Sentences with phrase «at a homeless shelter in»

I was once also a chaplain at a homeless shelter in North Carolina where I kept records of the men I met.

A Girl Scouts troop established in February at a homeless shelter in Queens will expand to 14 additional shelters throughout New York City and is expected to serve about 500 girls.

Through my work at the homeless shelters in Syracuse and the relationships I formed with individuals facing homelessness, it became abundantly clear that housing within the price range for individuals facing homelessness did little to foster long term stability.

Using a similar approach — the filial play therapy model — that helped families traumatized by Hurricane Katrina, the researchers worked with six parents living at a homeless shelter in the Fox Valley.

Jessi was a caseworker at a homeless shelter in Lancaster, California for three years, working with people from various socioeconomic backgrounds, cultural identities, and familial upbringings and became acquainted with addiction patterns, mental illnesses, and other emotional, psychological, and spiritual stresses.

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At a very young age, Luna left her home in post-Chernobyl Ukraine to take asylum in a New York City homeless shelter.

Because socks are the number one most requested clothing item at homeless shelters across the United States, for every pair the company sells, Bombas donates a pair of specially - designed donation socks to someone in need.

As Hurricane Irma barreled toward Florida, homeless and abandoned youth living at Covenant House Florida in Fort Lauderdale hurried to seek shelter inland.

Don't even pretend like you know something about Christianity until you've walked a mile in the shoes of a Christian missionary, a Christian pastor, a military chaplain, a christian volunteer at a homeless shelter, etc..

That tangible action came in the form of tens of thousands of towels and socks donated by conference - goers to be handed out at local homeless shelters in the weeks following the conference.

One way to get involved and help those living in poverty is to seek out a campus group that feeds the homeless or volunteers on a regular basis at a local shelter.

The people are in the streets, at Costco, under the bridge, at the homeless shelter.

My small church in the suburbs is known for helping the poor and homeless, we provide 500 meals a month, help at the shelters, and list could go on.

Not only do they compost all of their garbage (Merchandise Mart is the largest green certified building in the country), they donate any unused food to area non-profit agencies to repurpose the food at homeless shelters among other places.

Menstrual products are at the top of the list for needs at homeless shelters and food pantries, but they don't advertise that, menstruators don't ask for them, and those in the position to give are completely unaware.

In the last month I volunteered, as I try to regularly, at the kitchen of a local homeless shelter; I made a donation to Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger; I brought canned food to a food drive; I continued to work toward improving school food in my district by attending SHAC and Food Services PAC meetings; and I hope I increased awareness of various food policy issues through my writing on The Lunch Tray and The Huffington PosIn the last month I volunteered, as I try to regularly, at the kitchen of a local homeless shelter; I made a donation to Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger; I brought canned food to a food drive; I continued to work toward improving school food in my district by attending SHAC and Food Services PAC meetings; and I hope I increased awareness of various food policy issues through my writing on The Lunch Tray and The Huffington Posin my district by attending SHAC and Food Services PAC meetings; and I hope I increased awareness of various food policy issues through my writing on The Lunch Tray and The Huffington Post.

DNAInfo article on BP Adams joining Mayor de Blasio at a town hall in Bedford - Stuyvesant that focused on a new homeless shelter plan for the city.

«Natalie Abreu, a single mother of three, lived in a homeless shelter in the Bronx, while commuting to her job as a cleaner at a casino in Queens.

«One of the most gruesome things we hear at the Ali Forney Center is our young people who have been recently diagnosed in their desperation to get shelter and housing will forsake taking the medication because they want to be eligible for the current HASA guidelines,» said Carl Siciliano, executive director of the group, which helps homeless LGBT youth.

With New York City's homeless population in shelters at a record high of 50,000, a growing number of people living there are actually working — sometimes more than one job — but still can't afford a place of their own.

The Bronx - Lebanon Hospital Center gunman, Henry Bello, had a slow journey to the medical profession, which was punctuated by bankruptcy, at least two arrests and recent sojourns in homeless shelters.

During her address at the forum co-sponsored by Care for the Homeless and Long Island University's Master of Public Administration program, James noted that as of April 17, there are more than 61,000 individuals sleeping in the city's shelter system, which includes 23,000 children — and said that homelessness «is at the highest level in New York since the Great Depression.»

But at least 40 neighbors are complaining about one building in particular, which the Bowery Residents» Committee is renovating to become a 12 - story homeless shelter.

LCG Community Services collects about $ 4,500 a month from the Department of Homeless Services for each adult family it hosts in its small single rooms at Klara's Family Residence, a raccoon - plagued shelter in Sheepshead Bay.»

Still, «the most pressing issue in our city of this generation is affordable housing,» James said; she stated that in her second term, she would work to address that problem, whether through making «preferential rent» permanent (rather than something a landlord can change or remove at whim), or creating more housing, rather than shelters, for homeless New Yorkers.

New big - ticket items include a $ 1.9 billion subsidy to make 10,000 units in the mayor's affordable - housing plan even cheaper, $ 300 million to renovate homeless shelters and $ 355 million for facade repairs at city public - housing developments.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg was recently quoted as saying that the sharp rise in the length of stays at city homeless shelters has to do with «more pleasurable» shelter conditions.

