"The homeless population is one of the most vulnerable groups in the country, but due to the COVID pandemic, they are now at greater risk. Thankfully, there are numerous individuals working to ensure our communities stay safe. Strategies to End Homelessness President & CEO Kevin Finn and Shelter Partnership, Inc. Co-Founder & Executive Director Ruth [...]
Hamilton County is seeing more people sleeping in public places recently, and the president of Strategies to End Homelessness says there could be even more in 2021. Kevin Finn says it's not that there are more people experiencing homelessness. It's that the local system is still disrupted by the pandemic, and the intake process for shelters [...]
With Summer Spike In Homelessness, 'We Have To Turn People Away' Org Says "Despite budget constraints, Strategies to End Homelessness is working to reduce the number of families experiencing the summer surge of homelessness." Read more from WVXU 91.7.
As a response to the Third Street Camps an Op-Ed in the Cincinnati Enquirer By Kevin Finn Strategies to End Homelessness President/CEO A number of facts about homelessness have been absent from recent discussions about the homeless camp on Third Street, including: The vast majority of homeless people in Hamilton County are not on the [...]
The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County hosted a panel of speakers from organizations that aim to end homelessness in Cincinnati on Saturday. Speakers included Kevin Finn, president of Strategies to End Homelessness; Jessy Lyons, director of YWCA; and Susan Schiller of Bethany House Services.
As complicated a problem as homelessness is, Susan Schiller has a pretty simple idea about how to solve it. “If our moms had jobs, they wouldn’t be homeless,” said Schiller, the executive director of Bethany House Services, which operates shelters and housing for families experiencing homelessness. “On a very simplistic level, I think there’s a [...]
“Faces of Homelessness” | 1225 Vine St., Over-the Rhine: This four-story mural on the side of the Recovery Hotel for homeless addicts marks ArtWorks’ second collaboration with Brooklyn-based stencil artists ICY + SOT.
CINCINNATI -- Those who knew Ken Martin describe him as a gentleman with a ready smile who managed to stay positive, even during his toughest times. For his friends, that warmth and kindness made Martin’s lonely death all the more tragic... Read more at WCPO.com
Hamilton County and the city of Cincinnati were already committed to tackling the complicated issue of homelessness, but things shifted into high gear around the time a 48-year-old homeless woman named Joann Burton was run over by a Cincinnati Police Department squad car in Washington Park. Burton was asleep under a blanket in July 2010 [...]
There was no shortage of beds in shelters in the frigid pre-dawn hours when Ken Martin died this week, said the head of local agencies working on behalf of the city's homeless. The problem is getting people to use them.
