City of Philadelphia - File #: 110503

• File #: 110503
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 6/9/2011
• In control: CITY COUNCIL
• Final action: 6/9/2011
• Title: Declaring June 10th 2011, as Homeless Children Awareness Day in Philadelphia.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Miller, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Green, Councilmember Jones, Council President Verna, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Krajewski, Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Sanchez, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember Kenney

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
6/9/2011	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar - Rules Suspended	Pass
6/9/2011	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED

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Declaring June 10^th  2011, as Homeless Children Awareness Day in Philadelphia.

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WHEREAS, More than 1,000 Philadelphia children and youth sleep in a shelter every night according to an August 2011 report entitled, Philadelphia Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Practical Strategies for Action; and

WHEREAS, Homelessness is not simply defined by living in a shelter, but includes an invisible part of the population that has unstable living conditions and that live from couch to couch; and

WHEREAS, Thousands of Philadelphia youth and children struggle with the issues of housing, employment, education, healthcare and general welfare; and

WHEREAS, The Mural Arts Program has dedicated its efforts to highlighting the issue of housing insecurity for Philadelphia youth through its project, A Place to Call Home, as a way to give an outlet to the youth involved, where their stories and struggles inspire the art, and help draw attention to the issue and the housing resources available; and

WHEREAS, On June 10^th, the Mural Arts Program will dedicate A Place to Call Home, bringing together Mayor Nutter, members of the Family Service Provider Network, various housing providers, community members and the general public to experience the project; and

WHEREAS, The dedication will highlight the issue of housing from a youth perspective and announce the establishment of Homeless Children Awareness Day, the beginning of a city-wide recognition of this widespread issue; now therefore, be it,

RESOLVED, BY THE PHILADELPHIA CITY COUNCIL, That the day of June 10^th 2011 is declared Homeless Children Awareness Day.

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