August 2010- The Putnam County News and Recorder featured a story on Renewal Farm and some of the men that are transforming their lives through the treatment and work-training program.
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August 2010 - Project Renewal's E-Newsletter:
Learn more about Renewal Farm and how our Occupational Therapy Program helps former clients. For your reading enjoyment, purchase a New York Times Notable Book by a Project Renewal Trustee and former client.
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July 2010 - Project Renewal's E-Newsletter:
Funding cuts restored for medical services at homeless shelters.
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June 2010 - Project Renewal's E-Newsletter:
New President and CEO to Build on Reputation for Excellence.
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May 2010 - Project Renewal's E-Newsletter:
Ed Geffner Reflects on 33 Years Fighting Homelessness.
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May 2010 - Smoking Cessation Study: Death rates due to tobacco-related cancer are twice as high among homeless individuals compared to the general population. Doug Warn, Clinical Director of Addiction Services, joined a team of investigators to design and develop a treatment protocol to help smokers quit. The results of the study proved that a program designed for homeless men and women can work: 75% completed 12 weeks of treatment, and of this group 88% completed 24 weeks. This is a high-risk, hard-to-reach population where smoking cessation can have a direct impact on improving health.
Read the full article in American Journal of Behavioral Health.
April 2010 - Project Renewal's E-Newsletter:
It's time for our 20th Annual Gala.
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March 2010 - Project Renewal's E-Newsletter:
Department of Homeless Services reports sharp increase in homeless men and women.
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February 2010 - Project Renewal's E-Newsletter:
Renewal Farm residents give unwanted shelter dogs a new "leash" on life.
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January 2010 - Project Renewal's E-Newsletter:
Demand for housing fuels expansion.
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November 2009 - Project Renewal's ScanVan was featured on an ABC News in a piece titled, "Budget Cuts Reduce Number of Mammograms," detailing how state budget cuts have forced ScanVan to turn women away.
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November 2009 - Mary Solomon, Director of Project Renewal's ScanVan, was quoted in a 1010WINS piece on state cuts to mammogram funding.
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October 2009 - JALBCA sponsors breast health screenings for low-income women on our ScanVan in October. Read the November issue of JALBCA for coverage of the partnership.
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August 2009 - The New York Times featured Project Renewal's Renewal Farm in "Two Acres of Hope for Recovering Addicts."
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March 2009 - Project Renewal's President and CEO, Ed Geffner, responds to a New York Times article entitled, "Tenants Wary of Clustering the Homeless," in his Letter to the Editor in the New York Times.
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