Road Home

• Check City’s yearly Warm Hearts Coat Drive has come to a close and was a huge success once again.
• This year, Check City donated over 3,000 coats and other warm items to The Road Home!
• The success of the annual Check City Warm Hearts Coat Drive is all thanks to Check City’s wonderful employees and customers who volunteered their time and their warm things to help keep families warm this winter.
• Check City even had one customer who knitted and donated over 100 warm hats and beanies to the Warm Hearts Coat Drive!

• BEIJING, Nov. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 25, iQIYI, an innovative market-leading online entertainment service in China, held its signature annual iQIYI Scream Night at the Galaxy Arena in Macao.
• Four exceptional iQIYI originals — The Knockout, Destined, Mysterious Lotus Casebook, and Story of Kunning Palace — have each exceeded 10,000 on the iQIYI content popularity index, gaining special honors and bringing the total number of inductees to ten.
• This event also marked a new strategic partnership between iQIYI and Galaxy Arena, the new landmark of culture and entertainment in Macao.
• Under the agreement, iQIYI Scream Night will be held at the Galaxy Arena for three consecutive years starting this year.

• Now is the time to find answers to this question, and not just because it’s National Homelessness Week.
• The federal government is developing a National Housing and Homelessness Plan and says public consultations will begin soon.

Yet today more people need help because of homelessness than 15 years ago. The ambitious agenda of 2008 has not been fulfilled. The forthcoming plan might just be a second chance for Australia to get it right.

Read more:
Yes, we see you. Why a national plan for homelessness must make thousands of children on their own a priority

Homelessness is more than ‘sleeping rough’

• But there are other forms of homelessness that are more hidden.
• Some vocal advocates seek to model the Australian homelessness response on that of the United States.
• Fortunately, in Australia, homelessness has been understood and defined more broadly as not having a secure and safe home.
• Read more:
  6 steps towards remaking the homelessness system so it works for young people

We have examples of intervention that works

• Examples include the COSS Model, Kids Under Cover, Ruby’s Reunification and Home Stretch programs.
• If implemented adequately, programs like these would greatly reduce the flow of young people into homelessness.
• The social housing business model is not set up to provide supported housing for adolescents and young adults.
• One notable innovation is the world’s first model of social housing for youth developed by My Foundations Youth Housing.

Get the plan right and it can be a game-changer

• This funding would go into expanding social housing for young people.
• A key structural reform would be to reorganise support services for at-risk and homeless young Australians on a community-by-community basis.
• What’s needed is a rigorous approach to needs-based funding for both early intervention and post-homelessness support and supported housing.
• Will the National Housing and Homelessness Plan be a game-changer for vulnerable young Australians?

• iQIYI believes that integrating content with innovation will drive the future of the entertainment industry.
• iQIYI remains dedicated to creating high-quality content that grows with the viewers.
• In addition, the wide range of genres that the new content delivers will enable iQIYI to meet the increasingly diverse preferences of audiences.
• Going forward, iQIYI will continue to invest its resources in producing original content and meeting the diverse needs of its audiences by providing a wide selection of content that span different genres.