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Honestly I believe that if there young and able to work they should get an opportunity for work, and if there lazy or have addictions problems they should be put in some rehab to get there life together. But if there vets coming home or been here homeless they should really be helped by the US and not be shamed for fighting to protect us. They go through a lot at war. They should not come home and fight another war call homelessness, they should be treated well for what they did. But for those who don’t wanna get a job and rather be homeless or act homeless get there life  together and do something in their life. There are many opportunities here in the United States. If someone who comes to America with no money walk BY FOOT to cross the boarder to find job. You might ass well too, your already at this side of the boarder

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This is helping the homeless trying to get houses and a group of organized people trying to get them a job and get them back on their feet. Any problems that they are going through these people are sending them to rehab for free and etc.

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How We Help End Homelessness

We reach out to homeless individuals through street outreach and mobile outreach services and once we engage with homeless individuals, youth and families with children, we provide assistance that ranges from paying a first month's rent to offering permanent supportive housing so that people with disabilities can become stable and productive members of their communities. In 2017, we helped over 100,000 homeless individuals.

We have found that, without supportive services, housing is often not enough to end homelessness. From helping homeless youth, to providing assistance in obtaining disability benefits, to providing transportation, to offering intensive job training assistance to homeless veterans, we operate a number of innovative supportive services programs to support our efforts of ending homelessness in America.

Emergency Shelter

While permanent housing, often coupled with supportive services, is the best way to end homelessness, many individuals and families need short-term stabilization before they can find housing that will meet their long term needs. That's why Volunteers of America, for over 123 years, has provided emergency assistance to homeless persons in the form of homeless shelters.

Drop-In Centers

Since homeless persons can be reluctant to leave the streets and accept emergency shelter or transitional housing, we operate drop-in centers - places where homeless youth or adults can get off the streets and find a temporary safe haven. And often, when homeless persons begin to trust drop-in center staff, they agree to leave the streets and enter transitional or permanent housing.

Permanent Supportive Housing

For a significant number of homeless Americans with mental or physical impairments, often coupled with drug and/or alcohol use issues, long-term homelessness can only be ended by providing permanent housing coupled with intensive supportive services.

Transitional Housing

Our transitional housing programs are operated with one goal in mind - to help individuals and families obtain permanent housing as quickly as possible. Our programs serve diverse populations - from women and children who are victims of domestic violence to homeless veterans who have spent years living on the streets.

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Providing support for those experiencing homelessness | Volunteers of America

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We reach out to homeless individuals through street outreach and mobile outreach services and once we engage with homeless individuals, youth and families with children, we provide assistance that ranges from paying a first month's rent to offering permanent supportive housing so that people with disabilities can become stable and productive members of their communities.

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This is a day of a man trying to spread love to people who are on the streets giving them gifts

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Helping The Homeless ❤️ Valentine's Day!

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This video shows a man trying to help the people that he see give them items food and water buying things that they want

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In 1983, Congress appropriated $100 million for emergency food and shelter to be funneled to community groups through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Since then it has appropriated $320 million more for this purpose and has made changes in federal housing assistance, food stamps, Medicaid, mental health, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), veterans, job training, and other programs primarily to make them more accessible to the homeless. A brief summary of measures enacted since 1983 follows.

P.L. 98-8: With passage of the Emergency Jobs Appropriations Act of 1983, Congress appropriated $100 million for emergency food and shelter to be channeled to community-based groups through FEMA. Half of the funds were disseminated by a national board of volunteer organizations and the other half were allocated to the states as formula grants. The act also provided $125 million to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to purchase ($75 million) and distribute ($50 million) surplus food commodities to the needy. The new program was named the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP).

P.L. 98-94: The 1984 Department of Defense Authorization Act permitted military installations to make facilities available for shelters.

P.L.'s 98-151, 98-181, and 98-396: Various appropriations measures passed in 1984 gave FEMA an additional $I 10 million to be allocated for emergency food and shelter. P.L. 98-181 also provided $60 million for an emergency shelter program to be administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); however, these funds were never expended. HUD testifies that Community Development Block Grant money was being used for the same purpose.

P.L. 98-288: The Domestic Volunteer Service Act Amendments of 1983 authorized the use of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) in projects to aid the homeless.

P.L.'s 99-88 and 99-160: Two appropriations acts passed in 1985 gave FEMA an additional $90 million to be allocated for emergency food and shelter.

