Category Archives: Experiencing Homelessness
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Better Stay Healthy: Dental Care and Homelessness
Leave a commentApril 5, 2016 by poverty2professional
Without insurance, dental care was another expense. And without any toothaches, it seemed like a waste of money.
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Better Stay Healthy: Food (In)Security
Leave a commentMarch 30, 2016 by poverty2professional
Health is a luxury for the well-off. We’re not even going into gym memberships or track shoes with the neon swooshes on them – just eating decently.
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Better Stay Healthy
4March 14, 2016 by poverty2professional
If homelessness is a burning house, sickness is the gasoline.
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Avoiding Pitfalls: Being Homeless and Female
Leave a commentMarch 7, 2016 by poverty2professional
I was fortunate to have been in my teens while homeless. Being female, however, is another challenge.
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Counting Blessings: How Lucky I was to be a Homeless Teenager
Leave a commentFebruary 29, 2016 by poverty2professional
It was lucky for us that I was a teenager. I was bigger, more autonomous, and just a little less helpless.
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Shelter Rules
Leave a commentFebruary 22, 2016 by poverty2professional
“This is like being in prison, but you haven’t done anything wrong.”
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Pound Puppies
Leave a commentFebruary 17, 2016 by poverty2professional
It didn’t take long to come up with a euphemism for our new place of residence. We called our shelter the Pound.
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Admitted!…To a Shelter
Leave a commentFebruary 1, 2016 by poverty2professional
The day I turned 17, I got the weirdest birthday gift of my life: my father and I were admitted to a family shelter. I wondered if this is what it felt like to be admitted to college.
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8 Necessities to Surviving and Escaping Homelessness
Leave a commentJanuary 25, 2016 by poverty2professional
Last week’s post focused on more social and psychological skills related to slogging out of homelessness. Here are the concrete, hold-it-in-your-hands things you’re going to need to actually get out.
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Secrets to Survival
1January 19, 2016 by poverty2professional
When you don’t have the most fundamental resource and all that it provides, how do you identify your resources? How do you escape?
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