Podcasts about homeless alliance

A hearing against the cofounders of Epic Charter Schools finishes its first week.Oklahomans are heading to the polls today on local elections. Dan Straughan talks about his time with the Homeless Alliance.You can find the KOSU Daily wherever you get your podcasts, you can also subscribe, rate us and leave a comment.You can keep up to date on all the latest news throughout the day at KOSU.org and make sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at KOSU Radio.This is The KOSU Daily, Oklahoma news, every weekday.

This week co-ghosts Linley Faye and Marty discuss the upcoming arena vote, labor's complicity in the propaganda, and the new winter shelter at the Homeless Alliance. There are some frustrating audio issues owing to dodgy cell reception for Marty. Apologies.

Like any growing city, Greenville has a segment of the population in dire need of affordable housing, people who are overpaying to stay in motels, sleeping in shelters, or simply living on the streets. But the problems of homelessness are solvable, and so in this episode we talk with Susan McLarty of Greenville Homeless Alliance about what her organization and other organizations in the Greenville area are doing to help the homeless in Greenville find housing. Want to learn more? Here are some links courtesy of Susan: Bookmark thttps://www.gvlhomes4all.org/get-help and print a one page resource sheet to keep handy in your vehicle.  You can have small items on hand to give with the resource sheet such as granola bars, bottles of water, or other nonperishable food items. Use the new resource guide to filter accordingly https://www.gvlhomes4all.org/resource-guide. Make plans for the iGNITE events on November 14 https://www.gvlhomes4all.org/igniteevent2023.  Starting on November 15, the art exhibit will be open to the public for six months.  Check out the 47 ft. "Seen | Heard | Valued" mural https://www.gvlhomes4all.org/seen-heard-valued-mural. Follow progress by connecting with us https://www.gvlhomes4all.org/connect.  We are happy to arrange volunteer opportunities for your business, neighborhood association, or place of worship paired with our Homelessness 101. Learn by watching the short mythbuster videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgdh7T2qCpo&list=PLDiPdCv8w0f9svj_zeFeCbvmsm0ozwo8G.  Support our work https://www.gvlhomes4all.org/donate.    As always, if you have any questions or comments (or, of course, need a realtor), feel free to reach out to Stan McCune directly by phone/text at (864) 735-7580 or by email at smccune@cdanjoyner.com.

Upstate South Carolina is filled with many individuals, businesses and organizations collectively helping to shape the Upstate as a leading place to live, learn, do business, and raise a family. Join Ten at the Top Executive Director, Dean Hybl, as he sits down with Susan McLarty, director of the Greenville Homeless Alliance.  Learn more about resources for people experiencing homelessness: https://www.gvlhomes4all.org/get-help

Today I talk with Susan McLarty! Susan is the first Coordinator of the Greenville Homeless Alliance. Their mission is to reduce homelessness and help provide affordable housing for all! They work with a number of organizations and programs to strengthen and broaden the support for individuals or families who are experiencing homelessness. Greenville Homeless Alliance: https://www.gvlhomes4all.org/ Sponsored by Engineered Sleep! Use code LIVE15 to get 15% off your order. https://engineeredsleep.com

In this episode, we chat with one of our local missions partners, Susan McLarty, about her work with the Greenville Homeless Alliance. We discuss the partnership Buncombe Street has with them and how we can continue to pray for them and work together to impact Greenville.

Listen as we speak with Susan McLarty, the Coordinator of Greenville Homeless Alliance - a coalition formed in 2014 to address the rise in homelessness in Greenville. We discuss why homelessness is an issue, what the city and the county are doing, and what you can do about it. Learn more about GHA here: https://www.gvlhomes4all.org/

Saying it's time to open the door for new ideas, Dale Zuchlewski is retiring as Executive Director of the Homeless Alliance of Western New York. Crediting priorities established by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Zuchlewski says he has seen improvements over his 11 years at his agency when it comes to the realities for those who are homeless. More needs to be done, Zuchlewski says, for a population of which 25 percent are children.

