Showing posts with label San Francisco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Francisco. Show all posts
Monday, October 19, 2015
ONE SHOWER AT A TIME - BUSES BRING BATHROOMS TO THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO - RADICAL HOSPITALITY
Lava Mae is a nonprofit with an interesting idea. They convert old donated city buses into mobile shower units for homeless people, bringing them health, hygiene and humanity.
LAVA MAE ORG
GREAT IDEA! LOS ANGELES?!
Monday, March 9, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR LEE OUTLINES PLAN TO MOVE ENTIRE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT INTO HOUSING - IN TEN DAYS!
SANFRANCISCO GATE - PLAN TO MOVE ENTIRE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS INTO HOUSING full article
EXCERPTS:
"One-stop help centers exist all over the U.S. — in San Francisco, there’s Project Homeless Connect, a 10-year-old effort to refer the homeless to job training, substance-abuse counseling and other programs that can pull them off the streets.
But what has never been tried is moving full encampments under one roof — dogs and couples and tents and all — and housing them there until permanent housing is found. The Navigation Center will be doing this as a pilot project for eight to 18 months, depending on its success.
The whole thing is a gamble of sorts, its creators admit. But for now, hopes are high.
“To have a newness to this, we have to have a sense that people actually will get help,” Lee told officials who came to tour the center, which the city Public Works Department just finished building out with dormitories, a laundry, counseling rooms, and pet and storage areas.
The center will be open 24 hours a day, but the idea is not just to provide an alternative spot to pitch a tent. By moving campers in as a group, the city hopes, they will trust the process more than many do in shelters, where, as Fairrer puts it, “you’re sleeping next to strangers and don’t know what to expect.”
The center is being funded by a $2 million anonymous donation funneled through the San Francisco Interfaith Council. An additional $1 million from the same donor is being used to help create what city planners hope will be 500 new supportive housing units — housing with counseling on-site — for the homeless by the end of the year.
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OUR COMMENT! EVERY CITY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEEDS A PLAN LIKE THIS and THE FUNDING. Shelters are time wasters. Even "lucky" people sometimes waste years of their lives expecting a shelter to get them permanent housing. Shelters take funds from the government and donations from corporations and individuals and use it for salaries of incompetents.
EXCERPTS:
"One-stop help centers exist all over the U.S. — in San Francisco, there’s Project Homeless Connect, a 10-year-old effort to refer the homeless to job training, substance-abuse counseling and other programs that can pull them off the streets.
The whole thing is a gamble of sorts, its creators admit. But for now, hopes are high.
“To have a newness to this, we have to have a sense that people actually will get help,” Lee told officials who came to tour the center, which the city Public Works Department just finished building out with dormitories, a laundry, counseling rooms, and pet and storage areas.
The center will be open 24 hours a day, but the idea is not just to provide an alternative spot to pitch a tent. By moving campers in as a group, the city hopes, they will trust the process more than many do in shelters, where, as Fairrer puts it, “you’re sleeping next to strangers and don’t know what to expect.”
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OUR COMMENT! EVERY CITY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEEDS A PLAN LIKE THIS and THE FUNDING. Shelters are time wasters. Even "lucky" people sometimes waste years of their lives expecting a shelter to get them permanent housing. Shelters take funds from the government and donations from corporations and individuals and use it for salaries of incompetents.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Monday, January 12, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO YOUTH ALLIANCE needs URGENT FUNDING FOR NEW PREMISIS - TO RAISE 5 MILLION TO GO BIG and BUY A BUILDING
ABC7NEWS : SAN FRANCISCO HOMELESS YOUTH ALLIANCE NOW HOMELESS ITSELF
HYA has tried unsuccessfully 34 times to rent a space. A generous neighbor is allowing the staff to use the family's dining room as an office and the garage as storage.
HYA has tried unsuccessfully 34 times to rent a space. A generous neighbor is allowing the staff to use the family's dining room as an office and the garage as storage.
