Questions and Answers with the new FSA Administrator about her background
Kathy Harris, who has been working at DHS for about a month now, took some time from her incredibly busy schedule to answer some questions about her background, guiding principles and vision for ending homelessness in the District. Read more
Why the District Is Counting Teens and Twenty-Somethings Who Are Couch Surfing or Have No Place to Go
Recently, on a Friday afternoon broadcast, Abdul Adams was featured on NBC 4 because he is a success story. Adams, who found himself without stable housing after aging out of foster care two years ago, went to Covenant House DC this past May, desperate for employment and housing.
“I didn’t have a bed. I was sleeping on the floor or on the couch at one relatives house or another. When I couldn’t go to an uncle’s house, I would find a friend or sometimes a different relative. I just did what I could to survive,” said 23-year-old Adams. Read more
The Latin American Youth Center is Changing the World as We Know it…One Young Person at a Time
Meet Jilcana Montoya. Just a little over one year ago, she and her then one-year old son and unborn child were experiencing homelessness, hopelessness and despair. Montoya was unemployed and felt she had exhausted all of her options until someone told her about the Latin American Youth Center (LAYC) in Columbia Heights. Read more
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