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Learn More About Rural Homelessness

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Cheatham County is participating in the outdoor homelessness count for the first time this year, and as I worked with a team to administer it, it occurred to me how many states and cities, including Tennessee and Nashville, still underestimate the impact of rural homelessness on urban centers. A lack of affordable housing and a lack of income are the main causes for people losing their housing. This fact is true for urban as well as rural communities. Yet, homelessness often is hidden in rural areas where people tend to live in dilapidated housing with a combination of holes in roofs, walls or floors, no running water or no electricity. People also stay in abandoned homes, in campers, in cars or deeply hidden in wooded areas.

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Q&A with Alberto Gonzales

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Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is the Dean of Belmont University’s college of Law. Gonzales currently is the highest-ranking Hispanic American who has served in an executive position in the United States government. He started his political career in Texas, when then-Governor George W. Bush appointed him as his general council in 1994. Gonzales consequently served as Secretary of State of Texas in 1997 and was named to the Texas Supreme Court in 1999. In 2001, he started working as White House Counsel under President George W. Bush and was appointed by the President as U.S. Attorney General in 2005.

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Learn More about Partners in Care

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Partners in Care is a co-responder program between the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) and the Mental Health Cooperative that serves to divert people who experience a mental health crisis from the criminal justice system.