Homeless

If you told Davion Franklin in 2015 he would be a professional mixed martial artist, he wouldn’t have believed you. Franklin (3-0) will make his fourth professional appearance, all of which have been inside the Bellator cage, this Friday night when he takes on the 15-0 Everett Cummings at Bellator…

News release Canada’s Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Ahmed Hussen, and Quebec’s Minister for Health and Social Services, Lionel Carmant, today announced that an additional $48.5 million in federal funding is being made available to communities in Quebec for 2021–2022 under the Reaching Home program to support the…

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The group is concerned the COVID-19 vaccine passport represents a potential barrier to services that are essential to Quebec's homeless population. Author of the article: La Presse Canadienne Jean-Philippe Denoncourt Publishing date: Aug 13, 2021  •  August 17, 2021…

John and Revé Walsh’s lives changed on July 27, 1981, when Revé took her six-year-old son, Adam, to the Sears department store in a mall in Hollywood, Florida. Adam had asked to visit the toy department while his mother browsed the lighting and home furnishings section just a few aisles…

1of18A woman living along the Columbia River who declined to be named, drinks a bottle of water delivered by Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare's street outreach team on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, in Portland, Ore.Nathan Howard/APShow MoreShow Less 2of18Chad Messenger collects cooling supplies including bottled water donated by the Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare's…

San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning says that the "home­less" woman sleep­ing in front of his of­fice which gar­nered me­dia at­ten­tion was staged. "Up­on in­ves­ti­ga­tion, a lot of what has been said...we have found to be in­ac­cu­rate and that the event was staged," Man­ning said. He was speak­ing dur­ing a…

PHOTO: Duncan Alfreds, News24 Heavy rains that have lashed the West African state of Niger since June have claimed 55 lives and left 53 000 people homeless, authorities said on Thursday. More than 4 800 homes have been damaged by floods or landslips, and nearly 900 cattle have been lost,…

1of23Darlene McApline, an administrative coordinator with Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare's street outreach team, dumps a bottle of water on her head to cool off while loading supplies on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, in Portland, Ore.Nathan Howard/APShow MoreShow Less 2of23Chris Cowan with Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare's street outreach team loads water and other…

Melbourne, Australia – “My homelessness is directly related to domestic violence, because I would just up and leave,” says 47-year-old Naomi, who asked that we only use her first name. An Indigenous woman who was raised in inner-city Melbourne, Naomi is a tough talker whose energy and assertion belies years…

Sudbury.com’s Jenny Lamothe spends a night doing outreach work with the founders of the Go-Give Project, who spend their evenings providing comfort and support to the city’s vulnerable homeless population I’m not sure what I expected performing outreach with the Go-Give Project on a Friday night. But I can tell…