Brisbane's Homeless Connect Initiative
Homeless Connect is an initiative of the Brisbane City Council (Australia) to put over 300 homeless persons in contact with various service providers from housing, medical and legal organizations. This comprehensive one-day effort, staged in City Hall, also links service providers within the homeless sector. Volunteering Queensland has twice recruited and trained over 200 volunteers to provide one-to-one support to the homeless participants, clearly an enormous undertaking that ensured the success of Homeless Connect in 2006 and 2007. This article explains how Volunteering Queensland accomplished this task.
Margaret O. Kirk, Managing Editor, e-Volunteerism
Sun, 02/24/2008I found an article about "Project Homeless Connect" in Philadelphia, which is part of a national effort in the United States. Read about the Philadelphia day-long event at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20071205_Connecting_with_the_needy.html?adString=ph.news/local;!category=local;&randomOrd=022608051043.
Susan Ellis, President, Energize, Inc., Pennsylvania PA USA
Fri, 11/02/2007