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L.A. Times - California | Local News
Gang shooting victim must overcome pain to walk again
A 10-year-old girl is shot three times. 'Why do you intentionally shoot kids?' her stepfather asks. ...
Another girl's death, another law
Legislative reaction to grief has not always proved effective in dealing with sex offenders. ...
The dream: Plant a tree for each veteran
Hoping to go national, the nonprofit Veterans for Trees starts with 11 seedlings in a Kern County park. ...
Federal investigations reveal a police department in turmoil
Allegations of excessive force, discrimination, retaliation and coverups leave deep rifts in Burbank's small department. The chief stepped down after one of the accused officers committed suicide. ...
GOP hopefuls spar over their ideological purity
At their weekend convention in Santa Clara, they pummel Democrats Brown and Boxer but also make conservatism an electoral litmus test. ...
Churches get the runaround during the L.A. Marathon
Mindful of road closures and parking problems, leaders at several churches near the race's route have made unusual arrangements for race day -- including telling congregants not to show up. ...
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless blogs
Homeless programs would see dramatic state cutbacks
Gov. Quinn announced his proposed FY 2011 state budget yesterday, which included more cuts to schools and human service agencies already struggling to stay afloat. http://www.state.il.us/budget/FY2011/FY2011_Operating_Budget.pdf Homeless youth services were cut to $3.2 million, a 30% cut from where the program was two years ago. Homelessness prevention grant funding was left at $2.4...
300 from Sweet Home Chicago rally for ordinance, introduced with 18 aldermanic sponsors
Sweet Home Chicago drew 300 supporters to City Hall March 10 to make known their presence and their passion for our affordable housing ordinance. We came from nine community groups and three labor unions to rally in support and witness the introduction of an ordinance with 18 aldermanic sponsors. The ordinance would...
A step ahead for homeless students
An excellent piece of legislation is moving through the Illinois General Assembly. With 10 "yes" votes, and no "no"votes, House Bill 4755 introduced by Rep. Cynthia Soto (D-Chicago) passed out of the House Education Committee on March 10. This bill creates a grant-making process for school districts to receive additional...
CCH leader testifies at tonight's poverty elimination hearing
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless is participating in tonight’s public hearing hosted by the Illinois Commission on the Elimination of Poverty. The commission is developing a "poverty elimination strategy" to halve the number of Illinoisans living in extreme poverty by 2015. This is to be done according to international human rights...
College aid for unaccompanied youth
It is that time of year when high school seniors busy themselves filling out college applications and the FAFSA. But for the estimated 26,000 of unaccompanied homeless youth throughout Illinois, barriers to applying for financial aid and attending college can seem insurmountable. The good news is that the College Cost and...
Rashmi Ramaswamy, Breaking Barriers!
CCH is proud to announce that Rashmi Ramaswamy, co-president of the CCH Board of Directors, is being honored next month by the Chicago Foundation for Women. CCH nominated Rashmi for the prestigious Breaking Barriers award, given by the foundation's Asian American Leadership Council. The award honors Asian and Asian American women leaders...
Change.org's End Homelessness Blog
Faulty Definition Leaves Millions "Out of the Homeless Force"
Statistics, when accurate, are both telling and powerful. We cannot help a population of people whose needs and crises we do not understand. However, statistics are open to manipulation. For example, the federal unemployment rate is not an enumeration of all people who are out of work....
The Need to Modernize Data Collection in Homeless Services
The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness is taking public comment on what the federal government should do to improve homeless services. While I applaud the USICH's effort to get the public's input, in the past the federal government has ignored the complaints of homeless service agencies forced to implement...
The Media Loves Business Class Homelessness
Whether or not you believe that homeless can happen to anybody, it does occasionally strike someone who had previously been raking in six figures. The media loves this. A person may not be able to find a new job or keep his home, but he can become a minor celebrity. The...
A Homeless Shelter Is a Home, In Legal Terms
A homeless shelter is a person's home, and homeless citizens are entitled to the same privacy protection as those in our country who have housing, a Massachusetts court has ruled. The case resulted from the prosecution of a 16-year-old boy based on evidence obtained by police during a search of the...
