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On October 24, 2009 we as a congregation will partner with the Veteran’s Administration for our fifth Stand Down for the Homeless. This year the steering committee has split the event to better serve our homeless community. This decision was made to help boost the morale, awareness and the involvement of our nation’s homeless veterans in services offered to them through the V.A. and our community.
We will be serving both Friday, doing some odds and ends, and Saturday from 8am through 2pm. Saturday will be split into two shifts, 8-11am and 11-2pm. Please let me know if you are willing and able to help. We need at least 20 volunteers, 16 years old and up. While this is our main event, another one will take place mid-November and will look like the Stand Downs from the past four years. I will have information about that event for you in the November newsletter.
Please prayerfully consider where you can serve and contact me through the front office or by email at paulterral@oslaustin.org.
On October 24, 2009 we as a congregation will partner with the Veteran’s Administration for our fifth Stand Down for the Homeless. This year the steering committee has split the event to better serve our homeless community. This decision was made to help boost the morale, awareness and the involvement of our nation’s homeless veterans in services offered to them through the V.A. and our community.
We will be serving both Friday, doing some odds and ends, and Saturday from 8am through 2pm. Saturday will be split into two shifts, 8-11am and 11-2pm. Please let me know if you are willing and able to help. We need at least 20 volunteers, 16 years old and up. While this is our main event, another one will take place mid-November and will look like the Stand Downs from the past four years. I will have information about that event for you in the November newsletter.
Please prayerfully consider where you can serve and contact me through the front office or by email at paulterral@oslaustin.org.
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What is the Stand Down for the Homeless?
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Stand Down is a nationwide program that improves the delivery of services to homeless and near-homeless individuals by coordinating the existing fragmented human services system. By bringing together, in one site, a range of public and private services, Stand Down events provide information and assistance to homeless individuals to help them transition from the streets and shelters back into their communities.
Stand Down provides access to basic health, legal, financial, housing, employment, training, social services and veterans' benefits. The idea of Stand Down was conceived to target homeless veterans. Many communities have adapted this idea to serve all homeless individuals.
Stand Down is designed to transform the despair and immobility of homelessness into the momentum necessary to get into recovery, to resolve legal issues, to seek employment, to access health services and benefits, to reconnect with the community and get off the street. Primary emphasis will be on providing an environment in which all homeless are treated with respect, given support and afforded the opportunity form ties with peers and volunteers while receiving much needed services. The Stand Down is not in itself a solution, but rather, an opportunity for homeless persons to begin the process of regaining self-esteem and hope to build a better future.
Stand Down Austin hosted its first daylong event in September 2000 for all homeless individuals, both veterans and non-veterans. This Stand Down served 226 homeless citizens of which 64 were veterans. In 2005, inclusive of 125 veterans, 532 homeless persons received services at Stand Down.
Stand Down is a nationwide program that improves the delivery of services to homeless and near-homeless individuals by coordinating the existing fragmented human services system. By bringing together, in one site, a range of public and private services, Stand Down events provide information and assistance to homeless individuals to help them transition from the streets and shelters back into their communities.
Stand Down provides access to basic health, legal, financial, housing, employment, training, social services and veterans' benefits. The idea of Stand Down was conceived to target homeless veterans. Many communities have adapted this idea to serve all homeless individuals.
Stand Down is designed to transform the despair and immobility of homelessness into the momentum necessary to get into recovery, to resolve legal issues, to seek employment, to access health services and benefits, to reconnect with the community and get off the street. Primary emphasis will be on providing an environment in which all homeless are treated with respect, given support and afforded the opportunity form ties with peers and volunteers while receiving much needed services. The Stand Down is not in itself a solution, but rather, an opportunity for homeless persons to begin the process of regaining self-esteem and hope to build a better future.
Stand Down Austin hosted its first daylong event in September 2000 for all homeless individuals, both veterans and non-veterans. This Stand Down served 226 homeless citizens of which 64 were veterans. In 2005, inclusive of 125 veterans, 532 homeless persons received services at Stand Down.
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