TCHC's Involvement in Directions Home
In response to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development, Interagency Council on Homelessness, and National
Alliance to End Homelessness' recommendation, the Mayor's Advisory
Commission on Homelessness wrote Directions Home: Making
Homelessness Rare, Short-Term and Non-Recurring in Fort Worth,
Texas within Ten Years in 2008. This plan strives to end
chronic homelessness in Fort Worth by 2018 by increasing permanent
supportive housing, creating a central resource facility, expanding
homelessness prevention, strengthening existing organizations, and
improving the community's image of homelessness.
In addition to supporting Directions Home through data
collection, interagency communication, and training, TCHC is a
grant recipient of the Directions Home/United Way of Tarrant County
Direct Client Services Fund
and has developed the Critical Documents Station.
Our website also hosts supporting web applications, such as the Housing
Inventory and Career Services databases.
In a presentation to City Council at the start of Directions
Home, TCHC Executive Director Cindy J. Crain introduced a jar full
of keys. Each key represents one person promised to be housed
through Directions Home, 200 in all. At each week's
Pre-Council meeting, one of TCHC's members delivered one key for
each person housed that week. As our jar emptied and each of their
jars filled, we were reminded that Directions Home is working to
house the homeless within our community. It is a plan implemented,
a goal reached, and each key is one life changed. On July 20, 2010,
Crain was able to present the 200th key to City Council as part of
a presentation to support fully funding Directions Home for FY2011.
Watch that City Council meeting
here and learn how to show your support.
Learn more about Directions Home at these websites:
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