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Greetings!
What's new at Care for the Homeless? Back to School season is right around the corner, we graduated another class of peer outreach workers, and Health Empowered Beauty Fashion Show date has been announced! Please like our new Instagram page to receive more updates on our work at Care for the Homeless.
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Can you help us send homeless children in family shelters to school with needed supplies? You will ensure a strong start to their academic year!
Is your office, church, community group, or friends interested in hosting a supply drive for Care for the Homeless? If so, we can help you do that! We have some tips and instructions to help you put together a successful drive.
List of supplies needed:
Composition notebooks, binders, tab dividers, printer paper, pens, pencils, rulers, pencil cases, crayons, calculators, erasers, glue-sticks, sharpeners, markers, highlighters, kid safe scissors, mini staplers, white out, and more!
Increase the value of your donation: if you shop regularly on Amazon.com, give smile.amazon.com a try, and
select Care for the Homeless as your charity
! Amazon donates .5% of your total amount of eligible purchases to Care for the Homeless.
Supplies can be dropped off at (or shipped to) Care for the Homeless headquarters, 30 E 33rd Street, New York, NY 10016.
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We'd like to congratulate the graduates of our 2017 Peer to Peer Outreach Program!
CFH’s peer-to-peer outreach program, funded through the New York City Council’s Discretionary funding, is a program to reach out to and connect with often hard to reach, unstably housed people, who might otherwise not gain appropriate access to primary and ongoing health care. This direct outreach assists them in gaining access, making and keeping appointments, and maintaining appropriate healthcare.
Peers, or formerly homeless individuals, are provided with training and part-time employment for six months as Peer Outreach workers. Five former clients were selected to work in this year's Program. The employment experience will help them land jobs in the near future. In fact, two Peer Outreach Workers have found jobs! And, we have learned that when Peer workers are placed at sites where we have a health center, our staff see more new patients and see existing patients more frequently. The program also gave the Peer Outreach Workers an opportunity to give back to their community, by helping people who are in a situation they were once in.
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Health Empowered Beauty Fashion Show
We are excited to host our 5th Annual Health Empowered Beauty Fashion Show on October 2 at the Mezzanine NYC.
We are grateful to those who've supported the show in years past and we hope to see support from old and new comers alike.
Tickets go on sale August 7!
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From the Front Lines
is a monthly update about Care for the Homeless' efforts to fight homelessness on New York City.
Thank you for your generous support of our mission.
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