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Shepherd’s Heart Fellowship & Veteran’s Home is a congregation, but not one that can ask for offerings on Sunday. They’re all homeless, or close to it. “We have a housing program for homeless veterans, many of which are combat veterans who suffer from the traumas of war,” says Rev. Michael Wurschmidt of Shepherd’s Heart. Their House of Hope offers transitional housing for male veterans, including rehabilitation, counseling and food until they are stable and ready for independent housing.
Pittsburgh activists, influencers to appear on season 5 premiere of CNN documentary
Those featured include 1Hood Media founder and CEO Jasiri X, state Rep. Summer Lee, D-Swissvale, co-founder and editor-in-chief of VerySmartBrothas Damon Young, and Wasi Mohamed, former executive director of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh. The episode was filmed in January. After it airs, members of 1Hood Media will host a live Facebook Chat to share their experiences since the taping.
Bold Action Needed: Lisa Schroeder, Grant Oliphant, Gregg Behr
Regional leaders address population loss and Pittsburgh’s future, including Pittsburgh Foundation President and CEO Lisa Schroeder. "We will not survive and thrive unless we connect our citizens—all of them—with viable employment (and a way to get there), safe affordable housing, robust K–12 education and health care."
As end of Pa.'s eviction moratorium looms Friday, advocates promote aid for renters and landlords
Many legislators are calling for the moratorium to be extended.
What the Allegheny Health Dept. is doing to address health disparities. An open letter to our community
Allegheny County, like Minneapolis, has substantial racial disparities that impact all of us. Our communities are starkly divided along racial and ethnic lines. With these lines come distinct differences in access to housing, education, transportation and employment. These differences translate directly to worse health outcomes among our communities of color.
Schroeder's Viewpoint: Fighting for what makes us better moving forward
It has been nearly three months since much of life as we embraced it was upended by a virus that we don’t know enough about. But it knows us, especially in how to travel among us. From Pittsburgh to Paris to Perth, Australia, the shelter-in-place existence has imprisoned our DNA-grounded instinct to be fully alive by being close to one another. Read this article from Foundation President and CEO Lisa Schroeder.