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TRAINING: ORGANIZING FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION
Register now for our Organizing for Collective Action workshop. The class is Friday, March 15, 2019, from 10am to 3pm. The training cost is free for participants. The workshop is held at NEOCH's office (3631 Perkins Ave. Cleveland, Ohio 44113) Call us for more information (216) 432-0540. Make sure you sign up below.
The 2018 Street Card hits the streets this week
The 2018 Street Card hits the streets this week. This is a publication of the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless to inform people experiencing homelessness of the services in our community. This year, we give our appreciation to the Cleveland Clinic for printing the Street Card.
COURT ORDERS RELIEF FOR PURGED OHIO VOTERS IN TIME FOR THE NOVEMBER ELECTION
Live and Direct: Poverty, Affordable Housing, and Homelessness in Cleveland
Despite the ‘renaissance’ in Cleveland, people still struggle to live a dignified life. 46% of the people in Cleveland live in poverty and 23,000 people experience homelessness. Join us to learn more! This panel discussion that will center the perspectives of people with lived experience of homelessness and community leaders advocating for change.
NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS CONTINUES TO PROVIDE VOTER REGISTRATION TO PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.
On September 25, National Voter Registration Day 2018. The Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH), in partnership with Cleveland Votes, will make a strong push to register homeless voters before the November elections.
Homeless liaisons help the homeless children in each of Ohio’s School Districts
Every year thousands of families struggle with homelessness. In Cleveland, there were 2,744 homeless students in 2017. Statistics show that the percentage of homeless children in Ohio who graduate is less than 25% according to the National Center on Family Homelessness. Education of today’s children plays an important roll in preventing homelessness.
NEOCH 2018 Summer Intern Reflections
NEOCH Interns Take Action with Poor People Campaign's In Ohio and DC
For the Working Homeless Housing is out of Reach
Public Transit Round Table: Join us.
U.S. Supreme Court Rules Ohio May Reinstate Practice of Purging Voters From Its Rolls for Not Voting Court Decision Could Lead to Disenfranchisement Across the Country
A New Era for the Women's Shelter...Trend or Outlier?
Homeless Congress - April 12, 2018
For the remainder of the meeting the YWCA was in charge. Nicole Evans of the YWCA, who as of May 1, 2018, will take over as the Executive Director at the Norma Herr Shelter as the YWCA takes the reign from Frontline
- What can we do to help make your homeless experience be as brief as possible?
- To empower women to receive the institutional services that they are entitled to overcome the homeless experience, trauma, physical abuse, substance abuse, and self-suffering.
- Encourage women to make Informed decisions for themselves
- To increase resources that are available to women in the shelter to establish independence in the community.
Winter - reflections of then and now, before and after the SocksPlus Campaign
Before SocksPlus, it was common to see homeless individuals with bags tied over their tennis shoes to serve as boots. It was normal to find individuals with holes in their shoes and wet socks and feet. It was typical to find people suffering without gloves, hats and warm socks. It was never easy knowing that people were suffering in the cold and you have no hats or gloves or socks to give them to provide some warmth. Before the SocksPlus campaign outreach workers would have to call on churches and put out notices of what was needed for an individual and what sizes was needed and then wait. It could take days or a week to get an individual geared up with warm socks, boots, gloves and a hat. They were definitely hard to come by because there were so many who were sleeping outside and they all needed winter gear once the weather started changing
2017 Annual Report released
We released our 2017 Annual Report. Please take a look if you have not yet seen it. The report highlights our work, demonstrates the facts of homelessness in our community, discusses our financial health, and thanks our supporters.
Living in Harmony - A benefit concert for the homeless
Cleveland Homeless Legal Assistance Program
The Cleveland Homeless Legal Assistance Program (CHLAP) is a program of the CMBA. It works with the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH) and homeless shelters in the area to focus on the legal issues that are of concern to those in Cleveland who are experiencing homelessness or are at-risk of becoming homeless. The program offers an important service to the individuals in need by providing access to justice through brief advice and counseling clinics at regularly scheduled times in shelters and social service sites where they reside or gather for meals and other services.
Just the Facts: Homelessness and Poverty in our Community
Just the Facts: Homeless and Poverty in our community. This is 2017 year data and speaks to the reality of poverty and homelessness in our community. Looking at who is impacted by homelessness, we see that 70% of the people in shelter identify as black and that family homelessness has increased by 24% since 2015.
Annual Meeting
THE RIGHT TO SPEAK: FROM VOTING BOOTHS TO SHELTERS AND STREET CORNERS
NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS - ANNUAL MEETING
THURSDAY, MARCH 8TH, 2018.
ST. PAUL’S COMMUNITY CHURCH
(4427 FRANKLIN AVE, CLEVELAND, OHIO 44113)
6PM TO 8PM ( FOOD PROVIDED)
Hear for the Homeless: Benefit concert for NEOCH
Music is a bridge that can bring awareness and spur action. Emerging from Phil Collins's installation, my heart's in my hand..., currently on view at MOCA Cleveland, this special concert seeks to generate attention and support to help improve the conditions for homeless people in Cleveland. Benefitting Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH), the concert will feature musicians and bands from here and beyond who address social issues in their music and practice. The event will be held at Beachland Ballroom, a venue that has long provided a stage for musicians who inspire change.