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National Homeless Awareness Week: November 1 - 7, 2009

Every year 70,000 children and individuals become homeless in Georgia. The Department of Community Health (DCH) and Georgia Coalition to End Homelessness, Inc. (GCEH) are partnering to address homeless awareness in Georgia and to spread key health messages to homeless citizens. The organizations will partner this year during National Homeless Awareness Week from November 1 - 7, 2009. DCH will provide educational pamphlets and prevention messages to local homeless shelters and providers to promote health safety within their organizations. Flu and H1N1 information along with the Roll Up Your Sleeve brochure will be made available to the homeless shelters and providers.

Click here to listen to testimonies of currently homeless Georgians and how they manage to keep going while being homeless.

For a complete copy of the Interim Guidance for Homeless and Emergency Shelters on the H1N1 virus, visit http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/guidance/homeless.htm.

Also, check out the brochure Homeless and Emergency Shelters: Protect Yourself Against Seasonal Flu and 2009 H1N1.