Homelessness Resources
This page offers links to Web resources helpful to us at UULMF when dealing with homelessness issues. We hope you find these links useful in your own witness for social justice in Florida and the World.
To review Florida's 2009 Key Homelessness Issues, click here.
For further information or assistance, or to suggest other links about homelessness in Florida, please contact UULMF Coordinator Terry Lanning at 813-964-7222 or e-mail him at coordinator@uulmf.org.
To review Florida's 2009 Key Homelessness Issues, click here.
For further information or assistance, or to suggest other links about homelessness in Florida, please contact UULMF Coordinator Terry Lanning at 813-964-7222 or e-mail him at coordinator@uulmf.org.
The Florida Coalition for the Homeless (FCH) is a dynamic organization that includes homeless advocates, service providers, members of the faith-based community, formerly homeless persons, educators, attorneys, mental health professionals and others committed to putting an end to homelessness and improving the conditions of persons living without shelter. UULMF actively partners with FCH on project-based initiatives.
The Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida was created in 1987 by a group of concerned citizens who noted a growing problem of homelessness in the community. The Coalition is now the largest provider of homeless services in Central Florida. The Coalition's goal is to return residents to self-sufficiency through counseling, job training, and educational programs. Coalition for the Homeless provides more than 227,000 nights of shelter a year to homeless men, women and children in Central Florida. On any given night, the Coalition provides services to nearly 200 children, with an average age of less than seven years old.
The Mid-Florida Homeless Coalition provides education on homelessness issues; advocates for initiatives that help homeless people and against laws and ordinances that may harm them; networks with advocates on federal, state, and local issues; and promotes unification, involvement and leadership of other organizations and individuals in the development and implementation of a statewide homelessness agenda.
The Coalition to End Homelessness works to alleviate homelessnesss through advocacy and public education to motivate the community into action and providing services. Its members coordinate services, educate the community, and advocate for the needs of over 10,000 homeless individuals and families in Broward County.
About one-third of homeless adults served their country in the military. The Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs held its first Statewide Homeless Veterans' Conference in partnership with the US departments of Veterans' Affairs, Housing and Urban Renewal, and Labor October 23 & 24, 2008, in Orlando, FL, in conjunction with the Florida Coalition for the Homeless.
The Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough County brings together businesses, service providers, faith-based organizations, agencies, and individuals to maintain current services and expand the community's capacity to help homeless people. Their role is to establish and maintain a continuum of services through strategic efforts and community-wide planning.
Since 1988, the Coalition for the Homeless of Pasco County has invited agencies, businesses, and citizens to support efforts to relieve the suffering of Pasco County's homeless families and individuals.
Vision of the Pasco Coalition is to ensure a safe place for everyone every night. And their mission is to assist the homeless and those at risk of homelessness to gain self-sufficiency by providing advocacy and the coordination of capacity building through partnerships within the community.
Vision of the Pasco Coalition is to ensure a safe place for everyone every night. And their mission is to assist the homeless and those at risk of homelessness to gain self-sufficiency by providing advocacy and the coordination of capacity building through partnerships within the community.
This section provides you access to the Florida Department of Children and Families Office on Homelessness website.
The Office on Homelessness was established in 2001 to be a central point of contact within state government on the issue of homelessness. Office staff coordinates the services of the various state agencies and programs to serve individuals or families who are homeless, or are facing homelessness. The Office is supported in this role by a 15-member statewide Council on Homelessness.
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