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POPSLocal SF non-profit (Arriba Juntos) puts client & visitor identities at risk of ID Theft !
From August 2009, to date, December 7th, 2009: We have proof that YOUR CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT RECORDS are often left out on the streets -unshredded & unprotected, repeatedly by low income non-profit programs. Today, we are highlighting the non-profit ARRIBA JUNTOS who has been leaving YOUR CONFIDENTIAL CASE FILES on the streets, EVERY WEEK for the past 15 WEEKS !! We told them, in person and showed them... then, they ignored our warning that is was their responsibility to safeguard Confidential Client Files with the most sensitive personal, medical, criminal, civil, domestic information and details on them. We have photos, videos and some of the actual files... Shame on them ! Here is the story so far... Monday, August 10, 2009 - Good Samaritan resident sent text message from his cell to an SFHomeless group site, saying he found 33 gallon bin stuffed with Confidential Client records on paperwork of Arriba Juntos AND other local non-profit's paperwork. SEE ARTICLE
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POPSSF First's P.O.W.E.R. Group of Former SF Homeless Interviewed on KALW Radio 91.7 FM This fascinating group is made up of� dedicated, independent and capable local residents, formerly homeless, homeless, advocates, staff and contracted workers from SFDPH, Mental Health, SF First, SF Hot, SF MOST, CATS and has the support of local businesses who supply coffee and organic berries, vegetables and bread products for their weekly foot massages, coffee socials and P.O.W.E.R. Team Lunches at Dolores Park Church in the Mission District, where Ali from local Public Radio Station KALW 91.7 FM, attended and recorded part of this Radio Broadcast linked below. POWER stands for Peer Outreach Workers Exemplifying Recovery... you can see them at work at the main SF Public Library where they monitor health and safety to assist their peers who may need services or hear some advice from someone who has recently walked in their shoes, who's been there. This is empowerment in action which works because the team members were treated with love, kindness and healing for a year or
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POPSMore Female Veterans Are Winding Up Homeless “Some of the first homeless vets that walked into our office were single moms,’’ said Paul Rieckhoff, executive director and founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. “When people think of homeless vets, they don’t think of a Hispanic mother and her kids. The new generation of veterans is made up of far more women.’’
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POPSKeep Hope Alive! All of you who go to school in the car, on the bus, by skate board, or bicycle. You don't have any excuse for not finishing school.
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POPSVeterans make up 1 in 4 homeless This is a shameful travesty. The mental health toll from war is enormous. With the spotlight on the plight of Iraq veterans, they hope more will be done to prevent homelessness and provide affordable housing to the younger veterans while there's a window of opportunity. "People get tired of it. It's not glitzy that these are young, honorable, patriotic Americans. They'll just be veterans, and that happens after every war." said John Keaveney, a Vietnam veteran and a founder of New Directions in Los Angeles, which provides substance abuse help, job training and shelter to veterans. A big problem is that military training does not translate to civilian jobs. What is combat specialist supposed to do? Honorable veterans should never face this situation.
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POPSBirthday Parties For Homeless Kids
At First glance, reading "Birthday Parties For Homeless Kids", sounds so heartwarming. How great it is that volunteers give small homeless children a party. But, why is it acceptable to have homeless children? We're facing tough times that will get tougher as we make our way through the aftermath left by those who were hopelessly addicted to greed. Homeless children, in America, being acceptable is very unacceptable. As soon as families started joining the ranks of the homeless, someone, wielding power, should have said ENOUGH! And the NIP THIS IN THE BUD should have begun. But today, it's OK to have homelessness, it's OK to have medically uninsured people, it's OK to have hunger. And the working poor? Well, they don't exist the sycophants who push the Horatio Alger nonsense clamor. Come on folks there are no social boogiemen waiting to pounce if the rich are made to pay their fair share of taxes. Let's all shout enough's, enough and the ills of our society will NOT be tolerated!
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POPSLiving in Motels, the Hidden Homeless As the recession has deepened, longtime workers who lost their jobs are facing the terror and stigma of homelessness for the first time, including those who have owned or rented for years. Some show up in shelters and on the streets, but others, like the Hayworths, are the hidden homeless — living doubled up in apartments, in garages or in motels, uncounted in federal homeless data and often receiving little public aid.
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POPSYou won't give him money for food, but what about his dog?
More: Genevieve Frederick is the executive director and founder of Feeding Pets of the Homeless, a national charity based out of Carson, Nev., that collects and distributes dog food for homeless individuals. Other than her work to feed homeless animals, a lot of what Frederick does is to help inform people about what issues actually face the homeless and their dogs, and to distinguish those from stereotypes…a portion of homeless individuals have some sort of mental disorders, whether it be mild depression or severe schizophrenia.… for a lot of homeless people, a pet is their connection to reality. "When they walk in a park, people now look at them, where before people treated them as invisible…They're making a connection with society." …a book on the subject, titled "Pet-oriented Child Psychotherapy." Levinson wrote that a pet that responds to care and affection and that response to care can mean the difference between contact with reality and withdrawal into fantasy.
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POPSFamily reunited with missing son thanks to photo of him & his dog Animals don't care if you're smart, or handsome, or rich, or funny, or talented. They care if you feed them and if you're good to them. And if you are, they will stick by you through your darkest times. As the bumper sticker says, "Lord, help me become the person my dog thinks I am." *sniff* 'Scuse me. After reading this story, I seem to have something in my eye... :cry:
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