Members of the NC DHHS staff will be on hand to share information and answer questions about the state’s mental health reform efforts.
Wednesday, Nov. 29th
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
GTCC, Jamestown Campus
In the auditorium of Percy Sears Applied Technology Center
Parking in front, in Lot D
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Lorraine Ahearn in the News & Record, 11/26/06:
“At age 27, severely disabled mentally and physically because she once stopped breathing as an infant, Emily Massengill today has almost everything she needs.”
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I received some exciting, good news this evening, which gives me renewed hope for the future. Please look on the front page of tomorrow’s News & Record for Nate DeGraff’s article, and you’ll understand why.
From WWAY, News Channel 3:
Charlotte’s largest homeless shelter is turning people away to reduce crowding and avoid violating fire safety codes.
The Salvation Army shelter houses only women and children, and is designed to hold 180. For months it has housed at least 200 nightly, sometimes as many as 280, with some sleeping in a television room, offices and hallways.
Read more on Charlotte Shelter Forced To Turn Away Mother With Infant…
The Troublemaker just called me with a special holiday greeting. Here’s what he said, with a sardonic tone:
“Happy ‘white-people-killed-the-Indians Day’. Happy ‘Terrorism Day’. Christopher Columbus — the original terrorist!”
Well said, Ben, in your usual Troublemakin’ style.
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Greensboro artist William Mangum unveils a new “honor card” each November during Greensboro Urban Ministry’s “Feast of Caring,” as a fundraiser to benefit the ministry’s work. Mangum’s limited edition holiday cards will also be sold by Urban Ministries of Wake County and Greenville Community Shelters, with proceeds benefitting the homeless in those communities.
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Just in time for Thanksgiving, a U.S. District Court judge in Las Vegas has ruled that a local ordinance prohibiting the distribution of food to the poor and homeless in public parks is unconstitutional:
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My friend Marshall wrote about this week’s NightWatch on his blog:
“They’re still out there – each of the men that we prayed with and gave food to are still sleeping outside on the street. One was sleeping in the front doorway of my church – we had spoken with him at about 8:30 pm, and saw him sleeping, somehow, on the concrete at 2:00 am in the cold night. There were men sleeping on pipes suspended beneath the bridges, men sleeping in abandoned trailers, men in church doorways, men on foam mattresses beneath highways, men in a shed behind a local business…” [-- more --]
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The Los Angeles city attorney’s office spent 10 months investigating (and substantiating) allegations that local hospitals are dumping homeless patients on Skid Row. They then entered talks with the hospitals to establish new discharge practices. Those talks broke down, and LA city attorneys are now preparing to pursue legal action.
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The Bible says, in Deuteronomy 15:4-6:
“… there should be no poor among you, for in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you, if only you fully obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today. For the LORD your God will bless you as he has promised…”
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“Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it to establish it, the LORD is His name, ‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’”
- Jeremiah 33:2-3
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Lisa Scheer took this picture at a downtown bridge on Friday.
The day we were there, someone was staying at that bridge. A homeless young woman. She was at work and I called her to let her know we were there and make sure it was OK that Lisa was taking pictures.
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