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2011 Camp Out to Stamp Out Homelessness

From left, Luke Boring, 11, Drew McCallie and Chris Weigel of Christ United Methodist Church construct a shelter out of cardboard at Camp Out to Stamp Out Family Homelessness on Saturday.
From left, Luke Boring, 11, Drew McCallie and Chris Weigel of Christ United Methodist Church construct a shelter out of cardboard at Camp Out to Stamp Out Family Homelessness on Saturday.
Photo by Alex Washburn.

HOW TO HELP


• For more information about the Interfaith Homeless Network go to www.ihnchattanoog...>

• The Grateful Gobbler Walk is scheduled at 8 a.m. Nov. 24, Thanksgiving Day, at Coolidge Park. Advanced registration is $20 per adult. Registration is $25 for an adult after Nov. 16. For more information about the Grateful Gobbler Walk go to www.gratefulgobbler.org or call the coalition at 710-1501.

Families with children under age 6 account for the fastest-growing homeless population in the Chattanooga region, local experts say.

"People have in their minds what a homeless person looks like. There are a lot of people who don't fit that description. Forty percent of the homeless people in Chattanooga are families," said Kathie Fulgham, vice president of the Interfaith Homeless Network board of trustees.

The Interfaith Homeless Network and Chattanooga Homeless Coalition are hosting fundraisers this fall to help end homelessness.

The Interfaith Homeless Network, which uses churches to house families with children, set out to raise $15,000 at its Camp Out to Stamp Out Family Homelessness this weekend.

More than 150 people attended the event and slept overnight at the First Tennessee Pavilion in cardboard boxes to bring awareness to homelessness in Chattanooga.

The Chattanooga Homeless Coalition wants to raise $75,000 during its Grateful Gobbler Walk on Thanksgiving Day.

The walk netted $45,000 in 2010, said Mary Simons, executive director of the coalition.

According to the coalition's 2011 point-in-time count, the number of homeless families in the Chattanooga region doubled in the past year, she said.

"We have some really good programs in the community, but they are stretched. We certainly do need more funding to meet the unmet needs of families," Simons said. That includes rental assistance and emergency shelters for families.

More than a dozen families are waiting for shelter through the Interfaith Homeless Network, administrative assistant Ruth Votava said.

Simons said net proceeds from the Grateful Gobbler Walk will be used to create a fund that agencies can access to help their homeless and near-homeless clients.

2009 Camp Out

 

By Annie Hall

Camping out is often the highlight of a

family vacation: spending memorable

nights on the shores of a picturesque lake

or along a scenic mountain trail. But what

if you camp out of necessity? What if

you’re not in a secure

campground under the

stars, but in a cardboard

box under an overpass?

What if your child’s bed is

not a warm sleeping bag

but the back seat of a car?

Of the 1,500 homeless

individuals served by Chattanooga’s

Interfaith Homeless

Network in the past 10

years, 900 were children. In

Chattanooga, one in four

homeless people is a child younger than 6.

For many of these children, camping is not

family pastime; it is a way of life.

You can help Chattanooga’s Interfaith

Homeless Network make a difference in

the lives of these children by supporting

IHN’s Camp Out to Stamp Out Family

Homelessness October 23 - 24 inside the

First Tennessee Pavilion. The goal of the

Camp Out is to raise awareness of the

plight of homeless families and raise funds

to support IHN efforts to give them new

hope and new beginnings.

The 14-hour fundraiser starts at 5

p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, and ends at 7 a.m.

Saturday, Oct. 24. Campsites for up to five

campers are $100.

Campers are encouraged to

be resourceful in building

their campsites, and will

compete for prizes for the

most-creative designs.

Tickets for those who do

not want to spend the night

are $15 for adults and $10

for children under 12.

Campers and non-campers

alike will eat supper in a

soup kitchen, enjoy familyfriendly

games and activities and be entertained

by talented local artists and

musicians.

Gather your family, friends and fellow

parishioners and Camp Out to Stamp Out

Family Homelessness. Registration forms

are available at all IHN congregations, or

can be downloaded from www.ihnchattnaooga.

org. Deadline for registration is

Monday, Oct. 19.

