In January, Whole Foods Market on 86th Street in Nora, distributed over $6,000 worth of healthy organic food to the Homeless Initiative Program (HIP). The following items were picked up by our staff and delivered to the individuals housed through our Ralph Dowe Legacy Housing Project and Threshold Project. Pallets of cereal Whole wheat pasta [...]
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HOUSING FIRST approach is gaining headway across the nation!
The way homeless prevention usually went was that a person would stay in a shelter, show good behavior, and then receive support services. Now, we are realizing the positive effect of housing the homeless first along with immediately providing support services. In an article from the Detroit Free Press, it was noted that the average [...]
The NEW Homeless Veterans
There is a growing number of homeless veterans, and they aren’t the old guys with a bottle in a paper sack who fought in Vietnam. An estimated 9,000 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are homeless. An excellent video and article done by Bob Woodruff and Ian Caemeron for ABC News captures the feelings of three [...]
Homelessness and the lack of resources…
What if you said you couldn’t help someone jump their car because you didn’t have the cables? That isn’t too hard to get over. You just didn’t have the resources to help them, but maybe somebody else will come along with jumper cables. It is a pretty common tool to keep in a car. What if you [...]
Homeless prevention for Veterans
In his blog Stone Soup Station, Steven Samra says, “One of the most gut wrenching, heartbreaking things I’ve had to deal with while working with veterans is telling a man or woman with a family that there were no resources available to assist them as their world collapsed around them and they hit the bricks.” [...]
Achieving a goal takes planning, Indianapolis chose a “Blueprint”
Helping someone into a home FIRST, can offer stability and security to help them into a new life SECOND. Housing First is an approach that kind of flip flops the logical way of thinking. Many of us think that in order to obtain a home, one should 1) be sober, 2) have a steady paying [...]
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