Showing posts with label legal advisory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legal advisory. Show all posts
Friday, September 18, 2015
ASK THE SHELTER AT INTAKE - HERE ARE SOME QUESTIONS - CAN YOU THINK OF MORE?
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN IN BUSINESS?
WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF THIS SHELTER? (Ask even if they have published some PR for their fundraising or run YouTube videos that profile a "success story" client.)
HOW IS THIS SHELTER FUNDED? Donations? Federal Funds? Veterans? State Funds? County Funds? Mental Health? City Funds?
(We'd love to know what percentage of donations from private citizens are actually used to help the homeless and HOW.)
DO YOU FIND PEOPLE HOUSING?
WHAT KIND OF HOUSING IS THAT?
Single Room Occupancy? Putting me in with another resident to be a caregiver? Section 8 housing? Another kind of housing voucher or low income program? Roommates in a shelter room? On cots? On Beds? FOR HOW LONG?
HOW LONG DOES IT NORMALLY TAKE FOR A PERSON WHO IS TAKEN IN BY YOUR SHELTER TO GET HOUSING?
Do you prioritize people who live/lived in this area?
Am I expected to pay you or give you money? Cash? Money Order? Check? Turning my paycheck over to you?
How much a day, week, or month, do you expect me to pay or give you?
HOW IS THIS AMOUNT DETERMINED? (A percentage of my GR, SSI, PAYCHECK?)
Do you save my money for me? If I want to leave how long will I have to wait to get my money? If you kick me out how long will I have to wait to get my money. (One shelter we know of gets rid of people on Friday and has no money to give back to them for weeks.)
Am I expected to volunteer as a means of paying for my stay?
How many hours a week?
What if I cannot work or volunteer?
Do you take people who are on GR/WELFARE?
Do you take people who are on SSI/SSDI?
Are other residents violent? If a roommate or other resident is violent to me, will you expect me to take care of it by myself or will you support me? What is the procedure for complaint? What if I'm being targeted for harassment?
Do you take people who are on probation or parole?
Do you take people who are mentally ill?
Are people who are mentally ill, from criminal backgrounds, or who have problems with drugs expected to share rooms?
Is there a procedure for complaining about a case manager or changing a case manager?
SOME NEW QUESTIONS ARE ON OUR SIDEBAR IN PAGESSECTION
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READERS: CAN YOU THINK OF ANY MORE QUESTIONS THAT SHOULD BE ASKED?
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
HOW TO USE THIS BLOG TO FIND SERVICES - USE THE SEARCH FEATURE EMBEDDED IN THE BLOG!
HOW TO USE THIS BLOG TO FIND SERVICES
The SEARCH feature ( the white input block on the left side of the blog) is enabled so that you can run a search within EXPOSE HOMELESSNESS for information by using the exact name, part of the name, a TAG (which will bring up all posts in a category) such as "YOUTH", "SHELTER", "ORANGE COUNTY", or "QUESTIONS", as examples.
WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT IF YOU LET US KNOW OF ANY OUT OF DATE LINK / INFORMATION YOU ENCOUNTER! We are in the process of taking very outdated links down, especially if we have updated links to the same non-profit, shelter, food bank, or news.
You can leave information for us by using the COMMENT feature, without having an e-mail address or blogger yourself. We have the anonymous function turned on.
WE READ ALL COMMENTS before making a decision about posting.
You can also use this anonymous function to ask us to contact you without exposing your contact info. Leave an e-mail address and simply advise us DO NOT POST!
WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT IF YOU LET US KNOW OF ANY OUT OF DATE LINK / INFORMATION YOU ENCOUNTER! We are in the process of taking very outdated links down, especially if we have updated links to the same non-profit, shelter, food bank, or news.
You can leave information for us by using the COMMENT feature, without having an e-mail address or blogger yourself. We have the anonymous function turned on.
WE READ ALL COMMENTS before making a decision about posting.
You can also use this anonymous function to ask us to contact you without exposing your contact info. Leave an e-mail address and simply advise us DO NOT POST!
