CARES Inc.

The Dutchess County Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness, unveiled on June 14 at the Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, was prepared by a coalition of community leaders with the support of CARES, Inc. and the Dyson Foundation. It provides an implementable framework for providing housing to all Dutchess County residents.

Guest speakers at the kickoff event included Mayor John Tkazyik of Poughkeepsie, Mayor Steve Gold of Beacon, Robert Scofield of HUD’s Albany office, Linda Glassman of NYS OTDA, and Lori Dubard of Congressman Maurice Hinchey’s office.

The Plan was covered by media outlets throughout the Hudson Valley:

Plan to end Dutchess homelessness unveiled (MidHudsonNews.com, June 15)

Study outlines 10-year strategy to end Dutchess homelessness (The Poughkeepsie Journal, June 15)

Group aims to end homelessness in Dutchess (The Daily Freeman, June 16)

10-year homelessness plan released (The Register Star, June 16)

Adam Kirkman, director of CARES’ Technical Assistance Unit, was interviewed by Greg Frye of WAMC / Northeast Public Radio: Prevention, collaboration remain keys to homelessness (WAMC, June 15).

A copy of the Plan is available here (PDF, 2 MB); please see our Dutchess County page for more information.