by Pat Hartman | Jul 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Department of Housing and Urban Development gives the number of homeless youth in America as 46,000 on any given night, and in any given year, about 2 million youth experience homelessness for at least one night. The number of shelter beds available for...
by Pat Hartman | Jul 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
Care continuum workers know that early episodes of homelessness increase a child’s risk of continuing to experience homelessness throughout life. The foster care system tries to alleviate some of the damage but carries its own risks. Even in such...
by Pat Hartman | Jul 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
A large part of what we identify as American culture is born in California and, for better or worse, eventually spreads to the rest of the country and even the world. It’s a state worth keeping an eye on. Twenty years ago, a program started there that now...
by Pat Hartman | Jul 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
House of Representatives building and the East Portico Any day of the week, over 600,000 Americans are figuring out where to sleep that night, all of them at risk, all of them vulnerable to ambush, grievous bodily harm, and even death. This is why Richard R. Troxell...
by Pat Hartman | Jun 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
Maria Shriver on the Women’s Conference stage Yesterday, the 2014 White House Summit on Working Families was hosted by the Council on Women and Girls, the Department of Labor, and the Center for American Progress. Attendees included economists,...