Medi-Cal no longer covers glasses, and many people don’t have enough money for private insurance and earn too much for Medi-Cal anyway. How can they find glasses? ———————————————————— VSP and Sight for Students “Sight for Students is a VSP charity that provides free vision exams and glasses to low-income, uninsured children. The program operates nationally through […]
Read More Free Glasses and Eye Exams for the poorThank you Juana! This is only part of one woman’s contribution toward helping low income mothers find work. This is a donation of interview and work clothing (yes, that is a store tags you see) brought to my office and all already on hangers. We can not always give money to clients for interviewing – it […]
Read More Dress For Success DonationPATH, @epath, @pathachieve does such amazing work that I am always surprised when you tell me you have not heard of it. Many of you have heard of it’s Media Star Mark Horvath aka @hardlynormal. There is a bigger (but much shorter – even in her high heels) , possibly better hero hiding in Glendale – and if you never […]
Read More Hero of the Week – Natalie Profant KomuroBy an Eleven year old who is hacking my home page. Cool!
Read More My desk was taken overScreen Capture of Google’s collected stories of Homeless News stories
Read More Homeless in the News June 16, 2010See… sometimes I am not ashamed to be a Republican. Thanks Tony for your article in the Ventura County Star. ” The majority in Sacramento need to stop treating hard-working California families like an ATM machine by reaching into their pockets every time they run out of money.” “If we want to get out of this […]
Read More State Sen. Tony Strickland, R-MoorparkCalWORKS is growing fast and contributing to the Budget Deficit in California Since it began, CalWORKS has added $12 Billion to the state General Fund. This is because the funds have been shifted from TANF and Maintenance Effort accounts into the General Funds. (Basically, CalWORKS funds are not all needed by CalWORKS so they are diverted […]
Read More Politics and Welfare -Mythsfor low-income parents who will have child care and transportation already taken care of for them. I have a population of adults with education varying from GED’s in progress to Bachelor degrees. Many of them have Vocational Training in Medical Assisting and General Office. The point of Community Service is to help my clients engage […]
Read More I NEED Community Service ideasSo stop tossing it around like the program is a pastime or a toy. Seriously! I get that picking on the poor (who are the least likely to vote) is super easy. No one wants to be them and it scares us so we despise them. Sometimes we feel that we are successful only because we […]
Read More CALWORKS is not a political football
