February 18, 2011 – 5:15 pm
Case managers supply the “support” in permanent supportive housing for people who are leaving homelessness. Case managers connect supportive housing residents with the resources they need to challenge the issues that led to their homelessness, to be contributors to their communities, and to keep their housing. Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee (CAC) has placed case [...]
January 26, 2011 – 1:16 pm
Tonight’s Ten-Year Plan Public Conversation meeting is canceled due to inclement weather. This meeting had been scheduled for 6pm tonight at Volunteer Ministry Center’s Resource Center. It will be rescheduled for a later date.
January 25, 2011 – 11:10 am
Good case management is the essential “supportive” component of supportive housing for people who are leaving homelessness. What do case managers do? As discussed at length here, case managers often facilitate “…coordination of services at a community level. Case managers connect their clients with the resources they need to take control of their lives, and [...]
January 20, 2011 – 2:55 pm
Eight Knoxville-area agencies will receive funding to continue their work to end homelessness in our community. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced the funding through the department’s Continuum of Care program. The agencies received a combined $1,240,464 in funding to continue the operation of existing housing and service programs. The multi-agency [...]
January 18, 2011 – 1:12 pm
Please note that tonight’s Ten-Year Plan Public Conversation meeting is canceled due to the threat of inclement weather. This meeting had been scheduled for 6pm tonight at Volunteer Ministry Center’s Resource Center. It will be rescheduled for a later date. What: Ten-Year Plan public conversation: Permanent Supportive Housing Residents – Three Stories When: Wednesday, January [...]
January 18, 2011 – 10:47 am
Click here for a PDF of Homelessness in Knoxville/Knox County: 2010
November 18, 2010 – 3:34 pm
Overview The TYP held its seventh Public Conversation at 6pm on Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at New Harvest Park. The topic was “KCDC, Affordable Housing, and the Homeless.” Mary Thom Adams acted as moderator. Deborah Taylor, KCDC’s Section 8 Director, delivered a presentation about KCDC and the Section 8 program. Alvin Nance, Executive Director of [...]
November 4, 2010 – 4:30 pm
What: TYP Public Conversation: KCDC, affordable housing & homelessness When: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 – 6:00pm Where: New Harvest Park Contact: Robert Finley, 215-3071 The Office of the Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness would like to invite the public to a conversation at the New Harvest Park community building from 6pm until 7pm on [...]
October 29, 2010 – 3:21 pm
Minvilla Manor, Volunteer Ministry Center’s long-awaited 57-unit permanent supportive housing development at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway, is now open. WBIR has this story. “The condition of where the building was to where it is today is symbolic of where the plan ends,” said 10 Year Plan Director Jon Lawler. “We started in [...]
October 25, 2010 – 8:36 am
The TYP received a lot of attention in the press between Friday and Sunday last week. On Friday, Pam Strickland’s op-ed column addressed the issue of excluding possession and consumption of alcohol from permanent supportive housing facilities. The KNS editorial board addressed the same issue in its Sunday editorial. This issue surfaced in a Knox [...]