Homeless Issues #105

The following are the “Host Churches” or Churches who are actively working with a host church in the
Nomadic Shelter:
Bayside Community Church- Placerville
Cold Springs Community Church
Faith Episcopal Church
Federated Church
Foothills United Methodist Church
Green Valley Community Church
Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Rolling Hills Community Church
Solid Rock Faith Center
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Others, such as Light of the Hills Lutheran Church,  Rolling Hills CC , and Foothills UMC regularly donate clothing throughout the year.

“To my knowledge we have 68 formally recognized church communities in El Dorado County.  Surely we can do better in our efforts to live out the biblical mandate to offer spiritual, emotional, and material support and care to the most vulnerable members of our larger community.  If you are member of a church community not currently involved in the Nomadic Winter Shelter, we need your support and help!  We are currently without a host site on Tuesday nights.  As we move into the coldest part of the season, that gap becomes dire for our homeless brothers and sisters.  There is a wide variety of facility configurations and capacities amongst our current host churches.  Whatever the limitations and challenges of our buildings we make it work because the call to provide sanctuary is integral to our tradition.  Will you join us?”
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“Report of Methodology for Housing Inventory Count and Point in Time data collection for El Dorado County Continuum of Care”

Is that a NAME or what? We might call it, a census of the homeless street people in our community. Anyway it is very important. Very important! A volunteer will go out to the places that the homeless street persons “reside” and interview them with the help of a pre-printed form.

If you can help out, contact Jennifer LaForce of  “Only Kindness” at ..Jenniferlaforce@gmail.com…. A training session will be necessary.
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Another set of questioning of our homeless population will also be conducted in the near future. This one is HMIS: Homeless Management Information System. This has been around for quite sometime. It is based on a computer generated questionnaire needing a person to be in the presences of a computer. This was the idea of persons who process forms daily and view forms as routine. This is not compatible with our homeless street people who do not frequent offices with computers. And our street people do not recognize 9 to 5 office hours. The HMIS group is going to try something different this go round. I hope this is successful.

Those of us who where around when the CRC (Community Resource Center) was in operation remember this process and thought it wonderful. The CRC was a place that homeless persons could go for assistance, companionship, and yes, be registered with HMIS. It was located on their “home turf.” Only Kindness, the non-profit that ran the place had the right ideas but without money to continue, it had to close down. WE SURE NEED A CRC NOW that could also double as a Tuesday night shelter.
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JSS needs for our homeless population distribution, women’s underwear, men’s loose boxer shorts (medium), toilet paper,  pillowcases to put blankets in for use in the Nomadic Shelter and prayers for our citizens who have the very least. I will come pick them up if you gather them up.  😉
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HAVE A BLESSED & HAPPY

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