PostHeaderIcon How easy is it to escape homelessness?

Keeping people out of homelessness — and thereby preventing the ailments that only going unhoused can cause — is far preferable to asking people to pull themselves out of it. Once people become homeless, the transition back to housing, and sometimes work and society in general, is almost impossibly difficult. Here's why it would be so hard if it happened to you. This is an article by Joy Eckstine who is the executive director of The Carriage House Community Table, a day shelter and resource center for homeless and poor people in Boulder, Colorado.

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PostHeaderIcon Titans honor director of homeless newspaper

Tasha French, executive director of The Contributor street newspaper, has won the 2009 Tennessee Titans Community Quarterback Award, recognizing her as the top volunteer in the state.

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PostHeaderIcon In the richest country in the history of the world...It ain't right... It just ain't right!

Tent City Winter — Nashville, TN — January 2010 from Russel Albert Daniels on Vimeo.

 

PostHeaderIcon We could do this, right here in Nashville

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Work Is Love Made Visible

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Who we are.

We area group of individuals and service providers who have been brought together by our common desire to apply ourselves and our resources to the needs of the homeless.
We come from diverse cultural and social backgrounds. We are professionals, we are tradesmen, we are office workers, we are homeless, we are businessmen and women, we are musicians, we are counsellors. We are one in our belief that "justice for all" should apply to the poor first, else we as a nation have little to boast of, in either our republic's values, the "American Dream" we espouse, or our own individual integrity.

What we do.


Our first mission.
We apply ourselves to the homeless of Nashville wherever we find them. We feed them, clothe them, house them, educate them, find them employment, provide them with a secure mailing address, assist them in obtaining ID's necessary for employment, and more, as far as resources permit, and regardless of race, religion or culture.

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"Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little."

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

 

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Food Handlers Certificate.

For more information, call (615) 340 5620, or visit the website here, - (map here).
The 2 hour course is
normally held at:-
Lentz Public Health Center
311 23rd Avenue North
Nahville, TN 37203(615) 340-5616
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No Matter How Much
We believe a Lie,
Or How Often We Repeat It,
It Never Makes It The Truth

Myth: Homeless people are useless members of society.
Fact: 40% of homeless adult males served honorably in the US military.

Myth: Homeless are so old they are not “worth” helping.
Fact: The average age of the homeless adult male is 38; the average age of the homeless adult female is 32. Both genders have many good years left to offer.

Myth: People are homeless because they are lazy.
Fact: 90% of homeless have successful work histories, and many are currently employed.

Myth: A minimum wage job is all a homeless person needs.
Fact: In Davidson county, it requires a job paying $10.54 per hour/ 40 hours per week to afford the most modest one-bedroom apartment. Minimum wage is $5.85.

Myth: If you want to work, you can find a job.
Fact: Manufacturing and industrial blue collar jobs are steadily decreasing. Homeless people need new skills to keep up with the changing face of labor.

Myth: Homeless don’t want to do better.
Fact: 92% desperately desire a permanent home.

Sources: National Mental Health Association, US Census, National Coalition for the Homeless, Metropolitan-Nashville Social Services.

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The poor will always be with you... but real religion, the kind that worth anything, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight.
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“A nation may be judged by how it treats it's most vulnerable members."
Eleanor Roosevelt

You act religious, but at the same time you bicker and fight. You act all righteous, but you swing a mean fist. The kind of religion won't get your prayers off the ground. Do you think this is the kind of religion that works: a day to show off humility? To put on a pious long face and parade around solemnly in church clothes? Do you call that worthwhile? "This only kind of religion that works, breaks the chains of injustice, gets rid of exploitation in the workplace, frees the oppressed, addresses debt. What God is interested in, is seeing you sharing your food with the hungry, inviting the homeless poor into your homes, putting clothes on the shivering ill-clad, being available to your own families. Do this and the lights will turn on, and your lives will turn around at once. Your right living will pave your way.
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