New Plan to End Child Homelessness in Mississippi
The Mississippi Campaign to End Child Homelessness, along with a coalition of advocates, community leaders, homeless service providers, and officials from across the state, gathered on November 17, 2010, to release the Mississippi Plan to End Child Homelessness. The Plan calls for coordinated action from the state's political, business, social service, advocacy, non-profit, and philanthropic sectors to provide for more than 12,000 children and youth who are homeless annually. Specific recommendations lay the path toward preventing and ending child and family homelessness in Mississippi. Read more. |
New Mexico Leaders Release Report on Ending Child and Family Homelessness The New Mexico Campaign to End Child Homelessness and the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) released the report Ending Child and Family Homelessness in New Mexico at a hearing before the state legislature's Health and Human Services Committee on November 9, 2010. The report was prepared in response to "House Memorial 7", sponsored by Representative Bill O'Neill and passed unanimously during the 2010 legislative session. The report offers recommendations to prevent and end child and family homelessness in New Mexico. Learn more and read the report. |
Florida Campaign to End Child Homelessness Listening Tour
Be part of creating the vision to end child homelessness in Florida! The Florida Campaign to End Child Homelessness will conduct a statewide Listening Tour in early December. We invite you to attend one of the regional meetings in Jacksonville, Orlando, and Tallahassee along with community leaders, providers, advocates, and policymakers. Learn more. |
Georgia Campaign Moves Forward
 Christina Murphy, director of the national Campaign to End Child Homelessness, joined the Georgia Alliance to End Homelessness and advocates in Georgia at the 2010 Homeless and At-Risk Children and Youth Summit in early November. Service providers and community leaders attended a session conducted by the Georgia Campaign to End Child Homelessness that provided input on recommendations for the Georgia Plan to End Child Homelessness. Learn more. |