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                                                 2009 ORGANIZATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

Cleveland Homeless Legal Assistance

The Volunteer Attorneys were on pace to serve nearly 400 individuals at 10 different  clinic  sites including a monthly divorce clinic.

The Homeless Grapevine

Published 15,000 papers and three issues were distributed on the streets.  

Public Outreach

   Constructed a Movable Wall project of photographs taken by homeless people that  toured various religious and educational institutions.  

   Street Voices did 32 presentations to schools, faith based groups and organizations to dispel stereotypes about homelessness through November. NEOCH  staff also conducted over 100 interviews with various media in 2009.

     Organized 10 resident councils at the largest men’s shelter in Cleveland, and over 20   resident councils at the largest women’s shelter.

  Co-sponsored with InterAct Cleveland three days of services to homeless people  commonly referred to as the Stand Down.  We served over 2,000 people with 55  organizations and provided 321 haircuts and 354 health screenings.  

Advocacy

  Helped to organize a committee that made recommendations to the County Commissioners about the creation of a Local Housing Trust Fund.  The resolution  passed in May 2009.

  We spent a great deal of time in 2009 coordinating services including outreach and  the response to the stimulus dollars.

   NEOCH website had 46,000 unique users.  Housing Cleveland had 77,000 unique  users conducting over 600,000 searches for housing.

 Successfully negotiated the elimination of the co-pay for homeless people at  MetroHealth medical.