Okay, so this isn’t about homelessness, or underserved populations, but it is about violence against women, and the culture that allows that to be acceptable. And that DOES affect the women that I work with. It’s also my only forum since I gave up FaceBook for Lent so bear with me. My friend sent me [...]
I am at the San Francisco VA hospital for my second semester rotation of nursing school. A side effect of this has been to put vets, especially homeless vets, high on my radar. Today a gentleman was panhandling outside of the grocery store and his sign said he was a Vietnam vet, so I gave [...]
Last night at outreach I had a wonderful surprise, a new woman joined our team. I met her several months ago as a resident of one of the SROs we go into. She was living there with her husband and two year old daughter. We don’t see a lot of kids in the hotels so [...]
Lately I have felt a vague apprehension regarding the level of political upheaval in the world. I don’t know enough about the issues to have strong opinions, but I’ve been trying to catch up. Highest on my list of priorities has been learning about what the heck is going on in Wisconsin. A friend told [...]