Tag Archives: surviving homelessness

  1. Avoiding Pitfalls: Being Homeless and Female

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    March 7, 2016 by poverty2professional

    I was fortunate to have been in my teens while homeless. Being female, however, is another challenge.

  2. Counting Blessings: How Lucky I was to be a Homeless Teenager

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    February 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.

  3. Shelter Rules

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    February 22, 2016 by poverty2professional

    “This is like being in prison, but you haven’t done anything wrong.”

  4. Pound Puppies

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    February 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.

  5. 8 Necessities to Surviving and Escaping Homelessness

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    January 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.

  6. Secrets to Survival

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    January 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?