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On February 28, 2008, the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Sussex County - Harold J. Wirths. Freeholder Director, Glen Vetrano, Deputy Director, Phillip R. Crabb, Jeffrey M. Parrott and Susan M. Zellman - thanked each of the volunteers who helped make Project Homeless Connect and Point in Time a success. The event was attended by more forty (40) volunteers who were thanked for making the 2008 events a success. To view the list click here.

The Herald News covered the event in an article entitled “Number of homeless children in county on the rise.” To read the article click here.

These are the photos, courtesy of Thor Carlson, from the event. Click on any photo to view it full size. Right click to save.

This is the article in the Herald News

Number of homeless children in county on the rise
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

By STEPHEN J. NOVAK [Email address: snovak #AT# njherald.com - replace #AT# with @ ]

NEWTON - Just last week, as Stephen Gruchacz walked through the county’s social services office, he saw about 75 people in the waiting room, and “an awful lot of strollers.

A recent survey confirmed the impression of the administrator of the county Department of Health and Human Services: the number of homeless or at-risk families with young children is on the rise.

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Tags: Point-in-Time-Count, Project Homeless Connect, Sussex County

As we noted last month, Sussex County has adopted their Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness. The New Jersey Herald published an article about the plan on January 27th entitled “Helping the homeless in Sussex County“. To read the full article click here. The article included this portion.

Betsy Towle, of the Sussex County Division of Social Services, said the planning process came out of the Continuum of Care Concept introduced by HUD to support communities in the effort to reduce homelessness. The plan evolved into a program to end the problem.

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Tags: Ending Homelessness, homeless, homelessness, HUD, Sussex County

On December 19, 2007, over sixty people attended an early morning meeting of the Sussex County Board of Freeholders where the Sussex County Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness was unanimously endorsed. Susan M. Zellman, the Freeholder Director, pictured on the right, expressed her support and gratitude for the hard work undertaken by the “Sussex County Continuum of Care, Sussex County Comprehensive Emergency Systems (CEAS) Committee, and Sussex County Human Services Advisory Council (HSAC). All of these groups have adopted this plan, which will be used to guide future homeless services planning and housing development in Sussex County.”

Betsy Towle spoke about the Ten Year Plan’s “mission is to create safe, affordable, permanent housing for those individuals currently homeless, including chronic homeless individuals, and to ensure that these individuals receive flexible, comprehensive services to prevent a return to homelessness. As outlined in the Sussex County’s Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness, this is accomplished through active collaboration of county and local government, mainstream service and housing providers and other community members combined with the utilization of available state and federal funding sources.”

These are a few photos, courtesy of Thor Carlson, from the event.