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Current needs for our ministry to unsheltered homeless people: Please help!

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Michele (CM)| 3 Comments

Update: Thanks for the link love, Ed Cone!

Current Needs List: Updated Monday, 11/28/2011 Tuesday, 12-13-2011

Our current needs list (made by homeless people, with help from GPD):

  • blankets (The kind you would want if you lived outside in winter!)
  • sleeping bags
  • firewood (if you can deliver; we’ll go with you; we will continue to have a need for firewood all winter long)
  • air mattresses (twin, full or queen; real mattresses, too, if you can deliver; used is OK; we’ll go with you we now have 3 actual mattresses committed, so at this point we just need air mattresses — thanks!)
  • tarps (to go over tents; need concealment colors only, please — olive green, gray, brown or camo — no blue, orange, bright green, etc.; must be in good shape, no holes)
  • tents — any size, new or used
  • heat sheets (survival blankets; we hear they’re literally life savers!) Continue reading →

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Little bugs cause big problems for Greensboro homeless shelter

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Michele (CM)| Leave a comment

An outbreak of bed bugs at The Salvation Army of Greensboro’s Center of Hope has closed down three dorms — a total of 16 beds — and the Center needs to raise $22,000 to purchase 76 new mattresses to replace both infested mattresses and those that are old, worn and torn, with holes that bed bugs can get into.

Thankfully, the closing of the dorms didn’t displace any families, but it does mean that for now, that’s three families or 16 individuals Greensboro’s Center of Hope won’t be able to house, and in a city with many more homeless people than homeless shelter beds, that’s not good news.

According to Center of Hope Executive Director Jackie Lucas (via email), no new families or individuals can move into the Center of Hope until the new mattresses are purchased. You can help. Please send a monetary donation to:

Jackie Lucas, Executive Director
The Salvation Army Center of Hope
1311 South Eugene Street
Greensboro, NC 27406

Thank you!

Related news story, from Fox8:

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Proposed Social Security rules change threatens benefits of seriously mentally ill people

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Michele (CM)| 2 Comments

From Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Action Alerts:

“The Social Security Administration (SSA) has proposed changes to the way decisions are made for awarding disability benefits based on a mental impairment. These changes will threaten the ability of people with serious mental illnesses to obtain benefits….

The changes appear in a regulation that would amend the “Medical Listings” -the standards that SSA uses to determine eligibility for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. While the proposed new Listings include some very good features, these are undermined by a provision that could limit the number of people with mental illnesses who can qualify to only one or two percent of the nation’s population. This is far below even the most conservative estimate of the number whose mental health disability makes them unable to work (the criterion for eligibility for federal disability benefits) and who therefore need this monthly income.”

~ Read all of “Social Security Disability Rules to Change – for Better and Worse: Agency Needs to Hear from You” — then, take action!

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