To protect my Independence I will except no Governments funds

To protect my Independence I will except no Governments funds

There has been many that have said you can get grants for something like this from the Government and yet and for me and those I assist and protect like a women living in her car with her children afraid the state will take them from her due to her positions

To protect my Independence & hers and her children I will except no Governments funds with anything that comes from such things they come with rules attached and I can for the life of me place a rule or condition on how and why I love or care for another love I think must come with out chains or bounds on it people say well its tough love no its cruel tough love in my eyes is you being tough and taking some of the pain for another and help them see that they are not alone and that there are people who care it not all that hard to give a dollar to another

“Tell me What would it hurt for me to give a homeless guy a couple bucks? Who the hell cares if he spends it on beer? Maybe beer is a step up for him from the harder stuff that knocked him onto the streets in the first place. Maybe, just maybe, he’s actually going to spend it on food (homeless people do eat, right?). Maybe, he really is a desperate human being who is trying to change his situation.”

Many can not see the truth in these words and yet To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're likely not to forget it. But, to live through a struggle, you'll understand it.”

“Sometimes it's easy to walk by because we know we can't change someone's whole life in a single afternoon. But what we fail to realize it that simple kindness can go a long way toward encouraging someone who is stuck in a desolate place.”

Homeless people’s suffering belongs to the amusement of our political order under a game over the right of marginalized group being transformed into citizens for merely punishment and humiliation. The Public Space Protection Orders is a penalty over one’s condition suffering – it is a fine over the dis-empowered for being dis empowered. This act allows power to fragment the homeless into sub-humans punishable for the state of utter misery and we the people have allowed this to come to pass What does that say about the We the people and what we have become and what will we tell are children when they too have a lack of compassion and leadership in Christ ??.”

We can call the homeless man women or child anything we wish but I see this in the political forum That The War on Drugs and the War on Homelessness are on a collision course that no one in the media or in public life are willing to acknowledge. Ostensibly aimed at decreasing the use of illegal drugs, the War on Drugs succeeds only in increasing homelessness hence the establishment's goal is being set and dependency on the state and taxpayer met slaves are made in such ways .”

Although both homelessness and mental illness are complex, modern ideas, we have fallen into the habit of using phrases such as "housing the homeless" and "treating the mentally ill" as if we knew what counts as housing a homeless person or what it means to treat mental illness. But we do not. We have deceived ourselves that having a home and being mentally healthy are our natural conditions, and that we become homeless or mentally ill as a result of "losing" our homes or our minds. The opposite is the case. We are born without a home and without reason, and have to exert ourselves and are fortunate if we succeed in building a secure home and a sound mind if at all in this world we live in today .”

I asked my mother What I should do !! All she had to say on the issue is son Let your love be the kindness to make a homeless person believe that a soul needs something more than just four walls and a ceiling.” There was one young women I have been helping I ask here were the scars and bruise came from she did not answer me but cried I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts— I knew which ones had been done to her and by someone she thought she could trust. Someone she thought loved her. I knew which ones she gave yourself and I cried with her I do not know if you can see through my eyes to my heart how we felt at that moment but I can say this I felt less pain in war than I did for her at that moment in time of both our lives.

I have placed myself in their shoes the homeless I had to see exactly how it felt what I found was humiliation and Ridicule of the utmost Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.

What I see as the truth and the problem with many is the fact we have become to contempt for poverty and it stems from information overload--this is the enabler---our over education as privileged people-- perhaps the real culprit--and our secret assurance that we ourselves owe no one anything beyond the exhausting daily round. We will defend our lack of idealism to anyone and be horrifyingly well received in this age. Indeed, many so-called financial "philosophies" are in fact nothing more than elaborate justification for one petty selfishness after the next.

And yet we can't impose our own goals, wishes, or help on anyone. We can only teach, support, and love. We give them more opportunities, more choices. Then we love them regardless of the choices they make, hoping that they will learn to make better ones in the future The Key to overcoming the challenges in life is to make up your mind to overcome the Challenge and is something I have tried dearly to share with those I have helped and am helping.



