Learn
Learn about the solutions that are working all over the country. With a well-planned and compassionate community response, homelessness that is not preventable can be a temporary set-back for our neighbors.
- Million-Dollar Murray: Why problems like homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage, New Yorker 2/13/06
- California’s AB 2034 Programs: Breaking the Cycle of Chronic Homelessness
- Holes in the Safety Net: Mainstream Systems and Homelessness, Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation February 2003
- Fact sheets on national homelessness
- The September 2007 Regional Best Practices Conference brought to Richmond representatives from some of the best programs in the country addressing various aspects of homelessness. Click here to view or download those presentations.
Speak
Share information about homelessness with your family members, colleagues, congregations, friends and co-workers. Help them to understand that homelessness is the result of overlapping but treatable causes, that our region is responding to the crisis of homelessness, and that there are many opportunities for volunteers, ministry, donations, and financial support.
Act
- Get involved with Richmond's Project Homeless Connect
- Volunteer in the community (information from the United Way of Richmond-Petersburg)
- Continue to share information with your community