New Jersey Project Homeless Connect Day Events and Point-in-Time Surveys

New Jersey Project Homeless Connect Day

New Jersey Project Homeless Connect Day

January 25, 2011, Continuums of Care (CoC) all over New Jersey rallied their communities to remember the neediest during the last week of January, a time set aside to conduct the National Street and Shelter Point-in-Time surveys of the homeless. The state's capital started the week with New Jersey's first multiservice homeless event of 2011. Mercer County's CoC and the Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness partnered with dozens of public and private homeless service providers and other social service agencies to conduct a Project Homeless Connect Day event. Operations Specialist Carleton Lewis joined Trenton's Director of Community Development Cleophis Roper, Mercer Alliance's Executive Director Herb Levine and Program Manager Tarry Truitt at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church were over 400 people were provided with an array of services, given personal care items, and warm clothing. Participants came in from the shelters, soup kitchens and the streets of Trenton for an opportunity to make contact with every link in the county's social service safety net before leaving with a stomach full of nutritious food.

New Jersey Project Homeless Connect Day

On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 Operations Specialist Carleton Lewis joined Hudson County Division of Community Development's Jacob De Lemos and Kristin Green, Monarch Housing's Richard Brown, representatives from United Way of Hudson County, and North Hudson Community Action at the Old YMCA on Bergen Avenue. Hundreds of people streamed in the building from the snowy streets of Jersey City to receive a cornucopia of services, meals, clothing, and food vouchers from Shop Rite Super Markets.

Other New Jersey Homeless Connect Day events were conducted, this week, in Middlesex, Salem, Union, and Essex Counties in spite of the harsh winter storm that hit the region. Homeless Point-in-Time surveys were conducted state-wide.

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