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Homelessness and Hunger - Morehouse College

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Service | Academic Work | Education & Training | Capacity Building | Deliberative Democracy

Sub-categories in this issue

Homeless Status- Precariously Housed, Sheltered Homeless and Unsheltered Homeless
Homeless Couples
Global issues related to Hunger
Transitional Housing and Emergency Shelters

Types of Service short-term | ongoing school year | summer

Pine Street Shelter for Homeless Men

Citizens March for Labor and Housing

Thu Nov 2, 2010
A march through downtown to remember Atlanta's homeless
by Miles J. Edwards
What started off as crowd of about 100 easily turned into a crowd of about 400 by the time the march was over. Atlanta's Task force for the Homeless held a march for Homeless Memorial Day that march through the downtown streets from Peachtree/Pine to Atlanta's City Hall. Some of Atlanta's homeless took part in the march and some of the local community organizations that assists homeless people were present: Atlanta Union for the Homeless, the Concerned Black Clergy, Georgia Citizens Coalition Against Hunger, Mercies Ministries, Hosea Feed the Hungry, Atlanta Labor Council and more.
Carrying signs that displayed: "Homeless is a matter of life and death."
"Homeless: America's Shame"
"Shame on Atlanta: People are dying on the street, homeless and sick"
"Spend money on people's needs, not war!"
And the sign, "Keep Peachtree/Pine Open!" Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless is facing a threat of being closed on because of the current mortgage holder wants to turn it's building for the past 20 or so years in to "affordable housing." As Atlanta Task Force battle continues in court, they continue to fight a even tougher battle that's much more important to them, homelessness.

For over the past 20 years Atlanta Task Force has provided a home to Atlanta's homeless, no matter of their color, no matter their condition, no matter where they have come from and no matter the obstacles that they are facing. Leading this march was a way to express their thoughts to losing the people over the years that they have develop relationships with and died from being homeless.

As they march on Peachtree through downtown drivers drove by blowing their horns in support, onlookers came out their offices to take pictures and cheer and the downtown crowd yelled in support of their efforts.

Because of a bomb threat at the Fulton County Courthouse the march was redirected by an escorting Atlanta Police Officer, but a threat of a bomb didn't stop them... led by Atlanta Task Force's executive director, Anita Beaty, they all kept marching in spirit of the one's that they loved and lost to metro Atlanta's homelessness problem.

Atlanta Community Food Bank-sorting foods
Church of the Immaculate Conception- Soup Kitchen
Hosea Feed the Hungry- Soup Kitchen
Atlanta Union Mission- Homeless Shelter
Clifton Sanctuary Ministries- Homeless Shelter
City of Refuge- Women & Childrens Homeless Shelter-mentoring- www.cityofrefuge.com
City of Eden- Women & Children Homeless Shelter- mentoring
Gateway 24/7 Homeless Center- Homeless Victims Paperwork Processing
Covenant House Georgia- Mentoring & Tutoring Homeless Adolescents
Host a September meeting with 41 Homeless Organizations serving Fulton County
Homeless Memorial Day and Requiem Mass
Atlanta Homeless Task Force Fundraiser

Open Mike at Peachtree & Pine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RILKXhSnP54

A group of Morehouse Bonners organized a poetry night at the homeless shelter to raise money for a potential coffee shop we are trying to build at the site. All performances were done by Atlanta University Center students. Donations were received after the event to help support the Task Force for the Homeless.
To find out more about the Open Mike at Peachtree & Pine,please contact Isaiah Scott at 704-492-7920. To vounteer your time to work at the coffee shop or bring any donation of goods needed at the coffeeshop, please contact Dr. Jim Beaty at 494-787-1086 .
And come and visit us at "Blend" coffee shop at Peachtree-Pine.
Enjoy a good cup of coffee, WiFi connection and a great work of art done by our artists!

