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  • MMSD more than triples weekly food distribution from spring with more sites, bus delivery

    November 16, 2020 |

    The Cap Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Madison, Wisconsin

    The Madison Metropolitan School District created a food delivery program so students could access meals during the pandemic when teaching became virtual. When they noticed only 15,000 meals were being delivered, a low number, they created changes to their meal distribution program. The district collaborated with Badger buses to deliver the school lunches, then at specific stops school officials would distribute the meals to students. After the changes, 50,000 meals were delivered.

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  • Swords to Plowshares Providing In-Person Veterans Services During Pandemic

    November 12, 2020 |

    San Francisco Public Press |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    A drastic decrease in homelessness among veterans in San Francisco has been credited to the efforts of Swords to Plowshares, which is a veterans services group. Wraparound services helped veterans find temporary housing, permanent housing, mental health services, and help finding jobs.

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  • Who's leading Covid-19 outreach among the homeless? The homeless themselves.

    November 12, 2020 |

    Mission Local |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    In the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, local community members are leading the effort to reach out to those experiencing homelessness during the coronavirus pandemic. This effort has been successful in coordinating and distributing testing that is accessible to the population. As the director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations explains, “any public health response that does not center the voices of people who have lived the experience of homelessness is going to come up with the wrong solution.”

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  • Veteran homelessness in Chittenden County has dropped significantly. Here's what it took.

    November 11, 2020 |

    USA Today |

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    Response Location: United States, Winooski, Vermont

    Canal Street Veterans Housing was instrumental in ending veteran homelessness in Chittenden County, Vermont. The program provided two years of transitional housing for veterans and their families, job training services, and mental health care. An emphasis was put on providing mental and physical health screenings to help those dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder.

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  • Where Housing, Not Jails, Is the Answer to Homelessness

    November 09, 2020 |

    70 Million |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Even while Los Angeles police criminalize homelessness with "sweeps" to clear encampments from public property, state and local programs have helped thousands of people find housing and receive services like counseling and criminal record expungement. Programs like LA DOOR and Project Roomkey use public-health and housing-first approaches to address people's underlying problems rather than subject them to endless cycles of arrest and incarceration, all of which cost far more than the helpful strategies while remaining far less effective. Street outreach is done without police escorts, to build trust.

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  • School districts think outside the cafeteria to get students meals amid pandemic

    November 09, 2020 |

    KVEO-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, McAllen, Texas

    School districts in the Rio Grande area of Texas are turning to alternatives to deliver meals to students who are remote-learning. Programs like school curbside pick-up, and meals on wheels, where a bus loaded has designated stops where families can pick up meals, have emerged. One district in the area delivers up to 6,000 meals to students.

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  • Unhoused: Status Quo

    November 05, 2020 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Boulder County, Colorado

    Housing First has successfully been implemented in cities across the world to reduce the number of people sleeping on the streets but in Boulder County, the approach has not been nearly as effective. The lack of affordable housing has resulted in just a small percentage of unhoused people accessing a place to live, while services for those who do not make the cut have been drastically reduced. While plans to create more affordable housing are in place, the Housing First approach in Boulder County has led to a reduction in homelessness services and only one homeless shelter stands.

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  • Urban farmers in Richmond are helping in the fight against food insecurity

    November 05, 2020 |

    Richmond Confidential |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

    Urban Tilth, an urban farm in California, is providing food directly to communities in need and upending the traditional food supply chain so they can help people access healthy and sustainably-grown food. They have been providing local organic food to 190 families financially impacted by COVID-19, almost six times more food they’ve distributed since the pandemic began.

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  • There's Still Hope

    October 30, 2020 |

    QNotes Carolinas |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    There's Still Hope provides temporary housing for members of the LGBTQ community - focusing especially on transgender women. Participants in the outreach program are given housing, a grocery stipend, transportation passes, and skills training that will help obtain employment. They are also expected to do their part by avoiding sex work and substance abuse and are connected with services that help them towards those goals.

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  • Managing scarcity

    October 29, 2020 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    In Boulder, Colorado those working to address the increasing rate of homelessness are reallocating resources to support longterm housing options as opposed to the traditional temporary services – such as shelters. Although there are challenges to this approach and it's too early to gauge the longterm reality of this approach, early results from the method have shown that consolidating resources has reduced operational costs while housing over 450 people.

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