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

Tag Archives: VMC

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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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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Op-ed shows support for TYP

October 11, 2010 – 9:32 am

Bill Lyons and Larry Martin wrote an excellent op-ed that was published in the Sentinel on Saturday. Permanent supportive housing remains the most effective strategy in combating homelessness, and communities around the country have found ways to locate housing developments in scattered neighborhoods. These developments have a record of success for both the residents and [...]

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Public Conversation #1: Case Management in PSH via VMC

April 30, 2010 – 4:49 pm

Overview The TYP held a public conversation on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at the Cansler YMCA about case management in permanent supportive housing. Bill Lyons, the City of Knoxville’s Senior Director of Policy & Communication, acted as moderator. Ginny Weatherstone, CEO of Volunteer Ministry Center, and several members of VMC’s staff along with a resident [...]

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Minvilla: Where we’re at, what we’re doing

July 18, 2008 – 4:22 pm

Thanks to Katie Granju at KnoxvilleTalks for this post. It is possible that this dialog might turn out to be helpful, too, although…well. We’ll see. The old 5th Avenue Motel on the corner of 5th & Broadway has been a rough spot for a long time. You can find all kinds of stuff about it [...]

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Housing First happening in Knox

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 [...]

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