January 24, 2008 – 10:45 am
Below you’ll find links to two documents.
Instructions
The first document is a PDF file.
It’s a detailed set of instructions for completing the survey that’s linked below. Please read through them carefully before you go to work on the survey.
Survey
The second document is an Excel spreadsheet.
This is the survey itself. After you have familiarized yourself with the [...]
January 9, 2008 – 3:12 pm
WBIR’s excellent story about Gary Waddell raised a question from a commenter at the WBIR site. I think the commenter wants to know how we know about the costs associated with chronic homelessness.
Good question. It’s very hard to nail down an airtight answer. This year, Dr. Roger Nooe will be refining the data below. [...]
January 9, 2008 – 1:22 am
“I’ve got a roof over my head and that means a great deal…I don’t get locked up. I don’t get arrested like I used to. I used to get arrested quite a bit for public intoxication…I don’t have the desire that I did have to go out and constantly drink to get inebriated so I [...]
December 26, 2007 – 11:24 am
Housing First is the cornerstone of our Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness.
Americans have offered help of many kinds to homeless people. One kind of help we’ve offered in most places is the opportunity to gain access to some sort of housing. Usually, that access was conditioned on the homeless person jumping through various kinds [...]
December 13, 2007 – 11:15 am
This week’s edition of MetroPulse contains an excellent interview with Mayor Bill Haslam.
The Mayor mentions Knoxville & Knox County’s Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness in a couple of places in the interview, and we think that’s fantastic. Without strong support from its executive, no city’s Ten-Year Plan will be successful.
Obviously, our Ten-Year Plan [...]
December 12, 2007 – 4:05 pm
If you attended last week’s Project Homeless Connect, then we want to hear from you.
We’d like to get your input, whether you were a volunteer or a guest, whether you are housed or homeless.
We’d like you to tell us how you experienced Project Connect, how well we did in communicating about the event to the [...]
December 10, 2007 – 10:53 am
Project Homeless Connect (PHC) is our annual event to help homeless people gain access to resources, and ultimately to help them find their way into permanent housing.
This year’s PHC took place on Friday, December 7. Turnout was fantastic. We had 895 guests, who were served by more than 400 volunteers.
This image shows the mobile dental [...]
December 5, 2007 – 3:47 pm
On Friday, December 7, approximately 400 volunteers, a large group of public servants, non-profit agencies, faith-based organizations, and others will gather at Project Homeless Connect (PHC) to help people who are homeless in our community. However, PHC is not just another occasion to feed and clothe homeless people so that life on the streets is [...]
December 4, 2007 – 1:16 pm
CityView Magazine’s December 2007 edition contains a nice article about Knox Area Rescue Ministries (KARM). The article also contains an inadvertent error, and we feel like we should address it.
Although the article, titled “Burt Rosen leads the day-to-day fight to end homelessness in Knoxville,” draws welcome attention to the issue of homelessness, and does [...]
November 9, 2007 – 2:38 pm
Knoxville and Knox County are in year two 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 humane.
Homelessness [...]