Open Door Homeless Coalition
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- Mission
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What we do: The Open Doors Homeless
Coalition’s outreach is the lower six counties
of Mississippi, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson,
Pearl River, Stone, and George. Within this
region, ODHC builds collaborations between
homeless service providers, advocates,
municipality representatives, businesses,
faith-based organizations, and persons who
are homeless or formerly homeless. ODHC is
itself not a service provider, but is an
advocacy organization and coalition of
persons dedicated to strengthening the
six-county region’s services to homeless
persons and to preventing the horrors of
further homelessness in the future. - Areas served
- Mississippi, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Stone, and George
- Service
- Temporary
Notes
FEMA Press Release (4/09) about Pastor Elijah Mitchell, from H.A. Brown United Methodist Church in Wiggins, and his work with the Open Door folks.
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=48054
Per Sue Weishar, MS Center for Non-Profits, 11/8/07:
The Open Door Homeless Coalition (ODHC) for the lower 6 counties is in the process of reforming. As you may know, all emergency shelters in Harrison County (none existed in Hancock County) were destroyed in the storm and have yet to rebuild. Homeless service provides and churches are overwhelmed trying to help people without a roof over their heads. We all know the numbers of homeless people is growing (see Kathleen?s latest post) but no one has a firm handle on the actual numbers. The ODHC is now writing a grant to gather irrefutable data that we have a crisis on hands, this data will be critical in developing a coordinated community response to the crisis.
But until that data is collected, we need some information from those of you on the front lines which illustrates the magnitude of the post-Katrina homeless crisis on the MS Gulf Coast.