House The Homeless, Inc. P.O. Box 2312 Austin, TX 78768-2312 (512) 796-4366 info@housethehomeless.org   Heart And Sole Project     A New Program To Reach The 'Soles' Of Our Homeless!     Heart and Sole is an innovative, preventative health care, outreach nurturing program. Professional massage therapists will provide foot massages to Austin's' Homeless Community. A health care professional will perform medical triage coupled with additional instructions for both good foot care maintenance and wellness preservation. Members of Austin's' social service community will provide job training and housing opportunities. The encounter will conclude by providing new socks and shoes as a final investment in the individual's health care. The recipients of the nurturing package will be asked for a $5.OO contribution for the purpose of instilling a sense of value and worth to the individual recipient. (A hand up not a hand out). Proceeds will be used to offset the cost of the program. Alternatively, the proceeds will be donated either to the local homeless TV show, run and operated by homeless and formerly homeless persons, Dialogues For The Homeless, or to a new Homeless street newspaper enterprise run by and for the benefit of the homeless community.. Proceeds may even be used to support a local Homeless art initiative.   In addition to being the coordinating entity, House the Homeless, Inc., (a 5O1(c)3 local non- profit founded in Austin in 1989, Austin's' Resource for the Homeless (ARCH) hosts the program at 400 Nueces (and will be relocating to 8th and Red River March, 2004). The Lauterstein-Conway School of Massage sponsors the massage component and guides massage therapists to the activity.   We believe that traditionally, when it comes to funding,, the nurturing component is the social service component that always gets cut. We must remember that these people have lost the most precious gift of life beyond life itself...family. It is for this reason that we have created a program that starts with nurturing and is then complimented with a social service component. We believe that by working together all things are possible. An excellent volunteer opportunity! We desperately need sponsors for sneakers and other footware!   In Unity there is Strength Richard R. Troxell