KEITH L. WILSON

 

MISSION

 

Our mission is to increase access to grooming services to underserved individuals/families.

   

 

HOW WE DO IT

 

By providing no-cost haircuts, shaves, shampoos and other personal care needs to the underserved in rural, suburban and inner city areas. We will act as a collaborative partner with human service agencies to implement service to targeted groups within the community.

 

HOMELESSNESS

 

13,003 Ohioans were homeless on a single day in 2011, 4.8% more than in 2010

 

5,218 Ohioans in families with children were homeless in 2011, 8.4% more than in 2010, and the highest level of family homelessness since statewide reporting began

 

11,197 Ohioans were in shelters or transitional housing in 2011, 5.9% more than in 2010, and the highest number since statewide reporting began

 

Any rise in homelessness is concerning.  However, the 2011 increase is especially worrisome because it comes in the midst of an ongoing economic crisis, the coming end of critical temporary homeless assistance resources, and the decreasing availability of state and federal resources for homeless programming.

 

All signs point to a mounting crisis for the most vulnerable Ohioans. Diminishing federal and state resources, the loss of critical temporary homeless assistance, and increasing homelessness will converge within the next year, in the midst of ongoing economic struggles.

 

(2011 Homeless Report From COHHIO)

 

 

POVERTY

 

According to the 2011 American Community Survey (the latest available data):

 

•  An estimated 1,846,000 people in Ohio were poor – that is 16.4 percent of all persons for whom poverty status was determined; the corresponding figures for 1999 were 1,171,000 and 10.6 percent.

 

Ohio’s individual and family poverty rates typically were a little lower than the corresponding national rates from 1989 (the first year in this report) until about 2005, after which Ohio’s rates were nearly equal to or a little higher than the national averages.

 

There have been significant increases in poverty rates since 1999 for the vast majority of Ohio’s counties and larger cities; poverty rates also are higher for summary types of areas: urban, rural, and metropolitan area divisions: both in - and outside of central cities.

 

(The Ohio Poverty Report 2013)