View this post on Instagram A post shared by MEND Poverty (@mendpoverty) The San Fernando Valley Rescue Mission and MEND combining together to bring hygiene and dignity to our neighbors who don’t have access to soap, water and privacy. #peoplehelpingpeople #mendpoverty
Read More Homeless Showers“Fight On!” Is the motto for @USC. This is how I am fighting on to my goal when Los Angeles City Parks and Recreation gave me last minute notice that they have Caesar Chavez Day off. Yikes. So, off to campus we go. Thanks Professor Kurzban for letting her audit your class today. When you’re […]
Read More The Youngest USC Master’s StudentHal Espy was my boss at Cal State Long Beach when I worked in the Kitchen for 49er Shops. He was (may still be) a tall man who repeated the name of the person he just met seven times in their first introduction and then he never forgot the name. He was an Olympic Hopeful […]
Read More You will never understand what it’s like to be Black in a White WorldHey guys, So we’ve been hanging out here for over a decade (if you have been here since the beginning). When I started this in an Excalibur hotel room in Las Vegas, I was a little buzzed and talking to my friends Bonnie and Isabel. They did not understand why I spend my days on […]
Read More FAILURE . . .Easily about 92% of the family’s I saw when I worked in the welfare system were single parent families. Most of those families were led by women and almost none of them received child support. It’s like I could have been my own client. It is only through assistance from families and friends and my own […]
Read More National single parent dayIt is the first day after spring break…I can do it! #usc @msw
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Read More Women in PovertyI noticed something as I read the LA Times today : I search the photographs of homeless people searching for familiar faces. My breath caught – my heart stopped – and I did a double take because I thought I saw Maria’s face outside a tent.
Read More The Trauma of Leaving Work on Skid RowMeet Each Need with Dignity. What does that look like?
Read More Let’s Discuss DignityIt feels like children are vanishing into the fears of their parents and out of sight with each rising sun. Please search the faces of the youngsters you pass on the streets for these kids.
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