CHIP Indianapolis

10/23/2026

Please join us in welcoming Tamea Wickware, CHIP's new Manager of Housing Stability & System Coordination! 💙

An Indianapolis native, Tamea brings a wealth of experience in housing, case management, compliance, program management, and systems improvement. With a passion for strengthening programs and empowering communities, she brings both professional expertise and a deeply personal connection to CHIP's mission.

Outside of work, Tamea is a proud wife, mother of three, dog mom, and world traveler who loves making memories with family and friends.

We’re so glad to have you on the team, Tamea! 💙🏠

10/21/2026

📣 Calling all Indianapolis service providers and community organizations!

Planning is officially underway for the 2027 CHIP Handbook of Help, and we need YOUR help to make sure this essential community resource remains accurate, accessible, and comprehensive! 💙

Has your organization updated its services, hours, contact information, or eligibility requirements? ⏰

Is your organization not currently listed, but you'd like to be included in the 2027 edition? 📖

Now is the time to let us know!

🔗 Submit your updates or request a listing here:
https://airtable.com/apptWEdx3lvmckfHn/shr7VOfzYYUftYjg6

Together, we can make sure this valuable resource continues to connect our neighbors with the support they need. 💛

10/20/2026

More than 280 neighbors housed. And we're not done yet. 💙

Streets to Home Indy is approaching a major milestone, and we're grateful to FOX59 News and reporter Rachael Wilkerson for sharing the progress our community is making together.

Through coordinated outreach, housing assistance, and supportive services, Streets to Home Indy has helped more than 280 neighbors move from the streets into housing. Now, as we approach our first-phase housing goal, we're preparing for an even bigger chapter: strengthening the systems that help people find housing, remain housed, and avoid homelessness in the first place.

Behind every number are people, relationships, and a community of partners working toward lasting solutions.

Special thanks to Rachael Wilkerson WRTV for helping share the purpose behind this work, and to the outreach teams, housing providers, healthcare partners, funders, and community members making it possible.

Read and watch the FOX59 story:
https://fox59.com/news/streets-to-home-indy-to-hit-housing-goal-soon-6-encampments-closed-this-year/

INDIANAPOLIS— The Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention better known as CHIP said this year it’s helped to close six encampments and housed over 280 people. The CEO of CHIP, …

10/19/2026

Do you know what's really scary? The barriers to housing are real.

But do you know what's motivating? So is our power to remove them.

Every day, outreach teams, housing providers, advocates, and community partners across Indianapolis are working together to turn obstacles into opportunities and connect more neighbors with the stability they deserve.

We can't solve homelessness through fear or stigma. But we can make meaningful progress through compassion, collaboration, and action.

The challenges are real. So is our collective ability to change what's possible. Help us turn hope into housing. Support the work at chipindy.org/donate

10/15/2026

Do you know what’s really scary?
More than 2,000 of our neighbors enter homelessness in Indianapolis each year.

What’s scary are the systemic barriers that can push someone out of stable housing and keep them there.

Throughout October, we’ll be sharing the facts behind homelessness in our community and the work being done to create pathways home.

Our neighbors aren’t scary. The hurdles standing between them and home are.

If you’d like to help CHIP continue that work, you can support us here: https://www.chipindy.org/donate/

10/13/2026

✨ Meet the 2026 CHIP Celebration Award Winners! ✨

At this year’s CHIP Celebration, we had the honor of recognizing both individuals and organizations whose leadership, service, advocacy, and lived expertise are helping build a stronger homelessness response system in Indianapolis. 💙

From working directly alongside neighbors experiencing homelessness to strengthening systems, elevating lived experience, advocating for better housing solutions, and showing up for our community in countless ways, each of our 2026 award recipients represents a different piece of what it takes to make lasting change possible.

👉 Click through to meet this year’s honorees!

10/09/2026

🌟 2026 Diamond Service Award Winner Spotlight! 🌟

At the 2026 CHIP Celebration, we were honored to recognize Restee Johnson with the Diamond Service Award, CHIP’s signature honor celebrating an individual who has transformed lived experience of homelessness into leadership, advocacy, service, and hope for others. 💎

After more than 20 years of periodically experiencing homelessness, Restee now uses his lived expertise to help shape housing policy, strengthen community engagement, and advocate for systems that better serve our neighbors experiencing homelessness.

We’re grateful to Restee for trusting us with his story, for the work he continues to do in our community, and for showing what can become possible when people have access to housing, support, and opportunity.

🎥 Hear Restee share his story and the journey that brought him to this work.

Congratulations again to our 2026 Diamond Service Award recipient, Restee Johnson. 💙

10/06/2026

Downtown Indianapolis is changing, and housing is part of that story.

In a recent IndyStar article look at five trends shaping downtown, Streets to Home Indy is highlighted for helping connect neighbors who had been living outside with stable housing, and wraparound support.

Since January, at least 66 people who had been living downtown have moved into stable residences, while outreach partners have connected with hundreds more neighbors throughout the downtown community.

That progress matters because a stronger downtown isn't simply about development, construction or what we see on the street. It's about creating pathways for people to come home.

We're proud to be part of a collaborative effort demonstrating what is possible when Indianapolis invests in housing, coordinated outreach and long-term stability.
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/indianapolis/2026/10/01/the-state-of-downtown-indianapolis-explained-by-5-major-trends/92003087007/

A new report shows downtown Indianapolis is gaining residents despite high office vacancies and major gripes about construction.

10/02/2026

09/25/2026

Look what we did together, Indy 💙

Last night, our CHIP Celebration community helped us exceed our $5,000 fundraising goal, raising $5,331.40 to support CHIP’s work connecting people, partners, data, advocacy, and resources across Indianapolis’ homelessness-response system.

That’s 106% of our goal, and every gift, at every level, helped get us there!

Thank you to everyone who gave, bid, showed up, shared the evening with us, and continues to believe in a community where everyone has a safe place to call home.

We’re still taking in what an incredible night it was and we have so many photos, stories, and moments of impact to share with you soon.

For today, we just want to say: Thank you. We did this together.