of these issues, transitioning away from the paper-heavy systems may hold them back from maximum efficiency in their mission and leveraging digital tools to better reach those in need.

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  • Seattle non-profit helping move homeless out of encampments and into homes

    June 29, 2016 |

    KCPQ-TV |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Seattle’s homeless camps are full of destitution. In less than one year, the Low Income Housing Institute has helped dozens of people to transition from the camps into housing. Providing more access to shelter has also facilitated the poor to re-enter the workplace.

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  • Why Summer Vacation Can Mean Empty Plates for 4,000 Seattle-Area Kids

    June 29, 2016 |

    ParentMap |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Food insecure children in Seattle amount to the hundreds of thousands in number. Local nonprofit, Food Lifeline’s Kids Café, has become an accessible option for poor children to receive free nutritious meals and snacks. The operation has expanded to 18 different branches across Seattle in locations where children go for enrichment and is currently looking into establishing locations in rural areas.

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  • Taking The Personal Approach To Lifting People Out Of Poverty

    June 29, 2016 |

    American University Radio (WAMU) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Fort Worth, Texas

    One of the challenges is that social workers who help poor people typically have large caseloads of clients and lots of paperwork, often leading to burnout. The Padua Project is trying to change that with what they call “supercharged” case workers with manageable caseloads and the freedom to come up with creative solutions to problems.

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  • SF opens new full-service shelter to get homeless off streets

    June 28, 2016 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco’s poorly staffed shelters have led many homeless to choose to stay on the street. The Navigation Center, a homeless shelter with many amenities and staff, enables the homeless to keep their personal belongings with them and accepts romantic partners as well as pets. Successfully implemented in the Mission District, San Francisco has opened a second Navigation Center on Market Street and has hopes to continue to scale the project.

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  • On the Streets of the Tenderloin, ‘a Light in an Unlit World'

    June 28, 2016 |

    KQED |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Homelessness has been a consistent problem in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. While churches can offer a form of sanctuary, some homeless persons cannot maintain the composure for a long mass. S.F. Night Ministry offers open cathedrals, which are services outside the church but offer comfort, prayer, and friendship.

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  • Houston's solution to the homeless crisis: Housing — and lots of it

    June 13, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The second part in a series of stories about Seattle's response to their homeless crisis. Here, officials look to the example of Houston to create housing options for homeless veterans and former convicts.

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  • Seattle may try San Francisco's ‘radical hospitality' for homeless

    June 11, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco officials converted an abandoned school on the Mission’s skid row into a special kind of shelter with the means to take chronically homeless adults from the street and entire encampment communities, then navigate them into housing, without the traditional, degrading rules and regulations of other shelters. It’s become one of the most closely watched homeless-related projects in the country, and Seattle is one of the cities looking to potentially replicate their model to help address the homelessness crisis.

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  • Giving Homeless People Homes In SF Saved City 56% In Costs Over 4 Years

    June 03, 2016 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    In San Francisco, empirical evidence emerges that providing housing to the homeless reduces the overall cost to the average taxpayer, in large part by reducing homeless populations' dependence on other city services and improving their health by offering shelter.

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