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Stop-Doing List to End Chronic Homelessness >>
Knoxville is one of 20 cities across the country taking part in Project Homeless Connect to link homeless individuals and families with the resources needed to help them move toward housing and self-sufficiency.
Volunteers from approximately 80 local government agencies, social services providers, and faith-based organizations will offer medical, dental and vision care services as well as mental health counseling, legal assistance, help with various benefits programs, information and referral for housing, haircuts and much more.
Information about homeless individuals is entered into a database, with the goal of assigning each a caseworker to ensure their needs are being met and services are not duplicated.
Project Homeless Connect evolved from the Knoxville/Knox County Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness, which calls for efforts by the whole community to solve the problem.
The chronically homeless is defined as individuals who have been repeatedly homeless or homeless for longer than a year. Although they represent only 10 percent of the homeless population, they utilize about 50 percent of the resources.
Project Homeless Connect is sponsored by the City of Knoxville, Knox County and the East Tennessee Coalition for the Homeless.
The following is a list of organizations and agencies which are participating in Homeless Connect in Knoxville:
1. Blount Memorial Hospital
2. Bradford Health Services
3. CALM - Cooperative Agreement of Labor & Management
4. Catholic Charities of East Tennessee
5. Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church
6. Center Pointe Adult Alcohol & Drug Services
7. Cherokee Health Systems
8. Child & Family Tennessee
9. Compassion Coalition
10. Comprehensive Community Care
11. Covenant Life Church
12. Department of Human Services
13. Emory Animal Hospital
14. Farragut Christian Church
15. First Baptist Church - Knoxville
16. Fountain City United Methodist Church
17. Fountain City Ministry Center
18. Fountain City Presbyterian Church
19. Fountain City United Methodist Church
20. Heart of Knoxville Career and Resource Center
21. Helen Ross McNabb Center
22. Hugh Holden
23. Interfaith Health Clinic
24. InterFaith Hospitality network
25. Knox Area Rescue Ministries
26. Knox Area Veterans Stand Down
27. Knox County Animal Shelter
28. Knox County Attorney General's Office
29. Knox County Health Department
30. Knox County Housing Authority
31. Knox County Public Defender
32. Knox County Schools Adult Education Program
33. Knoxville Police Department
34. Knoxville Utilities Board
35. Knoxville's Community Development Corporation
36. MCU
37. Mental Health Association of East Tennessee
38. Miracle Lake
39. MP United Methodist Church
40. National Alliance of the Mentally Ill - Knoxville
41. Peaceful Kingdom
42. Peninsula Behavioral Health
43. People's Clinic
44. Policy Studies Inc., Child Support Services of Tennessee
45. Positively Living - (865) 525-1540
46. Remote Area Medical
47. Ridgeview
48. Roane State Community College Opticians School
49. Rocky Hill Baptist Church
50. Social Security Administration
51. Southeastern Retina Associates
52. St. Mary's Wound Center
53. Steps House Inc.
54. Tennessee Career Centers
55. Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
56. Tennessee School of Beauty
57. Tennessee Technology Center-Knoxville
58. The City and County of San Francisco
59. The Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee's Homeward Bound Programs
60. The Salvation Army
61. The University of Tennessee SWORPS (Child Support Employment and Parenting Program) CSEPP
62. Turning Point
63. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Knoxville Vet Center & Homeless Veterans Programs)
64. U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
65. U.T. College of Nursing
66. U.T. College of Social Work
67. U.T. College of Veterinary Medicine
68. University Eye Surgeons
69. University Urology
70. Valley View Physicians
71. Volunteer Ministry Center
72. Water Angel Ministries
73. West Towne Christian
74. West Towne Christian Church
75. Western Heights Dental Clinic
76. Women at the Well
77. YWCA
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