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Learn More About The 100 Day Campaign to house 100 Families
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The most recent 100 Day Challenge is focusing on housing 100 families who experience homelessness in 100 days.
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Learn More About Importance of Housing-Health Initiatives
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Homelessness cannot end when we don’t find a way for different systems to work together seamlessly.
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A Few Questions with Vanderbilt Homeless Health Services
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Hess has been exploring the possibility to collaborate with Contributor vendors to form a Consumer Advisory Board.
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My Friend Charles Strobel
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As I wrote my column this week, my thoughts shifted to Charles Strobel, my friend, mentor, and hero.
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Learn More About Volunteering to Help Homelessness
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Judith Tackett lays out her top five benefits of volunteerism.
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One Question With Outgoing Metro Councilmembers
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In this issue, we focus on departing advice from outgoing Metro Council members to the new city leadership.
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A Few Questions with Councilmember Robert Swope, District 4
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We interview councilmembers about their district’s most pressing issues.
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Learn More about the Push to End Veteran Homelessness
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Veteran homelessness is getting renewed attention.
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Learn More About SOAR
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We have mentioned the SOAR program in prior columns, but it’s worth explaining more why it is critical to our local homelessness response
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A Few Questions with the Mayor’s Office of Community Safety
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The Contributor talked with Mike Lacey, Metro’s deputy director of community safety from the Mayor’s Office of Community Safety as part of a series called A Few Questions With where we interview Metro agencies about their most pressing issues. The Community Safety Office is housed within the Mayor’s Office and has three staff members. Next to Lacey, Ron Johnson serves as the director of community safety and Breanna Tillman as the grants manager. Describe the main purpose of the Office of Community Safety in five sentences. The Office of Community Safety was created in 2021 to help the city to be more responsive to community-based violence, which is violence that happens outside the home.