For me I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business and I am not silent about the issues of our time. I just hope that the fact I have used my voice for truth and change as made people ,citizens and friends distrust me in such a way that they would overlook this noble cause.



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 The Family Assistance Campaign & Veterans project is a 100% non-profit we can help single mothers find affordable housing. We run programs that can provide single moms with the opportunity to save on their rent and housing expenses by sharing a home or apartment with another single mom. The service can also assist single mothers by allowing them to in effect pool their finances and resources with other single moms in the community.

The non-profit was founded in 2013 when a single mother realized that sharing resources and finances may be the best way to save money on various housing expenses, and bills including rent. This provides families the ability to better provide for their children. The services offered act as a source of real help for single moms when it comes to finding safe and affordable living arrangements, no matter what state they live in.

The Family Assistance Campaign Veterans project may be able to help single moms find compatible housemates in their local area. Many families are struggling with trying to find affordable housing without adequate financial support from the state or federal government, social service programs, or their family. Sharing housing or apartments will make all those expenses, such as rent, mortgage payments, utilities, and property taxes, shared as well.

Single mothers can find compatible housing partners using The Family Assistance Campaign &Veterans project . are non-profit covers the entire nation and all states. Find how to share utilities, rent, food, chores and baby sitting costs. Even those moms without a current permanent home can find an appropriate house mate through the services offered. This will enable them to find a more affordable, larger and more comfortable home. One of the keys to the service is it will allow parents to provide for a higher standard of living than is possible when going it alone. The services offered by Giving the Gift of a Warm Meal also offer those single moms who have a home already a way to stay in that family home by sharing its expense with another single-mom family.

The service is very easy to use, and there is no risk to exploring the opportunity's we have discovered. Any citizen can go about choosing  housing partners by reading other women’s backgrounds and profiles. They will then be able to contact other prospective single mom house mates that appeal to them through the sites anonymous and secure email service.

Various conditions and criteria are established by the organizations as part of this process. Some of them include location, age, the number of children, and the moms ability to pay their bills and meet financial requirements like deposits, utilities, and monthly rent.

A number of other services are offered Through Giving the Gift of a Warm Meal. It is basically a wealth of resources for parents who are facing a hardship. Get information on moving tips, health and parenting advice, local support groups for carpooling, baby sitting co-ops, government assistance, low-income housing, childcare and emotional support as well.

No single mom is ever turned away from the service. Giving the Gift of a Warm Meal. allows a single mom to register for free. They will need to complete a profile though, and those initial searches are free. However in order to make contact with another member for potential housing opportunities, the single mom will need to become an Active Member. That requires a one-time donation, however there are several plans, including one for being sponsored. To learn more or to begin the search for housing, you need to contact veteransproject@yahoo.com

Free Diapers For Kids -  is a recently formed charity that provides and distributes free diapers to lower income families through existing service providers, including daycare centers, soup kitchens, food pantries, social service agencies, shelters and more. They provide free diapers through its extensive Diaper Distribution Network of dozens of agencies and charities.

RESIDENTIALY CHALLENGED - helps with securing a variety of grants, including funds for medical bill assistance. Cash grants and funds provided can be used to aid qualifying individuals. Some of what can be provided includes self-sufficiency grants, back to work funding, independent living grants and more

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School supplies - Parents can obtain free items for their child and teachers may also be given classroom goods. we use are donations for the public in an effort to ensure children have clothing, binders, pens, pencils, backpacks, and even winter attire.

Working Cars for Working Families - We can help families that need a car for employment and/or job training issues. The non-profit has a few different programs available to qualified applications. They include providing automobiles that are provided as a result of donations, low-interest loans and financing, and so-called matched saving programs. The group partners with local churches, charities, and other organizations in an effort to reach as many people as possible

Ways to Work through  The Family Assistance Campaign &Veterans project helps people understand and get low interest rate auto loans. They mostly help families and individuals who can't secure loan funding or cash grants at traditional lending institutions or banks. The loans can be used to help a family or individual purchase a new or used car, pay for car repairs and maintenance, and it can assist with other transportation expenses.

