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• Homeless-camping ban signed by Denver mayor

  HOMELESS - Yahoo! News Search Results

  17 May 2012 | 2:25 pm

  Denver Mayor Michael Hancock today signed the controversial ordinance that makes it illegal to camp on city streets.

• 4 arrested at encampment for homeless

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  17 May 2012 | 11:00 am

  ST. LOUIS, May 17 (UPI) -- An evangelist whose organization operates homeless shelters was among four people arrested after they refused to leave a St. Louis, Mo., homeless encampment.

• Good News from Capitol Hill for Federal Homelessness Programs

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  23 Apr 2012 | 9:00 pm

  Those of us working to prevent and end homelessness were heartened by last week’s announcement that the U.S. Senate is proposing the largest one-year increase to the Department of Housing & Urban Development’s (HUD) McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants in nearly 20 years.

• May 7-12 at the Homeless Organizing Academy!!

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  3 May 2012 | 1:47 pm

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• Bobbie Ibarra: The Many Faces of Homelessness

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  Bobbie Ibarra

  16 May 2012 | 3:29 pm

  Families are a newer face to homelessness that run the gamut, due to situations regarding financial instabilities, not having access to health care, unemployment, lack of affordable housing and the recent trend of foreclosures. Read more: Homeless Youth, Americorps, Homelessness, Homeless Families, Homeless Children, Impact News

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• Mohammad

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  5 May 2012 | 9:39 am

  A few times in my travels I have run into the same homeless friend. It’s kind of a mixed feeling. I’m happy to see someone I know, yet saddened that in a years time we [...]

• Derrick

  invisiblepeople

  29 Apr 2012 | 8:57 pm

  “One day I woke up and I was homeless”, Derrick says to me while panhandling on a busy San Francisco street. I often found my own homelessness to feel like that. For me, it took [...]

• Cameron

  invisiblepeople

  20 Apr 2012 | 12:23 pm

  Cameron grew up in foster care and detention centers. He says growing up in group homes didn’t show him what the world is really like. I met Cameron in Winnipeg, Canada at a youth drop-in [...]

• Destiny

  invisiblepeople

  14 Apr 2012 | 2:19 pm

  I met Destiny the day before she was entering a Salvation Army rehab in Winnipeg, Canada. She was out in the rain so we stepped into a metro stop to stay dry. Destiny grew up [...]

• Laverne

  invisiblepeople

  1 Apr 2012 | 5:32 pm

  I met Laverne near a river bank in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania while working with outreach Dr Jim Withers. Laverne shares a very emotional and very real story about police harassment. Although I have worked with some [...]

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• Robert LoCascio: Great People No. 3: Helping Others Through Affordable Housing With Ed Norton and Abby Sigal

  Robert LoCascio

  17 May 2012 | 6:36 am

  I caught up with Ed and one of his best college friends, Abby Sigal, over coffee to discuss something near and dear to both of their hearts and minds: affordable housing. Read more: Abby Sigal, Ed Norton, Giving, Affordable Housing, James Rouse, Enterprise, Ed Norton Affordable Housing, Homelessness, Ed Norton Enterprise, Housing Crisis, Good News News

• Homeless Numbers Drop In Michigan

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  17 May 2012 | 4:38 am

  Homelessness is decreasing in Michigan, according to a new report released by a public-private coalition dedicated to helping homeless people find hou... Read more: Michigan Poverty, Poverty, Homeless Management Information System, Detroit Impact, Detroit News, Detroit Homelessness, Eric Hufnagel, Michigan Homelessness, Hmis, Video, Detroit Homeless, Michigan's Campaign to End Homelessness, Homelessness, Homeless, Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness, Fewer Detroit Homelessness, Fewer Detroit Homeless, Michigan Homelessness Decreases, Detroit News

• WATCH: What's Homeless 'Man With The Golden Voice' Up To Now?

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  17 May 2012 | 1:39 am

  Ted Williams, “The Golden Voice” success story who went from homeless to famous overnight, has made another big stride. Williams released a boo... Read more: Homeless, God, Ted Williams, Rags to Riches, Golden Voice, Impact News

• Bobbie Ibarra: The Many Faces of Homelessness

  Bobbie Ibarra

  16 May 2012 | 3:29 pm

  Families are a newer face to homelessness that run the gamut, due to situations regarding financial instabilities, not having access to health care, unemployment, lack of affordable housing and the recent trend of foreclosures. Read more: Homeless Youth, Americorps, Homelessness, Homeless Families, Homeless Children, Impact News

• Who Would Pay $67,100 For Kobe Bryant's Sweaty Mask?

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  16 May 2012 | 8:51 am

  When it was revealed that a charitable bidder paid $67,100 for Kobe Bryant’s sweaty face mask, even the most diehard of fans had to wonder, who wou... Read more: Hasmit Popat, Video, Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant, Homelessness, Kobe Bryant Mask, Youth Homelessness, Kobe Bryant Charity, Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Family Foundation, Slideexpand, Impact News

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• Comment on Homeless advocates, Denver businesses seek solutions amid camping ban

  17 May 2012 | 6:49 pm

  City council should have ensured this was worked out, before passing what amounts in some ways to an "unfunded mandate". But at least some of the parties most involved, are trying to work something out. It will be interesting to see if anything more than a temporary sweep of Civic Center and the 16th Street Mall actually results from this.

• Philadelphia conducts new homeless census

  17 May 2012 | 5:24 pm

  In an attempt to get a more complete picture of homelessness in Philadelphia, more than 50 volunteers fanned out to all corners of the city Wednesday night and counted 583 people living on the streets. Usually, the city only includes Center City, Philadelphia International Airport, and a few select neighborhoods in its quarterly count of unsheltered homeless people. But this time, more people ...

• Homeless-camping ban signed by Denver mayor

  17 May 2012 | 2:25 pm

  Denver Mayor Michael Hancock today signed the controversial ordinance that makes it illegal to camp on city streets.

• Govt ropes in experts to help city's homeless

  17 May 2012 | 11:30 am

  New Delhi, May 18 -- To ensure city's homeless are given best possible facilities at its shelters and their concerns and demands are looked into with sensitivity, Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) has decided to set up a body of intermediaries.With experts from institutes like Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), IGNOU, Delhi School of Social Work (DSSW) and Jamia Millia Islamia ...

• 4 arrested at encampment for homeless

  17 May 2012 | 11:00 am

  ST. LOUIS, May 17 (UPI) -- An evangelist whose organization operates homeless shelters was among four people arrested after they refused to leave a St. Louis, Mo., homeless encampment.

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  National Alliance to End Homelessness

• Housing Barriers Assessment Module

  National Alliance to End Homelessness

  16 May 2012 | 6:00 am

  This is the first of five 10-15 minute modules the Center for Capacity Building has developed on rapid re-housing. It discusses how to define rapid re-housing and how to develop a permanent housing barriers assessment process.

• Alliance Online News: New HHS Grant Applications Available

  National Alliance to End Homelessness

  15 May 2012 | 11:15 am

  SAMHSA Calls for SOAR Applications

• State Captains’ Toolkit: Organizing Your State’s Capitol Hill Day Advocacy Activities

  National Alliance to End Homelessness

  11 May 2012 | 5:30 am

  Capitol Hill Day is always held on the last afternoon of the Alliance's annual <i>National Conference on Ending Homelessness</i> in July in Washington, DC. This toolkit provides step-by-step information to help you maximize your effectiveness in organizing Capitol Hill Day.

• IAEH Quarterly Newsletter: Spring 2012

  National Alliance to End Homelessness

  10 May 2012 | 1:15 pm

  IAEH Quarterly Newsletter - Spring 2012

• Advocacy Update: May Congressional Briefings

  National Alliance to End Homelessness

  9 May 2012 | 8:15 am

  May Congressional Briefings on Homelessness

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  Poverty Insights

• Charity Impossible: Do America’s Charities Need Rescuing?

  Joel John Roberts

  16 May 2012 | 12:17 pm

  Robert Irvine charges in like a bull in a fine dining establishment, except the restaurant in need of rescuing is not fine. In fact, typically it’s failing. His television show on Food Network, Restaurant: Impossible, showcases Irvine’s talent for reviving dying eateries with a change of interior, menu, branding and, of course, food. At the end of each episode, the nearly-shuttered restaurant becomes a successful, vibrant community eating space. Does the charity world need a similar hero? A recent UCLA study revealed the urgent need for some sort of rescue effort for charities in…

• House Ways and Means Shifts Costs, Wipes Out Services Grants

  Kathryn Baer

  10 May 2012 | 2:00 am

  I wouldn’t want to leave the impression that the House Agriculture Committee’s attack on the food stamp program was the only threat to low-income people spawned by the Republican majority’s effort to protect defense spending. The Ways and Means Committee also had to find more savings — $53 billion over the next 10 years. And it too met its target by shifting costs to low-income people. But they’re not the only ones who’ll be harmed by what it’s come up with — far from it. Here’s what the committee passed — and what the full Republican majority in the House almost surely…

• Dispersing the Homeless through Sonic Blasts is Just Plain Wrong

  Joel John Roberts

  7 May 2012 | 2:00 am

  I’m not surprised anymore when people complain to their council members about homeless people sleeping in the alleys behind their houses, or when homeowners call the police insisting that these people are breaking the law and need to be arrested. What about angry neighbors who create blogs that post contact information of homeless advocates? Not surprised. But I am astonished by what is going on in downtown San Francisco. Even this sometimes jaded charity executive cannot believe the actions of the managers of the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, located in the city’s Tenderloin district…

• DC Mayor’s Budget Would Punish TANF Families for Program’s Failures

  Kathryn Baer

  2 May 2012 | 2:00 am

  How would you like to try living on $275 a month — and in the District of Columbia no less? Inconceivable for a single person. What then for a single mother with two kids? Under Mayor Gray’s proposed budget, more than 6,100 families in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program will lose a fifth of their meager cash benefits come October — this on top of the same sized-cut imposed last April. The figure I led off with is what a family of three would be left with. Additional benefits cuts would follow until the family got nothing at all. More than 11,000 children under thirteen…

• Does Ending Homelessness Need a KONY-style Campaign?

