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St Mungo's
Outreach on the streets of Connecticut
September 17, 2018
This summer Ed Addison, Case Coordinator for St Mungo’s project Street Impact London, took part in an eye opening two week long cultural exchange programme, travelling to Connecticut in the USA to learn about their approach to supporting people who are sleeping rough. Ed explains more about the homelessness situation in New Haven, the challenges they face conducting outreach and what he has taken away from the experience.
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Columbus House
Alison Cunningham, CEO, on New Haven Green Overdose Crisis
August 17, 2018
By today, that toll has risen to over 70 people who have been affected by a bad batch of K2 being distributed (given away and sold) on the New Haven Green. K2 is a synthetic cannabinoid and is illegal in CT.
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Columbus House
We're CARF Accredited!
August 14, 2018
New Haven, CT - Three Columbus House programs have earned the highest level of accreditation from CARF International for quality of service: Supportive Services for Veteran Families/Rapid Re-Housing, Permanent Supportive Housing and Medical Respite.
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Columbus House
Sharing solutions to ending homelessness across the Atlantic
August 13, 2018
Columbus House hosts Ed Addison, Case Coordinator for St. Mungo’s Street Impact London through the Transatlantic Practice Exchange.
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New Haven Independent
Construction Starts On New Vlock Home
July 9, 2018
In the thick of a heat wave, the Yale School of Architecture first-years came together this week to start building a two-story home on 41-43 Button St. for a homeless family and a single renter.
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New Haven Register
Lamont looks at homeless needs
July 5, 2018
Ned Lamont, the Democratic Party’s candidate for governor, visited the Columbus House homeless shelter Tuesday to hear about the experiences and needs of people living or working there.
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New Haven Register
Yale New Haven Hospital’s work with community brings $100,000 prize
May 28, 2018
A hospital, in order to truly meet its patients’ and employees’ needs, has to do more than provide health care.
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GlobeNewswire
Watson Provides Small Appliances to Columbus House for Formerly Homeless
May 24, 2018
Watson, Inc. recently donated 25 small appliances to Columbus House, to be included in their Welcome Kit initiative, which provides basic household necessities to those moving out of homelessness and into permanent homes.
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The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University
Study shows that medical respite care for patients experiencing homelessness is cost-effective for hospitals
May 22, 2018
A new study by Professor Donald Shepard and Dan Shetler in The Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved demonstrates a powerful business case for providing medical respite care to hospitalized patients experiencing homelessness. In the article, titled “Medical Respite for People Experiencing Homelessness: Financial Impacts with Alternative Levels of Medicaid Coverage,” Shetler and Shepard examined two hospital case studies: St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Conn. (a Medicaid-expansion state) and Holy Cross Hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (a non-Medicaid-expansion state).
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New Haven Register
Annual count shows slight decline in Connecticut homelessness
May 18, 2018
When volunteers walked city streets and visited shelters on an unseasonably warm winter night early this year, they found two more homeless people than last year, bucking a downward trend statewide.
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