Cleveland Homeless Legal Assistance

· Although the program suspended intake for one month, over 500 clients were served.

· Maintained 10 intake sites and staff coordinated attorneys who donated 221 hours of service.

The Homeless Grapevine

· Published 20,000 papers despite organization’s financial situation.

· NEOCH staff partnered with professional photographer Mychal Lilly to train eight homeless individuals the art of photography.

· Organized three Teach Ins that focused on voting rights, children and health care. Our website had over 40,000 unique users.

· Street Voices did 38 presentations to schools, faith based groups and organizations to dispel stereotypes about homelessness.

· NEOCH organized outreach workers to exchange detailed maps of the locations of those resistant to shelter and in need of help.

· NEOCH successfully transferred both programs to other non-profit organizations.

· NEOCH successfully negotiated a compromise among food providers downtown to a new location without legislation.

· NEOCH helped over 1,500 homeless people to vote in the 2008 Presidential election.

· NEOCH issued a health care report, a State of Homelessness report that made recommendations on ending homelessness.