Faced with an increase in the number of people experiencing homelessness and a system strained doing what it can to address the issue, service providers, shelter and housing providers, community members, faith-based organizations and local funders have created a Plan to End Homelessness for Porter County.
Porter County’s 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness, No Place Like Home, will be released at a free community event to garner community support and action to kick-off the plan’s work and to move it forward. The public is invited to the report presentation on January 30, 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM, at Ivy Tech Auditorium, 3100 Ivy Tech Drive, Valparaiso. The complete plan will be available online as of January 31 from the Porter County Community Foundation at www.portercountyfoundation.org and United Way of Porter County at www.unitedwaypc.org.
The Social IMPACT Research Center (IMPACT) was commissioned to develop and write Porter County’s Plan to End Homelessness (the Plan). IMPACT used a dynamic, interactive approach to develop the Plan in order to engage and get feedback from a broad range of perspectives throughout the community, including homeless provider experts, business and political leaders, local foundation leaders and people at-risk of or experiencing homelessness in the county.