Ms. Quinn is now the president and CEO of Win, or Women in Need, a nonprofit that provides shelter to homeless women and families, and was hosting the mayor today at a Win shelter in East New York.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER By unanimous votes on March 7, the City Council approved three measures aimed at strengthening shelter options for homeless youth in New York, including a long contested move to raise the age limit for eligibility in youth shelters to include those 21 to 24 years old.

In a letter to DHS, Quinn states that the agency's «Code Red» and «Code Blue» policy — which is trigged by dangerously hot or cold temperatures and ensures «homeless single adults» shelter at such times — wrongly denies the same protections to homeless families, including those with children.

At 3 p.m., Sen. Tony Avella stands against sex offender placement in family homeless shelters, Pan-American Hotel, 79 - 00 Queens Blvd., Queens.

Cuomo took another swipe at NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's handling of the homeless, charging that people live in the streets because they're afraid of the city's «dangerous» shelters.

At noon, Sen. Leroy Comrie joins the NAACP, National Action Network and others to call on the administration to stop the placement of homeless shelters in southeast Queens, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Also at 4 p.m., the NYC Department of Homeless Services and advocates administer «Wrapped in Love» blanket distribution to families in shelter and their programs, St. Paul's Church, 113 E. 117th St., Manhattan.

One amendment would significantly broaden the state's power to control who operates homeless shelters in New York, allowing the Office of Temporary Disability and Assistance, which oversees shelters, to remove operators at shelters that are found to have financial and safety problems and directly appoint new ones.

Also at 11:30 a.m., Sen. Jeff Klein and members of the IDC will release «Unsafe Shelters,» an investigative report detailing the number of Level 2 and 3 sex offenders living among NYC's nearly 23,000 homeless children in family shelters, 250 Broadway, Manhattan.

Also at 1 p.m., Sen. Brad Hoylman, the Empire State Pride Agenda and the Coalition for Homeless Youth will be joined by elected officials and advocates to call for increased funding in the state budget for homeless youth shelters, City Hall steps, MaHomeless Youth will be joined by elected officials and advocates to call for increased funding in the state budget for homeless youth shelters, City Hall steps, Mahomeless youth shelters, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

An internal report obtained by NY1 show violence and arrests at New York City homeless shelters has jumped in 2016.

In response to an audit by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office, Gov. Andrew Cuomo admitted the state previously had not been aggressive enough in tackling poor conditions at NYC homeless shelters, but nonetheless still laid a large share of the blame on the citIn response to an audit by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office, Gov. Andrew Cuomo admitted the state previously had not been aggressive enough in tackling poor conditions at NYC homeless shelters, but nonetheless still laid a large share of the blame on the citin tackling poor conditions at NYC homeless shelters, but nonetheless still laid a large share of the blame on the city.

Bronx - based Housing Solutions USA sent a proposal to the DHS on Oct. 4, describing a plan to install a homeless shelter in the 10 - unit building at 165 W. 9th St., with 170 individual residents expected to move in if the plan reaches fruition.

Ashlee Hines works at the homeless shelter at the Salvation Army in Syracuse.

And another senior, Moctar Fall, who spent two years of his childhood in a homeless shelter, got a full scholarship to study engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A new measure Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrote into amendments to his executive budget would significantly broaden the state's power to control who operates homeless shelters in New York state, allowing the state's Office of Temporary Disability and Assistance, which oversees shelters, to remove operators at shelters that are found to have financial and safety problems and directly appoint new ones.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has dropped a proposal to convert some vacant buildings at the former Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens into shelters for the homeless, a senior administration official told POLITICO New York Monday.

About 30 protestors from the neighborhood, along with City Council Member Letitia James, State Sen. Velmanette Montgomery and pop singer Crystal Waters, who sang her hit «Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless),» protested last week in front of the shelter and down the street from it at Freddy's Bar (which is also facing condemnation for the project).

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearat Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearAt a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi is quietly pushing a plan that is aimed at reducing the reliance on homeless shelters by creating a rent subsidy in order to keep people in their homes.

In April, the city opted to kick out roughly 200 homeless New Yorkers from a two - building emergency shelter on the Upper West Side, freeing up at least 100 affordable housing units slated for low - income residents, as previously reported.

The Doe Fund, a nonprofit organization based in Manhattan, was selected by the city to develop a 200 - bed homeless shelter at the Muller Army Reserve Center, a former military base on Nereid Avenue in Wakefield.

In a packed auditorium, an angry crowd pushed back on the city's plan to open a homeless shelter for 132 families at 267 Rogers Ave. in Crown Heights, demanding to know how much the project will cost and whether it will help solve, as Assemblywoman Diana Richardson put it, the area's «housing crisis.&raquIn a packed auditorium, an angry crowd pushed back on the city's plan to open a homeless shelter for 132 families at 267 Rogers Ave. in Crown Heights, demanding to know how much the project will cost and whether it will help solve, as Assemblywoman Diana Richardson put it, the area's «housing crisis.&raquin Crown Heights, demanding to know how much the project will cost and whether it will help solve, as Assemblywoman Diana Richardson put it, the area's «housing crisis.»