City Arrests Homeless Man and Locks Up His Dog
Police in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania seem to think that arresting a homeless man and then kidnapping his dog is the appropriate response to homelessness. After arresting disabled veteran Timothy Thomas for public intoxication, they also incarcerated his dog and companion of 10 years, B.C. (short for "Blue Chip"), in the Harrisburg...
State of the Homeless: More Need, Less Funding
This past week Coalition for the Homeless released its State of the Homeless 2010 report and Rich attended the press conference. Coalition, for short, is an advocacy and direct service nonprofit serving homeless men, women and children in New York City. (Disclosure: Rich has worked at Coalition since 2004). Together...
Stone Soup Station
""When I finally decided that I wanted to get clean and I went into the first rehab, it was all men"
I'm increasingly seeing women among the faces of vets needing services that mob our lobby on a daily basis and we have been working on some policies to fast-track these ladies in order to remove them from the testosterone clouds common in many military gathering spots. I've got to admit however,...
Good to see that Charlie is making some headway on the Homeless Court issue; all the work and effort Lt. Swisher and I have done to improve officer treatment of the homeless on the streets has begun paying off, as has her desire to begin seeking alternatives to incarceration by...
Veterans Support Organization Back In The News And It Isn't Good News
These guys were warned by several prominent veteran's groups around the Nashville area that what they were doing was scandalous and dishonest, not to mention quite probably illegal. They were actually given the option of packing up their buckets and bs and moving on before these news stories began breaking....
Over the past several weeks, more and more people who thought they'd never find themselves homeless or very near it have come to see if there is anything I can do at all to help stave off their fall to the street. It's been a grueling time, both for them and...
Motivational Interviewing Webcast W Ken Kraybill & Yours Truly Airs Today at 12 Noon Central Time
Ken Kraybill and I will be putting on the second Spirit of Motivational Interviewing webcast today at 12 noon CST and if you are/were interested in attending, I hope you were able to register early, as I understand we've reached capacity for the virtual meeting room and it may be...
Cherokee Wolf Death: “we are convinced beyond any doubt that this is a natural death.”
It looks as tho many of us, self included, may have jumped to conclusions about what caused Cherokee Wolf's death. To the foster parents who have endured both misery and accusation, I apologize for all of us who thought the worst before the evidence was presented. I know when little children...
clevelandhomeless
Another Death Within the Homeless CommunityOur good friend from the 2100 Lakeside, Mike Tribble died on Monday while battling cancer. He was fiercely independent, and tried as hard as he could to start a shelter for homeless people on the West Side. It did not work, but he...
Volunteers (above) flood the near west side hot meal program at St. Augustine for a Christmas dinner in 2007.Plain Dealer Covers Food Desert in East ClevelandYesterday, the Plain Dealer's Mike O'Malley did a nice look at the food issues in East Cleveland. We have been working on this issue...
InterAgency Council Seeks Comments
Only One Week Left to Comment on Federal PlanPicture by Cheryl Jones of the Grapevine Photo project 2007.There is only one week left to make suggestions for the InterAgency Council on Homelessness Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness. The Plan was mandated by Congress by May 2010, and very...
Friday's Health and Service Fair at the Convention CenterLarry, directing transportation outside, William sitting with a red shirted volunteer on Friday, and Luke checking a guest into breakfast attended all three Stand Down's this year. The final one wrapped up on Friday at the Cleveland Convention Center. We...
Melville Charitable Trust Again
Still Looking For Solutions?In January 2009, we wrote about the Melville Charitable Trust, and then in February the program director responded. It is a year later and I still hear the same advertisement from the Melville Charitable Foundation on NPR on a regular basis. They still have...
Reflections on the Death at the Shelter
Aftermath of the Shelter Director DeathWe now have some distance from the death of Rita Ciofani and it is time to focus less on the grief and start talking about causes. We also need to talk as a community about how to avoid this ever happening again. ...
