Because sometimes we are just “in between homes” and need a night or a week, or a month or so in a bed while we prepare to go to our next home. It sounds interesting, like a hotel but not as posh – just a place to come inside and rest while moving between homes […]
Read More The Hollywood Dorms“Male and female couples who are not married, but are willing to be married if accepted into the program, may still apply. Because of the nature of the program, we do not accept single mothers who are pregnant. If the mother is pregnant, it needs to be a two parent family. We work with single […]
Read More We will help you – if you just change for usDo you think THEY would help save @URM @HopeGardens? I like to keep a list of formerly homeless people handy so when I am talking to my homeless Welfare parents I can remind them that poverty and homelessness CAN BE TEMPORARY. Halle Berry . . . Oscar-winning and Emmy Award-winning actress (shelter in New York City) […]
Read More Formerly Homeless Famous Folk . . .Merced gives homeless campers 6 months to move into shelters or leave or be arrested.
Read More homeless camps are “inhumane”?Should you pay for shelter? Where would the money come from, where does it go, how is it spent and is it far? In New York the plan is to charge rent for shelter residents. The Huffington Post has an article from Covenant House touting their approach to rent and why it is character building. […]
Read More Rent for your Homeless ShelterHow can you help the Winter Shelter and reduce the number of people needing to use it? @pathachieve #homeless
Read More 57 kids homeless in Glendale CACheck out Portland Maine’s “Preble Street” and the new Women’s Housing it is opening this month for 40 previously homeless women who will have apartments, semi private bedrooms and a quiet shelter space , this is a HUGE change from sleeping on cots in the corner of large shelter rooms. The Portland Press Herald has […]
Read More www.preblestreet.orgShe 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 homelessIf you have a good heart, don’t need a lot of money, have great problem solving skills, are good with people, and come equipped with working boundaries: consider a job in helping the Homeless. I cruised through Craig’s List and found these openings in LA: HOMELESS Youth Shelter outreach Housing coordinator (Santa Monica) at OPCC. […]
Read More Job openings in the Homeless arenaOn 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
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