P.L. 99-129: The Health Professions Training Assistance Act of 1985 directed the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to arrange with the National Academy of Sciences for an Institute of Medicine study of the delivery of inpatient and outpatient health care services to homeless people.

P.L. 99-167: The 1986 Military Construction Authorization Act permitted military installations to make surplus bedding available to shelter operators.

P.L. 99-198: The Food Security Act of 1985 required state welfare offices to develop ways to issue food stamps to people with no permanent address. It also reauthorized TEFAP through fiscal year 1987 (FY87) again providing $50 million per year for distribution costs but imposing a cost-sharing requirement on distribution activities run at the state government level.

P.L. 99-570: As part of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, Congress enacted the Homeless Eligibility Clarification Act that (1) removed the bar to food stamp eligibility for shelter residents and permitted the homeless to use food stamps to buy prepared meals from soup kitchens and shelters; (2) required the federal agencies responsible for Medicaid, AFDC, and SSI to develop methods to assess eligibility for, and make aid available to, people who do not have fixed home or mailing addresses; (3) prohibited the denial of veterans' benefits because of the lack of a mailing address; (4) required the Social Security Administration (SSA) to make regular visits to facilities for the homeless to take SSI and food stamp applications, and required SSA and the U.S Department of Agriculture to develop procedures to take SSI and food stamp applications from people about to be discharged from medical, penal, and other institutions; and (5) explicitly made the homeless eligible for state and local job training programs authorized by the Job Training Partnership Act and required that their job training be coordinated with education, training, and assistance available under other public programs.

The Veterans Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have promulgated and adopted the mandated regulatory frameworks. They are effective retroactively to October 1986. SSA has issued revisions to its program operating manual; the Health Care Financing Administration published a new policy statement in February 1987 that implemented the provisions of P.L. 99-570.

P.L. 99-591: As part of a continuing appropriations measure, $15 million was given to HUD to allocate in FY87 (under the title of the Homeless Housing Act of 1986) for housing demonstration projects affecting the homeless. The measure also gave FEMA an additional $70 million to be allocated for emergency food and shelter.

P.L. 99-660: As part of an omnibus health care bill, Congress gave the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) specific authority to award grants for demonstration projects affecting the homeless mentally ill.

P.L. 100-6: Congress passed a measure reallocating $50 million in disaster relief funds to programs aiding the homeless. So that these funds would be of some relief during the winter months, Congress passed H.J. Res. 102, a supplemental appropriations act permitting $45 million of the previously reallocated funds to be used for FEMA's emergency food and shelter program and the other $5 million to be used by the Veterans Administration (VA) to provide services to homeless mentally ill veterans. The administration initially opposed the transfer, arguing that it might jeopardize the disaster relief program and that the money would not reach the homeless in time to meet winter needs. The resolution also included language rejecting the administration's proposed deferral of $28.6 million for distribution costs under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's surplus food distribution program (TEFAP). Although considerable controversy emerged over the resolution after the Senate added language rejecting an imminent congressional pay raise, the resolution passed both houses of Congress and was signed into law on February 12, 1987.

P.L. 100-77: The major homeless aid bill of the 100th Congress, H.R. 558, the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987, was signed into law on July 23, 1987. In a parallel action taken by Congress, a supplemental appropriations bill authorizing most of the funds for P.L. 100-77 was passed and signed into law on July 11, 1987.

The following are some highlights of this particular piece of legislation.

Authorization of $200,000 for FY87 and $2.5 million to establish a 3-year Interagency Council on the Homeless, composed of most cabinet secretaries and the heads of several independent agencies.

Authorization of $15 million for FY87 (in addition to funds already appropriated) and $124 million for FY88 for FEMA's emergency food and shelter program, which had been operating by way of appropriation language for the previous 4 years.

Authorizations, with regard to HUD, for (1) $100 million in FY87 and $120 million in FY88 for state grants for emergency shelter and $80 million in FY87 and $100 million in FY88 for a supportive housing demonstration program (of which at least $20 million would be earmarked for projects that serve homeless families with children and at least $15 million for projects providing permanent housing for handicapped homeless people); the amounts that would be authorized for FY87 for both programs are in addition to the $15 million already appropriated under the FY87 continuing resolution, P.L. 99-591; and (2) an additional $35 million each for FY87 and FY88 for Section 8 assistance for the rehabilitation of single room occupancy (SRO) dwellings to be used solely to house the homeless.