2011 Camp Out Info

2011 Camp Out To Stamp Out Family Homelessness
Saturday, October 8th from 5:00pm until Sunday, October 9th at 7:00am

Sign Up Online for the third annual IHN Camp Out to Stamp Out Family Homelessness.  Join youth groups, families, volunteers and other individuals to learn more about family homelessness.

Bring or build your own cardboard living space for Box City in the First Tennessee Pavilion.  You experience one night of what it is like to live without your cozy bed in your warm home.

The Camp Out to Stamp Out event also features entertainment like face painting, a scavenger hunt, games, talent show, music and crafts. Volunteers will be on hand to serve up soup, sandwiches, coffee, hot chocolate, sodas, popcorn and fruit during your night in Box City. In the morning you eat a muffin and carry your box home to be recycled. Police security will be present during the entire event.

Some youth groups raise funds through car washes, bake sales, flea markets, chili or pancake suppers. All children and youth groups must be supervised by an adult.

Sign Up Online or Print and Mail your registration.  Children under 10 years old free. All proceeds benefit the IHN program to assist homeless families become stable, employed and housed.

 

Campout Paper Registration

 

Camp Out to Stamp Out Family Homelessness
Saturday October 8th at the First Tennessee Pavilion
Registration Form - Click to Print This Page


 

Name

Address

City

State

Phone

Email

Total Number Attending

Additional Names / Ages

 


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FEES





Non-Campers

Families

 

Overnight Camping
(5pm – 7am)

Individual Campers - $25

Family and Group Campers of 5 or more - $10 each

Evening Events Only
(7pm – 11pm)

$10 each

$25

Please print, complete and return registration form with
check payable to Interfaith Homeless Network.


Interfaith Homeless Network of Greater Chattanooga
P.O. Box 1146, Chattanooga, TN  37401
(423) 756-3891  Fax: (423) 756-3892  E-mail:
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IHN Celebrity Sing Off

Come and enjoy a fun evening while helping to end family homelessness. Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Vote for your favorite singer. More details to come at

www.ihnchattanooga.org

Who:

Interfaith Homeless Network

What:

Celebrity Sing-Off Fundraiser

When:

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Where:

Lindsay Street Hall, 6 - 9 PM

Why:

To support IHN’s efforts to transition homeless families with children to stability, employment, housing and self-sufficiency

2011 Singoff

 

IHN Celebrity Singoff

The Interfaith Homeless Network (IHN) is a transitional day and overnight shelter program for homeless families with children and adolescents. In partnership with 50 area congregations, IHN offers food, transportation, life skills classes, case management, supportive and follow-up services and links to jobs and housing. IHN's goal is to end family homelessness by helping homeless families become stable, employed, housed and self-sufficient.

Who:  Interfaith Homeless Network (IHN)

What:  Celebrity Sing Off

When:  Thursday, June 23, 2011 @ 7 PM

Where:  Lindsay Street Hall

Why:  To keep homeless families together and support IHN’s efforts to transition homeless families with children and adolescents to stability, employment, housing and self-sufficiency.

Come and enjoy an evening of fun while helping to end family homelessness.  Champagne and desserts served.

Singoff Sponsors!

Thank you to our sponsors and our participants!

Congratulations to Mike Griffin (Voter's Choice) and Adam Fall (Judge's Choice)!

Get Tickets to the Singoff!
Want to go to the Singoff? Tickets are only $20 per person! Preorder yours when you vote! (It all goes in one cart!)
Closed for 2011!
AMANDA BUCHANAN– Founding owner of Fleetwood Development

Amanda Buchanan is a founding owner of Fleetwood Development. She has 10 years of experience in commercial real estate as a developer of the historic Fleetwood property in downtown Chattanooga as well as having an active role in the management of several family-owned businesses and investments. Mrs. Buchanan is on the board of the Chattanooga Area Convention & Visitors Bureau, The Children's Advocacy Board, and is also on the Community Advisory Board of WTCI. She is active in the Southeast Tennessee Political Action Committee. She enjoys traveling with her family.

