This site is intended to educate the public on broad social, political and economic issues affecting low-income families. Comments made by readers herein do not represent the views or positions of the Marguerite Casey Foundation or Equal Voice, America’s Family Story, and do not constitute a recommendation for or against any specific candidate, legislation, or legislative proposal.
Users must refrain from making or posting comments that may constitute or could be viewed as lobbying or political campaigning under the U.S. federal tax laws. In addition, users must refrain from making or posting vulgar, obscene, threatening or abusive comments on this site. The website moderator reserves the right in its sole discretion, but not the responsibility, to delete or edit any user submission to this site, and/or to bar the participation by anyone who it reasonably believes to have violated these principles. Complete rules of conduct for this site are contained in the Term of Use
St. Joseph Center, a Venice-based social service agency that has served poor and homeless individuals for more than 30 years, wants to find them before it's too late.
That is why dozens of volunteers and social workers fanned out for three nights earlier this month to survey the community's street denizens. With a grant from Los Angeles County, the agency plans to crunch the data and identify the 40 most vulnerable individuals. The next step will be to use Section 8 vouchers provided by the Los Angeles Housing Authority to house them and provide supportive services to help them overcome addictions and other physical and mental issues.
Read More
No comments:
Post a Comment