Homeless Directory - International Index (City Guide Project)

[Dominic]

If you know of a useful resource for people who are at risk of or currently homeless in a location covered by the Homeless Directory - International Index that is not already listed, or if you see your organisation listed and wish to update the details or expand on what your organisation offers - please let us know with a reply in this thread, or by contacting the research team via email: research@homeless.org.au

Countries Currently Covered:
* Canada
United States
* California / Shelters
* San José's
* San Francisco
* Los Angeles
* Rhode Island
Topics Covered:
* Street Newspapers and Magazines

Also Jordan has posted a guide for Nashville.

[jon@everyoneshome.org.uk]

http://sheltercrisis.referata.com is new Ehome site - attempting to be comprehensive for UK homelessness services and stats and also holding a social activism and media directory...

phew...

but to get to the point - maybe check out what referata.com can do for the display and semanticalisation (web 3.0) and visualisation of all the data you put together over time guys...

it's the future of the web and all that jazz etc... hope it helps

[E_R_Rose]

Hi Streetseen,

I was going over all my old posts and came across the link you put in your post when I first said Hello.

Sorry it took so long, but here I am and ready to put up some info about the shelters and other services in Salt Lake.

I will post what I know right now and update it later with more.


The Road Home Shelter
310 S. Rio Grande Street
Salt Lake City, Utah; USA
801-359-4142

Residence are given 90 Days at a time and then are asked to put their name back on the waiting list.

The Rescue Mission
Between 400 and 300 South on 400 West
Salt Lake City, Utah; USA
Will update physical address later
801-355-1302

Men are given 7 or 10 days ???
Then must ask for extension if needed.
I believe you are allowed 2 extensions.
This is a great place to stay between stays at The Road Home.
Women can call and ask for the number to The Rescue Haven Shelter for Women.
The Rescue Mission also serves dinner at 8pm. You MUST attend a one hour Church service to receive dinner. Church is at 7pm.

4th Street Clinic
Corner of 400 South and 400 West
Salt Lake City, Utah; USA
801-364-0058

Services are provided on a FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS to the Homeless and poor. You MUST be uninsured to receive sercvices.

BEST DIVE HOTEL:

Colonial Inn
1530 South Main Street
Salt Lake City, Utah
801-486-8171
Front Desk Ext.: 147

IT'S A DIVE, BUT..... Clean, quiet, and THE BEST, BEST, BEST people to rent from!!!

WARNING: IF YOU RENT A ROOM AT THE ALLSTAR, UP ON NORTH TEMPLE, YOU WILL GET BEDBUGS, SOOOOOO, IF YOU DON'T LIKE BEING EATEN ALIVE.... DON'T RENT THERE.
DON'T SAY I NEVER WARNED YOU.

UTA (Utah Tranist Authority)
The Local Train Service
801-743-3882 (RIDE UTA)
It costs $2.00 per person
There is a free fare zone from The Front Runner to The Library/Court House.
Trains run every 15 minutes on Week Days and Saturdays. Sundays every 1/2 hour.

BEST EMERGENCY ROOM TO VISIT:

University Hospital

Take train straight to hospital. Walk across the street, veer to the right thru parking lot, look left you will see short outdoor hallway - take hallway to elevators on the right. Take elevator to the 4th floor. Walk thru skywalk and follow all the way down thru cafeteria. ER is on the right after Starbucks.


I have to go get boyfriend out of jail now. Will update later.

(WOOHOO - He's coming home!!! - Doin' the happy Dance)

Y'all have a great day!!!

[Ibu Oni]

Hi,

Under resources for the homeless I would like to include for Washington State,Seattle

Nickelsville: 206 450 5268
Take the bus number 21 from 1st and Pine. Get off at the Harbor Island terminal and walk one mile south on West Marginal Way. Camp is located at T107. All are welcome but sobriety is mandatory and they check for sex offenders (they have kids in camp).
www.nickelsvilleseattle.org

SHARE: 206 448 7889

Screenings for all SHARE shelters, except the Lakeview and University Lutheran Women's Shelters and the Tent Cities, are held at the Josephinum, 1902 2nd Ave in downtown Seattle. No prior appointments or calls are needed to get into a shelter. Just show up at the Josephinum at the times listed below.

Screenings for night shelters are at 6 PM on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, and at 1 PM on Mondays and Thursdays.

Screenings for the Lakeview Women's shelter are held at the following times and locations:
Monday 1 PM Mary's Place (210 Dexter Ave. N.)
Wednesday 7 PM Women’s Referral Center (Angeline's, 2024 Third)
Friday 7 PM Women’s Referral Center (Angeline's, 2024 Third)

Screenings for the University Lutheran Women's shelter are held at the following times and locations:
Tuesday, 1 PM Mary's Place (210 Dexter Ave. N.)
Thursday, 10 AM Elizabeth Gregory Day Center (1604 NE 50th)
Saturday, 6 PM SHARE Office (1902 Second)

Screenings for the Bunkhouse Days shelter are at the Josephinum at 1 PM on Mondays and 7 AM on Wednesdays and Fridays.

The Tent Cities screen on location. There are no set times for the screenings. Just show up at the location.

Tent City3 is at All Saints Episcopal Church (5150 S. Cloverdale). Take the # 7 and get off at Cloverdale Street. Cross the street and walk up the hill. All Saints is on the left hand side of the road.

