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Big 3 of Hope Place: Entrepreneur Forough Hosseini of ICI Homes of Daytona Beach

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Forough B. Hosseinin of Daytona, businesswoman, entrepreneur & public education policy maker / Headline Surfer®Forough Hosseini in a school / Headline Surfer®DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Forough B. Hosseini, along with Mark Geallas and Jim Dinneen, are the three big stakeholders who have worked tirelessly to make "Hope Place" a true reality for homeless families with kids and for teens without parents or a place to live, but enrolled in school.

And they have done so without the ugliness of political bickering or one upmanship.

Big 3 of Hope Place: Mark Geallis, executive director of Halifax Urban Ministries

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Daytona homeless family shelter / Jim Dinneen, Forough Hosseini, Mark Geallis / Headline Surfer®
First of three sidebars included in 2nd of 10-part investigative reporting series that takes the public into the plight of homeless families with children and of teens living on their own (at least 18 & in school living either apart from parents or with none at all) in greater Daytona Beach and throughout Volusia County); and the big three leaders who did something about it by Pushing for Hope Place -- Mark Geallis, executive director of Halifax Urban Ministries; Forough Hosseini, vice president of ICI Homes & and a community entrepreneur; and Jim Dinneen, Volusia County manager. These are their stories...
 
Mark Geallis of Halifax Urban Ministries, among big 3 behind Hope Place / Headline Surfer®Photos for Headline Surfer® /
Mark Geallis, executive director of Halifax Urban Ministries in Daytona Beach, Florida, is shown here at left.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- At one time, Mark Geallis made sandwiches in Chicago, - a job he didn't find all too fulfilling.

School Board unanimously approves sale of Hurst School for Daytona-area homeless familes with kids & teens on their own

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Daytona homeless family shelter / Jim Dinneen, Forough Hosseini, Mark Geallis / Headline Surfer®
First of a 10-Part Series that takes the public into the plight of homeless families with children and teens living on their own with no place to call home in greater Daytona Beach and throughout Volusia County and three leaders who did something about it -- Mark Geallis, executive director of the Halifax Urban Ministries; Forough Hosseini, vice president of ICI Homes and a community entrepreneur and Volusia County Manager Jim Dinneen. These are their stories...

Forough Hosseini was one of the big proponents of thne Project Hope shelter / Headline Surfer®DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Forough Hosseini tugs on the door at the former Walter A. Hurst School just north of the Daytona Beach city limits in adjacent Holly Hill in an impoverished neighborhood that served as its elementary school for many years before its closing nearly a decade ago.

Hosseini knows all too well the strengths and weaknesses of Daytona, the Central Florida tourism hub on the East end of interstates 4 and 95, that is home to the World's Most Famous Beach®, where speed was born.

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