Tag Archives: advice
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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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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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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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