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What Does the Coalition Do?
The Big Bend Homeless Coalition facilitates the delivery of services to homeless families and individuals by providing education, advocacy and the coordination of community resources.

Recent Coalition efforts include:

• Serves as the Tallahassee/Leon County lead agency for the State of Florida Office on Homelessness
• Maintains and regularly updates the Tallahassee/Leon County Continuum of Care for the Homeless
• Sponsorship of monthly Homeless and Hunger Networking meetings
• Development and publication of the Coalition Quarterly Development and publication of the Coalition Update
• Produced brochure “emergency Assistance Programs for Homeless People v Produced “Teaching children about Homelessness” curriculum for kindergarten to high school
• Serves as the Advisory Board for the Education for Homeless Children and Youth Project
• Initiated planning for Integrated Computerized Information System
• Participation in the development of the Comprehensive Homeless Assistance Plan for the State of Florida
• Contributed data for the Tallahassee Consolidated Plan
• Secure in excess of $2,000,000 in grants for area agencies
• Developed plans for a Comprehensive Human Services Center and initiated development

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BBHC Documents to Download:

Homelessness in Tallahassee (MS Word doc, 50k)
BBHC Brochure (224k)

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BBHC Overview (MS Word doc, 50k)

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BBHC Newsletter, Dec - Jan 2008 (pdf doc, 2 MB)

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Staff

Kay Freeman, BBHC Executive Director
KFreeman(at)BigBendHC.org | (850) 576-5566 ext. 6105
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LeMay DeVane, HOPE Program Director
LDevane(at)BigBendHC.org | (850) 576-5566 ext. 6130

Paul Fortier, BBHC HMIS Coordinator/ IT
PFortier(at)BigBendHC.org | (850) 576-5566 ext. 6114

Jeff Franck, BBHC Outreach Case Manager
JFranck(at)BigBendHC.org | (850) 576-5566 ext. 6109

Stephen Freddo, HOPE Intensive Case Manager
SFreddo(at)BigBendHC.org | (850) 576-5566 ext. 6109

Kelly Kearns , BBHC Rural County Coordinator
KKearns(at)BigBendHC.org | (850) 576-5566 ext. 6107

Bret Oglesby, HOPE Case Manager
BOglesby(at)BigBendHC.org | (850) 576-5566 ext. 6125

Gwen Peters , HOPE Women's Case Manager
SFreddo(at)BigBendHC.org | (850) 576-5566 ext. 6109

Stephanie Shepherd, BBHC Deputy Director
SShepherd(at)BigBendHC.org | (850) 576-5566 ext. 6106

Chris Swick, HOPE Family Case Manager
CSwick(at)BigBendHC.org | (850) 576-5566 ext. 6115

Gwen Walker, BBHC Housing Administrator
GWalker(at)BigBendHC.org | (850) 576-5566 ext. 6117

Amanda Wilke, BBHC HMIS Specialist/ Donations Coordinator
AWilke(at)BigBendHC.org | (850) 576-5566 ext. 6128

Darlene Wilke, BBHC Finance Manager
DWilke(at)BigBendHC.org | (850) 576-5566 ext. 6111

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A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER SERVICES BY CALLING TOLL-FREE 1-800-435-7352 WITHIN THE STATE. REGISTRATION DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT, APPROVAL, OR RECOMMENDATION BY THE STATE.