Mark Fontes of WZBN TV-25 did a video report on the highly successful July 10, 2008, Project Homeless Connect event hosted by the Mercer County Alliance to End Homelessness. Click on the screen to watch this video.
Click here to read our previous report.
Tags: Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness, Mercer County, Project Homeless Connect
More than 550 receive help!
The Mercer County Alliance to End Homelessness hosted a summer time Project Homeless Connect on Thursday, July 10, 2008. This outdoor event enabled Mercer County citizens to receive vital information on housing support services. It also provided those in attendance with shoes, clothing, books, toys, haircuts, medical assistance, and legal advice, which were all donated by state-wide supporters. Volunteers conducted Point In Time interviews with those in attendance - the second set of Point In Time interviews to be conducted in Mercer County this year. On the left a young boy enjoys books donated to him at Project Homeless Connect.
To read an article in the Trenton Times click here. That article quoted Joyce Williams from the Rescue Mission as saying, “It keeps the people’s minds green. It reminds them that services are available to them and it lets them know people care about their situation.”
This PHC was held near the Rescue Mission building on Ewing Street, in Trenton. Over five hundred fifty citizens attended the event throughout the day and it was a great success.
These are some of the fourteen (14) photos from the Mercer County Project Homeless Connect held on July 10, 2008.
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You can click on any photo to see it full size or click here to view all of the photos. To save a photo right click on the photo.
To view a slide show click here.
Tags: Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness, Mercer County, Project Homeless ConnectOn February 1st the Trenton Times wrote an eloquent letter in support of housing first. it specifically commended the “the efforts of the Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness, a consortium of leaders from the county’s business, government and nonprofit sectors, as it continues to develop new strategies to prevent and end homelessness in Mercer County. ”
We reprint the full editorial. It can be found on line by clicking here.
Housing first, Friday, February 01, 2008
It’s not a statistic that in spires pride: About 1,600 in Mercer County are without a home.
But it’s not that surprising, considering how many households — 20 percent — in Mercer earn less than $25,000 a year. That’s about 14,000 in the suburbs and almost 12,000 in Trenton. With that level of income, households don’t hold together very well, and it’s a very few steps to the street and the huddle of whatever hovel is available.
That could be a tent, a cardboard carton or an alley — not the most welcoming of quarters.
But, as was reiterated by some inhabitants of those haunts during this week’s tally of the homeless, they would rather have that flimsy comfort than the restrictions that go with more substantial structures.
Most programs aimed at housing the chronically homeless — many of whom are substance abusers or suffer mental illness — require them to stay sober, take medication or find jobs in return for the hospitality. More than a fair exchange, we might think, but those conditions are nearly impossible for the addled and the addicted to meet.
Tags: homelessness, Housing First, Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness, Mercer County
The following article was written in Mercer County’s Trenton Times
‘Point in Time’ draws attention to Trenton’s homeless population: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download‘Point in Time’ draws attention to Trenton’s homeless population
By L.A. PARKER
Staff Writer
TRENTON - Hundreds of city dwellers tumbled into Shiloh Baptist Church yesterday as a U.S. Housing and Urban Development initiative attempted to count the number of homeless people in Trenton and throughout Mercer County.
“I’m trying not to die out there. Hope I don’t die out there,” said one street-battered patron who admitted a chronic alcohol addiction.
He could find assistance from scores of county-based agencies that offered information regarding essentially every need - dental, medical, social, psychological - during the Mercer County Project Homelessness event.
The event coincided with HUD’s Point In Time Count (PITC), an effort to count local homeless.
Tags: homeless, Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness, Mercer County, Project Homeless Connect
January 29, 2008 brought Project Homeless Connect Events to counties across the state. In conjunction with this service model, Point-in-Time Surveys were conducted to count the homeless population in New Jeresy. The Trenton Times reported on the Point-In-Time efforts in Mercer County.
Counting the homeless
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
BY LISA CORYELLTRENTON — You won’t find Jeffrey Bakos waiting in line for a bed at any city shelter. You won’t find him enjoying a hot meal at the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen. You won’t find him applying for welfare benefits downtown.
No, to find the fiercely independent Bakos you have to go to where he lives — in a makeshift shanty covered by a blue plastic tarp deep in the woods off Lalor Street.
And that’s just where volunteers located him yesterday morning during the city’s annual Point in Time count, a daylong tabulation of the area’s homeless population.Armed with a federal survey, volunteers queried Bakos on everything from his vital statistics to his personal history and medical needs.
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To read the full article click here
Tags: Mercer County, Point-in-Time-Count, Project Homeless ConnectWZBN-25 News highlighted the Project Homeless Connect events that took place in Mercer County yesterday. The issues currently faced by the homeless of the county as well as the gaps in the system were discussed. Mercer County’s Housing First Initiative which accepted self-referrals at the PHC event was also highlighted in the broadcast.
To view the full broadcast click here
Tags: Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness, Mercer County, Project Homeless ConnectMonarch Housing Associates, Inc. is the publisher of this blog. For more information click here.
The Monarch Gallery of photos has been integrated into Monarch’s Blog. To have your photos of events or project development please contact either Taiisa Telesford [Email address: ttelesford #AT# monarchhousing.org - replace #AT# with @ ] or Asish Patel [Email address: apatel #AT# monarchhousing.org - replace #AT# with @ ].
These are random images from the Gallery which contains 1426 photos.
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These are the most recent additions to the Gallery.
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These are the most viewed images in the Gallery.
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These are the list of all of the photo albums. Below the links are four random photos from each album:
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Arc Warren - Columbia Supportive Living
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Arc Warren - Columbia Supportive Living Album 2
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Bergen County 2007 Project Homeless Connect
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Bergen County 2008 Project Homeless Connect
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Bridgeway - 9 month inspection 9/11/2007
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Camden’s 2007 Project Homeless Connect
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Camden’s 2008 Project Homeless Connect
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Cape May 2007 Project Homeless Connect
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Cape May 2008 Project Homeless Connect
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Cumberland 2008 Project Homeless Connect
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Hudson 2007 Project Homeless Connect
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Hudson PHC and Plan Completion
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Mercer County 2007 Project Homeless Connect
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Middlesex County Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness Kick Off
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Monmouth 2008 Project Homeless Connect
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Morris 2006 Project Homeless Connect
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Morris 2007 Project Homeless Connect
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NJCDC - Hawthorne - Grand Opening
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Ocean 2007 Project Homeless Connect
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Ocean County 2008 Project Homeless Connect
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Passaic County 2007 Project Homeless Connect
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Passaic County 2008 Project Homeless Connect
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Passaic County PIT & PHC Kickoff 2007
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PCICH: HOPE in Passaic County Ten Year Plan Kickoff
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Phil Mangano in Gloucester County
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Project Live - Office building and residences
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Project Live - Office Building and Residences - Ribbon Cutting
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Project Live Efficiency Apartment Update
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Project Live Efficiency Apartments
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Robins Nest - Buildings 1 and 2
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Robins Nest Grand Opening Part2
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Somerset Street Count Locations
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Sussex Freeholders Approve Plan to End Homelessness
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Sussex Freeholders Thank PIT and PHC Volunteers
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The Keys to Ending Homelessness in Hudson County
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To have your photos of events or project development please contact either Taiisa Telesford [Email address: ttelesford #AT# monarchhousing.org - replace #AT# with @ ] or Asish Patel [Email address: apatel #AT# monarchhousing.org - replace #AT# with @ ].
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