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  • Drug testing takes off in the Laurentians — even dealers are doing it

    June 11, 2021 |

    Ricochet |

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    Response Location: Canada, St-Jérôme, Quebec

    To reduce overdose deaths from the increasing number of deadly substances found in street drugs, Centre SIDA Amitié uses lab testing to help understand exactly what drugs users are putting in their bodies and how to slow the spread of deadly drugs. They distribute testing kits to hundreds of people every year, analyze urine samples, have handed out 12,189 naloxone doses, and trained over 1,000 people to administer the drug. Staff works directly with clients in communities that don’t have access to many resources, also helping them navigate court proceedings, find housing, and get into rehab if interested.

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

    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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  • Affordable housing expansion happening on Indy's west side

    June 09, 2021 |

    WRTV-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    With 2,300 people on a wait list for affordable housing, the city of Indianapolis pumped $3 million into a vouchers program for 2021 that has already housed 672 people. Some of the vouchers are set aside for military veterans and their families experiencing homelessness. The city contracted with a national affordable-housing developer and property manager. The housing market has priced many people out of affordable, safe options. A new 61-unit development is under construction, with more homes dedicated to reducing the numbers of unhoused veterans.

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  • San Francisco's new homeless street teams make progress, garner praise

    June 04, 2021 |

    San Francisco Examiner |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco's Street Crisis Response Team is a pilot project meant to divert 911 calls for mental health emergencies from police to new teams of mobile counselors. Though it started with only one team and later expanded to four, the project in less than six months took 20% of the eligible calls. More than half the clients were helped on the streets, while most others were hospitalized or connected with shelters. The city is proposing a major expansion of this and related teams aimed at reducing the reliance on police in non-violent situations.

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  • A couch is not a home: Where the hidden homeless get housing vouchers

    June 04, 2021 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Boston used vouchers to help "doubled-up families" – those with school-age children sharing crowded apartments with other families – jump the line of people waiting for subsidized housing and get their own homes. Schools identify children living in this limbo status that often isn't visible or recognized as homelessness. They referred families to FamilyAid Boston, which put about 300 families into their own homes. Doubling up, which often violates leases and can quickly put families on the streets, is the most common homeless status of public-school students.

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  • Mobile food pantry helping Hoosiers in need

    June 04, 2021 |

    WRTV-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    A mobile food pantry is helping to increase food availability for those in the Indianapolis community. A 28-seat passenger bus was converted by Pro-Act Indy and turned into a food pantry, which takes the food to those who need it most, but who may not have the means to get to food banks.

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  • Hotels for those left unhoused by wildfires

    June 03, 2021 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    Hotels and motels are being converted into free housing for people experiencing housing instability in Oregon. Project Turnkey is a state-funded initiative that buys potential housing units and puts local organizations in charge of running them. The program was a response to displaced victims of wildfires that tore through a number of communities in 2020 but future plans include housing people experiencing homelessness for any reason.

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  • How this donation app helped get food directly to hungry people during the pandemic

    June 02, 2021 |

    FastCompany |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    “DoorDash for the food insecure” is how the founder of Food Rescue Hero describes the service that is connecting surplus food supply to those who can put it to good use. The service takes on a growing crisis of food insecurity while also diverting food from landfills. The initial pilot was created in Pittsburgh, where a team of experts created an app to redirect surplus food from restaurants and events to nonprofits that can get the food where it is most needed. A network of volunteers is notified when deliveries in their area are ready for pickup without much inconvenience to their daily routines.

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  • Black Women Come Up Short On Funds And Food In COVID-19 Pandemic

    June 01, 2021 |

    Fierce for Black Women |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Village Minds was started by Natia Simone as a Facebook page to connect people in need of food and assistance, due to COVID-19 and grocery store closures after the protests following the murder of George Floyd. However, a broader issue of food insecurity led her to expand into a formal organization that has made more than 3,650 grocery deliveries. A partnership with a local produce store helps fill bags with fresh food and a food pantry provides other staples. With the help of friends and family, Simone uses a rented U-Haul to deliver the groceries to seniors throughout Chicago.

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  • Enlisting Mental Health Workers, Not Cops, In Mobile Crisis Response

    June 01, 2021 |

    Health Affairs |

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    Response Location: United States, Eugene, Oregon

    The long-running CAHOOTS program, which replaces police with medics and social workers to respond to non-violent, non-criminal mental health crises, suicide threats, and problems stemming from homelessness, serves as a model for similar programs in the nationwide push to reimagine policing. CAHOOTS teams de-escalate crises at first simply because they are not armed police. They also take the time and have the training to calm situations and get people the help they need. Programs in Phoenix and Denver demonstrate how the idea plays out in larger cities.

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