Case Studies

Santa Barbara Registry Week has been making a splash all week with the largest volunteer turnout on record!

The event drew so much attention that local outlet Noozhawk sent Lara Cooper to participate in the event and chronicle the experience from the inside.

Many readers will remember Omaha, which stunned the Campaign in October by helping one of its most vulnerable homeless residents into housing before the end of its Registry Week. After surveying Carmen and discovering that she was suffering from terminal lung cancer, local Campaign partners moved her into permanent housing the very next day.

We checked back in with Omaha recently to see how the last few months have gone.

Our Social Media Fellow, Jessica Marcus, wanted to take on the biggest myths surrounding homelessness. You supplied the myths on Facebook and Twitter. Now, she’s running down the facts.

This month, Louisiana will become the first Campaign community to implement the Vulnerability Index statewide.

By organizing hundreds of volunteers across the state, Randy Nichols and the Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless hope to survey homeless residents at frequent gathering points to build the Campaign's first state-level registry.

Today's New York Times included an editorial praising our partners in Los Angeles for a bold new plan to target veterans homelessness.

The program, known as Vets to Home Project 60, is made up of a broad coalition of city agencies and service providers and seeks to apply the housing first model to homeless veterans.

You can read the editorial below.

Special congratulations to the Campaign team in Santa Monica!

Last June, Brisbane conducted the very first international Registry Week, jumpstarting 50 Lives 50 Homes in its effort to end chronic homelessness. Over the course of the week, nearly 100 volunteers surveyed 231 individuals, 118 of whom were recognized as vulnerable.

Communication is a central tenet of this Campaign. For too long, self-erected barriers have separated advocates for the homeless from one another and homeless individuals from permanent housing. By bringing people together to share their knowledge and ideas, we can end homelessness quickly and cost effectively. No one should have to innovate alone.

Our Campaign partners in Seattle have applied this basic principle to the funding process with spectacular results.

You may remember reading about Chicago's trailblazing Campaign Registry Week on this blog, and some of you are probably wondering what's happened since.

Deborah De Santis from our Campaign partner, the Corporation for Supportive Housing, just published this Chicago success story in the Huffington Post. It's an inspiring reminder of what our work together is all about:

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“Right now, my home is under a bridge in downtown Denver,” says Randall.

The Colorado native worked for 25 years as a bookkeeper. Then suddenly, two-years-ago, he found himself without a job and living on the streets.

Thanks to Campaign partner Denver's Road Home, Randall is getting the support he needs to get back on his feet.

UPDATE Nov. 16th:  Given the snowfall, local organizers hoped for 100 volunteers at yesterday's volunteer training, but after a story about Registry Week ran on Fort Collins' local NPR affiliate, more than 120 people showed up to learn how to help! Inspired by words of encouragement from local service providers and several elected officials, volunteers kicked off the survey process early this morning at 5 a.m. Mountain Time.