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Press Releases

• 2/08/2008 Drop Inn in the News (Newsmakers January 13, 2008) This weekend, people who founded and supported the Drop Inn Center in Over the Rhine marked 30 years of providing emergency shelter for people who find themselves homeless and facing life on the streets.
  
• 1/22/2008 Homeless shelter recalls its roots Thirty years ago, a small group calling themselves The People's Movement, who operated the Drop Inn Center, organized a secret, illegal midnight move from their shelter on Main Street to their present location at 12th and Elm streets.
  
• 1/12/2008 Drop Inn dropping out? (Some wonder if homeless shelter hurts Over-the-Rhine) OVER-THE-RHINE - For three decades, Cincinnati's Drop Inn Center homeless shelter has given a bed and meals to all comers, few questions asked. The largest shelter in the region, it harbors as many as 250 people a night.
• 1/12/2008 New Generation of Homeless Vets Emerges LEEDS, Mass. (AP) -- Peter Mohan traces the path from the Iraqi battlefield to this lifeless conference room, where he sits in a kilt and a Camp Kill Yourself T-shirt and calmly describes how he became a sad cliche: a homeless veteran.
• 1/10/2008 Drop Inn Center's power is capacity for love The front-page headline of The Enquirer on Jan. 12 read "Will Drop Inn Center be pushed out?" bolstered by the subhead "Some wonder if homeless shelter hurts Over-the-Rhine development." If those questions weren't bold enough, readers were encouraged to register their opinions to the question "Should the Drop Inn Center move?"
• 12/11/2007 Home for the Homeless Six years ago, Vanessa Warner was a drug addict, a prostitute and a thief who'd sell anything to get high. But Drop Inn has changed everything...
• 5/4/2007 Drop Inn Center: Partnering Against TB The Drop Inn Center and Hamilton County TB Control are long-standing partners in the fight against Tuberculosis.  We have been fully cooperative with their efforts, including sharing our resident and volunteer data freely.