Mission Local
8 December 2016
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San Francisco, California, United States
Although San Francisco has two shelters that collectively hold more than 300 beds each, these shelters can divide up families and couples, and can discourage pets and personal belongings. These shelters also do not offer services to help the homeless. The Navigation Center serves the homeless from the encampments in the Mission District and offers a variety of services, comfort, and convenience while many successfully find stable housing placements.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/a-plan-to-make-homelessness-history
David Bornstein
The New York Times
20 December 2010
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By partnering with cities across America, the 100,000 Homes campaign is going directly to the streets to end homelessness - and it’s working. With roughly 700,000 people in the United States experiencing homelessness, this organization seeks to address that using a tiered system that considers individual health needs as well.
http://womensenews.org/story/military/150830/drugs-and-abusive-father-drove-her-military-life
Léa Bouchoucha
Women's eNews
31 August 2015
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At least 25 percent of female veterans were sexually abused in childhood, making it more difficult to reenter civilian life. Volunteers of America runs a holistic housing program for homeless veterans in the U.S.
https://womensenews.org/2015/04/female-veterans-pose-homeless-challenge-for-va
Léa Bouchoucha
Women's eNews
1 April 2015
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Female veterans are more likely to have a history of trauma, be unemployed, and be homeless. To address this disparity, the VA has started awarding grants to organizations that help female vets.
http://nationswell.com/new-orleans-ends-veteran-homelessness
Chris Peak
NationSwell
20 January 2015
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New Orleans implemented an extraordinary 10-year plan that engaged unprecedented cross-sector collaboration between government, non-profit, and private entities to provide housing and housing services to the city's homeless veterans. The city's success in providing homes for every single veteran formerly on their streets motivated cities across the nation to tackle the crises using similar means, leading to a 1/3 decline veteran homelessness since 2010.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2015/01/27/new-team-tackles-recidivism-mentally/22386237
Megan Cassidy
The Arizona Republic
27 January 2015
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Assertive community treatment teams working through outreach-centered programs in Maricopa County have become an industry standard for treating those with persistent and severe mental illnesses who have recently been incarcerated. They provide a long-term approach, aiming to halt a cycle of incarceration and hospitalization by focusing on underlying issues such as what caused the police interaction and incarceration.
http://www.yesmagazine.org/commonomics/boston-s-emerging-food-economy
Penn Loh
Yes! Magazine
7 November 2014
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By the 1980s, Roxbury and north Dorchester had been devastated by the disinvestment and white flight of the 1960s and 1970s. Racist banking and housing policies (“redlining”) had segregated people of color from opportunity, barring them from getting home loans except in certain neighborhoods. So the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) brought together residents to develop their own comprehensive plan to revitalize their community, building a community food system along the way.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/houstons-solution-to-mental-health-system-problems-offers-a-case-study-for-milwaukee-b9928490z1-210715811.html
Meg Kissinger
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
8 June 2013
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In Houston, TX, many individuals with mental illnesses cycled in and out of emergency care while arrested or incarcerated. Houston’s police department has decreased the number of incarcerated who have mental illness by opening a division to mental health called the Chronic Consumer Stabilization Unit. Now Milwaukee seeks to replicate Houston’s results.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/in-this-world-cup-the-goal-is-a-better-life
Tina Rosenberg
The New York Times
9 October 2014
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The Homeless World Cup is the premier soccer tournament for homeless players. Programs around the world use soccer as a means of building a sense of community, sublimating negative energies, and encouraging personal growth.
http://www.seattletimes.com/news/seattles-micro-housing-boom-offers-an-affordable-alternative
Susan Kelleher
The Seattle Times
4 March 2015
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People need a place to sleep and eat, they need privacy, but they also need community. Seattle had a recent boom in micro-housing which offers a community living model where individuals have a personal tiny room and bathroom but share a kitchen.
http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Reaching-into-a-void-For-mayor-s-team-of-street-2631402.php#photo-2114001
Kevin Fagan
SFGate
6 December 2004
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San Francisco's Care Not Cash program began in 2004 in response to the city's homelessness crisis. One facet of the program is an outreach team, whose members regularly visit homeless people on the street to connect them to resources such as housing and drug rehabilitation.
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