Opportunity Cars -  The Family Assistance Campaign &Veterans project as Over 150 nonprofit organizations around the nation are part of this program. They are all dedicated to increasing private automobile ownership for low-income working families who can’t obtain their own transportation. The automobiles are to be used to help people find and keep their jobs. They may give away used cars for free, providing matching grants, or offer low-interest loans

Donated Cars and Financing from Non-profits - Charities, churches and organizations donate vehicles to the low income. Most of the cars need to be used for work or job training. Other non-profits may offer low-interest auto loans or matching funds to qualified individuals. .

Free Gas USA Inc. - Provides grants that can be used for free gasoline for low income, elderly, and disabled Americans. Continue.

Free Car Repairs - Several national and regional charities, churches, and non-profits can provide individuals with low cost or free automobile repairs. You will need to apply, and the services are usually targeted at people who need their car for work .

 The Family Assistance Campaign &Veterans project Has network of community groups, food programs, and activists to help make sure that no kid in America grows up Hungry or without

No matter your reason for believing in the inherent value of human life, we hope you can join us, and through our efforts we can together endeavor to make violence unthinkable - - - to make it history! YOU CAN BE A PARTNER FOR PEACE AND ALL LIFE 

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Helping the Homeless in 35 ways

 Help the Homeless in 35 Ways 

The world of the homeless may seem very far from yours, but in some ways it is quite near. For any of us, the loss of a job, the illness or death of a spouse or a child, or a severe physical disability could be the route to total despair. Struck by personal tragedies, the people in shelters across America have lost their homes and been deserted by family and friends. What can you do to help them? Sometimes the smallest actions can go a long way.

Understand who the homeless are – Help dispel the stereotypes about the homeless. Learn about the different reasons for homelessness, and remember, every situation is unique. One of the first steps in helping people is to see them as individuals and to find out what they need. Notice them; talk to them. Most are starved for attention.

Educate yourself about the homeless – Learn about the long-term solutions for ending homelessness.

Respect the homeless as individuals – Give the homeless people the same courtesy and respect you would accord your friends, your family, your employer. Treat them as you would wish to be treated if you needed assistance.

Respond with kindness – We can make quite a difference in the lives of the homeless when we respond to them, rather than ignore or dismiss them. Try a kind word and a smile.
Develop lists of shelters – Carry a card that lists local shelters so you can hand them out to the homeless. You can find shelters in your phone book.
Buy Street Sheet – This biweekly newspaper is sold in almost every major American city and is intended to help the homeless help themselves. For every paper sold, the homeless earn five cents deposited in a special savings account earmarked for rent.

Bring food – It’s as simple as taking a few extra sandwiches when you go out. When you pass someone who asks for change, offer him or her something to eat. If you take a lunch, pack a little extra. When you eat at a restaurant, order something to take with you when you leave.

Give money – One of the most direct ways to aid the homeless is to give money. Donations to nonprofit organizations that serve the homeless go a long way.

Give recyclables – In localities where there is a “bottle law,” collecting recyclable cans and bottles is often the only “job” available to the homeless. But it is an honest job that requires initiative. You can help by saving your recyclable bottles, cans, and newspapers and giving them to the homeless instead of taking them to a recycling center or leaving them out for collection. If you live in a larger city, you may wish to leave your recyclables outside for the homeless to pick up — or give a bagful of cans to a homeless person in your neighborhood.

Donate clothing – Next time you do your spring or fall cleaning, keep an eye out for those clothes that you no longer wear. If these items are in good shape, gather them together and donate them to organizations that provide housing for the homeless.

Donate a bag of groceries – Load up a bag full of nonperishable groceries, and donate it to a food drive in your area. If your community doesn’t have a food drive, organize one. Contact your local soup kitchens, shelters, and homeless societies and ask what kind of food donations they would like.

