Contact Information

Lana Wachniak, Associate Dean
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
1000 Chastain Rd. Bldg 22, STE 5010
Kennesaw, GA 30144
770-423-6124
lwachnia@kennesaw.edu

EVENTS CALENDAR

Monday October 13

Opening Day activities held in University Rooms. Orientation tables set up from 9:30-6:00

Homelessness Awareness T-shirt silk screening. The first 50 students who complete and turn in the waiver form to participate in the Sleep-Out receive a t-shirt. Students can also bring their own t-shirts and silk-screen HAW logo. Professor V. Dibble and students, Visual Arts, developed the logo.

Student Posters about Homelessness and works by homeless and in- transition artists are on display in the Social Science Building Atrium. Drs. Catherine Lewis and Jennifer Dickey, History, developed the display. Through Saturday.

9:30-10:45

Homelessness: A Big Picture View
(Organizations represented: Cobb Community Development Block Grant [CDBG] Program; Project Community Connections, Inc.; Pathways Community Network; Commission to End Homelessness - United Way)

11:00-12:15

Video: Dark Days - also available online

12:00-1:00

Opportunity to engage in dialog with Dr. Papp.

12:30-1:45

Homelessness: Who are the Invisible?
(Organizations represented: Young Adult Guidance Center, Inc.; The Sullivan Center)

2:00-3:15

Homelessness: What Can we Do? Funding and Program Implementation
(Organizations represented: Housing Trust Fund for the Homeless GA Department of Community Affairs)

3:30-4:45

Homelessness: Engaging to Help
(Organizations represented: Metro Atlanta Red Shield Services; Covenant Community House; Cobb Family Resources)

5:00-6:15

Video: Dark Days - also available online

6:30-7:45

Homelessness: "Invisible" People and Visible Problems
(Organizations represented: Living Room; Positive Outlook)

Tuesday October 14

Student Posters about Homelessness: Social Science Building Atrium

11:00-12:15

Global Issues of Homelessness and Poverty (Dr. Vanessa Singer's classroom) Social Science Class- 2036
(Organization represented: Fuller Center)

3:30-4:45

Homelessness: Street Level Engagement
(Organizations represented: Family Life Restoration Center; Travelers Aid of Metro Atlanta)

Wednesday October 15

Student Posters about Homelessness: Social Science Building Atrium

11:00-12:15

Homelessness: Focus on Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Professor Robin Crawford's class in Social Science Class- 1021
(Organizations represented: Trinity House-Big Bethel)

Thursday October 16

Student Posters about Homelessness: Social Science Building Atrium

4:30-8:00

Meet representatives of agencies that assist the homeless - Outside Area between the Social Science Building, Pilcher Building, and Campus Safety office
(Organizations include Cobb Family Resources; Must Ministries, Seamless Garment, Able)

6:00

Sleep-Out Begins: Area between the Social Science Building, Pilcher Building, and Campus Safety office. Continues Through Saturday at noon.

7:00 – 10:00

Facilitated Dialog – Mr. Omari Mayberry Dept of Psychiatry/Community Outreach Service

Storyteller and Musicians (homeless and in transition)

8:00

Power point presentation about global poverty and hunger at Spaceship Earth.

Friday October 17

Student Posters about Homelessness: Social Science Building Atrium

All Day

Sleep-Out: Area between the Social Science Building, Pilcher Building, and Campus Safety office

7:00 – 10:00 pm

Facilitated Dialogs. Ms. Omilami, Hosea Feed the Hungry
Storyteller and Musicians (homeless and in transition)

Power point presentation about global poverty and hunger at Spaceship Earth.

Saturday October 18

Student Posters about Homelessness: Social Science Building Atrium

Midnight - Noon

Sleep-Out: Area between the Social Science Building, Pilcher Building, and Campus Safety office