Families with children make up a large part of the homeless population. I can promise this is all I see 40 hours a week. Yes, Couch Surfing is homelessness. Hotel hoping and the 28 day Shuffle is homeless. It is temporary and there is no guarantee people can be stable and stay there long term. […]
Read More Homeless Advocates Divided Over Bill Aimed At Helping Kids@USC Bike Give Away Click the link at the end of the article for the paper applicatopm/ The University of Southern California Public Safety and the South Los Angeles Homeless TAY & Foster Care Collaborative have partnered to give back to their surrounding community in the South Los Angeles region. Highly renowned academic and public […]
Read More USC Bike Application CriteriaToday sucked. It is 12:26am and I am writing this on my Verizon Samsung phone. I did middle of the night grocery shopping, cleaned my kitchen and still have the events from work poking me in the eye. All else has failed, so I will write. It turns out that writing is pretty therapeutic (something […]
Read More I Blog to Cope in Social WorkHomeless Veteran in need of help? Call 1-877-4AID VET (1-877-424-3838) The Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) has founded a National Call Center for Homeless Veterans hotline to ensure that homeless Veterans or Veterans at-risk for homelessness have free, 24/7 access to trained counselors. The hotline is intended to assist homeless Veterans and their families, VA Medical Centers, federal, state […]
Read More Homeless Veteran ServicesIt makes me nervous to see folks standing on the side of the rode, the off-ramp, or intersection asking for money. I am afraid FOR them, not of them. Hospitalizations are a common occurrence for someone who falls into traffic or doesn’t vacate the roadway fast enough or just wants to be hit by a […]
Read More The People on the OfframpGood girl does Great with a sock drive for the homeless. Socks are important, right @hanes &@hardlynormal @jobsdaughters?
Read More Socking it to the New YearI wrote to Jack Seiler and this is the letter he sent back . . . In case you have forgotten, he is from FLorida where a 90 year old man is arrested for feeding the homeless. Sonya, I appreciate the opportunity to clarify much of the misinformation that has been prevalent in the media […]
Read More Serving the peopleI can tell that homelessness in children has increased dramatically. I know this because I work with homeless parents and my case load has grown and grown like a weed. No. There are not enough shelters for families. Yes, children are sleeping in boxes, on sidewalks, in parking lots, in parks, on kitchen floors, on […]
Read More Yes. There are many homeless children in Los Angeles.I think the United States operates on the Brown Bag beauty test – and if you are darker than the bag you will get short changed.
Read More You will never understand what it’s like to be Black in a White World@dietcoke @marsglobal got me half way through the day until I gave them away.
Read More I hate Fridays.
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