Win the Souper Bowl!

What’s a SOUPer Bowl? It’s a canned soup and food drive around Super Bowl time (go Cowboys!).inspired by CGS Arcadia, btw. How do you play? It’s easy! It’s a Team Competition- the most cans wins! Simple as that! At work we have 6 “Units” and “Clerical/Admin” so that is 7 teams. If enough “other” folks […]

This is not affordable housing

Too often these are mobile homes.

End Homeless for ME

Not that it’s all about me, but I am drowning in files. It is 5pm, and except for a quick lunch, this is the first time I’ve had a moment to myself all day. In the past two days I have done 6 brand new intake appointments, My homeless families are now so many that their files […]

Pirate Staffing

It’s 6am and already they are lined up in the building. These guys have their moxie: now we need employers to pick them up.

Stripping for food

A former homeless client came by to tell me about her new job that pays her rent. She’s a nude dancer. That’s right: a stripper. ¶ it allows her to keep the apartment she’s illegally sub-renting because her credit is shot and she can’t find a more affordable place. ¶She’s pretty enough to have done […]

America: home of the slave

Spot a Slave today -.This will be easy and a different way to see your daily interactions. You probably see a victim of human trafficking once a month and didn’t know it. Talk to strangers today. Notice people whom you see all the time but don’t think to much about. The bus boy, dishwasher, waitress […]

Who gives a sheet anyway?

Cotton top, flannel bottom #homeless awareness isn’t popular or sexy, so let’s change that! Got Sheets? Cotton, Flannel or Satin? Talk about them! Who was in them last? Where did you buy them? Does thread count really matter? What size (size does matter after all, at least on your bed). I’ll start. The picture is […]

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Helping out can be $ FREE $

Don’t think that BUYING or GIVING money or items is the only way to make a change. YOU may be the best thing you have to offer. Volunteer. Ways to volunteer: There are lots of ways to volunteer and help others as they change their lives. You don’t have to be rich, successful, or even […]

Homeless to Housed- beware

Do not be so happy to have found a place that you can afford to rent that you forget basic rules of renting. #1. GET IT IN WRITING #2. BE EDUCATED ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS #3. TAKE CARE OF IT #4. ACT IN GOOD FAITH #5. KNOW WHERE TO GO FOR HELP This morning a client […]