Emily Paulsen has served as the Executive Director of the Nevada Alliance since the Spring of 2016. She believes housing is a human right and is dedicated to building a socially just community where everyone can be housed. Originally from the northern central valley and bay area of California, Emily transplanted to Las Vegas in 2008. She is a doer of all things homeless related and has worked as a street outreach worker, case manager, permanent housing manager, program developer, homeless system innovator, advocate, collaboration builder, service coordinator, and voice for the homeless. She is a lifelong learner, steadfast in the knowledge that an end to homelessness is not only possible but the ultimate purpose of her work. In her article published in the Nevada Independent, Emily says, "In Southern Nevada there are more people experiencing homelessness on any given night than there are shelter beds or other resources. As a result, the shelters are full most nights of the year and thousands of people sleep on sidewalks, in storm drains and other places where no human should live. Not only are there not enough shelter beds for everyone in need, there are even fewer beds for especially vulnerable populations like youth, families, transgender individuals, disabled persons in wheelchairs and women. Nearly 1,800 homeless individuals and families are waiting for placement into a homeless service program today. They want help, but we don't have enough resources to go around. Some of them will be lucky enough to get one of the limited shelter beds available, but many will not. This is a problem, and one that should be addressed urgently. Mayor Carolyn Goodman's proposed ordinance to ticket or arrest people for camping outdoors will not solve this problem. In fact, if passed this ordinance will hurt the region's progress on reducing the number of people experiencing homelessness.   Homelessness is solvable. We don't lack solutions; we lack the political will to take proven solutions to scale. The mayor can't rightly claim that people need a ticket or jail sentence in order to be motivated to leave the street, when there are nearly 1,800 people waiting for assistance today, and we don't have the resources available to help them. During this critical time, the City of Las Vegas should not create policies that offer no evidence of success and which counter federal policy, hurt collaborative regional efforts, harm highly vulnerable populations and waste scarce public resources.  By working together and investing in the expansion and preservation of affordable housing, and in evidenced-based solutions like supportive housing, we can build our homeless response system up so that homelessness is rare, and episodes are brief and non-recurring. There are many actions local government and private businesses can take to achieve this, and now is the time to double-down on those solutions. I'm committed to doing my part. Join me."  Emily Paulsen, MSW, has been a homeless service provider and advocate for more than a decade in Southern NV. She is the executive director of the Nevada Homeless Alliance, co-chair of the Southern NV Homelessness Continuum of Care Board, a cross-sector body that leads regional efforts to end homelessness, and the chair of the Policy Council on Homelessness. Support this podcast

Emily Paulsen has served as the Executive Director of the Nevada Alliance since the Spring of 2016. She believes housing is a human right and is dedicated to building a socially just community where everyone can be housed. Originally from the northern central valley and bay area of California, Emily transplanted to Las Vegas in 2008. She is a doer of all things homeless related and has worked as a street outreach worker, case manager, permanent housing manager, program developer, homeless system innovator, advocate, collaboration builder, service coordinator, and voice for the homeless. She is a lifelong learner, steadfast in the knowledge that an end to homelessness is not only possible but the ultimate purpose of her work. In her article published in the Nevada Independent, Emily says, "In Southern Nevada there are more people experiencing homelessness on any given night than there are shelter beds or other resources. As a result, the shelters are full most nights of the year and thousands of people sleep on sidewalks, in storm drains and other places where no human should live. Not only are there not enough shelter beds for everyone in need, there are even fewer beds for especially vulnerable populations like youth, families, transgender individuals, disabled persons in wheelchairs and women. Nearly 1,800 homeless individuals and families are waiting for placement into a homeless service program today. They want help, but we don't have enough resources to go around. Some of them will be lucky enough to get one of the limited shelter beds available, but many will not. This is a problem, and one that should be addressed urgently. Mayor Carolyn Goodman's proposed ordinance to ticket or arrest people for camping outdoors will not solve this problem. In fact, if passed this ordinance will hurt the region's progress on reducing the number of people experiencing homelessness. Homelessness is solvable. We don't lack solutions; we lack the political will to take proven solutions to scale. The mayor can't rightly claim that people need a ticket or jail sentence in order to be motivated to leave the street, when there are nearly 1,800 people waiting for assistance today, and we don't have the resources available to help them. During this critical time, the City of Las Vegas should not create policies that offer no evidence of success and which counter federal policy, hurt collaborative regional efforts, harm highly vulnerable populations and waste scarce public resources. By working together and investing in the expansion and preservation of affordable housing, and in evidenced-based solutions like supportive housing, we can build our homeless response system up so that homelessness is rare, and episodes are brief and non-recurring. There are many actions local government and private businesses can take to achieve this, and now is the time to double-down on those solutions. I'm committed to doing my part. Join me." Emily Paulsen, MSW, has been a homeless service provider and advocate for more than a decade in Southern NV. She is the executive director of the Nevada Homeless Alliance, co-chair of the Southern NV Homelessness Continuum of Care Board, a cross-sector body that leads regional efforts to end homelessness, and the chair of the Policy Council on Homelessness. Support this podcast

