Date: October 10th 2006
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ENDING HOMELESSNESS Camden Holds Successful Homeless Summit |
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ENDING HOMELESSNESS in NEW JERSEY EZINE October 9 , 2006 |
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Camden Holds Successful Homeless Summit The Homeless Network Planning Committee, convened by the Community Planning and Advocacy Council, held their first Homeless Summit on October 5, 2006, at the Cherry Hill Armory. More then two hundred people participated in the half day event. Speakers included Randy Primas the COO of the City of Camden, Freeholder Carmen Rodriguez, Commissioner Clarke Bruno, NJ Department of Human Services, and Kathleen A. Naymola, Director of Community Plann
ing and Development for the HUD in New Jersey. All of the speakers focused on the need to end homelessness in both the City and County of Camden. Commissioner Bruno noted that more people were in attendance at the Camden Summit than attended the first meeting on the New York City group that developed their plan to end homelessness. |
News of Interest The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs released its Housing Policy to create 100,000 new permanent housing units in ten years. To read the policy click here. Click here to read the NY Times September 17th Editorial Hope and Housing. Who Is Homeless? The real facts click here. SAMHSA Awards $49 Million in Grants to Treat Homeless People. Click Here to read article The cost of homelessness can be quite high. To find out more about this click here. An innovative partnership between the Seattle Housing Authority, the King County Housing Authority, and King County will help house 200. To read the full article click here. We would like to hear your feedback. Please email us with your comments.
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The keynote speaker was Dennis Culhane of the University of Pennsylvania. His work was the basis of the Million Dollar Murray article in the New Yorker. |
The keynote speaker Dennis Culhane of the University of Pennsylvania spoke about his studies that indicate that doing nothing about ending homelessness is more expensive than solving the problem. He stressed that successful plans are developed based on data analysis and that they need to include the provision of permanent housing with supportive services. Based on his studies he indicated that limiting shelter stays to a minimum was crucial as well as converting transitional housing to supportive housing. Four workshops were held to develop strategies and to update the draft plan, Endings Have Beginnings. The workshops and the conveners were: |
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In the summary of the days events everyone agreed that more work will be needed to complete the Plan to End Homelessness as well as to successfully implement it. All of the sixty-five members of the Homeless Network Planning Committee are committed to working to end homelessness. In the next few days photographs from the summit will be added to this site. Please check back regularly to view them. Click here to read facts about homelessness in Camden. |
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On Friday October 6, 2006, Robins’ Nest held the Grand Opening of the first phase of Life Link Homes. This is the first permanent housing project in New Jersey for both homeless youth and those aging out of the foster care system. The first building will provide permanent, affordable and supportive housing for ten young adults. The next phase will add an additional twenty units of housing by the middle of 2007. |
Housing First Links NAEH to host a national conference on housing First November 6-7th in Washington. DC. For more details click here. In the yearlong special reporting project Housing First, NPR News explores the housing dilemmas of Americans with special needs -- and how lack of housing can stymie their efforts to join mainstream society. Ending Homelessness: Housing First in Policy & Practice October 19-20, 2006 For more information click here. Sacramento city and county approved a plan to end chronic homelessness using a Housing First strategy. To read more click here. 'Housing First' for the Chronically Homeless: Challenges of a New Service Model. To read the report click here.
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Commissioner Kevin M. Ryan, Esq., Department of Children and Families speaks at the Life Link Home Grand Opening. |
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The event was chaired by Susan Piersol, President of Robins’ Nest. Among the other speakers were Commissioner Kevin Ryan of the NJ Department of Children and Families, State Senator Fred Madden, Mayor Leo McCabe of Glassboro, Diane Johnson, Director of the New Jersey HUD office, Pamela McCrory of Housing Mortgage Finance Agency, Tom Eastman of Enterprise Community Investment, Daniel Cheney of the Danellie Foundation and Alison Recca-Ryan of the Corporation of Supportive Housing. All of the speakers stressed the importance of Life Link and how it took the leadership and commitment of Robins’ Nest to complete this first phase of the project. Special credit was given to Angela Estes and Ruth London the CEO and COO of Robins’ Nest. |
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Project Homeless Connect is moving forward at full speed, as January 25 approaches. Representatives from the New Jersey Alliance for the Homeless (NJAH) will be contacting CoC’s and the identified Project Homeless Connect (PHC) lead organizer in the very near future to invite representatives statewide to an organizational and planning meeting.
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Links for Project Homeless Connect San Francisco's Project Homeless Connect Web site Indianapolis' Project Homeless Connect Web site The 2006 Point in Time (PIT) Numbers
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NJAH is also finalizing materials including a letter asking locally elected officials for their support, a planning timeline, and sample informational flyers with the Project Homeless Connect logo. Counties will then edit these documents to fit their unique needs. It is important to recognize that Project Homeless Connect will be tied to this year’s HUD mandated Point in Time (PIT) Count. This will allow CoC’s statewide to reach out to and survey more of the homeless people in their communities, and will also allow the CoC to provide those people with much needed services. It is expected that connecting the PIT with PHC day will improve the numbers generated by the PIT count, thus helping CoC’s statewide to prove a need for funding. It is imperative that CoC’s begin planning for the PIT Count and PHC day immediately! Each CoC will hold a unique, self determined Project Homeless Connect day, but all CoC’s are mandated to perform the Point in Time Count. Many CoC’s are excited about the unique opportunity to perform a statewide PHC and have already begun planning. Some of the Counties that have committed to joining Project Homeless Connect New Jersey and have already begun planning efforts include Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Ocean, Passaic, Sussex, and Warren. Please click here for a copy of the Project Homeless Connect New Jersey Informational Flyer. For more information please contact Randi Moore.
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Helpful Links Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness To meet the Ending Homelessness Team staff click here. Email us links that you find helpful. |
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This ezine is an occasional publication of the Ending Homelessness Team (EHT) of Monarch Housing Associates. If you have suggestions or would like to have something included in a future issue please contact Randi Moore the EHT Team Leader. In addition, please feel free to share this with other interested parties and encourage them to use the subscribe button in the adjacent column. To view the archive of previous issues click here and then select the back issue you would like to read.
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