All SMIS users are required to take mandatory training on these changes. SMIS eliminated time-consuming manual tasks and paper forms streamlining shelter operations and improving client services.

NEW ORLEANS — The lease for a temporary shelter for the unhoused in Gentilly is set to expire Tuesday, leaving state officials weighing whether to extend operations for another 30 days.

Delonis Center in downtown Ann Arbor. Eleven families crowded into the basement of another local shelter that had already expanded its capacity. As organizations and local officials consider ways ...

San José Mayor Matt Mahan proposed a new policy Thursday, saying there should be consequences for homeless people in the city if they refuse to accept shelter. The issue of homelessness has ...

A Caldecott Medal winner, he turned childhood memories of fleeing the Nazis in Poland into magical stories. Portrait by Todd WeinsteinCredit... Supported by By Alex Williams Uri Shulevitz, a ...

San José Mayor Matt Mahan unveiled an initiative Thursday that would ratchet up the pressure on homeless people to accept shelter or face jail time. “Homelessness can’t be a choice,” Mahan ...

Don't miss a story. Get San José Spotlight headlines delivered to your inbox. The mayor of San Jose wants to penalize homeless people who refuse shelter by arresting or hospitalizing them, punting the ...

Shelter, Support and Housing Administration has been renamed Toronto Shelter & Support Services (TSSS) to better reflect the Division’s role as the shelter service system manager in Toronto. The ...

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In a storage shed on the outskirts of Victoria, Lisa* keeps all her belongings — decades-old letters, diaries, photo albums and furniture. As the years go by, she worries if there will be a time ...

Uri Shulevitz, who sketched his first drawings as a young Polish Jew fleeing the Nazis and grew up to become an acclaimed children’s author and illustrator, infusing his books with color and ...