City of Philadelphia - File #: 140579

• File #: 140579
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 6/12/2014
• In control: CITY COUNCIL
• Final action: 6/12/2014
• Title: Honoring, Recognizing and Congratulating Project H.O.M.E. for achieving 25 years of providing exceptional services to the homeless population in the City of Philadelphia.
• Sponsors: Council President Clarke, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Squilla, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember O'Brien, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember Jones, Councilmember Johnson, Councilmember Oh, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Bass, Councilmember Quiñones Sánchez, Councilmember Henon

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
6/12/2014	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar	Pass
6/12/2014	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED

Title
Honoring, Recognizing and Congratulating Project H.O.M.E. for achieving 25 years of providing exceptional services to the homeless population in the City of Philadelphia.

Body
WHEREAS, Since its beginning in 1989, Project H.O.M.E. has been a leader in providing comprehensive and effective services to persons who experience chronic homelessness; and

WHEREAS, using a holistic approach to tackling homelessness and poverty, the acronym H.O.M.E. stands for Housing, Opportunities for Employment, Medical Care, and Education; and

WHEREAS, Headquartered at 1515 Fairmount Avenue in North Philadelphia, the internationally known agency has developed more than 600 housing units, providing housing for approximately 760 residents, has helped more than 8,000 people get off the streets, kick their addictions, find jobs and new housing and employs about 290 individuals, almost 30 percent of them former clients; and

WHEREAS, Project H.O.M.E. is used by many cities and organizations across the country as a model for combating homelessness and has drawn praises from the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development; and

WHEREAS, The mission of the Project H.O.M.E. is to empower adults, children, and families to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty to alleviate the underlying causes of poverty, and to enable all of us to attain our fullest potential as individuals and as members of the broader society ; and

WHEREAS, Founded by Joan Dawson McConnon and Sister Mary Scullion, both Philadelphia natives, the two began to work together in 1988 on a project called the Night Winter Coalition, working with a team of volunteers taking to the streets to ask chronically homeless men to come in from the cold at a temporary shelter in a vacant recreation center donated by the City of Philadelphia; and

WHEREAS, In 2009, Time Magazine named Sister Mary as one of the World's most 100 Influential People, among the likes of President Ob...