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needed change.
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Introducing our new Policy and Priorities newsletter! We hope you will enjoy MDHA’s new publication to update you on our latest advocacy work to prevent and end homelessness. Our first issue features articles on MDHA’s Greater Dallas Homeless Policy Alliance, Permanent Supportive Housing Plan and more!
MDHA member agency CitySquare identified Dallas’ most vulnerable homeless residents. See the report here.
From the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the document linked here offers useful direction in design and implementation of programs using the new Emergency Solutions Grant funds.
Public Policy Update This week we received a status update on several items which are important to members of our Continuum of Care, including:
2011 CoC Competition New Projects
HEARTH Act Implementation and Budget
Technical Assistance
What Can CoCs and Grantees do to Prepare for HEARTH?
Homeless Advocates: MDHA is proud to introduce Dianne Isom, left, and Clare Nilson - the new co-chairs of MDHA's Homeless Forum. Thank you both for serving as leaders of this new advocacy group made up of people experiencing homelessness and formerly homeless individuals. The forum meets the second Friday of each month at 10:30 a.m. at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library.
Membership Meeting: Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in MDHA’s May 10 membership meeting on family homelessness!
We appreciate our panelists: Rob Alberts, executive director of Family Gateway, one of our member agencies; Eliza Solender of Solender/Hall, Dabney Dwyer of Lake Highlands and the Episcopal Church of the Ascension. Thanks to Karen Hughes, president and CEO of Vogel Alcove, another member agency, for your moving presentation about homeless families’ childcare needs. Dorothy and Kimya, thank you for sharing your experiences of being homeless with your children and now having a place to call home. MORE
MDHA receives $250,000 grant award from The Meadows Foundation
The Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance has been awarded a $250,000 grant from The Meadows Foundation to support its policy, planning and advocacy work to prevent and end homelessness. MORE
SPOTLIGHT
“The Answer to Homelessness is a Home” Watch Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings talk about how Dallas can end chronic homelessness. Thank you, Mayor Rawlings, for your inspiring speech at MDHA's Feb. 23 membership meeting!
Thank you to all the volunteers who helped MDHA with its 2012 Homeless Count on Jan. 26! We couldn’t have done it without you!
Read MDHA's "2011 State of Homelessness" report. The report highlights the urgent need for additional permanent supportive housing. MORE
Homeless Advocates: MDHA is proud to introduce Dianne Isom, left, and Clare Nilson - the new co-chairs of MDHA's Homeless Forum. Thank you both for serving as leaders of this new advocacy group made up of people experiencing homelessness and formerly homeless individuals. The forum meets the second Friday of each month at 10:30 a.m. at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library.
Membership Meeting: Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in MDHA’s May 10 membership meeting on family homelessness!
