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Homelessness: A Renewal of Commitment A statement by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on committing to helping the homeless. www.elca.org/dcs/homeless.html The Homeless Page: Separates homelessness facts from homelessness fiction. www.teleport.com/~ronl/homeless.htm 54 Ways You Can Help the Homeless: A book about ways to help the homeless. http://ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu/ways/54.html National Coalition for the Homeless: A national advocacy network committed to ending homelessness. Harwich Ecumenical Council for the Homeless: A group that helps prevent homelessness. Ecumenical Chaplaincy to the Homeless, Berkeley: A group trying to reverse the psychological and spiritual deterioration of the homeless. www.emf.net/~cheetaham/gecnss-1.html Bethesda Project: Finds and cares for the abandoned poor. www.netaxs.com/people/bethesda Bay Area Homelessness Project: A consortium of sixteen colleges and universities dedicated to teaching its students about homelessness. thecity.sfsu.edu/~stewartd/ St. Vincent de Paul Village: A non-profit organization’s rehabilitation program for the homeless. National Coalition for the Homeless: The National Coalition is a national advocacy network of homeless people, activists, and those committed to ending homelessness. This site provides tons of information! A Message on Homelessness: A Renewal of Commitment www.elca.org/dcs/homelessness.html How to Find a Shelter Tonight: The title says it all! ww2.med.jhu.edu/mdaap/resources/hrml.html Pontifical Commission Justice and Peace: The Church and Homelessness: This site is text-based, but easy to read. It was written and formed by a church. A Tale of Two Nations-The Creation of American “Poverty Nomads”: Gives information about homelessness and tells the sad stories those who are unfortunate enough to lose their homes. Homelessness: A Service Learning Course: This site describes a course people in Wisconsin are taking about the political, economic, racial, and social causes of homelessness. Racism and Teaching about Homelessness thecity/sfsu.edu/~stewartd/sfsu_out.s95.html Ten ThingsYou Can Do About Homelessness Today!: thecity.sfsu.edu/~sterwartd/ten.html Homelessness Prevention: It’s a program that “provides case management, budget counseling, cash assistance, health,substance abuse, and other social services” to those in need. Impact OnLine: Has a program called Volunteer America The motto is: Opportunities Where You Can Make an Impact-Now! www.webcom.com/~iol/200home.html Homelessness and Substance Abuse: Gives information about Homelessness and Substance Abuse. jointogether.org/JTO/issues/Homeless/Homeless_Index.html 54 Ways You Can Help the Homeless: Peregrine Productions: A film production company with videos available about many social concerns including homelessness. Holy Land Foundation: The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development is a non-profit organization with focus on national and international programs aimed at helping the needy, empowering the is advantaged, and finding practical solutions for human suffering everywhere. Homeless-Missing Persons Project: A new website to help reunite missing people with their loved ones. Covenant House: Provides aid to homeless children. International Union of Gospel Missions: The International Union of Gospel Missions is an association of over 250 rescue missions and other Christian organizations that are reaching out to the homeless, the poor, "at risk" urban youth, and alcoholics and drug addicts in inner cities throughout the world. Stone Soup: Students Together Offering Nourishment and Enthusiasm,Students Together Offering Nourishment and Enthusiasm, is a group at the Washington University in St. Louis. Convoy Bosnia: Non-profit organization concerned about the plight of theon-profit organization concerned about the plight of the hundreds of thousands of civilians wounded, orphaned or made homeless by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A Musical Feast: Join over 100 of today's most popular recording arts in a benefit for homelessness. Refugee & homeless Homepage: UK - Links to indexes and resources for homeless and refugee care in London, UK. Reading lists and active organizations are detailed. s1.cxwms.ac.uk/Academic/AGPU/staffpag/robinson/interest/homeless/homepage.html Bay Area Homelessness Project: Consortium of colleges and universities organizing to prevent and end homelessness. Real Change: This is Seattle's homeless newspaper. Covington's Homeless: A Documentary: This is a photographic documentary on the Homeless in the Northern Kentucky City of Covington. Action for the Homeless:Working with the community and with elected officials on preventative measures to eliminate homelessness in Maryland. American Homeless Society (AHS): Join America's war on homelessness. The Bowery Mission: This provides emergency feeding, recovery and restoration services to homeless, hungry, drug addicted and needy men, women and children. Burnside Advocates Group: About working to end homelessness in Portland, Oregon. Community Services Agency:Helping the hungry, homeless, needy, and elderly in Mountain View, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills, CA. Downtown Women's Center: Amarillo, TX - dedicated to helping the homeless by selling one of a kind handcrafted items. Emergency Housing Consortium: Silicon Valley's response to homelessness. Family Life Support Center, Inc. : Homeless prevention and community stabilization consulting services. HomeAid America: Our mission is to build or renovate shelters for transitionally homeless men, women and children. Homeless Veterans Base Camp: A non-profit organization for helping homeless Veterans. Homes of Refuge: They are dedicated to giving a "helping hand" to those that have fallen into the misfortune of homelessness. Human Concern Center: They help the Marin County residents experiencing financial and housing problems. Jobs Consortium:A non-profit organization specializing in client-centered training and employment services with disabled and non-disabled homeless people. Kidsacks: This program provides sleeping bags to homeless children. Includes information on starting a program in your community. National Health Care for the Homeless Council, Inc. : An organization of health care providers working to help bring about reform of the health care system to best serve the needs of people who are homeless. Project H.O.M.E. : A nonprofit organization that provides housing and services to chronically homeless men and women in Philadelphia. Rosie's Place: This organization provides a safe and nurturing environment to help poor and homeless women maintain their dignity, seek opportunity and find security in their lives. Santa Cruz Homeless Garden Project: This project provides a job-training and transitional employment program for homeless and marginalized people. Texas Homeless Network: This Network is committed to promoting effective service to homeless people in Texas. UCSF Homeless Clinic: A student-run clinic that seeks to provide medical care to the homeless and indigent people of San Francisco. Youth Against Complacency and Homelessness Today (YACHT): The title explains itself. A meeting took place in Chicago to unify, and continue the efforts of creating street newspapers in areas from Quebec to Canada.: www.speakeasy.org/nasnai'RCcoverage.html General nformation about how and why people become homeless and what you can do to help.: A newspaper developed and written by the homeless population of Seattle. It includes articles on controversial issues of the day, poetry, wntten by homeless people and other miscellaneous articles.: www.speakeasy.org/realchange/arc.home.html A newspaper written and distributed by homeless victims, it contains articles from editorials to advice columns to horoscopes.: This collection of words and thoughts from homeless people tears do the barrier that has, for so long, limited the understanding of homelessness. We are now able to hear words from the actual homeless people, rather than words about them. : Information on homeless the various categories of homeless people including inner cit, homelessness and homeless mothers. Also infoirnation on how you can help the homeless in your area and other ministries who are reaching out to Statistics and facts about homelessness. A survey given to homeless people in the Las Angeles area about their attitudes toward homelessness. : www.iugm.org/stats.html Information concerning the homeless issue in Europe and their federal programs set up to help curb the problem on a continental level. The story of two sisters and their struggle to retrieve their mother from the grips of homelessness and bring her home. |
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