On January 26, 2010 Mercer County hosted its fourth annual Project Homeless Connect Event. The First Baptist Church was vibrant with volunteers, service providers and over 250 participants. Mercer County offered participants innovative services including a new ID program. Interested participants were given the ability to start the first phase of a two part process in obtaining a county ID. First piloted at the Mercer County Summer 2009 PHC event, the program has become very popular and successfully connected 70% of the participants with County IDs. To learn more about the ID program sponsored by the Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness click here. In addition to the ID program, participants were treated to hair cuts, hot meals, housing applications, service information and many give aways.
These a few photos from the Mercer County Project Homeless Connect event.
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Taiisa Telesford Kelly joined Monarch Housing Associates in March 2006. She has experience in housing development working with federal, state and local funding sources to secure financing for special needs housing projects. In October of 2007 Taiisa joined the Ending Homelessness Team where she works with local governments, non profits and community stakeholders to develop coordinated strategies to end homelessness. Mrs. Kelly has extensive experience in working with community stakeholders on homeless planning activities. As a member of the Ending Homelessness Team Mrs. Kelly guides communities through the process of developing 10 year plans to end homelessness and has completed 3 community plans in the past 2 years. Working collaboratively with counties and service providers, Mrs. Kelly helps to bring best practices and program models such as housing first, rapid re-housing, and single point of entry systems to communities as they work to restructure systems and bring an end to homelessness. Mrs. Kelly received her B.A. in psychology and anthropology from Rutgers University. To find our more about ending homelessness click here.
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