Sally Greene posts from the National Alliance to End Homelessness’ D.C. Conference:
Indianapolis and Los Angeles, that are putting the chronically homeless to work. They’re finding that employment actually helps people with mental illness or substance abuse problems to find their way back: like the rest of us, they find satisfaction in productive work. Not necessarily 40 hours a week. At their own pace they are offered the chance to work as a way to put some structure to their days, to afford them a sense of self-worth.
Homeless people want to work. At this forum, “a job” was the number one thing that homeless people told us they wanted — even more than housing.
Via: Ed Cone.
P.S. Why am I not at the conference? No $$$. But hey, no worries, either. God provides for all my needs, if not all my wants. And if I was supposed to be there this year, I would be.
