SVDP In US Lauded For Efforts to End Homelessness

Vincentians Charlene Flaherty and Lucy Howell bring the Interagency Council on Homelessness e-newsletter (9/30/04) to our attention which says, …the Council of the United States Society of St. Vincent de Paul, representing 100,000 members across the country who engage in person-to-person ministry to the nation’s homeless and poor, voiced its support for the Samaritan Initiative. In a letter to members of the Senate, Society National President Eugene Smith stated, “We believe that the $70 million funding stream created by the Samaritan Initiative for permanent housing linked to supportive services will help thousands of chronically homeless individuals rejoin society, and we enthusiastically ask you to support this measure.” He continued, “Our members are painfully aware that the cost in human suffering, emotional and physical, for homeless individuals and families, cannot be measured.” �

� ICH website is found at:�http://www.ich.gov/

The site currently has a link on the right hand side of the page to a very effective downloadable powerpoint presentation on a ten year strategy to end homelessneses.