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS HOMELESS OUTREACH - BART STATION - ENDING CRIMINALIZATION OF HOMELESSNESS - THE ROLL OF COURTS AND ADVOCATES
THIS VIDEO IS OVER AN HOUR. It's interesting and important.
FROM YOUTUBE : THIS VIDEO WAS Published on May 21, 2014
ENDING THE CRIMINALIZATION OF HOMELESSNESS:
THE ROLE OF COURTS, LAWYERS AND ADVOCATES
San Francisco, CA
April 25, 2014
Program materials can be accessed at:
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION - POVERTY - HOMELESSNESS - EVENTS
Welcome, Introductions and Framing Questions
Hon. Gordon Baranco, Superior Court of Alameda County, CA
It Takes a BIG Village: The Success behind the VA's Homeless Veterans Outreach Initiative
In 2009, President Barack Obama and VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki announced the goal of ending Veteran homelessness by the end of 2015. Since 2009, the number of Veterans who are homeless has dropped by 17.2 percent. Together with partners and supporters nationwide, the VA Homeless Veterans Outreach Initiative has facilitated the establishment of a comprehensive, inter-disciplinary and highly effective network of programs addressing the myriad barriers to ending homelessness among veterans. The network includes outreach initiatives, housing, income supports, medical and mental healthcare, education, job training, reentry planning and other critically needed services. The network also includes the Veterans Justice Outreach Program which seeks to prevent the unnecessary criminalization of mental illness and extended incarceration among veterans. As a result of VA leadership, the legal community across the country has joined
together to create not only Veterans Treatment Courts, but a variety of pro bono and specialty programs aimed at addressing the civil and criminal legal issues facing veterans. The panelists will discuss why this comprehensive network has succeeded in ending homelessness among significant numbers of veterans at a time when homelessness among individuals and families continues to increase.
Moderator:
Paul Freese, JD, Vice President, Public Counsel, Los Angeles, CA; Special Advisor on Homeless Veterans, ABA Commission on Homelessness & Poverty
Speakers:
Suzanne Will, JD, Regional Counsel, Department of Veterans Affairs, San Francisco, CA
Joel Rosenthal, PhD, National Training Director, VA Veterans Justice Programs
San Francisco, CA
April 25, 2014
Program materials can be accessed at:
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION - POVERTY - HOMELESSNESS - EVENTS
Welcome, Introductions and Framing Questions
Hon. Gordon Baranco, Superior Court of Alameda County, CA
It Takes a BIG Village: The Success behind the VA's Homeless Veterans Outreach Initiative
In 2009, President Barack Obama and VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki announced the goal of ending Veteran homelessness by the end of 2015. Since 2009, the number of Veterans who are homeless has dropped by 17.2 percent. Together with partners and supporters nationwide, the VA Homeless Veterans Outreach Initiative has facilitated the establishment of a comprehensive, inter-disciplinary and highly effective network of programs addressing the myriad barriers to ending homelessness among veterans. The network includes outreach initiatives, housing, income supports, medical and mental healthcare, education, job training, reentry planning and other critically needed services. The network also includes the Veterans Justice Outreach Program which seeks to prevent the unnecessary criminalization of mental illness and extended incarceration among veterans. As a result of VA leadership, the legal community across the country has joined
together to create not only Veterans Treatment Courts, but a variety of pro bono and specialty programs aimed at addressing the civil and criminal legal issues facing veterans. The panelists will discuss why this comprehensive network has succeeded in ending homelessness among significant numbers of veterans at a time when homelessness among individuals and families continues to increase.
Moderator:
Paul Freese, JD, Vice President, Public Counsel, Los Angeles, CA; Special Advisor on Homeless Veterans, ABA Commission on Homelessness & Poverty
Speakers:
Suzanne Will, JD, Regional Counsel, Department of Veterans Affairs, San Francisco, CA
Joel Rosenthal, PhD, National Training Director, VA Veterans Justice Programs
Friday, October 17, 2014
NEW ORLEANS DOING GREYHOUND THERAPY - SENDING HOMELESS TO LOS ANGELES - THE WORD ON THE STREET
WORD ON THE STREET, especially in the North Hollywood and Metro Red Line (subway) Terminal area, is that NEW ORLEANS has been doing GREYHOUND THERAPY, providing one way tickets to homeless to Los Angeles who get off at the North Hollywood Greyhound Station.
