Sunday, July 25, 2010

Wood County's Homeless Count

Some staff of the site participated in the Homeless Count conducted in Wood County Friday night. This is covered by the local media in light of the economic conditions of the country, and recent local coverage of homelessness. Our staff are very involved in interagency work locally about the homeless, due to our federal grant programs, under the Runaway and Homeless Youth act. They also work with many others to provide items for the homeless in backpacks, bags; items gathered from various churches, businesses, civic groups.

In this morning's Parkersburg News and Sentinel there was a front page story, interviewing Chris Rutherford, about the school system's response to local homelessness among students. We have a contract to provide services to homeless students, throughout the school year, with Niki Staats, our worker in that program.

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