Tent City4 is at Holy Spirit Lutheran Church in Kirkland (10021 NE 124th Street), where it will remain until the end of October.

Like Nickelsville, SHARE shelters/Tent Cities are self managed. Sobriety is mandatory as well as participation (chores, security, meetings...). Website is www.sharewheel.org
TC3 checks for sex offenders.
TC4 check for sex offenders and warrants. They expect to see a valid ID

Great job,I love your forum

PS: because of its contract with the City, SHARE does not allow people with kids or pets (service animals are ok) but well behaved children and animals are welcome at Nickelsville. Both organizations do not discriminate based on race gender, religion etc...and does not shove any religion down people s throat.
Couples of any gender combination can stay together at both Tent Cities and Nickelsville. Some of our indoor shelters are coed but couple cannot sleep together (my wingnut boss insists on a distance of at least 18 inches between mats. I told him I was not gonna go around with a tape measurer like some 1950's high school principal at a dance LOL)

[Ibu Oni]

SHARE also operates a free storage lockers for people who are staying in the streets and have nowhere to leave their belongings. People in SHARE and at Nickelsville can leave their stuff and do not have to carry all their bags with them which is a big hardship. The location is 963 Mercer Street, near Westlake and behind the guitar center. It is open every day between 6 30 am and 8 30 am. There is no fee but participants are expected to work at the desk once a month (twice if they have 2 lockers) and attend one Sunday house meeting a month. As with SHARE shelters, Tent Cities and Nickelsville, sobriety is mandatory while at the site and also there is absolutely no loitering allowed (coming in before it opens). The Storage Lockers coordinator is kind of a stickler for rules and protocol enforcement and loitering is his pet peeve LOL

As far as Street Newspapers go, we have the award winning Real Change. They are always hiring vendors and there is no BS there. They don t ask tons of questions or for a valid id and they are very nice people
Here is the link to their website
http://www.realchangenews.org/
i hope it helps and anyone who find themselves new to Seattle and stranded is welcome to Pm me or email me at Ibukole@gmail.com for information

[HarborInterfaith]

Harbor Interfaith Services began as a food pantry in 1975 and has now grown to include a variety of services for the homeless and working poor families in San Pedro. Our mission is to empower the homeless and working poor to achieve self-sufficiency by providing support services including shelter, transitional housing, food, job placement, advocacy, childcare, education and life-skills training.

670 W. 9th Street
San Pedro, CA 90731
Phone: 310-831-0603
www.harborinterfaith.org

[Ibu Oni]

I forgot to mention, if you are looking into going to the Tent Cities or Nickelsville, please call or check the websites as they move on a regular basis

[Jeanette50]

I would like to know if someone come give me some information on transitional housing for the single homeless women and mentally ill single homeless women in southern california. I was homeless since March, 2008 and been going to shelter to shelter which is not helping me at all. I apply for SSI, but have to wait until Social Security send me to their doctor. I need medical attention, but have to play the waiting game until I received my Medi-Cal, which will take about a one month or two, which means I can't be seen by a doctor yet, until I received my medical card. Can someone please give me some resource information on this?

[janshouse]

THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN.

Here in Maine, Once you are approved, the payment is retro-active. Of course then is finding a docter who will believe you have state medical. They can call to check it out. Think CA has some form of General Assistance, or Relief.

It is a program based upon NEED. It is for All people, with or without children. It can pay part of the rent. As I tell people in Maine if you are denied Check out the reasoning. As I have on my out going phone message machine, THEY LIE!

Another resource would be the media. They might do a human interest story. Or one fell through the cracks. Or they could say this is WHY People are pushed through gapping Gaps. The Homeless Crisis Hotline is at 1-800-438-3890. We are in Maine but Serve the entire US, and Canada

[Eternity]

Here in Australia, the largest homeless population is in the capital, Sydney. The system of services, as it is at present, is set up so that all these services can be accessed through one phone number (which acts like a funnel... you ring them and they have a huge database of services that could help you and they refer you out to these services). A lot of services you cannot just ring up, you have to go through this phone number.

The number is:

Homeless Persons Information Service:

(free call) 1800 234 566
7 days a week: Monday to Sunday: 9am to 10pm
(closed each day between 1pm -2pm)

This service covers the whole of New South Wales. Whether you are single, with a partner, have kids, are pregnant, are male or female, are a youth or an adult, whatever circumstance, doesn't matter. They have contacts for crisis accommodation, intoxicated persons units, domestic violence stuff, everything! They also have contacts for services that help street workers, rape crisis people, transgendered services, transport services, everything. Also they have tonnes of information about where to get a free meal, food vans, places that you can have a hot shower, a hot meal and a bed for the night. They are great! Nice people on the phone, too. Very helpful and pleasant and they go out of their way to help you.

Here in Sydney, the definition is that if you are "homeless or at risk of homelessness" you can access these services. Even if you HAVE a home, but can't stay there for fear of violence, or whatever reason, you can access these services too. So if that's you.... ring now!!!

Pretty much all of these services are free too so if you haven't got an income its no problem.

That's all I can think of right now but I might add more later.

-- Eternity


Edit: I just remembered that i forgot to mention mental illness. They also have a huge range of contacts for people dealing with mental illness too.