Women’s Shelters in California

Where to go, what to do

Dear @LAHSA and Mike Arnold

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URM vs LAHSA

Why doesn’t LAHSA see the @URM is how the community is stepping up to help homeless children? Or are my donations and volunteer time not a community effort? ♥ read more :http://blog.fulldisclosure.net/2011/07/county-of-los-angeles-versus-union.html#comment-form By the way: people in need still have the right to choose where they will have those needs filled. No one is forcing them […]

What to Give a Homeless Child

#fb @urm Give the Gift of Stability (yes, we are our brothers’ keeper)

December 1, 2010 Winter Shelter

December 1 is the start of Winter Shelter in Los Angeles County. Their web page has not been updated with the 2010-2011 scheadule – however they do post an overview of the project: “LAHSA’s Winter Shelter Program (WSP) runs annually from December 1 through March 15. This season, the WSP will increase the number of emergency […]

Living at a Shelter is Driving me crazy

An account by a client: “We are in shelter that moves us to a new church each week. Right now there are four families and we have to be up and showered and out the door by 7 o’clock every morning. I am so tired because I have been up since 4 this morning. The […]

Glendale Winter Shelter = Locals Only ?

Not this year, but next year the City of Glendale is looking at hosting the Winter Shelter for residents (Meaning that people spend most of their time there) of Glendale or Burbank only. Last year (winter 2009/2010) over 85% of the people who came to The Winter Shelter were from locations other than Burbank, Pasadena […]

Bedbugs

Sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite. Gross. Bedbugs happen in four star Hotels and they can happen in Homeless Shelters. they are attracted to warm-blooded creatures such as people and don’t really care if we are messy. Bed bugs in Homeless shelters are especially difficult to deal with because the population entering and exiting […]

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Shocker. NOT! Dear @HiltonOnLine and @tombodett Last year I followed the Winter Shelter that was held in the Glendale Armory in CA and stopped in to visit or volunteer a couple of times. What I learned was that often mothers with young children would ride the bus to the Armory looking for shelter but could […]