  Joel John Roberts

  30 Apr 2012 | 2:00 am

  Can a push of a virtual button, or a click of a plastic computer mouse, really change the world? The generation before me consisted of traditional activists who rebelled against an American society that they thought had wrongfully sent young men to kill Southeast Asians without much clear rationale, other than to fight some political theory that supposedly threatened democracy. Back in the 1960s, the young adults who differed with our country’s political leaders fought hard to change the direction of the country and world. Back then, there were no iPads, Internet, or smartphones. They…

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• Tuesdays @ Two: Rethinking Shelter

  North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness

  2 May 2012 | 10:00 am

  On May 1, 2012, NCCEH held a Tuesdays @ Two conference call entitled "Rethinking Shelter".  Carson Dean, Executive Director of the Men's Shelter of Charlotte (MSC), spoke about the ways in which the shelter has integrated rapid re-housing, shelter diversion, and housing first approaches into its work.   Please click the links below to view the materials from the call.   MSC Mission & Vision MSC Streets to Housing Model MSC Programming Model MSC Outcomes Report   Archived Recording: Current NCCEH members may access a recording of the conference call and…

• NAEH Toolkit: Prevention and Shelter Diversion

  North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness

  24 Apr 2012 | 11:00 am

  The National Alliance to End Homelessness has released a Prevention and Shelter Diversion Toolkit, the companion to the Coordinated Assessment Toolkit. This new toolkit provides more specific guidance on best practices when it comes to shelter diversion and prevention and includes materials on assessment for prevention/diversion eligibility and targeting strategies, as well as specific community examples of implementation. Communities should use this information to help them continue to develop and refine their coordinated assessment processes. Communities without coordinated assessment in…

• NAEH Coordinated Assessment Toolkit

  North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness

  2 Apr 2012 | 10:00 am

  The National Alliance to End Homelessness's Center for Capacity Building has released a new toolkit on coordinated assessment (also known as coordinated intake or coordinated entry). The toolkit includes a wealth of papers, planning templates, informational materials, sample assessment tools, and evaluation tools from the Alliance and a range of communities across the country. The toolkit is designed to help communities advance their coordinated access efforts, no matter where they are in the process of developing a coordinated access system.  The toolkit will be updated over time with…

• USICH Toolkit: HUD-VASH

  North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness

  2 Apr 2012 | 10:00 am

  The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness has released a HUD-VASH toolkit with guidance and actionable advice for service providers.   HUD-VASH is a critical element in our efforts to end homelessness among Veterans by 2015. In order to accelerate progress toward the goal of housing Veterans with the greatest need as quickly as possible, USICH has released a toolkit targeted to providers, local Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs), and others directly involved with placing Veterans in housing.   Please visit the USICH website to download the toolkit. 2-Apr-12 1:00 PM

• Out of Reach 2012

  North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness

  21 Mar 2012 | 10:00 am

  Out of Reach is an annual report prepared by the National Low Income Housing Coalition.  It is a side-by-side comparison of wages and rents in every county, Metropolitan Area (MSAs/HMFAs), combined nonmetropolitan area and state in the United States. For each jurisdiction, the report calculates the amount of money a household must earn in order to afford a rental unit in a range of sizes (0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 bedrooms) at the area’s Fair Market Rent (FMR), based on the generally accepted affordability standard of paying no more than 30% of income for housing costs. From these…

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  Cleveland Homeless

• My Thoughts on Jim Schlecht

  15 May 2012 | 6:27 am

  I had the privilege of planning and speaking at the Jim Schlecht celebration.  No he is not retiring or dying.  Randy Cunningham of CTO decided that it was time to celebrate Jim's amazing body of work on behalf of the hungry and homeless.  Here is what I tried to say if I was a better speaker.  If you want to see pictures from the event go here.For more information go here....Posts reflect the opinion of those who sign the entry.

• Government vs. Homeless People

  15 May 2012 | 6:25 am

  For the first time in Cleveland, the State of Ohio turned down tax credits to move a Permanent Supportive Housing Project forward.  There was some controversy with regard to this project, and the Plain Dealer gave coverage to the groups opposed to this property.  In an amazing stance, the liberal Green Party candidate for Cuyahoga County Executive came out against housing homeless people in his neighborhood. We also have information about Philadelphia regulating food.We also have information about government inaction in San Francisco over torture methods to disperse homeless…

• Testimony on Voter Suppression Activities

  8 May 2012 | 11:42 am

  Federal Congressional Hearing on Voting in ClevelandThe Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless attended and submitted testimony to Senator Durbin as part of the US Congressional Hearing on voting that took place on Monday May 7, 2012 at the Stokes Court Room in Cleveland.  We have posted the testimony we submitted on our website here.  Posts reflect the opinion of those who sign the entry.

• Updates from Around Ohio

  5 May 2012 | 2:04 pm

  The Ohio Coalition for Homeless Advocates met the week of May 1 and we have given a few updates from around the state. Cincinnati: The Anna Louise Inn Shelter has been fighting to expand and was delivered a set back on Friday in their dispute with Western and Southern Financial Services. Anna Louise Inn is a battered women's shelter and home for recovering prostitutes, and has a desperate need to expand after a century of service.  After being in the same location for over 100 years, the place needs renovation and expansion.  The Union Bethel parent non-profit had raised the…

• Food Insecurity Stats Added

  1 May 2012 | 8:54 am

  The  NEOCH website added statistics and graphs on the food insecurity in Ohio.  You can go to the Information blog to check them out.  We have information about food stamp usage in Ohio and the increase in usage since the recession started in Ohio. Posts reflect the opinion of those who sign the entry.

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• Dept. of Financial Services Enforces Timothy’s Law

  8 May 2012 | 4:38 pm

  New York's Department of Financial Services fined 15 health plans a total of $2.7 million for violating a provision of Timothy's Law.

• Proposed Legislation Will Remedy Flawed Social Worker Waiver System

  1 May 2012 | 11:22 am

  Lawmakers, Children’s Camps, Human Service Providers Urge Legislature to Correct Professional Employment Snaf}

• “Take Out the Trash Day”:  The City Hides Estimate of Worsening Street Homelessnee}

  1 May 2012 | 9:47 am

  The results of the City’s controversial street homelessness survey are in: A 23 percent increase over last year. If you didn’t hear the news, it’s because the Bloomberg administration dumped the results in a 4:00 pm press release last Friday, a cynical maneuver to hide the bad nede}

• An Inspiring Women Mean Business Luncheon

  18 Apr 2012 | 10:52 am

  Thanks to everyone who joined us at Tuesday’s Women Mean Business Luncheon to benefit the Coalition’s First Step Job Training Program. Watch Speaker Christine Quinn's inspiring keynote}

• NY City Council Promotes Effective Housing Assistance for Homeless New Yorkers in Budget Response

  18 Apr 2012 | 9:00 am

  Echoing the recommendations of Coalition for the Homeless and policy experts, the City Council called for resuming use of Federal housing programs to help homeless children and adults move from costly shelters to permanent housing.

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• Five Fast & Easy Ways to Fight to Fix the NYPD this Mother's Day!

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  12 May 2012 | 8:20 am

  1. Honor mothers organizing for justice after losing their children to police violence: http://bit.ly/J2RKpw  2. "Like" the new "Communities United for Police Reform" Facebook page read more

• THE NEW BANNER!

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  7 May 2012 | 1:37 pm

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• May 7-12 at the Homeless Organizing Academy!!

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  3 May 2012 | 1:47 pm

  This Week At The Homeless Organizing Academy! read more

• This Week, at the Homeless Organizing Academy!

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  25 Apr 2012 | 3:22 pm

  April 23rd to 27th: This Week At The Homeless Organizing Academy!   read more

• The Postal Service is Under Attack: Homeless People Join Up, Fight Back!

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  25 Apr 2012 | 10:10 am

  By Kendall Jackman, Housing Campaign Leader at Picture the Homeless read more

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• Helping the homeless, one ninja at a time!

  Michele (CM)

  16 May 2012 | 9:08 pm

  I got the most amazing message through our StreetWatch Facebook page: “I am the mother of a seven year old boy in Greensboro who has a new mission: to help the homeless in his community. Today was the grand opening of his Etsy Shop, Elliot’s Ninjas: Helping the Homeless one Ninja at a time. He is saving half of all sales to benefit StreetWatch and the Pathways Shelter. Today he has already had his first two sales and is inspired to keep painting ninjas for his mission. I just thought you would like to follow along with his progress. Each week I plan to take him shopping for those…

• Look good/feel good! Interactive Resource Center car wash this Saturday, May 19, 9:00am to 3:00pm!

