Links About Homelessness

• www.nationalhomeless.org/ The National Coalition for the Homeless , founded in 1984, is a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to ending homelessness.
• www.endhomelessness.org The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to mobilize the nonprofit, public and private sectors of society in an alliance to end homelessness. Our Ten Year Plan identifies our nation's current weaknesses in addressing the problem and lays out practical steps that our nation can take to change.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness Wikipedia: “Homelessness” An online encyclopedia article on homelessness. Basic definitions, statistics, and other information.
• www.familyhomelessness.org The National Center on Family Homelessness is at the forefront of research and evaluation, program design, service delivery, systems integration, and advocacy to help homeless children and their families. Research, fact sheets and links.
• guide2homelessness.blogspot.com Survival Guide to Homelessness . A guide not only to surviving, but to living and thriving as a homeless person. Work, hygiene, shelter, human rights, food…“I spent nearly five years, from mid-1996 to the beginning of 2001, homeless, or as I liked to call it with a distributed household.”
• Plowshares Peace and Justice Center : That no one in our community go hungry; To operate a community-supported facility where services, advocacy, and education help eliminate the causes of hunger and poverty; To maintain a supportive and consistent environment where all are treated with respect, justice and dignity.
• Sacramento Loaves & Fishes : Survival Services for the Homeless Loaves & Fishes is a non-profit organization providing service in a spirit of love, hospitality and generosity to all those who come for assistance.
• Sutter & Yuba Counties Network of Care: www.sutter.networkofcare.org or www.yuba.networkofcare.org Sutter and Yuba Counties Network of Care for Behavioral Health This Web site is a resource for individuals, families and agencies concerned with behavioral health. It is a great website for networking with other agencies in the bi-county area with a wealth of information about behavioral health services, laws, and related news, as well as communication tools and other features, including homelessness issues. Regardless of where you begin your search for assistance with behavioral health issues, the Network of Care helps you find what you need - it helps ensure that there is "No Wrong Door" for those who need services. This Web site can greatly assist in our efforts to protect our greatest human asset - our beautiful minds.