Tag Archives: surviving homelessness
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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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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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