Seeking New Board Members

The skill sets we need to be looking for in new board members are the following:

• Legal
• Banking
• Event Planning
• IT
• Business/Corporate executives
• Human Resource
• Physical Plant (architect, engineer)
  
• Transportation - vans and maintenance

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We are Volunteers

Support Services

• IHN families receive help with healthcare, transportation, counseling, and support services to assist them in their transition to employment, stable housing, and self-sufficiency.
• All IHN families are transported to work, school, and childcare.
• More than 1,800 homeless persons, including 1,140 children in 590 families, have been served since IHN opened its doors in October 1998.

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Number of homeless families rises by half

Rhonda Harrison and her two children became homeless after her landlord went bankrupt and her East Chattanooga duplex was put up for auction.

“It wasn’t even my fault,” Harrison said.

In just three months, the 24-year-old went from working as a photographer to being laid off and forced from her home.

The unemployed single mother and her two children, 5-year-old Paradise and 3-year-old Junior Gains, are included in a 51 percent increase this year in the number of local families who were homeless at ...

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