Authorizations, with regard to HHS, for (1) $50 million in FY87 and $30 million in FY88 for new grants to provide outpatient health care to the homeless; (2) $35 million in FY87 and such sums as may be necessary in FY88 for new state block grants to provide outpatient mental health services to the homeless chronically mentally ill; (3) $10 million in FY87 for new alcohol and drug abuse treatment demonstration projects for the homeless to be conducted by community-based public and nonprofit entities; and (4) $40 million for each of FY87 and FY88 for emergency community services grants for the homeless under the community services block grant program.

Authorizations, with regard to the Department of Education, for (1) $7.5 million in FY87 and $10 million in FY88 for new state grants to develop literacy programs for homeless adults; (2) $5 million for each of FY87 and FY88 for state grants to establish an Office of Coordinator of Education of Homeless Children and Youth in each state to ensure that homeless children have access to public education; and (3) $2.5 million in FY88 for new grants to state and local education agencies for exemplary programs that successfully address the needs of homeless elementary and secondary school students.

With regard to the Department of Agriculture, the bill will, among other things, (1) allow related families with children who live together to be treated as separate households for the purpose of obtaining food stamps, and (2) prohibit third-party payments on behalf of households residing in temporary shelter that lack adequate cooking facilities from being counted as income for the purpose of obtaining food stamps, thereby increasing benefits for those in certain welfare hotels.

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In 1983, Congress appropriated $100 million for emergency food and shelter to be funneled to community groups through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Since then it has appropriated $320 million more for this purpose and has made changes in federal housing assistance, food stamps, Medicaid, mental health, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), veterans, job training, and other programs primarily to make them more accessible to the homeless.

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The National Coalition for the Homeless is deeply saddened by the recent senseless attacks on men sleeping outdoors in San Diego that have left three dead and one more critically injured.

But we are not surprised.

Over the last several months, San Diego has been sweeping homeless encampments, constantly displacing residents who have nowhere else to go and disposing of items of personal and survival value. Quietly, the city laid down boulders beneath an overpass, on a side walk often used by houseless folks to rest.

Should any of us be surprised that a high school cheerleader was recently charged, along with two teenage brothers, in the beating death of a homeless man just outside of the city?

In the early 1990's, the National Coalition for the Homeless noticed that a growing number of cities were passing ordinances banning everyday activities carried out by people who were homeless. Bans on panhandling, camping, or even sharing food in public places have since become common place in cities across the country, just as poverty and homelessness have been increasing.

No Safe Street: A Survey of Violence Committed against Homeless People a new report published by the National Coalition for the Homeless finds that over the last 17 years, at least 1,657 people experiencing homelessness have been the victims of violence perpetrated for the sole reason that they were unhoused at the time. This number includes 428 men and women who lost their lives for being homeless, and in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It is easy to see a correlation between the appearance of laws criminalizing homelessness, and the increase of hate crimes or violent acts against homeless people. A 2014 report from the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty found that out of 187 cities that have enacted some type of law criminalizing daily activities often carried out by people without stable housing, 21 cities were located in California (11%) and 17 were in Florida (9%). No Safe Street finds that out of 199 attacks against homeless persons in 2014-2015, the largest share of incidents took place in California (43 attacks) and Florida (18 attacks).

One possible explanation for this is the message that criminalizing homelessness sends to the general public: "Homeless people do not matter and are not worthy of living in our city." This message is blatant in the attitudes many cities have toward homeless people and can be used as an internal justification for attacking someone.

No Safe Street cites more than double the number of fatalities from bias motivated violence against people who are homeless than the FBI has tracked for all federally protected classes combined. Professor of Criminal Justice at California State University San Bernardino, Brian Levin, finds that "the characteristics of bias attacks against the homeless are very similar to that of hate crime in general. As with other hate crimes, offenders fit a pattern: typically, young male "thrill offenders" acting on stereotypes, seeking excitement and peer validation."

Moreover, in communities across the country (except for a handful of progressive cities and states), it is perfectly legal to discriminate against someone who is unhoused in employment, housing, or even in delivery of health or social services. What message are our municipalities sending to their residents?

As we have attempted to legislate homelessness out of sight in our communities, we have created a hostile environment for people who fall on hard times. Social services have not kept up with the pace of need, and in many cases have been cut or restricted. Instead of responding with compassion and generosity, on the whole, our communities have responded with prejudice and judgement.

