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Charleston homeless in urgent need of health care turn to Navigation Center for help
A team of physicians at the Medical University of South Carolina is increasing access to care for people experiencing homelessness through the use of telehealth medicine. The partnership has proven so effective that 40 percent of the patients experiencing homelessness...
Homeless center in Charleston sees huge demand, effect on panhandling unclear
An hour after the daytime help center for the homeless opened Thursday morning in Charleston, nearly every seat in the waiting area was taken. About a dozen people sat quietly in an assortment of chairs in the cinder block building at 529 Meeting St., some bearing...
Homeless To Hope Concert Was A Party With A Purpose
By Barney Blakeney  I got the chance to attend the March 11 inaugural Hope Center Charleston Fund Benefit concert. Didn’t go to church, but went to the concert. And wouldn’t you know it, my preacher saw me there! I got busted, but it was worth it. The concert was off...
Ketner to get inaugural Hope Center Charleston Award
Staff reports | Local businesswoman and philanthropist Linda Ketner will be presented with the inaugural Hope Center Charleston Award at March 11 Hope Center Charleston Benefit Concert. Sponsored by the Mayors’ Commission on Homelessness and Affordable Housing, the...
Mayor announces Hope Center Charleston Fund
In furtherance of his recently-unveiled 10 point plan to close Charleston’s “Tent City” and help those living there find shelter and permanent housing, Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg today announced the formation of the Hope Center Charleston Fund, a nonprofit...
Hope Center Charleston Fund set-up to help those evicted from Tent City
by Sonya Stevens CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — After hearing about the eviction of the homeless from Tent City, many people have been wondering what they can do to help. There is now a fund set up to help the people living in Tent City and in other places around the...
City, partners announce 10-point plan
At a background briefing today, the City of Charleston — along with partners including the Lowcountry Homeless Coalition, One80 Place and others — laid out its roadmap for helping the citizens living in the area that has become known as “Tent City.” The encampment has...
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