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Description: Adding Seats to the Table: A Community-Based Approach to Family Homelessness was created to support grassroots community organizing and coalition building among homeless, formerly homeless, and at-risk families in three capitol city communities. The Fund sought to break with traditional service provision strategies by directly supporting community organizing and self-advocacy efforts among homeless, formerly homeless, and at-risk families. Although the three local groups were each distinct, their community organizing efforts displayed similar approaches, strategies, and outcomes. Common to all was the use of blended community organizing strategy that took the best aspects of different organizing models and tailored them to the uniqueness of each community. The groups learned to work in coalition and partner with other groups despite differing political perspectives. Collectively, their outreach strategies were successful not only in attracting homeless families to their organizations, but in maintaining on-going involvement. (Authors)
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Type of Resource: Report
Publication Date: 2001
Location: Newton, MA
Phone: 617-964-3834
dawn wood from iuka
September 03, 2008
10:24 AM
 
my name is dawn wood and i am trying to establish a shelter in the salem illinois area i have contacted all government officals and recieved no help,the homelessness in this area is rapidly growing, salem is right off of the interstate and most of the homeless hitchhiked to salem and when upon arrival they recieve no help only to be escorted out of town. it breaks my heart to this kind of selfishness and i am willing to try unitll i die to get this homeless shelter off the ground and help those in need. i have no building and support only from local churches, please if you have any suggestions on how i can shoot this project off the ground please contact me!


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