The City's
innovative efforts to end chronic homelessness were featured during a two-day
conference at
The conference
titled,
The City's
efforts to end chronic homelessness, including The BEACH Project, were
highlighted during the conference. The BEACH
Project (The Beginning of the End: Abolishing Chronic Homelessness) was
launched by Mayor Francis G. Slay in February 2013. The BEACH Project engages more than 26 partners to rapidly re-house
EVERY chronically homeless person (138 people) identified during the January
2013 homeless census. The Project was expanded to include 40 additional people
living in a homeless encampment near 2nd and
Speakers and guests included Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Shaun Donovan; President and CEO of American Round Table and former Presidential appointee and Executive Director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, Philip Mangano; Pulitzer prize winner, Dr. Robert Coles; pioneer of the Housing First method, Dr. Sam Tsemberis; University of Pennsylvania researcher, Dr. Dennis Culhane; and Former Mayor of Boston and US ambassador to the Vatican, Ray Flynn.
Antoinette Triplett, manager of the City's Homeless Services Division, represented the City at the conference.
Twitter: @BEACH_Project
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Department of Human Services
City of St. Louis
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Department:
Department of Human Services
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Topic:
Homelessness