Housing Assistance Council, Inc.
Jennifer Holt
1025 Vermont Avenue, NW #606
Washington, DC 20005-3581
Phone: 202/842-8600
Fax: 202/347-3441
Email: hac@ruralhome.org
International Union of Gospel Missions
Phil Rydman, Director of Communications
1045 Swift St.
Kansas City, MO 64116-4127
Phone: 816/471-8020
Fax: 816/471-3718
Email: iugm@iugm.org
National Alliance of HUD Tenants
Michael Kane, Executive Director
353 Columbus Avenue
Boston, MA 02116-6005
Phone: 617/267-9564
Fax: 617/267-4769
Email:HN4273@handsnet.org
National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
Linda Boone, Executive Director
333 1/2 Pennsylvania Ave., SE
Washington, DC 20003
Phone: 800/838-4357
Fax: 888/233-8582 (toll free) or 202/546-2063
nchv@nchv.org
National Housing Conference
Maria Fiore, Program Manager
815 Fifteenth Street, NW
Suite 538
Washington, DC 20005-2201
Phone: 202-393-5772, ext. 24
Fax: 202-393-5656
Email: nhc@nhc.org
National Interfaith Hospitality Network
Karen Olson, President
120 Morris Ave.
Summit, NJ 07901
Phone: 908-273-1100
Fax: 908-273-0030 (fax)
Email: nihnnj@aol.com
Dignity Housing
Alicia Christian, Executive Director
7208 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19119
Phone: (215) 242-3140
Fax: (215) 242-3382
Dignity is a property management agency with its base in advocacy.
Dignity Housing is an innovative approach to providing permanent
housing for the homeless. Its goal is to enable tenants to live
independently in stable, supportive environments.
Drop Inn Center
Pat Clifford and Andy Hutzel
217 West 12th Street
Cincinnati, OH 45210-2201
Phone: (513) 721-0643
Fax: (513) 721-8937
Activities: The Drop Inn Center is a shelter serving 150-250
men and women each day. Services include food, clothing,
shelter, advocacy, detoxification, substance abuse treatment,
and transitional housing. The Drop Inn Center founded a low-income
housing co-op a block from the shelter. The housing co-op provides
permanent housing for our homeless residents (140 current units).
Activities: a meal program along with Food Not Bombs, and runs
an outreach program, a self-advocacy center, and a van transport
to shelters.
Activities: We operate a secondary economy where patrons can
earn points of improvement. An evaluation component also produces
portfolios summarizing individual work habits and job skills. We
have trained over 1000 people in the HTC model of empowerment.
Activities: In 1990, SHARE organized a Tent City of 140 homeless
people to protest inadequate shelter space. Tent City participants
successfully negotiated with the city for buildings which became
the Bus Barn Temporary Shelter and the Aloha Inn Transitional
Housing Program. Currently SHARE operates eight self-managed
shelters in donated spaces throughout the city, two Winter
Response shelters on City contracts, and a Storage Locker Program.
The Locker Program and self-managed shelters serve 200 people
each. SHARE is also a partner in a low-income housing group.
Provide direct services to the most needy and the most vulnerable
of our city, especially those who live on the streets and in the
shelters, those who are poor, and those who are elderly. The
services we provide include efforts to alleviate pain, hunger and
isolation. We try to provide services in a dignfied manner that
demonstrates our respect for the humanity of all who come to
SOME.
Activities: CARC is a self-run and self-supported program.
Everyone who works for the program has either come off the streets
or been released from jail or prison. We serve only homeless
alcoholics or addicts who wish to get sober.
National Health Care for the Homeless Council
Interagency Council on the Homeless
National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth
National Coalition for the Homeless
National Housing Law Project
National Low Income Housing Coalition
National Network for Youth
National Rural Housing Coalition
National Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness
Students Together Ending Poverty
Travelers Aid International
Coalition on Homelessness
Paul Boden
468 Turk Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: 415.346.3740
Fax: 415.775.5639
Email: coh@sfo.com
Activities: The Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco (COH)
was organized in 1987 to garner the active participation of poor
people on both the design and critique of public policy and
non-profit services that result in permanent solutions to poverty.
Citizens About Real Empowerment (C.A.R.E.)
Activities: CARE educates people who are poor about the political
process, it educates public officials about poverty and
homelessness, it testifies at public hearings, writes letters to
public officials, registers voters, and networks with other local
and national citizen action groups.