  Michele (CM)

  16 May 2012 | 3:38 pm

  From the IRC: This Saturday, May 19 our guests and staff will once again be at the Interactive Resource Center from 9:00 to 3:00 washing and detailing cars to raise money for our Guest Assistance Fund–the fund we draw on to help individuals with everything from a pair of work boots to a security deposit to a bus ticket back home. The car wash is donation-only ($10 suggested minimum). In April our car wash raised over $1,000! Every dollar went into our Guest Assistance Fund to help a homeless or near-homeless person get on with his or her life. Many many thanks to the great volunteers…

• Homerun for Homelessness, Sunday May 20th

  Michele (CM)

  16 May 2012 | 3:18 pm

  Homerun for Homelessness When: Sunday, May 20, 2012; Gates open at 3pm; Opening pitch at 4pm Who: Greensboro Grasshoppers vs. Lakewood BlueClaws Where: NewBridge Bank Park, Greensboro Join Partners Ending Homelessness for a great day at the ballpark and learn more about PEH partners. Visit exhibit tables highlighting the Servant Center of Greensboro, Room at the Inn’s Nurturing Center, Greensboro Urban Ministry, and StreetWatch. Learn more about the services they provide and how you can get involved. PEH partners Keith Barsuhn, President of United Way of Greater Greensboro and Bobby…

• Step it up

  Michele (CM)

  16 May 2012 | 9:02 am

  Steps 1 to 3: Give it up. Steps 4 to 7: Clean it up. Steps 8 to 9: Make it up. Steps 10 to 12: Keep it up. * borrowed from my friend JB >> Read 12 Steps with Bible verses Find a program: Alcoholics Anonymous: “Alcoholics Anonymous® is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.” Al-Anon: “Strength and hope for friends and families of problem drinkers.” Narcotics…

• A new home for now

  Michele (CM)

  15 May 2012 | 11:17 pm

  04/28/2012: Today, Melissa and I took a new tent to a homeless couple who desperately needed one. New Home For NowBy StreetWatch  |  View on Facebook We stayed to help them get set up. I’ve learned a lot from my homeless friends about how to set up a tent to live in it. Pallets go down first, so the water runs under the tent and not in it. If there are slats missing, find scrap wood and fix it, so that the bottom is even. Then, heavy layers of padding go on. Old quilts and comforters work well. Carpet remnants are good, too. Next, the tent goes up, and then you start working…

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  The Homeless Guy

• When Homeless People Die

  11 May 2012 | 3:00 am

  In the homelessness industry it is pretty well known that homeless people do not live as long as non-homeless people, and studies have confirmed as much.   And, occasionally in my writing, and in talks I've given on homelessness, I have echoed that fact   One day, though, someone challenged me this.  It was a simple yet compelling argument, but I let it go without further investigation.   I mean, why should I investigate facts?  I am the leading authority on all things homeless, right? Anyway, I've been reading some articles on the subject, and I'm beginning to change…

• Where Did He Go

  7 May 2012 | 1:29 am

  Sometimes people will ask me about a particular homeless person they had gotten to know.  They will say they hadn't seen so-n-so in a while and wondered what happened to him/sher. Here's the deal.  When homeless people decide to leave a place, they just go.   Most of the time anyway.   Some will make the rounds and say good bye to those they've known, but not usually.  It's funny too, that people will just show up, seemingly out of no where, they will be a part of the homeless landscape for a while, and then they're gone without a trace. The homeless population ebbs…

• Fund Raising Time

  1 May 2012 | 1:26 pm

• Compassion

  4 Apr 2012 | 2:07 pm

  Compassion seems to be the key to ending homelessness.  It's the tipping point, as Malcolm Gladwell would say.   Get the general public compassionate about the homeless and good things will happen.   This works on the individual homeless person's level, and it works on the shelter and homeless service provider level. But here is the rub - Telling people the truth about homelessness doesn't elicit much response in the way of compassion.   It's only when stories are told that glamorize and romanticize and exaggerate homelessness, that the general public responds…

• Run For The Homeless Nashville 5K

  2 Apr 2012 | 9:47 pm

  http://www.thekeyalliance.org/5k The Key Alliance in partnership with the Metropolitan Homelessness Commission will hold the second annual Run for the Homeless on Saturday, May 12, 2012 at the Hall of Fame Park, 121 Fourth Avenue South (across from the Country Music Hall of Fame). The Run for the Homeless is a 5K run/walk through Downtown Nashville. We encourage runners and walkers, individuals, families, and teams to participate. Event Schedule: Registration/Check In: 6:30 a.m. Race Start: 8 a.m. Entertainment and Awards following the Race Team Prize for Largest Team At the award ceremony…

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• Homelessness will outlast the internet

  11 May 2012 | 9:06 am

  Moments ago I picked up on Dred Scott, a street artist who a year ago was covered by Cult of Mac for his music marketed on iTunes.com.  The post is a good example of the armchair quarterback punditing most stories provide: the trolls always come out bashing the homeless behind cute screen names.Unfortunately UMPG publishing, in typical Youtube.com rhetoric, is claimed to have blocked the video featured from being seen in ‘my’ country based on copyright grounds.Translation: neither Dred Scott or UMPG publishing can take advantage of free marketing which would affect their bottom line…

• Homeless Youth under the Crown

  4 May 2012 | 7:59 am

  In the past I've had discussions online with people involved with homelessness in Australia. Last year I spent eight weeks getting direct contact with numerous American military dependent teens couch surfing. This Youtube video provides insight into what just one young person in the United Kingdom went through. While tons of people backpat themselves as being 'American', I'm sorry to say but I've seen directly first hand...we provide our citizens less than most European countries. 

• Consideration in charitable giving

  3 May 2012 | 5:13 pm

  During our two years within the sheltered system we came across diversity, not just in people and their behaviors but their hopes and past times. With the age range and the times of technology, some children held fast to electronic games while others tools of their future interests such as instruments or equipment.Having items to keep together was difficult for many, losing a Monster-Cable from a set could mean a child; or adult for that matter; would have to make choices of using one piece of equipment over another. Usually having invested enough time or money to have such, they were…

• Searching homeless families on Scholar.google.com

  30 Apr 2012 | 1:08 pm

  I wasn’t aware of the ‘scholar’ search you can do on Google via scholar.google.com.  Interestingly the top three selections found for ‘homeless families’ came up with an interesting common denominator:  all three referred to ‘homeless mothers’.For the most part of my experience I found this true.  Other than myself I’d only come across a handful of two parent homeless families, and only three single parent families headed by a father.  But regarding the statistics it’s only fair to separate some of the fiction from facts.Depending on the agency and it’s…

• With this…

  30 Apr 2012 | 11:24 am

  No Home For Hank posted a poem last year, one of only two posts done since November.  One thing that I was discussing with a colleague recently were the different reasons why bloggers one day are posting regularly and the next seem to disappear…their blogs seeming unattended. Different people start blogging for different reasons.  I’m trying not to draw comparisons to people experiencing homelessness, but in the end I can’t. Ultimately ‘things’ happen.  It’s the steps sometimes unseen that can be the more important to one rather than the majority.

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  Adventures of a Once Homeless Girl

• The First Week I Was Homeless

  homelessgirl

  15 May 2012 | 12:50 am

  I had noticed I have not been talking about my personal journey and since I have gotten some new readers who may not know, I wanted to share. It is difficult for me to reflect on this part of my life because a lot of shame, regret and guilt comes with it. I feel stupid and I am quick to blame my self so others don’t get a chance to do so and make me feel bad. I find I tend to do that a lot. This is my experience of the first few days and weeks of being homeless. I was homeless from May 2007 to March 2010. May 18th 2007, I woke up at 7 am because I had barely a few hours of sleep, I had…

• Homeless Man Beaten to Death

  homelessgirl

  9 May 2012 | 3:35 pm

  I was hearing about this story recently but hadn’t really paid much attention to it, something I would look up later I thought. I just finished watching the brutal assault video of Kelly Thomas. A man who is only remembered because he was homeless and treated like an animal. A man with a family, a story and hopes and dreams. I watched the video and I shivered every time I heard him scream. A man lying on the floor begging for his life, being tortured by men who were meant to protect and serve him. This story and the video is important and it’s so much more than the problem of…

• Frustration Changes The World

  homelessgirl

  8 May 2012 | 3:00 am

  There isn’t a day that doesn’t go by where I do not complain about something in the world. I complain about homophobia, about racism , about homelessness, women’s rights I have imaginary arguments in my head about what I would say in a given situation. My boyfriend gets annoyed with me when we are watching the news and I point out the prejudice nobody notices. This got me thinking, the people who change the world are those who are unsatisfied with it. People who are frustrated about the way things are and why nothing eve gets done are those who are willing to make a…

• It Is Not Okay to be Poor

  homelessgirl

  1 May 2012 | 2:00 am

  When I was 15 years old I was at a parent teacher evening at my school, I was talking to some other adults and parents and asking them if they could support my friends and I with donations for the campaign Make Poverty History (which like Kony2012  is in the graveyard of short lived social campaigns) That was the first time I ever got involved with helping others, I had been going through serious emotional and financial problems at the time and I wanted to distract myself from that, helping those who were worse off than me. At the coffee and biscuits table I began my pitch to a middle aged…

