the phone vent.

I am spending my break falling a little in love with the super cranky IHSS worker who is 5 cubicles down from me. I can hear her yelling , “What is your plan, you think my plan is stupid?”. I totally understand the frustration of people calling on the last day of the month to […]

my Street Sweeping ticket is wrong!

Oh @lacityparking and @cbsla.. last night was a dark night and I looked for a parking sign at the beginning of the block and around my car in 6th. Seeing no sign and many other cars…I left my car and returned at 5 am to a street sweeping ticket. The shown – as shown here […]

With @abales on Skid Row

Networking and tweeting and calmly offering services and his business card to passers by outside the @urm. After 4 years of following him on Twitter and Facebook I have finally met him. It is possible that he seems dignifies and wise because he truly is. This impression is amplified by the volume of our companions […]

Skid Row Sleepover

I have an agenda for tonight. So of course nothing went as planned. Its 1 o’clock in the morning and I finally sat down in the covered cot provided to me for tonight. Things in my personal life have changed drastically since I worked here. I needed some clarity. To be humbled and made thankful […]

DPSS Cash aid Homeless Services Fact Sheets

Here is a small overview of the many and wonderfully helpful programs offered by the County of Los Angeles for families who are homeless while on cash assistance. hpfs_Oct_2010_calworks.pdf

Home(less) of the Brave

We have the means to imorove the life of someone who fought for our national beliefs. Now we need to believe , as a nation , that our soldiers and sailors and armed forces should have a home in the Home of the Brave". ♥♥♥♥ read more ♥♡♡♥ http://web.saxo.dailynews.com/article/20130924/LOCAL1/130929746/a-billion-in-unspent-aid-isn-t-helping-homeless-vetseditorial

Low Income Energy Assistance Programs

LADWP and California have programs to assist low in come folks keep the lights on. http://www.csd.ca.gov/Services/HelpPayingUtilityBills.aspx Thank You!

Christmas-Registration-Flyer-20131.pdf

@MENDPOVERTY Christmas Program registration guidelines Christmas-Registration-Flyer-2013[1].pdf

Ladies who lunch vs working grunt

Somedays (yesterday!) I wish I had accepted one of the offers to marry a rich man. But I did not. Instead I am a social worker. Yesterday I listened to a man with fresh out of prison talk to me about being beaten down its head injuries his drug addiction and his experiences in a […]