is also informative. Maintain health club membersips for personal hygene – $40 bucks a month at 24 Hour Fittness or Bally’s will get you regular showers and is much cheaper than $800 in rent. Also, they have bathrooms. Speaking of bathrooms, in an emergency: wrap it in tin foil and not a plastic bag because […]
Read More The most entertaining homeless blogIt 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 SpaceFive simple tips to leaving a message to your worker.
Read More Tips on Leaving Voicemail for a “worker”Upcoming 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 openingInteresting article in TIME which makes the point that without a stable place to stay, how can anything become stable in your life? Feds’ Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program – TIME If you are homeless in LA: This is the address to the FAQ http://www.hudhre.info/index.cfm?do=viewFaqs Points of Contact for Homeless Persons: Los Angeles Jeanette Rowe […]
Read More Feds’ Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program – TIMEYou know you’re poor when bottled water in the suburbs means refilling plastic jugs from the hose spigot by the broken pay phone outside of 7-11. It had never occurred to me until I just saw it.
Read More Bottled waterWell, this is a painfully ugly picture of me, but look at the lady next to me. When I met her, she was 9 months pregnant and freshly homeless. Today she has completed a CNA course and is looking for a job and successfully single parenting. I’m soo proud!
Read More Cynthia“in jail, B.W. will have access to all sorts of educational, rehabilitative, and other services, whereas if she were free, she’d just go back into foster care, run away, and be back on the street.”
Read More Texas says Jails are better than Foster Care?Why do I work in the Homeless arena? I do it because the paralyzing fear, and absolute hopelessness is unacceptable. If you can stand listening to my voice – watch the video and I will tell you more.
Read More the unimagined face of homeless – mineWant to make a meaningful donation? Donate diapers! Help a Mother Out will help you do it! Why? Keep reading. Where do homeless families store diapers? How can they afford diapers? Diapers are expensive, I remember digging through my couch for change and trying out the cheapest diapers ever. And, I remember being super grateful […]
Read More HAMO- Homeless babies poop too!