Study after study has found savings for public services when someone is housed versus homeless. In fact, the University of Denver's School of Law released a report earlier this year which found that just six Colorado cities have spent more than five million dollars enforcing 14 anti-homeless ordinances over the last 5 years through policing, court and incarceration costs. Our failure to end homelessness has only brought financial and human costs to our communities.

As we look towards a change in our federal leadership, the National Coalition for the Homeless calls on our fellow citizens to prioritize compassion over comfort. The solution to homelessness, and the best method for preventing further violence, is simple: housing.
Read the full report. View more about Hate Crimes against people experiencing homeless.

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Don’t miss what’s happening

People on Twitter are the first to know.

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Home tweet home: How social media is giving the homeless a hand up

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R.D. Plasschaert credits one main thing for pulling her out of homelessness: Twitter.

"Social media is the reason I was moved out of homelessness," Plasschaert said. "The government agencies, shelters and others were not the reason I was placed in housing."

Plasschaert isn't alone. Nonprofit groups, aid organizations and advocates are increasingly using social media to connect with the homeless. The homeless also put a high value on the devices that keep them connected.

A 2011 study through the University of Southern California School of Social Work found that 62 percent of homeless teens had a phone, a data plan and that they viewed the device as important for them as food. While the study focused on teens, homeless advocate Mark Horvath says those numbers likely apply to the adult homeless as well.

Known on Twitter as @HardlyNormal, Horvath founded a nonprofit group called Invisible People and pioneered a concept he calls virtual case management after his own ordeal with homelessness. While typical case management involves regular office visits, sometimes with multiple caseworkers across multiple aid organizations, virtual case management can reach the homeless or those in crisis anytime, so long as they have a cellphone.

"Hypothetically, the idea is that if a person is hungry in Phoenix, a nonprofit would be listening on Twitter," Horvath said. "People talk about affordable technology in the context of Africa. We've got Third-World conditions right here."

Horvath first experienced the power of social media four years ago while tweeting with a woman in the Midwest.

"She would go to bed in an alley in Chicago and she would tweet, 'You're all with me, I don't feel alone,' " Horvath said. "I thought ... how powerful is that?"

Horvath took to Twitter with a mission: Find, counsel and direct as many homeless people as possible to help.

"In five-10 years, virtual case management will be a common term," Horvath said. "But right now, people think I'm crazy."
A voice
Kara Zordel knows Horvath's approach works because she uses Twitter on a daily basis as the executive director of San Francisco-based nonprofit Project Homeless Connect to make a difference in a city where there are more than 7,000 living on the streets.

It started with socks and shoes.

"We have so many homeless with diabetes who need clean socks and shoes to keep them out of the emergency room," Zordel said. "We started thinking, if people in the community just knew about it, they would do something."

Using Twitter, the program gets clients needed donations.

One example? Wheelchairs. They get stolen from clients two to three times a month, Zordel said, and these clients often call from the sidewalk.

"If they call us, we can get them a wheelchair right then, saving the community time and money and engaging them to get off the streets," Zordel said.

A major tool for success is access to phones for clients. Through the Federal Communications Commission's Lifeline Program, more than 12 million people have received wireless phones. Begun in 1985 to get home phones to low-income families, the program has expanded to cellphone distribution.

Horvath and Zordel both say engagement is key to ending homelessness - made much easier with cellphones.

"Without a cellphone right now, you really can't survive. If by giving someone a phone, we're able to keep them engaged, that's the first step to ending homelessness," Zordel said. "We've never had anyone come back and say they lost their phone. Ever."

"If you're going to be homeless, what are the two things you're going to take with you? Your laptop and your iPhone. We expect people in poverty to live in a certain way and be happy with whatever we give them. But the truth is, everyone should have technology," Horvath said.

For Zordel, Twitter also gives the homeless a chance to network with nonprofits, shelters and even other homeless people who can help. It also makes them visible in a new way.

"[It gives them] a voice," Zordel said. "We will all know somebody who will fall on hard times. When they start to understand the issue, they see them as a human being. When you hear a person's voice, it's impossible to look away."
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"Sitting on the tracks, waiting for the next train, ready to end it all. Goodbye world."

Not long ago, there wasn't much personnel with Toronto's public transit authority could do when suicidal people offer tweeted a farewell while standing on the train tracks or before jumping in front of a train.

