Portland Teen Homeless Shelter Gets National Attention for Not Demanding Sobriety to Access ProgramsPORTLAND, Maine -- Teenagers arrive at Preble Street's TeenCenter or Lighthouse Shelter for a...Koenig, Seth
Although it’s address is on the main highway, the Quality Inn’s original location down the street a mile is now a homeless shelter(! - we had stayed at the original location in February 2017.) The breakfast was blah & dry, perhaps they should eliminate the breakfast and just redu...
Public health officials warned residents to keep indoors with the windows shut, to set air conditioners to run on recirculated air instead of fresh, and to use air purifiers if they had them. Meanwhile, they wrestled with whether to open “smoke shelters” for homeless people or others ...
Going into a shelter may be your only options. With this being said, a heartbroken thing is that not all shelters will take boys. This is a way on how being homeless can split your family apart. Even though you have to delete one issue out of the equations here comes another. Some ...
which is a homeless shelter, teen shelter, women’s shelter, food pantry, and soup kitchen. AtPortland Magazine, we provide a service to the community, too. We sell an ad, we try to make sure it’s going to work for the client. We write a story, we try to make sure it’s actua...
Artists Janet Antepara and Preston Gravitt will donate 40% of all proceeds generated by their collaborative painting Kk v. Kk to Rose Haven, a day shelter and community center in Portland for women, children and gender non-conforming folk experiencing the trauma of abuse, loss of home and oth...
He is the perfect companion for me, I can’t get enough of his goofball personality.”—Ashleigh, Oscar’s mom MINOU HAPPY AT HOME “When we first arrived at the shelter, we immediately gravitated towards the cats with special needs, because we knew that these pets tend to wait the ...
Tormented Over X In Chicago “When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”— Oscar Wilde You spent three years in a throuple that turned toxic — or maybe was toxic from the start — and when it ended, all you wanted was for the one guy you loved (most or at all)...
Outside Inis a social service organization that helps homeless youth and other marginalized people, including transgender, non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming individuals. Their Federally-Qualified Clinic provides medical services for youth ages 13-14 (with a guardian), teenagers, adults an...
Byron, a homeless Christian I know, told me, “The church is there to show God’s mercy as an opportunity. When someone isn’t ready for mercy, then God hands them over to the authorities for judgment. If we are helping people on the margins, we need to remember that the police are...