• “Homeless” Is Not An Identity

  homelessgirl

  24 Apr 2012 | 3:00 am

    When discussions are had about people who experience homelessness we tend to lump together everyone as one homogeneous group: homeless. The stereotype and the pictures we have in our mind of anyone homeless is of a vagrant, pushing a shopping cart, yelling in the streets or begging for money. What we forget, (and I am guilty of this too) is that they are not “homeless” but have or are experiencing homelessness. By Yuliya Bahr It is a state. Not an identity When you live in a house, you do not become defined by the fact you own a house. The label of home owner or tenant is…

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  Union Rescue Mission

• Why I’ll Be Weary of the Next Homeless Count

  Rev. Andy

  25 Apr 2012 | 4:11 pm

  There have been some interesting statements put out by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the Los Angeles Services Authority, and others, that homelessness throughout the nation is down—- by 1%.  Please do not believe everything you read or hear concerning this.  At our ground level on the streets of Skid Row, and in talking to people on the ground around the country, this is not the case.  Even as these reports have come out, 55 new tent cities have sprung up around our country.  In Camden, New Jersey alone, a challenging place to live even if you are housed, four brand new…

• Family/Adult Case Manager

  chantal

  24 Apr 2012 | 2:31 pm

  There are two positions and they are at our Hope Gardens location in Sylmar. Under the supervision of the Program Director, the Family Case Manager (FCM) develops and facilitates the essential case plan components for mothers and/or seniors residing at Hope Gardens. A Family Case Manager is assigned cases, families or seniors, by the Program Director. In cases where children are involved, an FCM will work in conjunction with Youth Case Managers and retains overall oversight of the family case plan.  The position functions as part of the Family/Adult Case Management team For more information…

• Youth Case Manager

  chantal

  24 Apr 2012 | 2:29 pm

  This position is located at our Hope Gardens location in Sylmar. Under the supervision of the Youth/Child Case Management Supervisor, the Youth Case Manager (YCM) develops and facilitates the essential case plan components for children residing with their mothers at Hope Gardens. A Youth Case Manager is assigned to one of three age related areas; infants through pre-school age (0 – 4 years,) elementary school age (5 – 11 years), and middle school through high school (12 – 17 years). The position functions as part of the Youth/Child Case Management team. Fore more information or to apply…

• HR Representative

  chantal

  23 Apr 2012 | 2:34 pm

  Under the general supervision of the Vice President of Human Resources, the Human Resources Representative provides full-service Human Resources support to his/her assigned client groups both downtown and at Hope Gardens in Sylmar. The areas of concentration for this position are: recruitment & staffing, new hire orientation, benefits administration, workers’ compensation, terminations, safety and administration.  For more information or to apply Click Here!! 

• Volunteer Coordinator

  chantal

  23 Apr 2012 | 2:30 pm

  Under the general supervision of the Volunteer Supervisor and Manager, this position will be responsible for the day to day activities of the volunteer department. This position will interact directly with groups and people interested in volunteering at URM. The person in this position presents information about URM and volunteering, answers any questions and relays our Christian foundation and goals to both believers and non-believers in an inviting way. For more information or to apply Click Here!

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  Portland Rescue Mission - Blog

• She’s Someone’s Daughter

  PDXMission

  16 May 2012 | 9:00 pm

  Every Tuesday night, homeless women receive tender care — foot massages, snacks and conversation — from a team of loving staff and volunteers at our Burnside Shelter. Jan, a member of our staff, shares about this week’s outreach: Homeless women receive foot massages from loving volunteers each week at our Burnside Shelter. As we drove to outreach last night, we all felt tired. This is not unusual. It’s the end of the day and we’ve all left work trying to switch gears in our minds, bodies and hearts. So, as we stood in the circle of prayer minutes before our…

• New Gardens Help Feed Women And Children

  PDXMission

  16 May 2012 | 10:50 am

  New gardens at Shepherd’s Door, our women and children’s recovery center, have been constructed just in time for spring planting. The 12 new beds will be used to teach gardening skills and provide fresh produce for the women and children in the New Life Recovery ministry who are healing from the effects of homelessness, addiction and abuse. The project, spearheaded by the vision and passion of volunteer Ron Glanville, was no small undertaking. A wide variety of volunteers helped clear trees, level the ground, lay gravel, install water lines, and build the garden boxes. The…

• Socks for the Homeless

  PDXMission

  9 May 2012 | 4:32 pm

  Help Famous Footwear and Portland Rescue Mission care for men, women and children in need. Donate socks at any participating Famous Footwear location listed below. Help us spread the word by sharing this on Facebook and Twitter.  Or donate now to Portland Rescue Mission to help us feed and care for hurting people.     Participating Famous Footwear Locations   View Socks for the Homeless – Famous Footwear in a larger map   Cascade Station Cedar Hills Clackamas Gresham Hazel Dell Hillsboro Mall 205 Troutdale Tualatin Vancouver Mall

• POLL: How many homeless are employed?

  PDXMission

  7 May 2012 | 1:39 pm

  Test your knowledge about homelessness. What percent of Portland’s homeless are employed? Answer in the embedded poll below, or at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2VKZ7GZ. Did the answer surprise you? Talk about it in the comments of this blog post.

• “Underheard” Homeless Given Twitter Voice

  PDXMission

  6 May 2012 | 9:00 pm

  An unusual project in New York has given four homeless men an international voice. Many homeless men and women feel ignored, invisible and unheard as people walk by them each day. Underheard in New York set out to help homeless residents in New York City speak for themselves. They provided Danny, Derrick, Albert and Carlos each with their own mobile phone, a month of unlimited text messaging and a Twitter account. These men found their voices by texting their thoughts, feelings and actions to Twitter. See how the project impacted their lives in the video embedded below or…

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  Stone Soup Station

• Health Care for the Homeless Annual Conference in Kansas City, MO Kicks Off Today

  16 May 2012 | 5:48 am

  This morning kicks off the 25th??? annual Healthcare for the Homeless conference in Kansas City, MO and the event is a first-class affair that folks attending this conference have come to expect from John Lozier and crew.  This conference is one of two "must attend" events that folks in the world of homeless services try to make each year (the other being the fabulous National Alliance to End Homelessness conference) because not only are the networking opportunities damned near endless, the quality and selection of workshops and lecture sessions is both broad and…

• Understanding A Complexity That Affects Us At Every Turn

  2 May 2012 | 3:29 am

  Long but worth the watch.....

• Housing Regulation Revamp Required Regardless of Resources & Remedies

  1 May 2012 | 3:57 am

  I was Facebook-post chatting with my friend Diane Nilan, Founder and President of Hear Us, an advocacy and action/resources site for children and youths experiencing homelessness, after she'd posted a link to a story about families experiencing homelessness who were using storage sheds as an alternative to standard housing.  As our  conversation progressed and a link to the petition supporting the proposed Homeless Children and Youth Act was posted (sign it here: Help Homeless Kids Now! | Tell Congress to Pass the Homeless Children and Youth Act) we began discussing the need to not…

• The Finest Advocacy Guide For Affordable Housing I've Ever Seen

  29 Apr 2012 | 11:51 am

  Colleague and friend Mark Allison has some long-term experience ensuring that Housing is considered a basic human right.  Along with his job at the Center for Social Innovation, Mark is also a Board member for the National Low Income Housing Coalition and has been working with the group for a very long time. The Coalition recently published the 2012 Advocates Guide to Housing and Community Development Policy, and I have to say, they hit a Grand Slam with this and it couldn't have been more timely, or more needed. The document is about 255 pages long and if you have any interest at all in…

• Bold Faces of Truth Brings Profound Impact

  28 Apr 2012 | 3:45 am

  “The hair represents the loss of having it pulled out.The choker represents strangulation.The wire on the mouth represents being forced to keep quiet.The words on the back of the head represent what I’m leaving behind.The words on the front of the head represent where I’m going in my journey through life.I...look forward to good things in the future.”Returning from a highly stressful but wildly successful week of coordinating a three-day policy academy in Washington DC, I deplaned in Nashville exhausted, running on empty, and looking forward to seeing my wife and my dogs, my desk, a…

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  Sans Houses

• Sans Houses

  frenchpress

  1 Jan 2013 | 10:22 am

  This project utilizes photography, sound, and relationship to attempt to capture a piece of those in and around the homeless community in Nashville, Tennessee.All photos and interviews © 2006-2012. Please do not use or reproduce.Thanks go out to all of these individuals for their openness, kindness and trust.

