NEOCH & Homelessness

How do I get involved in the struggle to end homelessness in Cleveland?

NEOCH Does A Ton of Work in the Community, But What is Our Primary Purpose?

What Is NEOCH?

1. How Did I Get Involved?

NEOCH is 26 Years Old

Brian Davis involved for 19 yrs

2. A History of Homelessness

We Know What Works We Know What Does

Not Work Solutions Based Group Expertise from those

Experiencing Homelessness—Everyday and in Leadership

3. Lobbying

We Raise People’s Voices

We bring the Issues to City Hall

We bring the Issues to County Government

Contact with Media and State and Elected Officials

4. Bringing Different Voices Together

CAHA Housing Cleveland Street Card Outreach Collaboration Legal Assistance Homeless Voters Policy/Advocacy Street Chronicle Homeless Stand Down

5. Civil Rights Leader

Law enforcement partners

Social Services in lieu of law enforcement.

Enforce voting rights and stop anti-homeless laws.

Work with NCH to solve problems nationally.

6. Solution Based Research

Annual State of Homelessness and Website

Partner with Government to solve problems.

Incubate new Programs in response to Problems

Educate the public about Issues Raised by Homeless People.

Homelessness in Cleveland

1.A Few Statistics

2.Definition of Homelessness

3.Myths About Homeless People

An Overview of Homelessness

How do people become homeless?

What are the current issues?

Where do people get help?

We Need Your Help!

Collections Memberships Individual Donors Research Writing for the

Street Newspaper

Volunteering/Innovative Ideas

Direct Service Creating Programs Assisting Labre Filling a Need

identified by homeless people.

Thank you to the artists for the photo images used in this show

Toni AndersonSabrina OtisPleasure

SimmonsJoshua KanaryCheryl Harris

Karen St. John Vincent

Cynthia MillerKevin Cleary

Housing Cleveland

Over 70,000 users in 2008 who did over 500,000 searches

Homeless Voting

•One of Only Continuums that Requires Voting Registration Upon Entry

•Registered thousands of homeless people in 2008.

•Leading Group in Ohio Preserving the Rights of Homeless People to Vote.

Homeless Stand Down

•19 Years of Organizing Stand Down for all.•Over 17,000 people served.

Photos by InterAct Cleveland

Website and Statistics

•Over 50,000 unique users per year•Widely quoted on statistics•Most popular website for homelessness in Cleveland.

Long History of Starting New

Programs•Homeless Grapevine•Bridging the Gap•Shelter Libraries•Community Voice Mail•Non Profit Temp. Company•Housing Cleveland Website•Legal Assistance•Street Cards•COHHIO and OCHA

Public Education

•Street Voices Speakers•Homeless Photo Project•Movable Walls•Weekly Press Releases•Website•Homeless Blog•Newsletter•Advocacy Alerts