New Effective Practices re: Hunger & Homeless

Posted by on November 3, 2006

Effective Practices Collection Update From The Resource Center
http://nationalservice.gov/resources/

National Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week is November 12-18, 2006.

Co-sponsored by:
The National Coalition for the Homeless and
The National Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/getinvolved/projects/awareness/index.html

More than 850 million people suffer from chronic hunger. In the US alone, almost 36 million people live in poverty. Globally, 30,000 children under the age of five die every day, mostly from preventable causes, including malnutrition. (Facts from the Oxfam America website: http://www.oxfamamerica.org)

From the Effective Practices Collection

Using art to raise funds and awareness for hunger relief
http://snipurl.com/EPC_509

Distributing perishable foods to low-income families
http://snipurl.com/EPC_455

Developing community gardening spaces for low-income families
http://snipurl.com/EPC_763

Teaching nutrition and life-skills to adults with low incomes
http://snipurl.com/EPC_676

Supporting faith-based and secular group efforts to provide for human needs
http://snipurl.com/EPC_845

Building homeless coalitions
http://snipurl.com/EPC_508

Starting a homeless garden project
http://snipurl.com/EPC_791

Mentoring teenage girls at a homeless shelter
http://snipurl.com/EPC_929

Providing outcome indicators for reporting on housing provision and improvement programs
http://snipurl.com/EPC_835

Our newest effective practices!

Delivering on-demand computer skills training
(TECH CORPS Texas)
http://snipurl.com/EPC_1893

Preventing common adolescent at-risk behaviors with early intervention
(Joseph Pfeifer Kiwanis Camp : Little Rock, AR)
http://snipurl.com/EPC_2099