As winter temperatures in D.C. continue to plummet, the opening of Calvary Women's Services' new facility means even more vulnerable women will be offered a safe, warm home before the coldest days of winter hit, and right before the holiday season.
Now more than ever, it is important to look to effective models of serving the homeless community and implement them across our urban cities most affected by this issue.
I don't know anyone who believes that families choose a homeless lifestyle. There is nothing free and easy about their homelessness. And there are no romantic movies being made about their plight.
When weighing the impact of both sides of homelessness issues, often one side appears to have a greater impact upon humanity than the other. In other words, in analyzing the issues of homelessness, the sides are not necessarily even.
New Yorkers with a high school diploma or a GED lost jobs at half the rate of those who did not have them. At a time when unemployment hovers at 9.1 percent in NYC, a GED becomes crucial to finding and retaining a job.
When Dr. Roseanna Means walked the streets of Boston, she talked to women living on the streets who were in need of medical care.
She decided to hel...
BLANKET OF STARS: Homeless Women in Santa Monica
Actor and political satirist Harry Shearer once dubbed Santa Monica "home of the homeless." An apt ...
In Racine, Wis., an unlikely group of women has banded together to support each other as they train for an upcoming 5K run. The group is spearheaded b...
The walls are bare. The closets, nearly empty. And there's barely any furniture inside.
But for 40 formerly homeless women, the Pebbles Apartments ar...