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Collaborative Pilot Initiative on Homelessness Page 2 On January 28, 2015 the 2015 Point -in -Time Homeless count was conducted by the Indiana Balance of State Continuum of Care. In January, HUD awarded $16.4 million to "support Indiana homeless ". In July of 2014, the news media reported that a "South Bend homeless tent city was discovered and dismantled ", with an "estimated 10 to 15 campers" being displaced from an area located one block north of the Center for the Homeless and two blocks south of the Hope Rescue Mission. The "homemade cardboard huts" and tents "were virtually invisible ", being obscured by overgrown vegetation. In February of 2015, the news media reported that "homeless youth populations in Indiana, and the United States, are on the rise. The National Center on Family Homelessness last year reported an 8 percent increase in youth homelessness nationally; it estimated Indiana's youth homeless population to be nearly 32,000 in 2012 -2013. That was up from about 30,000 the year before... ", February 2, 2015 South Bend Tribune. The City of South Bend, Indiana, is indeed a caring community as evidenced by its many organizations which provide outreach services to those in need. The Center for the Homeless has been in existence just south of the downtown for over 26 years and houses up to 275 each day, and links those individuals to "programs, agencies and people who can help them break the cycle of homelessness ". Some of their services include "therapy, addictions counseling, childcare, GED prep, tutoring, job skills training, fitness classes, medical service..." Additional services are provided by the Hope Ministries Rescue Mission, YWCA of Saint Joseph County, and St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. Joseph County. There is a South Bend Homeless Shelters and Services website at: www.homlessshelterdirctory.org The Women's Shelter's national directory lists services being provided by Hope Ministries South Bend, Life Treatment Centers, Center for the Homeless, YWCA Women's Shelter South Bend, and Rescue, Inc. in their website located at: www.womenshelters.org There is a website entitled "Homeless Shelters and Supportive Housing" which states that its "database consists of over 3,000 listings and includes emergency shelters, homeless shelters, day shelters, transitional housing, shared housing, residential drug alcohol rehabilitation programs and permanent affordable housing at www.shelterlistings.org Community Resources are listed on many websites such as the South Bend Kroc Center's "Basic Needs Resources" located at www.myliLoc.org/famiyLbasicneeds.Th p where it sets forth services provided by St. Vincent DePaul, WIC programs, Catholic Charities, Christ Child, Real Services, Food Bank of Northern Indiana, and the Center for the Homeless. The Youth Services Bureau of St. Joseph County, and the many agencies which receive federal entitlement funds via the City of South Bend to" benefit low and moderate income persons and /or eliminate slum and blight" also provide services via the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME, and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funds. The St. Joseph County Housing Consortium provides multiple services in South Bend, Mishawaka and St. Joseph County.