“About 42% to 77% do not receive public benefits to which they are entitled” – The Weingart Center, now published by The United Way . Why? I have theories. Instinctively people have a great deal of pride and asking for public assistance is very hard on that pride when you are bound and determined to make […]
Read More STOP thinking all Homeless people are on SSI and WelfareI am overjoyed to find @abales of @URM in my mail box at work today. It is a little like Christmas and I am super happy to be rewarded for dragging myself into the office today. My happy dance and small shouts of “It came, It Came!” has prompted a somewhat steady stream of onlookers to […]
Read More It Came! and who should be a role model?Outside the Duarte Walmart. Again and again let me tell you that if you have never heard of or seen a “charity” in action …do NOT give them your money or time.
Read More Fake charityNo one will be held there by force, but they will know that they cannot stay elsewhere
Read More Concentration Camp for the Homeless?A Fundraiser on 10/2/2010 (and if I were not totally poor my own self, I would definitely go! So, you go for me and let me know how it is!) This is from http://www.epath.org web page. August 2010 – On Saturday, October 2nd, 2010, from 6:00 – 10:00 p.m., please join People Assisting The Homeless […]
Read More PATH is having a party!Federal funds were released through the County Board of Supervisors on Aug 31, 2010 to these three agencies serving the homeless in LA. Union Station is based in Pasadena California, PATH has the PATH Mall and smaller satellite sites (PATH Achieve in Glendale being my favorite – however Joel John Roberts and Carlos Gonzalez in the […]
Read More PATH, Union Station and VOA awarded fundsI am updating my Resource page https://homelessinla.wordpress.com/updated-resources-in-process/ and want to know what services you could use all listed in one place.
Read More What resources do you need a guide to?I am frustrated today. “I can’t learn anything, I am pregnant!” “You won’t give me more money for my new baby?!?!” “I don’t see why I have to look for work if I have to take maternity leave in over half a year”. Here is my frustration – you are in CalWORKS because you […]
Read More Today’s desk sign.Because sometimes we are just “in between homes” and need a night or a week, or a month or so in a bed while we prepare to go to our next home. It sounds interesting, like a hotel but not as posh – just a place to come inside and rest while moving between homes […]
Read More The Hollywood DormsSign up! Raise money and walk to end homelessness. Or just come out for the booths and information fair. Every year at Exposition Park the United Way puts on a HomeWalk to create “Pathways out of Poverty” All of the movers and shakers in the movement to end homelessness and solve the epidemic of poverty […]
Read More HOME WALK 2010
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