The City of Springfield is relaunching an extensive homeless outreach effort, along with new initiatives to connect the unsheltered with housing and to crack down on panhandling. Springfield Mayor ...

Project Hope 2.0 involves multiple city departments including police, housing, community development, public works, and agency partners like the Behavioral Health Network, the Center for Human ...

Like any self-respecting trial lawyer turned nonprofit leader, Jennifer Friend, chief executive of Project Hope Alliance, is better with words than she is with numbers. But that doesn’t stop her from ...

This is one in a series looking at what Lake County communities, agencies and school districts experienced in 2025 and what is facing them in 2026. Project Hope for the Homeless Executive Director ...