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This Season the Benton County Health Department and the Corvallis Homeless Shelter Coalition are partnering in an effort to prevent communicable diseases.

 

We are working hard to end homelessness in our town. This is an elaborate endeavor and the constant participation of everyone is very important. We truly appreciate every one involved in this. Here you can see a video documentary with some of our own "invisible friends" that we help. 

Youth from different parts of New York City traverse the sidewalks of Chinatown. What unfolds are several personal stories of how these men's lives and circumstances lead to homelessness. This film was was created through PRO-TV, DCTV’s youth media arts training program.

Over the past decade there have been at least 880 acts of violence committed by household individuals, resulting in 244 deaths of homeless people. 

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There's a difference between a man without a home and a man without a house. A man without a house has a place in society but for whatever reason has lost his abode - but not his place. A man without a home has no place in society - even when he's in a house. He will always be on the "outside". This gives a great feeling of insecurity to a person and different people react different ways. Some are driven to be great criminals, some are driven to be great artists and some are simply driven homeless.

The world will never be a perfect place, which is why Jesus said we will always have the poor. "Judge not lest you be judged yourself." But just because the world is not perfect doesn't mean that shouldn't be our goal.