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Celico’s Story: A Former Foster Youth Finds Home through Innovative Local Partnership
As a teenager Celico made the difficult decision to leave her home in order to escape an “uncomfortable situation”. Unfortunately, her new life was not much better. In order to get through her difficult teenage years she adopted the motto “survive or die”. In her second foster home Celico suffered a devastating disappointment when the adoption she was hoping for never happened. Through all the set backs she continued to focus on her high school education, graduating early with a 3.8 GPA. Celico then emancipated herself six months early from foster care.
On her own at 17 and with no stable place to live she bounced around, staying at friend’s houses for years. During this time Celico became pregnant with twins and realized...
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News Briefs
Happy Anniversary!
October 2008 marked the 4th anniversary of Alameda County’s Homeless and Caring Court. And, this innovative collaboration is still going strong...
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Countywide Annual Renewal of Federal Homeless Assistance Grant Submitted: Advocacy Is Needed
On October 22nd, EveryOne Home submitted the Homeless Assistance Grants application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This year's application contained 46 projects, totaling more than $22 million...
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New Housing Funds Could be Used to House the Homeless
The Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) is a new program of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) providing $3.9 billion to communities that have been hit hard by the foreclosure crisis, allowing them to buy and reuse vacant or foreclosed properties. Advocacy is needed...
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Housing Really is Health Care: The Evidence Continues to Grow
In its recently published final evaluation of the Frequent Users of Health Services Initiative, the authors note that homeless frequent users connected to permanent housing saw dramatic reductions in Emergency Department visits and costs. They also saw improved health stability...
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"Good Neighbors" NY Times Editorial, 11/8/08
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....
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News You Can Use
Where God Left His Shoes Film Screening
Thursday, December 4 • 6:00 pm Doors Open, 6:45 pm Film Screening • FREE
Grand Lake Theater • Oakland, CA
Through a partnership between Vulcan Productions and America's Road Home, a few qualifying organizations were granted the opportunity to screen this film. EveryOne Home is pleased to present this free community building event to raise awareness about Homelessness in Alameda County. Join your community in the holiday spirit at this wonderful free event! Invite your friends, family, neighbors and congregations!
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Resource Spotlight: 2-1-1
By now you should know that 2-1-1 is a free, non-emergency, confidential, 3-digit phone number and service that provides easy access to housing information, and critical health and human services. 2-1-1 operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with multi-lingual capabilities. What you may not know is that 211 is only as good as the updates and information it receives from housing, shelter, and service providers. If you’re a provider, please contact 211 with any changes or updates to the services you provide. EveryOne can help promote 211 by placing it on your website or printing out fliers for posting, click here to request materials.
Full Service Partnerships (FSPs) End Homelessness for Hundreds Living with Serious Mental Illness in our County
In the midst of EveryOne Home’s Sponsoring Agencies’ (link) work to write a housing plan for the County’s homelessness and extremely low-income person’s living with serious mental illness and/or HIV/AIDS the voters of California approved The Mental Health Services Act (MHSA),(link) formerly known as Proposition 63. The MHSA went into effect on January 1, 2005 and imposes a 1% tax on personal annual incomes in excess of $1 million in order to increase funding statewide for mental health services. A portion of MHSA funds have been set aside for the creation of special new programs known as Full Service Partnership (FSPs)...
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EveryOne Home would like to thank the following contributors for making this issue possible:
Kathie Barkow, boona chema, Deanne Pearn, Riley Wilkerson, and Robert Ratner. If you would like to contribute in a future newsletter, please contact EveryOne Home at everyonehome@acgov.org. |
