AMPLE HARVEST FIND A PANTRY - NEW LINK

If you need to eat go to the DIRECTORY.... If you want to contribute your extra home garden produce go to http://www.ampleharvest.org/index.php

RUSSIAN NEWS REPORTS FIVE YEARS SINCE KATRINA and THE HOMELESS ARE STILL COPING

NEW ORLEANS NEWS : FED AWARDS 26.2 MILLION TO HOMELESS PROGRAMS

The federal government has awarded $26.2 million for 153 programs to assist the homeless in Louisiana.The money is coming from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

SANTA CLARITA ? CALIFORNIA HOMELESS SHELTER LINKS

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

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."

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!

TOMMY JAMES and THE SHONDELLS I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY CALIFORNIA HOMELESS COMMUNITY ACTION

New Link to San Barnardino County homeless information:

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?

LA TENT CITY

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.

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."

SAN DIEGO HOMELESS

San Diego has one of the largest populations of homeless in the nation. In "Small Acts of Kindness" we see a day in the life of San Diego homeless through the eyes of Dave "The Water Man" Ross and Congressman Bob Filner, Chair of the VA Committee. Rachel Jensen, founder of Girls Think Tank, also appears. This puts a human face on this problem that is a challenge to society.

HAVE YOU BEEN ARRESTED FOR PANHANDLING?

Panhandling is the activity some homeless (and some not homeless) do that is closest to the begging that poor in many other 3rd world countries do here in the United States of America.

Many homeless depend on the money they are given on the street to buy the little extra they need. Others use the money they get to buy alcohol or drugs.

We know people who use panhandled money for sanitary napkins and tampons, socks, and thrift store shoes.

HAVE YOU BEEN ARRESTED FOR PANHANDLING?

CRIMINALIZATION OF PANDHANDLING - GRAND JUNCTION EXPOSED

READ ALL ABOUT IT!


Let's face it: THEY MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO BE POOR IN AMERICA!

A WHOLE PAGE OF BUTTERFLIES

LIKE US, transient and capable of metamorphosis.

WHAT IS YOUR WISH FOR YOUR CHILDREN?

So many children are living in motels, shelters, in vehicles... Sometimes this is because they have been abandoned by one parent...

THE ABANDONED.ORG PASADENA CALIFORNIA

adopting 23 families (40 children total) for Christmas who are living in Transitional Living. This charity says they give 100% of what they get from contributors. This site has information beyond this Youtube video.

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HOMELESS LOS ANGELES 2010 LATEST NEWS

EVERYBODY'S TALKING HARRY NEILSON

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