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Project Homeless Connect mobilizes 500 service providers, makes help more available to those in need

By Susan Gray, KFAI Radio

Lawyers, dentists, hair stylists and chiropractors all came together this week to volunteer on behalf of homeless people. Project Homeless Connect mobilizes 500 service providers to one central location to make help more available to those who need it. KFAI’s Susan Gray was there. [Audio below]

FREE SPEECH ZONE | Belt-Tightening at the Expense of the Mentally Ill Increases Taxpayer Expenses

By Dr. Tim Burkett, CEO, People Incorporated Mental Health Services, and Dr. Chuck Schulz, Head of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Free Speech Zone

It's a shocking fact that over 54% of homeless people in the Twin Cities have a mental illness. Helping them off the streets can be tough-but a pioneering program at People Incorporated Mental Health Services has been highly successful in working with this vulnerable population, moving scores of people out of the cold and into their own homes in just over two years.MORE »

Homeless in Minneapolis

By Madeleine Baran, TC Daily Planet
Most people have never been to Currie Avenue, a short street wedged in between the freeway and the Greyhound bus terminal in downtown Minneapolis.
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Homeless taking over foreclosed houses for Valentine’s Day

By Paul Schmelzer, Minnesota Independent
While delivering a where’s-the-love message on Valentine’s Day may seem like a gimmick, an action by homeless advocates to be announced this weekend is anything but a stunt, according to its organizer.MORE »

Midwinter homeless (under)count in Minnesota

By Madeleine Baran, TC Daily Planet
On a recent morning, Christopher Scott sat on the ground outside Harbor Light, a homeless shelter in downtown Minneapolis, contemplating the series of events that led to him joining the growing ranks of homeless in Minnesota.

For about a year, Scott, 27, was barely scraping by, earning minimum wage working part-time at McDonald’s.MORE »

Homeless no longer in Willmar

By Madeleine Baran, TC Daily Planet
Willmar resident Heather Solberg is grateful not to be included in this year’s homeless count. Solberg and her two-year-old son Maddox became homeless two days after Christmas. Solberg, 21, had moved to Willmar, MN from Wisconsin at the encouragement of a friend who told her that jobs were more plentiful there. Solberg stated she “applied for every job I could think of,” but with no luck.MORE »

Homeless youth in Minnesota: Tonight on TPT

By Maura Youngman, TC Daily Planet
“A lot of you in the room grew up with a mother and father, had clothes and food. Some of us never had that,” Alicia, one of the young people profiled in Homeless Youth: Finding Home, a new documentary profiling the lives of six homeless youth in Minnesota. Alicia spoke to the group invited to preview the documentary at the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation November 19. MORE »
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