Donate toys – Children living in shelters have few possessions –if any– including toys. Homeless parents have more urgent demands on what little money they have, such as food and clothing. So often these children have nothing to play with and little to occupy their time. You can donate toys, books, and games to family shelters to distribute to homeless children. For Christmas or Chanukah, ask your friends and co-workers to buy and wrap gifts for homeless children

Volunteer at a shelter – Shelters thrive on the work of volunteers, from those who sign people in, to those who serve meals, to others who counsel the homeless on where to get social services. For the homeless, a shelter can be as little as a place to sleep out of the rain or as much as a step forward to self-sufficiency.

Volunteer at a soup kitchen – Soup kitchens provide one of the basics of life, nourishing meals for the homeless and other disadvantaged members of the community. Volunteers generally do much of the work, including picking up donations of food, preparing meals, serving it, and cleaning up afterward. To volunteer your services, contact you local soup kitchen, mobile food program, shelter, or religious center.

Volunteer your professional services – No matter what you do for a living, you can help the homeless with your on-the-job talents and skills. Those with clerical skills can train those with little skills. Doctors, psychiatrists, counselors, and dentists can treat the homeless in clinics. Lawyers can help with legal concerns. The homeless’ needs are bountiful — your time and talent won’t be wasted.

Volunteer your hobbies – Every one of us has something we can give the homeless. Wherever our interests may lie — cooking, repairing, gardening, and photography — we can use them for the homeless. Through our hobbies, we can teach them useful skills, introduce them to new avocations and perhaps point them in a new direction.

Volunteer for follow-up programs – Some homeless people, particularly those who have been on the street for a while, may need help with fundamental tasks such as paying bills, balancing a household budget, or cleaning. Follow-up programs to give the formerly homeless further advice, counseling, and other services need volunteers.

Tutor homeless children – A tutor can make all the difference. Just having adult attention can spur children to do their best. Many programs exist in shelters, transitional housing programs, and schools that require interested volunteers. Or begin you own tutor volunteer corps at your local shelter. It takes nothing more than a little time.

Take homeless children on trips – Frequently, the only environment a homeless child knows is that of the street, shelters, or other transitory housing. Outside of school — if they attend — these children have little exposure to many of the simple pleasures that most kids have. Volunteer at your local family shelter to take children skating or to an aquarium on the weekend.

Volunteer at battered women’s shelter – Most battered women are involved in relationships with abusive husbands or other family members. Lacking resources and afraid of being found by their abusers, many may have no recourse other than a shelter or life on the streets once they leave home. Volunteers handle shelter hotlines, pick up abused women and their children when they call, keep house, and offer counseling. Call your local shelter for battered women to see how you can help.

Teach about the homeless – If you do volunteer work with the homeless, you can become an enthusiast and extend your enthusiasm to others. You can infect others with your own sense of devotion by writing letters to the editor of your local paper and by pressing housing issues at election time.

Publish shelter information – Despite all of our efforts to spread the word about shelters, it is surprising how many people are unaware of their own local shelters. Contact your local newspapers, church or synagogue bulletins, or civic group’s newsletters about the possibility of running a weekly or monthly listing of area services available to the homeless. This could include each organization’s particular needs for volunteers, food, and other donations.

Educate your children about the homeless – Help your children to see the homeless as people. If you do volunteer work, take your sons and daughters along so they can meet with homeless people and see what can be done to help them. Volunteer as a family in a soup kitchen or shelter. Suggest that they sort through the toys, books, and clothes they no longer use and donate them to organizations that assist the poor.

Sign up your company/school – Ask your company or school to host fund-raising events, such as raffles or craft sales and donate the proceeds to nonprofit organizations that aid the homeless. You can also ask your company or school to match whatever funds you and your co-workers or friends can raise to help the homeless.

Recruit local business – One of the easiest ways to involve local businesses is to organize food and/or clothing drives. Contact local organizations to find out what is needed, approach local grocery or clothing shops about setting up containers on their premises in which people can drop off donations, ask local businesses to donate goods to the drive, and publicize the drive by placing announcements in local papers and on community bulletin boards and by posting signs and posters around your neighborhood.

