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What can Mount Vernon learn from Mansfield's approach to remedying year-round homelessness?

Grant Pepper

November 29, 2021 |

Knox Pages |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

Year-round shelters for people experiencing homelessness are uncommon in north central Ohio, making Harmony House a vital resource for the community. The organization provides a place to sleep in addition to wraparound services for people to get back on their feet. The organization relies on government grants and community support.

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Meet the amazing people rewriting the narrative about LGBTQ youth homelessness

Sam Manzella

November 10, 2021 |

LGBTQ Nation |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

The Ali Forney Center is the largest of several organizations across the country serving LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness. It has seventeen sites and serves about 2,000 young people a year, nearly half of whom come from out of state. In addition to setting people up with stable housing, the drop-in center serves daily meals and offers showers and laundry. Advocacy programs and case managers help the youth find permanent jobs, further their education, or put funds aside to secure stable long-term housing. They also offer counseling services, support groups, and temporary employment for many young people.

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As Anchorage debates opening a mass homeless shelter, potential lessons come from Reno and San Francisco

Marc Lester Michelle Theriault Boots

August 19, 2021 |

Anchorage Daily News |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Reno, Nevada

An innovative approach to providing shelter for those experiencing housing instability could provide a blueprint for the city of Anchorage. Reno and San Francisco have built shelters that arrange on-site, wraparound services ranging from laundry to securing long-term housing to medical detox.

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Monterey County is making headway in adding homeless shelters, but there's still a ways to go.

Pam Marino

July 16, 2021 |

Monterey County Weekly |

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Response Location: United States, Monterey County, California

Casa de Noche Buena is a homeless shelter that takes a housing-first approach to providing services, which means almost anyone can find help there. Along with a place to sleep, the shelter also provides wraparound services such as medical attention and help finding employment. Several guests have had success finding permanent homes.

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Phoenix hotel turned homeless shelter is seeing success

Melissa Blasius

June 24, 2021 |

KNXV-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Arizona

The Central Arizona Shelter Services, with help from the City of Phoenix and federal CARES Act COVID relief money, contracted a local hotel to turn 100 rooms into a shelter for the growing number of seniors experiencing homelessness. Known as Project Haven, the rooms help people remain socially distanced and restore people’s dignity. The success of the model brought in other partners, such as behavioral health services and on-site caseworkers to assist with job searches, family reunification, or rental assistance. In the first year, 70% of the 217 seniors it served found positive housing outcomes.

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ECHO seeing success 6 months into motel-turned-shelter program

Alexa Bertola

June 24, 2021 |

KSBY-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Paso Robles, California

ECHO runs an emergency shelter in a converted motel that helps get people off the street and into safety. They also run a 90-day program that provides access to services like mental health support and job placement. Housed 500 people in six months and helped dozens of people find long-term housing.

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Wichita's homeless providers navigate congregate living in age of social distancing

Matthew Kelly

June 09, 2021 |

The Wichita Eagle |

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Response Location: United States, Wichita, Kansas

Wichita secured $850,376 of federal grant money through the CARES Act, which it is distributing to homeless shelters and other organizations that work with people experiencing homelessness to slow the spread of COVID-19. Local providers connect with each other to share their best practices for stopping the virus, including taking temperatures, mandatory hand-washing, and mask wearing, and making sure that beds meet social distancing guidelines. None of their clients in homeless shelters have tested positive so far.

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Homeless Oaklanders were tired of the housing crisis. So they built a ‘miracle' village

Gabrielle Canon

May 11, 2021 |

The Guardian |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

A group of people experiencing homelessness have created Cob on Wood, a place where members can access free hot showers, food, shelter, clothing, books, a health clinic, gardens, and even an outdoor pizza oven. Most importantly, Cob on Wood provides a sense of community and dignity for the almost 300 unhoused people who live there. Local artists and organizations came together to create structures and provide the resources needed to bring the vision to reality.

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Portland's Bybee Lakes Hope Center: A jail no more

Jim Redden

April 28, 2021 |

Portland Tribune |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

Multnomah County sold its unused Wapato Jail to a developer whose nonprofit partner has used grants and donations to turn the former jail into Bybee Lakes Hope Center, a residential treatment program for unhoused people. After two weeks in temporary homeless-shelter status, people can opt to enroll in a three-month treatment program, something that 65% of them have agreed to do. That program combines sober living rules with job training and other services. Nearly 200 people have completed the program. The center is working on a large expansion project providing hundreds more beds.

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How Montrose is Addressing Homelessness & Where It Comes Up Short

Laura Palmisano

February 01, 2021 |

Mountain Grown Community Radio (KVNF) |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Montrose County, Colorado

A hotel voucher program in Montrose County, Colorado, provided temporary relief for families and individuals experiencing homelessness during the pandemic. The program helped 80 people, especially because the sole homeless shelter in the county is seasonal - operating only from November to April. Montrose County can look to neighboring Grand Junction for a blueprint to alleviate chronic homelessness through collaboration.

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