Tag: domestic violence

Oh wow, my phone call

Barry called me to ask that I close his Public Assistance case. He can’t seem to shake his cycle of homelessness and sent his teenager back to live with the mother. The mother is also homeless but has stable housing at her parent’s home. Barry and his wife split up in October and he moved […]

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Homeless from Domestic Violence in the West Side?

OPCC.NET – Ocean Park Community Center has the services you can use! Sojourn 24-Hour Hotline (310) 264-6644 MISSION STATEMENT: SOJOURN provides battered women and their children a safe space to regroup, rebuild, and reestablish their self-esteem and lives. SOJOURN honors diversity, serving without discrimination clients of any class, culture, race, ethnicity, age, faith, sexual orientation, […]

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Domestic Violence and the Zero

Women with household incomes less than $7,500 are 7 times as likely as women with household incomes over $75,000 to experience domestic violence. That’s one powerful zero. In my experience, homeless women are far more likely to have $7,500 or less than they are to having even $17,000. They can’t afford housing anywhere other than […]

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