Closed for 2011!
SOUNDS LIKE:
JANIS JOPLIN
DR. ADAM FALL – Director of the Hospitalist Group at Erlanger Hospital

Dr. Adam Fall is best described as an 80’s power ballad in a lab coat.  As the director of the hospitalist group at Erlanger Medical Center, Dr. Fall can be found humming on his way to conference rooms and patient rooms alike.  Adam has been singing since he was a young child, performing solos with the adult choir at his church and even singing on live TV at the age of four.  Though he decided on a career in medicine, he is never far from music, performing in weddings, concerts, churches and other venues on a regular basis.  His voice has also been captured on CD in various recordings and his voice always stands out from the crowd – how many men, after all, can belt a Whitney Houston song and sing along with Journey’s leading man?  When he's not singing, Adam loves to read, shop for furniture, and play with his German Shepherd Cartouche.

Closed for 2011!
MIKE GRIFFIN – Senior Vice President of Business Banking at First Tennessee Bank.
Michael Griffin, an executive with First Tennessee and president of the Leadership Chattanooga Alumni Association, is the 2010 recipient of the Tennessee Association of Community Leadership (TACL) Servant Leadership Award. Mr. Griffin, who is senior vice president of business banking at First Tennessee, was a member of the Leadership Chattanooga team that helped launch the “Take Root” program. Mr. Griffin is a member of the Leadership Chattanooga curriculum and selection committees. He has served as chair of the community education committee and helped assemble a Leadership Chattanooga Alumni Association in Action Series on the impact of Volkswagen’s coming to Chattanooga. Mr. Griffin also serves on the boards of the Downtown Council of the Chattanooga Chamber, Chattanooga Hamilton Place Rotary Club, and the UTC Alumni Council.
Closed for 2011!
SOUNDS LIKE:
JAMES TAYLOR
JIM BREXLER - CEO Erlanger Hospital

Jim Brexler joined Erlanger Health System as President and CEO on March 1, 2004, after being selected by the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority Board of Trustees following a nationwide search.

Brexler was formerly a Vice Chancellor of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center where he served from 1999 to 2004 as the chief executive officer of the Health Care Services Division (Louisiana's statewide public hospital system composed of nine hospitals and associated clinics). He recently was awarded the Tennessee Grassroots Champion Award by the American Hospital Association. This was to recognize him for his exceptional leadership in generating grassroots and community activity in support of a hospital’s mission. Dr. Brexler served as chairman of the THA board of directors in 2009-2010 and currently serves as immediate past chairman. He also has chaired the association’s insurance reform task force, patient safety council and THA Solutions Group board of directors.

Closed for 2011!
SOUNDS LIKE:
GARTH BROOKS
RACHAEL WELCH – Manager of Business Support for the Tennessee Valley Authority

Rachael Welch joined the Tennessee Valley Authority in 2002 as a Web Developer in Information Technology, and currently servers as Manager, Business Support. With this role, Welch is responsible for the marketing and communications of IT, as well as workforce and training plans. Welch is a graduating member of the Leadership Chattanooga class of 2011 and is serving her third year as Officer of Chattanooga Friends. Welch is an active community leader, and has served in a myriad of positions, including the March of Dimes Mission Family of 2008, Family Teams Chair for the March for Babies, co-chair of the Ronald McDonald House 2010 Share-a-Night campaign, and Chattanooga Heart Ball design committee member, as well as serving as marketing lead for multiple non-profit fundraising campaigns. Additionally, Welch holds the Day of Caring Coordinator role for the Greater Chattanooga Area Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), is serving her eighth year on the CFC Leadership Team, and has organized and led TVA in annual March of Dimes and T.C. Thompson events. Welch's story of her premature twins has been featured locally, and she continues to speak on behalf Chattanooga area non-profit agencies. Welch is a graduate of Covenant College, has been married for 12 years to her husband Chris, and has three children, Eli, and twins Zeke and Emmie.

Closed for 2011!

2012 IHN 5K Run/Walk

We have secured the date of Saturday, May 19th with the Chattanooga Track Club to time our event.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

We will be at the same site as last year… Riverwalk, Shelter #3.

Please continue to keep an eye on the Track Club site for more information and put this on your calendar!!!

http://www.chattanoogatrackclub.org/races.cfm?contentID=eventDetail&recid=796

Spread the word to all your running/walking buddies!

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To write this "jolting firsthand report," Kozol spent months among the homeless, whose depressing stories, interwoven with his commentaries, tell of infant deaths, malnutrition, hunger, loss of dignity and desperation. "This powerful volume," PW maintained, " forces one to ask: 'What are our national priorities?' "