Hundreds of Nashville’s homeless residents lined up around Municipal Auditorium yesterday prior to the city’s first “Homeless Connect” event. Exactly 1,078 men, women and children came for haircuts, birth certificates and mental health evaluations.
20-year old Justin Sparks found a few job leads before making appointments at the clinic.
“Get my braces took off and get my vision checked again.”
Homeless Connect was organized by the Metro Homelessness Commission and may become an annual event. It’s modeled after an effort in San Francisco. That city started consolidating homeless services in 2004 to increase cooperation among agencies and speed up outcomes.
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