10Year Results Plan to End Homelessness in Durham
Can We End Homelessness?
September 13, 2005
American Tobacco Complex – Bay 7
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Where Will the Homeless Live?
October 6, 2005
Nehemiah Christian Center
Like many other communities, Durham faces the challenge of how and where the homeless will live. Do we need more shelters, transitional housing programs, or permanent housing? Are we willing to embrace a Durham with an increasing number of people living in camps, abandoned houses, and under highway bridges? Should they live next door, downtown, or in the suburbs? This forum will include an informative presentation about Durham's current and proposed housing models, followed by community comment and a question and answer session.
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Job?: Education, Training and Employment of the Homeless
October 20, 2005
Triangle Presbyterian Church
The homeless struggle to obtain and maintain employment that provides adequate income to access housing and escape homelessness. Lack of high school and college education, along with inadequate job skills often leaves the homeless trapped in the cycle of day labor, low-paying jobs, part-time work, and no benefits. This forum will bring together the business sector, faith community, employment and training programs and private citizens to brainstorm ways to tackle this obstacle. What programs current exist to train/retrain the homeless? What programs exist nationally that have proven successful (highly successful at a reasonable cost) that we should consider? How can we maximize regional resources to improve in this area? This forum will include an informative presentation followed by community comment and a question and answer session.
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Handle With Care: How Can We Improve the Chronic Mental and Physical Health of the Homeless?
November 3, 2005Museum of Life and Sciences
Addiction and mental illness plague many of the homeless and severely limit their ability to escape homelessness. This forum will include a presentation about best practice services being developed and offered in Durham to support the needs of individuals coping with mental illness and addiction who also are homeless or at risk to become homeless. The session also will address the need to develop greater collaboration and coordination among Durham's service delivery programs in order to have an impact upon the homeless. What are the causes of the health and mental health problems that lead to homelessness? What can be done to prevent those causes? What else can be done to mitigate the problems once they exist? This forum will include an informative presentation followed by community comment and a question and answer session.
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Impact of Homelessness Upon Children
December 8, 2005
St. Philip’s Episcopal Church
National data indicates that the average age a homeless person is 9 years old. Often times we forget that the face of homelessness is not one of a 30-50 year old single man but instead, the face of a child. The good news is that individuals in the community make sure that children are not on the streets. However, this results in households where “doubling up” is a norm and discovering who is actually at risk of homelessness is difficult to determine. This forum will explore the challenges of counting these children and addressing the needs of homeless children who are living in shelters. The importance of education will be discussed, including the steps that Durham Public Schools is taking to help at-risk children. This forum will include informative presentations by Ann Fisher, Homeless Liaison for Durham Public Schools and Nita McAdoo, Early Childhood Specialist and Assistant Director of Cup of Salvation Child Development. Presentations will be followed by community comment and a question and answer session.
How Do We Ensure Proper Housing and Related Services for Latinos?
December 20, 2005
Immaculate Conception Church
