The Guilford County/High Point/Greensboro Task Force on Ending HomelessnessVision: “To improve the quality of life for all residents of Guilford County by ending chronic homelessness and reducing all types of homelessness by 2016.”
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My mom and I attended the Joseph’s House grand opening this afternoon. Joseph’s House is a new transitional living program for homeless teens in Greensboro, founded by Nancy and Sam McLean. The program will offer shelter, counseling, case management, counseling, training and much more. After young people graduate from the program, they will continue to be followed as needed, to ensure their success. Joseph’s House is involved in partnerships with churches, non-profits, businesses and government agencies to provide the services that homeless young adults need to become housed and stable. In the beginning, Joseph’s House will serve young men, but eventually the founders plan to expand the program to serve young women, as well.
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Night Watch, 08/25/06
:: Friends who’ve lived outside for many years will soon move into a home of their own. She got a permanent job. He’s getting help for chronic health problems. They’ve both been sober for months. They’ll continue to help the many other homeless folks they’re already watching out for. She prays all the time, out loud, walking down the street. “I know people must think I’m crazy, talking to myself,” she laughs. I think she’s amazing. And God heard every word. I can feel Him smiling at us, as we stand by the road, hugging and grinning. 
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I just finished reading “‘Got the Time?’: A Search for Hope amidst Homelessness,” by Lori Gonzalez, a middle-class mom who volunteers at a winter shelter for the homeless through her Southern California church. Each chapter of the book is the story of one of the many homeless friends she’s met through her ministry, which she began in 1996. As Gonzalez shares her stories, she also reveals her own spiritual journey and shows how God blesses and teaches His followers as they’re obedient to His call to care for the “least of these.”
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The Greensboro Redevelopment Commission voted unanimously to accept the South Elm Street Redevelopment Plan at a special called meeting tonight at Shiloh Baptist Church on Eugene Street. A crowd gathered for the public hearing and presentation of the plan. There were a few speakers in support of the plan and some questions from the audience before the vote was taken.
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My friends Jeff Phillips, Steve Still and I are praying and working together to find long-term, Biblically-based solutions to help move our homeless friends from the street to stability. N&R reporter Tina Firesheets spoke to all three of us while she worked on an article about our formerly-homeless friends Pete and Ricky. Some of those conversations led Tina to write a second article about the search for solutions to the problem of homelessness.
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Remember Pete and Ricky? Their story of moving from under a downtown bridge to their own home to Glenwood is chronicled in a front-page Life section story in today’s News & Record. Reporter Tina Firesheets spent time with Pete and Ricky, and Jeff Phillips, who helped them make the move. And she joined us on Night Watch.
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During today’s press conference, and on behalf of HCPGC, I announced the totals for the summer homeless count on July 26th. We counted a total of 734 homeless individuals.
Who?
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There was a full house this morning in a conference room at the Salvation Army Center of Hope in Greensboro, as the United Way of Greensboro and High Point and the Homeless Prevention Coalition of Guilford County held a press conference to 1.) (re)announce the formation of the Guilford County-Greensboro-High Point Task Force to End Homelessness, 2.) update the public on the Task Force’s purpose and progress; and 3.) announce the totals from HPCGC’s first-ever summer Point in Time Count of the homeless.
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The goal is for the homeless woman to survive 24 hours in Vancouver’s West End, scrounging for food, clothing and shelter, while dodging hazards like the police, drug addicts, irate drivers, aggressive dogs, speeding cyclists and surly tourists.
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Philip Mangano, executive director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, came to Greensboro as the featured speaker at the kickoff event for our local Task Force to End Homelessness. But a San Francisco journalist views Mangano less as an advocate for the homeless and more as a cheerleader and defender for GB2:
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From Jamie in the U.K.:
“Tonight I found a man who had soiled himself and was just lying there in the middle of the pavement, crying and blind drunk. The smell was overwhelming but it was something I thought ought to be addressed. So I got some friends of mine to get me some clothes and clean underwear from places they knew, god knows where, but they did. We got the man bathed at the local Salvation Army center and dressed him in the clothes. The saddest part is probably tomorrow or the day after things will just be the same for him.
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