Social Work Today E-Zine

A program that started as an attempt to find a solution to homelessness in San Francisco is now being copied in more than 130 cities and counties in 26 states around the United States. Project Homeless Connect is serving as a role model for similar programs in Oregon, Nevada, Texas, Missouri, New York, and Florida. It’s also being used internationally in Canada, Puerto Rico, and Australia.

The reason why is simple: The program works. To honor that success the Federal Government has declared December 3 to 7 National Project Homeless Connect Week. "Instead of averting our eyes from homeless people and ignoring them, Project Homeless Connect offers us the opportunity to look our homeless neighbors in the eye and engage them," indicates Philip Mangano, executive director of the federal United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. The core of why the program works in San Francisco and around the country.

— Source: California Pacific Medical Center