SANTA CLARITA? VALENCIA? - PLANNED COMMUNITIES - and surrounds do not seem to have a homeless shelter in town. A search for this area proved to redirect people to 15-25 miles away. HOMELESS OFTEN FEEL THE NEED TO STAY CLOSE TO THE PLACE THEY CALLED HOME where they may still have use of some services, know their way around, etc.
WE BELIEVE CHASING PEOPLE INTO DOWNTOWN CITY AREAS - SKID ROWS - IS A MISTAKE and Communities need to make an effort to take care of their OWN! Pacoima is one of the barrios - known for gangs!
Habitat For Humanity (818) 899-618016
11257 Borden Avenue
Pacoima, CA 91331
Children's Hunger Fund (818) 899-5122
12820 Pierce StreetPacoima, CA 91331
Western Pacific Housing (661) 722-8389
Lancaster, CA 93536
The Bridge House ( 805)737-9449
2025 Seedney House
Lompoc, CA 93536-3404
The Way In (323)469-2946
5939 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Los Angeles Youth Network 323-957-7364
1754 Taft Avenue
Los Angeles , CA 90028
Global Human Service Inc (818) 507-6026
434 West Cypress Street
Glendale, CA 91204
House of Hope Inc. 323-663-1215
1115 N. Normandie Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90029
Global Children's Organization (310) 581-2234
3580 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 1800
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Hurting & Hungry Project-Rosie Mae Jackson (323) 733-9022
1310 South Street Andrews Place
Los Angeles, CA 90019
Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women 213 235-1460
1671 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90059
Emmanuel Baptist Rescue Mission 231-626-4681
530 E 5th St.
Los Angeles, DE 90013
UPDATE AUGUAT 2011 : WE ARE SUGGESTING THAT IF YOU BECOME HOMELESS IN THESE AREAS YOU GO TO VENTURA OR SANTA BARBARA OR ANOTHER COUNTY RATHER THAN HEAD FOR LOS ANGELES. CALL TO SEE IF THERE IS A YEAR ROUND SHELTER FOR YOU.
County of Ventura
Human Services Agency, Homeless Services Program (805) 385-1800
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
NATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS VETS - LOS ANGELES CHAPTER
800 W. Sixth Street, Ste 1505
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Phone: 213-542-2600
"U.S. VETS is the largest organization providing housing and supportive services to homeless veterans in the nation. Its ten facilities across the country provide housing for more than 2,100 formerly homeless veterans each night. In seven of its sites, U.S. VETS operates its highly successful Veterans in Progress (a back to work program), which consistently has a success rate of 80% of its participants attaining and maintaining employment. Each year, more than 1,100 veterans are finding work through this program."
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Phone: 213-542-2600
"U.S. VETS is the largest organization providing housing and supportive services to homeless veterans in the nation. Its ten facilities across the country provide housing for more than 2,100 formerly homeless veterans each night. In seven of its sites, U.S. VETS operates its highly successful Veterans in Progress (a back to work program), which consistently has a success rate of 80% of its participants attaining and maintaining employment. Each year, more than 1,100 veterans are finding work through this program."
Thursday, January 27, 2011
HOMELESS COUNT (CENSUS) HAPPENING TODAY
Met a man in a coffee house today who was telling me that he was going to do the HOMELESS COUNT (special census) today... He didn't know he could count me!
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY CALIFORNIA HOMELESS COMMUNITY ACTION
New Link to San Barnardino County homeless information:
Thursday, January 20, 2011
HAVE YOU JOINED A GYM TO SHOWER?
Have you joined a gym just so you can shower? Do you have a locker you can use there? How much does the locker cost?
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
2011 IS THIS THE YEAR YOU'LL BECOME HOUSED?
Is this the year you'll beat the odds and get off the street?
At the end of this year we felt, because we never watch statistics and get few comments (though we heard that about one percent of all readers leave a comment) that maybe we should give up on this blog. We aren't sure we can do a good job because none of us own computers and have to stand in line to use public terminals at libraries and other places to post.
We were thinking about how slow going our lives are because we do not own personal computers. And because we do not have permanent housing, we are so slow at getting things we need to do done... So many of us roam from feed to feed, or don't have it together to get GR, and those of us who have to walk or take the bus remember when we owned cars and could get more done on one Saturday than it takes us weeks to do.
No, we don't know when any of us will have permanent housing. Some of us are sheltered and some of us are not. But maybe we are the elite of the homeless because we know how to write and type, we know how to use computers well enough to blog, and we have our witts about us, though some of us are depressed or outright crazy.
How can we be of greater service to our homeless community and to those who are reading us to understand homelessness better?
One of our options is to concentrate on CALIFORNIA... but we now that homelessness is not a California problem or even a United States of America problem...
It is a problem of poverty around the world.
At the end of this year we felt, because we never watch statistics and get few comments (though we heard that about one percent of all readers leave a comment) that maybe we should give up on this blog. We aren't sure we can do a good job because none of us own computers and have to stand in line to use public terminals at libraries and other places to post.
We were thinking about how slow going our lives are because we do not own personal computers. And because we do not have permanent housing, we are so slow at getting things we need to do done... So many of us roam from feed to feed, or don't have it together to get GR, and those of us who have to walk or take the bus remember when we owned cars and could get more done on one Saturday than it takes us weeks to do.
No, we don't know when any of us will have permanent housing. Some of us are sheltered and some of us are not. But maybe we are the elite of the homeless because we know how to write and type, we know how to use computers well enough to blog, and we have our witts about us, though some of us are depressed or outright crazy.
How can we be of greater service to our homeless community and to those who are reading us to understand homelessness better?
One of our options is to concentrate on CALIFORNIA... but we now that homelessness is not a California problem or even a United States of America problem...
It is a problem of poverty around the world.
Friday, January 7, 2011
DEFEATING THE STEREOTYPES OF WHO AND WHY SOMEONE IS HOMELESS
"In a castle or on someone's floor as a human being you should be cared for."
Saturday, January 1, 2011
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