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In 1993, School on Wheels was founded by Agnes Stevens, a former school teacher. Her work began with tutoring homeless children in Santa Monica Park as a response to a rising homeless population. Presently, the organization provides tutoring for students without homes in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties.
Interagency Council on Homelessness, a US federal program and office created by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1986 [1] International Brotherhood Welfare Association Invisible People , Invisible People is an American 501(c)(3) non-profit organization working for homeless people in the United States.[1]
For several decades, various cities and towns in the United States have adopted relocation programs offering homeless people one-way tickets to move elsewhere. [1] [2] Also referred to as "Greyhound therapy", [2] "bus ticket therapy" and "homeless dumping", [3] the practice was historically associated with small towns and rural counties, which had no shelters or other services, sending ...
Compass Family Services is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in San Francisco, California, that provides a wide variety of human services to homeless and at-risk of homelessness families. In 2019, they served 6,000 parents and children. [1]
Homeless shelters in the United States (2 C, 47 P) Pages in category "Homelessness organizations in the United States" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
The Coalition on Homelessness is an American homeless advocacy and social justice organization that focuses on creating long-term solutions to homelessness, poverty, and housing issues in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1987, the group also founded the newspaper Street Sheet and the Community Housing Partnership.
[1] [2] It is the mission of Pathways to Housing to transform individual lives by ending homelessness and supporting recovery. The organization is the originator of the Housing First model of addressing homelessness among people with severe psychiatric disabilities and substance use disorders. In Los Angeles, California, in 1988, the "Housing ...
[1]: 8 Nearly one in four homeless people in the U.S., and 45% of unsheltered homeless people, live in California. [1] Even those who are sheltered are so insecurely: 90% of homeless adults in California spent at least one night without shelter in a six month period. [2]: 53 A statewide housing shortage drives the homelessness crisis.