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  • Homeless I.D. Project puts many on the road to recovery

    May 02, 2019 |

    AZ Big Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    Arizona's Homeless I.D. Project helps houseless folks obtain identification documents such as IDs, birth certificates, and social security cards to facilitate re-entry into society. IDs are often stolen or misplaced within the homeless community; the Homeless ID Project helps individuals get back on their feet and become eligible for jobs by replacing these documents.

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  • Boise's ‘Housing First' Provides A New Solution To Idaho Homelessness

    April 30, 2019 |

    Boise State Public Radio (KBSX) |

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    Response Location: United States, Boise, Idaho

    With New Path Community Housing, Boise is one more city implementing Housing First policies to help reduce rates of homelessness. The apartment complex also includes onsite services and healthcare providers to help people transition into permanent housing.

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  • This truck is making sure the homeless have clean clothes

    April 24, 2019 |

    KMGH-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Backed by $160,000 in philanthropic donations, two laundry trucks frequent 7-8 locations in Denver, Colorado to offer laundry services for people experiencing homelessness or extreme poverty. Clean clothes are vital to an individual's confidence and dignity, and can enable people to keep appointments, go to job interviews, or to just fight the stigma of homelessness. These trucks are part of a larger movement across the US to offer these mobile laundry services to those who need it most.

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  • This Website Empowers People in Need to Make Art — And Sell It for Thousands of Dollars

    April 16, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    For individuals who are homeless or otherwise disadvantaged, art can be more than therapeutic—it can be lucrative. ArtLifting, a public benefit corporation started in Boston, MA, specializes in helping homeless and disabled artists sell their art. Business including Staples and Microsoft have bought art for their offices. ArtLifting splits the profits with artists and also funds art programs.

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  • Independence police finding new ways to tackle homelessness

    April 16, 2019 |

    KSHB-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Independence, Missouri

    The Independence, Missouri police department is taking an empathy-first approach to homelessness in the city. Instead of making arrests for trespassing or other crimes associated with homelessness, police officers work with the individuals to provide them with the resources they need to get back on their feet.

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  • Temple Students “Swipe Out Hunger” in Philly

    April 08, 2019 |

    Green Philly |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Students at Temple University are using their unused meal "swipes"--or prepaid dining hall entries--to help buy food for those in need in Philadelphia. The organization Swipes for Philadelphia now has expanded their initial idea to host general meetings on topics like food insecurity, homelessness, and overall struggles of low-wage workers. The organization also tackles related issues like food waste.

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  • Nonprofit helps reunite homeless with family, friends through digital detective work

    March 25, 2019 |

    San Diego Union-Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco

    The San-Francisco based organization Miracle Messages has helped to reunited around 200 people experiencing homelessness with friends and family using the internet and a small-but-dedicated group of staff. The team fields requests from people looking for information and the ability to re-connect with friends or family, than uses Facebook, Whitepages Premium, and more to track someone down and make the connection, although some cases are more difficult than others.

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  • Helping the Homeless to Make Their Medical Preferences Known

    March 19, 2019 |

    Undark |

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    Response Location: United States, Venice, California

    When people experiencing homelessness are admitted to a hospital, they don't always have advance care directives in place which takes ownership away from them as far as dictating their treatment, who to contact and what to do with their organs should they die. The St. Robert’s Center in Venice, California is working to change this, however, by bringing the necessary paperwork to those that may need it most.

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  • Colleges start looking for ways to house and feed their students who are homeless

    March 18, 2019 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States

    Thirty-six percent of university and 46 percent of community college students in the United States are housing insecure. From providing monthly rent subsidies to allowing students living in their cars to park on campus to matching community college students with empty dorm rooms at nearby schools, colleges across the country are working with nonprofits and housing authorities to develop creative solutions.

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  • 3 cities in the U.S. have ended chronic homelessness: Here's how they did it

    March 11, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, Abilene

    The national program Built for Zero is aiming to end veteran and chronic homelessness by using a comprehensive data set that allows for tracking of the homelessness situation day-by-day, along with a Housing First approach that emphasizes getting people into permanent housing before offering services for other issues. The work is spreading across the country, with more than 50 cities implementing some version of the same solution, although there are concerns for the privacy of people experiencing homelessness, as well as the sustainability of the solution.

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