According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in 2007 at least 800,000 people were homeless in the United States on any given night. National service and community volunteers are involved in helping to eradicate hunger and homelessness in communities across our nation. Following are some of our most relevant resources in this topic area.

• Guide to Community-Campus Partnerships for Health of People Experiencing Homelessness
• Spinning Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Webs: A Secondary Education Approach (includes a web on Hunger and Homelessness)
• National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week

Effective Practices

• Building homeless coalitions
• Starting a homeless garden project
• Mentoring teenage girls at a homeless shelter

Lending Library

• Growing Hope: The Homeless Garden Project
• Faces of Homelessness II
• Homeless in Paradise

Related Websites

• National Coalition for the Homeless
• Resources on Homelessness from HUD
• National Alliance to End Homelessness