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How Three Birmingham Shelters Adjusted to the Pandemic

By Sydney Melson
The Birmingham Times
A number of Birmingham organizations are fighting to prevent and end homelessness in the metro area and provide services for a vulnerable population especially in the midst of a pandemic.
Here are three:
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JHM has implemented big changes to its recovery program in the past year, said Executive Director Michael Coleman.
“When I came in a year ago, our program was basically a book that taught people how to recover from addiction. It was kind of a self-paced thing, and we didn’t even have anyone on site that was certified in addiction recovery,” he said.

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COVID-19 Vaccines: What about Birmingham's Homeless Population?

By Sydney Melson and Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
COVID-19 vaccination sites are opening around Jefferson County, and growing numbers of citizens are receiving shots—but some wonder whether the homeless population is being overlooked.
“It is incredibly important that the homeless population is not forgotten,” said Anne Wright Rygiel, executive director of the Firehouse Ministries, a homeless shelter that has provided services to the Birmingham community since 1983. “This is still congregate living and housing. … We’re all grouped together, and we do the best we can.”
Having a COVID-19 vaccination plan is extremely important for area emergency shelters, said Gordon Sullivan, Director of Operations for One Roof, the umbrella organization for agencies fighting to prevent and end homelessness in the Birmingham metro area. “Even with social distancing and mask wearing, there is still a risk of viral spread among our most vulnerable citizens experiencing homelessness.”

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2020: A Year to Remember

Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, right, listens to a news conference, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Family attorney Ben Crump is calling for the Kentucky attorney general to release the transcripts from the grand jury that decided not to charge any of the officers involved in the Black woman's death. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
What’s left to say about 2020 except that it’s over. But what a year with the well-chronicled coronavirus pandemic that killed more than 300,000; racial unrest that created division in across many communities and a presidential election that was over — until it wasn’t. And there was plenty of more to a year that goes down as one of the most memorable in recent history. Here’s some of what happened.

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Communities struggle to make best use of largest influx of homeless aid in U.S. history

Communities struggle to make best use of largest influx of homeless aid in U.S. history
Shaena Montanari and Natalie Walters, Howard Center for Investigative Journalism
Winter in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge is wet and freezing, a life-threatening situation for the area’s homeless residents even without a pandemic. Darcy Long-Curtiss understands that better than most.
The shelter that normally provided nighttime refuge was closed because of COVID-19, and federal aid money meant to help protect homeless people from the pandemic came late and with confusing restrictions. By the time Long-Curtiss got permission to erect temporary shelters purchased with her community’s share of the funding, temperatures already were dipping below freezing. She had just one week to ready the site and make potentially life-and-death decisions.

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Communities struggle to make best use of COVID homeless aid

SHAENA MONTANARI AND NATALIE WALTERS
Howard Center for Investigative Journalism
Winter in Oregonâs Columbia River Gorge is wet and freezing, a life-threatening situation for the areaâs homeless residents even without a pandemic. Darcy Long-Curtiss understands that better than most.
The shelter that normally provided nighttime refuge was closed because of COVID-19, and federal aid money meant to help protect homeless people from the pandemic came late and with confusing restrictions. By the time Long-Curtiss got permission to erect temporary shelters purchased with her communityâs share of the funding, temperatures were already dipping below freezing. She had just one week to ready the site and make potentially life-and-death decisions.

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Cities struggle to use historic influx of homeless aid during COVID-19

Shaena Montanari and Natalie Walters
Howard Center for Investigative Journalism
Winter in the Columbia River Gorge is wet and freezing, a life-threatening situation for the area’s homeless residents even without a pandemic. Darcy Long-Curtiss understands that better than most.
The area's regular homeless shelter, like many around Oregon, was closed because of COVID-19. The federal aid money meant to help protect homeless people from the pandemic came late and with confusing restrictions.
By the time The Dalles councilwoman got permission to erect temporary shelters purchased with her community’s share of the funding, temperatures already were dipping below freezing.

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Communities struggle to make best use of COVID homeless aid

Communities struggle to make best use of COVID homeless aid
Funding delays and confusing spending restrictions have hampered communities’ abilities to capitalize on the largest influx of homeless aid in American history.
By
Howard Center for Investigative Journalism
Winter in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge is wet and freezing, a life-threatening situation for the area’s homeless residents even without a pandemic. Darcy Long-Curtiss understands that better than most.
The shelter that normally provided nighttime refuge was closed because of COVID-19, and federal aid money meant to help protect homeless people from the pandemic came late and with confusing restrictions. By the time Long-Curtiss got permission to erect temporary shelters purchased with her community’s share of the funding, temperatures were already dipping below freezing. She had just one week to ready the site and make potentially life-and-death decisions.

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