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Posted on March 10 at 6 p.m.
It would be great to see community support for people in the SB area who are without regular, stable housing manifest in the form of providing a little guiding, facilitating leadership in helping to create a mutual advocacy group comprised of house-less people whose needs are either not effectively or at all being met by area nonprofit organizations and who, rather than complain or demand entitlements, instead want to help meet each other's needs. Perhaps some of the funding and other resources that would be and have traditionally been routinely made available to ineffective organizations can instead be redirected to the initial funding of such a community-guided and sanctioned mutual-advocacy effort of, for, and by people lacking housing.
Posted on February 26 at 9:33 a.m.
I thought the comment "Questions About 'The Count'" in response to Isabelle T. Walker's article "A Brief Preview of Registry Week" was especially relevant.
Posted on December 12 at 9:56 a.m.
Re: Community Support for Homeless Mutual Advocacy Group--Is there any local community interest in providing a little guidance and/or other support to a would-be mutual advocacy group of homeless people whose needs are either not effectively or at all being met by area NPOs, and which homeless people who, rather than complain or demand entitlements, instead want to help meet each other's needs? Perhaps some of the resources that would be and have traditionally been routinely made available to inneffective organizations can instead be repurposed for the supporting of such a community-guided and sanctioned mutual advocacy effort of, for, and by homeless people themselves...
Posted on September 3 at 5:23 p.m.
To quote the article above, and taking it for granted that it is factual: "Caswell-Peyton is chronically homeless and disabled; she’s been homeless here for at least two years and in a wheelchair the whole time."
Posted on September 3 at 7:49 a.m.
Likely she was not 'camping out' at all, but fell asleep while sitting in her wheelchair, which if true is a far cry from the sbdude's (and many under- and misinformed residents') preference to assume what is convenient and easy to believe, rather than getting the facts and getting them straight--(something more difficult to do, but also more beneficial for human wellbeing).
Posted on August 23 at 6:58 p.m.
Impressive...especially for the circumstances.
Posted on July 24 at 11:20 a.m.
The elimination of conflicts of interest where the delivery of essential human services is concerned is a key component of true wellbeing of the entire community and that of its individual human constituents. I am one who believes that quality care can be attained and should be maintained without the financial incentives of six-figure salaries, or of any material or financial incentives that even remotely resemble the rewards and trappings typically found in for-profit sector compensation packages. Any community whose providers of essential human services to the indigent that do not have as their primary goals the development and successful implementation of solutions that effectively render their services unneeded, even obsolete, can and should rightly expect homelessness to continue and to exponentially increase.
Posted on July 23 at 6:59 p.m.
two things worse than being a game piece in someone else's game is:
a)not knowing that you are, and b) not caring if you are
compassionate community members need to stop enabling self-serving nonprofits from profiting from the misery of the poor
volunteers--not vultures
stipends--not salaries
food--not fiscal crises
housing--not warehousing
detox--not dysfunction perpetuation
healing--not hurting
helpfulness--not hand-wringing
Posted on July 23 at 3:07 p.m.
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Posted on August 13 at 3:06 p.m.
Hank's suggestion sounds a lot like a state park.
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