Homeward Featured Stories

Real Change - It’s great that you want to give, but giving to panhandlers is not the best way to help. Learn more about the agencies working to prevent and end homelessness in the Richmond region.

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Many panhandlers are not homeless and most people experiencing homelessness do not panhandle. Homeward’s panhandling prevention campaign has three components:

  • The public education campaign to help compassionate people be a part of community solutions to prevent and end homelessness.
  • An enhanced outreach and engagement effort to...
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What is Rapid Re-Housing? - Rapid re-housing is a service model designed to immediately return those who are losing or lost their housing back to permanent housing and shorten the length of shelter stays for families and individuals.
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Our goal is to transform the homeless services delivery system to focus on housing stability, developing and sustaining a public-private system of services and a public-private system of services and resources for very low income persons that enables those experiencing homelessness to be rapidly re-housed in...

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Project Homeless Connect matches clients with volunteers in a one-of-a-kind partnership to assist chronically homeless adults connect to as many on-site services as possible in one day.

Project Homeless Connect matches clients with volunteers in a one-of-a-kind partnership to assist chronically homeless adults connect to as many on-site services as possible in one day. To do this more than 40 service providers move their operations to a single location for a day, providing dedicated healthcare, dental and vision screenings, mental health...

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Preliminary Data Release from 2010 Summer Point in Time Count:
Shows partnerships and coordination of services helping to reduce homelessness in Richmond.
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Preliminary Summer Point in Time Data

August 4, 2010 Press Release: Preliminary Data Shows Homelessness Decreasing in Richmond

Preliminary results revealed 891 people in the region experiencing homelessness on July 29, 2010. This...

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