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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Around 1.8 million homeless as US enters 2011


With the New Year the United States has about 1.8 million people in need of shelter. How dire is the situation? We got some insight from Massachusetts social worker Jay Levy.

Jay S. Levy’s recently published book Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways: From Words to Housing (Loving Healing Press, 2010) is about homelessness and the issues related to outreach counseling, case management, and advocacy for long-term and episodically homeless individuals. Jay’s book presents real-life narratives of homeless people with whom the author worked to help them with housing, care, and treatment. The book discusses several key points involved in successful transition of people from homelessness to housing, and afterward. "Help us make a difference in a life". Hislovestreetministries.com

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