The Fund for Self Reliance
Activities: The Fund for Self Reliance is a special grants initiative of
The Boston Foundation, which supports the efforts among homeless
and formerly homeless people across Massachusetts to organize
themselves both on the basis of self-advocacy and self-help.
Homeless Empowerment Relationship Organization (HERO)
Activities: Participants attend and take part in a series of classes
called "Pathfinders Compass." After successful completion of the
series, they are matched with a volunteer mentor or team of mentors
to achieve the goals that they have set for themselves Weekly
contact and monthly support meetings provide access to resources,
encouragement, celebration, and education/information.
Homeless On the Move for Equality (H.O.M.E.)
Activities: HOME is currently working to promote both affordable
housing and living wage jobs incentives. We are surveying our
homeless individuals for the purpose of having a basis of proof to
show legislators the need for both.
New Haven Homeless Resource Center
Activities: The NHHRC is a day center run by and for the homeless
and formerly homeless. It produces a street newspaper, Center Talk.
It has recreation, medical services, substance abuse recovery peer
groups, a Women's Group, and a Job Club. All staff at the Center
are homeless or formerly homeless.
Northeast Coalition for the Homeless
Activities: We routinely conduct registration campaigns to get
homeless people registered to vote, which are usually successful.
Activities: Our Voices Heard is group of homeless and formerly
homeless people formed to participate in the decision-making
process driving Baltimore's homelessness policies.
Solutions That Work
Activities: Solutions That Work runs three direct service projects
which were designed by and are run and governed by people who
are or were homeless. Each project also provides job training and
short- and long-term employment for people working their way out
of homelessness.
Activities: Current projects incorporate community support of
beautification and improvement projects while simultaneously
offering supportive job training opportunities to formerly homeless
individuals.
STRIVE prepares participants for the workforce through a strict,
demanding three-week workshop (120 hours) which focuses on the
attitudinal prerequisites for successful entry-level employment.
Activities: The Roofless Women's Action Mobilization (RWARM)
grew out of a desire to involve women who have experienced
homelessness in policy-making on issues affecting homeless women.
Activities: SOHPA conducts a monthly board meeting and
community meetings every other Wednesday. Right now there are
three committees: Entitlement, Housing, and Jobs.
Activities: WTP has weekly Tuesday meetings at the Community
Soup Kitchen. We have chapters in Waterbury and New Haven.
Also WTP is working with the Painters' Union and using HUD and
city funds to start an apprenticeship program. About 10 homeless
men are card-carrying (unionized) painters now. We're trying to
replicate that in Hartford, and WTP is trying to expand by getting
more funding.
Oakland Independence Support Center (OISC)
James Sweeney, Executive Director
P.O. Box 70010, Station D
Oakland, CA 94612-0010
Phone: (510) 465-7624 or (510) 465-2904
Fax: (510) 465-4905
Email: oisc@coordinet.com
Activities: The OISC is a day center for mentally ill adults,
whose clients all have decision-making power. Services include
medication, monitoring, advocating for entitlement programs, legal
services, psychologist referrals, free breakfast and lunch, shelter
advocates, and free clothing. OISC works in coalition with a 30-bed
shelter around the block, and is part of HUD's Shelter Plus Care
program. Most clients are dually diagnosed, so substance abuse
counseling is available.
Community for Creative Non-Violence (C.C.N.V.)
Activities: CCNV is a 1,350-bed shelter for both men and women,
which is open 24 hours daily. CCNV provides clothing, mail service,
counseling, and educational and library services, and has a 32-bed
infirmary. CCNV provides summer and regular (6 months or longer)
internships. Through independent in-house service providers, the
residents receive food, medical and dental care, psychiatrist, drug
and alcohol rehabilitation, job training and placement, and free
legal assistance.
Activities: HWN brings technology-free email, internet, website
development-to homeless women, and teaches them to use this
technology. To unify scattered community resources, we developed
a database and made it publicly available over the Internet.
Activities/Organizational History/Mission Statement: The
Homestead Organizing Project (HOP) is a grassroots homeless
empowerment group dedicated to reopening abandoned housing.
HOP is a project of the Church Council of Greater Seattle.
Primarily educates state legislators on the conditions of poor
and homeless families within the state of Utah. JEDI, as a women's
resource center, provides job counseling and clothing for women
going to job interviews, as well as other services.
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