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Yale Daily News
TAKING IT TO THE STREETS: Fighting for food, housing and health
May 13, 2020
Jason, a 33-year-old living on the streets of New Haven, was sitting under an overhang just off Yale’s campus, charging his phone and trying to stay out of the rain. The campus was deserted. Due to COVID-19 closures, most of the students who had left for spring break in March hadn’t come back. Even the tour groups, moving under their umbrellas across Old Campus, were gone. Between the stay-at-home orders and the rain, the streets of New Haven were empty.
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isolatedtogetherpodcast.org
Columbus House Adapts to Meet Needs of Homeless During the Pandemic
May 12, 2020
In this episode, Quinnipiac University's Vince Contrucci interviews John Brooks, the chief development officer at Columbus House, which is an organization that works with people who are homeless or housing insecure to provide them short- and long-term shelter. Which, as you’ll hear in the episode, is no easy thing, when you have social distancing requirements and everything else happening.
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Jeff Jacobs: Guilford Scholar Athlete Ella Stanley brings well-rounded to a new level
May 7, 2020
Stanley plays viola for the school orchestra and helps with field hockey clinics. Yet perhaps most impressively, Stanley spearheaded what has become the annual “Big Sleep Out” on the Guilford Green to draw attention to homelessness. She has helped raise more than $15,000 for Columbus House in New Haven.
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New Haven Independent
Dozen Homeless “Drop In” On Triage Tent
May 6, 2020
While on his daily stroll around East Rock, Ruben Thompson Jr., 61, found himself welcomed by on-site services for the homeless like food, a face mask, toiletries, hand sanitizer, and clothing at the new Blake Field Drop-in Center.
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USA Today
Coronavirus threatens people living in shelters. Here's how an agency rushed to save them.
April 30, 2020
Columbus House typically bustles with staff doing laundry and cleaning beds as volunteers prepare and plan meals for people who are homeless. When people in need arrived at the shelter in the late afternoon looking for dinner and a place to spend the night, they’d find food and a bed.
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New Haven Register
New Haven to offer services to homeless living in encampments during coronavirus pandemic
April 29, 2020
The city is creating a drop-in resource center for homeless individuals who would rather stay outdoors at encampments than enter a shelter during the pandemic.
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New Haven Independent
Pop-Up Covid-19 Help Tent Planned For Hardcore Homeless
April 28, 2020
Early next week an “open-air resource center” — otherwise known as a tent — is scheduled to pop up in Blake Field opposite the East Rock Community Magnet School, not far from homeless encampments in the woods near the Willow Street I-91 off-ramps.
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Liberty Bank Foundation
Liberty Bank Team Announces Additional $100,000 to Support Local Community Partners in COVID-19 Response
April 27, 2020
Building on their first round of $100,000 in emergency grants they approved in April for ten local hospitals, Liberty Bank of Middletown, Connecticut today announced that through their charitable foundation they will be providing an additional $100,000 in funding to support several other community organizations in their COVID-19 response.
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Yale Daily News
UP CLOSE: COVID-19, homelessness and New Haven’s response
April 21, 2020
“What am I supposed to do?” asked a man at a March 19 COVID-19 press conference on the steps of City Hall. He was one of a half-dozen homeless individuals who interrupted Mayor Justin Elicker’s daily briefing.
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CIty Lab
No Easy Fixes as Covid-19 Hits Homeless Shelters
April 17, 2020
On Good Friday, Tyree Leslie traded a bunk bed in Multi-Service Center South, San Francisco’s largest homeless shelter, for a bed in a room lined with pale yellow wallpaper in the city’s historic Hotel Whitcomb. He gets three meals a day, his own bathroom, and the chance to truly shelter in place — away from the coronavirus that tore through the shelter he’s been staying in since the winter. “It makes a difference,” he says. “I’m just glad to be indoors.”
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