• Newest Images - Color:

  frenchpress

  30 Dec 2012 | 11:00 pm

  These images are a continuance of my original work. Most of the subjects are homeless and formerly homeless writers and/or vendors of The Contributor and/or subjects for articles in the paper.These photographs are full-frame digital shots from a Nikon D300.©2009-2012 Tasha French

• David

  frenchpress

  9 Nov 2011 | 9:52 am

  David, Vendor, The Contributor

• Anita

  frenchpress

  9 Nov 2011 | 9:52 am

  Anita, The Contributor Vendor, Friend

• Antonio "The Waver"

  frenchpress

  9 Nov 2011 | 9:51 am

  Antonio "The Waver", Vendor, The Contributor

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  invisible homeless kids

• Mother's Day PBS Attention to Homeless Moms

  Diane Nilan

  12 May 2012 | 7:58 am

  Another long shot, even more challenging than our CITGO Fueling Good win last November: to get our documentary on the edge: Family Homelessness in America shown on PBS affiliates across the country for Mother's Day. Another long shot, another success for HEAR US supporters!By surprise (OK, I confess to being slightly skeptical of our PBS chances), I saw a Facebook message on our on the edge page saying "I caught the documentary on PBS tonight - thank you. Thank you for bringing awareness to the plight of women and their families as they face the reality of homelessness. I'll be sure to…

• Homelessness Sucks 4 Kids

  Diane Nilan

  28 Apr 2012 | 6:45 pm

  In my wildest dreams, I can't imagine what it would be like to be a homeless teen. I met "Mandy" yesterday who is homeless with her mom. They seem very close and say they're coping but, I dunno, really, spending any part of your early teen years homeless? Sucks doesn't begin to describe it.They stay in a rotating-site shelter program that relies on volunteers from local faith communities, sleeping on floors of basements, halls, gyms and other religious facilities once a week at each location. It's far from perfect, but it's been the emergency housing model for dozens of communities for dozens…

• Chicks, Children and Chump Change

  Diane Nilan

  26 Mar 2012 | 6:12 pm

  Standing on the edge of the pond, I fell in and got stuck. Not into the water, but into a conversation with a bright 8-year-old girl, and I was really perplexed as to what to say next. Falling into the slimy water would have been easier.We had been bird watching, respectfully "stalking" a sand hill crane couple and their 2 newborns. They were pecking their way from this scenic pond on the edge of the motel--the unofficial homeless shelter not far from the land of Mickey Mouse and friends. Since the area has no shelter, homeless families, if they can scrape together $200 or so a week,…

• Immediate Concerns: All Relative

  Diane Nilan

  19 Mar 2012 | 2:10 pm

  They said nothing about being on vacation in this land of Disney. The couple with 2 young girls asked to see the room that rents for $179 a week (and $100 deposit), and when they returned the key they asked about Florida's perennial unwanted visitor, roaches. The desk clerk assured them these little varmints have no room in this inn. That seemed to assuage the couple and they took the room for a week, maybe more, starting the next day when their time is up in their current long-term-suite abode.I wanted to stop them and ask them their story--why are they living in a motel--but it's too…

• HUD Homeless Policies = Child Abuse and Neglect

  Diane Nilan

  15 Feb 2012 | 9:10 am

  Maybe I've stared at too many faces of little ones through the eyes of my cameras.Maybe I've sat on the edge of lumpy mattresses in crappy motel rooms, surrounded by the squalor that comes from too many people crammed into too small space for too many desperate nights listening to heartbreaking sagas.Maybe I've shared too many WalMart parking lots with too many families who find safety in the security cameras as they cuddle together for warmth in their cars.Maybe I've talked to too many youth, some with another generation in tow, who ask me what should they do, where can they find a safe way…

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  Sacramento Homeless blog

• Ever new and increasing admiration and awe

  Thomas Armstrong

  16 May 2012 | 6:21 pm

  “Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence."   ― Immanuel KantFrom quotes at goodreads.comThank you for reading the Sacramento Homeless blog

• Show Me your wounds

  Thomas Armstrong

  16 May 2012 | 4:23 pm

  Words of an African bishop: When I stand at last before the face of God, God will say to me, “Show Me your wounds." And if I say I have no wounds, God will ask, “Was there nothing worth fighting for?”from N. Pelosi via J. Granholm from a The War Room podcastAllan BoesakUpdate: Pelosi's source can have been a New Zealand publication, livingtheword. In its April 10, 2012, newsletter we are told this: The famous South African civil rights proponent Allan Boesak once stated that Jesus, at the pearly gates, won’t question us about how well we carried out our religious obligations.

• The Greatest, Most-Inspiring Humanitarian That Ever Lived

  Thomas Armstrong

  4 May 2012 | 12:59 pm

  Because he cherished the goodness in others, a man scoured the planet looking for the greatest humanitarian who ever lived.When this man was told that the person he sought had already died and gone to heaven, he made a trip to the Pearly Gates to look for him. Saint Peter pointed him out. He was a regular-looking Joe.Mark Twain“That isn’t the greatest of all humanitarians,” said the man. “I knew him when he lived on earth and he was a drunken homeless man whom I often chased away from my storefront where he slept.” “I know that,” said Saint Peter, “but had he been treated just…

• Anyone who is willing to work ...

  Thomas Armstrong

  30 Apr 2012 | 2:40 pm

  The bit of wisdom above is from the second page of the novel The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by the mysterious B. Traven. It is often the case that wealthy people believe that jobs are readily available for the poor -- and it is probably not a coincidence that this is self serving in that it helps them to justify being wealthy.Marie Antoinette is, by tradition, credited with saying these words in response to the information that poor people had no bread to eat: "Let them eat cake." It was a demonstration of how utterly calloused she was or of how utterly ignorant she was of the circumstance…

• The hardest-to-play piano piece ever composed

  Thomas Armstrong

  21 Apr 2012 | 2:07 pm

  The hardest piano piece EVER, played brilliantly by Jenny Q. Chai.Thank you for reading the Sacramento Homeless blog

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  Homeless in LA

• Job opportunity

  homelessinla

  16 May 2012 | 3:58 pm

   Position fills-in for primary store-level sales persons to large accounts like supermarkets and is responsible for providing service to and growing business with assigned accounts. Position orders product to be delivered by another employee to the store within 48 hours. … Continue reading →

• Dontask what it says

  homelessinla

  16 May 2012 | 10:23 am

  Filed under: homeless

• $4 for Family of 4 Chili

  homelessinla

  15 May 2012 | 12:09 pm

  This makes enough for 2 meals 1 tbsp. olive oil  (.20)2 cloves garlic  (.10)1 red bell pepper, chopped  (1.00)  (I found ours on sale.  If you find red peppers are expensive, green peppers can be substituted.)2 carrots (.20)1 small zuchini … Continue reading →

• Man serves sandwiches on skid row

  homelessinla

  14 May 2012 | 3:05 pm

  http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.sgvtribune.com/news/ci_20616865/man-serves-1-million-sandwiches-skid-row-residents&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATABOAFAwoLG_QRIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=4o3HU3WHrTs&usg=AFQjCNFcHa06cHyqP73EfaDRSSIGADxiiA Filed under: homeless

• Community Care Facilities Ordinance: Shameful, Wasteful, Not Good for LA

  homelessinla

  11 May 2012 | 9:25 am

  http://citywatchla.com/lead-stories/3132-community-care-facilities-ordinance-shameful-wasteful-not-good-for-la?utm_source=General+CityWatch+List&utm_campaign=981805c2a9-CW10385_10_2012&utm_medium=email Filed under: homeless

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  Funders Together > Blog

• A Site Visit to Skid Row

  15 May 2012 | 9:00 pm

  Anne Miskey, executive director of Funders Together, takes readers on a site visit to LA's Skid Row.

• National Conference Focuses on Employment Solutions to Homelessness

  7 May 2012 | 9:00 pm

  More than 300 people from 33 states gathered at the National Transitional Jobs Network (NTJN) Conference last month to discuss best practices in employment solutions for individuals facing employment barriers―including those experiencing or at risk for homelessness.

• Opening Doors to End Homelessness in Connecticut

  1 May 2012 | 9:00 pm

  Local philanthropy is helping to develop and implement a new statewide plan to end homelessness in Connecticut. Early "wins" in the campaign include new public investments in affordable and supportive housing in the state.

• Good News from Capitol Hill for Federal Homelessness Programs

  23 Apr 2012 | 9:00 pm

  Those of us working to prevent and end homelessness were heartened by last week’s announcement that the U.S. Senate is proposing the largest one-year increase to the Department of Housing & Urban Development’s (HUD) McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants in nearly 20 years.

• Innovation Thrives in the Non-Profit World

  15 Apr 2012 | 9:00 pm

  If we are going to successfully end homelessness and fight poverty, we must come up with ideas to do more with less. To that end, United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta recently co-sponsored the “Innovations Forum 2012,” which showcased innovative practices in ending homelessness from around the Southeast region. The forum served as a reminder that innovation is critical.

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  haRdLy NOrMal

• Help Stop The Community Care Facilities Ordinance in Los Angeles

  hardlynormal

  1 May 2012 | 11:57 pm

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• Why @Hope is Needed to Get Homeless Mom @CareyFuller a Job Interview

  hardlynormal

  25 Apr 2012 | 4:09 pm

  Tweet

• Ken Kraybill on Motivational Interviewing

  hardlynormal

  19 Apr 2012 | 8:09 pm

  Tweet

• Don’t Call Bevan Dufty San Francisco’s Homeless Czar

  hardlynormal

  8 Apr 2012 | 9:05 pm

  Tweet

• Transgender Homelessness and My Visit with TRANS: THRIVE

  hardlynormal

  8 Apr 2012 | 6:34 pm

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  Western Massachusetts Network to End Homelessness

• Housing Authority Collaboration Meeting Date Change: Monday, 6/18/12

  Pamela Schwartz

  10 May 2012 | 4:49 am

  Dear Network Community: We just learned that our original follow-up meeting date of June 14 conflicts with an annual event for regional housing authorities statewide, which would prevent our 3 regional housing authorities from attending our gathering.  To maximize our collective participation and our results, we have rescheduled our next meeting to: Monday, June 18 9:00 am – 11:00 am Picknelly Dining Room The Frost Building, Room 265 (2nd floor of the main administration building) Holyoke Community College Holyoke, MA Parking is available in the lot adjacent to the building or in…

