Past News and Updates
EveryOne Home Executive Director Elaine deColigny featured on KPFA Radio – Listen below (interview starts at 22:54 in)
December 4, 2009 at 6:00pm
Click to listen (or download)
Press Coverage of Homeless Count 2009 Findings:
Alameda County Getting Homeless Housed — KCBS
Alameda County homeless count falls — Inside Bay Area
Homeless Count 2009 results are in!
Join us as we announce the data from the Homeless Count 2009. Our 200 volunteers surveyed over 1,200 individuals in January 2009 to update local data on how many people and the characteristics of those who are homeless and at-risk of homelessness. The findings also examine housing situations ranging from on the streets, in shelters, at imminent risk of eviction, staying with friends or relatives on a temporary basis, and in permanent housing using local safety net services. You are invited to be part of our media and community event releasing the findings from this census. We will be announcing both countywide and regional data.
Wednesday, July 8th 2009 • 10 - 11:30 AM
Madison Apartments, 2nd Floor, Community Room • 160 14th St., Oakland [Map]
EveryOne Home Executive Director Elaine deColigny on Bay Area People – Click here to watch the video.
New Federal Resources for Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing: EveryOne Home Leads Planning Effort
The Economic Stimulus Package includes new funds to prevent people from losing their housing or from spending long periods of time in shelters if they do become homeless. The Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP) will provide Alameda County a minimum of $7.5 million over three years. [Read complete article] [More about HPRP]
CHAMPIONS
EveryOne Home is proud to have eleven individuals championing the work of our community to end homelessness in Alameda County. On March 20th 2009, a press event was held to launch our inaugural slate of champions who include individuals from both the public and private sector. [Read complete article] [See Champions Bios]
Reserve a Shelter Bed in Berkeley
This year, Berkeley Food and Housing Project (BFHP) launched a new City of Berkeley Centralized Bed Reservation System pilot project. Funded by Berkeley’s “Public Commons for Everyone Initiative” (PCEI), the program is designed to ensure that every shelter bed in Berkeley is given out each and every night, that the Berkeley Police and Mobile Crisis teams have accurate daily information about emergency bed availability, that homeless prevention services be offered if feasible, and that everyone have a single point of contact for daily shelter bed space, seven days per week. [Read complete article]
President Obama signs the HEARTH Act into Law
On May 19, both houses passed S. 896, the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, which included the HEARTH Act as an amendment. President Obama signed the legislation into law on May 20, funding homeless assistance programs at $2.2 billion annually. [Read complete article]
EveryOne Home Leadership Board Elects New Co-Chairs
The EveryOne Home Leadership board has elected new co-chairs. Susan R. Shelton and Daniel Sawislak have been welcomed into these new roles as of April 2009. [Read complete article]
About Health – January 26, 2009 - KPFA Radio
EveryOne Home Executive Director Elaine deColigny featured on KPFA Radio – Listen below [interview starts 1:00 in]
Click to listen (or download)
Materials from Berkeley's press conference [PDF]
Berkeley has seen the largest decrease in the number of chronically homeless disabled individuals – a 48% decrease (253 people)!
"In tough times, ranks of homeless students rising"
By EVELYN NIEVES (Associated Press)
"As foreclosures and layoffs force families out of their homes, school districts across the nation are struggling to deal with a dramatic influx of homeless children. Some districts are seeing increases of 50 to 100 percent or more and are so understaffed that it is taking weeks to help the homeless students and families who need it, according to a new survey on homeless children. Educators say students without a stable home are at greater risk of becoming truants, developing behavioral problems and failing in school." [read complete article...]
Advocacy Is Needed
We have an opportunity to expand the resources available to create homes for those with very low incomes including the homeless. Congresswoman Pelosi has asked advocates across California for ideas on how to include funding for housing in the federal economic stimulus package being crafted by President-elect Obama and Congress. Those ideas have been provided to congressional leadership, and now our Alameda County reps need to hear from us supporting the proposals. Click here for more details and to get involved.
Proposer's Conference on Friday, 12/12/08 from 2-3PM. We will be meeting at 2000 Broadway 4th Floor, Tilden Room, Oakland
Everyone Home is seeking a consultant services to translate Everyone Home's system-wide outcome goals into specific program-level outcome measurements for providers of housing and services to homeless people and people at-risk of homelessness that are consistent across multiple local funding sources.
Berkeley Food & Housing Project Tour
Tuesday, December 16th • 10:30 - 12 PM
Russell Street then Dwight Way Housing
1741 Russell / 2140 Dwight Way Berkeley
Come tour these two great sites offering transitional and permanent housing. Stay for lunch at Dwight Way! Click here for more info.
Where God Left His Shoes Film Screening A Success!
Thursday, December 4, 2008• 6:00 pm Doors Open, 6:45 pm Film Screening • FREE
Grand Lake Theater [map] • Oakland, CA
Thank you to all of our attendees, volunteers, and sponsors for making this such a successful event. If you missed our film screening, don't worry, find out more about home screening parties. Click here to view pictures from the event. For more information about hosting a home screening of Where God Left His Shoes, click here.
NY Times Editorial, November 7, 2008
"New York City pioneered the strategy of providing homeless people not just with housing but with drug treatment, psychiatric care and other services they need to live successfully on their own. Even with all the add-ons, supportive housing apartment buildings cost substantially less than shelters and are many times less expensive than jails or beds in psychiatric hospitals." [read complete article... ]