GREYHOUND THERAPY is the term used when a city sends its homeless problem to another town. Currently there are actual lawsuits between cities over this issue. At it's worst GREYHOUND THERAPY IS NOT JUST A ONE WAY TICKET TO ANOTHER CITY THAT TAKES THE PERSON AWAY FROM THEIR HOME BASE TO A PLACE WHERE THEY KNOW NO ONE (EXCEPT MAYBE THE OTHER PEOPLE WHO WERE SENT FORTH), DON'T KNOW WHERE TO GO, OR HAVE ANY RESOURCES TO TURN TO.
Some of these homeless and mentally ill people are actually given a bad lunch and A ONE DAY SUPPPLY OF THEIR PSYCH MEDS!
Los Angeles and Southern California in general - Santa Barbara County - Orange County - is a very expensive place to live with rents easily a thousand dollars a month for a single or one bedroom apartment, and though the weather here may be better than in the snow belt, in some parts you can die of the cold here too. Winter in the beach areas and the high desert areas of Lancaster Palmdale can be very rough outdoors at night.
We've been told that a number of homeless people from New Orleans have been sent here and are now in the usual competition for shelters and other services and in line for government benefits.
One of the lawsuits is against Nevada, which allegedly sent 500 mental patients to San Francisco.
SACRAMENTO BEE: NEVADA BUSES HUNDREDS OF MENTALLY ILL TO SF
"Since July 2008, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas has transported more than 1,500 patients to other cities via Greyhound bus, sending at least one person to every state in the continental United States, according to a Bee review of bus receipts kept by Nevada's mental health division.
About a third of those patients were dispatched to California, including more than 200 to Los Angeles County, about 70 to San Diego County and 19 to the city of Sacramento."
GREYHOUND THERAPY is the term used when a city sends its homeless problem to another town. Currently there are actual lawsuits between cities over this issue. At it's worst GREYHOUND THERAPY IS NOT JUST A ONE WAY TICKET TO ANOTHER CITY THAT TAKES THE PERSON AWAY FROM THEIR HOME BASE TO A PLACE WHERE THEY KNOW NO ONE (EXCEPT MAYBE THE OTHER PEOPLE WHO WERE SENT FORTH), DON'T KNOW WHERE TO GO, OR HAVE ANY RESOURCES TO TURN TO.
Some of these homeless and mentally ill people are actually given a bad lunch and A ONE DAY SUPPPLY OF THEIR PSYCH MEDS!
Los Angeles and Southern California in general - Santa Barbara County - Orange County - is a very expensive place to live with rents easily a thousand dollars a month for a single or one bedroom apartment, and though the weather here may be better than in the snow belt, in some parts you can die of the cold here too. Winter in the beach areas and the high desert areas of Lancaster Palmdale can be very rough outdoors at night.
We've been told that a number of homeless people from New Orleans have been sent here and are now in the usual competition for shelters and other services and in line for government benefits.
One of the lawsuits is against Nevada, which allegedly sent 500 mental patients to San Francisco.
SACRAMENTO BEE: NEVADA BUSES HUNDREDS OF MENTALLY ILL TO SF
"Since July 2008, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas has transported more than 1,500 patients to other cities via Greyhound bus, sending at least one person to every state in the continental United States, according to a Bee review of bus receipts kept by Nevada's mental health division.
About a third of those patients were dispatched to California, including more than 200 to Los Angeles County, about 70 to San Diego County and 19 to the city of Sacramento."
Sunday, September 14, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO BART STATIONS REFUGE FOR HOMELESS BEING TARGETED BY POLICE
SF GATE : CRACKDOWN ON HOMELESS IN BART STATIONS HEATING UP
By Heather Knight
Some of the article
... "But boy, has that changed. The Coalition on Homelessness late last week released a video in which homeless people who sleep in BART stations are interviewed and talk about being roughed up and treated poorly just because they have nowhere else to go.