• Community Engagement Committee Meeting Minutes – 5/7/12

  Pamela Schwartz

  10 May 2012 | 4:46 am

  Community Engagement Meeting Minutes:  May 7, 2012 In attendance: Father Stan Aksamit, Michael DeChiara, Andrew Morehouse, Pamela Schwartz, Lynne Wallace Leadership Council debrief: Agreed to shift from 3 to 2 hour meeting to allow for cleaner finish. Review of  LC discussion: Agreed on good energy level, good facilitation to help bring people to focus. Agreed Sean Caron did a good job, very engaging; on jobs action plan discussion, good discussion but acknowledged challenge of maintaining sharp focus. Discussed we whether we should consider more targeted meetings for LC members around…

• Family Services Committee Meeting Minutes – 5/8/12

  Pamela Schwartz

  10 May 2012 | 4:45 am

  Family Services Committee Meeting Minutes – May 8, 2012 In attendance: Shannon Barry, Springfield Public Schools, Pam Bennett, Berkshire Community Action Council, Ellen Broadhurst, West Springfield Public Schools, Cris Carl, ServiceNet, Karen Cavanaugh, WomanShelter, Marcia Crutchfield, HAP, Ken Demers, New England Farm Workers, Jen Dieringer, Community Legal Aid, Harry Duschesne, New England Farm Workers Council, Anthia Elliott, Safe Passage, Nancy Foster, Berkshire Community Action Council, Steve Huntley, VOC, Fran Lemay, ServiceNet/Greenfield Family Inn, Jane Lindfors, DTA – DV unit,…

• Leadership Council Meeting Minutes – 4/26/12

  Pamela Schwartz

  8 May 2012 | 6:24 am

  Leadership Council Meeting Minutes – April 26, 2012 In attendance:  Father Stan Aksamit, Our Lady of Peace Parish, Jim Ayres, United Way of Hampshire County, Mary Jane Bacon, Senator Rosenberg’s Office, Jane Banks, Center for Human Development, Jennifer Breen Kirsch, North Adams City Council, Tim Brennan, Pioneer Valley Planning Project, Pat Byrnes, Berkshire Housing Development Corporation, Dave Christopolis, Hilltown Community Development Corporation, Steve Como, Soldier On, Sylvia deHaas-Phillips, United Way of Pioneer Valley, Ken Demers, New England Farm Workers Council, Rabbi Justin…

• Family Services Committee Meeting Minutes – 4/10/12

  Pamela Schwartz

  8 May 2012 | 6:19 am

  Family Services Committee Meeting Minutes – April 10, 2012 In attendance:  Alvina Brevard, DHCD, Denise Bushey, Elizabeth Freeman Center, Tammie Butler, Community Action, Cris Carl, Greenfield Family Inn, Marcia Crutchfield, HAPHousing, Charity Day, Franklin County Regional Housing Authority, Ken Demers, New England Farm Workers Council, Anthia Elliot, Safe Passage, Toni Hochstadt, Community Action, Steve Huntley, VOC, Melisaa Marlowe, DPH FOR Families,  Jordana O’Connell, Holyoke public schools, Jane Lindfors, DTA/DV unit, Janet Mock, Square One, Lizzy Ortiz, City of Springfield, Steve…

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  Elizabeth Lombino

• Happy Mother’s Day … To the Rest of Us

  elizabethlombino

  11 May 2012 | 6:21 pm

  Every year, around this time, I am both overjoyed and just plain pissed off. Overjoyed that my lovely little daughter makes me several crayoned, sparkly construction paper cards that tell me just how much she loves me. That my husband gives me flowers and showers me with love and gratitude. If I could capture the [...]

• TheBody.Com’s FB Cover Photo

  elizabethlombino

  8 May 2012 | 5:31 pm

  TheBody.com recently posted this new cover photo on their Facebook profile page. My face is buried in the top left corner. How cool is that?! I am super proud and honored to be part of this amazing community. I have been writing a blog for them for almost 2 years. It is such a rewarding [...]

• Writing As A Life-Saving Tool

  elizabethlombino

  5 May 2012 | 7:13 am

  Writing can be a life-affirming, powerful outlet for all things emotional. Some of us have difficulty saying how we feel. Writing, or any other form of creative expression, can assist in getting in touch with your soul. It can be an outlet for getting any negative energy out. It can help release the pressure and [...]

• Addictions Recovery and Las Vegas, Perfect Together?!

  elizabethlombino

  4 May 2012 | 4:26 am

  Also published on Spread Hope: A Therapist’s Guide to Living and Laughing with HIV on TheBody.com A revised version also published on BCCS Blog Recently, I traveled to Las Vegas to attend the annual, national conference on the care and treatment of opioid addiction held by AATOD (American Association of the Treatment of Opioid Dependence). It was [...]

• More Employee Enhancement

  elizabethlombino

  26 Apr 2012 | 4:55 pm

  This is my latest installment of Employee Enhancement, published in our BCCS Staff Newsletter Employee Enhancement – Improving the Lives of BCCS Employees, One Newsletter Column at a Time Self – Care Strategies This installment of Employee Enhancement will provide an overview of the importance of Self-Care and some strategies you can try. Often in [...]

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  Lost Awareness

• Mitakuye Oyasin -- i remember ye

  A Seeker

  17 May 2012 | 9:56 am

  Do not stand at my grave and weep.I am not there; I do not sleep.I am a thousand winds that blow,I am the diamond glints on snow,I am the sun on ripened grain,I am the gentle autumn rain.When you awaken in the morning's hushI am the swift uplifing rushOf quiet birds in circling flight.I am the soft star-shine at night.Do not stand at my grave and cry.I am not there; I did not die.poem source

• What are you celebrating?

  A Seeker

  13 May 2012 | 5:08 am

  Whew!Sometimes it is tuff keeping in focus.I'm wildly flailing for my sword-in-the-stone.Yesterday had some sweet moments and some horrid moments.The upshot of it all is today it's a bit more effort on my part to pick up and go on.Another day it will be easier.  Today?Well, this morning I do a number of things to recognize, deal with, and move on, from the horrid moments.  Curious meerkat? Read more »

• What can you afford to eat?

  A Seeker

  4 May 2012 | 9:10 am

  Homeless without a refrigerator?  With limited or no means to cook?  With limited or no funding to procure food?Even with it's low-cost and ease of concocting, this won't help my peers still on the streets, unless I cook it for them.However, it's much needed -- not only by my street peers but for folks like me who are low- and below-poverty-income.  So if you volunteer at a shelter by bringing in food, consider that all it takes to bring in fresh produce is:  awareness, judicious shopping, and willingness to spend your love in the time it takes to…

• May I? (cool activities near LA in May)

  A Seeker

  3 May 2012 | 7:04 am

  Heartbroken not to be going to Ren Faire yet again, this year due to lack of funds, especially with the BudWeiser Clydesdales being there this Saturday, May 5 ONLY from 1-3pm -- HOWEVER!There are other places for those of us with little- to no-coin in our pockets!And to these I will be going.  This is the first month I'll be participating in a number of things, despite the silliness of my darned CFS symptoms.  Whoot!  See ya there?For instance:Curious meerkat? Read more »

• VAWA - Violence Against Women Act , 2012

  A Seeker

  26 Apr 2012 | 1:32 pm

  Victims of violence and abuse deserve protection--regardless of their ethnicity, immigration status or sexual orientation. Let your congress-person know you want the Violence Against Women Act passed!Violence and Abuse is not gender specific.Violence and Abuse is not culturally specific.Violence and Abuse is not to be tolerated.Because the VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) has language regarding same-sex partners, illegal immigrant escapers from abuse, and empowering American-Indian tribal authorities to prosecute abuses alleged to have happened on their reservations, it has become a…

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  The Secret Diary of a Homeless Romantic

• Thirteen books, three DVDs, one Hot Librarian and a dream

  Addy

  16 May 2012 | 5:16 am

  A hot librarian; the ultimate fantasy for a lover of literature such as myself. Fortunately, my local librarian is just that Given the amount of time I’ve spent in libraries over the years it was bound to happen eventually. It nearly did in Coburg. It nearly did in Caldcot. It kinda did in Glenroy. But it definitely has now. Yes, I have a crush on a hot librarian.  The fantasy for all lovers of literature such as myself. But shush. I don’t deal well with this sort of thing so best to keep it quiet. Granted, the fact I spend half my life in the local library – and that…

• I blame Forty Shades of Grey

  Addy

  15 May 2012 | 5:54 am

  I blame Forty Shade of Grey. Courtesy of this, let’s be honest, atrociously written piece of crap the internet has become inundated with columnists writing articles on sex, spanking and sadomasochism. Which is all well and good. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with talking about any of these things. Under normal circumstances I’d say HAVE AT IT! But when you’re an isolated ex-homeless romantic who yearns to hug, kiss, massage, provide cunnilingus and pleasure someone every which way they like it gets a bit, shall we say, frustrating that I can’t. People who have…

• Rare smiles

  Addy

  9 May 2012 | 4:23 am

  A homeless on the corner of Cologne Cathedral, Germany, 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I remember munching on a Vegemite and cheese sandwich when I came up with the moniker ‘homeless romantic’. The play on words causing a rare smile to flash across my face that damp night. Smiles are even rarer these days. Ever since the abuse consumed my soul in 2007 I’ve had no idea who I am. All that I used to be, all those wonderful nuances of my soul, lost to the dusts of time. I exist in a state of numbness. The only feeling the pain of traumas unhealed; of emotional abuse, sexual…

• Hellos, apologies and meatballs.