Yahoo! News Search Results for HOMELESS
Six Homeless Following Grand Falls-Windsor Fire (Voice of the Common Man)
Six people are homeless after a fire in a three-unit dwelling in Grand Falls-Windsor. There was severe damage to one unit and significant smoke damage to another. The cause of yesterday's fire remains under investigation....
Take note: Going to the bathroom in the street while exposing yourself can land you in jail. Cambridge police arrested two homeless men in separate incidents on charges of such lewdness last week, according to police reports....
Homeless man killed in hit-and-run is mowed down by two cars (New York Daily News)
A 60-year-old homeless man was killed by a hit-and-run driver while crossing a Brooklyn street in the rain early Sunday, police said....
2700 homeless living on Phoenix-area streets (KOLD News 13 Tuscon)
PHOENIX (AP) - More than 2,700 people are living on the streets of Maricopa County according to a recent homeless count. The Maricopa Association of Governments said the numbers show a decrease of 6 percent from the year before....
Schools aim to help homeless (The Post and Courier)
The Charleston County School District enrolled 685 homeless students last year, up from about 300 three years earlier. When School Superintendent Nancy McGinley heard the numbers, she felt compelled to do something. She talked with the district's coordinator for homeless students, and thi......
Cebu fire leaves shanty families homeless (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
At least 4,000 people were left homeless when a fire broke out in Barangay Subangdaku, Mandaue City Monday afternoon, authorities said....
ChosenFast.com
Jim Wallis: Biblical Social Ju…
Jim Wallis: Biblical Social Justice and Glenn Beck http://bit.ly/bwLM5J Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen!! ...
Annual count says just 12 more…
Annual count says just 12 more homeless people in Guilford County this year. http://bit.ly/djtAiK StreetWatch outreach tells us otherwise. ...
Based on number on homeless se…
Based on number on homeless service providers in Guilford County, there shouldn’t be any more homeless people. ~ Observant friend. ...
W-S Rescue Mission needs parti…
W-S Rescue Mission needs participants, hole sponsors & door prizes for annual golf tournament, 4/23. Contact mike.foster@wsrescue.org. ...
“Thank you” to Hayes & Cherie’…
“Thank you” to Hayes & Cherie’s friends Adair, Sandy, Sallie, Beth, & Mary for donations to help StreetWatch feed the homeless & hungry! ...
RT @padschicago Wow. I just *k…
RT @padschicago Wow. I just *know* that I will be out of homelessness this year! // Praying that for you! ...
National Alliance to End Homelessness
April 22, 2010...
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Alliance Online News: Final Geography of Homeless
March 9, 2010...
<img src="/images/editorFiles/Image/geography cover.png" hspace="1" hspace="1" align="right" alt="name" width="104" height="125" />Each community has been classified into one of five categories, ranging from completely urban to completely rural. This report analyzes various aspects of the homeless population in each category....
Take Five! Q & A with SF Mayor Gavin Newsom
<img src="/images/editorFiles/Image/Gavin Newsom Headshot.jpg" alt="name" width="117" height="153" /> <p>Take a five minute break from whatever you are doing to hear about emerging issues, new research, and personal stories from experts and leaders in homelessness and housing policy.</p>...
Advocacy Update: House McKinney Sign-On Letter
March 3, 2010...
Portland Rescue Mission - Blog
Cindy's daughter was ashamed of her. She was often drunk. And never learned to read.Cindy's Story of Hope (Quicktime Version)Cindy from pdxmission on Vimeo.The lies Cindy believed about herself held her back. She was dumb. She was a failure. There was no hope...
Your Dollar Goes So Much Further ...
Exhausted from carrying his pack, Jim just wanted a place to sleep. But he found something more.Jim's Story of Hope (Quicktime Version)Jim from pdxmission on Vimeo.Today, instead of hiding his troubles in alcohol, Jim is facing them head on. "It's not weighing me down any more."Thanks...
From Dallas, a staff member of Portland Rescue Mission:As I was driving recently, I stopped at the light on NE Halsey and 102nd. On my left was a man holding a sign that read "Insult me for $1.00."That man, Matt* had been a resident in our men's New Life recovery...