"We are facing an unprecedented housing crisis in San Francisco," reads the press release accompanying the video. "Mothers with their children are being forced to sleep at the Civic Center station while waiting six months for proper shelter. People are so desperate for a place to sleep, free of harassment, they are sneaking into elevator shafts and down train tunnels, literally risking their lives to get some rest."
(It's true, by the way, that homeless families are waiting many months for shelter. And that regular homeless shelters are 97 percent full each night. And that a transient was crushed to death in an elevator shaft at the Montgomery Street BART Station last year.)
Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the coalition, and Public Defender Jeff Adachi say BART police are misreading a section of the state penal code. It applies to public transit systems throughout California and states that people are subject to imprisonment for "willfully blocking the free movement of another person in a system facility or vehicle."
Adachi said most of the arrests are happening because people are lying or sitting against a wall in a 20-foot wide hallway or wide-open plaza, which he maintains hardly constitutes an obstruction. They're not lying at the bottom of escalators or sprawled across narrow passageways, he said...."
By Heather Knight
Some of the article
... "But boy, has that changed. The Coalition on Homelessness late last week released a video in which homeless people who sleep in BART stations are interviewed and talk about being roughed up and treated poorly just because they have nowhere else to go.
"We are facing an unprecedented housing crisis in San Francisco," reads the press release accompanying the video. "Mothers with their children are being forced to sleep at the Civic Center station while waiting six months for proper shelter. People are so desperate for a place to sleep, free of harassment, they are sneaking into elevator shafts and down train tunnels, literally risking their lives to get some rest."
(It's true, by the way, that homeless families are waiting many months for shelter. And that regular homeless shelters are 97 percent full each night. And that a transient was crushed to death in an elevator shaft at the Montgomery Street BART Station last year.)
Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the coalition, and Public Defender Jeff Adachi say BART police are misreading a section of the state penal code. It applies to public transit systems throughout California and states that people are subject to imprisonment for "willfully blocking the free movement of another person in a system facility or vehicle."
Adachi said most of the arrests are happening because people are lying or sitting against a wall in a 20-foot wide hallway or wide-open plaza, which he maintains hardly constitutes an obstruction. They're not lying at the bottom of escalators or sprawled across narrow passageways, he said...."
Sunday, July 13, 2014
HOMELESS GO PRO PROJECT HELPS NON-HOMELESS GAIN EMPATHY FOR HOMELESS
POLICY MIC - WHAT HOMELESS SEE WHEN THEY TALK TO YOU
"According to their website, Homeless GoPro "outfits homeless volunteers with donated high-definition personal cameras, which they use to capture the world as they see it." The project was first conceived by Kevin Adler, a 29-year-old San Francisco resident and sociologist and education technology entrepreneur. Adler's uncle suffered from schizophrenia and died about 10 years ago after spending 30 years of his life homeless. After visiting his uncle's grave site a year ago, Adler began thinking about the people who live on the streets and are ignored daily.
"The goal is to build empathy, enable the non-homeless to walk with a homeless person for a few moments, and to explore how a camera lens associated with 'hardcore' activities like snowboarding and surfing can showcase courage and difficulty of another sort," Adler wrote on the project's website..."
"According to their website, Homeless GoPro "outfits homeless volunteers with donated high-definition personal cameras, which they use to capture the world as they see it." The project was first conceived by Kevin Adler, a 29-year-old San Francisco resident and sociologist and education technology entrepreneur. Adler's uncle suffered from schizophrenia and died about 10 years ago after spending 30 years of his life homeless. After visiting his uncle's grave site a year ago, Adler began thinking about the people who live on the streets and are ignored daily.
"The goal is to build empathy, enable the non-homeless to walk with a homeless person for a few moments, and to explore how a camera lens associated with 'hardcore' activities like snowboarding and surfing can showcase courage and difficulty of another sort," Adler wrote on the project's website..."
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