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Austin's 100 Homes Campaign part of larger national effort

Daily Texan  Wed, 11/09/2011 - 12:15am

Tuesday marked day two of volunteers fanning out across the community to survey and identify the city’s most medically vulnerable homeless as part of Austin Registry Week.

Austin’s 100 Homes Campaign, led by the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition, is sponsoring Registry Week, Nov. 7-9, in order to create a database identifying the most vulnerable homeless people in Austin, said Cal Streeter, who sits on ECHO’s board of directors.



 

Baby boomers subject of social work study

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Mon, 11/17/2008 - 2:01pm

A University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work graduate student has received a Hartford Foundation grant to study long-term care planning behavior of baby boomers.

Kristie Kimbell, a Ph.D. student in social work, will conduct the research as part of a Hartford Geriatric Social Work Doctoral Fellowship.

The $50,000 fellowship will fund her dissertation [...]