Sentences with phrase «homeless families who»

The organization also provides food for working homeless families who live in their vehicles, and pet food for their pets.

For decades, the City has helped homeless families who find affordable housing and employment outside of the City relocate.

Not exact matches

During the financial crisis, layoffs forced foreclosures, leaving families homeless, and many who lost their jobs then still struggle amid dim job prospects.

People who work on the front lines helping the homeless say connecting them to their families is one of the best ways to get them off the streets for good.

Hojjat Gharibian was one of hundreds of homeless Iranian survivors, who was huddled against the cold with his family in Qasr - e Shirin.

The FHTM attorneys, who are milking their cash - cow client, have outright said that they will not be satisfied until Mr. Isaacs is homeless, without family, living on welfare in a cardboard box under a bridge somewhere.

Jesus has come to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor on the teenagers who are homeless, on the Syrian refugees, on the Mexican migrants, and the people who find themselves prisoners of addiction and their families, on the poorest of the poor in Haiti — Jesus has come for them.»

«There are times where Major [Cleo] Damon [head of the local office] is counseling families who are about to become homeless because of gambling,» Army spokeswoman Maribeth Shanahan told the Associated Press.

When giving advice to people regarding their interactions with the homeless, we try to err on the side of safety for people and their families who want to help others.

And yet the novel that followed The Junkers, Monk Dawson, was about a monk: a simple story of a boy from a school not unlike Ampleforth, who on graduation joins the community, then questions its commitment to educating the sons of the rich, and applies his own idiosyncratic «preferential option for the poor,» providing shelter for a homeless family in the school theater.

I and my family, including children, are all Atheists, all of my children are honor students, and model citizens of their country, by volunteering to help the homeless, cleaning parks and one even is taking care of her sickly grandmother who can't even feed herself.

Unlike the skid - row «derelicts» who seemed to be the typical homeless in the «60s, the street people today embrace the whole gamut of humanity: the «new poor,» the mentally disabled, evicted families, elderly single people, hoboes, alcoholics, drug addicts, abused spouses, abused young people and cast - off children.

A family in Suffolk who were homeless and placed in temporary accommodation with their baby twins had no facility for storing or heating baby food.

Zach dines with family, friends and homeless people who find their way to the buffet line.

And they are MY wages, not yours, not the homeless family's, not the lifelong smoker now suffering from lung cancer, not the single mother of five who is struggling to make ends meet.

CEO allows schools to serve free breakfast and free lunch to all students when 40 percent or more of students are certified for free meals without a paper application, which includes students who are directly certified (through data matching) for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are automatically eligible for free school meals because of their status in foster care or Head Start, homeless, or migrant.

But anti-hunger advocates worry these changes will cause some eligible kids (particularly those who are homeless, migrant or for whom English is not their family's primary language) to lose access to free or reduced price meals [because their parents or guardians will fail to respond to follow - up requests for information].

Another mother who is homeless with six children, walked up to each employee and volunteer to thank them individually, after we provided emergency services to her family yesterday and full aid packages today.

Identified students include those who qualify for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are certified for free school meals without submitting a school meal application because of their status as being in foster care, enrolled in Head Start, homeless, runaway, or migrant students.

They also claim that the program will really benefit families who make more than $ 100,000 a year, rather than helping the over 80,000 homeless New Yorkers.

More than a year after it was reorganized, the New York City Department of Homeless Services has a new leader: Joslyn Carter, who was previously the department's associate commissioner of family intake.

The mayor also asked lawmakers to urge the state to increase the shelter allowance for homeless families, the amount of aid the state provides for families who receive a subsidy under a program called the Family Eviction Prevention Supplement, or FEPS.

«Whatever Gilbert Taylor's qualifications may be, the appearance of using a Family Court judgeship as a soft landing for someone who botched the city's response to the homeless crisis is concerning,» said City Councilman Rory Lancman (D - Queens), chair of the Committee on Courts & Legal Services.

Their ranks include Chris Quinn, who in 2013 rapidly went from consensus favorite to dispiriting third - place defeat, and for the past two years has done admirable work running a nonprofit group that helps homeless families.

After nearly a week of below - freezing overnight temperatures, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Council Member Annabel Palma, who chairs the general welfare committee, called for the city's Department of Homeless Services to enact immediate changes to emergency housing that would ensure families have a warm place to sleep on cold nights.

Continuing a trend of cushy landings for high - level appointees who leave or are pushed out of their posts, Mayor de Blasio has nominated former Homeless Services Commissioner Gilbert Taylor to be a Family Court judge.

It needs to not only help those who are homeless but also prevent those vulnerable families and individuals who are at risk of becoming homeless from joining them,» Clive Betts MP, chair of the Communities and Local Government Select Committee, said.

Also protesting Cuomo's speech will be tenant groups, who are opposing his «failure to fight for stronger rent protections, his failure to release the funds he promised a year ago to build housing for homeless families, and his attempt to revive the wasteful 421 - a giveaway to his rich real estate developer friends.»