This week we're joined by Ranya Forgotson of the Homeless Alliance and Curbside Chronicle to chat about their newest program, Curbside Flowers. Curbside Flowers is a full service flower shop located at 522 N. Classen Blvd. Suite 100. They will be opening the doors to the shop on Dec. 15, visit www.curbsideflowers.org to learn more!

This week, we made room at the Table for Kinsey Crocker, director of marketing for the Homeless Alliance. Her organization runs point for shelters around the city, organizing and directing traffic to ensure Oklahoma City's most vulnerable have support.

This is the second part of Episode 2: 405maskmakers.com Regina Banks is a social impact entrepreneur, small business owner, actress, marketing expert, mother, and lover of all things community. She founded the Vanguart in 2019 with a mission to create and promote more opportunities for African-American artists. Her most recent project, with a team of other amazing volunteers, 405maskmakers.com have provided well over 10,000 masks to the Homeless Alliance and frontline workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. She gives timely examples of key lessons in communication during a crisis, and shares how great healing can come when you begin to be transparent with your story. Visit www.braveandcreative.com for full show notes, links, and more episode highlights. You can now subscribe to Brave and Creative in Apple Podcasts. Please leave a review as we continue to grow this community around conversations embracing nonprofit leaders as Artists, Activators, and Disruptors. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/braveandcreative/message

Amanda Gautier is a case manager for the Homeless Alliance in OKC. She manages several chronically homeless veterans to help them identify, secure and maintain housing. She is used to problem solving and breaking barriers for the population she serves. Today Amanda talks about her own stories of adversity as she literally lost her eyesight to amoebas that were eating her corneas and then fought to save her life after being diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. She shares her stories of determination, hopelessness and down right badassery!!

Amanda Gautier is a case manager for the Homeless Alliance in OKC. She manages several chronically homeless veterans to help them identify, secure and maintain housing. She is used to problem solving and breaking barriers for the population she serves. Today Amanda talks about her own stories of adversity as she literally lost her eyesight to amoebas that were eating her corneas and then fought to save her life after being diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. She shares her stories of hopelessness, determination and down right badassery!! Follow Amanda on Instagram @norcal4 and Face Book at Amanda Gautier   Please click the link below and subscribe to the Be Ultra Podcast on Spreaker.  https://www.spreaker.com/show/be-ultra Check out my new services on www.beultraliving.com  

A CWCIT interview with Yasmine Cajuste, project development manager for the FamVin Homeless Alliance (FHA) and former education coordinator for the Vincentian Haiti Initiative. A native Haitian who has been active in the International Vincentian Family since high school, Yasmine is also a wife, mom, and graduate of DePaul University where she earned her MA in educational leadership. In this interview, she speaks, among other things, about her own personal story and what attracted her as a lay person to the international mission and work of the Vincentians...what she has learned through her role with FHA about homelessness—and the efforts to reduce it—across so many different parts of the world (FHA works on 6 continents)...how she and others in the Vincentian community support each other and "keep on keeping on" in work that seems, at times, overwhelmingly daunting.

