Bringing services together for one day to provide a barrier-free environment for people experiencing homelessness.
This blog provides up-to-date information about the Project Connect and VA Stand Down, scheduled for Friday, September 12th. This is truly a community-wide undertaking. We welcome your support, input, and energy.
How the blog works: we'll post up-to-date information regularly. Please contact us to share your ideas with everyone who is involved!
Thursday, August 7, 2008
STAND DOWN: SERVICES
Services available at the VA Stand Down:
Breakfast
Showers Hair Cuts Supplies
Medical Optical
VA Community Providers will available to discuss services such as employment, mental health and substance abuse.
Help support this event! We are still in need of donations!
Financial donations will help us pay for housing applications, birth certificates, and other things that can help a person move out of homelessness into housing.
In-Kind donations of phone cards, socks, underware, tee-shirts, boots, sneakers, sleeping bags, chapstick, bandaids, tissues, lotion, hair products, women's hygene products, and denture adhesive are also needed!
If you can make a tax-deductable donation please contact Amy Sawyer (259-5851)
Sponsors & Supporters
Buncombe County
City of Asheville
First Baptist Church
NC Coalition to End Homelessness
NC Interagency Council for Coordinating Homeless Programs
US Interagency Council on Homelessness
VA Medical Center
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