B. Deemer Gallery Fine art • Fine framing
“Morning at the Bridge of Sighs”
Tatjana Krizmanic March 19 - April 16
2650 Frankfort Avenue Open Mon-Fri 10:00-5:30 Sat 10:00-3:00
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RX: HOUSING
FINDING HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS
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for The Coalition of the Homeless. ouisville is fortunate to “What happens is we don’t have have the careful attenanybody to look at the big systems tion and work of many and to figure out how we could serve different service providers people more efficiently. That’s really when it comes to dealing with all that Rx: Housing does. It brings us together to work, as the whole the homelessness issue facHome community, as a team.” ing the city. In 2011, a group of Since 2011, the program’s focus these providers decided that NICHOLAS has been on Louisville’s chronically the key to fixing the problem SIEGEL homeless as a whole, but in 2015, was to create a program that it was decided to narrow that would put everyone on the focus to one particular group: veterans. With same page in terms of aid given. Rx: key partners including the VA, Volunteers Housing aims to move the chronically of America, Family Health Centers and St. homeless of Louisville into permanent John Center, Rx: Housing achieved functional housing and offer a lasting solution to zero, in this case meaning that the number of homeless veterans never exceeds the average the issue. number of veterans the city has proven to be able to house per month.
“Everybody is so strapped for resources and staff and funding that it is all they can do to just focus on serving the next client in front of them,” says Natalie Harris, executive director
At the end of the year, Rx: Housing passed the tracking of veterans off to Volunteers of America, who coordinates the Supportive Services for Veterans Families Program.
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