Tag Archives: shelters
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Better Stay Healthy: Sleep and Homelessness
3March 21, 2016 by poverty2professional
Teenagers are recommended 9+ hours of sleep a night. But I was a homeless teenager. 9 hours doesn’t happen.
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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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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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Teen Counseling: Mental Health and Homeless Youth
3February 9, 2016 by poverty2professional
What could be worse than having one social stigma wrapped up with another? I’m talking about mental health and homelessness.
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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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Home for the Holidays
1December 22, 2015 by poverty2professional
I double-clutched posting this so close to Christmas given the general weightiness of the blog. Then one of my friends observed, “It’s not like you stopped being homeless for Christmas.”
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Finding Shelter
Leave a commentDecember 8, 2015 by poverty2professional
In the Los Angeles late autumn and winter, temperatures plummet. Cold winter shelters are a desperately needed resource.
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