  Addy

  8 May 2012 | 3:28 am

  [Inhale] [Hold breath] [One...Two...Three...Four...Five] [Exhale] Last night I was lying in bed watching Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and decided I should make a quiet return to the world of blogs and social media. What this decision has to do with a movie about raining foodstuffs I don’t know, but should I ever work out the machinations of my mind I’ll let you know. ADDY’S MINI REVIEW: I absolutely loved this film! Although not as pristine in its animation as a Pixar or Disney, it had a beautiful style and an energy that can only be applauded. A must for any fan of…

• G’bye Melbourne. Hello Sydney!

  Addy

  24 Oct 2010 | 1:02 am

  My last night sleeping rough in Melbourne was 19 October 2010. It was spent in my makeshift bed of two blankets and a backpack-pillow under a tree in the King’s Domain; my on-off home of over a year. Normally, this set-up works perfectly well, however the weather in Melbourne had been somewhat apocalyptic in the lead up to this night. Thunderstorm after rainstorm after windstorm after hailstorm had assaulted my body and possessions for several days to the point I couldn’t even remember when I’d last seen the sun. Ergo both blankets were saturated with water (think just…

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  100kHomes Blog

• Got Your 6: Teaming Up with the Entertainment Industry to Support Homeless Veterans

  Jake Maguire

  10 May 2012 | 11:22 am

  One of the first registry weeks of the 100,000 Homes Campaign took place in Hollywood, CA. At the time, we knew we had to get out on the streets and proactively discover who was homeless, but we were all still learning what the process ought to look like. Would homeless people really respond to personal questions about their health? Would enough volunteers show up to participate? Los Angeles, CA read more

• Communities Aim for Rapid Results for Homeless Veterans

  Jake Maguire

  4 May 2012 | 1:55 pm

  One of the Campaign’s major goals is to help communities house homeless veterans, but that process often looks different in every place. It can also be unexpectedly complicated and bureaucratic. This month, communities will convene across the country in an effort to change that. San Diego, CA read more

• Eleven Campaign Communities On Track to End Homelessness

  Jake Maguire

  26 Apr 2012 | 3:29 pm

  The March numbers are in, and we’re excited to announce that 11 communities across the country reached their local goals of housing 2.5% of their chronic and vulnerable homeless populations each month! This list includes: Bergen County (17.01%), Tulsa (15.31%), Chattanooga Region (8.42%), Shreveport/Bossier (7.92%), Richmond (7.77%), Omaha (6.44%), Portland (5.08%), North Hollywood/ Sun Valley (4.25%), Charlotte (3.91%), Silverlake (3.60%), and Denver (2.5%). read more

• Volunteers Survey Homeless Neighbors from Coast to Coast

  Jake Maguire

  26 Mar 2012 | 12:46 pm

  The Campaign truly felt like a national movement in March, as communities from Alaska to Virginia held registry weeks to identify and survey their most vulnerable and chronically homeless neighbors. Registry weeks are a key part of this movement, because they help communities know every homeless person on the streets by name. We will never solve homelessness in America without accomplishing that pivotal goal. read more

• Campaign Announces Chair of New Task Force on Homeless Families

  Jake Maguire

  13 Mar 2012 | 9:49 am

  As the Campaign’s efforts to house homeless families continue to gain steam, we’re turning to a trusted expert to help chart the way forward. This week, we’re excited to announce that Mattie Lord of UMOM New Day Centers in Phoenix, AZ will chair a new Campaign task force to identify best practices from across the country for helping the most vulnerable homeless families access permanent housing. Phoenix, AZ read more

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  Homelessness Law Blog

• The Full Scope of Homelessness

  homelessnesslaw

  15 May 2012 | 11:26 pm

  Disability benefits. Domestic violence.  Tent cities.  Homelessness cuts across many different issues, and these are just a few of them, taken from the topics addressed in this month’s In Just Times. As I wrote about in my recent Huffington Post article, homelessness affects a wide swath of the U.S. population—and the breadth and depth of its reach is increasing, as foreclosures and unemployment continue to take their toll on low-income and, increasingly, middle-income families and individuals. You wouldn’t necessarily know this from looking at some of the data released by HUD, which…

• New Report Shows Denial of Social Security Benefits Perpetuates Homelessness

  homelessnesslaw

  15 May 2012 | 11:14 pm

  Today, the Law Center released Improving Access, a new report on how bureaucratic barriers are preventing thousands of homeless Americans from accessing Social Security disability benefits that could help them get off the street. Social Security benefits, including Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), are critical to keeping people with disabilities in stable housing through income support and health services.  Unfortunately, the application process is cumbersome and freezes out many eligible homeless people.  While up to 40 percent are…

• Denver Reminds Us Laws Have Human Consequences

  homelessnesslaw

  15 May 2012 | 10:05 am

  No matter how much you guard against it, there’s a part of you that gets used to human suffering. I smiled tiredly, slipping a dollar in his cup and letting my mind wander.  I was already turning away when he grasped my hand. He squeezed slightly and guided me back.  Whereas before his total person was a tilted cup, I was confronted now with a complex being.  A wispy gray beard ghosted sharp angles; his palms were covered in coarse white lines from a life spent earning something; and he held in his eyes imagination and loss. He shook my hand firmly.  “My name is Jimmy.” Late last…

• April Showers Bring May Flowers

  homelessnesslaw

  14 May 2012 | 8:00 am

  As the early spring’s plantings start to blossom in my yard, I’ve also been appreciating that the seeds for the human right to housing, some planted years ago, have also started to bloom. In early April, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness and Department of Justice issued a groundbreaking report condemning the growing trend toward criminalizing homelessness, warning that such policies “undermine real solutions” and may violate the constitutional and human rights of homeless people, including U.S. treaty obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and…

• Law Center Launches “All-In to End Homelessness” Campaign

  homelessnesslaw

  16 Apr 2012 | 9:22 am

  On Thursday, April 12, the Law Center kicked off its “All-In to End Homelessness” campaign, in partnership with American University’s School of Communication. The campaign includes a solidarity drive, asking people to pledge to go “all-in” to end homelessness.  We collected more than 500 signatures at Thursday’s event (and 200 signatures online) from people pledging to treat homeless people with dignity and respect and support a common goal: finishing the job we started with the McKinney-Vento Homelessness Assistance Act. The “All-In” campaign commemorates the Act’s 25th…

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  ...With Housing and Justice For All

• DC Council, We Thank You and So Do Families!

  Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless

  16 May 2012 | 1:39 pm

  Thanks to the leadership of Chairman Kwame Brown and the support of several Councilmembers, the DC Council voted unanimously yesterday to approve a budget that prioritizes homeless families by including a $4 million investment in the Local Rent Supplement Program … Continue reading →

• BUDGET ACTION: Email the Council

  Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless

  7 May 2012 | 10:59 am

  You read on our blog the past few weeks about families struggling with homelessness just a stone’s throw from our nation’s halls of power.  You saw parents and children interrupt the DC Council and ask their city leaders to invest … Continue reading →

• The DC Budget: It’s Time to Take Action

  Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless

  1 May 2012 | 6:03 pm

  You read our blog posts last week about the crisis faced by hundreds of homeless residents.  You heard directly from families struggling to protect their kids.  In exactly two weeks, the Council will vote on a budget.  Whether or not … Continue reading →

• An Eventful Day At the DC Council

  Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless

  30 Apr 2012 | 6:16 pm

  The DC Council’s Committee of the Whole held its FY2013 Budget Support Act Hearing on April 30th. Executive Director Patricia Mullahy Fugere testified for the Legal Clinic, challenging the Council to pass a budget that lives up to the ideals … Continue reading →

• The Only Thing My Kids Need to Be Safe is a Home

  Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless

  27 Apr 2012 | 1:55 pm

  by guest blogger Ms. Smith My name is Ms. Smith, and I have lived in the District of Columbia my entire life. I am 25 years old, and am the mother of a 9 year-old son and an 8 year-old … Continue reading →

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  News & Events

• CHNJ Featured in Star-Ledger for Night of Broadway Stars Gala

  jburke@covenanthouse.org

  17 May 2012 | 7:23 am

  CHNJ Featured in Star-Ledger for Night of Broadway Stars Gala CHNJ Featured in Star-Ledger for Night of Broadway Stars Gala Covenant House New Jersey was featured in the Star-Ledger for last night's A Night of Broadway Stars Gala, held at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.  Read about the event and our amazing kids here. Thu, 2012-05-17 10:19 Sun, 2026-05-17 10:19 General Donation Ask - Cold Weather read more

• Home Team Spot Light: Leo Carlin

  jburke@covenanthouse.org

  15 May 2012 | 1:08 pm

  Home Team Spot Light: Leo Carlin Home Team Spot Light: Leo Carlin Leo Carlin, who recently completed the Broadstreet Run in Philadelphia with Covenant House’s Home Team to raise funds and awareness for our kids, answered a few questions about his experience. Tue, 2012-05-15 15:15 Fri, 2026-05-15 13:15 General Donation Ask - Cold Weather read more

