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On October 15, 2013, NCCEH held the third in a series of three webinars about reducing chronic homelessness. This webinar highlighted Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, which has reduced chronic homelessness by 58% since 2005. Presenters Andrea Kurtz, Senior Director of Housing Strategies for the Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness, and Tim West, Planning Program Supervisor for the City of Winston-Salem, spoke about the strategies that resulted in this decrease, including strong public-private partnerships, investments in permanent supportive housing, targeting resources to the most high-barrier populations, and using HMIS data to inform strategic decision-making. Click here to view the slides from the presentation. Archived Recording: Current NCCEH members may access a recording of the conference call and presentation. Members will need to log in to the website to access the recording. If you are not an NCCEH member and would like …
The News & Observer BY JOSH SHAFFER AND SARAH OVASKA - Staff Writers RALEIGH -- In its time, the Water Garden stood as a shrine to modern design: a complex of low-slung, hill-hugging offices surrounded by tall, ivy-covered pine trees and ponds topped with lily pads. You'd never guess from the car dealerships and furniture warehouses that such a gem stood hidden off Glenwood Avenue. And for the last three years, the complex has slowly rotted and gathered squatters' trash. But now the site of the 11-acre Water Garden campus, home and life's work of master landscape architect Dick Bell, is being put to use. Starting next spring, its lush and rolling hills will be converted to low-income housing in a northwest Raleigh neighborhood where it is sorely needed. Quantcast The roughly $6.1 million project by Downtown …
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 by Jennifer FernandezStaff Writer GREENSBORO — Every year, volunteers comb shelters, wooded areas and abandoned buildings as part of the annual “point-in-time” count of the homeless. The survey, which takes place today, will include for the first time a count of those who are considered “precariously housed” or “imminently homeless” in Greensboro. Officials handling High Point’s count said they are not adding the optional category to their survey this year. Housing experts suspect a growing number of families straddle a fine line between stability and homelessness. They hope the survey will provide a better picture of what is happening. “Part of it is with the economic situation getting worse, we know that there are a lot more people losing their housing than there used to be or about to lose housing,” said Beth McKee-Huger, executive director of …
The Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services is charged with examining, on a continual basis, the system-wide issues affecting the development, financing, administration, and delivery of mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse services, including issues related to governance, accountability and quality of services. Their 2007 report includes an assessment of the current system and recommendations for improvements. View the committee's 2007 Report to the General Assembly