Create lists of needed donations – Call all the organizations in your community that aid the homeless and ask them what supplies they need on a regular basis. Make a list for each organization, along with its address, telephone number, and the name of a contact person. Then mail these lists to community organizations that may wish to help with donations — every place from religious centers to children’s organizations such as Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.

Play with children in a shelter – Many children in shelters are cut off from others their own age. Shuffled from place to place, sometimes these kids don’t attend school on a regular basis, and have no contact with other kids. Bring a little joy to their lives by taking your children to a local shelter to play. Plan activities such as coloring, playing with dolls, or building model cars (take along whatever toys you’ll need). Your own children will benefit too.

Employ the homeless – Help Wanted – General Office Work. Welfare recipient, parolee, ex-addict OK. Good salary, benefits. Will train. That’s the way Wildcat Service Corporations Supported Work Program invites the “unemployable” to learn to work and the program works! More than half the people who sign on find permanent, well-paying jobs, often in maintenance, construction, clerical, or security work.

Help the homeless apply for aid – Governmental aid is available for homeless people, but many may not know where to find it or how to apply. Since they don’t have a mailing address, governmental agencies may not be able to reach them. You can help by directing the homeless to intermediaries, such as homeless organizations, that let them know what aid is available and help them to apply for it. If you want to be an advocate or intermediary for the homeless yourself, you can contact these organizations as well.

Stand up for the civil rights of the homeless – In recent elections, for example, volunteers at shelters and elsewhere helped homeless people register to vote . . . even though they had “no fixed address” at the moment. Some officials would not permit citizens without a permanent address to vote.

Join Habitat for Humanity – This Christian housing ministry builds houses for families in danger of becoming homeless. Volunteers from the community and Habitat homeowners erect the houses. Funding is through donations from churches, corporations, foundations, and individuals.

Form a transitional housing program – One of the most potent homeless-prevention services a community can offer residents who are in danger of eviction is a transitional housing program. These programs help people hang on to their current residences or assist them in finding more affordable ones. The methods include steering people to appropriate social service and community agencies, helping them move out of shelters, and providing funds for rent, mortgage payments, and utilities. For information, contact the Homelessness Information Exchange at (202) 462-7551.

Write to corporations – Some of the largest corporations in America have joined the battle for low-income housing. Through the use of the tax credit or by outright grants, they are participating with federal and state government, not-for-profit and community-based groups to build desperately needed housing in Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and dozens of other cities. Contact various organizations and ask them what they are doing.

Contact your government representatives – Our legislators rarely receive more than three visits or ten letters about any subject. When the numbers exceed that amount, they sit up and take note. Personal visits are the most potent. Letters are next; telephone calls are third best. Housing issues don’t come up that often, so your public officials will listen.
Push for state homelessness prevention programs – While states routinely supply aid for the poor and homeless, many do not have programs provide funds and other services to those who will lose their homes in the immediate future unless something is done. Homelessness comes at great financial and human cost to the families who are evicted or foreclosed.

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Help the Homeless: Think Long-Term

Help the Homeless: Think Long-Term

Walking to work  I pass by homeless people every day. They are hungry, dirty and—heartbreakingly—ignored by pretty much everyone. I often find myself wondering: “What is the best way to help them?”

As I saw it (and maybe you do to), there were three main ways to help the homeless:

Give cash, straight from my wallet.
Buy them a sandwich, bag of chips, or coffee.
Donate to a local homeless shelter.
But which option is best? As it turns out, there’s a fourth option.

Think Long-Term

These three ideas are short-term solutions. Providing a homeless person with cash or food helps for a couple of hours. A shelter offers a place for them to sleep for a few nights. But beyond that, what can be done to create a better life for a homeless person?

