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  • The Rainbow Connection

    November 30, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Anita May Rosenstein campus provides an intergenerational community — and housing — for LGBTQ+ youth and seniors experiencing homelessness. The Center has 202 affordable housing units and it also offers several programs and services including counseling, support groups, job assistance, skills training and connections to health and mental health care, all while fostering community between the seniors and youth staying at the Center.

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  • Homecoming Project creates safe reentry for incarcerated people

    November 07, 2023 |

    Prism |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Impact Justice’s Homecoming Project helps formerly incarcerated individuals secure housing by pairing them with homeowners renting out a spare bedroom or studio space in their homes. Impact Justice pays the homeowner for six months, providing the formerly incarcerated participant with enough time to rebuild and acclimate to life outside of prison without the burden of paying rent. The Homecoming Project is meant to be an alternative to transitional housing that can sabotage the formerly incarcerated person’s independence.

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  • ‘A good place:' Queer youth seek acceptance at state's first foster home for LGBTQ+ teens

    September 20, 2023 |

    WCBU Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Lawrence Hall’s transitional housing in Chicago is a safe space for members of the LGBTQ+ community in the foster care system to live and receive wraparound support while they get ready for the next step in their lives, whatever that may be. Many of the staff also identify as LGBTQ+ and help them learn to cook, keep a job, or answer questions about things like hormone therapy and gender-affirming care.

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  • Twin Falls Optimist Youth House has shown great success in the community; looking for community's help to expand

    July 26, 2023 |

    KMVT-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Twin Falls, Idaho

    The Twin Falls Optimist Youth House cares for at-risk youth and those who have aged out of the foster care system. Youth can join the program once they turn 18 and receive a place to live plus valuable life skills, employment and education assistance. The House opened five years ago and can house 17 people at a time, though there are plans to expand. Since opening, it has helped 50 kids in need.

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  • Mental Health Respite Facilities Are Filling Care Gaps in Over a Dozen States

    July 11, 2023 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Dewitt, Iowa

    Rhonda’s House is a respite program that provides a nurturing living environment for people experiencing mental health crises that don’t require immediate medical attention. Trained professionals at respites care for patients, making it so they don’t have to visit ERs or psychiatric institutions. There are 42 community-based respite programs across 14 states and Rhonda’s House specifically has cared for 392 people over the past five years. Those who seek respite have seen positive effects like reduced hospitalizations.

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  • A Texas city shelters nearly all homeless residents in one place. It's turning heads in California

    June 28, 2023 |

    CalMatters |

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    Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

    Haven for Hope is a large, 22-acre, 1,600-person shelter that serves 85% of the city’s homeless population. It’s an all-inclusive space that provides a place to stay, as well as access to services like medical and dental care, counseling services, mental health care, childcare, job and housing assistance.

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  • How Texas shrank its homelessness population — and what it can teach California

    June 28, 2023 |

    CalMatters |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Efforts throughout Texas to reduce homelessness are serving as inspiration for states like California, that have similar homelessness issues. From committing funding to homeless reduction programs to establishing more advanced shelters like The Navigation Center, the state recorded a 28% drop in homelessness last year and has helped several individuals transition into permanent housing.

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  • Slovenia : where mental illness is a crime

    June 07, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Slovenia

    Several projects are currently working toward full deinstitutionalization by transferring residents of institutional care facilities to community-based homes. In these community homes, residents will be taught the necessary skills to help them reintegrate into society and live independently despite the challenges they may face, whether that be mental health disorders or developmental disabilities. So far, 171 people have been moved out of institutions to group homes.

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  • ‘Mommunes': Mothers Are Living Single Together

    May 12, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Jacksonville, Florida

    Women around the world are coming together to form “mommunes,” which are communes for single mothers to live under the same roof and share the load of child care, bills and housework. There are even platforms, like CoAbode, which have emerged to make finding other single mothers to live with much easier. CoAbode alone has had about 300,000 single mothers create profiles on the platform to find a home-share match.

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  • Making transitional housing Halal in Texas

    March 14, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Transitional housing centers like Huma-Faith and Halal House provide accommodations for formerly incarcerated people, specifically Muslim men. These houses are safe spaces that provide necessary resources like a shower and a warm bed, as well as work opportunities, group talk sessions, and regular drug and alcohol screening to help people put their best selves forward. These houses are also Muslim-centric, meaning people can rebuild their lives while freely practicing their religion.

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