#endhomelessness

Harm Reduction Coalition is parting with Point Source Youth for the 3rd Annual National Symposium on Solutions to End Youth Homelessness.    

Standard Registration for the symposium ends THIS FRIDAY! 

Join PSY from June 17-19 in NYC! Programming includes conversations, panels, and workshops on Trans Rights and Housing, Host Homes and Rapid Re-Housing for Rural Communities, Inherited Trauma, Youth Organizing and Movement Building, Rapid Re-Housing in High Cost Markets, The Latest Data and Research on Youth Homelessness, Impacting Policy to Meet the Needs of Youth Experiencing Homelessness Under 18, a HUD Listening Session, and many more!

Follow this link to find conference details and learn more about Point Source Youth: https://bit.ly/2U9j0x7

“Homelessness is an issue that touches our Los Angeles Native American community, and yet, not much is well-known about the particular issues our homeless relatives face, whether they are accurately counted, and whether we are maximizing the resources available to help them. In partnership with United American Indian Involvement, the Department of Mental Health, and Healthy LA Natives, we hope this forum is the first of many discussions and a movement towards addressing homelessness among our LA Native community.”

**Appetizers, refreshments served**

When
Tuesday, September 25th
6pm–8:30pm

Where
The California Endowment | Redwood Room

Pending Speakers
Sharon Yazzie, Medical Social Worker, United American Indian Involvement; Colleen EchoHawk, Executive Director, Chief Seattle Club; Lorin Kinney, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority; more TBD

#endhomelessness #endwhitesupremacy #decolonizeland #indigenoussovereignty (at The California Endowment)
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When we believe that a person cannot change we rid them of their humanity. Change must be nurtured. How can we nurture a better society when we prohibit and offer such limited choices? Society also has a misconstrued understanding of what ‘choice’ is — do we choose our native language? Do we choose our place in time/history? No. We must nurture and be that change. We seek to #endhomelessness because we wish to see a change in our society. Here’s to one person many believed couldn’t change that we nurtured into interim housing. It always starts with one person at a time. One person we help in order to regain our humanity in our community❤️✊ #SheDoes #decolonizeyourmind #endhouselessness #housingisahumanright

Shout out to @edythe for purchasing and donating these school supplies. They are going to a family in need! #endhomelessness #endhouselessness #housingisahumanright #repealcostahawkins #decolonizeland (at El Sereno, California)

Dear Friends,

“We are The Shower of Hope and we serve our unhoused neighbors 6 days a week in 7 different locations. Something we learned from our shower guests was that even though they wanted to come to one of our different locations from where they live to get a second shower on a different day, they simply didn´t have the ability to do so.

Today we are launching a new initiative called the Shuttle of Hope. The Shuttle of Hope will be a vehicle that will offer free transport to our shower guests from the area they live in, to one of our different locations. This will allow them to not only receive a second shower a week, maybe even three or four. To accomplish this we are fundraising to purchase an 8 to 12 passenger vehicle. We will pick up our shower guests from set locations and give them a ride back once they not only receive a shower but also a warm meal, hygiene items, clothing, and haircuts among other services.

At a time Los Angeles is facing a homeless crisis, we are asking you to open your hearts and help us give our unhoused neighbors dignity and a path out of homelessness.”

Kind Regards,

The #Hope Team

(Donation Link in Bio!!) #endhomelessness #losangeles #homeless (at Los Angeles, California)

This Saturday, April 14th, night we will be camping outside of LA City Hall until 6.00am Sunday morning April 15th. We will be camping out in solidarity with the thousands of homeless women who are forced to sleep outside due to the severe lack of shelters in Los Angeles.

We are demanding that Mayor Garcetti and the City Council of LA appropriate $20 million in the discretionary budget towards sheltering 1000 women by August 2018. We must have this action as the City budget will be voted on Friday, April 20th, 2018. We are also demanding that the Mayor and City Council promise to take immediate action to secure a minimum of 8 separate location to accommodate shelters for 1000 women.

We welcome all citizens of Los Angeles to join us in this action of justice towards securing the shelter and protection of our homeless women of Los Angeles! #SheDoes – #SheDoes Deserve Shelter & Protection.
#endhomelessness #decolonize #property #humanity (at Los Angeles City Hall)

SIGN PETITION HERE: http://bit.ly/2E8igQt

Mayor Eric Garcetti,
on January 20th, you gave a great speech at the 2018 Women’s March.

Here are a couple of select lines from your speech:
“We fight for the rights of all of us!”
“Don’t be a bystander!”
“There’s no wrong time to do the right thing!”

What’s shocking is the fact that homelessness in LA, which has seen a sharp and steady rise under your leadership in the last 5 years, was not mentioned until 7 minutes and 55 seconds in your speech. Mentioned and referred to in just one simple sentence. The speech was so gyood we could almost forgive you for being the mayor under whose administration that LA has not opened a single women’s shelter. This with all our Domestic Violence shelters full with a 3 week wait. While countless unsheltered homeless women get sexually assaulted time and time again. Wonder who’s the bystander in this scenario….

A 2016 audit ordered by you found over 10,000 warehouses owned by the City of LA which are sitting vacant. With a total of 6,798 women living unsheltered, we have a goal for you. Open 5 warehouses and get 1000 women off our streets in the next 6 months. For someone who talks big about caring for our women, we think this is a fair and simple goal.

“Mr. President you have your tweets but we own these streets” – Eric Garcetti
Okay then Mayor Garcetti, show us how you will protect our women on these streets!

SIGN PETITION HERE: http://bit.ly/2E8igQt