Continuing a trend of cushy landings for high - level appointees who leave or are pushed out of their posts, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has nominated former Homeless Services Commissioner Gilbert Taylor to be a Family Court judge.

Soldier On and Springfield Partners for Community Action will use $ 757,000 to provide help to veterans and their families who are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless.

The BBC interviews a family who became homeless last summer and now live in a Bronx homeless shelter.

Ms. Rosen suggested that one possibility might be to convert the many transitional shelters currently housing homeless families to permanent facilities, though there may be substantial resistance on the part of building owners, who are accustomed to charging the city upwards of $ 3,000 a month per room for shelter units and would likely have to settle for much less if they were converted to more stable housing.

There, he was introduced by Christine Quinn, the former City Council speaker who is now CEO of Women in Need, a non-profit that serves homeless families headed up by women.

And Christine Quinn — the former council speaker who served as an advisor to Mr. Cuomo, ran against Mr. de Blasio for mayor and now leads for Women In Need, a nonprofit that helps homeless women and families — was quick to praise the governor's plan.

The Hempstead Town Animal Shelter is hosting a seminar in an effort to find foster families and volunteers who can assist in caring for homeless animals.

As of December 2015, the city had 577 rooms reserved for temporary homeless housing across 20 hotels in the city for single adults, and 527 rooms across 25 different hotels for families with children, who stay in the hotels for an average of 10 days at a time.

They include rental assistance for families who have been homeless for two years or more, and rent subsidies for victims of domestic violence with children.

There are 800 families consisting of nearly 2,600 people who have utilized the Special One Time Assistance, according to the city Department of Homeless Services.

The city Department of Homeless Services began moving homeless families into the new St. Peter's Avenue facility on Aug. 21, much to the chagrin of local merchants, who contend that the neighborhood is already laden with social services pHomeless Services began moving homeless families into the new St. Peter's Avenue facility on Aug. 21, much to the chagrin of local merchants, who contend that the neighborhood is already laden with social services phomeless families into the new St. Peter's Avenue facility on Aug. 21, much to the chagrin of local merchants, who contend that the neighborhood is already laden with social services programs.

The Department of Homeless Services» Advantage program has given rent subsidies to thousands of homeless breadwinners who found jobs and left shelters, but a report by Comptroller John Liu found that poor management put families in dangerous buildings with faulty wiring and rodent problems, and landlords pressured some tenants into illegal side deals, forcing them to pay as much as $ 400 extra a month, the Times rHomeless Services» Advantage program has given rent subsidies to thousands of homeless breadwinners who found jobs and left shelters, but a report by Comptroller John Liu found that poor management put families in dangerous buildings with faulty wiring and rodent problems, and landlords pressured some tenants into illegal side deals, forcing them to pay as much as $ 400 extra a month, the Times rhomeless breadwinners who found jobs and left shelters, but a report by Comptroller John Liu found that poor management put families in dangerous buildings with faulty wiring and rodent problems, and landlords pressured some tenants into illegal side deals, forcing them to pay as much as $ 400 extra a month, the Times reported.

I am a 19 year old girl who loves her family i have a 11 month old daughter named lalyana and im 5 months pregnant im a wonderful person too be around and too talk too im also homeless trying too do everything i can for my kids

You need to see love for what it is... love is your family and friends, love is your environment, love is nature, love is doing things that make you happy, love is being with those people that make you feel good about yourself, love is doing good deeds, love is charity, love is that smile you give the homeless person on the street, love is listening, love is being there for someone who needs you, love is doing a good job, love is making a positive contribution to the world, love is loving yourself selflessly... essentially love is making the world a better place.

Some of those parts include Beat author Neal Cassady in Heart Beat (1980), a homeless bum who helps a dysfunctional rich family in the hit comedy Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), a family man attempting to come to grips with his family's traumatic past while falling in love with his therapist in The Prince of Tides (1991), a midwestern basketball coach in Blue Chips, and a world - weary detective in Mulholland Falls (1996).

The Blind Side stars Sandra Bullock as a Southern booster who takes in a homeless dude and makes him part of their family.

Greg Kinnear stars as a family man who befriends a homeless man, played by Djimon Hounsou, and changes his life through a bit of kindness and friendship.

The Dutch Borgman features a homeless man who manipulates the emotions, and possibly even the minds, of a rich family that makes you question what kind of power this man possesses and never really find the answer to.

Just after settling in behind their seemingly impenetrable fortress of shutters and security cameras, the son of the family who is unsure of the whole process lets a homeless man in need of help into the house.

This inspirational true story of a homeless teenager (Quinton Aaron, portraying real - life NFL offensive tackle Michael Oher) who is taken in by a wealthy family who open up their hearts and their homes earned Sandra Bullock an Academy Award.

An impressive aspiration for a 10 - year - old who looked like he needed glasses, but more so because his family was homeless and had none of the resources that could propel a more fortunate child toward his goal.

Identified Students include those whose families participate in other federal programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), where their incomes have already been thoroughly scrutinized, and those who are identified by other programs as extremely vulnerable, such as programs for homeless and migrant children.