By Kathryn Jurik [Continued from previous blog by Kathryn Jurik – Cooking for the Homeless] We have approximately 10 people on our cooking team, the number shifts as people come and go. Most of us come either Tuesday or Friday and some of us come both days. There isn’t a set schedule […]
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Cooking for the Homeless
By Kathryn Jurik When the Joe Rodota Trail homeless camp was across the street from the Center for Spiritual Living, our membership was affected in many ways. Cars were broken into in our parking lot, members were overwhelmed emotionally and spiritually observing the growing mass of people with no resources, and the basic […]
Know Your City Candidates
On November 3rd, cities in Sonoma County will elect their city councilors. Homeless Action! believes that our elected leaders should know about the lives and difficulties of our unhoused friends, be willing to work on reducing those difficulties, and help us implement solutions which we demonstrate will work. We also believe that we have the […]
Offering a Hand Up
By Kelly Keagy, Communications Manager, The Living Room, July 28, 2020. Who could ever have predicted that we would all be living through times like these? I know I am not alone in having to give myself a pep talk (on a regular basis) so that the daily news cycle does not overwhelm me. […]
What are Solutions for People Without a Roof?
By Scott Wagner, Project Manager, Sonoma Applied Village Services (SAVS), February/March, 2020. In this bald-faced example of a wealthy county that doesn’t provide their destitute anywhere near adequate shelter, we have several handholds that would help easily. First, the public desperately needs education by their officials that providing basic life services to those experiencing homelessness […]
What it’s like to be a Point In Time Homeless Count Volunteer
By Gail Jonas, a Healdsburg resident. March 3, 2020. For the past two years, I’ve participated in the annual homeless count in Healdsburg. In Sonoma County, we do this count every year, although HUD mandates that it be done every other year. In 2019, our shelterless had experienced two law enforcement actions* against their camps, […]
