outreach workers

Why is it that we repeatedly return to the miserable failure of incarceration instead of focusing on and applying the most effective solutions - treatment and/or housing of our chronic inebriates and addicts?

The other day I discussed a story found in that bastion of journalistic integrity, Newsbusters.org, regarding the media's supposed lack of coverage as the "official" count numbers of p

You could switch all references to"Canada" mentioned below with "U.S." and you would be hardpressed to argue that we aren't experiencing the same exact situation in most of our cities....

A number of major players in the homelessness assistance arena are currently working towards a similar "homeless services summit" to the one mentioned in the post below here in Nashville.

Lt. Vicki Swisher, with the Nashville Metro Police department, recently attended one of our local outreach meetings and I was impressed with her compassion and her frank honesty concerning the homeless issues her department must address on a daily basis.

Home is sacred, even if it is a tent, and this is one of the reasons I was so upset at the idea of local college students handing out cameras to unsuspecting noobs at our own local Tent City in order to get some photos of Homeless folks going about their daily lives in their "homes."

Ken Kraybill will be coming to Nashville in February to provide training to those who are involved in any way with Homeless outreach. The training targets outreach workers but also, and perhaps more importantly, those who dictate what outreach workers will be doing (read that supervisors and program directors), as well as anyone interested in discovering better ways to engage and interact with our Homeless population.

2008 seems to be entering with a bang for Nashville's homeless community and lots of stuff happening this month that will be critically important to the future of homeless men and women in our community.