• May 17th Marks 6th Annual International Child Helpline Day

  jburke@covenanthouse.org

  15 May 2012 | 11:03 am

  May 17th Marks 6th Annual International Child Helpline Day May 17th Marks 6th Annual International Child Helpline Day May 17, 2012 marks the sixth annual International Child Helpline Day. Child advocates across the globe will celebrate the crucial role of youth helplines in child protection. Tue, 2012-05-15 13:46 Fri, 2026-05-15 13:46 General Donation Ask - Cold Weather read more

• Covenant House NINELINE to Launch NINELINE CHAT

  jburke@covenanthouse.org

  15 May 2012 | 10:35 am

  Covenant House NINELINE to Launch NINELINE CHAT Covenant House NINELINE to Launch NINELINE CHAT Covenant House is excited to announce the May 17th launch of NINELINE's newest online help service, NINELINE CHAT. Tue, 2012-05-15 13:28 Fri, 2026-05-15 13:28 General Donation Ask - Cold Weather read more

• Covenant House Toronto Featured on PRWeb

  jburke@covenanthouse.org

  15 May 2012 | 6:33 am

  Covenant House Toronto Featured on PRWeb Covenant House Toronto Featured on PRWeb Covenant House Toronto was featured in the following article about the urgent need for increased services for foster children and homeless youth. Tue, 2012-05-15 09:25 Fri, 2026-05-15 09:25 General Donation Ask - Cold Weather read more

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  Ending homelessness in London

• Highway to hell: The grim journey to multiple exclusion homelessness - and the route back

  Jeremy Swain

  22 Apr 2012 | 11:38 pm

  There is a ‘fact’ doing the rounds on twitter which juxtaposes the information that Madonna has, allegedly, eight mansions in London with the number of homeless people in the capital, the implicit proposition being that homelessness could be ended if only the ostentatious wealth of the celebrated performer were redirected for the social purpose of housing the homeless. I found the image of hundreds of homeless people living in communal nirvana in Madonna’s mansions entertainingly surreal. This injustice ‘fact’ has been re-tweeted with gusto, so presumably there really are people who…

• London 2012: The changing face of rough sleeping

  Jeremy Swain

  4 Apr 2012 | 12:06 pm

  Walking the streets of central London in the late evening chill I was struck by the extraordinary changes to the profile of the rough sleeping population in the capital. This particular evening in question I spoke with dozens of people busy wrapping up tightly against the cold. Individual human beings showing different emotions: the anxious, the paranoid, the sinister, the confused, the phlegmatic, the desperate, the bewildered. In some respects there has been no change to the rough sleeping profile. Most of the people I spoke to sleeping rough that night were male, white and aged from 25 to…

• Drear days: No return to cardboard city

  Jeremy Swain

  3 Mar 2012 | 3:16 am

  It’s been a bitter February. The outreach teams have been out in force across Britain’s cities assisting rough sleepers to come inside. Bizarrely, even in -5 degrees some people remain implacable in their determination to stay in the shop doorway.  According to some observers this is a ‘lifestyle choice’ though I tend to agree with @aibaihe, a particularly insightful tweeter who, after almost two constant years of rough sleeping, reflected recently: ‘I have never met anyone on the street who didn’t want to live inside’. Thankfully hundreds of rough sleepers did escape the…

• Jan - ring home! A homeless Polish man adrift in London

  Jeremy Swain

  30 Dec 2011 | 10:58 am

  He thrusts his hand towards me as soon as I emerge from Old Street underground station, fingers curled in a half-grip, long dirty nails. ‘Please give me some change’.  It’s good English with a familiar Eastern European inflection.  He’s stumbling along beside me now and he’s already calculated that I won’t be giving him any money.  ‘What about a kebab – a chicken kebab’.  We stop to talk and I look at him more closely.  He has the most terrible hair-cut – a real Gulag special - and is filthy, really filthy and looks half-starved. He tells me his…

• Who are the homeless? Stigma, confusion, misrepresention ...and deception?

  Jeremy Swain

  26 Nov 2011 | 3:00 am

  The supplicants’ hands are outstretched as they patiently wait to be chosen by the soup run volunteers distributing food on the Strand. I stand and watch in the gloaming and see Barry amongst the crowd. My heart sinks. Thames Reach housed Barry four years earlier. ‘Whatever happened to the flat?’ I ask Barry after the opening pleasantries. Barry frowns with irritation and explains that he’s still got ‘the gaff’. I’ve plainly insulted him. ‘Well I can see the food’s good’ I continue, trying to make amends. But I’ve only succeeded in digging myself in deeper. Barry is…

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  Love, Life, Light

• Central Park Trees

  30 Apr 2012 | 8:28 pm

  Central Park Trees

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  16 Jan 2012 | 3:02 pm

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  2 Sep 2011 | 7:00 pm

• it's not really me "asking" you anything its more of me telling you that i love your work. seeing pictures of somewhere i love to be, makes me feel closer to where i need to be.

  2 Sep 2011 | 7:18 am

  Your words are too kind!  Thank you.  Pittsburgh is a city deserving to be photographed time and time again.

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  Stone Soup Station

• Health Care for the Homeless Annual Conference in Kansas City, MO Kicks Off Today

  16 May 2012 | 5:48 am

  This morning kicks off the 25th??? annual Healthcare for the Homeless conference in Kansas City, MO and the event is a first-class affair that folks attending this conference have come to expect from John Lozier and crew.  This conference is one of two "must attend" events that folks in the world of homeless services try to make each year (the other being the fabulous National Alliance to End Homelessness conference) because not only are the networking opportunities damned near endless, the quality and selection of workshops and lecture sessions is both broad and…

• Understanding A Complexity That Affects Us At Every Turn

  2 May 2012 | 3:29 am

  Long but worth the watch.....

• Housing Regulation Revamp Required Regardless of Resources & Remedies

  1 May 2012 | 3:57 am

  I was Facebook-post chatting with my friend Diane Nilan, Founder and President of Hear Us, an advocacy and action/resources site for children and youths experiencing homelessness, after she'd posted a link to a story about families experiencing homelessness who were using storage sheds as an alternative to standard housing.  As our  conversation progressed and a link to the petition supporting the proposed Homeless Children and Youth Act was posted (sign it here: Help Homeless Kids Now! | Tell Congress to Pass the Homeless Children and Youth Act) we began discussing the need to not…

• The Finest Advocacy Guide For Affordable Housing I've Ever Seen

  29 Apr 2012 | 11:51 am

  Colleague and friend Mark Allison has some long-term experience ensuring that Housing is considered a basic human right.  Along with his job at the Center for Social Innovation, Mark is also a Board member for the National Low Income Housing Coalition and has been working with the group for a very long time. The Coalition recently published the 2012 Advocates Guide to Housing and Community Development Policy, and I have to say, they hit a Grand Slam with this and it couldn't have been more timely, or more needed. The document is about 255 pages long and if you have any interest at all in…

• Bold Faces of Truth Brings Profound Impact

  28 Apr 2012 | 3:45 am

  “The hair represents the loss of having it pulled out.The choker represents strangulation.The wire on the mouth represents being forced to keep quiet.The words on the back of the head represent what I’m leaving behind.The words on the front of the head represent where I’m going in my journey through life.I...look forward to good things in the future.”Returning from a highly stressful but wildly successful week of coordinating a three-day policy academy in Washington DC, I deplaned in Nashville exhausted, running on empty, and looking forward to seeing my wife and my dogs, my desk, a…

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  Hugh's Views

• The Washington Post!

  Hugh

  9 May 2012 | 8:01 pm

    The other day, I wrote a blog post about what we should do if Amendment One did not pass. It got a lot of traffic and got shared a lot on Facebook and Twitter and so on. An editor from Religion News Service read it and suggested that there was a longer article to be had in that post, and that if I would write said article, they might be interested in syndicating it. So, I did. And then they did. But then the Washington Post picked the article up, and Holy Crap! my name was attached to an article I wrote on the Washington Post website. Wow. Just Wow.

• How to dry your hands.

  Hugh

  9 May 2012 | 7:00 am

  Earlier this week, I posted a video that showed you how to tie your shoes the “right” way. Apparently, we have also been drying our hands the wrong way, too.  Joe Smith (if that is his real name) shows you how to use only one paper towel and thus save bajillions of pounds of paper every year. If I keep finding these videos telling me I am doing everything wrong, I may soon lack the confidence to even leave the house.

• What if Amendment One Passes Today?

  Hugh

  8 May 2012 | 7:41 am

  Today, the state of North Carolina will decide whether to add an amendment to its constitution that will, among other things, declare that the only legal union is between one man and one woman. It is an attack on many different types of families – families where both parents are of the same sex, obviously – but also an attack on single parents, an attack on couples that are not legally married, and an attack on healthcare for children. It is a bad law – not because I disagree with it (although I do) but because laws should protect rights, not take them away. I am, it should…

• How To Tie Your Shoes

  Hugh

  7 May 2012 | 7:00 am

  According to Terry Moore, you’re tying your shoes incorrectly. Huh. Who knew?

• Suggested Reading – Radical Christianity

  Hugh

  5 May 2012 | 1:58 pm

  When we were having coffee last week, the college student I am mentoring asked me what I was reading these days. I mentioned I was reading a book about the ministry of Will D. Campbell, called Crashing The Idols. “Who is Will D. Campbell?” she asked. Oh dear. I told her Will is a Baptist minister from the South (although, he makes it clear he was no longer a Southern Baptist minister) who is a prime example of the Radical Christian tradition. It was Will’s belief (as it is mine) that the average Church building is no different from the average Rotary club in the desired…