Bread for the World Workshop

Academic Work courses | service-learning | CBR and policy research | departments and institutes

Psychology Course # 369 " Relationship between the Sexes", Professor Dr. Martin Rosenman, Service- Learning requirement students spend four weekend providing service to homeless couples
Psychology Course # 381 " Introduction to Community Psychology", Professor Dr. Monty Whitney, Service-learning students conduct research on homeless local policies
Sociology Course # 103 "Social Problems", Professor Anne Borden, Service Learnig Students learn the issues of homlessness, and contruct a plan of change to be implemented as a portion of their final exam.
Sociology Course # 301 "Global Issues", Professor Cynthia Hewitt, Service-learning students conduct research on global issues of hunger, environment and transportation.
Sociology Course # 499 "Intern/Research ATL Homelessness", Professor Dr. Anne Borden, Service Learning Students conduct hands on research on Homelessness by working together as a class at a local homeless shelter with homeless women and children weekly.
Urban Studies Course # 413 "Housing Community & Development", Professor Dr. Ebeneezer O. Aka, Service Learning Students discover differnt types of communitiues and Housing divided by Social classes including poor/homeless, and begin to develop a plan to House the Homeless.
English Course # 250 " World Literature", Professor Corey Stayton, The professor promotes homelessness to his students by offering extra credit for each student that joins him at the St. Francis Soup Kitchen to feed the homeless every Saturday morning. Many students take advantage of this oppurtunity by utilizing other useful talents such as cutting hair for the homeless boys and men.
Psychology Course # 381 "Introduction to Community Psychology", Professor, Dr. Sinead Young, will conduct a service-learning research project with the Fulton County Human Service Department on "The status of Homelessness in Fulton County".

Education & Training forums | workshops | reflection activities

Students completed a video interview of two homneless men
Students are in the process of proposing & implementing a homeless Challenge for each semester.
Students are in the process of proposing & implementing a Hunger Awareness Banquet for the AUC & Atlanta Community.
Students are in the process of creating a video discussing the issues of homeless & how we can play a helping role.
Bonner Scholars will attend a Homelessness Advocacy Workshop with Spelman Bonner Scholars to commemorate November as Homelessness Month

Campus and Organizational Capacity-Building training | fundraising | resource development

Hit Squad Helps- Student initiative to feed the homeless every Saturday morning
Psychology Association- Operates soup kitchen for homeless men every Thursday
National Collegiate Scholars- Students feed the homeless
Bonner Scholars Program- Clothing Drive- Students Collect & Sort clothes from students in the Residential Halls of Morehouse & Spelman College and donate them to the Homeless Shelter twice School year (Once each semester)
Bonner Scholars Program feed the Homeless Every other Saturday at St. Francis Soup Kitchen Downtown Atlanta
Bonner Scholars & Adams Scholars display a stimulational Skit for Homeless Youth at Homeless local Homeless Shelter " Demonstrating How Homelessness can be cured & the importance of Serving the Community".
Bonner Office of Community Service will participate with the Metro Atlanta Tri-Jurisdictional Homeless Census, and assist in counting sheltered & unsheltered homeless people by looking at both emergency shelters & transitional housing, as well as people sleeping on the street, in sleeping bags, vehicles, parks, shelters, and abondon buildings .We began our participation in January of 2009. We have the results from the 2009 census, and we will use those results for our upcoming Policy Brief. We will execute this mission once again this school year.
Bonner Office will coordinate activities with Bread for the World during National Hunger and Homelessness Awarenesss Week (November 15-21, 2009)
Bonner Office has developed a partnership with the Fulton County Office of Human Services to work as interns in the Office of Emergency and Transitional Housing.
Bonner Office has developed a partnership with the Atlanta Homeless Task Force, which gave a preliminary workshop at the All Scholars meeting and will do a more intense workshop with scholars working in this issue area.
Students from Dr. Corey Stayton english class will participate in a service-learning project with the Pine Street Homeless Shelter.

Research, Policy Analysis, Deliberative Democracy evaluations | policy research | issue forums | advocacy

Students in Community Psychology course completed a preliminary policyoption brief on local and state policies on homeless in Atlanta.
Bonner scholars will be placed in the Office of Emergency and Transitional Housing to work with research interns on the issue of chronic homelessnees in Fulton County