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  • Portland wanted to shelter every homeless family. The plan backfired, but it offers lessons for Seattle.

    August 24, 2018 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Portland, Oregon embraced the idea of not turning anyone away from homeless shelters a couple of years ago, but the well-meaning approach quickly ballooned in costs and ultimately was unable to fulfill its promise. However, the failure provides lessons for other cities considering similar initiatives - particularly, which kind of restraints and supports must exist to make "housing as a human right" more than just a slogan.

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  • This Program Helps Homeless Students Stay in School

    August 22, 2018 |

    NationSwell |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Since 2007, SIMBA and ASET have connected over 1,000 homeless students living in New York City with academic resources. All students in the 2018 class graduated from high school with multiple college acceptances.

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  • In San Francisco, Opioid Addiction Treatment Offered on the Streets

    August 18, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco health workers can hand out prescriptions to opioid treatment buprenorphine on the street as part of a $6 million program called Street Medicine Team. The program aims to treat homeless, long-term drug users who don't come to clinics. So far, 20 of the first 95 patients are still in the program.

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  • For Women, by Women: A Sisterhood of Carpenters Builds Tiny Houses for the Homeless

    August 17, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Women4Women is an initiative that brings tradeswomen together in the construction field to do volunteer work for others. Since women represent just ten percent of construction workers in the United States, having the camaraderie and support of other women provides a place to turn when their authority is challenged. They are putting their skills to good work: the group recently built 15 tiny homes in Seattle that will act as emergency shelter for homeless women, and they have also repaired homes for the elderly.

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  • To prevent chronic homelessness, Philly nonprofit offers some young adults more than shelter

    August 17, 2018 |

    WHYY |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Long-term housing support helps end the cycles of displacement that lead to chronic homelessness. Although permanent supportive housing programs are usually associated with older individuals, such programs can be directed toward the prevention of homelessness. In Philadelphia, Project Home’s program offers long-term subsided apartments to young adults at risk of being on the street.

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  • Lessons for Rochester: Failed Bronx school becomes coolest place in town

    August 13, 2018 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    One year after a Bronx school closed its doors to students on the basis of pass rates as low as 10 percent, a pioneering principal reopened the school on the same site with the same students. In the first year, 61 percent of students passed the English language arts exams and 78 passed the math exams. The principal cites parental involvement, external mental health partnerships, and an emphasis on professional development for the remarkable improvements. Could Rochester see the same turnaround in one of its own struggling public schools?

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  • A cheaper way to ease Seattle's homeless crisis? Pierce County sees promising results

    August 12, 2018 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Tacoma, Washington

    In Washington State's Pierce County, homeless services employees have been helping people on the housing waiting list by using "diversion," to "connect clients to one-time financial help, instead of a prolonged subsidy, to secure housing." The two-year pilot program found that 50% of people who opted into diversion found permanent housing, 15% more than those who were directed to emergency shelters. While the diversion strategy is not a fix for systemic issues that keep people from securing housing, it is an approach that is both useful and cost-saving.

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  • 'A perfect circle of helping': 3 nonprofits join forces to feed people in Kensington

    August 08, 2018 |

    Billy Penn |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    In Philadelphia, a collaboration between three nonprofits is providing 500 free lunches, both filling a gap in nonprofit service on Friday afternoons and giving those recently entered into recovery for addiction a task and sense of purpose. How does it work? The Sunday LOVE Project, a hunger nonprofit, delivers extra food to First Stop Recovery, an addiction recovery center, where residents assemble and pack lunches. Those lunches are then delivered to people with addictions at Prevention Point Philadelphia.

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  • Scanning homeless people to donate money

    August 07, 2018 |

    BBC |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United Kingdom, Oxford

    A project in Oxford gives homeless individuals QR codes that passersby can scan with their phones. The QR code links to information about the homeless person and facilitates electronic donations. A case worker co-manages the account and makes sure that the donations are spent on agreed-upon targets.

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  • How having space — even small enough to hold a cellphone — is helping Chicago's homeless

    August 01, 2018 |

    Chicago Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Though homelessness is an entrenched and complex problem, small solutions can make a difference in the daily life of homeless individuals. Lockers for overnight cell phone storage in a homeless shelter in Chicago are significant: people can wake up with a sense of security, knowing their phones will be available to help find jobs or stay in touch with loved ones. This is part of the Chicago Youth Storage Initiative, which as since funded 755 storage unites at homeless shelters across Chicago.

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