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Wood County Project Connect: Final Report For Event Held October 19, 2016, Melissa W. Burek, Mamta Ojha, Megan Schnell
Wood County Project Connect: Final Report For Event Held October 19, 2016, Melissa W. Burek, Mamta Ojha, Megan Schnell
Criminal Justice Faculty Publications
Project Homeless Connect (PHC) is designed to provide immediate goods and services to homeless individuals and those nearing homelessness. PHC provides basic needs and critical services in one day at one location. Along with providing valuable and necessary services to help alleviate homelessness, an additional positive outcome for service providers is the opportunity to network with different agency members, and reinforce relationships, collaborations, and partnerships. On October 19, 2016, Wood County, Ohio held its fourth Project Connect (PC) event at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Bowling Green, Ohio. This report presents a compilation of data collected at the event, as …
Wood County Project Connect: Final Report For Event Held October 14, 2015, Melissa W. Burek, Mamta Ojha, Joelle K. Bridges
Wood County Project Connect: Final Report For Event Held October 14, 2015, Melissa W. Burek, Mamta Ojha, Joelle K. Bridges
Criminal Justice Faculty Publications
On October 14, 2015, Wood County, Ohio held its third Project Connect (PC) event at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Bowling Green, Ohio. Project Connect is designed to provide immediate goods and services to homeless individuals and those nearing homelessness. PC provides basic needs and critical services in one day at one location. Along with providing valuable and necessary services to help alleviate homelessness, an additional positive outcome for service providers is the opportunity to network with different agency members, and reinforce relationships, collaborations, and partnerships. This report presents the descriptives about the guests, providers, and volunteers at the event, …
Wood County Project Connect: Final Report For Event Held October 15, 2014, Melissa W. Burek, Mamta Ojha, Morgan Fair
Wood County Project Connect: Final Report For Event Held October 15, 2014, Melissa W. Burek, Mamta Ojha, Morgan Fair
Criminal Justice Faculty Publications
Project Connect is an outreach and an awareness raising event based on a model endorsed by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. The event is an opportunity to inform the community about the need that exists, as well as a chance to address that need. Project Connect (PC) is designed to provide immediate goods and services to at risk individuals in one day at one location. Our report presents that descriptive data and evaluation of a PC event that occurred in October of 2014 in Wood County, Ohio.
Wood County Project Homeless Connect: Final Report For Event Held October 16, 2013, Melissa W. Burek, Judith A. Leary, Adam Watkins, Mamta Ojha
Wood County Project Homeless Connect: Final Report For Event Held October 16, 2013, Melissa W. Burek, Judith A. Leary, Adam Watkins, Mamta Ojha
Criminal Justice Faculty Publications
On October 16, 2013, Wood County, Ohio held their first Project Homeless Connect event at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Bowling Green, Ohio. Project Homeless Connect (PHC) is designed to provide immediate goods and services to homeless individuals and those nearing homelessness. It provides basic needs and critical services in one day at one location. It originated in San Francisco and was later adopted and revised by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) to decrease homelessness in major American cities (Knetch & Martinez, 2009). PHC was created following the premises of the former President George W. Bush Administration’s policy …