USICH Highlights Success in the Southeast - Chattanooga, TN

Click here to read about Chattanooga's success in ending homelessness!

Mary Simons, Executive Director of the Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition, is featured in USICH's newsletter and discusses how Chattanooga has been able to produce dramatic results in ending homelessness.

She also participated as a panelist at the Innovations Forum (Feb 2012) in Atlanta, GA.

High Success Rates with Adopt-A-Family - Palm Beach, FL

by Rachel Hans

Adopt- A- Family of the Palm Beaches provides services to low-income and at risk families in Palm Beach. The organization helps families to self-sufficiency through services like housing, rental assistance, support services and a homeless resource center. Deputy Director Mathew Constantine oversees 117 units of housing designated to homeless and low-income populations. Constantine explained how they pay attention to the behaviors of the families and how this helps them to maintain their permanent housing for over 6 months or a year. “I have no doubt that this has had a huge impact on family homelessness in Palm Beach.”  The results so far are promising; 75 percent have maintained permanent housing for a year and 80 percent for 6 months.  Read more here!