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  • Four-Legged Medical Care Helps San Francisco's Homeless

    December 09, 2016 |

    KQED |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    For homeless people, their furry companions give them comfort as well as a sense of purpose and security. However, living in poverty prevents them from giving medical care and play toys to their pets. San Francisco’s Veterinary Street Outreach Services is a pop-up clinic that offers free veterinary services to homeless people’s pets twelve times a year.

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  • The Navigation Center: A Haven for the Determined

    December 08, 2016 |

    Mission Local |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    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.

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  • Can Oakland's Compassionate Communities program serve as a model for others?

    December 07, 2016 |

    E'ville Eye News |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Under increasing pressure to remove the homeless from encampments, the San Francisco bay area has had difficulty addressing the problem of where the homeless can find refuge. Oakland has established Compassionate Communities, a piloted program lead by local government officials, which pipelines funds not toward the dissolution of encampments but rather to the creation of permanent housing. So far, the program has successfully transitioned twenty-five residents of encampments into permanent housing and is projecting to dissolve the encampments by April 2017.

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  • Street outreach programs in Syracuse work to combat homelessness, especially in winter months

    November 28, 2016 |

    The Daily Orange |

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    Response Location: United States, Syracuse, New York

    The city of Syracuse uses two outreach programs to encourage homeless individuals to seek shelter during the winter months and, eventually, permanent housing. Rather than detain folks who refuse to seek shelter throughout the winter, outreach workers build trust with each unsheltered homeless person, fostering a relationship in order to encourage folks to seek safety and warmth.

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  • Longmont's Hopelight Medical Clinic providing free or low-cost care

    October 18, 2016 |

    Times-Call |

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    Response Location: United States, Longmont, Colorado

    In Longmont, Colorado the Hopelight Medical Clinic is fondly referred to as the "little clinic that could" since it provides services such as low-cost medical care, free wellness support groups, health counseling and after-school music and art classes. Based on a two-pronged approach of lessening the patient load on local hospitals while also creating a culture of collaboration amongst local doctors, the pilot program aims to treat those that are most impacted by the income gap.

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  • This man has found a wonderful way to help people through their darkest times. It starts with tea.

    October 12, 2016 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: England, Blackpool

    The key to ending social issues such as depression and homelessness may lie in prevention rather than reaction, and some non-traditional methods outside of the professional or government sphere are leading the way. Camerados is an organization in England that facilitates spaces where people can connect face-to-face. By empowering individuals to serve one another using their unique strengths or skills, they find a sense of purpose and community that helps avert crisis.

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  • This group found a simple way to get messages from homeless people to their families.

    September 21, 2016 |

    Upworthy |

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    Response Location: United States

    Kevin Adler used his own experience with his homeless and estranged uncle to create 'Miracle Messages' —a project where he could record the messages of homeless individuals and post them on social media, in order to help reunite them with their families. This project, initially likened to a “Homeless GoPro”, has already led to countless reunions, and, in some cases, stable housing.

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  • Singapore-designed weatherHyde tent for those made homeless a hit on Internet

    August 29, 2016 |

    The Straits Times |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi, Rajasthan

    A weatherproof tent for homeless families performed well in a pilot, winning design awards and public praise, even before becoming commercially available. The tent requires no tools to set up and can fit two adults and three children. For one family, it was their first home together after six years of living separately in single-gender shelters.

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  • This Republican mayor has an incredibly simple idea to help the homeless. And it seems to be working.

    August 15, 2016 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    In en effort to curb homelessness in Albuquerque, a city run program, There’s a Better Way, hires panhandlers for for maintenance day jobs beautifying the city and then connects them with homeless services.

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  • Great Falls keeping vets off the street

    August 04, 2016 |

    Great Falls Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Great Falls, Montana

    Great Falls has had success finding homes for Veterans. Through word of mouth, volunteers, and communication between agencies homes and programs have been set up to house veterans and facilitate finding them employment.

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