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

• Atlanta Community Food Bank-sorting foods
• Church of the Immaculate Conception- Soup Kitchen
• Pine Street Shelter  for Homeless Men
• 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 Training Seminar
• 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
  • Homeless Issue Overview
    • Homelessness - Georgia
      • Homelessness - Atlanta, GA

Contacts   staff  |  faculty  |  students  |  community partners (local, regional, national)