I love little boys

This little guy was as good as gold.

Meals on a Food Stamp Budget

the A.P. ran an article by PERVAIZ SHALLWANI on how three successful restraunt owners would plan meals on less than $70 a week for a family of four. Read the entire article here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36507576/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/ I am posting some of the best bits of advice. Jose Garces suggests that budget shoppers start in the grocer’s ethnic aisle, where […]

Can mothers who are Homeless find success

From my perspective, mothers need BOTH a stable place to feel secure in their physical environment and security in their emotional environment to feel successful. The same can be said of everyone, actually. Poor single mothers who had experienced an episode of homelessness and had symptoms of depression, but had a work history of […]

HELP! She has a job, now what

She was homeless, she found a part-time job at K-Mart which will barely pay her rent if she tries really hard not to turn on a light or use too much hot water – but now what? Employment is NOT solving the problem that she is living on the knife’s edge of homelessness. I am […]

How to be the best Homeless Commisioner you can be

the New York Times collected letters of advice to the new Homeless Commissioner from the past office holders. Read their advice here: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/advice-for-the-homeless-commissioner/

Would you help?

Someone’s baby boy is running on the sidewalk and falls down He’s a human being; he needs help. Would you help or walk on by?

more wristbands for the Health Clinic in Downtown

The Downtown Los Angeles RAM clinic started today at 6 am. Wristbands have been given out and still hundreds of hopeful clients are standing in line. Special Notice: Additional Wristband Distribution is Wednesday April 28 Remote Area Medical® (RAM) will distribute a limited number of wristbands on Wednesday, April 28 starting at 10 a.m. on the east […]

“poor” ad placement. How rude!

W.I.C. food program for low income families

WIC stands for Women, Infants & Children. It is a program designed to educate breast-feeding women and mothers of young low-income families about food, nutrition and healthcare. WIC is a food and nutrition program that is here to help pregnant women and families with young children. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and […]