I recently had the opportunity to talk with two people from Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing (DISH) here in San Francisco. They work very closely with the homeless population here, and have opened my eyes to another way to end homelessness. It involves long-term thinking and systemic changes.http://dishsf.org/

The problem of homelessness comes from, quite simply, a lack of homes. This population faces a lot of challenges, often including substance abuse or mental illness, which make it difficult or impossible to live in traditional housing. Homeless shelters are short-term opportunities, as is transitional housing. And when there’s nowhere to transition a person to, we need to start thinking more long-term: we need permanent, supportive housing solutions.


What is Supportive Housing?

Supportive Housing is more than just affordable housing. DISH works with the Department of Public Health to provide housing with on-site property management, licensed clinical social workers, and case managers. These professionals deliver access to the medical and mental health resources the formerly homeless need, as well as helping them learn to live with other people (after having been isolated for so long). The goal is, quite simply, to get people healthier and provide them with a place to live—permanently.

According to DISH, most of their tenants are successful once they get in the door.  Some eventually do transition out on their own, looking for a more independent living situation, but most stay in Supportive Housing, and off the streets.

How You Can End Homelessness

Many of the improvements to homeless programs across the country have come from grassroots efforts. Here’s how you can truly help them:

Get involved in your city. The main obstacle to Supportive Housing is a lack of housing. If there are abandoned buildings in your city, find out what the plan is for them. Repurposing empty buildings for supportive and affordable housing is a great goal; it often improves the value of the surrounding area, as well.
Talk to your elected officials – What are they doing to end homelessness? Are they champions for affordable and supportive housing?

Donate to local or national organizations working to provide supportive housing. Here are three of our favorites:

Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing (DISH)
DISH is a project through Tides Center, and works with San Francisco’s homeless population. They are dedicated to serving adults with complex health, mental health, and substance use issues through supportive housing. Their goal is to end homelessness in San Francisco.
Donate

Corporation for Supportive Housing
CSH is a national organization that helps communities create permanent housing with services to prevent and end homelessness. Their website is a great source for learning more about Supportive Housing, and their “Resources” section can help you initiate change in your area.
Donate

National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
The Law Center was created to prevent and end homelessness by serving as the legal arm of the nationwide movement. They work to change policy, which is an important part of the issue.
Donate

I’d like to thank John Mark Johnson and Lauren Hall from DISH for taking the time to talk with me about this issue.

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Real Help for the Homeless

Real Help for the Homeless

Living in California for the last 20+ years, I see people who are homeless more than I ever have in my life.  As the weather gets bitter, I shudder when I think about men and women sleeping on cardboard in San Francisco. I’m also haunted by the growing number of homeless teens I see hanging out at a local gas station. And I know there are so many more….

It is not my imagination that there are more homeless people in the Golden State. Latest statistics show five states—California, New York, Florida, Texas, and Massachusetts—accounted for more than half of the homeless population in the United States. This past year, according to US Department of Housing and Urban Development, California experienced the second-largest increase in the number of homeless people among 50 states.

The Face(s) of Homelessness




On any given night, the National Alliance to End Homelessness says nearly 579,000 Americans are homeless. Of that number, more than 362,000 are individuals, and over 216,000 are people in families.

About 15 percent are considered chronically homeless
Nearly 9 percent are veterans

While homeless young people are more transient and challenging to count, it’s currently estimated that about 50,000 youth in the United States sleep on the street for six months or more.

It’s hard not to look away from the homeless—in person, and in my heart. Whenever I’m asked for money or read a sign someone is holding at a light or freeway ramp, I get skeptical and wonder how they’d use any money I give.  So I pause.

The most recent data shows, in general, that the number of people sleeping in shelters and transitional housing is increasing.  This suggests communities and nonprofits are doing a better job getting people off the streets and under a roof. To me, that seems like a good place to start helping.

Three Ways to Make a Difference for Homeless People

Donate food and items.

The next time you’re in an area where you expect to see a homeless person, bring along an extra cup of coffee, sandwich, or a meal package with protein-rich foods like trail mix and beef jerky (the most sought-after food). If you have the time, take the homeless person to a nearby fast food restaurant to order the meal they want.