A Fresh Start - March Newsletter
Two young people have a second chance at life. Emily and Damien had such promise in life -- until personal pain and uncontrolled addiction nearly destroyed them.No Ordinary RingIt's a Promise that Led to HealingWhen Emily talks about her mom, her big brown eyes sparkle like the amethyst ring on...
The Hidden Homeless - Families In Motels
Watch this insightful photojournalism piece revealing an unseen side of homelessness -- families forced to live in motels to survive.From the Coalition for the Homeless in Central Florida blog:Earlier this week, Robert Cohen of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was honored in the 2010 American Society of News Editors as...
The Homeless Guy
The Law Working For Homeless People
Click this link, Associated Press article about churches feeding the homelessCharles Haynes, senior scholar at the Nashville-based First Amendment Center, said such spats have become quite common across the country since Congress passed the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act in 2000.The law gives religious groups a high...
The Truth About The Truth About Homelessness
When someone is telling you the truth about homelessness how do you know they know the truth? Sincerity of purpose is no measure of truth. A lot of sincere people are sincerely giving out bad information about homelessness and calling it the truth. Facts and figures...
There are few known facts about homelessness, but there are truths about homelessness that can serve us well. For an understanding of the difference between fact and truth, try a few of the links here, "Difference between fact and truth." To my mind, a fact is bit of...
For those who don't know, The Contributor is Nashville's homeless newspaper, sold by homeless and formerly homeless people. Working as independent contractors, they buy copies of the newspaper for a quarter a piece and then sell them on the streets for whatever they can get. The recommended price...
The Homeless Guy Is Still On The Scene
I'm quoted in this article in the Nashville Scene - Suffering In Plain Sight. Please give it a read....
I am encouraged that so many people want to know about homelessness. I am saddened that I have very little concrete information to report. I have seen many people Google search "Homeless Facts." And so I have too. What I find are many websites reporting...
NPACH: The National Policy and Advocacy Council on Homelessness
As required by last year's HEARTH Act, the US Interagency Council on Homelessness is working on a federal strategic plan to end homelessness. We at NPACH remain mindful of the fact that a plan is not a home - we......
President Talks About Importance of Second Chance Act
Yesterday, at a town hall meeting in Tampa, President Obama responded to a question about what could be done to help provide ex drug felons with jobs, so that they would not return to a life of crime, by touting......
New Report: How Schools Can Help House Homeless Youth
Our partners at NAEHCY have recently released a report detailing the ways in which school districts and staff can help provide housing for homeless youth, to help keep them stably enrolled in school through graduation. The report provides recommendations to......
Homeless and Foster Education Bills Introduced in US Senate
On Thursday, November 19, US Senators Patty Murray and Al Franken introduced the "Educational Success for Children and Youth Without Homes Act of 2009," S. 2800, and the "Fostering Success in Education Act of 2009," S. 2801. These bills would......
U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness Appoints New Executive Director
At a meeting on Monday, October 19, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness appointed a new Executive Director. The new ED will be Barbara Poppe, who currently serves as the Executive director of the Community Shelter Board in Columbus, Ohio......
NY Times Focuses On Post-Foreclosure Homelessness
Citing the Foreclosure to Homelessness report released this summer by NPACH and a group of national homelessness advocacy organizations, the New York Times reported yesterday on former homeowners who, after losing their housing due to a foreclosure, are now homeless.......
The Adventures of Homeless Girl
I am not dead and this is severly overdue
I left the house I was staying at over 6 months ago in the worst possible way. For a long time now I have been on the verge of death. Since my birthday I have lived on 9p noodles and junk food I havent cooked or touched a pot. And...
hey guys so I’m still at the hotel and I’ve just paid £1.25 for half an hour internet acess. I’m needing to buy a netbook or something, I’m thinking of moving to a hostel as its more affordable or thinking of going back home to my dad. that seems so...
So this is going to be very quick because I have 12 minutes of internet time left. 1. I’m in a town called stevenage, not too far from London. 2. I’m in a hotel called the Ibis Hotel: It sucks but its better than the streets. 3. I’ve gotten a few people offering...
