a nonprofit organization that provides volunteer and work opportunities to homeless residents in the community. Toman was recently able to get a housing voucher through the nonprofit and said he was at the fair looking for job resources.
However, a volunteer at City Rescue Mission told News4Jax that only 15 residents were in the temporary shelter before curfew at 10 pm. Some community advocates bashed the city’s plan from the beginning, calling the camp shutdown a band-aid solution that did not address the root issue. ...
Schaefer said he was acting as a private individual, and not in his capacity as a volunteer member of the planning board, when he, along with Councilmember Cydney Moore, informed people who had been living at an encampment next to City Hall that it would be legal for them to set up te...
Tritt, who recently graduated from FHSU’s human resources program, wanted to “pay it forward”.“I have been so lucky,” she said. “There have been so many great people in my life who have inspired me. I see so many terrible things in the news. So many people have helped me ...
Under the Road Home, the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) heavily resources NGOs to provide mandatory “support services” of highly questionable value to clients. Services include much “counselling” and “training” which in practice burden clients with time and travel commitments an...
Given the importance of the resources industry to the Australian economy, there is a strong need for research about homelessness in rural and regional mining communities to improve public policy and service delivery responses now and into the future. This paper draws on a subset of qualitative ...
life exacerbate medical issues. The lack of health insurance all but eliminates health care. Trying to find work or other resources necessary to get off the streets is difficult under the best of circumstances, add an illness into that scenario and ‘extremely difficult’ becomes ‘near impossible...
Let’s ensure our social services are deep enough and rich enough to give those with limited options enough supports so that if they do fall into a hole, they have enough resources to climb out before they get trapped in homelessness. Let’s speak up to create a more fair and equitable...
Early on, Roff’s family expressed concerns that he – then a father to a young boy – was spending a lot of his own time, money and resources building Homeless Hookup. Despite that, Dean remained undeterred in his mission to help others. ...
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