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Friday, September 6, 2013
HOMELESS COURT - LA COUNTY - UPDATE
http://www.ladpss.org/dpss/grow/homeless_court.cfm UPDATED FEB 2016
READ THIS AND FIND OUT IF YOU ARE ELIGIBLE. YOU WILL NEED A LETTER OF SUPPORT and THAT IS TO COME FROM A CASE MANAGER SO LIKELY YOU ARE IN A PROGRAM WHEN YOU CAN USE THIS OPPORTUNITY.
"The Homeless Court (HC) program was created by the Los Angeles County Superior Court, the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, the Los Angeles Public Defender’s Office and advocates for the homeless including Public Counsel and the Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority (LAHSA).
This program helps impoverished individuals with a history of homelessness to clear tickets and warrants for minor offenses such as traffic tickets, infractions, and various minor misdemeanors including jaywalking, riding the metro without a fare, sleeping in public places, illegal use of shopping carts, possession of an open container of alcohol in public, obstructing traffic on the sidewalk, sleeping on a bus bench, as well as any warrants that arise for failure to resolve these offenses..."
Here is a blog by a law student at Loyola about HOMELESS COURT!
LOYOLA STUDENT BLOG on HOMELESS COURT
"The session I went to was hosted at People Assisting the Homeless (PATH), a non-profit organization that offers a wide variety of services to people without housing. Judge Tynan, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, was presiding. Individuals are invited to participate when they have met the program requirements and undergone the application approval process. By participating in Homeless Court, they have the chance of having some of their outstanding warrants and tickets recalled and quashed "in the interest of justice." The tickets and/or warrants can only be the result of the commission of an eligible minor and non-violent "quality of life" offense, traffic infraction or misdemeanor; felonies cannot be set aside. The "interest of justice" here is simply the ability to allow people to get their lives back on track by removing the impediments of quality-of-life tickets (urination in public, sleeping in public) or traffic tickets (traveling solo in a carpool lane) that they are unable to pay. I found the process to be a reasonable outgrowth of a simple idea: Whether you are still homeless or not, if you fit the criteria and are ready to move your life forward, you should not be prevented from doing so because of an unpaid loitering ticket. Some clients I talked to had been waiting for two years to address three traffic tickets that have prevented them from getting a job. Therefore, when they were invited to the Homeless Court session, they similarly jumped at the opportunity..."
READ THIS AND FIND OUT IF YOU ARE ELIGIBLE. YOU WILL NEED A LETTER OF SUPPORT and THAT IS TO COME FROM A CASE MANAGER SO LIKELY YOU ARE IN A PROGRAM WHEN YOU CAN USE THIS OPPORTUNITY.
"The Homeless Court (HC) program was created by the Los Angeles County Superior Court, the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, the Los Angeles Public Defender’s Office and advocates for the homeless including Public Counsel and the Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority (LAHSA).
This program helps impoverished individuals with a history of homelessness to clear tickets and warrants for minor offenses such as traffic tickets, infractions, and various minor misdemeanors including jaywalking, riding the metro without a fare, sleeping in public places, illegal use of shopping carts, possession of an open container of alcohol in public, obstructing traffic on the sidewalk, sleeping on a bus bench, as well as any warrants that arise for failure to resolve these offenses..."
Here is a blog by a law student at Loyola about HOMELESS COURT!
LOYOLA STUDENT BLOG on HOMELESS COURT
"The session I went to was hosted at People Assisting the Homeless (PATH), a non-profit organization that offers a wide variety of services to people without housing. Judge Tynan, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, was presiding. Individuals are invited to participate when they have met the program requirements and undergone the application approval process. By participating in Homeless Court, they have the chance of having some of their outstanding warrants and tickets recalled and quashed "in the interest of justice." The tickets and/or warrants can only be the result of the commission of an eligible minor and non-violent "quality of life" offense, traffic infraction or misdemeanor; felonies cannot be set aside. The "interest of justice" here is simply the ability to allow people to get their lives back on track by removing the impediments of quality-of-life tickets (urination in public, sleeping in public) or traffic tickets (traveling solo in a carpool lane) that they are unable to pay. I found the process to be a reasonable outgrowth of a simple idea: Whether you are still homeless or not, if you fit the criteria and are ready to move your life forward, you should not be prevented from doing so because of an unpaid loitering ticket. Some clients I talked to had been waiting for two years to address three traffic tickets that have prevented them from getting a job. Therefore, when they were invited to the Homeless Court session, they similarly jumped at the opportunity..."
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