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Thursday, May 8, 2008 Tent City 4 moves to Temple B'nai Torah in Bellevue. Contact Dick at dick_stein@rocketmail.com if you can help with moving day. Contact Irene at irenep@kidem.org to be added to the TC4 at TBT Google group for updates and needs for TC4.
Sunday, February 10th, 2008 General Meeting 2-4 p.m. at Cong. Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle, to review current status of homeless-related legislation, provide action opportunities and prepare for Housing Advocacy Day on Feb. 14th
Friday, January 25th, 2008 One Night Count
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Olympia Housing Advocacy Day
For information and to sign up, please send email to Diane Baer at drbaer11@hotmail.com
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Take Action Now - Five things you can do right now to help us fight against homelessness
Sign up for Housing Advocacy Day Join PSJCH members in Olympia on Thursday, February 14th, for a State-wide Housing Advocacy Day as we learn and encourage our representatives to support legislation providing affordable housing and ending homelessness in Washington. More details will be available in January. Contact Diane Baer at drbaer11@hotmail.com with questions or to sign up to attend with PSJCH.
Publicize PSJCH activities Announce Housing Advocacy Day and help recruit others to attend. See the Event listing, which has an announcement that you can adapt for your organization’s electronic or hard copy bulletin.
Endorse your organization’s membership in PSJCH Please encourage your organization or synagogue to endorse membership in the Puget Sound Jewish Coalition on Homelessness so that PSJCH can officially represent your organization and its members as we lobby as a Jewish Coalition on February 14th. See Membership Endorsement attached below. Once completed, please advise Shelly Crocker at scrocker@crockerkuno.com
Sign an on-line petition Despite newspaper articles to the contrary, campsites of the homeless in Seattle continue to be systematically destroyed and personal effects discarded. Sign a petition to the City requesting that clearing activities cease, by logging on to www.homelessinfo.org and clicking on the link to Sign the Encampment Petition.
Sign up for the One Night Count of the Homeless This annual count by SKCCH will be from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. on the morning of Friday, January 25, 2008. Volunteers, who go out in teams of a minimum of four with an experienced leader, are especially needed for the Eastside communities and for South and North King County. To volunteer or for more information contact Alison Eisinger at Alison@homelessinfo.org.
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Who We Are
PSJCH is composed of Jewish congregations, organizations, and individuals concerned about the problem of homelessness in the Puget Sound region of Western Washington.

We believe that the provision of adequate, safe housing for everyone is a matter of social justice -- "tzedek" as expressed in our Jewish tradition. In pursuit of justice, the Puget Sound Jewish Coalition on Homelessness takes responsibility for helping to bring about community-wide solutions to homelessness.

Goals

  • To educate the Jewish community about the issue of homelessness, its causes, and its effects in the Jewish community and the larger community. Education leads to action.
  • To expand the Jewish presence in the advocacy and volunteer communities working to end homelessness.
  • To encourage Jewish community groups and religious congregations to pursue efforts that meaningfully contribute to the end of homelessness.




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    davidphorne Site graphic 5 Aug 31 2007, 4:14 AM EDT by Phyl.levine
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    I'd like to get a cool graphic that communicates our commitment to ending homelessness and that reflects our Jewish traditions. Do we have any artists in this community who can help with that?
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    scrocker Project list looks great 0 Jun 4 2007, 8:03 PM EDT by scrocker
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    David -- thanks for putting the project list online. It really looks great.
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