After seeing Horvath's outreach on Twitter and his work with some of the homeless in Canada, crisis intervention specialist Anne Marie Bratten and Toronto police officer Scott Mills adapted Horvath's idea for crisis response. They call it Real Time Crisis.

When rail workers alerted Bratten about the tweet, she was able to connect with the woman via Twitter immediately, eventually talking her off the tracks.

The instant connection Twitter offers is essential, Bratten said.

"There are times when there is no support. The idea with this is to be there with them in real time. If I can connect with them right away, I can keep that person safe," Bratten said.

Engagement and connection are what many people - homeless, suicidal or otherwise in need of help - are looking for.

"Whether you're talking to your bartender or your priest, everyone needs somebody to talk to," Horvath said. "If your social network has been under a bridge, moving into housing can be scary and a lot of nonprofits don't have the structure to come see clients every day. But online, [the social connections] are amazing."

The homeless aren't the only group hoping to connect. Everyday people who see the homeless on the streets are looking for a deeper connection, too.

HandUp, a San Francisco-based startup company, networks with nonprofits like Project Homeless Connect to funnel donations to an individual homeless person via a caseworker for anything from food to medical care. Donors can send an email or text. Many donors have ongoing conversations with HandUp clients, says Rose Broome, founder of HandUp.

"They can write back," Broome said. "There's something about seeing that connection that's like, 'Wow, some barriers are being broken down.' "

Broome said she thinks people want to have certainty that what they give helps.

"Donors want more of a way to give directly and know what's happening. So it's not just, 'I gave $20,' it's 'I gave $20 that helped a person get a transit pass to get to their appointments this week,' " Broome said.

Thanks to social media, Horvath might be getting closer to his goal one Twitter connection at a time.

In one of Horvath's videos, Plasschaert looks like a kid waiting to blow out birthday candles while her caseworker goes over housing paperwork. It's the culmination of a journey that began with a connection on social media.

"Without Twitter, I wouldn't be standing here," she told a crowd at a 2012 social media conference in New York. "I would be sleeping on the streets."

A pen stroke later, Apartment 2 becomes home sweet home.

"An address," Plasschaert marvels. "Wow."

Email: chjohnson@deseretnews.com

Twitter: ChandraMJohnson

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R.D. Plasschaert credits one main thing for pulling her out of homelessness: Twitter. "Social media is the reason I was moved out of homelessness," Plasschaert said. "The government agencies, shelters and others were not the reason I was placed in housing." Plasschaert isn't alone.

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Transforming a Homeless Mans Life... **SUPER EMOTIONAL**

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For the third year, Berkeleyside will join with dozens of Bay Area media outlets for one day of coverage focused on people living on the streets and in shelters.

The idea is simple: shine a spotlight on one of the region's most persistent problems. By running dozens of stories on the causes of and solutions to homelessness - and what life is like for the thousands living on the streets - there may be a slight shift in the universe that leads to a more informed electorate and stronger decision making.

"Four years ago, The San Francisco Chronicle spearheaded a revolutionary news coverage effort with our colleagues from more than 100 news outlets," Audrey Cooper, editor-in-chief of the newspaper, wrote in June to describe the project. "The SF Homeless Project made headlines for the novel way it brought competitors together to shake the public and politicians out of our collective sense of hopelessness. This is a crisis that is well within our ability to solve, but we lacked the public willpower to consider new solutions. It's the media's job to provoke discourse; the SF Homeless Project accepted that role and took it further, almost willing anyone not to pay attention during one focused day of mass coverage of the causes of and solutions to homelessness."

Berkeleyside is joining about 30 other media outlets in this effort on Wednesday. Other participants include The Chronicle, KQED, Google News Lab, Mission Local, The Bold Italic, The Potrero View, KRON-4, 48Hills, Bay City Beacon, InMenlo, Castro Valley Matters, KGO-810, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco Public Press, KTVU, Sing Tao Daily, TechCrunch, Stories Behind the Fog, ABC-7, The E'ville Eye, Silicon Valley magazine, San Francisco magazine, KALW, the San Francisco Examiner and KPIX.

Berkeleyside won an award in explanatory journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists, NorCal chapter, for the SF Homeless Project stories we ran in 2016. We participated again in 2017 and now in 2019.

You can find most of the coverage from the 30+ media outlets by following the SF Homeless Project on Facebook.

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For the third year, Berkeleyside will join with dozens of Bay Area media outlets for one day of coverage focused on people living on the streets and in shelters.