Keeping your youth: COSAC teen makes most out of homelessness Patrick Russell looks like a normal teenager you would find attending a normal high school. But at the end of the school day, he doesn’t go home to a mom and dad and golden retriever in the backyard. Patrick Russell stands at about 6 feet …
I’m sexy and I’m homeless It was nearly 10 a.m. and Sean Cononie walked in. “How you feeling?” I asked. “Sexy,” the 340-pound COSAC founder said. “Feeling sexy.” Cononie smokes so many cigarettes doctors have told him he’d die if his lifestyle continued. So Cononie began taking a flock of his homeless residents downstairs three …
Operations room manages residents’ lives amidst chaotic days Tucked away on the second floor, seamlessly blending in with the rows of murky brown doors, is the heart of the Homeless Voice Shelter — the operations room. The role of the operations room is to coordinate the shelter’s residents’ day-to-day activities and needs. The staff members …
A look at the perceptions associated with homelessness Leaving home. Coming home. Close to home. Far from home. Perspectives and experiences play out relative to home. For most, home is a place of certainty, of security and identity, a point of return and orient. But perceptions exist about the homeless. They exist in the minds …