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NEOCH Programs have had an excellent year

2005 Highlights

Advocacy

• Hosted 6 advocacy meetings for the homeless community to influence our agenda

• Worked to reform oversight of the shelter especially the community women’s shelter

• Assisted with the development of a statewide Coalition to work on civil rights issues

Cleveland Homeless Legal Assistance – provides a link to legal assistance

• CHLAP increased the number of intakes from 400 clients served in ‘04 to 625 clients served in ‘05. 

• CHLAP increased the number of lawyers, law students and paralegals volunteering with the program.

• CHLAP create a pro sé clinic to empower individuals to prepare their own cases

Cleveland Community Voice Mail - provides a link to reliable and private communication 

• CCVM celebrated 5 years of service to the community and have served 16,500.

• CCVM served over 50 survivors from Hurricane Katrina and Rita.

• CCVM successfully migrated to a new system that will serve more homeless people.

Bridging the Gap - provides a link to affordable housing and local resources

• BTG was the lead organization to create Housingcleveland.org a city wide housing database.

• BTG housed over 100 clients including 6 families.

• BTG consolidated and moved to a new space. 

AmeriCorps*VISTA – provides a link to the community on homeless while creating and implementing programs

• Street Voices, NEOCH’s speaker bureau program made over 30 presentations.

• Created an outreach program to local churches in order to support families moving into housing

• Assisted in raising awareness about the problem of homeless among those who have experienced incarceration

AmeriCorps – provides assistance to Grapevine, CCVM and BTG to serve clients

• Members participate in national days of service: Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Make A Difference Day

• Members gathered items for the welcome home baskets located furniture for newly housed clients

• Members recruited over 100 volunteers to help with various day to day operations and cleaning projects

Grapevine - provides a source of income to homeless/low income people while informing the community on poverty issues

• The Grapevine published 8 issues and recruited over 60 vendors to sell the paper

• The Grapevine hired support staff to work on stabilizing the program.

• They survived another year!!!

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NEOCH will keep you updated on goals achieved throughout the year with the Bridge Newsletter!