by Kristance Harlow Donald Trump is the President-Elect, and it is not good news for mental health care. Unlike Hillary Clinton, who had a comprehensive mental-health-care program as part of her platform, it’s difficult to discern what Trump’s plan is — or if he has one at all. On his official campaign website, mental health is...
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As Tech Wealth Puts More On the Streets, Heartstrings Project Uses Tech to Find Help
The homelessness epidemic is at an all-time high in the Bay Area. Many folks feel as though their hands are tied, no matter how much it hurts them to see their homeless neighbors needlessly suffer, especially while the region’s rich get richer. The Heartstrings Project Makes Donating Easier than Ever. This is where Bay area...
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Out of Domestic Violence and Into Homelessness: “The public doesn’t want to see this part of society.”
Homelessness may feel far away for most, but it truly just takes one small thing to set forth a spiral of events. For K (who asked us not to use her full name), it was an attack by her violent ex-boyfriend. K had a very unique living situation. Growing up in a tourist-trap town in...
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The Crisis Within the Crisis: More Senior Women are Homeless, and Their Needs are Ignored
At 66, I went through breast cancer while homeless, and I’m far from alone. by CeliaSue Hecht Growing up in middle class America, home is one of those things I took for granted. Today I’m homeless. Now, I am still a human being. Like you, to survive, I eat, sleep, drink water, breathe, use the restroom and take...
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Why Can’t We Seem to Fix Homelessness?
When Leaders ‘Do Something’ About Homelessness, it Looks Like Doing Nothing Step inside San Francisco’s St. Boniface Church on any weekday, and you’ll find dozens of homeless people asleep in its pews. The deep, windowless quiet inside the church creates a sanctuary not only for the Catholics who visit, but also for a portion of...
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For Many California Residents, Homelessness is No More Than One Crisis Away
Homelessness is easy to fall into — and astonishingly hard to climb out of. by Heather Seggel My dad and I became homeless in the summer of 2004. I’ve told the story so many times it sometimes feels like the only salient fact about me, but the just-add-water version goes like this: We were still...
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WYV Joins Week of Homeless Coverage
SF Homeless Project Aims to Change how Homelessness is Viewed — and Resolved This week, Wear Your Voice is joining 70 other media organizations around the San Francisco Bay Area to dedicate coverage to the region’s homelessness problem. Our coverage will include essays from women who are currently or formerly homeless. This massive project is being spearheaded...
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Dear San Francisco Bay Area: Our Homelessness Problem Is Unconscionable. Let’s Fix It.
Bay Area Media Teaming Up This Week to Shine a Light on Homelessness To the city and people of San Francisco: Like you, we are frustrated, confused and dismayed by the seemingly intractable problem of homelessness in our city. Like you, we want answers — and change. We see the misery around us – the...