In North Hollywood. They live on the streets and eat at restaurants that take EBT , carry fruit and granola in their bags and exist on the local services such as BTAC. One lady took the time to tell me she traveled to California with a friend to stay with a third friend…but then friendships fell […]
Read More Homeless supper clubDo you think THEY would help save @URM @HopeGardens? I like to keep a list of formerly homeless people handy so when I am talking to my homeless Welfare parents I can remind them that poverty and homelessness CAN BE TEMPORARY. Halle Berry . . . Oscar-winning and Emmy Award-winning actress (shelter in New York City) […]
Read More Formerly Homeless Famous Folk . . .It is hard to think about homelessness and childhood. It is almost so painful that we just don’t think about it. Being “homeless” is still viewed as a grown man’s problem. It is an epidemic in our Veterans or issue regarding the adults who sleep in the bus stops. But the truth is that Homelessness […]
Read More Individual reality – being homeless“Opening Doors” http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/meeting-us-interagency-council-homelessness USICH meeting on continuing efforts to prevent and end homelessness. The White House My Veteran’s Affairs hero is speaking. I love him! HUD/V A Supportive Housing has been the best tool for ending homelessness. By the end of next year it can bring 30,000 veterans and families out of homelessness.
Read More the White House livestream on homelessnessOn Green Planet. I just found this program based in Europe about Homeless citizens and advocates trying to help them. It seems that the advocates are rich people who have chosen to pair up with a homeless person and join them in living on the streets and try to mentor the individual they are paired […]
Read More Famous, Rich & HomelessMedi-Cal no longer covers glasses, and many people don’t have enough money for private insurance and earn too much for Medi-Cal anyway. How can they find glasses? ———————————————————— VSP and Sight for Students “Sight for Students is a VSP charity that provides free vision exams and glasses to low-income, uninsured children. The program operates nationally through […]
Read More Free Glasses and Eye Exams for the poorThank you Juana! This is only part of one woman’s contribution toward helping low income mothers find work. This is a donation of interview and work clothing (yes, that is a store tags you see) brought to my office and all already on hangers. We can not always give money to clients for interviewing – it […]
Read More Dress For Success DonationPATH, @epath, @pathachieve does such amazing work that I am always surprised when you tell me you have not heard of it. Many of you have heard of it’s Media Star Mark Horvath aka @hardlynormal. There is a bigger (but much shorter – even in her high heels) , possibly better hero hiding in Glendale – and if you never […]
Read More Hero of the Week – Natalie Profant KomuroBy an Eleven year old who is hacking my home page. Cool!
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