Sentences with phrase «committee on homelessness»
Her career has included working for the Nelson Committee on Homelessness, and managing West Kootenay non-profits including the Nelson Food Cupboad and a micro-finance organization.
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At 10 a.m., the Assembly Correction Committee and Subcommittee on Transitional Services hold a public hearing on solutions to overcome the barriers faced by ex-offenders in need of affordable housing to address homelessness and recidivism, 250 Broadway, Manhattan.
Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, who chairs the state Assembly's committee on social services, urges New York to embrace a «proven long - term solution to our homelessness crisis by creating and adequately funding 35,000 units of supportive housing over the next 10 years.»
Also mounting good campaigns are talented candidates with good ideas like Brian Kavanagh, former chief - of - staff for Council Member Gale Brewer, and aide to former Mayors Ed Koch & David Dinkins; Chris Papajohn who served on the American Civil Liberties Union's committee on disability law when they discovered that U.S. Post Offices are often not accessible to people with disabilities; Gur Tsabar, an aide to Speaker Gifford Miller, is articulate and well - informed on many issues, and authored an editorial in the April 14 Town & Village newspaper about unjust redlining of disabled New Yorkers due to budget concerns; Darren Bloch, a former Con Ed spokesperson who is a member of Community Board 6, is well - versed on housing and homelessness issues.
As Chair of the Committee on Public Safety and as a representative of the Bronx, I was particularly pleased to see the Governor address education, public safety and counter-terrorism, and homelessness and poverty.»
«This policy is an irresponsible «no room at the inn» approach that does nothing to address the record number of people experiencing homelessness in New York City as winter approaches,» she said in a joint statement with General Welfare Committee Chair Annabel Palma, which called on the Bloomberg administration to reverse the policy.
At 1:30 p.m. the Committee on Veterans, jointly with the Committee on General Welfare will meet for oversight of the City's efforts to end homelessness among military veterans.
An additional seven responses that did not expressly mention alternative structures but did address issues related directly to them: Richard Zorza, ABA Commission on Homelessness and Poverty, ABA Law Student Division, ABA Standing Committee on Technology and Information Systems, Avvo, George Chandler, Nina Cornett (issues such as access to justice, limited licensure systems, more effective collaboration between lawyers and the technology industry, pro se representation, self - regulation of the legal profession).
By identifying existing services, as well as unmet needs, the groups leading this initiative — the Commission on Homelessness and Poverty, Commission on Youth at Risk, and Section of Litigation Childrens Rights Litigation Committee — hope to create a national directory of legal services available to homeless youth.
She has been a member of the APA Committee on Children, Youth and Families, and recently chaired the APA 2009 Presidential Task Force on Psychology's Contribution to End Homelessness.