PROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT held in Bayview District to concentrate on neighborhood poverty issues
8 June 2007By Pat Murphy
Sentinel Editor & Publisher
Copyright © 2007 San Francisco Sentinel
Southeast San Franciscans needing City homeless services found them today without having to travel downtown as Project Homeless Connect moved to the Bayview District.
In collaboration with the United Council of Human Services, Bayview Hunters Point Foundation, the Southeast Health Center, and other Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood non-profit groups, Project Homeless Connect was moved from it’s usual Civic Center location in an effort to connect a greater number of homeless or underserved individuals with vital city services they need toward self-sufficiency.
Estimates place homeless people in the Bayview at from 300 to 400.
This area also experiences a disproportionate number of health concerns: twenty-two percent of residents live below poverty level, and one in three people live with the daily threat of hunger.
Project Homeless Connect joins volunteer partner with government agencies, non-profits and private companies to provide a one-stop shop of health and human services for the City’s homeless and disadvantaged.
To date, close to 20,000 volunteers have provided services to 18,540 people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco.
Launched by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom two and a half years ago, today’s outreach is the 17th gathering of Project Homelessness Connect.
“Although the city has made great strides in addressing homelessness, we can not rest on our laurels,” noted Newsom.
“Expanding our outreach efforts to other parts of the city is the next step in our challenge to end homelessness and address poverty in our communities.”
To volunteer or learn more about Project Homeless Connect, please visit SFConnect.org.
PAT MURPHY
Sentinel Editor & Publisher
In his youth, Pat Murphy worked as a General Assignment reporter for the Richmond Independent, the Berkeley Daily Gazette, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He served as Managing Editor of the St. Albans (Vermont) Daily Messenger at age 21. Murphy also launched ValPak couponing in San Francisco, as the company’s first San Francisco franchise owner. He walked the bricks, developing ad strategy for a broad range of restaurants and merchants. Pat knows what works and what doesn’t work. His writing skill has been employed by marketing agencies, including Don Solem & Associates. He has covered San Francisco governance for the past ten years. Pat scribes an offbeat view of the human family through Believe It or What.
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