Contact your local shelters and ask what they need. (You can find one in your city here.) Are there specific food items they’re short on? Or are blankets, clothing, socks, band aids, lip balm, lotion, children’s toys or something else more in demand? Share the season’s spirit of giving; get your family involved in buying and dropping off a holiday care package.

Volunteer.

It’s easy to help prepare or serve a holiday meal at a local shelter or church this time of year. But volunteers are needed year round. What skills can you contribute? Consider volunteering on a regular basis, and offer to clean or help rehab buildings, design a website, provide accounting support, play with or tutor children, write resumes or help prepare a homeless person to interview for a job—depending on your talents. Access this directory to find an agency near you.

Give money.

One of the most direct ways to help the homeless is to give money. Donations to nonprofit organizations can go a long way:

At the family assistance campaign, $25 takes care of basic hygiene needs. Donate now
With $60, the  House gives a homeless child clean clothes and cozy bedding. Donate now

For $100, Big Sunday supplies 25 bags of everyday essentials for homeless people. Donate Now
For more charities helping the homeless, check out the JustGive Guide.

More Ways

These are a few ways to help the homeless—here’s a list of many more.

If you’re not in a position to do any of these things, remember that a smile, kind word and respect go a long way. People who are homeless deserve our empathy.

As for me, I’m re-training myself not to ignore homelessness, and in any way I can, to help. Just as there are many reasons why people become homeless, I know there are just as many ways to start making things better.

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Give the VA’s budget to vets and let them decide what hospital to use

The VA health system does not need more money. Rather, veterans need more of the freedom for which they fought on our behalf. Give the VA’s hospital budget to the veterans; let them decide which hospitals to use

Give the VA’s budget to vets and let them decide what hospital to use

OAKLAND, California — It’s disgraceful that we’re still debating how to “fix” the dysfunctional VA healthcare system.  No other public servants, active or retired, are forced to go to government-owned hospitals for care; why veterans?

Public disgust with the veterans’ health system came to the fore in 2014 amid reports that at least 40 veterans had died while waiting for care.


Subsequent research found that the problem was systemic: On average, veterans were having to wait three months just to see a primary-care physician, while other Americans typically waited three days, less if they were sick.

The rot in the VA system goes much deeper, and much further back, as the late Ronald Hamowy, author of “Government and Public Health in America,” had documented in a 2010 Independent Institute study.

In 1949, for example, a commission led by former President Herbert Hoover criticized the VA’s plans to spend more than $1 billion on new hospitals—almost $10 billion in current dollars—despite the fact that existing hospitals were underutilized and the Army and Navy also were building hospitals.

Building VA hospitals is not a medical necessity, it’s a “jobs program” intended to curry favor with local members of Congress, assuring the VA’s place at the public trough.

After the 2014 scandal, Congress decided to throw $17 billion more at the failed agency.  Some $10 billion of the total was allocated to a new program that would enable veterans to use private doctors and hospitals when they couldn’t access the VA system.

Branded Veterans Choice, the bailout was camouflaged as a way of providing veterans with additional health care options, outside the government bureaucracy.

On paper maybe, but in a practical sense it is no such thing because many private providers won’t see VA patients, knowing that the agency doesn’t pay its bills in full or on time.

Moreover, the private option was available only to those veterans who either lived more than 40 miles from a VA facility or faced a wait of more than 30 days for a VA appointment.

However, the private care would still largely be coordinated by the VA, which in most cases would be involved in scheduling appointments and managing patients’ records.

One year after Veterans Choice was rolled out, the number of veterans waiting to be treated for everything from Hepatitis C to post-traumatic stress hadn’t gone down, it had increased 50 percent, according to testimony from VA executives to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs.

According to a July 2015 report by Open the Books, an independent watchdog group, fewer than 2,000 of the 23,000 new VA employees hired after the funding surge were doctors.

Despite all the additional money and new hires, the number of employees in positions of accountability—such as inspector general, auditor, or quality-assurance officer—actually declined.

Put simply, the VA responded the way government bureaucracies always do: The additional funding exacerbated the VA’s worst excesses, rather than motivating better performance.

