City of Knoxville
Madeline Rogero, Mayor
Knox County
Tim Burchett, Mayor

Category Archives: Featured

Still Here

August 25, 2011 – 10:45 am

This Ten Year Plan website has stayed pretty quiet while we deferred to the public discussion conducted under the auspices of Compassion Knoxville (www.compassionknoxville.com). The Ten Year Plan has continued during this time. While no work has been done in the controversial area of identifying new sites for development of permanent supportive housing, everything else [...]

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CAC case managers prevent homelessness

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 [...]

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Video interviews of case managers in permanent supportive housing

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 [...]

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Ending chronic homelessness

November 9, 2007 – 2:38 pm

Knoxville and Knox County are in year four of our ten-year plan to end chronic homelessness. This plan recognizes the need to do things differently, and to coordinate local, state, and federal resources to address chronic homelessness, which is the most challenging kind, in a way that is both more cost effective and also more [...]

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