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1. 1. www.frostillustrated.com

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   Published on: 12/12/2007   Last Visited: 12/12/2007

   Mary Etheart, executive director, Hope House Inc.

2. 2. Journal Gazette | 02/07/2007 | January homeless survey finds 97 braving the cold

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   Published on: 2/7/2007   Last Visited: 2/7/2007

   In Fort Wayne, 97 people spent the previous night on the streets or in abandoned buildings, said Mary Etheart, director of Hope House and count organizer.
   
   That number was higher than the 57 people found unsheltered during a count in January 2005. Etheart said the methods used to count the homeless have improved, which could account for the increase.
   
   This year, volunteers visited spots under bridges and overpasses about 6:30,a.m. that day to find the homeless where they slept. Fliers in places frequented by the homeless provided better warning that the volunteers would be coming. The fliers also helped spread the word where the homeless could find survey locations that also provided hot food and backpacks full of toiletries and other necessities such as hats and gloves, she said.
   
   Etheart said that number would have been lower had the count happened this week, when temperatures dipped below zero. Some shelters do everything they can to make room for people in such frigid temperatures. The Rescue Mission has worked with the VA Medical Center on Lake Avenue to open a temporary shelter to house the overflow in the past, she said.
   
   Shelters reported 291 unaccompanied adults spent the night in a shelter, Etheart said.
   
   Of those unaccompanied adults, 170 were men and 121 were women, Etheart said.
   
   The shelters also housed 31 families, which included 93 people, according to the Indiana Coalition on Housing and Homeless Issues, which collects data from the local counts.
   
   In 2005, shelters housed 349 total people, Etheart said.
   
   In past years, not all local shelters reported their numbers for the count. This year at least one shelter was not counted because it now serves as a halfway house for women leaving prison and is no longer a homeless shelter, Etheart said.

3. 3. United Way of Allen County

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   Published on: 11/6/2006   Last Visited: 4/25/2007

   Among those organizers is Mary Etheart, executive director of Hope House and co-chair of the Northeast Indiana Interagency Council on Housing and Homelessness.
   
   "I believe," she said, "that Fort Wayne and northeast Indiana will be successful in achieving this plan because there is a strong foundation of collaboration in the community."
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   Mary Etheart, executive director of Hope House, 424-3711, hope.house@verizon.net