Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Extreme cold this week poses dangerous conditions for those living on the street.
When Bethesda Cares closed for the evening Tuesday, executive director Sue Kirk said some of the group's clients were headed out to spend the night on the street despite frigid temperatures. The group provides services for the area's homeless, some of whom have lived on the street for years. During the day, the group is providing hot lunches, coffee and hot water to their clients as the Washington region experiences extreme cold this week. Though shelter beds were available in Montgomery County, Kirk said many Bethesda Cares clients didn't plan on using them Tuesday night. With overnight temperatures expected to drop 10-15 degrees with wind chills of -5 to 5 degrees, Kirk expressed concern for those who would brave the elements. "It’s …
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Bethesda Row's Ten Thousand Villages will donate 15 percent of purchases made from 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday to the outreach group.
This holiday season, many of us are thinking about ways to help out the community's needy and ways to give back to friends and family with the perfect gift. Thursday, you can do both at the same time by shopping at Bethesda Row's Ten Thousand Villages. The shop will donate 15 percent of all purchases made from 5 to 9 p.m. Dec. 6 to Bethesda Cares, a local advocacy group that works to help and house the community's homeless. The group offers services to those living on the street in Montgomery County and Washington, DC. It also helps needy residents with eviction prevention and works towards permanent housing for the homeless, many of which have been living on Bethesda's streets for years. The group recently helped house a 72-year-old …
Sunday, November 25, 2012
New data shows medically vulnerable homeless people spend an average of 7.47 years on the street.
Medically vulnerable homeless residents in the Bethesda area have been living on the street for an average of 7.47 years—nearly two years longer than the national average, according to new data released by homeless advocacy group Bethesda Cares. The data was collected through outreach assessments led by the group as a part of the 100,000 Homes Campaign, a nationwide effort aimed to house 100,000 of the most vulnerable homeless individuals by July of 2013. The campaign asks communities to canvas homeless individuals to determine who are most at risk of dying on the street, and prioritizing housing for those people. “These are not shelter beds—these are permanent apartments where you can lock the door,” Jake Maguire, a spokesman for the …
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Calvin Walker, 72, who once slept at the Bethesda Metro, moved into his new home last month with the help of Bethesda Cares and Pathways to Housing.
Veterans across the country were recognized for their service this week. But one Bethesda veteran received a special honor—a home of his own, following decades of life on the streets. Calvin Walker, 72, moved into his new apartment in Washington, DC, in late October, with the help of homeless advocacy groups Bethesda Cares and Pathways to Housing. “I have files on Calvin dating back to 1996,” said John Mendez, Bethesda Cares outreach specialist. “We suspect he’d become homeless in the 1980s. This is an individual who was in that cycle of chronic homelessness, out on the streets for a long time." Bethesda Cares identified Walker, who suffers from heart disease, liver disease and chronic frostbite, as a medically vulnerable homeless person—…
August Jones
8:09 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
It's nice they FINALLY helped after 30 years; these POVERTY PIMPS are the REASON for the homeless STAYING HOMELESS; all of their SICK & EVIL rules 7 restriction that keep the homeless on the streets is PURE EVIL! more ›