So I just came out of telling the owners of the house that by tomorrow we would be gone. And for the first time I’m sure of it. That’s it guys. Like I said I don’t know what’s gonna happen. I’ll let tomorrow sort itself out. Surprisingly I don’t feel sad, I...
I believe that the most important thing in this world is love. Not emotional love but true, powerful, forgiving, and patient love. If you set about living out your day thinking what can I do to improve a person’s life or what act of kindness can I personally do, and it...
I Would Rather Have Cancer Than Be Homeless
This may be an offensive post to some people who will probably think I have no idea what I’m talking about. This may also make people think I am being over dramatic, but right now this is how I feel. I’m not saying that having cancer is easy or any sickness...
InvisiblePeople.tv
Sandy sleeps in a sleeping bag on the sidewalk in Berkley, California because it’s against the law to sleep in her car. She’s on the verge of mental illness from life on the streets. The thing keeping her unemployed? Her age. She says that’s the main factor keeping her from finding...
Until my recent trip to Anchorage, Alaska, I had never heard the term “Chronic Public Inebriate,” yet in Alaska the word “inebriate” is spoken everywhere. It is so grafted in Anchorage’s culture that even the homeless call themselves inebriates. At first it bothered me, but I soon learned that Anchorage’s...
I met Michael on the streets of Denver, playing his guitar. After being a personal nurse for someone who kicked him out, he returned to the streets he’d been on for 20 years before. Michael never panhandles; instead he plays his acoustic guitar on the streets. If you listen to him,...
Shawn moved to Colorado to be with someone, but then they broke up. As of March 2007, he was still working some, but also living in a shelter. He was frustrated at the way the shelter was treating the homeless of Boulder. Shawn had plenty of wisdom to share and some...
I first met Rico at the Glendale Winter Shelter, drawn to his large canvas of bright colors. We’ve had some rainy weather in Los Angeles this winter, and the National Guard allowed us to keep the armory open during the day. Rico didn’t mind the rain; it excited him because...
Boston has been on the street for 15 years. He has mental health issues, and he consistently fights with depression and addiction. As a child, he lost both of his parents–his mother to murder. From there, it was to his grandparents, an alcoholic and dysfunctional household. He left there for the...
Jamie's Big Voice
I have often wondered what it takes to become a politician but I have always come up with the same answer and that's not much. The funny thing is that I think you have to have the gift of the gab and to be able to spin things the way...
Oh boy what a palaver about the election I thought this was an easy choice because if you look at what has been done and what would have been done by you know who. Then its obvious. We all disagreed with brown giving our money to the banks but if...
Good news and as usual bad news
Good news is I didn't lose my pride and joy, my dvd recorder because by some miracle and luck I managed to keep it and buy a hole fortnights food. The reason well I found one pound fifty and I brought a loaf and bread and a pint of milk....
Life it's fun but what a struggle
What can I say? Everyday I wake and pray for just an average day of near normality but as we all know sometimes life just throws a spanner in the works. First it was my health and a dizzy doctor, who I now think was using some kind of hallucinogenic...
Over the last twenty to thirty years I have been what I call asleep due to the amount of drugs I took over the years and now I am awake and yet even I see the changes made in our so called fair society. My first observation is about our...
Well. my bit for charity wasn't done exactly as I planned because I caught a tartar of a cold and couldn't do all my shifts. I haven't been out of my flat since, today was the first day. It was strange no one was walking or chating in the streets...
Union Rescue Mission
Thirty-three graduates in cap and gown walked proudly across the stage last S[…]...
Calvary Church Brings Carnival To URM Kids!
Weekends are sometimes boring when you live on Skid Row, but today is differen[…]...
Celebrate Good Times! – March Graduation
Congratulations to all the men who graduated from our Christian Life Discipl[…]...
A new way to support Union Rescue Mission! To donate $10 from your cell phone an[…]...
Oasis Christian Centers Hosts Food Drive for URM
We would like to send a special thanks to Oasis Christian Center for hosting a f[…]...
Special Edition of The Mission – Ready for You to Download!
The Special Edition of “The Mission” newsletter is now available! Please cli[…]...
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