As for Veterans Choice, the misnamed reform has entangled more private doctors and hospitals in yet more frustrating paperwork.
The Veterans Choice card forces doctors and hospitals to submit claims to the same inefficient government bureaucracy that can’t provide care in its own facilities.

Just like the veterans who have to wait months to get treated, their private providers have to wait months to get paid.  The misnamed “reform” has allowed the waiting-list disease to spread beyond the VA’s walls.

The VA health system does not need more money. Rather, veterans need more of the freedom for which they fought on our behalf.  Give the VA’s hospital budget to the veterans; let them decide which hospitals to use.

John R. Graham is a senior fellow specializing in health-care reform at both the Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif., and at the National Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas, Tex. He received an MBA from the London School of Economics.  Readers may write him at 100 Swans Way, #200, Oakland, CA 94621



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Why Are More Veterans Than Ever Using Marijuana For PTSD?

Why Are More Veterans Than Ever Using Marijuana For PTSD?

In many states, post-traumatic-stress-disorder or PTSD is one of the many conditions that patients are hoping will be approved for medical marijuana. A growing number of veterans, however, are tired of waiting for the law to catch up with what they know in their hearts and minds to be the answer.

Vets  & cannabis

Cannabis has a unique ability to allow the mind to release it’s hold on traumatic memories, lessening the severity to which they can affect our lives. The relaxing effects, and ability to help with insomnia and nightmares all make it an attractive alternative to the dangerous, addictive drugs pedaled to our nation’s heroes by the pharmaceutical industry and our government. Ten states now list PTSD as a condition that can be legally treated with cannabis.

The effects on PTSD in studies on cannabis are limited and sometimes contradictory. The VA is also concerned with a rise in the number of veterans they have documented as having what they term “marijuana dependence”. While it can help with mental health problems, it has also been suggested by some studies to cause latent or subdued pre-existing mental issues to come to the surface, such as hereditary schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Better or worse?

For some veterans, what is known as “cannabis use disorder” can have a negative effect on their road to wellness. Described as an inability to sleep or increase in irritability after ceasing use of the substance, this occasionally seen withdrawal symptom is far milder than that of many prescription painkillers, let alone dangerous drugs like heroin or meth. For a sufferer of mental anxiety like PTSD, however, sometimes even this mild withdrawal after steady use to treat their condition can cause negative outcomes.

“Marijuana may initially provide some relief,” but for those with PTSD, “it’s very hard to stop it once you start it,” she said. “It gets into this vicious cycle.” Dr. Karen Drexler, the VA’s deputy national mental health program director for addictive disorders.

Dr. Drexler also says that the emotion-numbing effects of marijuana can hinder what is the most effective treatment for PTSD: talk therapy. This is in stark contrast to what many cannabis users claim, feeling that using cannabis helps them get in touch with their emotions, improve relationships, and heal. Dr. Dustin Sulak, a physician in Maine, treats veterans and says that cannabis can help them engage in talk therapy.

PTSD: A life-long struggle

For those who fight for their country and, in the process, for their lives the trauma inflicted is far deeper than just physical injury. The scars of war can affect the human psyche for years, for decades, for life. For many veterans, regardless of whether they use cannabis or not, talking though it is the most effective, if not the easiest treatment.

 “For most problems the Marine is issued a solution. If ill, go to sickbay. If wounded, call a Corpsman. If dead, report to graves registration. If losing his mind, however, no standard solution exists…”

“A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he’s finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son’s diaper; his hands remember the rifle.” – Anthony ‘Swoff’ Swofford: – Jarhead

In November, the U.S. Senate passed an amendment that would allow VA doctors to recommend medical marijuana to vets in states where it’s legal. The proposal failed to pass the House. Currently, veterans can still potentially lose their access to pain medications and treatment for testing positive for cannabis. On average, 22 veterans commit suicide every single day.

Do you think the soldiers who put their lives on the line for their country should be able to decide with their physicians if cannabis is right for them? Share your thoughts on social media or in the comments below.



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