On this episode I sat down with Bruce Waight Sr. This bio below was written by Oklahoma Black Entrepreneurs. It hits everything about Bruce and is by far better than anything I could have put together. Go follow @oklahomablackentrepreneurs on social media and on their website www.oklahomablackentrepreneurs.com•Bruce Waight Sr. is a father, professional barber, community advocate, and CEO from San Antonio, TX. After graduating from barber college in 2011 Bruce received his professional barbering license from the Oklahoma State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering. In 2014, Bruce, along with co-founder Vanessa Morrison; a non-profit professional and graduate from the OU College of Architecture's Regional and City Planning Graduate Program, wanted to change how people experience and access the barbershop space and culture, with a vision of eliminating obstacles and barriers.In 2015 they purchased a 1960 Airstream Landyacht, and restored and transitioned their vintage trailer into Oklahoma's first full service, self-sustaining barbershop. Bruce was also integral in getting legislation passed to help make mobile barbershops legal in the state of Oklahoma and launched in July of 2017. He was then appointed by the Governor's office to serve on the Oklahoma Barber and Cosmetology Board and currently sits as the Barber representative and the Legislative Liaison. In 2017 he expanded his entrepreneurial career and opened up his first storefront barbershop, Rooted Barber + Shop. Rooted hosts Oklahoma's first Artist in Residency Barbershop program, and a myriad of community events. Additionally, he is the co-founder of Cut it Forward; a non-profit dedicated to providing culturally specific hair and skin care for foster and adopted youth of color and is the founder of the Hair Collaborative; a collective providing free barbering services onsite at the Homeless Alliance’s Day shelter.•For more information:•Rooted Barber + ShopWebsite: www.rootedokc.comAddress: 3515 N. Classen Blvd. OKC, OK Twitter: @rootedokcInstagram: @rootedokcFacebook: Rooted Barber + ShopPhone number: (405) 601-0154En Root Mobile Barbershop CompanyWebsite: www.enrootokc.comTwitter: @enrootokcInstagram: @enrootokcFacebook: En Root Mobile Barbershop CompanyEmail: info@enrootokc.comCut it ForwardWebsite: www.cutitforward.orgTwitter: @cutitforwardInstagram: @cutitforwardFacebook: Cut it Forward#OBEThanks for listening and as always, please rate and review the podcast. Leave a comment for who I should interview next. #thisisoklahoma Cheers, Mike.

On the new episode of the Mental Health Download podcast, our own Greg Shinn interviews his longtime friend and collaborator Dan Straughan, executive director of the Homeless Alliance in Oklahoma City. Together they discuss the results of the OKC Point-in-Time Count of people experiencing homelessness and what that means for the community. This is part one of a two-part series. The second episode features Greg discussing Tulsa's Point-in-Time count.

On this episode, Greg Shinn, of Mental Health Association Oklahoma, discusses Tulsa's annual Point-in-Time Count of people experiencing homelessness. It was officially released during the recording of this podcast. This is the second of a two-part series on point-in-time counts in Oklahoma. The first episode featured Greg interviewing Dan Straughan, of the Homeless Alliance in Oklahoma City.

This podcast is a presentation by Dan Straughan, executive director of the Oklahoma City Homeless Alliance, shared on Friday, September 25, 2015, at the Friday Morning Mens Group of First Presbyterian Church of Edmond, Oklahoma. For several months, our men's group has been reading and studying the wonderful book, "Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together"  by Ron Hall and Denver Moore. This is an amazing and powerful book, relating the transformational story of how God worked in the lives of a homeless man (Denver) and Ron Hall to give second chances and teach unforgettable life lessons about love, caring, and the value of all human beings. With interest in local homeless issues raised by this book, Dan Straughan was invited to present at our men's group meeting. The OKC Homeless Alliance is "a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the system of care for the homeless in Oklahoma City through collaboration with government, faith-based and nonprofit service providers. The ultimate goal of the Homeless Alliance is to rally our community to end long-term homelessness in Oklahoma City by both preventing homelessness and increasing the supply of affordable and permanent supportive housing to move those who are currently homeless back into housing." This 45 minute presentation by Dan provides an important window into the ways outreach ministries and social service groups are seeking to help meet the needs of homeless individuals and families in Oklahoma City. Check the podcast shownotes for links to referenced organizations and other resources including the book, "Same Kind of Different As Me." Read this powerful book, and get involved in assisting organizations in your community reaching out to the homeless.