New River Housing

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"Modest Needs is a non-profit organization reaching out to hard-working individuals and families who suddenly find themselves faced with small, emergency expenses that they have no way to afford on their own."

"At Modest Needs, compassionate persons whose lives have been touched by kindness pass that kindness on to hard-working individuals and families struggling with the burden of an unexpected emergency expense."
This great resource exists to help those that are helping themselves. It is not for case managers to use, but the person needing the help.

Herbalife Family Foundation
Thursday, September 07, 2006
The Herbalife Family Foundation provides financial assistance to non-profit organizations around the world dedicated to improving the lives of children. The Herbalife Family Foundation supports charitable organizations dedicated to improving the lives of children and responding to international emergencies.

RadioShack StreetSentz Community Grant
Sunday, September 03, 2006
RadioShack Corporation is dedicated to strengthening the American way of life by helping families protect their children from abduction, violence and abuse

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The DASIS Report: Homeless Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment: 2004 discusses admissions to substance abuse treatment by housing status. This information is lifted straight from a website of the SAMHSA Office of Applied Studies. "SAMHSA, an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services, is the Federal Government's lead agency for improving the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment, and mental health services in the United States."

Highlights

* According to SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), more than 175,300 admissions to substance abuse treatment in 2004 were homeless at time of admission. The admissions who were homeless comprised 13% of all admissions for which living arrangements were recorded; an increase from 10% TEDS admissions reported to be homeless in 2000. Almost half of the homeless admissions in substance abuse treatment (47%) were white.

* Alcohol was the primary substance of abuse for more than half of the substance abuse treatment admissions who were homeless (52%), followed by opiates (21%), and cocaine (17%).

* The largest difference in primary substance of abuse between homeless admissions and those who were not homeless was found among American Indians/ Alaska Natives. A greater proportion of American Indians/ Alaska Natives admissions who were homeless reported alcohol abuse than American Indians/ Alaska Natives who were not homeless (78% vs. 58%).

* Homeless admissions were more likely than substance abuse treatment admissions who were not homeless to refer themselves for treatment (48% vs. 33%) and were over twice as likely to have had five or more prior admissions to substance abuse treatment (21% vs. 9%).

This OAS Short Report, The DASIS Report: Homeless Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment: 2004, is based on the Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS), the primary source of national data on substance abuse treatment. DASIS is conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

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Housing Affordability Calculators

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For a list of emergency shelter grant grantees in North Carolina click here. This is a PDF file. The website does not report the last update to the file; but assume recent (last couple years) as the grantees must re-apply in the Spring of the year.

I have added this link to the homeless section of the link list.