| Sunday, April 9, 2006
THE DENVER POST
HELPING THE HOMELESS FLY SOLO, BY PAGE PEARY AND SALIM HAJI |
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Denver's 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness has brought welcome attention to a difficult issue, but the recent conflict between Curtis Park residents and the St. Francis Shelter's pilot homeless program has made us question whether the city's plan goes far enough in finding innovative ways to address the issue of homelessness.
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Sunday, January 11, 2004
THE DENVER POST
HOMELESS HELPED OFF THE STREET, BY BILL BRIGGS |
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His job might be a lot like yours - the barrage of meetings, a dose of mentoring, keeping an eye on his team. But the big payoff in Immanuel Atwell's workday comes when he hands a key to one of his guys. A key to the that trainee's first apartment, his own home after months hopping from shelter to shelter, living in a car or sleeping on the weedy banks of the South Platte River.
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THE DENVER POST
New Genesis CHALLENGES HOMELESS TO EARN THEIR KEEP, BY DICK KRECK |
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The bunks are lined up in precise rows. The walls and floor are spotless. No college dorm was ever this tidy. The basement of Central Presbyterian Church, 17th and Sherman, has been a home for the homeless since 1985, but it didn't always look this good.
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
MAKE A DATE WITH EIGHT, HELP DENVER'S HOMELESS, BY DAHLIA JEAN WEINSTEIN |
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It is estimated that Denver residents gave $4.6 million to the city's panhandlers last year. New Genesis, a transitional community for the homeless, is asking for you to give just $46.
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
HOMELESS REGAIN SELF-SUFFICIENCY, BY PAUL WILLIS |
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Give a homeless person a few bucks, catch him up on his bills and provide him an apartment, and boom, the problem is solved, right? Hardly.
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Saturday, November 9, 2002
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
NEW GENESIS, BY BILL JOHNSON |
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On the sprawling basement floor of 1680 Sherman St. in the shadow of the State Capitol, on and amid dozens of bunk beds situated around a warren of offices and meeting rooms, some 140 homeless men live.
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Saturday, November 9, 2002
THE DENVER VOICE
NEW GENESIS, EXPLAINED, BY FLOYD HAMILTON |
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"I remember, a long time ago, sitting at a table at St. Francis, being asked what it would take for a person that wanted to get off the streets. The mayor was being hounded by all the soccer moms.
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Monday, January 31, 2000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
HELPING HOMELESS MEN HELP THEMSELVES, BY PAGE PEARY |
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"During last year's shocking murders of homeless men, we watched our shelter fill beyond capacity night after night and felt we'd gone back in time. Fifteen years ago, Central Shelter opened to provide emergency shelter to men during the winter months in the basement of Central Presbyterian Church.
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