Double Murder – a year later

What happened Easter morning in 2009 at The Lamp Lodge in LA’s Skid Row and what does it say about the safety and services for residents there . . . Read the City Journal’s story on the Truth about Policing and Skid Row for an animated accounting of the murder and reasons behind it. Basically […]

Homeless, Houseless, or just disconnected?

The cure for being HOMELESS is to have HOUSING. But that is just the physical cure. It says nothing about the psychological and emotional ramifications of being disenfranchised and suffering the many other causes and symptoms of a homeless situation. I was reading an article on Houselessness. And while I feel that the author is a […]

Rev Andy at the URM

Someday I am going to meet @abales , Reverend Bales from the Union Rescue Mission. He doesn’t blog as much as I want him to – I guess he is a little busy and all, but it is so worth the read. therefore I am directly printing the link http://www.urmblog.org/category/rev-andys-blog/ . Anyway, last night I had a […]

Pirate Staffing 866-650-jobs

I pass them every morning as I get coffee. I worry about the safety of Day Laborers and Pirate Staffing seems to protect both the workers and employers. http://www.piratestaffing.com/locations.html The following is from their web site Pirate Staffing is the industry leader in customer satisfaction. We will help you increase your productivity and profitability. Use […]

57 kids homeless in Glendale CA

How can you help the Winter Shelter and reduce the number of people needing to use it? @pathachieve #homeless

www.preblestreet.org

Check out Portland Maine’s “Preble Street” and the new Women’s Housing it is opening this month for 40 previously homeless women who will have apartments, semi private bedrooms and a quiet shelter space , this is a HUGE change from sleeping on cots in the corner of large shelter rooms. The Portland Press Herald has […]

support gays and lose homeless funding

Preble Street’s Homeless Voices for Justice program has lost a major funding source from the Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland and the Washington-based Catholic Campaign for Human Development ended their support and financial backing of the program after last falls political issue about Same Sex marriages. Over $17,000 in funding has […]

From March 2006

http://atomic-temporary-4589657.wpcomstaging.com/2006/03/22/personal-hygene/ I was reading older posts and found this about the importance of personal hygiene and a before and after picture of one of the men I used to work with.

Fragile:

Change of focus for a minute to the other side of the desk. Mine. CNNMoney.com headline depicts social work and several related careers as “stressful jobs that pay badly.” When done right, social work is a dirty and messy job working with people in crisis and helping them to rearrange their lives. So, of course I […]

Welfare is about children

Like this girl who lives in California. She eats because of food stamps and has housing because of cash aid.