She had the Regents Exam in the afternoon but had to stay in the shelter for 7 hours for the intake. I have worked in homeless shelters and that was simply a stupid move. children need to be in school, and once you have seen her – let her go to school then come back […]
Read More Policy change: Homeless student penalized for being homelessI recieved a track back to the blog stating that the Barclay’s evicting a NYC homeless shelter is the work of Bruce Ratner. Please educate me.
Read More Bruce Ratner – who is he?It has four walls. a roof and a door that locks. The LA TIMES carried this story about a family sleeping in their storage space.
Read More Living in Storage SpaceUpcoming Event Grand Opening of Family Shelter January 29, 2010 1:00 pm Please RSVP to Ali Prakin aprakin@upwardboundhouse.org http://upwardboundhouse.org/index.php
Read More Upward Bound house openingOn Tuesday Dec 8th, Leslie Sykes reported on the closing of the Women’s care Cottage. This is the link. http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=7160401 Let me know if there any updates to this story. I can testify that it provided real and meaningful services to real and needing clients
Read More Women’s Care Cottage closing in the news$24 can make a meaningful gift to someone leaving homelessness.
Read More $2 a day for the 12 days of Christmasthe LAHSA Winter Shelter Scheadule and locations
Read More Winter Shelter locations and informationa link to Homeless Connect Day information
Read More Project Homeless Connect DayList of LA Area shelter and phone numbers
Read More Shelter listsI read this in the New Your Times Good. What? Did that shock you? I think it is good that the New York Shelter System is empowering the shelters to evict families who are using emergency shelters as permanet homes when the families refuse permanent housing offered to them and are not abiding by shelter […]
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