Homeless - Help is Needed

We urge your compassion and support to those less fortunate.

Now more than ever, more families are becoming homeless.

The LA Family Housing (LAFH.org) has reported a 95% increase in demand for their services from people in need of food and shelter for themselves and their children.

Partnering for Change reported:

As unemployment becomes worse, community-based organizations are noticing a change in their clientele. Shelters are seeing clients who are more representative of the newly unemployed.
In recent months we've noticed a change in the needs of our program feeding homeless children. I've mentioned, there are over 11,000 elementary age children in Orange County, CA who are homeless. They are homeless for different reasons.
But here's a scenario you wouldn't think would take place:
Two able body parents in their early 30's. He has a 4 year college degree in marketing, she went to a technical school in information technology. Both are smart with a willingness to work. They have 3 kids, ages 8, 5 and 2. But guess what, they are both unemployed....for 9 months now.

What would you do? When your unemployment runs out and no matter how hard you try, you can't seem to get a job? How would you feed your family? How would provide shelter?

Unfortunately this family is representative of the new face of homelessness in our community. The college educated family forced to leave their rental home and bounce around from motel to motel with no money for food to feed their children.

Other resources:
Change.org has an entire area - end homelessness- for more information and resources.
Project Homeless Connect